Commander decks don’t have sideboards. So what do we do with the cards we’d normally put there? Jules has the answers!

Mike Lanigan details his initial tournament experiences with his Blue/White Puresteel Paladin deck, including his insight into how the deck should fare against the current field. Don’t miss out on Voltron!

With CawBlade in its recent incarnations gone the metagame is seemingly wide open.  Any number of archetypes can claim to be the new top dog, and the viability of many cards goes up without the fear of a Jace making them irrelevant or a turn three Batterskull attacking too quickly for them to come online.  Until some tournament results come in to fill in the gaps any talk about the new metagame will be little more than an educated guess, but we can still know questions need to be answered.

Mike Lanigan discusses the impact of the cards of New Phyrexia on Standard’s Vampire archetype.

We’ve had 2 weeks of Opens to see the impact New Phyrexia has had on the Standard and Legacy tournament scenes. I’m going to focus on Standard, since the Grand Prix this weekend is Legacy, and will almost certainly have more players than the SCG Open series gets. Waiting on that will give us a bit of a better view on the format. However, for Standard, there’s no reason to wait, especially since the format hasn’t really undergone much of a change.