With the Standard metagame finally starting to settle down a bit, Chad is looking to stay one step ahead of the tide of week-to-week tweaks with his new spec targets.

Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.

Continuing his discussion of the new Ravnica Standard, Mike brings Zombies into the world of midrange and provides an updated Armada Wurm list.

The things of the world have their opposites, so why should the precon decks of Innistrad block be any exception? We’ve covered the best of the bunch, now it’s time to turn over the rock and see what’s on the other end!

This week in Jason’s famed weekly article he shares Aaron Forsythe’s IAMA, a dazzling variety of Reddit’s best Magic action and the results of the SCG Open and Kalamazoo’s Top 16 Standard deck’s, one of which may blink Acidic Slime. Yup.

In the stock market, penny stocks are cheap, probably-junk securities that you get on the hope that they move up a few cents and show you a profit. They’re an alluring strategy in the stock market because you can get a big volume of them. For one share of Apple, you could score well over 5,000 shares of a junk medical-science company that may be on the verge of a huge patent. If your shares go up, they go UP. We look at penny stocks in Magic the same way; these are the gambits that you stock up on with hopes of big payoffs.

As a rule Carlos isn’t a fan of countermagic, but this weeks he goes off the deep end with a deck that tries to counter all the spells! Check out Ertai, the Corrupted and his horde of Merfolk minions!

Mike examines the various Standard decks that aim to power out early praetors and titans. Read on to make sure you’re prepared for a turn three Elesh Norn at your next tournament.

The Zombie tribe has gotten a ton of new tools so far in Innistrad Block. After the release weekend, Carlos has some Gravecrawlers and a Grimgrin and can’t resist taking them for a spin!

As new sets are released and PTQ seasons change, speculators need to reevaluate their portfolio. Sigmund discusses his newest buy, sell, and hold strategies in light of Dark Ascension and Modern.

Mike tries to break apart the metagame and show you what you want to be paying attention for at the SCG Invitational in Charlotte!

This week, Mike looks at the different forms of removal in standard and takes another look at his pet deck, voltron!

Jules Robins defeats Jon Finkel, 2-0. (And, yes, that really happened!)