Carlos scours Avacyn Restored for some potential Commander sleepers, then walks us through a budget version of Balthor the Defiled.

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.

The gateway to Limited play, Jay gives the M12 Booster Battle Packs a fresh coat of Innistrad paint. And there’s a (free to enter!) giveaway to boot!

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!

Draft doesn’t go quite as expected on Day Two of GP San Diego. It turns out professional level drafting is a different beast entirely!

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

What’s a Prerelease like when you have to debate whether to open booster packs in your own language or not? Neale shares a father-son outing of an epic adventure through Innistrad!