Mike Lanigan covers a series of topics today, including counterfeiting, beating Mono-Black & the financial state of Standard.

Mike Lanigan looks to iterate a successful deck from the current Standard format before it’s all swept away with Born of the Gods. Check out B/W Humans!

While shocklands have underperformed, Matthew Lewis still has confidence in real estate. He asks what last year can tell us about THS scry lands.

Who doesn’t love Magical Xmasland? Mike Lanigan shares several deck ideas that almost got there, but turned out to be a little too cute.

Kyle explains the process he uses to analyze tournament data, and gives a follow up on the Standard statistics from last week.

Matthew Lewis surveys his recent speculation activity on MTGO, discussing in depth what he’s buying, selling and watching and why.

David Schumann follows up with Part 2 of his article disclosing his current holdings and the reasoning behind them.

Mike Lanigan examines the Standard and Block Constructed decks that lose the least to rotation, and are likely to form the backbone of the new Standard.

After a string of high finishes with the deck, Mike Lanigan takes Aristocrats 3.0 to a PTQ, narrowly missing top eight.

Mike Lanigan surveys the last huzzah of Standard brewing before rotation, the decks to come out of Worlds weekend. He also updates Aristocrats 3.0 to address the latest changes.

Mike Lanigan runs back his Aristocrats 3.0 deck from last week for a TCG Bronze event and makes finals again. Read on for the report.

Sigmund used to despise foils, avoiding them at all costs. Recently his sentiment has changed quite a bit – so much so that many of his latest buys have been foils. This week Sigmund explains why his feelings towards shiny Magic Cards have changed.

Mike Lanigan took his “Aristocrats 3.0” build to the Platinum TCQ in Ohio last weekend and rode it all the way to 2nd place. Read on for his tournament report.