Jason Alt discusses the reputation of Magic finance, delving into a few recent controversies and weighing in with his usual brand of wit.

What do the recent Judge Promo rumors and Dragon’s Maze Prerelease weekend have in common? They both will impact card prices in some way. What may be most surprising are the cards unlikely to move down after this weekend.

Jason Alt discusses the latest Banned and Restricted announcements before covering the ubiquitous tournament results.

There are lots of tournament results to pore over, but before getting to them Jason Alt examines the missed opportunities in the Shallow Grave debacle.

Spoilers and the PTQ season shift have sparked price changes on several key cards. Don’t fall behind the curve this early in the year.

About eight days ago, strange things started happening with a Tempest rare. [card]Aluren[/card] had jumped by $10 overnight. It’s clear that someone was buying all of this card that they could. We didn’t know why then and we still don’t have many answers.

Who could have predicted Aluren’s sudden tripling in price? In hindsight, the writing was on the walls – it was just a matter of when. Sigmund looks at the contributing factors and highlights other cards with similar attributes worth keeping an eye on.

Tyler surveys the top 10 non-land Legacy legal cards in Magic, noting a few unsuspected cards fetching high price tags.

Hello and welcome back to the weekly set retrospective! This week, we will take a look at the second half of Future Sight, a set so full of money cards that I had to split up the analysis! Let’s dive in!

Continuing with this series , Doug tears apart Tempest for your viewing pleasure.