Strategies for making moves in a post-Jace/Stoneforge Standard. Explore all the possibilities.

This week Stephen goes through how to keep value on your remaining Jace’s, and what cards to be on the look our for in the coming weeks.

Is the destiny of the Event Deck to be an aggro attack on every metagame? Jay compares the first and seconds rounds of competitive precons, then shares yet another contest!

This week Stephen examines the block constructed format to find what can still hold value after this falls standard rotation.

Last week I played in a standard tournament for four [card]Jace, the Mind Sculptor[/card]s. I played SparkBlade, a list very similar to the one in my last article.

With the exception of Splinter-Twin, however, the new metagame is very similar to the metagame before rotation.  Edgar Flores won the first SCG Open with NPH legal with a UW CawBlade list that looked very similar to the pre-rotation lists. In this metagame there are a number of cards that are being underplayed, in my opinion, and here are the top 5.

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.

We get back to the Hunt with a all new GR aggro list developed by Kellen’s new mtg team. Fast kills are the name of the game in this deck feature.

With some sleuthing and mad phone skills, Jay investigates the pricing and policies for some new product preorders for the upcoming New Phyrexia Event Decks and Magic: The Gathering Commander!

This week, Corbin Hosler describes how a trade went wrong and needs your help to make it right with the upset trader. He also tells you what cards to pick up in Legacy, what Standard cards need to go, and has an update on the Prediction Tracker!

With a new format becoming available for the first time Friday, it’s time to take a quick look at what’s available. For the most part, these will be aggro or combo decks, since control decks need to be built towards the metagame. As it stands, Caw-Blade is the premiere control deck in the format, and it can be played as-is with the mere addition of Batterskull.

Seeing the results from the National Qualifiers and thinking back on the article I wrote on Vampires, I was led back to that deck. I really love this Vampire deck and what it is capable of, I play it well, and I have had more success with it than any other deck this season. With all those things being true, how could I not play it again?