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.

Corbin Hosler explains why Supply and Demand theory is being ignored and Dark Ascension is underpriced because of it@

Corbin Hosler breaks down the price changes to Modern staples since the turn of the year, delivering some interesting results!

Rise of the Eldrazi is the Timmy dream set. It’s what you’d get if you built a set with the premise of “no rush till turn 7” and packed mana accelerants in everything. The set is based around the Eldrazi, giant and evil old legends that awaken on Zendikar. There’s a little bit of plot to this set, but mostly people remember weird drafts and a couple really big monsters.

I’d like to think that this is Abraham Lincoln’s calls, like the Great Emancipator has reached out from beyond space and time to tell us what to grab in Modern. How plain, then, that this is about the best cards to watch, to pick up, and to ditch in the wake of Grand Prix: Lincoln.

If you don’t have an Insider account, get a glimpse at what you missed out on this past weekend in Ryan’s overview of the QS calls. On top of that, Ryan delivers a Dark Ascension set review with an eye toward Commander applications.

Mike Lanigan breaks down his deck choice for a local modern tourney and gives a tournament report on his first foray into modern.

Corbin Hosler breaks down some of the Modern cards you’ll want to stock to prepare for the upcoming PTQ season!

Should you be trading for the long-term or short-term? Corbin Hosler breaks down the merits of both, and explains when both are correct.

A new style where you make the calls! Join Carl’s interactive learning and get involved in deciding which end of a trade you’d want to be on.