In a split format event, it’s important to remember that the Top 8 doesn’t always showcase the best decks. Check out this Standard power-house from the Top 16 of the SCG Invitational!

Adam lays out the ten decks that will define the Standard tournament metagame this week and beyond. Being prepared for these decks will be essential to your tournament success.

Ryan takes a look at pre-order prices of the Dragons of Tarkir. Find out which cards are hits and which are hype!

Ryan has blue on the brain. Find out his thoughts on how best to implement Master of Waves in Theros-Khans Standard!

Ryan played a variant of the Jeskai Wins deck at States this weekend. Find out what he believes works and what doesn’t, and which direction he thinks the deck should be heading!

After diverting some Magic funds to cover family expenses, Danny Brown is finally ready to reinvest! He discusses the cards he’s targeting to build his profile back up from a low spot.

Carlos wraps up his monocolored budget series with the color everyone loves to hate. Read on to see how monoblue can be built in Commander without griefing the entire universe.

Carlos continues the theme of expanding on other people’s Commander decks, this time bringing us some flashback action with Dralnu, Lich Lord.

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.