In the final Cube SWOT article Usman shatters notions around Artifacts, levying ruin to the everyday average.

Part summary, part style, all hot Cube theory. Usman shares a SWOT on pure gold.

With Extended season nearing the finish line, Corbin Hosler tell you why now is the time to sell part of your collection and searches for unexpected cards to make you money!

Alan had also brought along the shell for Summoning Trap, which is a deck I had seen and liked initially. After looking at the deck laid out – I figured an audible was in order. Why? I simply wasn’t going to win the tournament with Faeries, so my best chance was to change decks.

Arthur’s first article for Quiet Speculation is a great and thought provoking look at the next expansion, Mirrodin Besieged. His inventive and sensible evaluations of the cards and potential interactions will serve every reader well in the coming days and months events.

My name is Joshua Justice. I’m technically a “Magic Pro” because I won a PTQ last year and made Day Two at Pro Tour: Amsterdam. In reality, I’m just a weekend grinder who’s been back in the game for a little over a year, and I’ve had a couple of successful tournaments. This story begins two weeks before Grand Prix: Atlanta, in a comic shop called The DeeP in Huntsville, Alabama. My plan that day was to play in a Grand Prix Trial, then move to Atlanta to start my new job.

With second part (the first half) of an Extended PTQ, Kyle walks us through quite a few more sticky situations in Magic.

Jund is one of the top decks in the Extended format, and here is everything you should need to supplement your playtesting with it for Grand Prix: Atlanta!

In a different kind of “tournament report,” Kyle turns back time and walks through some player questions from an Extended PTQ.

[…] One thing I think many people underestimate is Mythic’s ability to last in a long game, which is its biggest asset against Control. Between your Planeswalkers and manlands, it’s not hard to have a significant board presence with only one or two creatures committed. The Knights, in particular, are frequently quite large, which lets you play out a single threat at a time and make the opponent answer it before committing another. […]

Taking a look at the best finishing Jund decklists in the early PTQ Nagoya season to create a baselane “consensus” list.