With Gatecrash fully spoiled, Ryan’s deck-building juices are kicking into overdrive. See what directions perfect mana is pulling his towards.

Jason Alt continues his discussion about the different schools of thought in Magic finance and reports on the recent tournament results.

Cards that see play across multiple formats inherently possess added price stability, and make for great targets moving into the Modern PTQ season.

With Modern PTQ season quickly approaching, now is the time to hoard format staples that are sure to see tons of play.

Deathrite Shaman has already splashed down hard in Standard and even more so in Modern. This week Ryan crafts a BUG Legacy deck around the powerful one-drop, a list featuring some very interesting inclusions and omissions.

Continuing his discussion of the new Ravnica Standard, Mike brings Zombies into the world of midrange and provides an updated Armada Wurm list.

Mike brews up some possible shells for a sure-to-be contender in Standard’s near future, Armada Wurm.

Matthew discusses how Return to Ravnica will impact short-term prices on MTGO and the resulting opportunities for speculators.

At the tail end of the current Standard’s run, the format is still evolving. Mike examines some new archetypes on the cutting edge that arose from the World Magic Cup.

This week Jason bears witness to an historical Magic transaction, reports the slew of typos to appear in Magic products of late, and praises recent rogue deck builders for their quixotic quest to render Magic fun.

In response to purrs of Monoblack’s revival, Ryan reviews the color wheel and the distribution of card strength amongst the colors in the Standard environment.

Comicon is in full swing and the Magic announcements just happened. This week, I’ll be looking at the unconfirmed rumors about reprints, first-time prints and what we can anticipate from Return To Ravnica.

Mark reviews the full spoiler of M13 and analyzes its impact on Standard. What cards will we no longer have after rotation? And what their replacements, if any?