Don’t get me wrong, I do love the financial content to death and literally read every financial article I can get my hands on anywhere on The Internet, but we need an actual way to deal with the rising price of Magic cards. How can we actually stop focusing on the problem and figure out a workable answer? Well, I have it for you today. For the past year I have been playing competitive magic on a budget, playing top-tier decks, and doing it with almost no money. You’re still with me, right? Good.

This week, Usman begins a series on performing a SWOT analysis on each color in cubes, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each color and what it brings to aligned multicolor pairs, starting with an analysis of white.

Again this week Kellen Huber goes into the extended format with a darker side to the format with a new BR deck.

Gregory starts with a basic artifact deck and then explores an exciting combo deck for standard.

This week, Josh Lalo takes a preliminary look at Extended and discusses some potential shakeups in the Eternal formats.

This week Stephen takes a look at news from the 2011 World Championship, and breaks down how each formats prices will be affected by the results, and even shows one of the new Mirrodin Besieged cards for us!

Corbin Hosler looks at the upcoming Extended season and offers tips on where to profit on the upcoming format

I am an Aggro player at heart. Since this is my first article, I thought I’d start things off with an Aggro deck that seems like it can float under the radar with your current meta. It’s a Green and Red Aggro deck… I was working on a similar list, but since that was put on the shelf for now, I will work within what I call a “development list phase.”