The first of two articles today in anticipation of Monday’s Banning announcement. Will Jace, the Mind Sculptor stay legal? What about Stoneforge Mystic? Brook Gardner-Durbin explores what options will be available to you if either or both of the above get the axe!

With a new format becoming available for the first time Friday, it’s time to take a quick look at what’s available. For the most part, these will be aggro or combo decks, since control decks need to be built towards the metagame. As it stands, Caw-Blade is the premiere control deck in the format, and it can be played as-is with the mere addition of Batterskull.

Usman’s farewell article shares why he believes there’s more to cubing than just optimization and winning.

Why is Stoneforge Mystic the most expensive Rare in Standard? Corbin Hosler has the answers, and a few stories from his last PTQ!

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.

Brook Gardner-Durbin takes a look at the first half of Mirrodin Beseiged spoilers and the impact they’ll have on Constructed.

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!

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.”