Neale polishes off the competitive commanders, and opens the floor for Azuza lists! Think you have the most savage green machine?

Mike Hawthorne begins his upcoming weekly Legacy-focused Insider series by introducing himself and responding to the most recent tournament results, noting which cards deserve speculative attention.

Ryan’s back, delivering the other half of his M12 review! If you’re picking up your product this weekend, and going digging for Commander goodies, let Ryan help point you exactly where you want to be!

Magic 2012 is almost here! Anthony’s back with his acerbic wit for a spin down the lanes of the latest Core Set, dishing up a Cube review worth reading.

It’s a Commander review of Magic 2012, but it isn’t. It’s got Standard and Legacy, but doesn’t. It’s by Ryan, an indisputable fact. What it will do is help you be prepared for this Friday’s Release trading!

A Birthing Pod deck? Can it be so? Yes my friends, and it is as glorious and utility-filled as all of your little dreams had hoped! Twice now my Houston playgroup has had somebody run this list in a PTQ to Top 8 contention, to lose in the last round of Swiss. Here’s the list, with every card explained, that was used!

Joshua takes one last look at the pre-ban format, then focuses on the new Standard, discovering that a surprising card may end up defining the format.

With CawBlade in its recent incarnations gone the metagame is seemingly wide open.  Any number of archetypes can claim to be the new top dog, and the viability of many cards goes up without the fear of a Jace making them irrelevant or a turn three Batterskull attacking too quickly for them to come online.  Until some tournament results come in to fill in the gaps any talk about the new metagame will be little more than an educated guess, but we can still know questions need to be answered.

Strategies for making moves in a post-Jace/Stoneforge Standard. Explore all the possibilities.

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!

Getting your feet wet building a play group in a new town can be awkward. Anthony shares his experiences from doing this repeatedly. Don’t let potential good times go to waste!