Which packs should you be opening right now and which should you avoid? When choosing your prizes for local gaming store tournaments, make sure you get the best return and learn what Chad found from running the hard numbers on all Standard legal boosters.

In the last segment of his artifact extravaganza, Carlos is looking at Dark Ascension and Kataki, War’s Wage. This guy has typically been considered unplayable for Commander; but when you build around his effect, he can be pretty nasty.

Mike Lanigan looks at powerful new strategies in Standard.

Trey Ballew showed up with a homebrew for States in Oklahoma and Top 8’ed with a spicy rogue list! Is this the next breakout deck?

Joshua Justice takes a closer look at rares mythics and playable commons and uncommons with his set review of Innistrad.

We’ve had 2 weeks of Opens to see the impact New Phyrexia has had on the Standard and Legacy tournament scenes. I’m going to focus on Standard, since the Grand Prix this weekend is Legacy, and will almost certainly have more players than the SCG Open series gets. Waiting on that will give us a bit of a better view on the format. However, for Standard, there’s no reason to wait, especially since the format hasn’t really undergone much of a change.

In the third and final installment of his design review of New Phyrexia, Gregory discusses the Green and Artifact cards.

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.