Jason muses on the politics (and economics) of patronizing your local gaming store, before delving into results from the SCG Invitational and Open in Los Angeles.

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

From Door to Nothingness to the return of a familiar UW strategy, Standard is full of innovation right now. Mike Lanigan surveys the new decks that have surfaced recently.

Predicting metagame shifts, watching price charts, and thinking about coming releases inform the investment targets Mathieu has for us this week.

Gatecrash spoiler season is rapidly approaching. But even before we learn what is in Gatecrash, some card prices are already on the move based on set speculation. Sigmund summarizes what’s been moving and what could continue to go higher!

Mike shares a recent brew of his combining Jund with elements of Boss Naya from years ago, notably the machine gun kill of Staticaster plus Nightshade Peddler.

Grand Prix: Chicago was this past weekend and the format was Modern. How good for us! Modern moves a lot of card prices, even though it doesn’t get played that much. It’s the reason that Remand and Kitchen Finks are worth so much; why Path to Exile pushes $5. The PTQ season is coming up and Modern cards are going to be in demand for awhile. With continued WOTC support, with Modern Masters, with shocklands being reprinted, this format is coming together… if it can deal with Jund.

Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.

Standard has been the most popular constructed format for years, and for good reason. It can be exciting and fun to play with all the latest cards. But often times remaining active in Standard can be detrimental to the value of your portfolio. Sigmund explores this relationship and outlines some thoughts on how to overcome financial barriers of Standard.

Ryan checks in this week to tell you why he thinks his unconventional Bant deck is where you should be in Standard right now. Look mom, no Jaces!

Mike discusses some recent versions of UWr Delver that have finished well at tournaments and offers his thoughts on the deck.

Join Ryan as he riffs on the most powerful ways to attack a wide-open metagame, and highlights potential format all-stars he thinks aren’t seeing nearly enough play.

Week two of Return to Ravnica’s Standard legality has seen many price changes yet again. Sigmund revisits some of the cards he discussed last week to identify how prices have responded, as well as where they may go next.