David Schumann discusses the difference between hype-based spikes and price corrections, and how it should inform your decision to sell.
Spreading Seas
Jason Alt discusses the unexpected in buylist prices, Legacy pet-deck results, and the Finance Subreddit’s reaction to calls.
Corbin Hosler looks at the movement of some–what else?–Merfolk staples, and explains how a slow holiday season creates opportunities.
Ryan discusses why playing and predicting the metagame is integral to success and offers a Modern deck list to consider.
Some of Magic’s older curve-topping titans have fallen out of favor for newer, crazier bombs. This week features a unique take on one of the first cycles of gigantic creatures.
Neale’s back with the biggest and baddest decks ever to stack up to 99 cards! Today’s competitive Commander deck update featuress Jhoria, Azami, Zur, and more!
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.
Corbin Hosler takes a look at the metagame post-Valakut and has some hot new cards to watch out for as the metagame evolves in the coming months, as well as provides the weekly update of the Prediction Tracker!
With the exception of Splinter-Twin, however, the new metagame is very similar to the metagame before rotation. Edgar Flores won the first SCG Open with NPH legal with a UW CawBlade list that looked very similar to the pre-rotation lists. In this metagame there are a number of cards that are being underplayed, in my opinion, and here are the top 5.