Today Mike Lanigan discusses the hottest mechanic coming off of the PT, which has only begun to affect the Standard metagame: devotion.

Master of Waves can be exceptionally powerful in the right shell. Today Mike Lanigan exhibits a new Standard deck built around the devotion to blue mechanic.

Mike Lanigan reviews an old Naya deck from years past to see how it might inform a similar strategy in Theros Standard.

Mike Lanigan continues his examination of Theros spoilers, evaluating them for Constructed-playability and flavor.

Mike Lanigan examines the Standard and Block Constructed decks that lose the least to rotation, and are likely to form the backbone of the new Standard.

Mike Lanigan looks a potent card advantage engine particularly suited to tribal decks. Is this the tool Slivers was lacking to be competitive?

After a string of high finishes with the deck, Mike Lanigan takes Aristocrats 3.0 to a PTQ, narrowly missing top eight.

Mike Lanigan surveys the last huzzah of Standard brewing before rotation, the decks to come out of Worlds weekend. He also updates Aristocrats 3.0 to address the latest changes.

Mike Lanigan runs back his Aristocrats 3.0 deck from last week for a TCG Bronze event and makes finals again. Read on for the report.

Mike Lanigan took his “Aristocrats 3.0” build to the Platinum TCQ in Ohio last weekend and rode it all the way to 2nd place. Read on for his tournament report.

Mike Lanigan discusses Mutavault’s future in Standard before turning to M14 to tweak old archetypes and brew up some brand new ones.

Mike Lanigan reviews M14 using the classic top ten formula. Read on for his picks of cards most likely to make an impact on Standard.

Mike Lanigan looks at some interesting new decks to crop up in Standard of late.