If you could hand-pick the perfect cards for a mono-red deck in the Holiday Cube, what would your decklist look like?

Sylvain Lehoux goes over his experiences speculating on Block from the last two years, and applies lessons to Journey Into Nyx.

Danny analyzes the progression of Event Decks throughout their relatively short life span, in an attempt to gain insight regarding their financial significance.

Danny launches into a full assessment of the current state of his trade binder, analyzing the directions he sees many cards going in the coming weeks and months.

Considering the information about Theros block already spoiled, Corbin Hosler asks what cards may benefit from an “enchantment-matters” Standard environment.

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.

David Schumann explains how he determines which cards to target at rotation, and what his picks are for this year.

Matthew Lewis has begun to think about Fall rotation. In light of the information we have gleaned about Theros, certain cards and strategies appear poised for gains and losses.

Jason suggests keeping abreast of the metagame may provide a lot of insight into speculation targets, then (conveniently) covers decks from the weekend.

Mike Lanigan analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a version of The Aristocrats he played at a recent PTQ, and suggests a few alterations.

Many people are already gearing up to out their Innistrad stock before rotation. Jared looks at the future metagame and asks what we should be acquiring in exchange.

With Jund strategies sweeping all manner of formats, Jared Elick looks at some archetype staples to find where they might end up.

Jared Elick looks at the first results from Gatecrash Standard tournaments, and indicates some of the cards that may be poised to jump in value.