Mike looks at 3 Standard deck lists that break out of the typical metagame, building around a potent and dangerous Archangel of Thune core that can end games in short order.

Pro Tour Competitor Adam Yurchick teaches you the ins and outs (literally) for one of Standard’s most fun new decks! See Mike Lanigan’s article yesterday for a primer on how to play it pre-board.

Ryan explores recent developments in Standard Burn lists, looking to recent tournament results for inspiration.

No one wants to kill a Lhurgoyf twice, but it sure sounds better than “bloodrush, boros charm, you lose”. Here are a few Standard decks that don’t care about mana symbols for once.

Jason Alt discusses the thorny difference between speculation and plain old making money, before covering the decks and tournaments from the weekend.

If you like crushing people with giant creatures, overpowered Planeswalkers and Dragons, R/G Monsters is the deck for you. Mike Schuller walks through the card choices and discusses the subtleties of this brutal deck.

Today Corbin looks back on his set review of Theros to see how accurate his predictions turned out.

Today Mike Lanigan brews with the new god, Xenagos. Read on to see what he comes up with.

Who doesn’t love Magical Xmasland? Mike Lanigan shares several deck ideas that almost got there, but turned out to be a little too cute.

David Schumann makes use of some telling hints we already have about Born of the Gods to isolate several potential speculation targets.