Mike Lanigan presents his latest Standard brew, an evolution of Bant Hexproof that makes use of the Ordeal cycle from Theros.

Jason Alt relates his rare foray into the world of actual Magic matches before delving into the results from Grand Prix DC.

Mike Lanigan relates his experiences at the TCG Invitational battling to a 21st-place finish.

Kyle delivers his QS debut article by laying down some wisdom on MTGO finance.

This week Jason Alt questions the ancient maxim “better lucky than good” and dissects results from the first week of new Standard.

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

David Schumann follows up with Part 2 of his article disclosing his current holdings and the reasoning behind them.

Retail prices are higher than eBay prices, which are higher than buy list prices. But what happens when this expected price structure goes out of whack? Sigmund examines three case studies understand what such a phenomenon means.

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.

Danny continues his retrospective on a set of trades he tracked last Fall, to see how his trading fundamentals weathered the test of time.

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

Matthew Lewis takes advantage of the relative Summer lull to outline his three-month plan for the coming Fall rotation and release of Theros.

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.