After establishing a successful strategy to invest in core set mythics, Sylvain explains the strategy he intends to apply to M15 rares based on the price evolution of M14 rares this past year.

Ryan explores the exhaustive reasoning behind crafting a sideboard for Modern Izzet Delver.

Danny reflects on a series of trades that he documented last autumn to see what lessons can be extracted.

This week Ryan reveals the most important rule when attempting to build a new deck.

Corbin Hosler reviews his predictions from Magic 2013 with an eye on how things will shake out with Return to Ravnica!

Today Jason comments on tweets from the mothership and shares some odd auctions gracing eBay. He follows up with the usual flurry of tournament results accompanied by snark.

Building a good deck is more than throwing every good card from a color into a pile and shuffling them together.

Jason relates all the myriad happenings of that great gaming get together, Gen Con! If you weren’t fortunate enough to partake in the festivities yourself, be sure not to miss the recap!

Ryan reports on his performance with Counter Repost at the SCG Kansas City Standard event.

Jason waxes poetic about the upcoming Gen Con, presents some famous characters immortalized in Magic card form, and reports the (shocking) tournament results from the weekend.

As we near rotation, Standard continues to be dominated by aggressive creature strategies. Mike advocates shaking it up with a dedicated control deck and provides two brand-new lists in said vein.

Ryan unveils his monoblue Trading Post deck and outlines why it is arguably the best version of the deck.