For the holidays, we present one of Corbin’s earlier articles, which addresses a financial topic worth revisiting: MTG real estate at the release of the Fall set.

From Door to Nothingness to the return of a familiar UW strategy, Standard is full of innovation right now. Mike Lanigan surveys the new decks that have surfaced recently.

Jason comments on the precarious nature of online orders before a price spike, discusses the new trigger rules, and surveys tournaments from Baltimore to Indianapolis.

With the Standard metagame finally starting to settle down a bit, Chad is looking to stay one step ahead of the tide of week-to-week tweaks with his new spec targets.

This week Ryan riffs on some of the theories behind land count and attempts to go deep on his love of the 27th.

Grand Prix: Chicago was this past weekend and the format was Modern. How good for us! Modern moves a lot of card prices, even though it doesn’t get played that much. It’s the reason that Remand and Kitchen Finks are worth so much; why Path to Exile pushes $5. The PTQ season is coming up and Modern cards are going to be in demand for awhile. With continued WOTC support, with Modern Masters, with shocklands being reprinted, this format is coming together… if it can deal with Jund.

Jason weighs in on internet reactions to the announcement of Dragon’s Maze before looking at top decks from GP Chicago and the SCG Dallas Open.

Standard is a wide open format right now, which means lots of people are inventing sweet brews. Mike surveys the field for some strategies you may have overlooked.

Matthew describes the strategy he used to profit on shocklands before the release of RtR. Don’t miss this opportunity when it repeats itself come the release of Gatecrash.

Jason makes his case for the future glory of Seance before running down the results of Return to Ravnica’s first legal weekend.

This past weekend saw over 400 Magic players battle it out at the Star City Games Open in Cincinnati, Ohio. This was the first major event broadcast online with the new Standard, and there were certainly some significant shifts.

Corbin Hosler examines and predicts the price movements of all the relevant lands in Return To Ravnica and Innistrad!

There’s a lot to be hopeful about in Return to Ravnica. I have not seen preorder prices for boxes go up this soon since Future Sight and the Zendikar treasures. Those boxes are going to be packed with money. What’s also cool is that this set is going to get people brewing with their favorite color schemes and trying out old favorites. These favorites aren’t going to be winners, but it’ll get things moving.