Carlos brings CawBlade to Commander. Can this be a cacophony of cool, or a catastrophic calamity? Come check it out!

With CawBlade in its recent incarnations gone the metagame is seemingly wide open.  Any number of archetypes can claim to be the new top dog, and the viability of many cards goes up without the fear of a Jace making them irrelevant or a turn three Batterskull attacking too quickly for them to come online.  Until some tournament results come in to fill in the gaps any talk about the new metagame will be little more than an educated guess, but we can still know questions need to be answered.

This week Stephen examines the block constructed format to find what can still hold value after this falls standard rotation.

Being “The Threat” is generally a bad thing, right? How about a deck that lives at the center of the storm it creates! Rob has you covered this week with a trip down the road Sharuum the Hegemon paves.

Neale takes a reader’s Rafiq deck from common to commanding for head’s up play, and challenges you to do it better. Think you can handle the firepower?

Here is part 1 of Gregory’s design review – a unique card-by-card analysis from an ex- magic designer.

Anthony Avitollo, our resident cube master, breaks down or completely blasts some of the best (and overhyped cards) for cubes from New Phyrexia!

In a singleton format, why does everyone’s deck look the same? This HAS to be fixed.

Who needs the biggest guns and baddest creatures? Neale takes you through why the pen is mightier than the sword. (It’s winning.)

Usman’s farewell article shares why he believes there’s more to cubing than just optimization and winning.