Alan had also brought along the shell for Summoning Trap, which is a deck I had seen and liked initially. After looking at the deck laid out – I figured an audible was in order. Why? I simply wasn’t going to win the tournament with Faeries, so my best chance was to change decks.

Arthur’s first article for Quiet Speculation is a great and thought provoking look at the next expansion, Mirrodin Besieged. His inventive and sensible evaluations of the cards and potential interactions will serve every reader well in the coming days and months events.

My name is Joshua Justice. I’m technically a “Magic Pro” because I won a PTQ last year and made Day Two at Pro Tour: Amsterdam. In reality, I’m just a weekend grinder who’s been back in the game for a little over a year, and I’ve had a couple of successful tournaments. This story begins two weeks before Grand Prix: Atlanta, in a comic shop called The DeeP in Huntsville, Alabama. My plan that day was to play in a Grand Prix Trial, then move to Atlanta to start my new job.

Brook Gardner-Durbin takes a look at the first half of Mirrodin Beseiged spoilers and the impact they’ll have on Constructed.

Corbin Hosler keeps you up-to-the-minute on Besieged spoilers and provides a guide on what cards to trade for this weekend!

Jund is one of the top decks in the Extended format, and here is everything you should need to supplement your playtesting with it for Grand Prix: Atlanta!

This week, Usman begins a series on performing a SWOT analysis on each color in cubes, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each color and what it brings to aligned multicolor pairs, starting with an analysis of white.

Again this week Kellen Huber goes into the extended format with a darker side to the format with a new BR deck.

Taking a look at the best finishing Jund decklists in the early PTQ Nagoya season to create a baselane “consensus” list.

Gregory starts with a basic artifact deck and then explores an exciting combo deck for standard.

This week, David shares the trials, tribulations and joys of building and playing mono-Red in Commander.