Mike Lanigan brews up a Varolz Jund deck that aims to take advantage of the new legendary scavenger. With cards like Vexing Devil and Diregraf Ghoul, it doesn’t take much to make him a monster.

Mike Lanigan analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a version of The Aristocrats he played at a recent PTQ, and suggests a few alterations.

Mike Lanigan surveys the recent field of tier-one Standard decks and suggests Gruul Midrange as a possible contender.

Mike Lanigan reports on the TCG Invitational in Indianapolis. After several days of battling against infinite Rakdos decks, he provides an updated version to combat the mirror.

Joshua takes one last look at the pre-ban format, then focuses on the new Standard, discovering that a surprising card may end up defining the format.

Mike Lanigan discusses the impact of the cards of New Phyrexia on Standard’s Vampire archetype.

We get back to the Hunt with a all new GR aggro list developed by Kellen’s new mtg team. Fast kills are the name of the game in this deck feature.

Seeing the results from the National Qualifiers and thinking back on the article I wrote on Vampires, I was led back to that deck. I really love this Vampire deck and what it is capable of, I play it well, and I have had more success with it than any other deck this season. With all those things being true, how could I not play it again?

PPL is back! Gregory brings you a brand new Black / Red deck you can use to teach those Caw Blade players a lesson.

The next few short weeks, this CawBlade deck continued to dominate tournaments from local FNM’s to large Star City Games hosted events everywhere. The young mage, Mike Lanigan, read articles, built decks, and tried his best to build a comparable strategy that could take down this “Jund-like” beast (or “Faerie-like” if you prefer).