You’ve heard about “the danger of cool plays” in Magic. Jules shares with us the danger of un-cool plays, and how to amp your entire Commander troupe’s fun up to 11!

Bash bashed, but for how much and how well? Neale takes a reader submission and works with magic, discovering that planning must be proper to avert the dangers ahead!

Ryan wraps up his week-long Commander series with a recap of prices, closing out with notable reprints and some value projections. If wheeling and dealing Commander boxes is your game, let Ryan’s advice weigh in for you!

Corbin Hosler looks back at a recent speculative buy that failed, and shares with you the lessons he learned from the experience, as well as provides an update to the Prediction Tracker!

Winning isn’t a “dirty word” in Commander. Buck up, buckle down, and take the tables one at a time! Jules has the lowdown on a not-so-sneaky and straightforward way to win games at Commander!

A Birthing Pod deck? Can it be so? Yes my friends, and it is as glorious and utility-filled as all of your little dreams had hoped! Twice now my Houston playgroup has had somebody run this list in a PTQ to Top 8 contention, to lose in the last round of Swiss. Here’s the list, with every card explained, that was used!

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.

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.