The new set means rotation, and that means picking up staples on the cheap. David looks at his current picks for the ex-Standard cards with the most potential.

When Opt was spoiled for Modern, I wrote a piece about how I didn't think the card would see much play. That didn't stop me from putting together a bunch of decks with the card. During those experiments, I took a literal "walk" on the wild side, following a...

Jake and Joel are back with another episode of Friday Night with Quiet Speculation!

Danny provides a comprehensive review of Cube-worthy cards from Ixalan, along with suggestions for the best time to pick each one up cheaply.

This past week I found myself looking back at some of the first articles I wrote here at Nexus, for some reason or another, and discovered something interesting about my writing. No, it’s not that I love control, or have a tendency to play tempo-oriented decks, or really really like...

After seeing Ixalan in action at the prerelease, Mike has a better idea of how the new cards will fit into Standard and which strategies are worth targeting.

Kyle's back with a discussion on portfolios – and why you should be keeping one if you're serious about speculating on MTGO.

Matthew Lewis presents the MTGO Market Report for this week, evaluating important events in the online market and highlighting a “trade of the week.”

Cards tend to break down into "tiers" of value, based on the formats they're played in. Brian explains how this theory can inform potential picks in the Old School format.

With a new set comes new speculation, new brews, and new bold declarations. Archetypes are revived, archetypes are doomed, new decks exist, the new decks are terrible—we've heard it all before. I try not to speculate and only talk about cards once I've actually played with them. This means...