At first glance, speculators appeared to profit on breakout cards from Pro Tour Kaladesh. A deeper look, focusing on more realistic scenarios, reveals a different picture.

Last month we saw three major Modern Grand Prix around the world post a metagame breakdown that mirrored almost exactly the one established in July. Paradoxically, September had both far fewer high-profile events and much more significant shifts in share percentage. I believe these were the result of careful and systematic re-positioning...

Reserved List cards are useful as speculative vehicles, but they're not as foolproof as they seem. Niels explains some of the crucial downsides they can present.

Join Sylvain for another week of high-stakes bankroll management on MTGO. He goes over the latest buys and sells and provides the reasoning behind them.

Every spoiler season, you can catch me looking over the new cards and imagining how they line up in Modern. "I wonder if this card could work?" Invariably, I'll make a bunch of lists and bring them to battle on Cockatrice. I lose. I fix the list. I lose some...

Most of the engine cards in Kaladesh have already spiked, though there is still potential for some Pro Tour gambles.

Adam lays out which Kaladesh cards are already having an impact on the Modern metagame and market.

Nicolas goes over some key Standard cards on MTGO worth discussion this week.

With no SCG events to analyze, and the next Modern Grand Prix in Dallas still almost a month away, I’m left with a “free” topic of sorts this week. Unchained of the duty of analyzing set impact, as Kaladesh appears to be making only a minor impression in Modern,...

There have been multiple spikes this week leading up to the Pro Tour, though not all of them are completely justified.