May is coming in a few days, which means it's time to start preparing for summer. For some of us, this meas breaking out the sandals and pumping up your bike tires. But for you Modern players out there, it should mean getting ready for the Grand Prix blitz...
For Brian DeMars, the bread and butter of speculation are the long-term gainers. He shares his strategy for picking the "safe picks" that will appreciate slowly but surely over time.
Matthew Lewis and Sylvain Lehoux present the MTGO Market Report for this week, discussing major price trends and recommending specific cards to buy and sell.
R/W Control is a rogue archetype in Modern that probably hasn't been explored nearly as much as it should. The basic idea behind the deck is to include removal and wrath like Jeskai Control, but eschew counter magic for lock pieces and/or hate cards, which is highly enjoyable for...
David Schumann crunches the numbers on the first MMA release to get a more precise idea of how prices will change after MM2015 releases.
Doug Linn covers the results from SCG Cleveland, which sported a few innovations to Standard decklists. He highlights some promising pick-ups, as well as the decks to watch moving forward.
You can't play Modern without hearing about the "Bolt Test". If a card or deck is soft to the format's most efficient removal spell, then it might not be a good choice for Modern. The Bolt Test is a big reason otherwise decent creatures, like Figure of Destiny or Vampire...
