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The Underdog’s Guide To Winning – Almost A Tournament Report

John Dale Beety recently had one of his better PTQ results. He shares with you nine techniques that he learned for immediate improvement in tournament play while piloting his Modern Affinity Aggro deck.

Legacy Week – The Three Flavors Of Maverick

Want to attack with creatures in Legacy? Drew Levin provides you with a primer on Maverick, a green/white aggro creature deck. Play it if you want to be the beatdown at StarCityGames.com Open: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Vintage Avant-Garde – A Vintage Deck That Doesn’t BUG Me

Vintage Avant-Garde is back! Brian DeMars discusses Paul Mastriano’s Meandeck BUG Fish list which recently made Top 8 at the Grudge Match in New Jersey. He tells you why he thinks it’s well positioned in the current Vintage metagame.

Legacy Week – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About U/W Stoneblade

Ben Friedman puts his two cents into Legacy Week with his primer on U/W Stoneblade. Read how you can achieve the same success Ben has had with the deck at StarCityGames.com Legacy Open: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Matchups And Sideboarding For Planeswalker Control

Master control mage Shaheen Soorani tells you how a deck makes it into tier 1. Help him catapult his Planeswalker Control deck there by playing it in Standard at StarCityGames.com Open: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Slicing The Meta – Hexblade

Looking for a different deck to play in Standard? Jesse Smith has come up with a new brew he’s dubbed Hexblade. Try it out this weekend at StarCityGames.com Open: Dallas/Fort Worth!

I Know You Got Sole

If you like playing Lingering Souls in Standard, you’ll love it in Modern. Jeremy Neeman has been playing a U/B Delver deck splashing white for Lingering Souls that he calls Soulfish. Could this be the next deck to win a Modern PTQ?

Legacy Week – Q & A: How To Count To Ten In 2012

Continuing on with Legacy Week, Ari Lax shares the list he’s going to play at Grand Prix Indianapolis. Should you join him and play The Epic Storm in Legacy at StarCityGames.com Open: Dallas/Fort Worth?

Trinket Mage Is The Future

Ali Aintrazi sees one card as the future of Standard: Trinket Mage! He provides four different decklists in which he thinks this little Mage will make a huge difference. Try one of them out at StarCityGames.com Open: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Legacy Week – The “Others” Part 1

Have you ever lost to a “bad” Legacy deck? AJ Sacher tells you how you can identify and prepare yourself to play against these “Other” Legacy decks at StarCityGames.com Open: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Cube Holistic Wisdom – The Case For Data

Usman Jamil provides you with suggestions on how to use data to improve your cube. He talks about how tracking your cube’s average converted mana cost among other things can help you build a better cube.

Mana Pool Party – Draft Etiquette, Sideboard Flirting

Twitch is back with an all-new, never-before-seen video! It’s short, sweet, and not at all serious–a good way to start any Monday.

Next Level Spec – Battle Spec Basics And Planeswalker Ponders

Ted Knutson is back with advice on how to speculate successfully on Magic Online. He goes over some basics and also maps out the values of planeswalkers according to what set they’re in and how much play they see.

Dear Azami – Getting Down With The Defiler

Hello there, Demon spawn. Find out how Sean McKeown was able to restructure a reader’s deck with Rakdos the Defiler as the Commander to be more synergistic.

Legacy Week – Zoo Updates For Indy And SCG Open: Dallas

In honor of Legacy Week, Pat Cox has written about his beloved Nacatls in Legacy. Should you try Zoo, One-Drop Zoo, or “Big” Zoo for Grand Prix Indianapolis or StarCityGames.com Legacy Open: Dallas?