Design Deadly Designs: Put a Ring On It Markus Leben applies bottom-up design against the Oblivion Ring bug, and comes up with some interesting new cards along the way.
Finance The Four Fundamental Prices on Cardsphere Taking a break from design, this month Markus Leben talks about the various prices that people should watch.
Design Deadly Designs: Guessing at Ravnica Allegiance Mechanics Markus Leben takes a look at potentially returning mechanics in Ravnica Allegiance, and dreams up some new mechanics for each of the five guilds.
Modern Is Ultimate Masters Good? As of today, we have a Masters set with the highest MSRP, craziest reprints, and its own special sort of promo. With all these changes, how can we know if Ultimate Masters is worth it? Markus Leben is here to set the record straight.
Design Deadly Designs: Mean, Median, and Modal Markus Leben returns with a thorough examination of modal spells, even though ones you normally would not consider to be modal.
Modern Deadly Designs: Modern Introducing Markus Leben as our monthly columnist looking at card design and Magic theory.