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4,157Welcome to my first draft in well over a year! In this article I will show you my draft and point out some of the errors I made. Even though I'm not the best drafter, everyone can learn something from this!
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4,156Deckbuilding in V3 vs. deckbuilding in Beta: a necessary comparison. Learn all the old client's tricks you may not even know about, so you can ask for them to be ported into the upcoming new client.
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4,155The PureMTGO gang starts to look at the alternate formats for the first MTGO Community Cup! What's the Cup? Listen this week to find out!
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4,155The clans of Tarkir have returned in one of the best Limited formats of the past five years. Learn how to win at the Limited format, then stay for thoughts on the Nexus of Fate controversy.
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4,155Join us (AJ and Paul) as we babble about MTGO, MTGA and the arrival of Pauper in Paper, and pass on promo codes for Arena freebies.
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4,154In this installment whiff talks about a few new builds and where they could sit in the murky depths of the format, also some astonishing news that may just push a format split to Balance things out.
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4,153An overview of Standard, in the weeks before Planar Chaos shakes things up. I cover Neo-Stasis, UB Dralnu du Lovre, Mono-Green Aggro and the decks tuned to beat Mono-Green Aggro.
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4,152I review the latest Return to Ravnica Spoilers and announce the next Heirloom tournament to get 20 tix worth of Hammybot cards donated to their prize pool. I also give an Heirloom decklist I've been working on. Some cards I talk about in RTR are: Supreme Verdict, Dryad Militant, Loxodon Smiter, Abrupt Decay, Vraska the Unseen and many many more.
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4,151Alex recounts his trip to Seattle for the Community Challenge Cup. One part anecdote, one part tournament report.
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4,151Do you like powerful planeswalkers? Do you like hardcasting Eldrazi? Well RG Tron is just the deck for you. Karn, Ugin, Emrakul and friends all contained within.
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4,151It's Friday! Legacy Champs qualifiers are here. Eldritch Moon is in sight. Plus we have news, deck techs, prices and - of course - Vintage Cube drafts while we wait for the new set to debut on MTGO. It's too hot outside, so fire up a draft and click the link.
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4,150This week - M13 arrives in paper, and Wizards announces the details of M13 release events online. Wizards also provides an open beta preview of the new interface and announces the next round of player rewards cards. Also inside - a major update on the investment project and Pete discusses the changes to Magic over the years.
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4,150Join me on my journey playing with a Mono Green Nykthos devotion Pod deck in the Modern games...
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4,150Everybody's Twerkin' for the weekend! It's Friday, and I have some Eternal content for you. This week, I talk about how to beat Martello Shops, and I discuss my experience playing the Metalworker Combo deck I featured in last week's article. Several popular anti-Shops sideboard cards are discussed, and I tell you which ones actually concern me when I'm playing Shops, and which ones I don't worry about at all. Plus, I tell you how to vote for which deck I play next!
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4,149The Phyrexians have taken over and brought with them one of the most influential sets for Modern. How can you dominate your drafts full of people "rare-drafting" commons?
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4,148Red is often described as a purely aggro color. Red has to win before other colors have the chance to. I've found that this isn't always the case. And did it on the cheap.
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4,148It's spoiler season again. The info on Scars of Mirrodin cards are leaking out. People are raving about one card - and it's a bad card. I'll look at the card, and talk about why it is gonna suck. More importantly, I'll talk about the framework for evaluating new cards. I've survived over FIFTY new sets, and written a ton of (often bad) set previews and speculation articles. I've learned to avoid the pitfalls.
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4,148We all know that card advantage is the key to success in Magic. But can card advantage alone be the way how we win games in Standard these days? As a matter of fact it can, and this week I'm showing you how.
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4,148Last weekend was Eternal Weekend, sadly it could not last an eternity. The good news is I have the results! If you want to know what decks are going to be popping up in the Magic Online Legacy and Vintage rooms, you'd better have a look! Beatdown Bob Huang crushes Legacy, and we've got a new Vintage Champion (his name is Dromoka)!
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4,147A while back, I surveyed 1000 players’ results from Zendikar limited games and tracked how frequently individual commons contributed to wins and losses. (You can find the complete archive here.) Well, I did the same thing for Magic 2010, and I am here today to generalize the results of the past set into lessons for Magic 2011. Is card advantage key? Does removal rule the world? Did the most broken Magic 2010 card make it into Magic 2011? The answers are inside…
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4,145Despite being dominated by money mythics like Primeval Titan and Jace, the Mind Sculptor the current standard format has also some very competitive decks that everyone can afford. Fragoel2 presents 10 decklists that can provide some real bang for your buck!
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4,145It's Friday - time to take a break from watching Return to Ravnica spoilers to see what else happened this week. We have news, prices, tech and more, so come on in.
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4,144We're just a couple weeks away from the digital release of Mirrodin Besieged. This week I'd like to share some of my thoughts on how I see this new set shaping one of my favorite formats!
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4,143Dragons of Tarkir spoilers just started and Wizards delivered on the dragon front. It is time now to force all these dragons into standard.
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4,143Got a Pet Peeve deck? Learn how to hate out Pauper's most notorious strategies.
