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3,420In this ninth installment of his series on Rise of the Eldrazi Draft, a small child explores no less than seven "trap" archetypes that may be tempting to some but should be avoided at all costs. He also discusses how people often end up drafting these archetypes without thinking about it and gives advice about how to avoid that pitfall.
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3,225After a week with only one deck in the top eight, Blue keeps coming back like a mortgage company's lawyer ready to foreclose on the Pauper PE.
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2,342Dylan reports on the games from last week's draft, including some rather epic moments and examining his own misplays.
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3,914Today I'll be talking about Standard Dredge in all of its glory, misery and variance. This is going to be an interesting one, as the archetype is constantly evolving, and every time we think it's dead and gone, someone finds a way to, er, Dredge it back up!
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5,971Another article, another dragon! Let's make a bunch of tokens and smack our opponents around with Rith!
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5,905An introduction to the Pauper Prismatic Format. In this article I show the must have artifacts, as well as Dredge and Transmute cards.
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4,820Most of the time sets reviews are done card by card with little thought about the bigger picture. While that works when you're talking about constructed formats, it often leaves out how a set plays out in drafts and sealed deck tournaments. Since Magic 2011 is a core set, I thought it would make some sense to compare it to the last core set. We already have a lot of knowledge about Magic 2010 limited formats, how does that knowledge translate to Magic 2011?
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4,031In my first ever article, I show my take on Classic Tribal Wars, by starting a series covering the Guilds of Ravnica and using one of the guild's legends as the basis for the deck. This week we start with the enforcers of Ravnica, the Boros.
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7,402This week I continue digging out the good stuff of M11. What do the angry mountains, the dangerous forests and the colorless robots of M11 have to offer us? Answers are all inside.
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2,609A quick look at the week of MTGO news, price changes and other nuggets of MTGO goodness!
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4,382Flippers_Giraffe presents the second part of his angel series this week and ends up playing most of this week's decks in the tournament practice room. Are they really that good? Read on to find out.
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2,477Freeform lets us do some amazing things.
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15,473The time to crack some Mirrodin packs is upon us! The Community Team captured the Community Cup back in early June and as a reward, anyone who posted to the Discussion threads will be rewarded with a Mirrodin Draft set with drafts running from July 26-29. Since this format is almost 7 years old, I take a look at the cards of Mirrodin Block to get better acquainted for the special draft weekend.
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4,076Join Shard this week as he goes through the most recent decks, the lack of good summer movies, and my top choices of Red, Black, and Artifacts in m11.
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2,593In the second week of an analysis on mono colour strategies in standard, Splendid Belt gets all hot under the collar...
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5,705Look at that trippy new header. Today I talk about playing against the sharks (aka the netdecks and the big money decks), some personal favorites, and why big decks aren't all about luck.
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5,117In this continuing series of articles, gwyned explores the winning decklists from each week of the PRE MPDC. This week, gwyned explores a decklist called Ugly and discusses how this list has evolved from its predecessor, Borosfall. Check out the link for a quick analysis of the decklist and a video-cast of a matchup against the mighty Blightning deck.
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3,595Herein I describe my journey through creative trial and error to find a deck worthy of the name 'fun yet victorious'.
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3,884The thrilling conclusion to Godot's draft walkthrough!
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3,379Big news from Gordon Culp this week in regards to the fabled MTGO collection server update! What this really means for us, the players inside!
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10,590In this edition of Deckbox of Tricks, Boosh explains and explores the concept of flickering, and introduces you to one of his alter-egos, The Flickerer! Join me inside as I breakdown six classic Flicker decks, and one Pauper-Flicker deck. What is flickering, you ask? Read this article to find out!
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4,430Join me as I take a look at three cards from M11 that I feel will be quite interesting in today's meta game. I also provide some deck lists that I feel will utilize these cards quite well. What cards did I choose? Read the article!
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3,305Mono-Blue Control, Mono-Black Control, Stompy, White Weenie, Goblins, and Red Deck Wins all reach the finals of either the PE or PRE displaying the power of monochromatic decks. Take a look inside for a recap of the previous week of Pauper events.
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5,503This week a small child rolls out the popular U/R Kiln Fiend archetype and adds in some extra discussion of its rarely seen cousin, B/R Kiln Fiend.
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6,484I lay out my thought process on how I create a competitive deck that can win lots of packs in the queues and PEs.