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AuthorBen Bleiweiss

Ben has been involved for over 20 years with Magic, including two tenures as a weekly columnist for WotC, eight Pro Tour appearances, providing coverage for the Pro Tour, and being a financial expert on Magic values. Ben started as an employee at SCG in 2003 as a card buyer and is now the General Manager.

The Financial Value of Eventide

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Friday, July 11th – Want to be prepared for trading going into the Eventide prerelease? Want to know which cards will be financial hits and misses? Then you cannot afford to miss The Financial Value of Eventide, brought to you by the very guy who sets the prices here at StarCityGames.com, Ben Bleiweiss!

Also: Don’t skip the end of the article or you’ll miss a very important announcement from Ben!

The Financial Value of Shadowmoor

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Friday, April 18th – Want to know which cards will be hot at your prerelease this weekend? Which cards should you pick up now while they are undervalued, and which should you trade away while they are overhyped? Which older card is already skyrocketing in value due to Shadowmoor? If you want to be informed at your prerelease, you must read Ben’s analysis of the Financial Value of Shadowmoor!

The Financial Value of Morningtide

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Want to know which cards will be hot at your prerelease this weekend? Which cards should you pick up now while they are undervalued, and which should you trade away while they are overhyped? Which Lorwyn cards will suddenly jump in value because of Morningtide? If you want to be informed at your prerelease, you must read Ben’s analysis of the Financial Value of Morningtide!

SCG Double Feature – Grand Prix: Daytona Beach/Thanksgiving

On today’s SCG Double Feature, Chris takes us through his time at Grand Prix: Daytona Beach, and Ben gives thanks for the things that mean a great deal to him.

SCG Double Feature – Talkin’ Vintage/Playin’ Lorwyn

This week’s Ben and Chris double bill sees Chris sharing his exploits at the recent StarCityGames.com Vintage Weekend in Chicago, and Ben doing what Ben does best: making inflammatory comments about the nature of the Eternal community. Intrigued? Then read on!

Inside SCG – The Road Warrior / The Real Deal

In this new weekly column, we bring you inside StarCityGames.com to see the strategies, thoughts, trends and feelings about Magic from inside the minds of the StarCityGames.com employees themselves! To kick off this inaugural column, we’ve got Chris Woltereck’s quest to qualify for Worlds ’08, and Ben Bleiweiss’s thoughts about how to fix Magic Online!

The Real Deal – Farewell To Ravnica: A Top 10 Look Back!

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Lorwyn is here — and that means Ravnica is about to be gone from Standard! Ben returns to his weekly column on StarCityGames.com with a look back at Ravnica done entirely with Top 10 lists! Goodbye, gold-block, we will miss you well and good.

The Financial Value of Lorwyn

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Want to know what will be hot at your prerelease this weekend? Which cards should you pick up now while they are undervalued, and which should you trade away while they are overhyped? Will Lorwyn cause any older cards to jump suddenly in value? The only way to find out is to read Ben’s analysis of the Financial Value of Lorwyn!

Feature Article – The Financial Value of Tenth Edition

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What to know what’ll be hot (and what not?) in Tenth Edition? Need to know which cards to give and get at Magic Game Day this Saturday? If you care about the value of your cards, or don’t want to be ripped off on trades, this is a must-read article!

The Real Deal – Card Stock

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In today’s edition of The Real Deal, Ben dishes about Magic’s Card Stock. From Alpha to today, Magic’s Card Stock has been in fluctuation. Find out what Ben’s figured out about Magic Card Stock over the years!

Plus: Ben has a big announcement to make!

The Real Deal – Building Community at Grand Prix: Columbus

Grand Prix: Columbus is next week, and the format is Legacy. With all the talk of Hulk Flash, will the Legacy Community rise to the occasion and champion their format in a positive light? In this week’s edition of The Real Deal, Ben gives some tips about how to make the Grand Prix and the format appealing to non-Legacy regulars!

Plus, in Ben’s Corner: StarCityGames.com is bringing what to Grand Prix: Columbus?

The Real Deal – Hulk Flash! The New Face of Legacy? Plus More!

Grand Prix Columbus - May 19-20, 2007!

There’s a new force in Legacy poised to make a huge splash at Grand Prix Columbus: Hulk Flash! Learn all about the strengths and weaknesses of possibly the fastest Combo deck ever to grace the Legacy format. Also this week: Lots of site news, including a new “What’s New at StarCityGames.com” section, and plenty of new Future Sight deck Sleeves and binders! Also, find out why rule 419.9a needs to be changed! All this and more in this edition of The Real Deal.

The Real Deal – The Top 5 Overrated, Underrated, and Dual Land Future Sight Cards

In today’s edition of the Real Deal, Ben talks about fifteen cards from Future Sight that you should pay attention to. Five of these cards are sleeper hits, five of them are being overvalued, and five of them are Dual Lands. In his Planar Chaos Set Review, Ben extolled the virtues of Aeon Chronicler and Sulfur Elemental — will he be a hit or miss this time around?

The Real Deal – The Financial Value of Future Sight

Ben is back again with the lowdown for Future Sight, based on information gathered from the MTGSalvation.com spoiler. Do you want to know which cards will be hottest at your prerelease? Want to know which you should trade away, and which you should hoard like no tomorrow? Let the General Manager of StarCityGames.com fill you in on the key cards to keep, and those you can do without!

The Real Deal – Spoilers

There have been discussions about the relationship between spoilers and the health of Magic in the past, but never before from so many angles! Ben examines the pros and cons of having sets spoiled early from the perspectives of a player, a General Manager, and a writer set to official spoil cards!