AuthorBen Bleiweiss

Star City’s Ravnica Prerelease will be held on Saturday, September 24th and Sunday, September 25th in Richmond, Virginia. In addition to the Ravnica sealed deck flights, we will also be running a Ravnica Team Limited event, a Ravnica Sealed Two-Headed Giant Tournament, a Star City “Power Nine” Vintage tournament, and giving away one-hundred dual lands in our brand-new Star City “Duel for Duals” Legacy tournament!

Also inside: Find out how playing at the StarCityGames.com “Duel for Duals” Legacy tournament can help you donate towards the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

This week in Ben’s Corner: Wizards reveals their plans for new dual lands in Ravnica, Legacy heats up at the Gen Con World Championships and the StarCityGames.com buylist is updated to include even more sets. Read on!

Is it true? Yes it is! Due to demand, we’ve put our buylist back online. If you’ve been waiting to sell or trade us cards, read on!

Also inside: Find out about the two newest positions open on the StarCityGames.com staff, see just how many Unhinged lands and foils were added to inventory this week, take a look at the newest Ravnica information, and check out the hottest cards in Magic.

07/6/05 We’re back from Origins and Regionals! How did we do over the past two weeks? Let’s just say that we have several hundred thousand cards to add to our inventory!

Over the coming weeks I’m going to feature cards being added to the system. Today’s feature? Nothing less than the Power Nine – 8 pieces of Alpha, 8 pieces of Beta, and 43 pieces of Unlimited power – for a total of 59 pieces of power added to our system overnight!

Click here for a complete list of these cards, plus several other high end cards (Mishra’s Workshop, Bazaar of Baghdad, etc) added to our system today!

-Ben Bleiweiss
General Manager, StarCityGames.com

Ben Bleiweiss brings you fifteen very special combos fresh from the Saviors of Kamigawa set! Any one of these card combinations will astound and amaze even your closest of friends, so try not to bust out all fifteen at once! Once you’re done wrapping your head around these Bleiweiss specials, try your hand at Ben’s Magic trivia? Think you know your obscure Magic knowledge? Ben is willing to bet that you can’t answer even one of his ten Impossible Magic Trivia questions correctly!

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life is for the General Manager of StarCityGames.com? Now’s your chance to see what a day in the life of Ben Bleiweiss is like, from sunrise until sunset. Is the day all wine, roses, and nubile young women smearing themselves with honey as they roll around in piles of Moxen or are there more sinister works afoot? There’s only one way to find out – read this article!

Love him or hate him, The Bleiweiss forces an opinion out of everyone and this week people have been overjoyed to express both their pleasure and disgust at what he has to say. Today Ben looks at what Wizards of the Coast can and should do to overhaul a PTQ circuit that has grown long in the tooth.

We would tell you how awesomely cool this article is, but that would just ruin the surprise.

Several tournament organizers have begun the practice of having players swap their decklist information before each match of the Top 8 in Pro Tour Qualifiers. This open exchange of information is patented after similar types of sharing that occurs before the Top 8 of Pro Tours and Grand Prix. This practice began as a way to level the playing field due to scouting – but is this practice fair on the Pro Tour Qualifier level?

The Bleiweiss has always viewed the world a little differently than most mortals, which is why his list of the most annoying cards ever is unique among those that have been published to our site. What annoys the annoying? Find out today, as Ben returns to the helm of SCG Daily for a week of rabble-rousing and good-natured fun.

Today the Bleiweiss has turned in an article so packed with “stuff” that it’s difficult to describe all of it in a concise blurb. Try this on for size: 9th Edition and Ravnica Speculations, the short and long-term past and future of FNM prizes, the cards that absolutely NEED to be made into Judge promos and how the judges got the shaft last time, the coolest proposed GenCon Vintage Championships prizes of all time, and so much more! This will be the water cooler article for your friends for the rest of the week, so you’re going to want to read it.