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AuthorJay Moldenhauer-Salazar

Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar (feel free to call him JMS) started playing Magic for fun during Ice Age and for prizes during Mirage. He has since abandoned the big tournaments to focus on creative deckbuilding, moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to the San Francisco Bay Area, and has a wife, a child, a dog, a corporate job, a weekly column at Magicthegathering.com, and a novel ("Birthright," published by Virtualbookworm.com). What the hell happened?!?

The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers

I’ve let the last Extended PTQ pass me by. Despite my initial enthusiasm for the”new Extended,” I only played in one qualifier with my cool Limey deck. It’s too bad, too, since Iain (the co-designer) and I combined for a 9-2 record in Swiss with the deck in our two PTQs. My brain has almost…

She-Hulk Smash!

I don’t know about you, but I get really focused on Type 2 when a new set comes out. I start to look over the spoiler and excitedly scribble deck ideas into my Deck Book. At the same time, there is a dawning realization that my untested Type 2 decks are about to become obsolete….

A Review Of Nemesis: Some Post-Prerelease Thoughts

My first-ever Extended tournament has come and gone. Overall, I found Extended to be one of the most stressful environments I’ve experienced in Magic. Opponents can on turn two. They can Oath their entire library into the graveyard and cast a mammoth . They can attack with two Pups, you, you, double for eighteen points…

My Maiden Voyage Into Extended: The Advertures Of Limey.Dec

My first-ever Extended tournament has come and gone. Overall, I found Extended to be one of the most stressful environments I’ve experienced in Magic. Opponents can on turn two. They can Oath their entire library into the graveyard and cast a mammoth . They can attack with two Pups, you, you, double for eighteen points…

Nemesis: Twelve Nifty Uncommons For Type II

I’m feeling a little frustrated with Magic these days. More specifically, I’m feeling a little frustrated with how little I play. I fully expected to head to Neutral Ground: SF’s weekly Type 2 this weekend until I realized it would mean missing both NFL championship games. That makes three weeks in a row that something…

Rogue-itis Strikes Again!

I spent much of this past weekend playtesting my Extended white weenie deck. I’ve learned a few things, not the least of which is that affects only your opponents and that is four casting cost, not five. I’ve also received quite a few e-mails on the topic of white weenie, so I’m feeling smarter each…

Extended: The Deck I’m Playing (Part II)

After I finally decided to play White Weenie in the Extended qualifiers (see last week’s article), I started playing around with a variety of decklists. Thankfully, I had almost every card for every deck I could think of. The one exception was possibly , which everyone told me was amazing. Truth be told, I didn’t…