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AuthorWill Rieffer

With a DCI membership number of 1743, Will has been involved with Magic from early on where he favored Black beatdown, 5 color decks, and of course the Upstairs Wednesday Night Grand Melee. After a hiatus filled with Blood Bowl and 40K, he returned to the game after being lured into this old passion by his son's interest in Pokemon. Another Magic dad, he is of course happily married to Tina with whom he shares 3 wonderful children, Liam, Silvey, and "The Big Guy" Declan. They all reside somewhere a tad north of the Ozarks...

Why Threshold Is The Weakest Link

U/G or U/G/x decks that are overly focused on threshold seem to be prone to falling into card disadvantage traps, spending their effort to get to threshold at the cost of a positive beatdown position.

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Deck Clinic Number Two: Tempo About Thoughts

Will creates his second Deck Clinic for beginners, this time asking the critical thoughts behind tempo play… And let me ask you a question: Does StarCity (or anyone) need beginner articles?

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A League Of Your Own

I had a store owner who wanted to beef up his Magic business. I myself wanted more local Magic. How did I put the peanut butter into his chocolate?

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Deck Clinic #1: Beating The Infamous Rat Deck

A tutorial for beginning players who don’t know why they’re losing, Will looks at a typical beginner’s deck… And dissects it to see what lessons we can learn about consistency.

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Truth and Insanity: The StarCity Deck Clinic

Driven by bad clinics elsewhere and whinings about the state of the internet Magic writing,”Force of” Will Rieffer decides to start up his own deck clinic… With a twist.

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The Also-Rans: Other Decks Swarming About For Regionals

Creating decks is a very opinionated thing – and Will offers up seven decks that are having success in various places, but not smashing tournaments. Yet.

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Force of Will: Blue In The Twenty-First Century

Is blue too strong in Standard and Extended? Should blue be defanged? Will does a statistical analysis to see if the numbers support his gut feeling – that blue is just fine…

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It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times: My Take On Magic Online

As a programmed version of Magic, MOL will both at once suck you in and then spit you out. It is a beautiful rendition of our favorite game, with shortcomings that will likely nag you to no end.

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Force of Will: The Evolution Of Guitars

Holistic Wisdom allows you to recycle your instants and sorceries for as long as you like, completely breaks Fact or Fiction, and kills counters. But breaking it was tougher than I thought.

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Force of Will: Nervous Yet? A Reply To Peter Jahn

I make contradictory points in this article. Why? Because depending on what the DCI does next, Nether Spirit either is or isn’t a good Extended card.

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Force of Will: Anxiety About Extended

Do you wanna run out and drop $25 a pop on dual lands when the future of that format is the gag fodder of John Friggin’ Rizzo?

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Force Of Will: The Not-Quite Metagame Clock

How do Pernicious Deed and Call Of The Herd change the metagame for the worse?

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Force of Will: Decks for States 2001

Black is kinda hosed, and I’m afraid the fix for that as such will be some time coming. So let’s talk about everything else.

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November Standard Decks: Odyssey

Team Binary opens their mailing list to the world for a moment… And reveals some of the decks to beat! Looking for a starting point? It’s the Invitational and here.

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The Value Of Rogue And The Function Of The DCI

Why was Stand/Deliver the thing that made Will’s deck work? Because everybody else set their Mages to Repulse, that’s why.

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