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AuthorZvi Mowshowitz

Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz is widely considered one of the world's best deckbuilders and players, a rare combination. He Top 8ed four Pro Tours, winning two, and eight Grand Prix, winning two. He tests with Team SCG when he's not busy with his day job.

More Than One Way To Skin An Aristocrat

Zvi explains why he played The Aristocrats very differently than other members of #TeamSCG in this article full of helpful deckbuilding theory.

Decks Of Future Past: W/G Humans

Zvi shares another deck that he worked on leading up to the Pro Tour and provides a matchup guide for those of you who want to play it at #SCGKY or #SCGVEGAS.

Decks Of Future Past: Supplies!

If you’re looking for a new deck to play in Standard at #SCGKY or #SCGVEGAS, check out Pro Tour Tokyo champion Zvi Mowshowitz’s Bant Delver deck.

The Simic Combine

Celebrate Simic Week and prepare for Grand Prix Charlotte this weekend with Zvi’s guide to Simic in Gatecrash Draft!

PT Gatecrash: Detailed Analysis Of The First Draft

Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz does an in-depth analysis of Pod 1 from #PTGTC with Ben Stark, Patrick Chapin, Gaudenis Vidugiris, Reid Duke, and others. Follow on the draft viewer!

Four Feature Matches

Pro Tour Tokyo winner Zvi Mowshowitz discusses in depth the four feature matches he played at Grand Prix Atlantic City with B/R Zombies.

Preparing For GP Atlantic City

Hall of Fame member Zvi Mowshowitz describes how he decided to play B/R Zombies at #GPAtCity. See why it’s a good choice for Standard at #SCGDAL or #SCGVB.

The Present And Future Of Modern

The Modern project was our next, best hope for a turn-four evergreen format. It failed. But in so doing, it became something greater: Our last, best hope for diversity.

The Decision, The Star City Effect, And Valakut

Pro Tour Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz is known for finding the most powerful mana-abusive strategies early on in a format’s life span, and Standard post-bannings is ripe for him to do so. He optimizes the Valakut list for the quick kill.

Exclusive M12 Preview Card: Scrambleverse!

Scrambleverse may or may not be the most fun you’ll have all year. Check out the new giant red sorcery that will throw your entire board into chaos.

Pro Tour Paris: Hawkward, Part 2

Wednesday, March 9 – Zvi explains why one should never side out Vector Asp. All the intricacies of the deck are laid bare within. Figure out how to board and play out matches with Tempered Steel and ready yourself for SCG Open: Memphis.

Pro Tour Paris: Part 1

Wednesday, March 2 – Hall of Famer, Pro Tour champion, and all-around good guy, Zvi Mowshowitz, fought on the side of the rogues at Pro Tour Paris, but things became a bit hawkward… read the story behind the scenes.

Scars of Mirrodin Set Review: I Came Back for This? (Artifact/Land)

Friday, October 1st – My hope is that this is part of a grand plan to scale back Magic’s power level. If not, I’ll forever wonder who called in the nerf brigade. This leaves the few cards that will determine the success or failure of Scars in Constructed.

Scars of Mirrodin Set Review: I Came Back for This? (Green)

Thursday, September 30th – Most of green is spent finding ways to prevent all the cards that are more or less “Beast!” from blurring together. It’s the ones willing to step outside that paradigm and work with the enemy that can hope to do something worthwhile…

Scars of Mirrodin Set Review: I Came Back for This? (Red)

Wednesday, September 29th – A message to all those going completely crazy over how Koth might have to be banned because it’s so ridiculous: Take a deeeep breath. Relax. Have some water. This isn’t even close to the best planeswalker.