CategoryMagic The Gathering

Thoughts on Legacy – Flame Vault

Do you know what the hottest new combo deck for post-Ravnica Legacy looks like? Josh Silvestri does and he’s playing both Eve and Gwen Stefani today as he attempts to blow your mind.

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SCG Daily – Blue Mana for Beginners Part 3: Mono-Blue Control

I originally had plans to unveil a decklist after a couple New England tournaments to test-drive it. I decided not to do that when I rediscovered my affection for Shortbus Severance Belcher, and ended up winning with that instead. However, I’ve received a lot of requests to release this decklist anyway, and who am I to say no

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The Fall 2005 State of the Union Address

StarCityGames.com has undergone a great deal of change in the last year. Today Teddy Card Game addresses those changes, highlights many of the new features you might not be aware of for both Free and Premium users, and discusses your suggestions for improvements to the site. Do you want to know where Star City is headed? Check inside, my friends, check inside.

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Building A Better Plant Zombie

I was excited to see Green/Black as one of the guilds that received focus for Ravnica, but everyone keeps trying to make the same old Green and Black deck. You know… the one that has been a tier two deck for the last five years or so? Making this great color combination tier one requires some ingenuity and thinking outside the box instead of going through the same old motions season after season. Let’s see just what the new set has to offer, shall we?

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Legacy’s Allure

I played in my first ever Legacy tournament this past Saturday at Alex Shartsman’s Kings Games in Brooklyn, New York.
There was a Grand Prix Trial for Philadelphia there, so Alex’s store attracted a lot of non-regulars. The turnout was decent for a Grand Prix Trial not at a major event, with attendees including U.S. Nationals Top 8 competitor Chris Manning, Sped legend Jamie Parke, and Meddling Mage Chris Pikula. What deck did I play? Why something of my own design, of course. Who netdecks?

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #133: Ravnica In Multiplayer

The spoiler is up; the set reviews are coming. I’m going to look at the set, too, but I’ll analyze it from a multiplayer perspective. Limited specialists can tell you how to draft it, and I haven’t tested enough to give you States previews, but multiplayer? I can do that. Is this a powerhouse set for multiplayer? Read on.

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SCG Daily – Blue Mana for Beginners Part 2

Welcome back, everybody. Today we’re going to go over two of the hottest cards in Vintage right now and likely for a long time to come.

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Magic Online’s 9th Release Championship: 1st Place! (Probably)

Noah goes for the gold today with his article about the 9th Edition Championships on Magic Online. Part tournament report, part Limited format expose, part cathartic rant about an event that never finished, this article covers all the over and underrated cards in 9th Edition Limited.

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Jushi Blue

Terry missed out on the Top 8 at Malaysian Nationals, but his teammates finished first and second at the event. In today’s article, he takes an in-depth look at Jushi Blue, one of the best decks in Standard and one that you can expect to continue to see until Mirrodin Block rotates out of the format.

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When Life Hands You Bad Cards, Make Good Decks

Once again, Abe plays by the harsh rules he’s created for himself: a deck of bad rares sits next to his desk. He pulls out a card at random. Whatever he pulls, he has to build a deck around it. So what terrible, terrible cards has Abe drawn this time?

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SCG Daily – Blue Mana for Beginners

Hello again lads and lasses. As you may have guessed, this is my week for Star City Daily. Today I’d like to cover some ground that should be pretty much common knowledge for the real competitors in Vintage already, but may just be something you’ve never actively thought about: the how, when, where, and why of drawing cards. Okay, this is a Ben Kowal daily… maybe we’ll just cover two of those to start.

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Play Like A Pirate Day!

In honor of National Talk Like a Pirate day, Nationals competitor and scurvy dog Dave Meddish displays his fun side with a few theme decks for all the unabashed rogues among you.

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A Trio of Tournament Reports

Rogier returns from trekking around the world and then back to The Netherlands, all for the sake of Magic and Hilary Duff. How did he and his Dutch teammates prepare for the summer Grand Prix schedule and what do they have to show for it? The answers are inside.

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Boros Deck Wins

I’ve been wary of doing set reviews ever since I called Lightning Rift “junk” back when looking at Onslaught. So this is most emphatically not a review of the new Red cards. Instead it is a quick primer of what options will be available in Standard, more of a brainstorming of decklists with glorious Red cards in it than anything else. What is a Red mage to do when besieged with the urge to *gulp* splash other colors into your beautiful creation? Here are four new Ravnica Standard decklists to help answer those questions.

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Jeff Cunningham’s “Untold Legends of the Million Dollar Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour”

Jeff Cunningham is a simple man. When not slinging spells with the best players in the world and tutoring young Canadians in the Ways of the Mage, Jeff herds yaks and water buffalo on his ranch in the Great White North. In spite of these humble roots, Cunningham is one of the finest Magic writers alive and today he makes his debut on StarCityGames.com, delivering tales and spinning yarns designed to bring a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.

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