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The Black Perspective: Sliding Into The Extended Metagame

Joe Black wades into the Extended metagame debate with an interesting take on a tried-and-tested formula: Green/White Astral Slide. Decks based on the cycling mechanic have a number of inherent advantages, and cards such as Eternal Witness and Loxodon Hierarch bring a number of strategies and defenses to the table. Add to this robustness a powerful lock, and you’ve got a deck with the strength to take on all comers. Looking for an Extended deck for your next PTQ? Osyp has the answer…

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #22

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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Aggro in Extended: Part 3

The first two installments in the series saw Josh tackle some of the best Aggro decks that Extended has to offer – today’s final furlong brings us the popular Trinket Angel concoction and the now-perennial Ichorid dredge deck. The PTQ season is well underway, and it’s plain to see that there are countless viable decks in the current metagame. Be prepared!

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Worlds Report, Part 3: Extended and Teams!

Paul rounds out his enlightening Worlds report with a comprehensive rundown of his Day 3 performance. His deck of choice for the extended showdown? Gifts Rock. Needing a 4-1-1 to cement a Top 8 berth, he sadly fell at the final hurdle. Nevertheless, a strong perfomance all round left him high in the standings with a pocketful of cash. Gifts Rock is a potent choice for the current Extended metagame… and this article shows it in action.

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #21

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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An Extended Farewell

Josh takes a theoretical look at his personal choice for the three strongest decks in the Extended field, and shares some thoughts and ideas regarding playing and each of them, invaluable advice for those hoping to bring home a blue envelope this weekend. He rounds out the article with a sad farewell – Josh has decided to hang up his sleeves and quit the game, moving on to pastures new. Thanks for the memories, Josh, and good luck in the future!

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Alternate Paradigms 2: G/W Beatdown at the Top8Magic Mock Extended Tournament

As we all know, Mike Flores is a veritable fountain of decklists. Be they Standard or Extended, Mr Flores can be relied upon to shape the Constructed metagame with each article written. Today’s offering is no different – Green/White Aggro in Extended. With fantastic matchups against both Boros Deck Wins and TEPS, this decklist is one no serious PTQ player can ignore… is it the deck for you?

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #20

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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Boros Deck Wins in Extended – Rocking the Mock Tournament

Last weekend, Brian David-Marshall ran a small Extended mock tournament at Neutral Ground, inviting some of Magic’s great and good to sling the overpowered spells. Paul rocked up with Boros Deck Wins, and attempted to fathom Frank Karsten’s sideboard plans for matchups across the board. While he didn’t win the whole thing, his thoughs on the deck are very interesting… invaluable for those running the Little Red (and White) Men at their coming PTQ.

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Worlds Report, Part 2: Drafts!

After a passable 4-2 in the Standard portion of Worlds, Paul went into the Day 2 Drafts feeling supremely confident. Testing with the team, and Professor Tim Aten, had been successful, and Paul felt he could produce a 5-1 or 6-0 record with a little luck. Today’s report focuses on the games themselves, with special attention paid to the stonger and weaker plays. Looking to improve your 40-card game? Paul has the advice you need…

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #19

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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Style – The Art Of Playing To Your Strengths

What exactly is play style? How does it relate to the Limited game? Can we gain advantage by approaching our game with definite stylistic choices in mind? And how can we translate these choices into wins at the highest level. Quentin Martin – Limited specialist – tackles these questions in this thought-provoking article, sharing top pro player tips from a number of high-profile sources.

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The Colors of Time Spiral Draft

We’ve all followed Rich in the excellent “Drafting With…” series, through countless splits in the finals (and a few first round exits). And I’m sure we’ve all learnt a great deal in doing so. Rich, of course, has been learning too. Today’s marvellous article brings us the fruits of those lessons – the grumpy Canadian breaks down each color in Time Spiral draft, gives us a common pick order for each, and highlights some of the important (and less-important) cards that we may have missed.

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #18

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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Breaking Down Extended – Channelling Zvi

It’s the New Year, and the Extended PTQ season is upon us! By now, the tournament-savvy amongst us should be settling into our weapon of choice… or at least be getting prepared to run with Boros Deck Wins. Today, Josh brings us an interesting way to break down the strengths and weaknesses of our pet Extended decks, a system that draws upon the teachings of the Mighty Zvi Mowshowitz. Looking for an edge over the PTQ competition? Then this is the article for you!

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