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Unlocking Legacy #1 – The Building Blocks of Legacy

In order to bring you more content, and to expand the host of fine writers we have here at StarCityGames.com, we’re pround to announce that, from today, we’re mirroring our Premium “floating” articles with a free article in the same design! Today’s offering comes from Legacy writer Chris Coppola. Here’s what he has to say on his article:

In this article, I draw on my experience as a Legacy deckbuilder and player and discuss the foundational cards of the format. I also emphasize the importance of creative deckbuilding and suggest some methods for creating new decks.

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Tact or Friction – The Problem With Girls…

Continuing their trend of being unable to design a Green/Red creature, Wizards have decided to staple one legacy of crashing failure to another — designing a strong woman. Today, we’re going to talk about women. And we’re going to start… with boobs.

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Chatter of the Squirrel – Tenacious Tron Two

On Monday, Richard Feldman brought us Tenacious Tron, a U/W Tron deck both he and Zac took to excellent finishes at a recent PTQ. Richard shared the development and game-plan of the deck. Today, Zac brings us the matchup and sideboarding data. They think they’ve broken the format… do you agree?

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The Kitchen Table #165 – The Nexus

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This past week I finished the construction of a deck I’ve been building for a while. I played it virtually all night at the multiplayer table, and it worked a lot better than I hoped. At first it looks like a pile of junk, but as you take a look under the hood, you find some really powerful card interactions. Plus, the deck plays differently in every game.

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Magic Grab Bag #3 – Deadeye

We’re back, and this time we’re going to do things right. I’m shifting the column around a little bit, and I think this should help in the future. Since I never learned how to shut up, I’m going to start each week with a mini-“issues” piece (or several really mini ones), and then carry on to the decklist. How is this different from the first two Grab Bags? This time, I’m doing it intentionally.

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Deconstructing Constructed – Hitting the Wall: Boros Deck Wins Revisited

Despite taking the lion’s share of the metagame at Worlds 2006, Boros Deck Wins hasn’t exactly been living up to its name. Is this deck really and Extended powerhouse that all should fear? Josh spills his guts on his own personal four-color Boros build, armed with Armadillo Cloaks and Kird Apes and Vindicates, oh my! In the face of ridiculous and unfair decks such as TEPS, is Boros Deck Scrapes Into The Quarters Before Being Battered By A Real Deck still a prime contender for the Blue Envelope?

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Magic Online Musings – This Week on MTGO #46

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This week’s foray into the digital realm sees blisterguy take a stroll through the gardens of Planar Chaos. What are the hot electronic cards you should buy by the dozen? There’s also the Premier Event Top 8 data for both Standard and Extended, and the card price analysis that we’ve all come to know and love…

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #163 – Silly Wizard, Green is for Kids

Back in 2002, I wrote an article ranting about how Blue got all the good spells and abilities, and how other colors, notably Green, got shafted. My point was that Wizards considers Blue the smart or clever color — and that means that Blue gets way more than its share of abilities and color “bleeds.” Now that Planar Chaos is out, it’s time to look at the data — because only data, not ranting, shows what actually happened.

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The Beautiful Struggle – Lost in the Shuffle

I am coming to you today with a shocking revelation: sometimes, Magic Online players do not draw enough lands. I know that this must be an unknown concept to you, since we all have drawn sufficient lands in every single game of paper Magic that we’ve ever played. However, I assure you that every time I log on to Magic Online, there are people who are complaining about this odd phenomenon, which has acquired the nickname “manascrew.”

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From Right Field – Cheap Boros is Werry, Werry, Werry Rewardink

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Chris continues his Budget Boros exploration with a foray into the Tournament Practice room on Magic Online. He’s armed with a cheapified Red/White machine, and bolstered by the tweaks supplied by a myriad of forum dwellers. Can the frugal fighters take down all in their path?

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Magic Puzzles – Planar Chaos

This week in Magic Puzzles, we examine the Timeshifted cards of Planar Chaos. Are they better than the originals, or just bad imitations? Find out below…

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You Lika The Juice? – Dredge Decks Out the Wazoo

Last week I Dredged through Planar Chaos; this week, I unleash the dog decks of Dredge that have been pinging around my brain these last few weeks. A quick caveat – these decks are untested and presented here merely as starting points, a way to get the deckbuilding juices flowing. In the coming weeks I will be attempting to get enough Planar Chaos stuff to start testing these ideas, and with any luck make it out to an FNM or two for trial by fire.

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Insert Column Name Here – My Insanely White Deck

Read The Ferrett... every Monday at StarCityGames.com!The Ferrett attended the prerelease, and opened a card pool that was freakishly abnormal. In fact, it was so utterly lopsided that he
could have gone mono-colored in Sealed. But was he insane enough to take this statistical aberration and go all the way with it… Or did he chicken out? All that, plus a request for help from you, the faithful StarCityGames.com readers!

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Food For Thought – Black Knights: A Going Rogue Epilogue

In an additional article for the weekend, JMS takes us through the development of his own pet Mono-Black creation, Black Knights. Utilizing the powerful Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, and a plethora of Black beatdown monsters, does the deck have what it takes to impact the coming Planar Chaos metagame? And what does it gain from the new set, aside from a four-mana board-sweeping sorcery? JMS reveals all…

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The Real Deal – Planar Chaotic?

In today’s edition of The Real Deal, Ben examines the choices R&D made in choosing the Planeshifted cards in Planar Chaos. Within their own internal logic did these choices make sense? Ben weighs in with his opinion.

Also: Having trouble figuring out which new products StarCityGames.com is carrying? Ben wants to know how to let you know when new products become available on site!

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