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Feature Article – Beastmaster in Block Constructed: Playing The Deck

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Monday, June 14th – Last week, Hall of Famer and Constructed legend Zvi Mowshowitz shared the creation process of his format-defining Beastmaster deck in Zendikar / Rise Block Constructed. Today, he moves away from the creation of the deck, and instead focuses on playing the thing, including comprehensive sideboard notes for all the top matchups!

Removed From Game – Theft, Temptation, and How to Avoid Both

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Monday, June 14th – In a refreshingly joke-free edition, it’s time to look at the eye-poppingly large rewards on offer to potential thieves at large-scale Magic events. It may be illegal, but the economics make such nefariousness inevitable, and it’s up to us to make sure a fool and his money are not soon parted. Featuring such awesome words as purloin, rifle, and squinticate, this is a guide to keeping what’s yours, yours.

Innovations – M11 Spoiler Heaven

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Monday, June 14th – M111 is fast approaching, and Patrick Chapin is prepared! Today, he takes a look at a selection of common and uncommon cards spoiled thus far, both new stock and reprint, and suggests how the various formats may look when the new Core Set arrives! [Warning: M11 Spoilers!]

The Long & Winding Road – Attacking in Legacy, Part 2: Winning an SCG Open is Awesome!

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Monday, June 14th – At the SCG Standard Open on Saturday, I engaged all of my opponents in honest, pleasant, human interaction, to the extent they allowed me to do so. I’m happy to report that they all seemed willing to banter back and forth, and that made my rounds enjoyable, even though the actual games were grueling and my results were poor. In fact, I considered skipping Sunday…

The Combat Phase – Ace of Cakes

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Monday, June 14th – In today’s edition of The Combat Phase, King of Fatties Jamie Wakefield ventures out from behind the neon MTGO glow and participates in some honest-to-goodness FNM spell-slinging! He also continues updating his Green deck du jour, with an eventual eye on the PTQ prize…

Flow of Ideas – Can’t Sleep, Wizards Will Eat Me: The Community Cup

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Monday, June 14th – I have been to a lot of tournaments, and I’m used to the lifestyle. This is nothing like any other tournament. You are playing weird formats, against WoTC employees, in WoTC’s headquarters. You are working together every round, focusing not only on your game but your teammates’ as well. You are pooling as many resources as possible to be successful. Simply put, you are eating, living, and breathing Magic.

Round 5: Jeff Cunningham vs. Brad Nelson

The fifth round feature match was a behemoth between two of the game’s titans: Jeff Cunningham representing the old school and Brad Nelson representing the new school.

Live Coverage of StarCityGames.com Open: Seattle

Live coverage of the StarCityGames.com Open Series in Seattle!

The StarCityGames.com Legacy Open in Seattle has crowned a champion! The entire event was a massive success, with Seattle becoming the Open Series stop with the most players returning to play on Sunday. Counted amongst their numbers? Some of the Open Series’ best players. Luis Scott-Vargas, the Los Angeles Standard Open champion, was fresh off his Finals appearance during Saturday competition. StarCityGames.com columnist Cedric Phillips was also in the house, battling his trademark Goblin Charbelcher deck. And of course, Brad Nelson was here battling for the second day in a row.

The Top 8 was a combination of new faces and old standbys. Scott-Vargas was back again for the third time in the season, cementing him as the leader in the Open Series Player of the Year race. He was taken out early, however, by Kevin Ambler of Dallas, Texas. Kevin returned to his second Top 8 in as many days as well, but his Merfolk strategy wasn’t powerful enough to overtake Seattle hero Kyle Boddy in the Semifinals. That set up a showdown between Kyle’s “Boddy Horizons” list and Matt Smith’s Zoo build, the second week in a row a Zoo decklist had been in the Finals of a StarCityGames.com Legacy Open.

But Matt’s Prices of Progress, Fireblasts, and Lightning Bolts were no match for Kyle’s Knight of the Reliquaries and Terravores. Kyle Boddy is your StarCityGames.com Legacy Open Seattle champion!

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The Pro Perspective – Pro-Level Stories

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Friday, June 11th – If you’ve played in a Magic tournament, you’ve heard a bad beat story. Players love to tell them, and (it seems) hate to hear them. Today, Hall of Famer Raphael Levy, a man who’s heard his fair share of Magic tales, brings us a handful of excellent stories that are guaranteed to raise a smile. Enjoy!

Reflecting Ruel – My Pro Tour: San Juan Report

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Friday, June 11th – In San Juan, Olivier Ruel felt the euphoria of victory and the stab of defeat. While he made Day 2, he failed to set the tournament alight, but he did reach a huge personal milestone along the way. He recounts his tale today…

Positive EV – A Self-Serving Bias in San Juan

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Friday, June 11th – Manuel Bucher believes that all Magic players fall prey to a self-serving bias that blinds them to the strength and weakness of their individual performance. By highlighting some of the mistakes he made at Pro Tour: San Juan, he hopes that we won’t make similar mistakes, and that we’ll come to recognize this bias within us all…

At the Gathering – Balance

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Friday, June 11th – Magic can be a very taxing hobby. We hear stories of players blazing bright, and then burning out just as fast. Money can be a difficult hurdle for players to overcome. Family issues, whether existing or new, also cause players to scale back or quit altogether. How can Magic players combat these issues?

Too Much Information – StarCityGames.com Legacy Open: Philadelphia

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Friday, June 11th – The StarCityGames.com Legacy Opens are routinely breaking 200 players and going 9 rounds, so the largest Legacy Series ever is only getting bigger. With one of the StarCityGames.com Open Series€™ only West Coast stops this weekend in Seattle, Jared breaks down the Legacy Open in Philadelphia and gives you the stats to make the best metagame choice!

The Magic Show #192 – Pro Tour: San Juan Part 2

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Friday, June 11th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re live and in person at Pro Tour: San Juan, talking to the Pros about Drafting Rise of the Eldrazi, and Archenemy with WotC Devs. I also talk with My Magic runner-up Travis Hall, and get an array of answers for my Mystery Question!

Tribal Thriftiness #115 – Mad About M11

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Friday, June 11th – Dave starts a look through the new (and used) cards coming in M11 by taking a look at the cards revealed during the Archenemy preview in San Juan.