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Legacy’s Allure – Under the Mosswort Bridge

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Tuesday, July 27th – Lurking under that Mosswort Bridge is the biggest troll you’ve ever seen, more like a giant cosmic squid! Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, gets summoned with regularity thanks to the Green land and this week, Doug explores the Aeon Bridge deck, crafted to exploit the Bridge. Find out the many combinations in the deck, get tips on playing Aeon Bridge, explore scenarios with the deck, and find out how to best fight it in this week’s Legacy’s Allure!

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Fishing Lessons – PTQ Video Walkthrough: Mythic Conscription

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Tuesday, July 27th – It’s that time again, folks! I played in another Magic Online PTQ and the event didn’t crash this time, so I got to record it for you. I brought Mythic Conscription to battle this time around, and it did not disappoint. I thought it was going to be a good choice for the metagame in that tournament, and I felt like I wasn’t too far off.

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So Many Insane Plays – Last Call: Reanimator versus CounterTop Thopter

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Monday, July 26th – Grand Prix: Columbus is almost upon us, and the Legacy faithful are ready! Today, Stephen Menendian looks at a matchup that’s sure to be numerous in Columbus: Reanimator versus CounterTop Thopter. If you’re planning on piloting either of these decks, this is the article for you!

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Innovations – Sixty

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Monday, July 26th – The debate concerning the merits of teaching folk to fish rather than handing them a fish rages on, and Patrick Chapin states an eloquent case today. In this unique (and never to be repeated) article, he plays the ultimate fishmonger, providing decklist after decklist after decklist, for all the formats that matter. You want fish? You got it.

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The Long & Winding Road – Start With A Fishing Rod

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Monday, July 26th – Results, results, results. Follow them. Try to understand them – when certain decks disappear, ask yourself if you know why. If you’re not sure, ask other people and see if you can determine a common theme. A lot of what happens in Magic metagames is cyclical. The exact cards change, but the shifts and the underlying metagame adjustments are often quite predictable, should you care enough to look for them.

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Flow of Ideas – A (Slightly) Extended Look at Elves

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Monday, July 26th – Though my hopes of going to Amsterdam have unfortunately been dashed like a semi-colon in an undergraduate essay, Extended is always a format I have always enjoyed. Eager to see what the new rotation would be like and to help my qualified friends playtest, I began work on a deck which has an incredible amount of potentiality and pseudo-survives the rotation: Elves.

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Feature Article – Give ‘Em Hell, Kid

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Monday, July 26th – I’m honestly not entirely sure what AJ Sacher was trying to accomplish in his article, but I have my guesses. I’m not offended by it, nor am I terribly insulted by it. The overarching message I got from it was “deconstruct the best decks, and put them back together instead of just reading decklists,” or something along those lines.

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Episode 30 – Hive-minded

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – Joey & BHJ go over the M11 prerelease & launch parties, BHJ interviews Adam Styborski, and more! Other topics include the pros & cons of rare drafting, the price of playing Constructed Magic, and Patrick Chapin’s recent take on deckbuilding & the “hivemind.” Also: Our first CONTEST is announced!

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(Way) Too Much Information – Second Quarter Compiled Standard Results

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – Over 2,000 deck lists, over 12,000 results. This one is the big daddy of number crunching. Jared breaks down the match-ups for the eight most popular deck archetypes over the last three months. How do the major archetypes stand up, and which dominant archetype isn€™t quite as good as you think it is when it reaches the top tables?

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Bigger and Better: The StarCityGames.com Open Series

The StarCityGames.com Open Series Keeps Getting Better!
Friday, July 23rd – The StarCityGames.com Open Series has become Magic’s premier independent tournament series, but we aren’t just sitting on our laurels. Check out what we are doing to make future StarCityGames.com Open Weekends even better!

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The Magic Show #198 – M11, Rumors, Relics & More!

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re diving into some shiny new decklists featuring M11, some crazy rumors for Scars of Mirrodin and its follow-ups, check out Emblems and what they mean for Magic, and the full list coming in From the Vault: Relics. You ready? Let’s go!

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Tribal Thriftiness #120 – Remembering M10

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – Sure, there’s a hot new base set that has everyone talking, but let’s not forget about M10! The set that changed base sets forever will be rotating out in October. What are you going to miss?

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Insider Information – Titans in Japan

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – Primeval Titan exploded into Standard in a recent Japanese PTQ, with six of the Top 8 decks packing the 6/6 behemoth. Cedric Phillips discusses the Top 8 decks today, and shares his likes and dislikes about each build. If you’re headed to a Standard tournament any time soon, be prepared to clash with the Titans.

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The Dragonmaster’s Lair – Exploring M11 Standard

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – M11 has shaped the Standard metagame, and players are looking to adapt to the new technology. Brian Kibler examines the pertinent results from the most recent high-profile tournaments, and discusses how the metagame will adapt in the coming weeks. He also brings us his preliminary take on Turbo Land with Destructive Force.

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You Lika The Juice? – A Staff of Power in EDH

Grand Prix GP Columbus July 30-August 1, 2010
Friday, July 23rd – I’m sure I’m not the first person to think about throwing a Thornbite Staff into an EDH deck, but I can also say with certainty that I haven’t seen it across from me in any EDH game I’ve played. At the very least, the card is flying under the radar, so I thought it would be a perfect sneaky, innocuous card to build around and, if things come together, I’d do something spectacular and surprising.

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