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

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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.

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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.

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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!

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Reflecting Ruel – My Pro Tour: San Juan Report

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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…

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Positive EV – A Self-Serving Bias in San Juan

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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…

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At the Gathering – Balance

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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?

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Too Much Information – StarCityGames.com Legacy Open: Philadelphia

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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!

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

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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!

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Tribal Thriftiness #115 – Mad About M11

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
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.

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The Dragonmaster’s Lair – After The Rain Comes The Sun: A Grand Prix Sendai Report *1st*

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
Friday, June 11th – Brian Kibler rocked out to Sendai with an updated Next Level Bant deck, looking to kick-start a disappointing season thus far. After two days of intense competition, the Dragonmaster was victorious! He shares his story today. If you’re looking to play NLB at the StarCityGames.com Open in Seattle this weekend, Brian’s got your back!

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Round 8: Alex Kenny vs. Luis Scott-Vargas

Luis was just a single day removed from finishing 2nd at the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Seattle, and whoever won, it was certainly going to be a battle.

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You Lika The Juice? – Scratching my EDH Itch with Commander

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
Friday, June 11th – Through a series of curveballs that life throws at you sometimes, I haven’t been able to make it up to Richmond Comix to play in any FNMs in quite a while. Which also means I haven’t been able to play in any EDH games afterwards. Which also means I’ve been dying to play some EDH, so I finally found some time to jump on Magic Online and reconnect with Commander, the MTGO version of Elder Dragon Highlander.

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Practical Legacy – Memorable Plays and Complications

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
Friday, June 11th – The arrival of the StarCityGames.com Philadelphia Legacy Open was another chance to play high level Legacy for hefty prizes. It is the type of event where better decks and better player prosper because the competition is intense, and a player needs every advantage to pull out close games. Unlike other events, I had already decided awhile back to play Entomb Ichorid.

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Duel With Ruel – Next Level Bant versus Blue/White Tap Out Control: The Next Level Bant Perspective

The StarCityGames.com Open Series comes to St. Louis!
Friday, June 11th – Next Level Bant has fast proven itself to be a major contender for Best Deck of the Format. If you’re playing in the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Seattle this weekend, you need to be prepared for Chapin’s masterpiece. Antoine Ruel throws the deck against another format powerhouse – UW Control – in an article that’s perfect preparation for this weekend’s festivities!

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