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Black Magic – Setting The Stage For Nationals

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Tuesday, July 21st – With Nationals competitions from Spain, Japan, Australia and more now in the books, the metagame is shaping nicely for this weekend’s American Big Show. Today, Sam examines the Big Four archetypes that are currently in everyone’s sights, and suggests how to approach U.S Nationals with an eye on the final table…
[Editor’s Note – Adrian Sullivan is experiencing technical difficulties with his article. It’ll be here on Wednesday, folks!]

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Legacy’s Allure – Gearing Up For The World Championships

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Tuesday, July 21st – With GenCon less than a month away, serious Legacy players should be preparing for what they will be playing in the Legacy World Championships next month. Doug looks at new strategies on the rise, highlighting cards like Vendilion Clique and Natural Order that are becoming much more popular. Get several proven decklists and some new and experimental ones that are worth a look, all in this week’s Legacy’s Allure!

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The Starkington Post – Weekly Digest

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Tuesday, July 21st – In the past seven days, The Starkington Post (Bill Stark’s daily Magic blog) has brought us discussions on the place of White Knight in Kithkin, the M10 print runs, and extensive Standard talk from the one and only Frank Karsten!

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The M10 Magic Academy – White

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Tuesday, July 21st – As the M10 Academy gets into full session, we look at the remaining White cards. For newer players with an enquiring mind, this is your chance to get a foothold on the daunting slopes of Magic strategy.

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Tribal Thriftiness #76 – More M10 Thoughts

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Tuesday, July 21st – As we wait to see M10’s impact on the Standard format, Dave rolls around through the last weekend’s Prerelease and some more thoughts about our new core set.

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Insert Column Name Here – Further Adventures In M10 Drafting

Read The Ferrett every Monday... at StarCityGames.com! Monday, July 20th – So now that I have a couple more M10 drafts under my belt, lemme give you some updates on cards I have reevaluated, and a report of the prerelease and a later draft!

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Innovations – The First Waves of a New Extended

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Monday, July 20th – Patrick takes a break from competitive Standard testing to examine the new Extended format coming soon. He looks at a number of high-profile strategies, and updates the relevant builds around their gains and losses from the rotation of new and old sets. He also brings us a bonus Standard decklist, just in time for Nationals!

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So Many Insane Plays – Designing Tezzeret Control For the Future

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Monday, July 20th – Perhaps the biggest question for Vintage this summer will be this: what is the best way to design the Mana Drain Time Vault deck? Stephen Menendian, examines a plethora of exciting options for the deck, and suggests builds which he believes will be the stronger contenders in the emerging Vintage metagame.

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Drafting With Olivier – Shards/Conflux/Reborn #23

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Monday, July 20th – Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and talks us through each step of the way! If you’re looking to improve your Limited game, this is the article series for you!

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Constructed Criticism – Drafting With Balefire Liege

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Monday, July 20th – Welcome to the first ever Drafting with Balefire Liege! No seriously, I’m doing an article that isn’t about Standard! I’ll be your host today, giving you in-depth reasoning behind each pick (that matters), and hopefully a bit of insight as to what I’m thinking while I take particular cards at each turn of the pack. In the famous words of Super Mario (N64), “Here we gooooo!”

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The Long & Winding Road – Oath versus Tezzeret: Vintage Testing

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Monday, July 20th – Last week, I provided some tournament-winning Vintage lists to assist in making a testing gauntlet. This weekend, the ICBM Open was held in Chicago, which will undoubtedly give us some updated lists to add to such a gauntlet. While we wait to see what information we can glean from the results of this tournament, I thought it would be interesting to show some detailed testing between Double Dragon Oath and a potential Tezzeret update.

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Feature Article – Standard Losses and M10

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Friday, July 17th – With M10 hitting the shelves today, the Standard metagame is undergoing a seismic shift. New cards always get the creative juices flowing, but often it’s the cards which disappear that cause the most damage. Brian Kibler looks at some of the cards we’ve lost to The Great Adjustment, and bids them farewell with a wistful wave.

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Drafting With Olivier – Shards/Conflux/Reborn #22

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Friday, July 17th – Hall of Famer Olivier Ruel takes us through an 8-4 draft queue on Magic Online. He shares some comprehensive thoughts about both the picks and the games, and talks us through each step of the way! If you’re looking to improve your Limited game, this is the article series for you!

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The Magic Show #150 – Magic 2010 Forsythee Awards

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Friday, July 17th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’ll be discussing the Magic 2010 Forsythee Awards, written by the always-awesome Ben Bleiweiss and reveals the truth behind our latest core set. You ready to have some fun? Let’s go!

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Magical Hack – Riffing On M10

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Friday, July 17th – Magic 2010 is here, and with it comes a whole host of changes. Some are small, like losing mana-burn or the change to how Lifelink works. Some are large, like the change to creature combat that comes with the removal of the previous best four words in Magic besides “you win the game,” “Damage on the stack.”

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