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Removed From Game – Worlds Week With Rich, Part 2

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Wednesday, December 24th – Tales from both sides of the curtain abound as Rich continues his inside look at Worlds 2008. Players, pizza, press, Draft weirdness and more, all in a festive bundle of joy… enjoy!

MTGCast #135 – Conflux Card Rumors Cleared for Take-Off!

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Wednesday, December 24th – In today’s MTGCast, there’s news on updates regarding 11th Edition, and other tidbits from the Magic round-table held at Worlds 2008. There’s also talk of rumored Conflux cards…

Feature Article – Three Versions of Tron in Extended

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Tuesday, December 23rd – In his first article for StarCityGames.com, newly crowned Rookie of the Year Aaron Nicastri takes us through Blue/Black Tron for the upcoming Extended PTQ season. On top of that, he brings powerful Blue/White and Blue/Red versions to the table. Could these decks be the breakout builds that send you to Hawaii?

Down And Dirty – The Top 10 Decks of 2008

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Tuesday, December 23rd – Today’s Down And Dirty sees Kyle looking back over the stronger decks designed throughout 2008. With eyes mainly on Standard and Extended, he brings us his personal contenders for the Top 8 decks of the year. Do you agree with his assessments?

Drafting With LSV – Shards of Alara #2

Tuesday, December 23rd – Canadian maestro Rich Hoaen has downed tools for good, as work and real life intrudes apace. As a replacement, we have Luis Scott-Vargas, who shares each pick from a Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?

Deconstructing Constructed – Extended: The New Metagame

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Tuesday, December 23rd – Now that Worlds has ended we have a solid grasp of what the new Extended format is shaping up to be. Let’s start by looking at the breakdown of decks that went 4-2 or better on Day 3… and heck, let’s add in the top eight of the Worlds PTQ.

Tribal Thriftiness #52 – Shards Has A Lot of Dollar Rares

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Tuesday, December 23rd – While doing the research for last week’s article, Dave was stunned (stunned!) by the number of Shards rares that were just lingering around in the dollar bin. This week, he picks up a couple to run with.

Insert Column Name Here – The Casual Player’s Bargain-Hunting Guide, Part 6

Read The Ferrett every Monday... at StarCityGames.com!Monday, December 22nd – Urza and Invasion Block have so many casual gems that it’s going to take three articles to find all of the cheap, effective cards you can use to devastate your local multiplayer group! Here’s the middle installment, just in time for Christmas – and a poll to see how much further we should go!

Innovations – The Complete 2009 Extended Decklist Resource

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Monday, December 22nd – The Extended Banned and Restricted list has decided against throwing a spanner in the works of the post-Worlds metagame. With all the pertinent information now known and battened down, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin walks us through the decks to beat in the upcoming PTQ season…

So Many Insane Plays – Vintage On A Budget: Christmas (G/R) Beatings!

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Monday, December 22nd – A few weeks ago, Vintage maestro Stephen Menendian turned his eye towards a budget version of our game’s most venerable format. While this deck is a little more expensive than its predecessor in the series, it’s still a budget force… and it’s still a blast to play!

Drafting With LSV – Shards of Alara #1

Monday, December 22nd – Canadian maestro Rich Hoaen has downed tools for good, as work and real life intrudes apace. As a replacement, we have Luis Scott-Vargas, who shares each pick from a Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?

The Riki Rules – Chatter of the Judge

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Monday, December 22nd – I’ve been bombarded with a variation of one question all week: “What do you think of Zac Hill’s article?” Zac’s article, “Sealed Redux, and a Little Bit of “Judge!”” lit a firestorm of discussion and controversy that followed me all over the Internet, where I’ve had e-mail exchanges, PM exchanged, IM chats, IRC discussions, and even a Facebook chat on the subject…

The Magic Sock Episode 149 – Worlds Retrospective

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Monday, December 22nd – In this week’s installment of The Magic Sock, there’s talk on Worlds, on the Conflux Fat Pack, and much more!

Feature Article – White Weenie in the Post-Worlds Standard Metagame

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Friday, December 19th – Marijn Lybaert rocked into Day 3 of Worlds in sixth place. An Extended record of 3-2-1 or above would have pushed him into Top 8 play, but it was not to be. Today, he brings us his White Weenie Standard deck, with which he posted a 5-1 record. He also shares a few tips on triple Shards of Alara draft…

Sullivan Library – Tracking Draft Strategies

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Friday, December 19th – With the majority of writers concentrating on Constructed formats in the pre-Worlds metagame, Adrian Sullivan turns his eye to the forty-card formats. With a few PTQ chances left to make Pro Tour: Kyoto, Adrian breaks down the PTQ Top 8 results in order to find the strongest Draft strategy possible…