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Deconstructing Constructed – Conflux and its Applications for Standard

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Tuesday, January 27th – Taking a break from Extended for the week while the results from Grand Prix: LA settle and the metagame adjusts, I’ll be looking at the exciting follow-up to Shards of Alara, Conflux, and its potential applications for the Standard metagame. Personally, I think this set is a big bust for any non-Standard format, but it absolutely reshapes the landscape of the current Standard metagame with a variety of hosers, unique playables, and niche cards that could power up unutilized archetypes. Warning: Contains Spoilers.

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Removed From Game – Shuuhei Nakamura, Player of the Year

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Tuesday, January 27th – In the epic final part of this series, we bring you the remainder of the outstanding career to date of the reigning POY, including the complete match history of his path to the ultimate accolade.

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Tribal Thriftiness #57 – Worlds Leads to Stupidity

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Tuesday, January 27th – Worlds was a month and a half ago, but the inspiration for this article still remained. Now that Extended season is in full swing and Conflux is here, and you’re looking for something a little different, here’s a lost gem from Tenth Edition.

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Insert Column Name Here – Let’s Review The New Conflux Cards!

Read The Ferrett every Monday... at StarCityGames.com!Monday, January 26th – Smell that? Ah, it’s the sweet jasmine scent of a new set release coming soon! And as always, Wizards is cracking open the window just enough that we can nose out the beautiful rares. But which ones carry that hidden stink of “Not as good as you’d thought?” Ah, let’s breathe deep and see which cards have both the promise and the power. Warning: Contains Spoilers.

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Innovations – Ten More Hot Cards From Conflux

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Monday, January 26th – A few weeks ago, Patrick Chapin took us through some of the more interesting cards springing up from the Conflux spoiler. Today, he continues this fine work with a look at the more powerful cards to catch his eye… Warning: Contains Spoilers

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So Many Insane Plays – Dazed and Confluxed: A Vintage and Type Four Set Review

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Monday, January 26th – Conflux is coming, and everyone is hot for the new cardboard. Today’s So Many Insane Plays sees Vintage maestro and Type Four fan Stephen Menendian take us through some of the major players in his favorite formats… Warning: Contains Spoilers.

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Drafting With LSV – Shards of Alara #26

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Monday, January 26th – Luis Scott-Vargas continues his daily Draft series, sharing each pick from a draft in the Magic Online 8-4 queue. He talks us through the difficult decisions in the forums… do you agree with his choices?

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The Riki Rules – A Tale of Two DQs

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Monday, January 26th – A Disqualification is the worst possible way for a player’s tournament to end. Check that. Getting dragged out of the tournament site in handcuffs by the police is worse, which I have seen happen, so a DQ is at the very least second worst.

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The Magic Sock Episode 155 – Conflux Previews Galore

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Monday, January 26th – In this week’s edition of The Magic Sock podcast, there’s talk on the spoiled Conflux cards, more talk on the spoiled Conflux cards, and yet more talk on the spoiled Conflux cards! And yes, you’ve guessed it… Warning: Contains Spoilers.

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Insider Trading – What’s Hot in Extended After Grand Prix: Los Angeles?

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Friday, January 23rd – We’re in the full swing of Extended season now, and card values are being turned on their heads! Find out which cards are exploding in value post Grand Prix: Los Angeles, and which cards were most requested at the StarCityGames.com booth this past weekend!

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Feature Article – A Grand Prix: Los Angeles Tournament Report *11th*

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Friday, January 23rd – After a bout of intensive Extended testing with Patrick Chapin, Manuel Bucher decided on the funky Gifts Faeries deck for Grand Prix: Los Angeles. He posted an excellent 11th-place finish, and today he reveals his sideboarding plans alongside his blow-by-blow tournament report!

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Feature Article – The Post-LA Extended Metagame

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Friday, January 23rd – The Extended PTQ season continues apace, and everyone is hunting for the information to earn them a precious blue envelope. David Irvine investigates the lessons taught by the recent Grand Prix results, and what they mean for the key strategies in the metagame.

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The Magic Show #129 – State of Conflux

Watch Evan Erwin every week... on StarCityGames.com!Friday, January 23rd Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re focusing on Conflux, and while I’ve been busy on my interviews with Magic movers and shakers over the past two weeks, over half of the set has made its way onto the interwebs. Not only that, but I’ve got my own personal spoiler direct from Wizards to gush about. Are you ready to see Cliffrunner Behemoth and talk about what might be in the rest of the set? Let’s go!

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Magical Hack – Escape From LA!

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Friday, January 23rd – With the rise of Faerie Wizards in the metagame, regardless of whose list you’re rocking it with (American or Japanese) it’s easy to note that it has been shaping the metagame around it. Faeries takes a bite out of Elves, stifling that deck choice near to irrelevance at the PTQs we’ve seen so far, and has a reasonable matchup against Zoo as well, so new innovations were necessary to escape the tricksy Wizard tribe and their previously-irrelevant lair at the Riptide Laboratory.

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #259 – Grand Prix: Los Angeles

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Friday, January 23rd – I appreciated LA weather – or at least not being in the Madison weather – a bit more than usual. Thursday night in LA, we were eating outside in shirtsleeves, while Madison was somewhere around -20 degrees. In LA, I was walking on green grass. Well, in Madison, I could do that, too. Very faded grass – and only if I first scrapped off a couple feet of snow – but we have green grass down there somewhere.

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