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MTGCast #133 – MTGO Layoffs and Evil Presents!

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Wednesday, December 10th – Big news of the week is the announcement of a large number of layoffs from the digital games division at WoTC, and includes some well known names like Randy Buehler. Other MTGO news is the release of Tempest on December 8th and the return of card redemption! The “coolest” news is the preview of this year’s holiday promo, Evil Presents! Check out the preview of the Conflux booster package, product displays, intro packs (including a partial card image!).

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Down And Dirty – Decks From The StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open

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Wednesday, December 10th – With The StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open now in the books, Kyle Sanchez looks at some of the more interesting decks in the Top 16. In his usual acerbic style, he looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the successful builds with an eye on the upcoming Worlds tournament this weekend!

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Feature Article – Scenarios For Success: Learning Lessons From Paulo

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Tuesday, December 9th – In today’s excellent feature article from Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, he outlines a selection of interesting scenarios in order to make us better players. With Worlds around the corner, and our eyes and hopes pinned to the next big tournament, these lessons could propel us to the next level. Enjoy!

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Peebles Primers – Combo Elves in Standard

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Tuesday, December 9th – For his final edition of Peebles Primers, Benjamin Peebles-Mundy brings us the development of his weapon of choice for the recent StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open. While he didn’t quite set the venue alight, he still believes it’s a fine choice in the current metagame. Thanks for all the great articles, BPM!

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Removed From Game – World Championship Preview

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Tuesday, December 9th – You know that Worlds 2008 is happening this week in Memphis. You know that you’re reading this before it happens. And you know that Rich is going to tell you what might happen, why it might happen, and then ridiculously predict what actually will happen. That’s why they call it a Preview.

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The Kitchen Table #263 – Bad Rare Decks VIII: The Return of the Bad Rare Article

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Tuesday, December 9th – When I moved to London for eleven days, I divested myself of many of my boxes of cards. Among those was my bad rare stack (er… um… I mean “low value rares”). I wrote seven articles in which I selected, at random, one of these bad rares, and then forced myself to build a deck around these cards.

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Insert Column Name Here – The Casual Player’s Bargain-Hunting Guide, Part 4

Read The Ferrett every Monday... at StarCityGames.com!Monday, December 8th – Hi! Still sick. Still finding cheap casual cards in the Mirage through Tempest blocks. Still writing. Let’s go.

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Innovations – The Most Important Magic Lessons of the Year, Part 2

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Monday, December 8th – Last week, Patrick “The Innovator” Chapin took us through the beginning of his career in Magic, and shared with us many lessons he’d learned along the way. Today he continues this journey, presenting some solid thoughts on drafting and the benefits of team testing. He also brings us a spicy little Legacy deck…

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So Many Insane Plays – Vintage On A Budget: Suicide Black 2K9

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Monday, December 8th – Vintage, by its very nature, is hardly budget-friendly. Excluding possible cards is somehow against the purity of the format. However, Stephen Menendian believes it’s possible to build creative budget options that aren’t necessarily suboptimal…

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The Riki Rules – Spectator Spectacular!

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Monday, December 8th – Since the very beginning of my run here at StarCityGames.com, I have been bombarded with the “spectator question.” It basically boils to some variation of “If I’m watching a match and I witness them make some kind of mistake (rules-wise, not strategic), what can I do?”

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The Magic Sock Episode 147 – Preparing For Worlds

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Monday, December 8th – On this week’s Magic Sock Podcast, there’s discussion on what to do for the upcoming Worlds tournament, whether you’re going or staying home. There’s also a nostalgic look back at Onslaught, and much more!

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Feature Article – Deception

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Friday, December 5th – In his first article for StarCityGames.com, UK National Champion Jonathan Randle looks at the use and abuse of deception in Magic. Going beyond the realm of the Jedi Mind Trick, Jonathan shows us that, sometimes, the wrong play might just be the right one…

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Sullivan Library – Revisiting Elves for Standard

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Friday, December 5th – Tomorrow’s StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open promises to set the bar for the Standard metagame come Worlds. While most of the more powerful archetypes, such as Faeries or Five-Color Control, have been well covered, it seems that a lot of eyes have overlooked the reliable old Green/Black Elves. Adrian Sullivan investigates…

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The Magic Show #125 – Back to Basics

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Friday, December 5th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going to talk about Magic and nothing but Magic. No special guests, no frills, nothing but my silly jokes, antics, and opinions on this cardboard crack we call our hobby. Let’s go!

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Magical Hack – Static Versus Dynamic

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Friday, December 5th – As we come into the StarCityGames.com $5000 Weekend in Philadelphia, and the World Championships the following week, we are looking at two Constructed formats of relevance and the powerful question of whether these formats are static or dynamic.

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