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Unlocking Legacy – Practical Shadowmoor Applications

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Monday, April 28th – Take a look at some of the most powerful combos from Magic’s newest set! Doug takes a look at the new staples, compelling combo cards and others that just barely missed the cut for playability. Consider sure-fire hits like Painter’s Servant and oddball enablers like Ghastly Discovery. Is Demigod of Revenge playable without support cards to enable its brothers to come and play? Doug tackles these and more in this week’s Unlocking Legacy.

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Flores Friday – Burn Brew versus Monster Island: Flame in the Standard Metagame

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Friday, April 25th – One of the stronger fringe strategies from Extended, Mono-Red Burn, has a number of excellent cards in the current Standard environment. Could it be a contender today? Mike runs the Shadowmoor-friendly burn deck against two of the more creature-packed powerhouses in the modern metagame: Merfolk, and the all-conquering Faeries. Do Mountains hold the key to success in these interesting times?

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Sullivan Library – Shadowmoor and Extended

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Friday, April 25th – With Pro Tour: Hollywood on the horizon, Pro-level thoughts on Standard continue to be well guarded. Of course, with a new set in the mix, there’s plenty more Constructed Magic available. Today, Adrian Sullivan examines the Shadowmoor offerings in an Extended context, and delivers his personal Top 5 Shadowmoor cards for Extended play.

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The Magic Show #93 – Shadowmoor Prerelease

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Friday, April 25th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another Prerelease Edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re in Nashville, TN and talking about the sights, sounds, and mana costs of Shadowmoor, what it means to players in the area and what they’re excited about from the new set.

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Magical Hack – Hacking Hollywood

Read Sean McKeown every Friday... at StarCityGames.com!Friday, April 25th – With Shadowmoor at our fingertips at last, all of the information that is really needed to figure out what the Standard metagame might look like at Pro Tour: Hollywood is now known. With the very last card now known and seen, we can begin working on building decks… and do that enough times, bashing cardboard into cardboard, and you’ll figure out what is going to be good in Standard come Hollywood.

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Scouse of Cards – The Trouble With Version 3…

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Friday, April 25th – Magic Online Version 3 is finally here, and with it comes a barrage of problems, complaints, and requests. Players across the world are gnashing their teeth and pulling out their hair. So, what have Wizards got wrong, and what have Wizards go right? And, more importantly, where do things go from here?

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Feature Article – Mannequin in Shadowmoor Standard

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Thursday, April 24th – Shadowmoor is coming, and everyone wants the new tech for their next Constructed tournament. Today, Luis Scott-Vargas presents us with his updated version of the once-dominant Makeshift Mannequin strategy, and shares a list packed with synergy and power. He looks at how Faeries might adapt with the addition of Shadowmoor, and he even brings us a Vintage list for good measure!

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Deep Analysis – Four Ways to Skin a Goblin

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Thursday, April 24th – The official Shadowmoor release is mere days away, and with it comes a Bright and Shiny new metagame for Standard. While it seems Bitterblossom is still the card (and strategy) to beat, one of Magic’s oldest tribes gets a much-needed shot in the arm… Are the dreaded Goblins back, and do they have what it takes to bring down the Tier 1 decks?

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Tribal Thriftiness #20 – Shadowmoor Experiences

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Thursday, April 24th – Wherein Dave learns the value of time management, plays creatures with activated abilities that require mana he can’t produce, drafts a deck of a single color, and name-drops “The Swiss Missile.”

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #223 – Back in Brown, with a -1/-1 Counter

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Thursday, April 24th – Two things happened since last article. MTGO came back, and we had a prerelease. Neither of these was perfect, but both show some signs of progress. Overall, the weekend was not quite optimal. Only the weather was perfect, but I was inside most of the time…

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The Kitchen Table #230 – Abeth Edition, Part Four

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Thursday, April 24th – Abe continues his exploration of the creative process behind Core Set card

selection, and turns his eye toward the Limited game…

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Peebles Primers – Shadowmoor Limited in Action

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Wednesday, April 23rd – It seems that the new set has everyone’s pulse racing, and Benjamin Peebles-Mundy is no exception. Today he shares his prerelease experience, with no less than three Sealed Deck cardpools and a couple of drafts for us to pick our way through. He also shares some of the more successful strategies he’s had of late, and highlights some cards and tactics of note for the format going forward.

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Down And Dirty – Someone Stole My Wizard Deck!

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Wednesday, April 23rd – Today’s Down And Dirty contains a cautionary tale: do not steal from Kyle Sanchez! In this hilarious article, Mr Sanchez relives some of the more bizarre Magical miscellany that has occurred to him this past week, including the theft of his beloved (and entirely foiled) Standard Wizard deck. Intrigued? Then read on!

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Chatter of the Squirrel – Sealed Deck Theory and the Shadowmoor Prerelease

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Wednesday, April 23rd – Around Grand Prix: Daytona last year I mentioned that I wanted to write a theory article on Sealed Deck play, since I think the format as a whole is underrepresented in the body of Magic literature. Too many people think of it as “open your cards, look at your bombs, and play your removal.”

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You Lika The Juice? – Persistence

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Wednesday, April 23rd – I hope you were able to attend the Shadowmoor prerelease this past weekend; here in Richmond, quite a crowd mustered out to get their first taste of the new cards, and first impressions seemed to be that Shadowmoor Limited is chock-full of fast beatdown, along with synergies and combos that are often hard to handle.

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