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Arcane Teachings – Project Hollywood- Mental Game with Rich Hagon and Doug Linn

Read Tom LaPille every Monday... at StarCityGames.com!
Monday, February 18th – I’ve been very fortunate to meet some truly wonderful people through Magic. Some of those are people I work with on decks, some are people I practice with on Magic Online, and some are people I hang out with at tournaments. Two recent conversations with two such people resulted in some interesting shifts in how I think about Magic, life, and the universe, and this article centers around those conversations.

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Unlocking Legacy – Living in the Threshold Metagame

Read Legacy articles every week... at StarCityGames.com!Monday, February 18th – Threshold is here to stay, and it has begun to cast a Counterbalance-sized shadow over the metagame. Kevin is here to light your way and present his thoughts on how to deal with the Tarmogoyf menace.

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Flores Friday – Utilizing a 52-Card Skillset in Magic

Read Mike Flores every Friday... at StarCityGames.com!
Friday, February 15th – We’re all trying to improve our game in a myriad of different ways. Magic is a game of inches, and improvement comes in tiny increments. Today’s Flores Friday sees Mike turn from the world’s best 60-card game to the tables of a popular 52-card game, to see if there are lessons to be learned that transfer to the realm of the spellslinger.

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Levelling Up – Inside An Extended PTQ

Read Tiago Chan every Friday... at StarCityGames.com!
Friday, February 15th – Portugal’s Tiago Chan, currently slugging it out in the hot Malaysian sun, is now eligible for PTQ competition. He recently returned to the trenches, hoping to pick up a Hollywood plane ticket to go with his invitation. Sadly, he never made it, but he saw a lot of interesting plays along the way. This is his story…

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Drafting With Tiago – Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Lorwyn #62

Draft With Tiago Chan... every day at StarCityGames.com!
Friday, February 15th – Tiago Chan, Portugal’s Magic dynamo, takes us by the hand and leads us through the choppy waters of a triple-Lorwyn draft on Magic Online. He shares each and every pick, from one to forty-five, and supplies expert commentary on the draft and the games. For more detailed information, visit the forums!

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The Magic Show #83 – Real Talk

Watch Evan Erwin every Friday... on StarCityGames.com!
Friday, February 15th – Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. This week we’re going real, and we’re going to lay it out straight. This week we try and tackle just what in the hell is going on with Organized Play, Wizards lack of communication, new deck archetypes, new Magic games, crazy artwork and more is straight ahead. Let’s go!

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Magical Hack – Psych 102

Read Sean McKeown every Friday... at StarCityGames.com!
Friday, February 15th – If you sit down at a tournament believing you are worse than your opponent, there should be very little surprise when the outcome of the match decrees that you were right. One of the simplest statements I found insightful is “If you always do as you’ve always done, you’ll always get as you’ve always got.” In my particular case, the “doing as I’ve always done” is “believing myself to be worse than my opponent.”

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Feature Article – A Reporter In Kuala Lumpur

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Friday, February 15th – Last week was my first article for StarCityGames.com in a number of years, and the beginning of a (hopefully) fruitful relationship. What you read was the first part of a four week series that will see me literally travel around the globe as I cover two major events for Wizards of the Coast’s official event coverage team. This week is all about Kuala Lumpur and my week in the country traveling with friends before the event…

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Deep Analysis – Is the Field of Battle the Real Deal?

Read Richard Feldman every Thursday... at StarCityGames.com!
Thursday, February 14th – Last Friday, Mike Flores wrote an article on Dictating the Field of Battle. Towards the end, he stated that dictating the Field of Battle was the “Holy Grail of Magic.” Richard Feldman disagrees. In today’s Deep Analysis, he suggests that there are other potent approaches which must be considered when building your deck for a PTQ…

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Down And Dirty – Take These Broken Wings: An Extended PTQ

Read Kyle Sanchez every Thursday... at StarCityGames.com!
Thursday, February 14th – Today’s Down And Dirty is the story of an Extended PTQ… but this ain’t your average tournament report! Kyle spins the tale in a unique and innovative style, packing cameos from fine Magicians such as Steve Sadin and Billy Moreno. There’s also a fair number of Extended decklists to chew over, and some strategy and tech talk to boot. So, what are you waiting for? Read on!

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Drafting With Tiago – Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Lorwyn #61

Draft With Tiago Chan... every day at StarCityGames.com!
Thursday, February 14th – Tiago Chan, Portugal’s Magic dynamo, takes us by the hand and leads us through the choppy waters of a triple-Lorwyn draft on Magic Online. He shares each and every pick, from one to forty-five, and supplies expert commentary on the draft and the games. For more detailed information, visit the forums!

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Tribal Thriftiness #10 – A Johnny Trip Through the Candy Shop

Read Dave Meeson every week... at StarCityGames.com!Thursday, February 14th – Feeling burnt out? Been playing the same deck for the last three years? Your inner Johnny would like to have a word with you about getting out, seeing the world, trying something new. Go on. Give in. Sure, the last time you did that you ended up playing a Bronze Bombshell deck, but you still might find something you like.

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The Kitchen Table #220 – Morningtide Decks

Read Abe Sargent every Thursday... at StarCityGames.com!
Thursday, February 14th – Hello folks, and welcome back to the casual tour. I am your guide, showing you all of the sights as we continue our journey. Today, I want to build some Morningtide decks for you…

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So Many Insane Plays – Something New In Vintage

Read Stephen Menendian every Wednesday... at StarCityGames.com!
Wednesday, February 13th – The Vintage metagame, it seems, is undergoing a renaissance period of impressive innovation. The attack step has gained relevance, control is on the wane, and new strategies and ideas have proved powerful time and again. Today’s So Many Insane Plays sees Stephen Menendian turn to the past in order to build for the future. Oath of Druids may well be good again…

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Peebles Primers – Decks That Win PTQs

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Wednesday, February 13th – Red Deck Wins, an Extended stalwart for many a year, does not always win. In fact, if Benjamin Peebles-Mundy is to be believed, we should probably change the name of the deck to Red Deck Loses In The Semifinals. Some decks seem destined to triumph at the PTQ level, while some bring great game to the PTQ Swiss but flounder in the Top 8. How can we identify such decks? Read on to find out!

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