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Magical Hack – Extended, The Morning After

Read Sean McKeown every Friday... at StarCityGames.com!
Extended is a lively and interesting format, by all appearances… though some would add the caveat “if you like playing The Rock mirror match” to that, after the first two weeks of PTQs. The truly broken stuff you can do is held in check by the ease with which it can be attacked and by its overall inconsistency in the face of the excessive mulligans, and for the most part everyone is “playing fair” and interacting with their opponent in the first few turns.

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Magic Show On Location – Top 8 and Top 4 Charlotte $5K Matches

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Hello everybody, and welcome a special edition of the Magic Show. In these videos you’ll watch StarCityGames.com’s own Chris Woltereck take home the title through two thrilling matches (the last match was so thrilling they split before it happened). Ready to see a man start round 1 of Top 8 without playing a permanent? Let’s go!

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Deep Analysis – Deck Evaluation and the Expected Case

Read Richard Feldman every Thursday... at StarCityGames.com!
Building decks is easy. Building competitive decks, on the other hand, is hard. We’ve all been there, sat with our sixty hand-chosen cards, thrashing away despite accumulating loss after loss after loss. In today’s Deep Analysis, Richard Feldman offers the opinion that the building itself if not the tricky part; it’s knowing when to walk away that’s the true key to success…

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Down And Dirty – Everything I Am

Read Kyle Sanchez every Thursday... at StarCityGames.com!
In preparation for his first Extended PTQ of the season, Kyle Sanchez believes he’s broken the pre-Morningtide metagame. His decklist, packed with strong cards and a sideboard that’s either genius or lunacy, is presented here without prejudice. He also waxes lyrical about ultra-competitive PTQ players, and closes with a frankly bizarre rap segment that has to be read to be believed. Love him or hate him… you can’t ignore him!

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Drafting With Tiago – LLL #46

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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 #7 – Cheesesteaks, Superhero Masks, and Morningtide

It’s not necessary to fly to the City of Brotherly Love to play in a Morningtide prerelease, but it wouldn’t be an interesting story if all Dave did was drive up to Denver and come home empty-handed.

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The Kitchen Table #217 – The Complete Casual Morningtide Set Review: White and Green

Read Abe Sargent every Thursday... at StarCityGames.com!
Ever since Legions, I have, without fail, provided you a set review of each new set from a Five Color perspective. This time, however, I’ll not limit myself to Five Color thoughts. Instead, I’ll review each card on several levels, and provide you a score for every single card in the set for each casual type.

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So Many Insane Plays – Beautiful Boringtide: A Vintage Set Review

Read Stephen Menendian every Wednesday... at StarCityGames.com!
When a new set comes out, we all look for cards that’ll make a splash in our favorite format. Vintage players usually find this task a short one – Magic’s most powerful format isn’t easily impressed by fresh cardboard. However, the past few sets have shook the format with a slew of powerful effects. Does Morningtide continue the trend? The clue is in the title…

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Peebles Primers – A Lor-Lor-Mor Team Draft Walkthrough

Read Benjamin Peebles-Mundy every Wednesday... at StarCityGames.com!
Although he missed the Morningtide Prerelease through travel commitments, Benjamin Peebles-Mundy was determined to get his first taste of the Lor-Lor-Mor Draft experience as soon as possible. So he hooked up with a few friends, cracked some packs, and drafted a deck! He runs through each of his picks in this team draft format, and uncovers many an interesting take on the cards that will be strong for full-on eight-man draft marathons…

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Drafting With Tiago – LLL #45

Draft With Tiago Chan... every day at StarCityGames.com!
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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Chatter of the Squirrel, with Cedric Phillips

Read Zac Hill every Wednesday... at StarCityGames.com!
Zac is having a week off this week. In his place, we have the inestimable Cedric Phillips! In his own words…

Disclaimer: Before I start talking about this here deck, let me get this out of the way. I don’t say “y’all”, my card choices are not “tight,” and I don’t collaborate (and listen) with “The Feldmeister.” If you were looking for those things, turn back before it gets too emo in here.

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Feature Article – Talen Lee on Morningtide Green

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Run for the hills, ye little children. Oh, grab your skirts and start for the border, little ankles flying a-everywhich way, some jackass has given me a table on which to stand, and there will be hollering. Maro has done it now – the fool has gone and printed cards, and that means people will look at them and then they’ll form opinions on them. New sets, new sets, new sets.

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Sullivan Library – Driving a Prius in Extended

Read Adrian Sullivan every Tuesday... at StarCityGames.com!
At first glance, it’s easy to spot the chase cards in Morningtide. There’s Mutavault, for example. And Murmuring Bosk. Another card that is warranting a lot of attention is the three mana beatstick Countryside Crusher. Today’s Sullivan Library sees Adrian examine some of the uses that this particular monster may have. Could he actually be… better than Tarmogoyf?!

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Limited Lessons – Morningtide First Impressions

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The Morningtide Prerelease has come and gone… I hope you all had fun! In today’s Limited Lessons, Nick shares his initial thoughts on the newest set. Kinship, Prowl, Reinforce… just how good are they for Limited play?

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Drafting With Tiago – LLL #44

Draft With Tiago Chan... every day at StarCityGames.com!
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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