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The Stats of the JohnnyDraft — How to Track Your Casual Drafts

Hall of Famer Raphael Levy is taking a week off this week, and in his place we have an intriguing article from Paul Jordan. His “The Stats of the JohnnyDraft” series has been well-received thus far… and in today’s article he goes through a step-by-step guide that will enable you to track your own DraftStats in the same way. WARNING: This is a highly technical article, definitely not your usual Magic fare… and thus it may cause your brain to leak out of your ears.

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The Combat Phase — Deep Cleaning

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Jamie continues his descent into Limited madness with his much-improved, forum-fuelled League decklist. The changes seem to have worked, folks… pat yourselves on the back. He also updates a fun U/G Standard deck designed by our very own Ben Bleiweiss… by taking out the Blue and adding Black. To cap it all off, there’s a heavy dose of Wakefield minutiae, including some heavily edited English Dentist material that I found frankly upsetting.

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Deep Analysis — Road to Regionals: Tuning the Suicide Squad

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Last week, Richard gave us his exciting Orzhova Suicide Squad decklist… and it proved strong enough to qualify one lucky fella for German Nationals! This week’s Road to Regionals sees Richard take the deck through its paces against the most important decks in the metagame, tweaking and collating as he goes. The deck is a contender, of that there’s no doubt. Will it be the one for you? Read Richard’s excellent article and find out!

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From Right Field — Road to Regionals: The Pre-Regionals Column

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Regionals is coming… and Chris is prepared. This year, he’s armed with a funky-looking deck courtesy of a close friend. It’s black, it disrupts, and it beats down. Who knows, maybe it’s the missing tech that you’re clamoring for. If you’re still undecided on your 75 of choice, maybe Chris has the answers.

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The Beautiful Struggle — Road to Regionals: Your Most Important Regionals Lesson

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Frankly, if you haven’t decided on a decklist by now, you probably shouldn’t attend a tournament this weekend. Most people have a pretty good idea about what they’re playing, or (as in my case) they have it narrowed down to a deck or three and they just need to choose. So instead of just ordering you to play Awesome Deck #1, #2, or #3, I offer you the lessons you really need to know for this Saturday…

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #181 — Road to Regionals: Regionals Comes at You Fast

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With Regionals a week away, I have had zero time to playtest or innovate. I’m going to play at Regionals, basically, cold. I’m guessing I’m not the only one in that situation. I’ll talk about how I’m going to choose a deck, in the hopes that it might help others in the same boat.

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Road to Regionals – Izzetron 2007

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When I’m testing for a big tournament for Regionals, the modus operandi is usually to build a gauntlet, test, read, test, read, rebuild the gauntlet, settle on a deck, and, usually in my case, audible at the last second. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This year, I thought, might be different. For, you see, I found the deck I wanted to play very, very early in the testing process.

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Insert Column Name Here – Insane White Legends

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I cracked some truly massive White legends in my deck for the Future Sight prerelease, including a combo that – if left untended – completely shut down the attack phase. How nice! And since I’m celebrating this absolutely absurd card pool, I figured I might as well discuss some of the legends of Magic past, including an extended talk about the four Hero Scrubs of Magic.

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Feature Article — Road to Regionals: A Japanese Take on Future Sight Standard

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With U.S Regionals a mere week away, Japanese Constructed specialist Naoki Shimizu offers his formidable insight into the Standard metagame. He takes a lingering look at the power cards from Future Sight, and sees what role, if any, the new cards will take in the popular decks in the format. This article is essential for those players looking to march to the Regionals Top 8 table.

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Feature Article — Road to Regionals: Angry Colon Blues

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Kyle Sanchez is back once more with his signature style of insanity and tech. Today he takes us through six different Standard decks, some old and some new, just in time for the Regionals carve-up this weekend. He also shares some of his favorite Future Sight cards, and reveals why he was less than pleased with the finale of Heroes…

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Limited Lessons — Road to Regionals: Mono Black Rack

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The Road to Regionals series continues all this week, and Nick is on the case! Today he tackles the popular fringe strategy Mono Black Rack, and offers some advice for the decks you’re likely to face this weekend. A lot of Magic pundits advocate storming with the Dragons at Regionals: does the heavy discard available to the Black mage offer hope against the Four Hellkites of the Apocalypse?

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So Many Insane Plays – The Leyline Wars

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Today’s So Many Insane Plays features strategic discussion over an all-important resource in modern Vintage: the graveyard. Stephen pitches Vintage Flash against Vintage Ichorid in an attempt to showcase the power of the format-defining Leyline of the Void. Fighting the battle on this front is one key to success in Magic’s most broken format… can you compete?

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Magic Puzzles — Trivia

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Trivia week is back! Can you prove your prowess as a walking Magic encyclopedia? Only two perfect scores remain going into this final round of competition, but as many as fourteen competitors still have a shot at the title. Even if you’re not in contention, here’s your chance to show off what you know. Enjoy!

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The Online Outlook #13 — I Hate Gift of Granite

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It’s Future Sight Release Week on Magic Online, which means only one thing… Release Week Premier Events! For my sins, I’ve entered three of these bad boys. My win record? Not so hot. Today’s Online Outlook takes a look at my three Sealed cardpools, reveals my builds (and records), and asks you folk if you could do any better…

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Flores Friday – Resident Genius Fight

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For Mike’s first Road to Regionals article this year, the 2006 Resident Genius takes the good fight to the 2007 Resident Genius, Mark Herberholz! Mike and Heezy slug it out in a ten-game set, Gruul versus NarcoDredge. Mike’s disdain for the dredge deck is well documented. After a quick ten versus Mark H, is the Price suddenly Right?

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