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You Lika The Juice? – President’s Day Special

Here in the States, the 2008 Presidential campaign is already in full gear, with all sorts of figures jumping in the race – Barak Obama, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton; even Britney Spears is shaving her head and getting tattoos in an effort to play to a more liberal base. In honor of President’s Day today, StarCityGames.com is pleased to interview a few of the less mainstream candidates who have either declared or are mulling over a run for President.

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TriscuitTron In Post-Planar Chaos Standard

Standard is a wide-open field right now, but many if not most of the Tier 1 decks are powered by the trifecta of the Power Plant, Mine and Tower; the mighty Urzatron. With the release of Planar Chaos, every deck gets a few new trinkets to toy with. The Tron-based decks are no exception. But who gets the best toys? You could make an argument for my personal favorite of the Trons, TriscuitTron.

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Feature Article — Making Sunday at Pro Tour: Geneva *Top 8*

After Ervin’s breakthrough Top 8 performance at Pro Tour: LA, it’s safe to say that he faded a little from the Magical Map. Of course, a few Day 2 Grand Prix performances are nothing to be sniffed at… but the Big Time seemed slightly out of reach. Pro Tour: Geneva, however, set Mr Tormos up for greater things… and you can read about his journey to the Top 8 here!

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Flores Friday – Get in Touch With Your Inner 4/4: Beats.dec

Mike Flores, Breaker of Metagames, brings us a fresh Extended deck that took him to within an inch of success of his last PTQ. Harnessing the heady power of 4/4 monsters — a trait that would make Jamie Wakefield proud — has Mike finally achieved his seasonal goal and broken the format? You’d better be prepared to face this deck, because folk will run it come PTQ time.

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From The Lab – Planar Chaos Green in the New Standard

Craig “The Professor” Jones continues his Constructed exploration of Planar Chaos. So far he’s tackled Red and Black, the colors of mayhem, and he’s shared a few saucy deck ideas along the way. Today is the turn of the Green cards, perfect for all you tree-hugging hippies out there. So, what’s Prof’s verdict? Is Green reduced to the usual Hulk Smash routine, or is there more behind Nature’s Curtain than first appears?

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #46

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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Magical Hack – Heading For Adventure

Read Sean McKeown... every Friday at StarCityGames.com!Magic, when played between two people, is probably the best game in the World. When played between four consenting adults, is it a case of double your pleasure, double your fun? With the Two-Headed Giant Champs mere weeks away, Sean takes a timely look at a sample cardpool, and builds a pair of strong decks with the sweetmeats therein.

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The Magic Show #31 — On Location SCG Extended $1k Open

Hello everybody and welcome to another show. Today we have footage of the Top 8, Top 4, and Top 2 rounds in the StarCityGames New Planar Chaos-legal Extended tournament that occurred last weekend. You ready for live footage, decklists and more? Let’s take a look!

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The Real Deal – Ben Bleiweiss’s Totally Complete Planar Chaos Set Review (Part 3 of 3)

Typically, the first part of a set review gets the most hits, and then subsequent parts get incrementally fewer hits. So, let’s just pretend like this is Part 1 of my Totally Complete Planar Chaos Set Review! That’s right, click on this article to get my wit, vigor, and other bodily fluids that contribute to everything you need or don’t need to know about Planar Chaos.

In This Week’s Ben’s Corner: Little Jack Horner! (And/or news about Extended Cards)

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Levelling Up – Drafting with the Dutchies

In preparation for Pro Tour: Geneva, Tiago Chan joined up with Frank Karsten and a slew of famous Dutch professionals, and they drafted up a storm. Tiago shares four of those drafts today, looking at the completed decklists, highlighting tricky picks, and explaining the processes behind his decision to force U/W control decks when the Big Day finally came…

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Peebles Primers – Mono Green Aggro in Standard

Today we welcome our newest columnist; Benjamin Peebles-Mundy! Ben will be bringing us weekly primers about a variety of Constructed decks across a number of formats… and he’ll also touch on Limited too. Today’s article concerns Mono Green Aggro in Standard, a deck that is currently rocking the online metagame. Welcome aboard, BPM!

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Drafting With Rich – Time Spiral #45

Rich continues his excellent series of Time Spiral Draft walkthroughs, presenting each pick as it happened and highlighting each card chosen. He shares his final decklist, and gives us a brief overview of his results and processes. As usual, for more detailed draft deconstruction, come visit us in the forums!

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The Kitchen Table #168 — Portal Revisited

Read Abe Sargent... every Thursday at StarCityGames.com!Abe takes us through the personalities that appear in Portal Three Kingdoms, and highlights a host of fine casual all-stars for your next multiplayer melee. Having trouble distinguishing your Zhang Liao from your Zhang Jiao, or your Lu Bei from your Lu Bu? Abe can help!

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Chatter of the Squirrel — Examining Extended

After failing to make Day 2 at Pro Tour: Geneva, Zac returns to the Constructed game, with an eye on qualification for Yokohama. Today’s Chatter of the Squirrel concludes the Razormane Masticore / Triskelavus debate, and takes a fresh look at a couple of powerful Extended decks that have posted Top 8 results.

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Tact of Friction — Clamoring For Bannings

Whenever a new set comes out, a crop of idiots — generally speaking — will come out and claim that several cards in the set need to be banned. Without Fail. I kid you not, we had people saying this about Coldsnap and Guildpact. This is working on the John Edwards model: You can guess wrong as many times as you like, provided you really make a noise about when you guess right.

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