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U/R Control: The Other Steam Vents Deck

Recently, I played in Flores’s Deckade book signing tournament. I made Top 8 with Vore, my only blemish in the Swiss being a first round loss to Beautiful Struggle Mark Young piloting Tron. However, my tournament came to an abrupt end in my Top 8 match, against Luis Neiman playing Wafo-Tapa Control. Let me tell you this match was among the biggest blowouts imaginable. The only way I could conceivably gain an advantage (short of him mulliganing to five) would be if I had a perfect draw…. on the play.

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Shooting From The Hip: Doing the Math and Playing to Win

When preparing for a tournament, do you do all you can to ensure you take home the prize? Do you approach each match with the correct mindset? Or have you lost before you’ve laid your first land? With extensive theoretical examples based on the Team Standard format, Mike shows us how doing the math – and playing to win – will help us improve our game tenfold.

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SCG Daily: The Secret Of StarCityGames.com’s Success

My boss, Pete Hoefling, is a slave driver. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the slaves whip themselves. But why do we work so hard? Why does StarCityGames.com p0wnnz0r me so?

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Remie’s Review: Dissension Constructed and Limited – Red/Split

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Jeroen continues his Dissension musings with a look at the Red and the Split cards. We know that Seal of Fire is back, and for that we’re all mighty grateful… but does the remaining Red goodness begin and end with Demonfire? And what of the Split cards… will they find their niche? Click here to find out…

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Hidden Gems #3

Limited Master Raphael Levy returns with the latest edition of Hidden Gems! Today, he brings us a few more Ravnican rares that are sadly overlooked in Ravnica Block drafting… if they’re utilized correctly, they can lead to wacky fun times. A perfect article for the run-up for this weekend’s Pro Tour Prague. Looking for something different when drafting RGD? Raphael can help!

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Dissension In The Ranks: A Look At Four Standard Decks, Post-Dissension

Dave presents us with not one, not two, not three… but four Standard decklists. Updating the stronger archetypes in the current Standard with new cards from Dissension, this article is a fine springboard from which to plan your respective Regional assaults.

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The Kitchen Table #130: The Quest for the Perfect Token

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In this highly entertaining article, Abe takes us through his own personal odyssey… his relentless and harrowing search for the World’s Perfect Token. If you’ve ever put a 1/1 Saproling token into play, you’ll be sympathetic to his plight…

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SCG Daily: Why Reporting Is So Bad

My minor in college was journalism, and I loved it. I’d taken every “newspaper writing” course I could lay my hands on, so I’d heard all about the problems involved with freedom of the press and the confidentiality of sources. But covering Pro Tour: New Orleans showed me another side of journalism, one that hadn’t been brought up in class, and it was only then that I realized why the news we see so uniformly bad.

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Remie’s Review: Dissension Constructed and Limited – Green/Simic

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Jeroen continues his Dissension musings with a look at the Green cards and the Simic guild. Historically, Blue/Green has been a Constructed powerhouse. Does the Simic return Standard to the Glory Days of Wild Mongrel, Arrogant Wurm, and Circular Logic? And does the Blue/Green guild house the best rare in the set? Click here to find out…

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Dissension Card Review Part VII: Split Cards, Artifacts, and Lands

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Mike completes his Constructed rundown of Dissension with a look at the Split cards, the artifacts, and the lands. Sure, we all know that the Shocklands are pure gold, and the Karoos are staple cards… but how do the new Split cards match up to the Split cards of old? A strong finish to an excellent, informative series.

[Part I: White] – [Part II: Blue/Azorius] – [Part III: Black]
[Part IV: Red] – [Part V: Green] – [Part V: Simic/Rakdos]

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Magic Online Musings: This Week on MTGO #13

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Blisterguy takes stock of the series so far, and presents new readers with an explanation of all those weird numbers… He also takes us through a 175-player MTGO Premier Event.

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Food For Thought: Azorius Aggro

I’m back after a period of Dissension goodness, and I’m sure you’re no stranger to its ilk. As I write this, the site is mired in set reviews and predictions. I figure I’ll give you less of the former and more of the latter because, as we well know, “but it’s good in Limited” is one of the worst sins a Magic writer can ever make. Today I’m going to lay down a great deck from the same guild that seems geared for anything but. Do you know who’s the beatdown in Azorius?

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SCG Daily: The Truth Inside Team Academy

As an editor, Team Academy was a painful experience. There’s nothing harder than publishing an article that you were proud of, only to see someone rip it to shreds for what were, at its core, pretty legitimate reasons. And it’s even harder when they refer to your site as “the scrub site” and make fun of you personally for being such an idiot.

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From Right Field: Ley-tely, I Haven’t Been Feeling Myself, Part 2

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Romeo continues his exploration of the viability of his mono-Red Leyline deck. After tearing up the Casual Room, can it replicate the results in the Tournament Practice arena?

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Gold Cards Are For Suckers

JFR, the man who broke Extended, is on a quest. A quest to find the strongest deck in Standard, in an attempt to break that format too. Today he brings us a number of Standard decks from the ol’ Rizzonoggin, one of which looks very promising indeed. Nearly Mono Black in Standard? Does it have the power to Rock the Kasbah? Either way, this is a fine piece of Rizzo regalia that heralds the coming of Regionals.

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