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Magical Hack: Honolulu By The Numbers

Read Sean McKeown... every Friday at StarCityGames.com!
My usual gig is to do a lot of math and come up a few weeks later with an enormous statistical work about the Pro Tour, but it seems my schtick has been outsourced to some very clever computer programmers who can make a metal box filled with trained monkeys do all the Excel manipulations for me instead. Well, not to be completely outdone by this article, I’ve run a few numbers myself to attempt to figure out what the most successful deck was arbitrarily, rather than by sheer win percentage.

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A Focus on What Matters: Finding the Tipping Point

Today’s Flores Friday article deals with the noble art of Templating. What, specifically, is the difference between a great deck designer improving on an existing deck, and a buffoon taking a perfectly good deck and making it worse? Through detailed examination of superior builds, Mike shows us how to strengthen our decks in tiny increments. This is a fantastic read for anyone who is serious about improving their deckbuilding prowess.

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Sanctioned Play: A PTQ Report

Can Nick transform his Magic Online success into a PTQ victory? The answer to that question… plus tips, tricks, and tech from one of the most feared Limited players in the game… is just one click away!

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The Kitchen Table #122: The Casual Player’s Preconstructed Deck Primer

Read Abe Sargent... every Thursday at StarCityGames.com!

Abe takes us through a minefield of precon goodness, highlighting the best – and worst – these ready-made decks have to offer. A fine foray into oft-unexplored territory.

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SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: The Missing Guildpact Precon Found!

As a companion piece to today’s “Kitchen Table” article, Abe does some digging… and unearths the fabled Missing Guidpact Precon!

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Sealed Dissected, Episode VI: The Marketing Ploy

Eli, our Man in Japan, brings us a Sealed cardpool with some of the tastiest cards in the game. It’s not all roses, however… the build proves tricky. Just how can we harness the raw power of these bombs? Plus, a new view on the validity of the Invitational.

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Magic Online Musings: This Week on MTGO #5

Read The Blisterguy... every Wednesday at StarCityGames.com!
Grudgingly, I have to admit that there won’t be a great deal about Magic Online this week. You’d think that there would be literally nothing about it, seeing as I have spent the last week here in Hawaii, but keeping me away from the Internet is, frankly, a hopeless cause.

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Food For Thought: Enshrined Memories

How the hell do you keep yourself busy during a fallow period of time? I figured I had a month to take up a challenge. A decent, rough, and generally pain-in-the-rear kinda challenge. A challenge befitting the kind of man who molests brick walls with his forehead.

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Sealed Revealed 4: Ravnica/Guildpact Cardpool #4

Craig is back, with one of his trickiest cardpools yet! With spells and creatures weak in all colors, the correct build technique is a hard one to master… do you agree with Craig’s choices? He piloted this very pool at a Pro Tour Qualifier… how would you fare with the same cards?

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SCG Daily – Keeping Oaths

In today’s edition of Abe’s Bad Card Challenge, he takes a much maligned Oath and tries to work wonders… say hello to the Oath of Scholars.

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Light Into Shadow: A Type 2 Tournament Report

On a cold Saturday in February I entered a 45-person tournament and worked my way to the top with a Black/White Orzhov control deck. Inside I share the list, the strategy, and the match-by-match breakdown with detail like I’ve never had before. Read on and find out how it did, what are the best choices for the deck, and why my build came out on top.

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Breaking the Invitational

As part of the forthcoming 2006 Magic Invitational tournament, Vintage powerhouse Stephen Menendian was tasked with creating a Classic Vanguard deck for the Auction of Champions. So, what monster did he produce? How about a combo deck with hideously consistent Turn 2 kill… his analysis and thought processes, plus insights into general deck design, are just a click away!

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From Right Field: In The Olden Days

Read Chris Romeo... every Tuesday at StarCityGames.com!

Chris returns to his recent One Dozen Glazed decklist, a mono-Blue build with surprisingly strong results. He supplies match walkthoughs, as well as letting us into some Romeo Sideboard Secrets. Plus, a re-touch on the Thran Golem deck…

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SCG Daily – A Deck a Day: Culling the Past

In today’s installment of “A Deck a Day,” Abe concentrates on Guildpact’s Orzhovian Wrath of God – Culling Sun.

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Seven Easy Pieces

The mighty Rizzmeister shares his views on the current Invitational debate, teaches the kids How To Play Magic, dissects the current Standard metagame post-Honolulu, and thoroughly breaks Ravnica-Guildpact Draft with a deck that includes just six creatures. All this, and more, from the twisted mind of JFR.

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