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The Weekly Guild Build: Your Mana Or Your Life

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In Ravnica Sealed, you’ll often wind up with a conundrum: you can play twenty-three killer cards, where every card is worth having in the deck, but you have to go four colors. Or you can go with three colors and throw a few marginal cards in to bring it up to twenty-three, lowering the number of late-game elbow drops but also minimizing your manascrew. And so comes the question: consistency or power? With that in mind, The Ferrett looks at the decks that went undefeated on Day One to try to draw some conclusions about the format.

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The Virtues of Planning

Ravnica-Guildpact Sealed is a complex beast. Should we run three, four, even five colors? Is mana the key, or should we compromise for power? How can we ensure we beat the decks at the top tables? In this enlightening article, Chad shares his golden rules of Sealed deckbuilding, focusing his advice for the Pro Tour Qualifier crowd.

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Magical Hack: Hacking Honolulu

With Guildpact on sale, it’s time to start cracking on the formats that are soon going to matter; I’ve already started taking a look at the impact Guildpact will have on the Sealed Deck Pro Tour Qualifier season. Soon after that we have Team Unified Standard. The decks that do well at Pro Tour Hawaii will greatly impact the decks that appear on most teams’ deck roster, and the point here is to get a solid start on Guildpact for Standard to get a feel for what it is we’re going to see in Honolulu.

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From Right Field: Staples? We Got Them.

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The perfect man for Valentine’s Day, Mr Romeo brings us his definition of staple rares, giving us a run-down, by set and color, of the golden nuggets any tournament wannabe cannot be without. This one will spark a lively debate, of that there’s no doubt.

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Casual Deckbuilding Principles

You want to build your own decks, if you’re a casual player. You check out my articles, and instead of copying out one of the decklists I mention, you look at it, and see the principle that makes it work, then go and do something using the same idea. That’s how casual players work; we don’t want to suck at the game, we want to do our own thing. So here’s how I go about building decks.

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SCG Daily – Mox Fights the Law, and the Law Wins

The good Doctor tackles Boros, makes merry with MagicTheGathering.com’s Legend vote, and has some advice for a member of the Magic community currently under the legal spotlight…

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Guildpact: The Undervalued Gems

Nick shares his views on the new Rav-Rav-Guildpact Draft environment, spilling the metaphorical beans on some underrated cards you may have missed. Cards that perform well, cards that fail to live up to the hype… cards you should, and should not, be playing.

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Trying To Get To Praguers, Part I

Noah begins his quest for qualification. In his own words…

Having practiced with — and now played a tournament with — Ravnica/Guildpact Sealed, I am sure it’s one of the hardest formats of all time. The options available to you are staggering, which is both good and bad. I learned an awful lot this time around, and even developed a new system that practically guarantees the perfect Sealed Deck.

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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #138: Dodging Competitiveness and Standard

I sent Craig an email, asking what I should write about. He responded that I should look at the competitiveness of eight-man Extended single elimination events on Magic Online, and also examine online Standard. I will — but first I have to stop wasting all my online time playing a trio of silly — but totally fun — decks.

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SCG Daily – Doctor Mox’s Ravnica Guild Round-Up

The good doctor returns, bringing the low-down on the three guilds from Ravnica, and his own particular take on the MagicTheGathering.com Legend “You Decide” vote.

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Vote Gomersall, Hoaen, Jonsson for the Invitational!

Sam Gomersall, Rich Hoaen, and Anton Jonsson are all eligible for your votes in the latest round of Invitational voting at MagicTheGathering.com. Choose your Fanatic, and vote!

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Guildpact Limited Review Part V: New Color Combinations

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In the final installment of this comprehensive series, Julien takes a look at some of the new three-color combinations available in the Rav-Rav-Guildpact Draft environment. He also touches on Sealed Deck building strategy, and provides a handy table for setting out your cards in a proactive fashion.

[Orzhov] – [Gruul] – [Izzet] – [Draft]

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Deck Fundamentals – Paradigm Shift: When Attacking is a Bad Deal

Today, Mike explores the growth of Constructed Magic and the changing relevence Attacking With Monsters. With reference to Blocks both past and present, this comprehensive guide is an excellent primer for those wishing to construct playable Beatdown decks in the coming weeks and months.

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Magical Hack: First Encounters of the Close Kind

We have officially passed through the first week of Ravnica/Guildpact Sealed Deck and Draft for the Pro Tour Qualifier format, and the Grand Prix in Richmond has a lot of useful information to mine. Sean leaps in like Jack Bauer, brandishing a gun and yelling “there’s no time!”

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SCG Daily – Guildpact Groundlings

Ah, the last day of a Daily. It feels like Shahrazad at the end of the 1001 Nights, this whole “finishing up” thing, except that instead of being a hot Arabian princess in a palace I am a scruffy college student kicking aside beer cans in a seventy-year-old apartment, and instead of wooing a king in the royal bedchamber I spend most of my time with fat nasty Magic Players sweating it up in a small room trying my hardest not to cry myself to sleep every night.

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