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SCG Daily #1: You Gotta Reweave

The concept for this week will be the birthing process. No, not that kind of birthing – I’m referring to ideas here. Specifically I’m going to look at one minor piece of tech from Tsuyoshi Fujita’s recent Pro Tour Block Constructed deck and see if I can design a competitive deck around it.

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The Casual Player’s Guide To Surviving The Saviors Prerelease

Sealed deck play can be tricky if you’re a casual player or not used to a Limited environment – the challenges of picking the correct cards, then building a good deck with it, then playing right with it can be overwhelming for the beginner. I can’t guarantee you a win if you’re a Limited novice… But I do guarantee you won’t be ashamed of your finish if you follow my guidelines here.

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Obscure Decks From Obscure Cards

Anyone can build a deck around a power card like Survival of the Fittest… but what happens when you try to build decks around little-known cards like Invoke Prejudice and Dark Suspicions? Abe puts his deckbuilding skills to the test to dust off these oldie goldies and create a sixty-card pile that will shred the other players at your table!

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Multiplayer Enchantments Week: The Winner, And Next Week’s Contest!

The "Top Three Multiplayer Enchantments" week was an interesting one (and not just because of a one-week delay when I was installing and upgrading the new Deck Database). But this week’s winner won on the strength of solid deckbuilding alone: not only did he have solid Pestilence and Death Pits of Rath decks to back up his claim, but his usage of Panoptic Mirror and Armageddon to break Island Sanctuary was a positive hoot. Thus, Dave Almansor’s Building A Better Pestilence Deck takes the $20 prize!

What’s next week’s challenge?

Emperor Multiplayer.

That’s right; everybody’s favorite six-player format finally steps to the fore at StarCityGames.com! Articles can be about either Emperor Constructed or Emperor Draft, though Constructed articles should provide a deck and what position it’s for: Flank or Emperor. (A contest-winning article, however, will provide all three decks for a unified front of terrifying power.)

Send your article in to Mail us at https://sales.starcitygames.com/contactus/contactform.php?emailid=2 and you could win $20 in our Casual Challenge!

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Pod Killing

Looking for ways to destroy your evil opponents at the Prerelease? That’s exactly what Noah Weil has cooked up for you today, with a heaping helping of strategy on the new cards to help you come out ahead in both the flights and the draft pods.

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Vintage: How to Ruin a Format in Eight Easy Steps

Debate has raged for years over whether the Pros would ruin Vintage if they ever bothered to pay attention to the format. Finally, after an argument over dinner with Randy Buehler, Teddy Card Game had had enough. Armed with one of the most powerful writing forces ever assembled and culminating with the Power 9 Shooting Stars in Rochester on June 11th, he decided to test that theory by asking our Pro Tour writers to work on the Vintage format and see if they can break it. This is an event that simply cannot be missed, as whatever the result is, it will reverberate throughout the Magic community. Appropriately enough, it all starts today with the master of broken decks, Zvi Mowshowitz.

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The Top Saviors of Kamigawa Cards to Trade For!

Ben Bleiweiss is back to give you the straight dish on which cards will be the most valuable and most sought after from Saviors of Kamigawa. If you’re going to the prerelease tommorrow, this is a must-read article! Find out what cards to trade for, which cards will be valued more highly by casual and competitive players, and more!

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SCG Daily: A Day In The Life Of Ben Bleiweiss

Have you ever wondered what a day in the life is for the General Manager of StarCityGames.com? Now’s your chance to see what a day in the life of Ben Bleiweiss is like, from sunrise until sunset. Is the day all wine, roses, and nubile young women smearing themselves with honey as they roll around in piles of Moxen or are there more sinister works afoot? There’s only one way to find out – read this article!

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The Best Card vs. The Best Pick

Sometimes you can find that pivotal moment in a draft where one choice – usually a choice that goes with conventional wisdom – leads you to drafting a deck slightly worse than if you had chosen a different path. In a strong article today, Nick highlights one such moment in a recent draft and furthers the debate on the “Best Card vs. Best Pick” dilemma.

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The Complete Guide to Mono-Green #1: Introduction and Early Creatures

This five-part, daily article series will examine every even slightly contestable choice for a slot in Standard Mono-Green Decks. The idea is to give you the most options possible in your preparations for Regionals, cover ideas you may not have thought of, and then whittle down the choices to acceptable levels to help you build the best competitive deck possible.

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Go Rogue or Go Home – Lickity Split in Standard

Due to a tremendous influx of mail to my mailbox regarding the combo deck called Lickity Split, I decided to write up what I’ve discovered about the deck, how it plays, and what its matchups are like for the second part of my exploration of the Standard Rogue scene.

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Overhauling the PTQ Circuit

Love him or hate him, The Bleiweiss forces an opinion out of everyone and this week people have been overjoyed to express both their pleasure and disgust at what he has to say. Today Ben looks at what Wizards of the Coast can and should do to overhaul a PTQ circuit that has grown long in the tooth.

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