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SCG Daily – From Right Field: The Best of the Worst and the Worst of the Best

I want to be perfectly clear on one point. I am most certainly not saying that the art on these cards is awful in and of itself. Magic has come a long, long way from the days of Reverse Polarity (“Worst. Magic art. Ever.”) and Reverse Damage. Nearly every card from Tempest on and especially from Invasion on has been a true joy to look at (Cepahlids aside). However, some of the art, well, it didn’t quite work on the card.

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Back With Black

Eternal fan favorite Geordie’s back — again! — this time packing a new deck that he thinks can clean house against Flores Blue and Combo. If you’re sick to death of Hinder and Keiga, he’s got a deck packing a card that you’ll never expect. No, really, you won’t expect it.

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Magical Hack: A Look At Legacy

In the forums, someone told me that I was obsessed with Cabal Therapy in my article on Extended… But of the most-played cards at the Pro Tour, Therapy finished behind only Forest, Island, Mountain, Chrome Mox, and Bloodstained Mire. Likewise, there are a few key cards that define the Legacy format — and instead of trying to predict the decklists that will appear, I’m going to step through the most powerful cards to see how they shape the environment.

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The Legacy Breakdown: July to October

Here it is, folks: the Legacy statistics breakdown from July to October. The results are in, the votes are tallied, and there’s one deck that is the big winner by a considerable margin. From the tournament data, it’s a Tier unto itself. What is it? To find out, you’re gonna have to click the link.

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SCG Daily: Cream of the Crop, A Number One, Top of the Heap

Yesterday, I took a very biased look at some of the hottest of the recent Magic hotties. Today, I’m running down a list of my favorite art. I’m only going back as far as the current Extended-Legal sets go. Why? Because this is my column. Nyah.

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Livin’ The Dream: My Pro Tour: Los Angeles Report, Part I

My testing took place in a relative vacuum — with help from friends back home, but little to no access to pro testing information, I pieced together a fairly accurate picture of the metagame and I built my deck accordingly. I want to make sure that everyone who wants it — the PTQ win, the PT, the gravy train — really understands that it is possible.

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From Right Field: You Stink

A follow up on Ultra-rares and ultra-uncommons, and the suprising solid results of Chris’s Precon experimenting.

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SCG Daily – From Right Field – Ars Gratia Artis

From Right Field regular Chris Romeo, on the finest artistic renderings in all of Magicdom. Warning: contains hotties

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Chanting Through California – Pro Tour Los Angeles *28th*

Ruud finds wealth and fame in Los Angeles, visits the Price is Right, and shares his thoughts on the best decks in Extended.

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SCG Daily – The Folklore of Magic #5

Adam finishes up a fantastic week of SCG Daily, discussing the folklore behind some of your favorite Magic creatures with a discussion of the Wild Hunt, as well as Brownies. Mmmm, brownies.

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Playing With Follow-through

Flores identifies a pernicious type of error most likely to affect strong players, draws up some illustrative anecdotes from his Champs and Pro Tour LA matches, and sprinkles the whole thing with a generous heap of cryptic initials.

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Sullivan Library: Exploring Eminent Domain – Wisconsin Champs *1st*

Adrian Sullivan returns, with a fantastic new deck for Standard that brought him home the trophy in Wisconsin, as well as scoring Top 4 berths for the other two players piloting it. Get the inside scoop on how to build and play the deck, as well as a bit of legal theory on the side.

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Evolving No Stick

No Stick is one of the best control decks available to anyone trying to qualify this PTQ season. This deck list has a number of changes from Arita’s PT: LA list, but it’s tested very well. In addition, this version has already qualified my friend Max McCall (T8 GP Seattle), who used it to win a PTQ last weekend. In other words, this deck is simply amazing.

So you want the list? Sure. Here’s Silvestri Scepter. Copying Flores deck names for the win!

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Silvestri Scepter Praxis – PTQ Report *1st*

Max McCall likes to Chant. Repeatedly. Last weekend he had an opportunity to Chant his way to Honolulu, and he made the best of it, with Josh Silvestri’s version of Scepter-Chant. What went right? Where did theory fail him? Read on for answers about one of the top decks in the new Extended.

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SCG Daily – The Folklore of Magic #4

So far in this series, we’ve looked at some of Northern European folklore’s intelligent, social beings (elves and goblins) and some monsters (krakens and wurms/worms). Today, we’ll focus on a group of beings that fall somewhere in between: vampires.

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