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The Jerks You Meet at Gas Stations and Magic Tournaments, and How to Deal With Them

I worked in a gas station for nearly a year and the worst thing about the job, other than the bizarre hours, the monotony, the loneliness, the incompetent upper management, the paperwork, the monotony, scraping out the toilets, the fact that a chimp could have done my job, the fact that many of my co-workers couldn’t, cleaning the pumps, sweeping the lot, and the monotony – was the people. I mean, okay, the vast majority of the people I encountered there were perfectly nice and relatively normal, but it seemed like there was a substantially larger concentration of jerks there than in the world at large.

Rather like Magic tournaments.

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SCG Daily Movie Review Goes XXX

You naughty boys. Peter knows just what you’ve been looking for all week and he finally gives it to you, Mary Poppins style? What in the…

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Diary of a Ravnica Drafter Vol. 3 – The Usual Over/Under

It’s that time again, the time where Nick gives you his take on over and underdrafted cards in the environment as well as discussing one of the better off-guild archetypes you can draft. Check it out!

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SCG Daily Movie Reviews – Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit

Once again, it movie review time. This time it’s a quirky animated piece – Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were Rabbit. I really liked this film, so I’ll zip through the review, then turn it into a deck.

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Magical Hack: Leaving My Legacy Behind Me

Dissatisfied with the current crop of Legacy decks, Sean took his own homebrew to Philadelphia with no byes and finished just short of Day 2. What deck did he play and why does he think more players should look into it? The answers are only a click away.

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Equal Opportunity Embarrassment

You may have heard there was a large party at the World Championships involving writers from this very website and singing. People you know, battling it out with nothing more than a pitcher full of beer and a microphone. Names like Tsumura, Oiso, Aten, Jonsson, and many many more, all concerned with one thing – having as much fun as possible. Teddy Card Game was there and catalogued it for posterity, including thoughts on where he has been the last two weeks and his near death experience coming home. If you’d like to see some of the best times a Magic player can have, then you need to click this article.

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SCG Daily Movie Review: The Sequel

A bit of a switch today. Instead of another review leading to a theme deck, I want to do an actual deck and link that to a movie concept. The deck — and the movie concept — is Sequels, and both can be no end of annoying.

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Lifestyles of the Casually Competitive

So, what are you playing in the casual room? By “the casual room”, I quite literally mean Magic Online’s (henceforth referred to as MODO) casual room (henceforth referred to as “that den of whiners who seem to beat me all the time”). The New Players room and Tournament Practice Room are their own concerns – I, and others I know, spend most of our time tooling around in the casual room. Because we wanna have fun.

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Needs More Goblins

Pro Tour: LA and the subsequent Grand Prix proved just how far Goblins had fallen in the metagame. Part of this was people simply fleeing the deck without putting real effort into fixing the archetype, but another part was the deck simply lacking the options or sheer power of older seasons. By battling opponents’ Ravinca cards with some of our own, we have my attempt to resuscitate Goblins in Extended.

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From Right Field: Smell the Glove

Whenever I contemplate a mono-Black deck, This is Spinal Tap comes to mind…. Which leads me to this week’s deck, none “None More Black.” Every spell is Black. No artifacts here. All but two of the lands produce Black mana, and even those two lands do something very Black. So how does it do after a twenty-game spin in the casual room?

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SCG Daily Movie Review: The Corpse Bride

It’s movie review week on SCG Daily. Today’s feature is a Tim Burton special — the Corpse Bride. I’ll review the movie, then create a theme deck based on the movie. The big question: Can the deck be worse than the movie?

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Mastering the Selesnya Guild

With every new draft format, I always find some color combination that I just force myself into. With Odyssey, it was White/Blue soldiers taking as many Daru Stingers as possible; in Mirrodin, it was Affinity just like everyone else; in Kamigawa Block it was Red/White samurais, and in Ravnica I used to think it was the Boros Guild. However, throughout my many drafts on Magic Online, I have discovered that the Selesnya Guild is so much better.

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How To Play CAL If You’re Not Olivier Ruel

I am writing this article for two primary reasons: Number one is to namedrop as flagrantly and savagely as is humanly possible. Number two is to help people learn how to play the CAL deck, since it is actually the stone nuts. Here are the lessons I’ve learned over the course of my hundreds of pre-and-post-board games against the Extended gauntlet with my version of the CAL deck, culminating in a second-place finish at a PTQ a week and a half ago.

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SCG Daily Movie Review: The Princess Bride

It’s movie review week at StarCityGames.com, and Peter Jahn will be your reviewer! Each day, Peter takes a look at a classic (or not-so-classic) film and builds a theme deck based around the characters and plot of said movie.

Today’s film? None other than The Princess Bride!

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So You Want To Be A Judge

Ever wondered what it takes to don the black-and-white judge’s shirt? The pay is surprisingly meager and the acclaim almost nonexistent… But the satisfaction from a job well done can make it all worthwhile. Peter explains the judging process, telling you everything you need to know in order to start your career as a Level One Judge!

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