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Investigating Sunforger

While working on the Ravnica Constructed Review articles, one of the new cards that really stood out to me was Sunforger. Sunforger costs three mana to play and three mana to equip, giving its bearer +4/+0. In and of itself, this repertoire would make Sunforger almost strictly worse than Loxodon Warhammer, a card long on potential itself, but one that has been completely absent from Constructed deck for the past two years. On a lark, I actually posted a potential Sunforger deck in the Ravnica Artifacts section… but later realized it might actually be good.

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SCG Daily: Geeks and Girls 5

By now, you should have asked the girl you’ve chosen previously in the week on a date. Some of you will have to try another woman next week, and some will already have been on their dates. As that was covered in yesterday’s installment, we will today look at date two and beyond. Making it work in the long run.

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The Obligatory Vintage Ravnica: City of Guilds Review

JP tells you about the new duties he has assumed in the community while also providing the skinny on all the cards from Ravnica that should make an impact in the Vintage world.

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Ravnica for Legacy

Yes, I’m a tool who wrote Yet Another Set Review. However mine focuses on Legacy. You know, that new format where you absolutely want all the new tech?

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2005 Championship Deck Challenge: Green/Black Beats for Champs

Welcome to the 2005 Championship Deck Challenge!
Guild Week in the 2005 Championship Deck Challenge concludes with the World Champ taking a look at what the Golgari Guild has to offer for States. Clearly Green/Black Control builds are best served by playing the Gifts Ungiven engine, but what does a more aggressive deck look like?

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The Prisoners’ Dilemma – Time Vault Combo in Legacy

It’s a little early to tell what the best Time Vault/Flame Fusillade combo deck looks like, but Stephen Menendian thinks he has a pretty good idea. If he’s right, Legacy is now broken right in half.

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Eyes On The East: Ravnica and Japanese Limited Axioms

Eli Kaplan, occasional coverage reporter for magicthegathering.com, has lurked on Japan’s top 100 Limited rating lists for the last year. Sitting at the feature match table, he’s observed the Far East’s best at work. Today he relates past stories of Invasion limited and relates Japan’s old strategies to Ravnica’s new challenges.

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SCG Daily: Geeks and Girls 4

If you have been following my advice from this week’s previous installments you are by now acquainted with a female with whom you could see yourself in a relationship with. Before you get there, though, you will need to go through the process of dating.

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Reviewing Ravnica for Legacy: The Five Colors

Let’s talk turkey. Set reviews are one of those evil necessities we writers have to do. We do it not because we want to, but because we have no life and have a fascination with mechanically scrutinizing to-be-printed 5′ x 3′ pieces of cardboard. Or simply because you readers love them. Admit it, you know you do.

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Ravnica Constructed Set Review Part VIII: Lands, Selected Cycles, and Wrapup

Mike Flores Reviews Ravnica: City of Guilds!

This is it, folks. The final installment for this monster review of what could be Magic’s best set yet. Today the legendary michaelj covers the Lands, Cycles (including the very powerful Hunted creatures), and the mechanics of Ravnica, detailing everything you need to know about Ravnica for Constructed. If you missed out on the earlier installments we’ve linked them all below for easy accessability.


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SCG Daily: Geeks and Girls 3

One thing we gamers often do is berate each other’s intelligence – it makes us feel good to be smart compared to our surroundings and we calmly expect others to try to do the same to us. If you have spent a lot of time in geek only-surroundings, you need to be aware that girls will often be offended if you roll your eyes or talk down at them when they don’t understand something. Gamer lingo is of course strictly forbidden in these conversations, as it is intended exclusively for gamer to gamer communication. It may very well come from the bottom of your heart, but don’t go telling a girl she’s “getting big.”

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Play the Game…

The title probably did not make it quite clear but this article is in fact a tournament report of the 9th Edition prerelease held in Russia recently. For those of you who were unaware, Wizards of the Coast recently printed Magic cards in Russian for the first time. To commemorate the event, Wizards of the Coast Europe, led by level 5 judge Gis Hoogjendsiisklmnopk, invited 16 of the best players in the world to compete in a special event to be held in Moscow versus 16 of the best Eastern Europe has to offer. The actual Magic events have already been covered on official sites, but the parts with belly dancers, drunken Masashi Oisos, and the Bluffmaster deserve some time as well. The combination of people, scenery and experiences really made this one of the best trips I’ve ever been on.

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2005 Championship Deck Challenge: Walking to Selesnya

Welcome to the 2005 Championship Deck Challenge!
The obvious starting point is to take White Weenie and throw a few other cards in it, benefitting from the good mana making two-drop Elephants possible. Rather than question immediately why we’re looking at the Selesnya Guild instead of the Boros Legion, we’ll presume that good beats may yet prove to be worthwhile enough to make this a viable consideration. Fat beats burn sometimes after all, and so the G/W deck might beat the W/R deck, for all we know.

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Ravnica Constructed Set Review Part VII: Guild Mana and Artifacts

Mike Flores Reviews Ravnica: City of Guilds!

There are two sorts of multicolored cards in Ravnica. Yesterday we looked at the “traditional” two-color cards, where R&D forces us to choose both Red and White, both Black and Green. Today’s Guild mana is the opposite: though the cards are multicolored, both Green and White for a Selesnya card, let’s say, you can pick either color of mana to pay the cost. Guild mana is a completely new thing to Magic, but the question is: Are any of the new cards any good?


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Diary of a Ravnica Drafter

This series is going to be a slight departure from my usual card valuations articles (though I will still do some of those in the coming weeks) in that I am going to give you guys an inside look at the drafts I do, mistakes I make, and especially the important insights and conclusions I come to about the new Limited environment. What I’m going for here is a deeper approach to helping my readers understand the format and how I go about evaluating cards and archetypes through actual draft experience.

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