The Avatar Of Woe Plays White Cards: PTQ – San Diego
John Rizzo cheating at a PTQ? The Friggin’ One comes clean.
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Apprentice Is King, And I Won’t Hear Otherwise
Jack Yates may have started the fires burning here on StarCity, but Crazy Pierre takes a shot at explaining why Apprentice will always rule.
You CAN Play Type I #17: The Control Player’s Bible, Part I
There’s a deck in Type One, a deck that even Kai Budde is afraid to master.. And Rakso is happy to open its secrets up for you. Are you ready?
1800 or Bust!: Nearly A Year
It’s been a year since Jim started on his quest to hit an 1800 rating. So did he make it?
See? They Were Wrong: Odyssey Does NOT Suck
Hey, wasn’t Odyssey the bane of Constructed? The new Homelands? Suck-o-riffic? Then what happened? All that, and gratuitous quotes from a Coen brothers movie starring Nick Cage (hint hint).
No One Plays Land Destruction in Extended, And I Wasn’t Either!, or: Seattle Sligh
I chose to name my deck Seattle Sligh after christening it a few other names that were, surprisingly even worse. I don’t know if hardcore analysts would catalogue it as Sligh or just plain burn, because it does run creatures; it just doesn’t run very many. It has loads of burn, so I suppose that…
CASUAL FRIDAYS #112: Empire, The East: Roads To Newer And Stranger Empires
If your group plays Emperor even occasionally, it may have happened: you are all settling down for a nice little game of three-on-three, when suddenly the seventh guy in the group shows up. What to do?
The Last Word On Tiered Tournaments: Why I Quit Magic, And What Tiered Tourneys Could Have Done To Stop Me
The arguments given on the tiered tournament system ring a special interest for me. First, because I am – or really was – a scrub. I do not take pain at the fact that I was never as good a Magic player as I could have been; I enjoyed my time playing Magic, even if…
Force Of Will: The Not-Quite Metagame Clock
How do Pernicious Deed and Call Of The Herd change the metagame for the worse?
A Tournament Report I Wrote
Event 1: Rizzo leaves CMU.
Event 2: Turian wins GP: Montreal.
Event 3: Eubroken wins GP: Atlanta.
Coincidence?
Why I Won’t Be Canning Extended for Block Party
Eliminating Extended would simply punish those people who have made the investment necessary to play at that level. Among other things.
Spell My Name Right, Dammit: Virginia States *Top 4*
Thanks for taking the time to read this tournament report. As always, the obligatory deck list is first: “The Goods” 2 2 1 4 3 2 3 5 3 3 3 4 2 4 2 4 4 4 3 2 Void Sideboard: 3 1 2 1 2 2 4 I’m not going to bore everyone…
Scrub/Not a Scrub: Dave’s Oregon State Championship Report
Maybe I’ve lost it. I’ve come here on three hours sleep and prove what a scrub I am, and I’m finally going to have to write my”dropping out” article….
You CAN Play Type I #16: Sucking With The Power Nine
Technically, this is on Type One, and how it’s possible to throw the most powerful cards created into a deck and have it not win. But the lessons learned are of interest to all.
A Deck’s Journey: G/B/r
Sadly, I couldn’t pull off a third top 8 in a row this year at States; in the end, my record was 3-2-2. But the deck did well in other hands, and I thought I’d show you how we made it.