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May 17th (Saturday)

PureMTGO

  • A Brave New World, In the Future!

    Hydralord takes a look at the Extended format. Well, not really the current format, but rather the future version of the format! Get a head start in collecting the cards that will break out at Pro Tour Berlin now!

May 16th (Friday)

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  • Planeswalk with the Proffessors #27: Evening the Tides

    Hello everybody and welcome to this week's episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors. This week when we planeswalk we'll give the fanbase what he asked for, 2as we delve into the already developing Eventide info, and a couple of speculations about the set, as well as delve into two decks that go almost infinite with some sick combos, as well as discuss the importance in these new changes to grassroot tournaments, so let's go!

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  • Irrational Love: Melting Hearts. - by Cashew

    With the release of Shadowmoor now behind us, it's time to actually play with the cards. I was tearing through them and found two equally cool yet opposite concepts. There was the super survival instinct of Heartmender using persist and the polar opposite withering wail of the Midnight Banshee. Conceptually the two faced off as near opposites, but ultimately I was torn between which one to cover. So I contacted my favorite collaborative partner and set out to conquer both of these concepts at once...

StarCityGames.com

  • Flores Friday - The Basic Test of Metagaming Competence, by Mike Flores

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Friday, May 16th - Come join Mike in the madcap mathematical adventure that we call metagaming. Why is The Basic Test of Metagaming Competence the most useful article in modeling metagaming that you will ever read? Because just one paragraph in you may realize that everything you ever thought about metagaming was a lie... Or at least a gross series of very sad misunderstandings. And we can prove it. A must read.

  • Sullivan Library - Reflecting on This Weekend?s Faeries, by Adrian Sullivan

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Friday, May 16th - With the data from the StarCityGames.com Mega-Magic Weekend pointing to a cold winter of Faerie dominance, Adrian looks at the various Fae builds from the two Top 8s in Richmond in order to discern the direction of the deck. Come Hollywood, will the Blue/Black flying menace be victorious?

  • The Magic Show #96 ? How The Red Deck Won In Richmond, by Evan Erwin

    Friday, May 16th - Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. In this week?s episode we talk about the fallout from the Mega-Magic Weekend in Richmond. What happened and didn?t happen on Saturday, just what in the hell we?re going to do about the Faerie problem, and how I ended up in third place on Sunday. Let?s go!

  • Magical Hack - Hacking Through The Competition, by Sean McKeown

    Friday, May 16th - As the astute reader would know, I did in fact not win either day of the Star City Games mega-weekend Standard events this weekend... after all, the tag-line ?By Sean McKeown? will tell you that just by not being ?By Alex Bertoncini,? or as the real pessimists in the forums will likely latch onto, just because the tag-line says ?By Sean McKeown.?

May 15th (Thursday)

All Shows :: MTGCast (A Magic the Gathering Podcast Network)

  • The Magic Sock #116: Shadowmoor Sealed Deck Party

    Total running time: 1 hour, 3 minute and 56 seconds. Show Notes:–Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Opening music by Luma (”Wake Up”) available on Podshow.com. –Throw a Shadowmor sealed deck party. –Lots and lots of great feedback. –Combo of the week. –This week's song is by Black Lab and the song is “Ghost in Your Mind” available on music.podshow.com.

  • Deck Builders: Ep 19 - Kavu Justice

    Today on Deck Builders its Episode 19 and we are looking at an older deck idea that is now made available because of Shadowmoor Dual Lands. Check it out! Creatures 4x Bird of Paradise 3x Calciderm 4x Kavu Predator 4x Kitchen Finks 3x Stone Cloaker 4x Tarmagoyf Spells: 3x Incinerate 3x Flame Javelin 3x Harmonize 3x Edge of Autumn 4x Fiery Justice Basic Lands 2x Forest 1x Mountain 3x Plains 1x BrushLand 2x Karpulsian Forest 3x Fire-Lit Thicket 4x Grove of the Burnwillows 3x Wooden Bastion 3x Flagstones of Trokair

Magic.TCGplayer.com Articles

  • Block on the Cheap, by Justin Vizaro

    Playing competitively in Standard and block can be quite expensive, and we all need to find a way to catch a break somewhere. I'm going to try to help all of you come in under budget during the LBC season.

  • Shadowmoor Standard Primer, PT 3, by third_place

    We last left off with part two of this series, GB Elves. You can find that article [here] and part one on Faeries, which is located [here]. Today is the final part of the primer, which will ouline RG Big Mana, Reveillark, and Mono Red.

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  • Five new Featured Links Posted for May 2008! - by Streetz

    5/15/08 - Five new links have been featured and posted! Check out the link descriptions by clicking on the above link. Remember to check them out, enjoy them and then comment on them in the forum thread. ~Streetz~

  • Combo of the Day for May 15th, 2008.

    5/15/08 - Everyone few months I post an RSS feed about the combo and deck of the day feature. This is so everyone knows MDV has it. Today's combo of the day? Gemstone Mine & Bounce Lands from the Ravnica Block... Click on the link to read more.

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StarCityGames.com

  • Ask the Judge, 5/15/2008, by Chris Richter

    Rules Tip of the Day: The owner of a card is the person whose deck and or sideboard it started in at the beginning of the game. This even applies to cards that you may have borrowed; as far as the game is concerned, you are the owner. Q: Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni and Throat Slitter attack at the same time and are both unblocked. Can I kill an opponent's creature with Throat Slitter and then return that creature with Ink-Eyes?

  • Deep Analysis ? Tuning The Siege, by Richard Feldman

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Thursday, May 15th - Last week, Richard ended his article with a midrange beatdown deck for Standard, called The Siege. It stirred up discussion in the forums, and so today Richard takes a closer look at the design and tunes up the list based on advice and ideas accumulated over the past seven days?

  • Down And Dirty - Dissecting the Mega-Magic Weekend Standard Decklists, by Kyle Sanchez

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Thursday, May 15th - With the shadow of Pro Tour: Hollywood breathing down out necks, it?s time to get serious with the Standard metagame. Today?s Down And Dirty sees Kyle Sanchez take us through the highs and lows of the standout decklists hailing from last weekend?s Star City Games Mega-Magic Weekend, How will results there impact the upcoming Pro Tour?

  • Yawgmoth?s Whimsy #226 - MTGO, Standard, and the $5k, by Peter Jahn

    Thursday, May 15th - I?m feeling old. I was checking my list of published articles and noticed that my first Magic-related articles were published almost a decade ago. That?s a perfect excuse to talk about where Magic is at, and what it is doing. A lot has changed ? and a lot has stayed the same.

  • Tribal Thriftiness #23 - More TT Aggro, or ?When Good Aggro Decks Go Non-Aggro?, by Dave Meeson

    Thursday, May 15th - A Mono-Green aggro player somewhere down in the cockles of his heart, last week Mr. Tribally Thrifty put together a budget Mono-Green aggro deck for play at the FNM level. What happened? Did the deck succeed or fail?

  • The Kitchen Table #233 - Shadowmoor Decks, by Abe Sargent

    Thursday, May 15th - Bonjour mes amis! Welcome to the next entry in the journal of all things casual. I am your scribe, bringing you the poems and diatribes of Magic for the casual crowd. As promised in previous articles, today I am going to create several decks around Shadowmoor cards.

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May 14th (Wednesday)

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  • "Early Shadowmoor Results" by peppersprayed

    May 14, 2008 | mtg, strategy || Well the first Shadowmoor results are in, and there are a few interesting developments. (more...)

  • Shadowmoor Preview Contest: END!

    May 14, 2008 | mtg, contest || The Shadowmoor Preview Month Contest has come to a COMPLETE end! Skeletor 1st place, Dr. Magic Cards 2nd place, Slearch 3rd place, NicotineJones 4th place. Drop on in to see all the entries! (more...)

Magic.TCGplayer.com Articles

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  • Words from the Streetz: Uncommon and Common Magical Treasures. - by Streetz

    I?ve recently been trading cards through MDV?s Trading Forum and for a person like me with thousands upon thousands of cards it can be quite a task to inventory your collection. Let alone only inventory the cards that are worth trade value. Someone asked me at work the other day, ?How many cards do you own? 10,000? 15,000?? I didn?t know. I sat down at my desk and opened up Excel and figured out a few quick equations and came out to approximately 175,000 cards?. That?s just based on my purchasing habits for the last few sets. That?s a lot of cards!? The crazy thing is I probably own more. In any event, today?s article is going to show you that some of those extra commons and uncommons might

PureMTGO

  • Standard Deviations - The Bad

    Jamuraa takes a little bit of time this week to talk about the cards you probably won't be seeing in your local tourney metagame any time soon.

  • Strategic Magic : Tempo

    Tarmotog is here again, this time talking about tempo which we hear about all the time. What is tempo? Read on to find out more.

StarCityGames.com

  • Ask the Judge, 5/14/2008, by Chris Richter

    Rules Tip of the Day: Paying costs for a spell or ability does not use the stack; it occurs either when a spell or ability is played or when a spell or ability resolves. Q: I have a Serra Avatar in play. It has Spirit Link on it. My opponent plays Backlash. Do I die, or does it end up doing nothing?

  • Feature Article ? Approaching Lorwyn Block Constructed, by Luis Scott-Vargas

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Wednesday, May 14th - With the eyes of the world set firmly on Standard and the upcoming Pro Tour: Hollywood, Luis Scott-Vargas takes a preliminary look at the next important Constructed format: Lorwyn Block Constructed. He offers his thoughts on the all-conquering Faeries, and posits that, in Block at least, they may not be as strong as you might think?

  • Peebles Primers ? Playing Reveillark at the StarCityGames. ...

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Wednesday, May 14th - Last weekend, Benjamin Peebles-Mundy sleeved up his trusty Reveillark deck and braved the fierce Standard competition on both days of the StarCityGames.com Mega-Magic Weekend. While he didn?t fare well on Day 2, on Day 2 he came agonizingly close to the money. Today?s Peebles Primers sees BPM take us through the tournaments, offering sage advice on the position of Reveillark Combo in the Faeries metagame?

  • Chatter of the Squirrel ? Those Blasted Fae, by Zac Hill

    Wednesday, May 14th - Crying infants in airplane cabins. The Nickelback song ?Rock Star.? Single-ply toilet paper. Economic libertarians. Rush-hour horn-honkers. I hate all of those things, but absolutely none of them rile my passions and inflame my innermost ire like the Champion trigger on a Mistbind Clique.

  • You Lika The Juice? - Scrubbing

    Wednesday, May 14th - I had a good time at this weekend?s Magic extravaganza, the Star City Mega-Magic Weekend. For those of you who did come out and were kind enough to come up and introduce yourselves and let me know you enjoyed my column, I really appreciate it. Nothing feels better than meeting you all face to face and hearing positive feedback. You all rock!

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May 13th (Tuesday)

All Shows :: MTGCast (A Magic the Gathering Podcast Network)

  • Planeswalk with the Proffessors #26: Shadowmoor Deck Innovations

    Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors. In this strictly deckbuilding special we're gonna layout what new decks have penetrated and will penetrate the meta, what cards you should be expecting from Shadowmoor to give a loud thump on the Standard door at the Starcitygames 5k this weekend, and explore a couple of new decklists including a new Wither deck that might just pass as a plausible tier 1 so let's go!

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Magic.TCGplayer.com Articles

  • Affinity Reborn, by Thomas Trovato

    Before the arrival of Shadowmoor, Faeries dominated City Champs, but no one ever really accused Faeries of Affinity-level brokenness. They are now dominating in a way unseen in years.

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  • Newton?s Theory of Discardability ? Part One. - by Chris Newton

    I know what you?re thinking. It has to be something along the lines of? 'I don?t remember that one from school.' You must have been sleeping during that lesson. This is a very important lesson that I wish to review with you, as quite frankly, it?s a good lesson. Discardability is something most of us cannot live without? ?as it is the best and easiest way to beat a Control player. Do I have your attention yet?

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StarCityGames.com

  • Ask the Judge, 5/13/2008, by Chris Richter

    Rules Tip of the Day: The game does not advance unless both players pass priority in succession on an empty stack. A single player cannot choose to move on to the next step, phase, or turn unless their opponent has just passed priority on an empty stack. Q: If I animate a Stalking Stones and equip it with a Paradise Mantle, will I be able to produce two mana, or only one?

  • Limited Lessons ? The Gun in Shadowoor Draft, by Nick Eisel

    This is a StarCityGames.com Premium Article. Click here to sign up. Tuesday, May 13th - With Shadowmoor draft being the current Limited format of choice, Nick Eisel has been experimenting with some more off-the-wall strategies in order to gain an edge on the field. One of his more successful strategies involves Power of Fire and everyone?s favorite untapper, Pili-Pala?

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May 12th (Monday)

All Shows :: MTGCast (A Magic the Gathering Podcast Network)

  • Monday Night Magic #104: Shadowmoor Standard and Limited Loopholes!

    We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic Alex Bertoncini wins both StarCityGames.com Standard Opens with U/B Faeries! Listen to Derek and Gavin give a great discussion of the deck and the changes to Standard from Shadowmoor and perhaps what to watch out for in the upcoming Block PTQ's and PT Hollywood. Derek and Gavin discuss Faerie Macabre in Standard, Vintage and Legacy. Bill Stark joins the WoTC team for web content on Magicthegathering.com! User Corner Tom discusses his Rg Pyrohemia deck! Help him make it not suck. MTGCast News Check out the new video podcast on the network from Bryan called “Deck Builders” and goes in depth over a Tier 1 S

May 11th (Sunday)

Magic.TCGplayer.com Articles

  • Standard Analysis: Faeries, by Bob_B

    When deciding on where I would start my more in-depth break down, Faeries seemed like the obvious choice. Everywhere you go you'll find someone going on about how it's the best deck hands down and it's getting hard to argue.

  • Breaking (or Making!) the LBC Metagame, by mikeg542

    It's that time of year again, a new PTQ season coming in a little over a month with a new, untried format waiting to be delved for powerful combos, decks and archetypes.