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Welcome back to Iron Chef: MtGFanatic Edition ladies and gentlemen. This edition of Iron Chef is a special one. It depicts the first two, in hopefully, a series of brews utilizing a card suggested to me by a member of our great community here at MtGFanatic. Our own Jeff Zandi (Zanman) has kindly offered my first challenge. I had asked Jeff if there was a rare card from Gatecrash that he found particularly bad. His answer was provided without hesitation, and it was Illusionist’s Bracers. He and one of his associates had been attempting to build around this card to no avail. I’ll try my best to not disappoint.
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- 4/24/2013
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- 545
- Author:
- BigDaddyDre
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- 2
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Hey again and welcome back. I know that I have been a little scarce on the site lately and have slowed down with my contributions article wise; but real life has it’s ways of keeping one busy and honestly as a father of five children I sometimes can’t even remember what day of the week it is let alone find time to sit down in a quite area to write about this great hobby. I did find a few spare moments though and I was thinking about how I had done some coverage on a lot of the guilds but had not really written about Simic much. One thing that I noticed right away was that Simic doesn’t always translate its deck style into the different formats of constructed play. The decks devoted to blue/green are really very diverse even within a format.
- Published:
- 4/26/2013
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- 810
- Author:
- moc065
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- 3
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Most duel decks are built based on a pair of tribes, or, more recently, a pair of warring planeswalkers. I got the idea recently to try and build a pair of duel decks based on something simple, a single word.
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- 3/30/2013
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- 1021
- Author:
- Zanman
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- 2
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So there I was, sitting back thinking of the good old days of Heavy Metal with bands like Judas Priest, Ozzy Ozborne, Kiss, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, etc. Man I just love throwing one of those albums onto my record player and zoning out while I listen to some classic Heavy Metal from my younger days. I know, you guys all have CD’s and digital downloads, but vinyl holds me with a certain passion and I love it. It reminds me of my youth, of those carefree days when I first left home to go into the world and explore for myself, and it gets my blood flowing to help me think about weird and fun stuff like Magic the Gathering.
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- 3/6/2013
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- 945
- Author:
- moc065
- Comments:
- 7
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Return to Ravnica arrived in September and rocked the Magic world. Return to Ravnica was particularly well-received by players that were underwhelmed or even disappointed with Avacyn Restored and/or Magic 2013. Gatecrash has been well-received in general, but I hear lots of players who say they are disappointed with Gatecrash in comparison to Return to Ravnica. But which one is BETTER?
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- 2/27/2013
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- 2282
- Author:
- Zanman
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- 11
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What are your goals when you attend Friday Night Magic? You want to hang out with friends, do some trading, hopefully win some booster packs or an FNM foil. Basically, you want to have fun.
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- 1/31/2013
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- 1925
- Author:
- Zanman
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- 14
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I suppose I’m a little late to the party as far as a review is concerned, at least compared to others like our resident fundamentals master George Colby (Mr. Safety) and our Modern Mage Tomas Quinones, who have already kindly offered up their reviews and top picks for Gatecrash. But hey, I’m a very casual player, so better late than never. Thankfully they were nice enough to only cover competitive Magic so that meant there was still some meat left on the bone for my own review of the new set. One thing I have noticed is that there are an awful lot of cards that could be useful in quite a few of my decks, even amongst the commons. I will therefore be condensing my considerations to the top picks. I do get to cheat though, as many of them are cycles of five.
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- 2/25/2013
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- 979
- Author:
- BigDaddyDre
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- 4
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Think for a moment about the first time someone ‘cheated’ a creature onto the battlefield against you. How did you feel about it? Did you lose the game? Were you angry about how it seemed so unfair? Getting big creatures on the cheap has been one of the most explosive and unfair strategies in the history of competitive Magic in various formats.
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- 2/14/2013
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- 1141
- Author:
- Mr. Safety
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- 6
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I can hardly recall a time when there wasn’t at least one member of my playgroup playing a discard deck of some form or another. Sometimes discarding an early land or a useful removal spell could result in a very detrimental loss of tempo. An old combo and still one of my favorite plays is a Dark Ritual into a Hypnotic Specter on the first turn, which can be very brutal. The discarding mechanic has obviously been given many tools over the years to try and keep those blue mages at bay. Not that this tactic worked for the competitive scene or anything, but it has produced some great casual goodies for the kitchen table that I simply love to exploit. One of these said goodies is a little devilish enchantment known as Megrim.
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- 2/11/2013
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- 1264
- Author:
- BigDaddyDre
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- 5
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Welcome back to Iron Chef: MtGFanatic Edition ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to once again dust off those seldom used cards and put a hurting on the opponents with them. The theme for this week would make Charlie Sheen very proud, because winning is the name of the game for this installment
- Published:
- 2/5/2013
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- 1201
- Author:
- BigDaddyDre
- Comments:
- 8
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