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Hey again and welcome back to Wednesday Warfare. This time I am going to speak about something dear to my heart… beer! Okay, I will sneak some MTG discussion into the article as well, but only because Jeff Zandi says we have to.
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- 5/22/2013
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- 246
- Author:
- moc065
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Standard constructed isn’t just the name of Magic’s most popular format, it’s an apt description of what my decks have looked like lately. Very standard. Red, white and blue, or else Reanimator or Turbo Aura or, since Gatecrash arrived, aggro Boros featuring Boros Reckoner. I wanted to play something new. I spent some time paging through new decklists on this website and that, the same way a girl might page through hair styles at the beauty parlor, when I saw something different. I knew I wanted to play it right away. Something a little less standard for Standard, and all the cards were black.
- Published:
- 4/15/2013
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- 627
- Author:
- Zanman
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- 4
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The idea for this article started when Mr. Safety and I started talking and sharing thoughts about Red, White and Blue Aggro after my article written several months ago about facing off against Caleb Surette with Jund. We decided it’d be fun to test a new version of that American deck against a Quick n’ Toast list that Mr. Safety has been working on.
- Published:
- 5/3/2013
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- 784
- Author:
- Tomas Quinones
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- 7
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I gave my ‘Rock’ deck a break this month and shelved it in favor of a rogue combo brew featuring Hypergenesis. I only played in two tournaments before this month, but I’m already feeling the urge to diversify. My good friend Russ spanned out with a couple of other decks rather than just always going for the same tried-and-true technology, and it inspired me to do the same. I was going into this event looking to bring a quirky, fun deck and see what I could do with it. Much to my surprise I did quite well with the deck and saw some of the craziest interactions you can imagine.
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- 4/26/2013
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- 515
- Author:
- Mr. Safety
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- 6
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Aggressive red and green decks ruled the day at the Modern PTQ in Austin, filling up the top eight with cards like Experiment One, Flinthoof Boar and Burning-Tree Emissary. Although I was far from reaching the playoffs this week, I was somewhere in the neighborhood of the right deck with my five color Zoo variant. In the end, it was, indeed, an aggro deck that prevailed and took home the little blue envelope, but it wasn’t what you would expect. The winning deck was a back-to-basics Jund design running more basic lands than usual as well as one, two, three, FOUR main deck copies of Blood Moon. Man and boy, that’s some serious mayhem!
- Published:
- 3/28/2013
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- 769
- Author:
- Zanman
- Comments:
- 4
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I write this while still in, I must confess, rather a shock of disbelief, since I had no idea when I walked through the door at Boxborough that I’d be sitting pretty at 6-1 in 9th place seven rounds later with what turned out to be a finely honed killing machine. Then I lost in round eight to a guy who I know from the area named Pedro that I see semi-regularly. I dropped ten places in the standings with that loss, and that was pretty much it for me. I intentionally drew with my last opponent because at that point I didn’t really care much about my finish and wanted to just wind down for a bit. We played a casual couple of games just to pass the time but I was just dead tired after eight rounds of serious play and ready to go home as soon as possible if I wasn’t playing for the top spot. It was a good day though, and I am proud of my finish. MTGFanatic represent!
- Published:
- 4/17/2013
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- 762
- Author:
- Tomas Quinones
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- 4
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You know when you’ve got a good deck when you lose to your own misplays and not because the deck failed you. I was [i]this close[/i]… again. And in more dominating fashion than last time.[/p][p]
Originally this column was going to be about my night on Wednesday when I took my Boros deck to that area, but Friday night was actually a better story. I finished 3-2 on Friday, losing my first and last matches to misplays, a miscalculation in the first match, desperation in the second. In between were three straight 2-0 victories. Altogether, I was two misplays away from being undefeated.
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- 4/5/2013
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- 715
- Author:
- Tomas Quinones
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Today’s article is about sideboarding. I wanted to offer my thoughts on the topic since I believe there’s a good deal to be said about “ordinary” sideboarding, where you put in a few cards to answer various matchup problems, and fill out a fifteen card sideboard using that philosophy versus transformational sideboarding, where you put a package of 7-10 cards together in order to entirely transition your deck to a different type of deck from what you started with in game one of a match.
- Published:
- 4/3/2013
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- 1364
- Author:
- Tomas Quinones
- Comments:
- 12
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I was this close… this close to my first trip to the playoffs in any tournament. The Grand Prix Trial I attended had a turnout of eleven, so we played some Swiss rounds and cut to the top four for the playoffs. I finished fifth. I feel like I sideboarded correctly and made the correct plays when possible, played as well as I’m capable of playing the deck as currently constructed, but came up just short. That’s the breaks I suppose.
- Published:
- 3/20/2013
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- 936
- Author:
- Tomas Quinones
- Comments:
- 4
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I have been officially bitten by the competitive bug. While I have no ambitions of becoming a professional Magic player, the desire to win the local Legacy event is strong. I have to thank my good buddy Russ for getting me involved in competitive Magic, something he dove into after only a few weeks of getting back into the game. I have always been short on time and really too timid to ever get out to a local event and compete. I also didn’t think there was a genuine Legacy scene to become involved in.
- Published:
- 3/8/2013
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- 1246
- Author:
- Mr. Safety
- Comments:
- 7
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