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Plenty of drafters tonight. We have a ten man draft followed by… another eight man draft. It’s extremely rare to have two drafts with at least eight players. It might happen once a year. Usually, even if we have eight people still interested in drafting after the first one is finished, most of them want a quicker second draft, like a 3v3 team draft. That’s what most of tonight’s survivors were looking for, but their collective desire to keep drafting was greater than their fear of being up too late. Did I mention that the first draft wasn’t over until 10:30 pm? Dragon’s Maze draft, with all three Return to Ravnica block sets, is a hit with my team.
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- Yesterday at 10:03 PM
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- Zanman
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Full Set Singleton! Sounds exciting! I want to learn how to play that! Wait a minute, I just G**gled it and all I found were your other articles about it. Full Set Singleton isn’t a real thing, you just made it up! True, true and true again.
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- 6/17/2013
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- Zanman
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By now, everyone has heard of, seen or played with at least one version of the infamous deck - The Aristocrats, which has undergone quite a few changes since Tom Martell originally piloted Sam Black’s creation to victory. I was always intrigued with this archetype as Boros Reckoner fast became one of my favorite creatures to abuse. The combo of Blasphemous Act and Boros Reckoner always makes me smile when I resolve it.
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- 6/15/2013
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- BigDaddyDre
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We had a perfect draft table of eight tonight and another healthy Dragon’s Maze booster draft. Drafting in an environment with all ten guilds available makes for very interesting, and very challenging, drafting. Yes, the decks are weaker compared to decks drafted with three packs of Return to Ravnica or three packs of Gatecrash, but drafting three sets together has always been a unique challenge.
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- 6/15/2013
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- Zanman
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If you haven’t been brushing up on your Latin, the title reads in English ‘everything that comes in threes is perfect’, or in somewhat humbler terms ‘every set of three is complete.’ Cultures and belief systems the world over recognize three as a significant number and writing even has a ‘rule of three’ that appears in many different forms, from fairy tales to plays. Three is a number that strongly beckons to the human experience more than other numbers, which is why I think many Magic decks are built with three colors.
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- 6/13/2013
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- Mr. Safety
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We’ve all had this fantasy. We buy a booster pack and open only good stuff. Not this year’s edition of Core Set retreads, not unproven expansion set cards, but just one golden hit after another. That dream may come true with Modern Masters, the most controversial Magic product to ever appear in booster pack form.
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- 6/13/2013
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- Zanman
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Dragon’s Maze is an interesting set to draft when you mix it with Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash. We drafted with ten players tonight and played four rounds of Swiss before breaking to a top four playoff. The decks were decent and we had enough players hanging around after this lengthy draft tournament to play a much shorter 3v3 team draft.
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- 6/12/2013
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- Zanman
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Back in December, I was trying to decide on a tournament format for our upcoming Guildmage 800 celebration. In the past, these parties usually included either a sealed deck or booster draft tournament. This time I wanted to try something completely different. If I pulled forty of this card and forty of that card and forty of, say, sixty or seventy other cards, I could create forty sealed deck pools all containing the very same cards. This peculiar rarity in the world of limited play is called Duplicate Sealed.
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- 6/11/2013
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- Zanman
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Every 100 meetings (every two years) the Texas Guildmages throw a big party. Tonight is just such an event. Planning began in December as teammate Joe Klopchic and I worked on something new for the Guildmage 800 tournament. The result of that work is a new sealed deck format called Duplicate Sealed Deck. This article is mostly a report of the various fun activities that took place at the team’s 800th weekly meeting. An article devoted entirely to Duplicate Sealed Deck, and the tournament that we ran at Guildmage 800, will appear on these Fanatic pages very soon.
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- 6/4/2013
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- Zanman
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Rolling around in my head are a bunch of ideas for decks, but three that stand out. Three deck ideas for which I am actively putting together. These concepts have injected new life into the brain cells responsible for brewing new decks. Dragon’s Maze isn’t the lone culprit though, the other factor in this flurry of activity is recent ban announcements for Modern, but not in the way you would think. I’m not trying to replace the banned cards, but rather take them and transport them in a new way to another format: Legacy. I’ve got three brews that I’d like to share with you today, all of them outside the typical norm for the format, based on Bloodbraid Elf, Second Sunrise, and Maze’s End. Will they be fun but underpowered or have the right power level but be susceptible to oft-played hate cards? I’ll let you, and the format, be the judge of what these three decks can do. I’m just having fun putting them together working new and exciting interactions.
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- 6/4/2013
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- Mr. Safety
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