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When one is forced to abide by rules for building a deck to play in tournaments, we rarely see how much we have helping us get the most bang for the buck. For whatever reason, we all chose to play Legacy, and getting down to asking why is going to help us move forward. What follows is the attempt to cover all bases necessary for anyone interested in playing Legacy, or competitive Magic in any format.
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- Yesterday at 1:49 AM
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- jandax
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Last week I began sharing an exploration of eight Innistrad sealed decks I have kept together over the past four months. Some of these decks were played in Pro Tour Qualifiers, some were simply decks we built from boosters at home for testing. These eight decks were culled from dozens of Innistrad sealed decks that my friends and I have been playing with.
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- Yesterday at 1:46 AM
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- Zanman
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Dark Ascension is finally upon us. This means my long-promised Budget Cube Project (BCP) for Dark Ascension AND Innistrad is finally here too. I've had a few opportunities to play around with DKA in Limited already, and I think I've got a pretty good handle on what The BCP needs. Maybe you'll get some ideas for your own Cube as well.
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- Yesterday at 12:05 AM
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- DallasM
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Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Oakland. There has been a lot of tension and energy spent on occupying things lately. It’s enough to make you want to occupy a therapist’s couch. It’s hard to know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are these days. The real world is a scary, complicated place. When I was a kid, it was easy to tell the good guys and bad guys apart. The bad guys were the soldiers of the galactic empire, stormtroopers in shiny white armor. The good guys were the brave fighters of the rebellion, heroes like Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and, depending on which way the wind was blowing, the roguish Han Solo. It is exactly this kind of spirit of good versus evil that brings us the latest in Fanatic’s Duel Deck series, Soldiers Versus Rebels.
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- 2/3/2012
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- 155
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- Zanman
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the First Glance series. Today we’ll be examining the rares and mythics from Dark Ascension best suited to exploring the multiplayer environment.
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- 2/2/2012
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- The Artificer
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Last week set the stage for a good understanding of how to approach non-basic lands from a collecting as well as playing standpoint. I promised a practical approach to investing and upgrading your lands this week based on a personal journey of mine with a particular deck. Today’s deck is one of my favorite brews and I can honestly say that it is original to my knowledge. It uses many themes and strategies that were pulled from other established decks, but I’m fairly certain there isn’t another deck out there that is quite the same as mine. Only the all-seeing Internet knows the answer to that.
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- 2/2/2012
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- 319
- Author:
- Mr. Safety
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Seven players show up tonight for the last all-Innistrad booster draft in the Guildhall. Everyone is excited about this weekend’s prerelease events for Dark Ascension. Having seen the whole spoiler, some of the guys don’t think the new set has much to offer constructed and they complain that they might not want to acquire many of the cards. I, on the other hand, care more about sealed deck and booster draft. From what I’ve seen from the new set, it’s going to make Innistrad limited events even more interested. In the meantime, it’s seven players for triple Innistrad booster draft tonight with no significant interest for a 3v3 team draft afterward.
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- 2/2/2012
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- 170
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- Zanman
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This week I would like to talk about a format which a few people in my local area are hoping takes a more prominent presence. That format is Pauper. For those of you who are not aware, Pauper is a constructed format in which decks are built from commons only. This may not be everyone’s thing, but it is certainly a lot of fun. What’s even more interesting is that most of the popular decks in a lot of different formats can be made into Pauper variations. That’s what this article is all about.
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- 1/30/2012
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- 344
- Author:
- J Ormechea
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After four months of booster drafts and sealed decks with only Innistrad, the Magic world looks forward to this weekend’s prerelease events for Dark Ascension. In these last days before the arrival of the new set, let’s you and I take one or two last looks at Innistrad sealed. I have Innistrad sealed decks that I have been holding onto and testing with for months. As the PTQ season for Honolulu came and went, I held onto the decks I played in three such PTQs as well as one of Perfect Gamer Eric Jones.
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- 1/28/2012
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- 379
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- Zanman
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- 2
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It's no secret that I love aggressive red builds. Seeing as affinity was the first “good” deck I ever built, I have a soft spot for aggressive artifact decks as well. So, when Kuldotha Rebirth was spoiled way back in Scars of Mirrodin, I was pretty happy. The deck has dropped off the radar as of late, but I think that Innistrad has actually given us a few new tools to help revitalize this fallen warrior.
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- 1/28/2012
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- 505
- Author:
- DallasM
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