03/10/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Building on a Budget: Hulk Smash!
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A different kind of Protean Hulk combo in Extended.

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03/10/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Savor the Flavor: Creative Ventures
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It's Adventure Week, and we're going to get to some of the creative ventures you guys sent in. But first I thought we'd go on a little scavenger hunt. The first one to get all the answers right in this week's forum thread gets a signed copy of Alara Unbroken (assuming the old ways of snail-mail connectivity can reach where you live).

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03/10/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Rise of the Eldrazi Booster Packs
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Good morning! Or possibly evening! Whenever it is where you are! Let's look at the Rise of the Eldrazi booster packs.

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03/10/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - UW MODO, by Pedro Rodriguez
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After literally dozens of matches, the only thing we were losing to was Jund casting seemingly infinite free Blightnings off Bloodbraid Elf, Mono-Red, and color/manascrew. It's that good.

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03/09/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Rise of the Eldrazi Intro Packs
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Rise of the Eldrazi previews start in just a few weeks. So before the preview season begins in earnest on March 29, we should probably get to showing off some of the action. Like the intro packs.

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03/09/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Serious Fun: Islandwalk or: How ILearned to Stop Worrying and Forgive the Counterspell
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Adventures of all shapes and sizes are ever-present in the culture around us, a vast continuum of experiences to share. Today I'm going to share some of my experiences that, I hope, will help broaden your horizon in Magic game play.

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03/09/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Limited Information: Adventures in Limited
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Don't get too stuck in your ways—Limited is always an adventure.

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03/09/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Grand Prix–Washington D.C. Event Information
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Tournament Location
Dulles Expo & Conference Center 4368 Chantilly Shopping Center Chantilly, VA 20153

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03/09/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Wolfenstein, by Greg McCleery
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From the start, we knew we wanted to push the limits. Despite the deck's incredible instability, it won with brute force a good deal of the time. Suddenly we had something that could present a genuine threat.

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03/08/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Books by the Cover
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They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But how are you at identifying them? We've taken an assortment of Magic books and eradicated the titles, leaving just the art, author, and layout. How many can you name?

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03/08/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Making Magic: Raiders of the Lost Cabinet
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Mark excavates the treasures of a mysterious ruin: his desk.

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03/08/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Feature Article: Party in the S.E.A.
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This year was the second annual voyage of the Magic Cruise, on the immense Carnival Freedom. The Magic Cruise departs from port and sets sail to beautiful vacation spots, loaded with gamers ready to have a good time. If you love Magic and you love traveling and you love having fun, then you are missing out if you aren't onboard. And I didn't want to miss out!

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03/08/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - The Truth about Jund, by William Spaniel
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People make a lot of crazy claims about Jund. I’m going to sort them out today using—gasp!—statistics. Real, hard, rigorous statistics. Leech vs. no Leech? No bad matchups? The truth is inside.

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03/08/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Controlling the Field - 1st!, by Noah Whinston
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I started viewing the deck and the cards that comprised it in an entirely different light. All the other decks, they were just distractions. This one, THIS DECK, could control the metagame.

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03/07/10: [Magic: The Gathering] MTGSalvation - Cranial Insertion: March of the Questions
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The questions come marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah.

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03/06/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - LIVE Coverage of MWM Minn, by Official Site News
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TCGplayer.com is partnering with GGSlive to bring you live video coverage of the Midwest Masters, right from the event floor!
CLICK HERE

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03/06/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Booher Wins Midwest Masters Minn, by Official Site News
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Naya strikes again as Julian Booher storms the Midwest Masters at Minneapolis, battling through a top 8 full of Jund and taking the title!
Top 8 Decklists

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03/05/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Wallpaper of the Week: Wolfbriar Elemental
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This week's desktop wallpaper features Chippy's Wolfbriar Elemental art from Worldwake. Enjoy.

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03/05/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - The Week That Was: Record-Breaking Weekend
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Close to 5,000 players took part in major Standard, Extended, or Legacy tournaments this weekend.

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03/05/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Latest Developments: Welcome to the Future Future
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We call our Constructed playtesting the "Future Future League," and internally we have shortened that to "FFL." Decks we build for the Future Future League have many different purposes. The most obvious purpose is to test for power level, and that is much of what we do. However, not everything we do is that rigorous.

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03/05/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Draft Picks and Hot 100 Updates, by TCGplayer Staff
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Our community data has been updated for both our [Draft Simulator] and for our [Hot 100 Standard Cards].

Latest Draft Picks - ZEN/WWK
Top 100 Standard Cards


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03/05/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Mana Denial in Standard, by Conley Woods
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It all started with Magical Christmas Land at Worlds. And now Worldwake has brought even more tools for mana denial strategies. I feel this latest version can be really competitive in the current Standard.

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03/04/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Top Decks: Beyond River of Tears
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A survey of some of those other decks in Extended.

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03/04/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - From the Lab: Planeswalk This Way, Part 2
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Hello and welcome back to From the Lab! Today, as I revealed two weeks ago during the first half of this column, is the second part of the results for the Planeswalker Contest. Since last time we covered Chandra Ablaze. Sorin Markov, Elspeth, Knight-Errant, Ajani Vengeant, Nicol Bolas, and Ajani Goldmane, today we hit the rest.

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03/04/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Worldwake Game Day
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Worldwake Game Day is this Saturday!

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03/04/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - The Llanowar Corner Returns - UW, by Ben Watkins
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This list doesn't stray very far way from Chapin's list at the PT but there are some significant changes to the maindeck and sideboard. But first let's examine in depth just what the new Jace has to offer...

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03/04/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Standard Updates, by Josh Silvestri
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TCGplayer's own $5k is coming up in just a scant few weeks, and the metagame is constantly moving between San Diego and MTGO / $5k results. Let's take a look at how the format currently shapes up...

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03/03/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Sketches: Harabaz Druid
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Sometimes, when we're rummaging around for Arcana ideas, we run across Multiverse comments that stop us in our tracks. Like this:

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03/03/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Building on a Budget: The Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Death's Shadow in a Standard aggro deck? Believe it.

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03/03/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Savor the Flavor: Magic in the Connected Age
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Ever cast a magic mouth spell? It's a D&D thing, so I know I'm reaching into an adjacent circle of my audience's Venn diagram with that reference. Anyway, to me it's always been an inspiring little spell. Even when it doesn't come in handy (and it often does), its potential spurs my imagination. It's the nexus of magic and communications.

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03/03/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic at PAX East
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Magic: The Gathering comes to PAX East in full force March 26-28. With the Magic Online Live Series, Super Friday Night Magic, a Grand Melee, a packed schedule of public events, and deck building seminars with Mike Turian, there's something for every Magic player.

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03/03/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Grixis Haterator, by John Treviranus
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The deck had deeply surprising potency against Zoo, not even dropping a single game against the standard Zoo builds like the ones we saw from GP Oakland. All it needed was one little (blue) addition...

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03/03/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Standard Power Rankings, by William Spaniel
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For the second consecutive weekend, Jund finished in both first and second place in a major tournament. Is there anything out there to stop it?

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03/02/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - Magic Manga
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Last week, we announced a contest that's only open to residents of the United States. Today, we announce something that's coming to Japan. Everybody's happy! Except people who don't live in the US or Japan. Sorry about that, rest of the world.

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03/02/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Limited Information: Green around the Gills
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What happens when you pass a color-skewed pack? Depends on how popular that color is ....

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03/02/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Serious Fun: Chaos to the Third
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The nigh-infinite diversity in ways to have fun with Magic is something that reaches beyond individual players and decks; it's the driving element behind always reaching for the newest set—consistently unique game play is an amazing experience.

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03/02/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Kozilek and a UW Update, by Frank Lepore
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Whether you want to call it the same deck with Baneslayers in it or a completely different deck is entirely up to you. All I know is that the deck is as big a beast as Kozilek, Butcher of Truth.

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03/02/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - #196 - Kozilek, Bringer of Awesome, by MTGCast
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Let's start with the coolest news in quite awhile, and this is our first view of a true Eldrazi, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. Worldwake Gateway promos are Kor Firewalker and Leatherback Baloth.

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03/01/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Muller Wins GP Madrid, by Official Site News
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From Wizards.com: "All weekend we have seen innovation and invention, triumphs and bitter defeats as the greatfrom around the world converged."
<a href="http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck_search_result.asp?Location=2010%20GP%20Madrid">Top 8 Decklists

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03/01/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Magic Arcana - The Secrets of the Eye
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The Eye of Ugin. What is it, really? The flavor text of Ghostfire says "Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath." But that makes it sound like a physical eye. Which is only fair. After all, Ugin presumably has (or is it had?) at least one eye, whoever he is.

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03/01/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Making Magic: Fun-Off, Part 1
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The topic of today's column? Fun.

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03/01/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Feature Article: Pro Tour–San Diego Metagame Breakdown
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When I look at a card and think it's cool, chances are good that the reason I feel that way is because I want to play it with a whole mess of other cards, and watch the look on my opponent's face when they realise that each card was part of a bigger diabolical scheme.

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03/01/10: [Magic: the Gathering] Wizards - Feature Article: Pro Tour–San Diego in Review
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The 2010 Pro Tour season began with a blast in San Diego and our review continues here with a metagame analysis of Standard by Paul Jordan, video highlights of the finals by Evan Erwin, and Rich Hagon's exclusive audio interview with winner Simon Görtzen.

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03/01/10: [Magic: The Gathering] TCGPlayer - Extended Power Rankings, by William Spaniel
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Just before Worldwake arrived, Thopter Depths was poised to take over the metagame. Has anything happened in the meantime to intervene?

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02/28/10: [Magic: The Gathering] MTGSalvation - Cranial Insertion: Judging 1-2-3 (and some day 4 and 5)
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How much floor would a floor judge judge if a floor judge could judge floor? And if the floor judge could judge floor, could a floor judge show the floor the door?

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02/28/10: [World of Warcraft TCG] Upperdeck - Keys to the Armory - What a Weekend!
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DMF Houston saw Vegas teammates Tim Rivera and Niles Rowland make it to the Sunday stage. Today, Pip's giving you a glimpse into their deck selection for that event!



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