I placed third at my local M10 prerelease tournament. Magic 2010 is a very exciting set for a Limited format environment. I played a black red deck with only a few bombs, and after four rounds of meticulous play, my deck finally quit on me in the top four; being one sleeve short [...]

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Recent Extended event at my MTG Stomping Grounds yielded spectacular results utilizing Ranger of Eos.

Now, anybody who cracked a booster of Shards of Alara and saw this guy and Wild Nacatl didn’t need a large neon sign to tell them that he would be fantastic in an Extended format Zoo build; Ranger Zoo is nothing [...]

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I don’t play in a majorly developed metagame. This is ok with me, as it allows me to play cards that I want to play with for fun without really risking a lot. In my metagame, I usually have to watch out for atypical Bant or Esper varients, with Standard mainstays 5-Color Control [...]

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Recently, Sean McKeown wrote about a variety of decks utilizing cards in Alara Reborn. I was most interested in his uses of Bloodbraid Elf in different archtypes. After looking at his Gruul version, a friend of mine and I tweaked around and came up with a more Jund version. Behold!
"Hastey Jund"Lands (16)4 [...]

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So I’m debating what to play this weekend. I’m between playing this Bant deck or this update on Jund:
"Junder and Blightning Strikes Twice!"Lands (22)4 Savage Lands4 Karplusan Forest4 Llanowar Wastes4 Treetop Village3 Forest2 Mountain1 SwampCreatures (16)4 Goblin Outlander4 Troll Ascetic4 Kitchen Finks4 Broodmate DragonPlaneswalkers (3)3 Garruk WildspeakerOther Spells (19)2 Banefire2 Violent Ultimatum4 Fertile Ground4 [...]

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Bant is an excellent Shard. It has access to the best removal and some of the best card drawing in the current Standard environment. Path to Exile and Oblivion Ring coupled with Noble Hierarch and Mulldrifter felt almost illegal together in the same deck.

I played in another Friday Night Magic even though I [...]

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Get tired of having to hide and display the pesky number pad on your iPhone in the middle of a call? I have a tip for you!  All you need to do is add commas to your contact number.  In the telephony world, commas are the equivalent of pauses. Therefore you can add commas [...]

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OK Nintendo, what gives? They claim their “next gen” console will play games in HD, but all the games I have played so far look terrible! All the jagged edges makes me wonder why I even still bother turning on the Wii…

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I took a Jund Mana Ramp variant to FNM this past Friday and won first, securing my FNM Merrow Reejerey.

While I had fun playing the deck, I know it needs some fine tuning. I wanted to utilize Jund’s more powerful cards all the while making the deck more post-rotation friendly, so I [...]

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I might as well write about it.

I have been a Magic: The Gathering player since Ice Age was released in 1995. While I do not have a huge collection of cards, I’ve maintained enough cards and interest to be able to play competative decks in local tournaments and to casually play with [...]

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