by Peebles, Llarack, NicotineJones, and Sti
They’re here! What follows are the six cards, each with commentary by four of GG’s top Magic players/evaluators: Peebles (Benjamin Peebles-Mundy), Llarack (Jarvis Yu), NicotineJones, and Sti (Stuart Wright).
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Posted in Rise of the Eldrazi Alliance, mtg, serious business, strategy | llarack, NicotineJones, Peebles, Sti
by Jarvis Yu
This is a much more sane draft format than the previous two, so I recommend sticking to two colors with possibly a splash in draft.
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Posted in ZEN contest entry, mtg, strategy | llarack
by llarack
One topic that is not often covered in articles about constructed is how to properly mulligan with decks, and what factors to consider while mulliganing. However, I feel the best way to approach a discussion of this is through examples.
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Posted in mtg, strategy | llarack
by llarack
After doing virtually no playtesting the week before, and playing in 2 GPTs with Faeries going 0-1 and 1-1, I decided it was time to switch decks. Looking at the Kobe coverage, the Kithkin deck seemed to be a very solid beatdown deck with its only fault being a lack of reach.
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Posted in mtg, strategy | llarack
by llarack
Attending the SCG 5k, I knew that I didn’t want to play Faeries, because the mirror was way too random for my tastes, and I had been doing well with Elves in modo 8mans. I came to the conclusion that the following list was probably very good, and is what I ended up registering for the 5k.
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Posted in mtg, strategy | llarack
by llarack
The story of an FNM with B/G elves!
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Posted in mtg, serious business, strategy | llarack
by llarack
All-in all, it’s a pretty good tournament for me, and playtesting paid off in spades, giving me 2 pro points, and 400 dollars. If I had won one more match, I would have qualified for hollywood, but this is not too bad of a performance for my 3rd GP ever.
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Posted in mtg, serious business, strategy | llarack
