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Alex Bertoncini Wins BOTH StarCityGames.com Standard Opens - All Standard and Vintage Decklists Now Posted!
Evan Erwin
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Hundreds of players competed in Saturday's StarCityGames.com $5000 Standard Open and Sunday’s StarCityGames.com $2000 Standard Open, and Alex Bertoncini dominated the weekend by winning BOTH tournaments! Our own Evan Erwin was on-site all day Saturday, bringing us live video updates direct from Richmond!
1st: Alex Bertoncini ($2000)
2nd: Brett Blackman ($600)
3rd: Daniel Samson ($400)
4th: Scott Jeltima ($400)
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6th: Jarvis Yu ($200)
7th: Calosso Fuentes ($200)
8th: Daniel Snell ($200)
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Thursday, May 15th - Last week, Richard ended his article with a midrange beatdown deck for Standard, called The Siege. It stirred up discussion in the forums, and so today Richard takes a closer look at the design and tunes up the list based on advice and ideas accumulated over the past seven days…
| About Richard Feldman: Richard is the most eloquent of a group of
up-and-coming Magic players from St. Louis. He is
known for high-level theorizing and putting new spins
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Thursday, May 15th - With the shadow of Pro Tour: Hollywood breathing down out necks, it’s time to get serious with the Standard metagame. Today’s Down And Dirty sees Kyle Sanchez take us through the highs and lows of the standout decklists hailing from last weekend’s Star City Games Mega-Magic Weekend, How will results there impact the upcoming Pro Tour?
| About Kyle Sanchez: Kyle is a consistent mainstay at American Grand Prix tournaments, making money at the past five out of seven attempts in both Constructed and Limited formats. He also earned a Top 64 finish at Pro Tour: Kobe.
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Wednesday, May 14th - With the eyes of the world set firmly on Standard and the upcoming Pro Tour: Hollywood, Luis Scott-Vargas takes a preliminary look at the next important Constructed format: Lorwyn Block Constructed. He offers his thoughts on the all-conquering Faeries, and posits that, in Block at least, they may not be as strong as you might think…
| About Luis Scott-Vargas: Luis finished T16 at Pro Tour: London, 3rd at the 2006 U.S. National Championship, 1st at the 2007 U.S. National Championship and 1st at Grand Prix: San Fransisco. |
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Wednesday, May 14th - Last weekend, Benjamin Peebles-Mundy sleeved up his trusty Reveillark deck and braved the fierce Standard competition on both days of the StarCityGames.com Mega-Magic Weekend. While he didn’t fare well on Day 2, on Day 2 he came agonizingly close to the money. Today’s Peebles Primers sees BPM take us through the tournaments, offering sage advice on the position of Reveillark Combo in the Faeries metagame…
| About Benjamin Peebles-Mundy: Benjamin Peebles-Mundy is part of the Magic Online clan Cymbrogi, where he helped develop Constructed decks for Pro Tours Los Angeles, Honolulu, and Charleston.
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Yawgmoth’s Whimsy #226 - MTGO, Standard, and the $5k
Peter Jahn
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Thursday, May 15th - I’m feeling old. I was checking my list of published articles and noticed that my first Magic-related articles were published almost a decade ago. That’s a perfect excuse to talk about where Magic is at, and what it is doing. A lot has changed – and a lot has stayed the same. |
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Tribal Thriftiness #23 - More TT Aggro, or “When Good Aggro Decks Go Non-Aggro”
Dave Meeson
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Thursday, May 15th - A Mono-Green aggro player somewhere down in the cockles of his heart, last week Mr. Tribally Thrifty put together a budget Mono-Green aggro deck for play at the FNM level. What happened? Did the deck succeed or fail? |
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The Kitchen Table #233 - Shadowmoor Decks
Abe Sargent
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Thursday, May 15th - Bonjour mes amis! Welcome to the next entry in the journal of all things casual. I am your scribe, bringing you the poems and diatribes of Magic for the casual crowd. As promised in previous articles, today I am going to create several decks around Shadowmoor cards. |
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Chatter of the Squirrel – Those Blasted Fae
Zac Hill
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Wednesday, May 14th - Crying infants in airplane cabins. The Nickelback song “Rock Star.” Single-ply toilet paper. Economic libertarians. Rush-hour horn-honkers. I hate all of those things, but absolutely none of them rile my passions and inflame my innermost ire like the Champion trigger on a Mistbind Clique. |
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You Lika The Juice? - Scrubbing & Redemption
Bennie Smith
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Wednesday, May 14th - I had a good time at this weekend’s Magic extravaganza, the Star City Mega-Magic Weekend. For those of you who did come out and were kind enough to come up and introduce yourselves and let me know you enjoyed my column, I really appreciate it. Nothing feels better than meeting you all face to face and hearing positive feedback. You all rock! |
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Ask the Judge, 5/15/2008
Chris Richter
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Rules Tip of the Day: The owner of a card is the person whose deck and or sideboard it started in at the beginning of the game. This even applies to cards that you may have borrowed; as far as the game is concerned, you are the owner.
Q: Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni and Throat Slitter attack at the same time and are both unblocked. Can I kill an opponent's creature with Throat Slitter and then return that creature with Ink-Eyes?
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[Premium] Innovations - G/W in Standard Regardless of Who You Are, by Patrick Chapin
[Premium] Feature Article – Elemental Control in Lorwyn Block Constructed, by Gerry Thompson
[Premium] Peebles Primers – Playing Reveillark at the StarCityGames.com $5000 Open, by Benjamin Peebles-Mundy
[Premium] Limited Lessons – The Gun in Shadowoor Draft, by Nick Eisel
[Premium] Feature Article – Approaching Lorwyn Block Constructed, by Luis Scott-Vargas
[Premium] So Many Insane Plays – The Best Unrestricted Spells in Vintage, by Stephen Menendian
Alex Bertoncini Wins BOTH StarCityGames.com Standard Opens - All Standard and Vintage Decklists Now Posted!, by Evan Erwin
Deconstructing Constructed – Dissecting the Star City Games $5000 Open Day 1, by Josh Silvestri
Scouse of Cards – Starting Block, by Craig Stevenson
Chatter of the Squirrel – Those Blasted Fae, by Zac Hill
Unlocking Legacy - Threshold versus Dragon Stompy, by Kevin Binswanger
You Lika The Juice? - Scrubbing & Redemption, by Bennie Smith
Removed From Game - Better Than Neil, by Rich Hagon
Ask the Judge, 5/12/2008, by Chris Richter
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