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About Patrick Chapin: Patrick Chapin, "The Innovator," is a three time Pro Tour Top 8 competitor, including a finals appearance in the 2007 Magic World Championships. Patrick is the author of "Next Level Magic," and a member of Team RIW.

Innovations - Grand Prix: Minneapolis and Data From Magic Online - (2009-11-16)

Innovations - Cracking Standard and the State Championships - (2009-11-09)

Innovations - Magic Online Interview with Worth Wollpert, and New Extremes in Standard - (2009-11-02)

Innovations - Johnny Who? How A Spike Got His Beatdown Back - (2009-10-27)

Innovations - Technology and Stories from Pro Tour: Austin - (2009-10-21)

Innovations - Zendikar Limited and an Analysis of Gavin’s Grixis Deck - (2009-10-12)

Innovations - Standard Vampires, Jund, and Five Color with Zendikar - (2009-10-05)

Innovations - Prerelease Weekend and Breaking Legacy - (2009-09-28)

Innovations – Zendikar Thoughts: Snakes Alive! - (2009-09-21)

Innovations - Zendikar Insanity Continues! - (2009-09-14)

Innovations - Zendikar: The Five Strongest Spoiled Cards - (2009-09-07)

Zendikar - Archmage Ascension Exclusive Preview! - (2009-09-07)

Innovations – Zendikar, Valakut, and Other Fun Words - (2009-08-31)

Innovations Extra - The Template - (2009-08-26)

Innovations - An Article on Standard - (2009-08-26)

Innovations - The Deck 2009: Bringing Back the Glory Days of Vintage! - (2009-08-17)

Innovations - A History of the Best Decks from the First 17 Years of Magic - (2009-08-13)

Innovations - Doing The Right Thing - (2009-08-03)

Innovations – U.S. Nationals - (2009-07-27)

Innovations - The First Waves of a New Extended - (2009-07-20)

Innovations - M10 Firecracker: Continuing to Explore Standard - (2009-07-14)

Innovations - Post M10 Decks and Bus Stop Encounters - (2009-07-06)

Innovations - Ten Sick New Cards From M10 - (2009-06-29)

Innovations - A First Look at M10 - (2009-06-22)

Innovations - Pro Tour: Honolulu Part 2, and M10 Rules Changes - (2009-06-17)

Innovations - Pro Tour: Honolulu Tournament Report, Part 1 - (2009-06-08)

Next Level Magic Preview - Tempo - (2009-06-04)

Innovations - Five-Color Blood: Sygg, the Missing Link - (2009-06-01)

Next Level Magic Preview - Card Advantage and Virtual Card Advantage - (2009-05-28)

Innovations - Continuing to Examine Standard (Now With More Barcelona) - (2009-05-25)

Next Level Magic Preview - How to Use Bottom-Up Thinking to Improve Deck Building and Qualify - (2009-05-22)

Innovations - Five-Color Blood in Regionals, and Decks I Dislike - (2009-05-18)

Innovations - The Decks I Recommend for Regionals 2009 - (2009-05-11)

Next Level Magic Preview - Semi-Soft Locks - (2009-05-07)

Innovations - Standard Decks With Alara Reborn - (2009-05-04)

Innovations - Developing Shortcuts for Thinking About Magic - (2009-04-27)

Innovations - Ten Reasons Why Alara Reborn Will Be Insane - (2009-04-20)

Innovations - Meddling with Flaws, Curves, and Beauty: A Deckbuilding Masterclass - (2009-04-13)

Innovations - Four Perspectives for Examining the Alara Reborn Spoiler - (2009-04-06)

Innovations - A New Take on Doran in Standard - (2009-03-30)

Innovations - Winning With Blue in Extended - (2009-03-23)

Innovations – Block, Extended, Standard, Vintage, and Limited - (2009-03-16)

Innovations - Blame it on the Counterbalance - (2009-03-12)

Innovations - There Is Always A Greater Power: Nassif in Kyoto - (2009-03-02)

Innovations – Pre Pro Tour Ponderings - (2009-02-23)

Innovations - The Magic Cruise - (2009-02-16)

Innovations - Standard Decks Built in a Post-Conflux World - (2009-02-09)

Innovations – Gunslinging, Post-Conflux Standard, and Elder Dragon Highlander - (2009-02-02)

Innovations - Ten More Hot Cards From Conflux - (2009-01-26)

Innovations – The Evolution of Extended, plus GP: LA and Next Level Faeries - (2009-01-22)

Innovations – Hot Cards From Conflux: Looking At The Spoiler - (2009-01-12)

Innovations - Reader Mailbag: Elves, Prison, TPS, Finkel, and More - (2009-01-05)

Innovations - Reverse-Read Theory Magic for Everyone - (2009-01-02)

Thank You for Ordering Next Level Magic! - (2009-01-01)

Innovations - The Complete 2009 Extended Decklist Resource - (2008-12-22)

Innovations - Another Anatomy of a Control Deck - (2008-12-16)

Innovations - The Most Important Magic Lessons of the Year, Part 2 - (2008-12-08)

Innovations - The Most Important Magic Lessons of the Year, Part 1 - (2008-12-01)

Innovations – Decks Without Bitterblossom or Cruel Ultimatum (Plus a Top 10) - (2008-11-24)

Innovations - My 100th Article: Looking Back - (2008-11-17)

Innovations - Pro Tour: Berlin Tournament Report *50th* - (2008-11-10)

Innovations - Cruel Control for States - (2008-11-07)

Innovations - The Final Extended Guide for Pro Tour: Berlin - (2008-10-27)

Innovations - Grand Prix: Kansas City Tournament Report - (2008-10-22)

Innovations – Standard and Extended Explosion! - (2008-10-13)

Innovations - A New Take on TEPS in Extended - (2008-10-06)

Innovations - Shard to the Core - (2008-09-29)

Innovations - Cruel Ultimatum Will Change Everything - (2008-09-22)

Innovations - Ninth on Breakers, and Talk About Shards - (2008-09-18)

Innovations - The Italian Job: Playing Vintage - (2008-09-08)

Innovations - A Taste of Things to Come: Extended on the Horizon - (2008-09-01)

Innovations - Winning The Game, or EV Isn’t Everything - (2008-08-25)

Innovations - A Grand Prix: Denver Tournament Report - (2008-08-18)

Innovations – Justice Toast for Block Constructed - (2008-08-11)

Innovations – U.S. Nationals Tournament Report *29th* - (2008-08-07)

Innovations - An Interview With Gabriel Nassif - (2008-07-28)

Innovations - An Innovative Elves Primer - (2008-07-21)

Innovations – Thoughts on Eventide: I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It - (2008-07-14)

Innovations - PTQ Berlin Tournament Report *3rd* - (2008-07-07)

Innovations - Introducing True Solar Flare in Block - (2008-06-30)

Innovations - Grand Prix: Indianapolis Tournament Report - (2008-06-25)

Innovations - Introducing Four-Color Shaman in Lorwyn / Shadowmoor Block Constructed - (2008-06-16)

Innovations – Quick n’ Toast and Burnt Toast in Block - (2008-06-09)

Innovations - Pro Tour: Hollywood Tournament Report (293rd Place) - (2008-06-02)

Innovations - Epic Fail Hollywood - (2008-05-29)

Innovations - Hollywood or Bust - (2008-05-19)

Innovations - G/W in Standard Regardless of Who You Are - (2008-05-12)

Innovations - All Your Decks Are Belong To Us: Combo In Standard - (2008-05-05)

Innovations - Reader Mailbag (Includes Two Very Different Swan Decks) - (2008-04-28)

Innovations - Ten Shadowmoor Cards - (2008-04-21)

Innovations - Moving from Good to Great with Zvi Mowshowitz - (2008-04-11)

Innovations - Introducing Seismic Swan (The Future) - (2008-04-07)

Innovations - Standard Article with Five Spicy Decklists! - (2008-03-31)

Innovations - Standard Article with Title that Alludes to More - (2008-03-24)

Innovations - Grand Prix: Philadelphia Tournament Report *18th* - (2008-03-19)

Innovations - Counterbalance-Flash in Vintage - (2008-03-10)

Innovations - The Ten Greatest Magic Players of All Time - (2008-03-03)

Innovations - How to Jedi: The Mental Edge in Magic - (2008-02-25)

Innovations - One Game: The Next Level Blue Mirror - (2008-02-18)

Innovations - Gratuitous Standard Decklists (a Gauntlet Full of Fish) - (2008-02-11)

Innovations - Two-Headed Morningtide Standard Set Review, Part 2 - (2008-02-04)

Innovations - Mastering Extended: A GerryT/Innovator Collaboration - (2008-01-28)

Innovations - Mono-Black Rogues in Standard and Block - (2008-01-21)

Innovations - Martyr of Sands in Extended - (2008-01-14)

Innovations - Undefeated with Next Level Blue - (2008-01-07)

Innovations - Innovating U/G Elves in Extended - (2007-12-31)

Innovations - Introducing Next Level Blue - (2007-12-24)

Innovations - World Championship Report, Part 2 *2nd* - (2007-12-17)

Innovations - World Championship Report, Part 1 *2nd* - (2007-12-12)

Innovations - Snow Red and U/G/w Blink in Standard - (2007-12-03)

Innovations - Grand Prix: Daytona Tournament Report *34th* - (2007-11-26)

Innovations - Fast Times in Daytona Beach - (2007-11-19)

Innovations - Thermodynamics in Magic - (2007-11-12)

Innovations - GobleStax in Vintage - (2007-11-05)

Innovations - Michigan States Report (Yeah, 66 Cards... What of it?) - (2007-10-29)

Innovations – Spotlight on States: Grim Teachings - (2007-10-22)

Innovations - Untold Tales of a Pro (Me), and Thoughts on Eternal Players being Pros - (2007-10-15)

Innovations - Solar Flare and Cryptic Inversion, Plus a Return to Rationality - (2007-10-08)

Innovations — Cryptic Relic and G/W Aggro-Teeg in the New Standard - (2007-10-01)

Innovations - It Always Hurts When One Gets Away - (2007-09-24)

Innovations - Dredge: A Serious Problem, And How To Deal With It - (2007-09-17)

Innovations - A Scepter Chant Primer - (2007-09-10)

Innovations - Extended Decklists and the Metagame to Come - (2007-09-03)

Innovations - Half a Dozen Insane Cameos - (2007-08-27)

Innovations - The GenCon Article - (2007-08-20)

Innovations - U.S. Nationals Tournament Report *19th* Part 2: Execution - (2007-08-13)

Innovations - U.S. Nationals Tournament Report *19th* Part 1: Preparation - (2007-08-06)

Innovations - The Greatest Deck That Never Was - (2007-07-30)

Innovations - Confessions of a Rebelgoyf - (2007-07-23)

Innovations — Innovator Control for Nationals - (2007-07-16)

Innovations - X Marks the Spot, or Some Other Clever Tenth Edition Pun - (2007-07-09)

Innovations - Don’t Call it a Comeback - (2007-07-02)

Innovations - Innovator Aluren: Quite Possibly the Most Powerful Deck in Legacy - (2007-06-25)

Innovations - Ten Decks for Block Constructed - (2007-06-18)

Feature Article - Innovations: The Innovator Regionals Report ’07 (1st Place) - (2007-06-14)

Innovations — Road to Regionals: A Look at the Korlash Deck - (2007-06-07)

Feature Article - Interview with the Resident Genius, Michael J. Flores - (2007-04-26)

Feature Article - Working Title - (2007-04-19)

The Innovator Leaks The Real Block Decks - (2007-03-30)

Feature Article - A Great Deck, Some Deck Ideas, and Hot Girls - (2007-03-05)

Extended - Rainbow Rock and Discard Tog - (2007-02-08)

Innovator.dec - Got Hate? - (2007-01-18)

A Vintage Chapin Vintage Article - (2006-12-12)

Gauntlet of Power in Extended - (2006-11-17)

The Secret to the Gifts / Stax Matchup - How to Gain an Edge From Either Side - (2006-11-14)

Ten Games of Magic I've Lost, and How They'll Help You Win - (2006-10-30)

Grape Nuts, Flag Burner, and Turbo Balance: The World of Non-Firemane U/R/W - (2006-10-20)

Ten New Standard Decks with Time Spiral - (2006-10-17)

Right / Wrong - A Non-Vintage / Vintage Split Article - (2006-10-09)

Shredder version 3.0 - Sixteen in the Clip and One in the Hole - (2006-09-22)

Sideboards: Fifteen is Better than Zero - (2006-09-13)

Better Lucky Than Good: Seven Ways to Get Lucky - (2006-08-29)

A Day in the Life of a Deck Designer - Pitch Necro '06 - (2006-08-22)

Shredder v2.0 - More Rock than Domain - (2006-08-14)

61 Cards - Magic Russian Roulette - (2006-08-07)

Playing With Melanie - A R/B/U Deck For Standard - (2006-07-28)

Classic U/W Control: Karoos > Good - (2006-07-20)

(Rise and Fall) of the Roman Empire - The Rome Deck - (2006-07-07)

Information Cascades in Magic - (2006-06-28)

More Necro Than Prison - Shredder in Extended - (2006-06-21)

The Road to Regionals - Hybrid Theory and Critical Snakes - (2006-05-19)


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