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“Deck construction” deconstructed — Part 1">“Deck construction” deconstructed — Part 1

By ManaNation.com ⋅ September 15, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Our guest author, Manni aka ‘Coun­ter­spell’ puts up the first half of his series about the deck con­struc­tion process.

Magic The Classroom : A Hot Debate

By Dan Eckstein ⋅ September 9, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

The Pro­fes­sor breaks down a combo deck arche­type for the Extended metagame as seen from his students.

Next block: New Phyrexia, Scars of Mirrodin and Mirrodin Pure?

By ManaNation.com ⋅ August 25, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Today Man­a­Na­tion uncov­ered a new trio of Trade­marks filed by Wiz­ards of the Coast with the US Patent and Trade­mark Office, and they sound like pos­si­bly the names of the block to fol­low Zendikar. They the­mat­i­cally make sense and seem to be inter­con­nected through an artifact-like theme that could eas­ily trans­late into a theme for […]

GenCon Block Championship — Top 8

By ManaNation.com ⋅ August 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

As part of our cov­er­age of Gen­Con we are post­ing the top eight lists for all of their major Magic the Gath­er­ing tour­na­ments. Please see below for the top 8 deck lists from the the Block Cham­pi­onships at Gen­Con. Our thanks to the tour­na­ment orga­niz­ers, Pas­times, for their coop­er­a­tion in bring­ing you these decks.

Kazuya Mitamura wins Pro Tour Honolulu

By ManaNation.com ⋅ June 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Mita­mura over­came Christoph Gre­goir, Paul Rietzl and Michael Hebky to win Pro Tour Hon­olulu. The Top 8 was an 8-man draft but below is Mitamura’s Shards of Alara Block deck.
Mitamura’s Block Con­structed deck
1 Arcane Sanc­tum
4 Exotic Orchard
2 For­est
4 Jun­gle Shrine
4 Moun­tain
2 Rup­ture Spire
4 Sav­age Lands
5 Swamp
26 lands
4 Bloodbraid […]

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