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This Week in Magic #11

By Trick Jarrett ⋅ January 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

It seems Spoiler week threw a lot of people off this week, that’s why this issue of This Week in Magic is running so late. But also the middle of this week was rather barren of articles which I wanted to feature her, so bear with me. Also, I republish the reading list below. Lots of updates, a number of blogs on death row and one back from the grave.

Monday, Jan. 11th, 2010

• ManaNation – Dakkon Blackblade – Magic fiction exploring the story of Dakkon Blackblade.
• XMTG – Wheel o Facial hair – A fun look at the wide variety of facial hair in Magic cards.
• StarCityGames – Planeswalkers and Multiplayer – With so much constructed talk, a casual and even more multiplayer discussion is awesome.
• StarCityGames – Finding the Right Deck – An excellent overview and discussion surrounding Extended and picking the best deck.
• 99EDH – Competitive Casual – Harvest Time – EDH around Teneb, the Harvester. I support this!

Tuesday, Jan. 12th, 2010

• ManaNation – Rainbow Stairwell – Yawgmoth’s Storm – Ben McDole has been on a Rainbow Stairwell spree and he shared his attempt at a combo deck in the format.
• ManaNation – Making Psychic Connections – Lauren Lee, with her 2nd article, discusses player mentalities and how to make the most of them.
• Five with Flores – Building a Better Cruel Ultimatum – Mike Flores doing what he does best, just read it.

Wednesday, Jan. 13th, 2010

• ManaNation – Examining Mono-Blue in Standard – Russell takes a few stabs at running mono-blue in standard and what those decks might look like.
• ManaNation – Inspirations – Dan Eckstein also does some deck design and shares some ideas he’s come up with.

Thursday, Jan. 14th, 2010

• ManaNation – If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘Em – Kelly shares the story of his deck and performance at the Midwest Masters Qualifier last weekend.
• XMTG – Avatar’s Zendikar – XMTG comic about the similarities of Pandora and Zendikar…
• ChannelFireball – An Extended Set of Rules – Ben Stark gives some great advice and lays out some good rules for success in Extended.

Friday, Jan. 15th, 2010

• ManaNation – Ep. 96 – Exclusive Worldwake Spoiler – This weeks episode was delayed so that we could share the new spoiler card for Worldwake.
• ManaNation – JBoots’ ZEN Ten
• ManaNation – A Better One Card Combo – Discussing Shapeshift / Valakut in Extended, a great overview with three decklists and sideboard strategy.
• Tapped – Shadow:ed – I love the art and the story is beginning to pick up.
• MTGSalvation – Unconventional Cubes – I loved this discussion about some unusual, one-off ideas for cubes to be built and played with.
• Wizards – Looking Back with the Coverage Team – Brian David-Marshall talks to the coverage team about the past decade of Magic.
• StarCityGames – Dragonmaster Outcast – Brian Kibler is known as ‘The Dragonmaster’ and he covers a preview card worthy of the name. He also gives some excellent commentary on the card and its prospects.

The Reading List

Article Sites

• ManaNation.com
• Wizards.com
• StarCityGames.com
• ChannelFireball.com
• TCGPlayer
• MTGSalvation
• Blackborder.com
• PureMTGO.com

Main Blogs

• StarkingtonPost
• GatheringMagic.com
• MTGRares
• Five with Flores
• MTG Color Pie
• Magic Malaysia
• QuietSpeculation.com
• Show us your Noobs
• Planeswalker Stronghold
• Affinity for Islands
• Gwafa’s Bazaar
• MTG Metagame
• Wrongwaygoback
• MTG Realm
• DragonGuardian
• cubedrafting.com
• MagicDeckVortex.com
• Power9Pro
• 99 EDH Problems
• MullDrifting
• Shadowsketched
• Casualmagic
• Otherworldly Journey
• Mana Workshop
• *** MTGPlayer
• *** Recoculous
• *** Homebrew Magic
• *** Robot Viking

Funny Blogs

• Tapped Webcomic
• XMTG Webcomic
• 5 Color Control
• Magic Lampoon
• The Elvish Piper

Death Row

• The Jitte.com
• TheZvi’s Livejournal (replace by his twitter it seems)
• MisterOrange productions
• MTG Drafter
• MTG Deck Source (stopping to write for 99 EDH Problems)
• DeathMarked
• DCI Family.org (seems to be removed)

Editor of ManaNation.com, Patrick "Trick" Jarrett loves Magic. He's played it since 1995, he's written about it since 2003, and he's run ManaNation.com since 2007. He writes about and covers Magic: The Gathering for a living.

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