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This Week in Magic – #7

By Trick Jarrett ⋅ December 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Another great week of Magic content. I was afraid it would end up being slow, but after Monday the sites all picked up. Enjoy!

Sunday, 12/6/09

• ChannelFireball.com – Dueling for Duals – While the tournament was only meh, I found the deck and concepts LSV discusses to be quite interesting.

Monday, 12/7/2009

• Planeswalker Stronghold (blog) – Phyrexia: Past, Present and Future – A new blog I picked up a week or so ago, he put out this very interesting post about the stories of Phyrexia, and considering where the next block is going, all too interesting.
• WrongWayGoBack (blog) – Loaming Cobra – A very interesting Extended deck concept, I’m not sure solid the deck is, but the idea and list were enough to earn a bookmark.
• StarkPo – Funniest Extended Deck of All Time – Another Japanese innovation, it poses a lot of interesting ideas and is indeed rather humorous.

Tuesday, 12/8/09

• ManaNation – Puerto Rico States: A Judge’s Journey to Paradise – Ben writes in about his experience judging and EDHing in Puerto Rico last weekend.
• ChannelFireball – 10 Tips for Playing Better Against Jund – Given Jund’s dominance the info within is solid and all too important
• ChannelFireball – Big Creatures – Ben Rubin (hall of famer) writes for ChannelFireball drops a knowledge bomb and some true wisdom. A must read.

Wednesday, 12/9/09

• ManaNation – 221b Worldwake Street – I’m biased, it’s my own writing. But the traffic stats show that it is quite popular. Even Ken Nagle himself tweeted a link to it.
• ManaNation – Magic the Classroom – Rock, Paper, Scissors – Dan Eckstein shares his ideas on the RPS kind of balance in metagames.
• StarCityGames – The Pen is Mightier than the Sword – An excellent analysis and deep review into Jund’s murky depths.

Thursday, 12/10/09

• ManaNation – There are No Bad Cards – Kelly weighs in on why speculators can’t afford to overlook ‘bad’ cards.
• StarCityGames – The Subgames of Magic – I love what Gavin V. is doing here and what he discusses. I’m not 100% on the concepts, but he’s looking in a lot of the right places and drawing a lot of great conclusions.

Friday, 12/11/09

• ManaNation – Drafting with JBoots #7 – Another great draft video.
• ManaNation – Off the Beaten Path – Winter Blunderland – A fun tourney report from Sam for the Massachusetts ’2009s’
• Tapped – Tapped by the Enemy – Again I’m a bit biased on this one especially as I helped Andres with some of the ideas for this week’s comic. But good stuff none-the-less.
• Wizards – An Open Letter to Spike – I just really enjoyed what Tom LaPille was saying in this one, not particularly strategic, but an entertaining read.
• ChannelFireball – Exchange of Information – An excellent article from a consummate pro. I greatly enjoyed this article.

And there we have another week of awesome Magic content. A few weeks ago I published the full list of Magic sites I read, I’ve dropped a few and added a few others, so be sure to check in next week because I’ll be providing an update to the list of Magic sites.

Stay warm!

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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1. I love this feature. I’d RSS mananation if this was the only thing on it. Thanks!

   John Golden | December 11, 2009, 12:53 pm | #

2. Thank you for aggregating this.

   redsai | December 11, 2009, 1:18 pm | #