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This Week in Magic #9
Well here it is, 2010. The future! I got my flying car this morning, parked in my hoverway (driveways are so 2009) with a laser bow wrapped around it. What, you didn’t get yours? I guess not. Too bad, it’s pretty awesome. But let’s stop and look back into the past, this past week. What happened in Magic? Who said what? There’s a lot this week, even with Wizards only doing re-runs. Lots of great reading. The blogs were especially on top of it this week, good job guys!
Saturday, Dec. 26th
- GoodGamery.com – From the Vault: Jace – Made me laugh out loud. It’s a very funny spoof of the From the Vault series with some pretty good fake Magic card ideas.
Sunday, Dec. 27th
- GwafaHazid blog – The Price of Extended – The wrapup and summary of Russel’s excellent coverage of the top Extended decks and prices.
Monday, Dec. 28th
- ChannelFireball – Initial Tech. – Full Speed Ahead – LSV drops some knowledge about time management, an important skill for aspiring pro players. That dude is smart.
- StarCityGames – Would Legacy Be Better Off Without Tarmogoyf? – An interesting discussion about whether Goyf should be removed from Legacy. Though it isn’t one of the main formats, it’s still a good format to play and understand.
- StarCityGames – The Justice League – When Buildings Collapse – Max gives an excellent explanation of what Judges do when stuff goes wrong.
Tuesday, Dec. 29th
- ManaNation – Unusual Magic Art – I found some pretty nifty non-standard Magic art stuff and decided to do a short post about them.
- ChannelFireball – A Better Way to Build – An excellent piece from Jon Loucks about deck building and sideboard planning. Pretty complex at points, but a good read and educational too!
- PureMTGO – Zendikar’s Red Commons – I’ve really enjoyed William Spaniel’s colored common analysis, so here is his Red one. Check out his others too!
- QuietSpeculation – 2009s’ Hits and Flops – Russel T. of Gwafa Hazid’s blog guest posted on Quiet Speculation and it was a good read about the Hit and Flop cards of 2009.
- ShadowSketched – Countering Blightning – I liked this concept, he talks about how to handle Jund’s big weapon: Blightning. Nothing earth shattering but good writing and interesting ideas.
Wednesday, Dec. 30th
- MullDrifting – Interview with Dan Reiner PTQ Winner – We don’t see enough just straight up interviews. Wizards does some, but not enough. This is cool to see the interview with a PTQ winner, and Lauren does a great job with it.
Thursday, Dec. 31st
- ManaNation – Rainbow Stairwell Explored – Ben runs a little late but he brought a brief overview of a different casual format, Rainbow Stairwell.
- ManaNation – Looking Back Over 2009 – I take a step back and reviews the year, what happened to it!?
- ManaNation – Magic Economics – Hunters, Mentors and Instigators – Kelly smells something fishy and tries to figure out what the heck is going on.
- StarCityGames – Welcome Back to Extended – Gavin talks about Extended and he talks to players who don’t know much about Extended.
- GatheringMagic – Bazaar Trader – An interesting take on what the revealed ‘Bazaar Trader’ could do in Worldwake.
Friday, Jan. 1st
- ManaNation – JBoots Drafts Zendikar #8 – JBoots is back drafting. Enjoy! Learn!
- ChannelFireball – This Time It’ll Be Different, I Swear! – Zaiem blows your mind by discussing how he is actually you, and so his goals should be your goals.
Happy New Year and welcome to 2010. Let’s rock it!
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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