Dave Tellier
May 16, 2014
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3-0 At The Pro Tour
Rob Gillespie managed to take out Pro Tour Champion Craig Wescoe and 3-0'd his pod. Let's take a quick look at his deck! Going with the strategy of "No one drafts red, so I should draft red" - Rob ended up with a fairly big Red-White deck. "The main player was obviously , but the combination of and ended up being very powerful" - says Rob "The deck beats up on opponents who are just durdling...
Wizards Tower
May 16, 2014
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Learn to Burn: Updating R/W Burn for Standard
"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead." —Jaya Ballard, task mage Today I’m going to talk about a strategy that is near and dear to my heart, namely, tapping mountains and melting faces. Those who follow CFB might recognize my name. My friend and mentor James Fazzolari was kind enough to include me on his testing team leading up to GP: Melbourne and I...
Dave Tellier
May 9, 2014
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How to Have Fun and Make Friends on Magic Online
Today's article is brought to you by Ron Mackenzie! A good friend of mine and a regular at the Wizard's Tower. [header type="h4" align="left"]How to Have Fun and Make Friends on Magic Online[/header] Magic Online (MTGO) is the flagship software by which Wizard’s of the Coast (WotC) enables eager planeswalkers to sling spells and cast creatures online. If you haven’t used it before, have a...
Dave Tellier
May 7, 2014
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Casual Encounters- Playing with Class
Usually I sit down to write about cards, or decks, or other fun parts of Magic. However every once in a while I experience something that I can only describe as being “wrong” and it sets me off. So, today I’m going to take that rant and run with it. This past weekend my brother and his roommate went off to the Local Game Shop to play in a Sunday afternoon draft. Their experience can only be...
Wizards Tower
May 5, 2014
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Nic’s Nyx Picks – Top Commons and Uncommons for Journey into Nyx Limited
Read Part 1 here Part 2 – Red, Green, Gold, Artifacts Red Common has always been good (or at least ok) in limited, and I think in this format it will be better than average. It’s a fact that fast aggro decks are very real here, and if you don’t have a way to interact with them early you will lose to them. This is basically the best answer to cheap fast threats; it itself is cheap, it’s...
Wizards Tower
May 1, 2014
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Nic’s Nyx Picks – Top Commons and Uncommons for Journey into Nyx Limited
Part 1 – White, Blue, Black With Journey Into Nyx, the draft format will be shaken up by the removal of a Theros pack and the addition of Journey as the new pack one. That means the direction of your deck will be largely decided by what you pick in the Journey pack. Here I’m going to highlight my picks for the best common and uncommon in each color from Journey, and look at what type of deck...
Wizards Tower
April 25, 2014
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Small time Legacy in Calgary
Legacy is my favourite format. I love the power level of the cards and the insane interactions: anything is possible in a Legacy match. Earlier this week, I participated in and witnessed some pretty interesting games of Magic: The Gathering. Let me give you the run-down of how our four-man mini-tournament turned out. First of all, my decklist: Round One: Jerome — BUG Delver While sitting down...
Wizards Tower
April 25, 2014
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JOU Prerelease: Choose your Path!
As with a number of recent sets, the Journey into Nyx prerelease requires players to choose a faction to support: a “path” represented by one of the five colours. Your chosen path will determine which promotional card you get, as well as which type of seeded booster pack you receive. While some people will choose based on their favourite colour, or with the hopes of getting a certain card in...
