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Choose Your Own Adventure: Ixalan Edition

Ahoy planeswalkers! Regular readers might notice that this isn’t the article I promised in my last column. I do want to briefly apologize for that. I had every intention of doing an Unstable set review, but these last couple weeks—well, I just didn’t have it in me. So, if anyone was desperately looking forward to my pass at a flavor review of silver-bordered Magic’s glorious return, I hope you’ll…

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It Isn't Over and They Haven't Stopped

It isn't over and they haven't by @BeauteCoulisses

Yesterday Jeremy Hambly, Travis Woo, and a handful of people who made comments on the Pack 1, Pick 1 post in the Magic for Bad group received suspensions from the DCI. Jeremy received a lifetime ban, while Travis got one year, and the people from the Magic is Bad group got three months each. I guess I’m happy Wizards finally did something, moving past words to action. I expected this big weight…

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RB Prison with Dan Holland

RB Prison with Dan Holland #MTG #Legacy w/ @jmee3rd & @pateuglow 

https://soundcloud.com/leavingalegacy/164-rb-prison-with-dan-holland Hey everyone! This week Jerry and Patrick catch up with local player Dan Holland, and we discuss the deck he brewed up for the local 2k at Gaming Etc, RB Prison! Don’t forget to Like/Follow/Subscribe to all the stuff that we do. Thank you for your support! [d title=”RB Prison” style=”embedded”] Spells 4 Blood Moon 4 Chalice of…

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Interview w/ Brian Andersen

Nate and Zac interview Brian Andersen of Paragon City Games and talk about the upcoming legacy symposium.

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Travis Woo Suspended by the DCI for 1 Year

Magic pro Travis Woo received a one year ban from the DCI, likely for his involvement in the Magic for Bad Facebook group. In a statement, Elaine Chase, Wizards’ Vice President of Global Brand Strategy, said that the company is taking steps to “to help foster a better, more inclusive Magic community. As part of this effort, today we took action against a number of players for violations of the…

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Jeremy Hambly aka MTGHeadquarters Suspended from the DCI

Jeremy Hambly, the content creator behind the controversial YouTube channel Unsleeved Media, previously known as MTG Headquarters, was suspended indefinitely from the DCI by Wizards of the Coast today. In a statement, Elaine Chase, Wizards’ Vice President of Global Brand Strategy, said that the company is taking steps to “to help foster a better, more inclusive Magic community. As part of this…

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Generally Silver

Two weeks ago, I spoke about my issues with the two Un-sets; my overall feelings that the sets highlighted mechanics I might like from other games, but were not I needed in my games of Magic the Gathering, added length to game in ways that I didn’t perceive as enjoyable and the fact that the jokes the sets were trying to tell not that funny to me. On the eve of the set’s release, I would like to…

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There are 13 Cards in Unstable That Have Alternate Art or Rules Text

On Today’s Minute: Now we we know why Unstable has 216ish cards in Unstable! 13 cards have alternate art or multiple versions of the rules in their text boxes. This morning, Wizards of the Coast released the full list of Unstable cards that have variants with either alternate art or alternate rules in their text boxes. All told,…

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20 Black Spells that Cost Exactly One Black Mana that Changed Magic Forever

Earlier today, Brian DeMars of Channel Fireball published The 20 Most Important Magic Cards Printed in the Modern Era and well, we had a lot to say about it here in our editorial room at Hipsters of the Coast. First off, there’s like 35 cards on this list. Sorry Brian, you can get away with adding one or two cards via “Honorable Mention” but ten of your twenty entries for “most important cards”…

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What I Want from Rivals of Ixalan

Ixalan has a lot of cool cards and flavor, but it’s not a popular Limited environment. Novemeber and December tend to be lulls in the Limited calendar, but that feels especially true this year. I haven’t played a game of the draft format in a month. Grand Prix New Jersey is coming up next weekend, and my strategy to prepare has been to maximize my time away from Ixalan long so I will enjoy it…

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216ish Cards: Unstable Cards Can Have Alternate Art and Multiple Text Boxes

On Today’s Minute: Now we we know why Unstable has 216ish cards! Alternate art and multiple text boxes. Plus, the MTG Arena Closed Beta officially started yesterday. Unstable, the third Un-set, releases this Friday December 8th, 2017. According to Wizards of the Coast, the set contains 216…ish cards. Last night, local games stores…

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Donald Reents and the Colorful Journey of Chessex

Sam interviews Donald Reents, the founder of Chessex, and his colorful journey into the world of dice. (more…)

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Great Designer Training: GDS3 Preamble

I’d assumed that this day would never come. Wizards has decided to embark upon an expensive, expansive reality show in order to hire new designers. The Great Designer Search 3 is happening! …friends, I think this column has a new purpose for the next six months. Back in 2010… I wasn’t playing Magic during the first Great Designer Search, so I missed out on it completely. The second Great Designer…

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Wizards Announces the Great Designer Search 3

On Today’s Minute: Applications for the Great Designer Search 3 close January 15th, 2018. Plus, Japan wins the World Magic Cup and Eli Cassis wins the SCG Invitational. This morning, Wizards of the Coast announced that it would be holding a third edition of the Great Designer Search. Applications for the Great Designer Search 3 are…

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Stop Me if You've Heard This One

Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One

CW: Discussion of sexual assault, violence, and other trauma-inducing criminal acts. As we close out 2017, there’s a prevailing, optimistic opinion that we’re seeing the chickens come home to roost and be slaughtered. There has been, thanks to the courageous testimony of survivors of sexual assault and harassment, a cleaning house of abusers in the media landscape and an accounting of previously…

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The Many Layers of Travis Woo and Magic for Bad

This week we take a deeper look at the story of @TeamMGG and @LegionSupplies parting ways with @TravisWizard #mtg

On Friday, team MetaGame Gurus parted ways with Travis Woo. At the time this decision sat uneasily with me—not because I felt Woo was innocent of anything he had been accused of, nor because I was upset over some kind of socially progressive agenda being pushed as some people would have you believe. No, I was at unease about the whole thing because it all seemed so easy.   There are a lot of…

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Why We Keep Playing Bad Decks

Hi everyone, let’s talk about deck selection. Choosing the best deck for a tournament is a very important part of succeeding in Magic. Despite this, we Magic players all too often sabotage our own chances of winning by choosing to play suboptimal decks. Today I want to try and figure out why that is, in the hopes that by understanding why we sometimes make poor decisions we can learn to make…