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Salivanth

Name:	Salivanth
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Last Seen:	979 days, 17 hours, 36 minutes ago
Member Since:	11 August, 2009

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Silvestri Says - Mistakes in Metagaming

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes ago

Mistakes in Metagaming This season has been a complete bust for me results-wise, but I learned a few lessons about metagaming the proper way in the process. Today I’ll be covering what I could’ve done better in my attempts to metagame for my field and the thoughts I had in picking and modifying decks for PTQ play. First though, we’ll start with the basic concepts behind metagaming in the first place.... (more)

category: Strategy | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: strategy.channelfireball.com

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Rogue Report - Dear WotC: Open the (data) Vaults

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes ago

Rogue Report – Dear WotC: Open the (Data) Vaults by Jonathon Loucks Being a Magic player means a lot of things, including that you only get one day a week to sleep in: Sunday. Not that I’m complaining – I love getting up early on Saturday, gathering my things, and making my way to the tournament hall. The whole PTQ experience has become something I look forward to, but last Saturday I was a little burned out... (more)

category: Constructed | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: strategy.channelfireball.com

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The M10 Academy – Making Red Dead

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes ago

This week in the Academy, we get the rest of the Red cards out of the way. We discover the difference between two and three, the difference between Lightning and Lightning, we Shatter some illusions, and preach the virtues of patience. Let's get started. Kindled Fury Plus point number one to this, is that it's Instant. From the other side of the table, even if you try to factor it into your combat calculations, what tends to happen is that you say, 'ok, if you have the Fury, my guy dies'. That make... (more)

category: Limited | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: www.starcitygames.com

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Tribal Thriftiness - Quick Bites

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 44 minutes ago

This is going to be a smorgasbord this week, as we’ve all gotten over our big Thanksgiving dinner of Magic 2010 and are adjusting our belts to hold all the Christmas ham coming in Zendikar. (I realize that having a smorgasbord between Thanksgiving and Christmas seems counter-intuitive, but hey, you gotta keep eating. Ask any of those competitive-eating guys: keeping the stomach flexible and stretchy is the way to succeed.) The Good: Planechase The new casual multiplayer set comes out this weekend, and... (more)

category: Strategy | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.starcitygames.com

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Legacy's Allure - Reviewing GenCon

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 46 minutes ago

The GenCon results are in, and what a list it is! You can check them out here if you haven't seen them already. In this week's column, I'll be discussing the lists, both based on their individual strength as well as the inferences we can draw from its performance in the field. My Preliminary Thoughts First, there are 20 copies of Force of Will in the Top 8, meaning that there were five base-blue decks. If you don't already know that Force of Will is the card to have in Legacy, you know now. Your first ... (more)

category: Tournament | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.starcitygames.com

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GP-Bangkok Champ

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes ago

A well respected Japanese pro, Shingou Kurihara recently padded his Pro Tour resume with a victory in the Limited format at Grand Prix–Bangkok. His white-blue deck was just powerful enough to get him there, with double Pacifism and Excommunicate containing his opponent's creatures while heavy hitters like Serra Angel got there in the air. For more about Shingou's win and the rest of the details from the event, visit the official event coverage. (more)

category: Tournament | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.wizards.com

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Planechase Release Promo

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 49 minutes ago

he Planechase Release Events are this weekend, September 4-6. Whee! There's more information about Planechase on the Planechase page, including full decklists. But there's one more card you haven't seen yet! Just for showing up and playing, each player will receive a Tazeem promo plane card (while supplies last). What's Tazeem? Oh, it's just a plane not included in any of the four Planechase decks, that's all. And it looks ... like this! (more)

category: Products | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: www.wizards.com

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Drafting Consistently

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes ago

ou're in the Top 8 of a Magic 2010 Premier Event on Magic Online. Your first pack looks like this: Fog Essence Scatter Weakness Giant Growth Snapping Drake Centaur Courser Jackal Familiar Divination Veteran Swordsmith Safe Passage Sleep Air Elemental Tempest of Light Nightmare You take Nightmare, deciding to let the people to your left fight over the giant stack of blue cards in the pack... (more)

category: Limited | clicked: 7 | comment | | source: www.wizards.com

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Just Plane Fun

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Salivanth 995 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes ago

Just Plane FunKelly Digges Serious Fun ArchiveKelly Digges Archive ou are a planeswalker. That's the idea, right? You're a powerful mage who travels from plane to plane, building an arsenal of spells and mana bonds from across an infinite Multiverse. It's that ability to walk the planes—accumulating knowledge of many worlds, perfecting a diversity of spellcraft undreamt of by the planebound, and leaving a plane if things get hot—that sets you apart from even the most powerful wizard on any given plane.... (more)

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Breaking Through - Commitment | ChannelFireball.com

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Breaking Through - Commitment | ChannelFireball.com

Breaking Through: Commitment Walk into any card store in America, spend enough time there, and you are bound to hear the words, “Its just a game.” This may be in reference to Magic, or some other card game or miniatures game. And for some, I would guess even most, that is exactly what Magic occupies in their life; the role of a game. For others though, presumably yourself as you are reading a strategy website, Magic has the potential to be so much more. And even if that potential is never realized, the... (more)

category: Strategy | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: strategy.channelfireball.com

tags: commitment, competitive, Conley, Tournament, woods, work

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Initial Technology - Drafting M10 in Boston | ChannelFireball.com

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Initial Technology - Drafting M10 in Boston | ChannelFireball.com

Drafting M10 in Boston At this point, it is pretty clear that I didn’t win GP: Boston, and the title certainly doesn’t refer to me doing any drafting in the GP itself. I’m not a huge fan of M10 Sealed, nor do I know many that are, but the draft format is both entertaining and good. I had plenty of time this weekend to do team drafts, and am now quite well acquainted with the drafting of Magic 2010. Tournament Report-Type Thing I opened a fairly mediocre to good sealed, with reasonable cards and not gr... (more)

category: Limited | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: strategy.channelfireball.com

tags: Deck, Draft, Limited, M10, Sealed

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New Mechanic, Landfall, on the Mythic Rare Rampaging Baloths

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Salivanth 999 days, 21 hours, 4 minutes ago

New Mechanic, Landfall, on the Mythic Rare Rampaging Baloths

Associated Content HomeSports August 26, 2009 by Dee Bovis Dee BovisPublished Content: 82Total Views: 142,072Fans: 1View Profile | Follow | Add to FavoritesRecommend (1)Single pageFont SizePost a commentSharePopular searches: ted kennedy | cash for clunkers | 2009 fall tv | best comedy movies | Search moreThe Magic The Gathering player base was buzzing on Twitter and various forums when the Zendikar card Rampaging Baloths was spoiled. This myt... (more)

category: Strategy | clicked: 14 | comment | | source: www.associatedcontent.com

tags: baloth, Discussion, game, Landfall, Plan, Ravenous, spoilers, Strategy, Zendikar

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The Fallacy of the ‘Mythic’ Rare

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Salivanth 999 days, 21 hours, 6 minutes ago

Aug 27 2009 The Fallacy of the ‘Mythic’ Rare Just over a year ago Mark Rosewater, the Head Designer of Magic the Gathering wrote this lengthy article on some upcoming changes to the game we love. While so-called Change #1 is very important to MTG fans, especially the standard format loving ones, Change #2 is the focus here. It has been one year since Mythic rarity was introduced to the Magic playing public and the result has been lackluster. The intended purpose of a new rarity was two-fold: make ... (more)

category: Products | clicked: 19 | comment | | source: www.gatheringmagic.com

tags: Angel, Baneslayer, Design, M10, Mythic, Planeswalker, Rare, Shards of Alara, Time Warp

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Flow of Ideas – Choosing Your Numbers a Magic: the Gathering Magic Fundamentals article

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Salivanth 999 days, 21 hours, 15 minutes ago

Flow of Ideas – Choosing Your Numbers a Magic: the Gathering Magic Fundamentals article

If you lose a game of Magic, you made a mistake somewhere. It can be in play, in mulligan decisions, or in deckbuilding. While a lot of people focus on the first two, deckbuilding errors, even minor ones, pile up over time and lead to a lot more game losses than people may realize. By building your deck better, you can give yourself the tools to play better. Of all the deckbuilding errors repeated every day, one-of the most egregious has to do not with the cards in the deck, but the quantity of each... (more)

category: Constructed | clicked: 11 | comment | | source: www.starcitygames.com

tags: Bolts, Constructed, Deck, Deckbuilding, Decklist, Decklists, Flow, gavin, Ideas, numbers, nuts, Standard, starcitygames.com, verhey

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Magic: The Blogging: How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ - Part 2

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Magic: The Blogging: How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ - Part 2

Hello, and welcome back to my series of How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ. We've covered testing your deck here, so now it's time to move on to analysing the metagame. The list which inspired this series can be found here. TheThree Types of Metagame Therearegenerally three different types of metagame that you'll face in a particular format in a particular year. These modes are about more than decks: they're about how the whole metagame interacts, and understanding it is crucial to victory. The Deck ... (more)

category: Strategy | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: mtgsalivanth.blogspot.com

tags: PTQ, Strategy

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How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ - Part 1

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How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ - Part 1

Hello and welcome to my series of How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ. Each week for 6 weeks, I'll be taking a point from the list of 10 Ways To Do Better At Your Next PTQ and expanding on it, and going into much further detail. I shall release this series biweekly, and over the next three weeks will cover the following parts: Part 1 - Testing Your DeckPart 2 - Analysing the MetagamePart 3 - Bringing Two Different DecksPart 4 - Sideboarding for the Event MetagamePart 5 - DCI PenaltiesPart 6 - Understand... (more)

category: Tournament | clicked: 13 | comment | | source: mtgsalivanth.blogspot.com

tags: PTQ, Research, Strategy, Testing

Welcome!

Salivanth

Silvestri Says - Mistakes in Metagaming

Rogue Report - Dear WotC: Open the (data) Vaults

The M10 Academy – Making Red Dead

Tribal Thriftiness - Quick Bites

Legacy's Allure - Reviewing GenCon

GP-Bangkok Champ

Planechase Release Promo

Drafting Consistently

Just Plane Fun

Breaking Through - Commitment | ChannelFireball.com

Initial Technology - Drafting M10 in Boston | ChannelFireball.com

New Mechanic, Landfall, on the Mythic Rare Rampaging Baloths

The Fallacy of the ‘Mythic’ Rare

Flow of Ideas – Choosing Your Numbers a Magic: the Gathering Magic Fundamentals article

Magic: The Blogging: How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ - Part 2

How To Do Better At Your Next PTQ - Part 1

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