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stillhadallthese
Name: stillhadallthese
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Planeswalker Points – Is the Grind Worth It?
featured 149 days, 14 hours, 37 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 150 days, 15 hours, 26 minutes ago
Thursday, September 08, 2011 7:57:46 PM GMT Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:08:49 PM GMT
Planeswalker Points – Is the Grind Worth It?
Over the past several years there have been major concerns with the limitations of the ELO system for rating Magic players. The nature of ELO ratings discourages players with a high rating who are looking to qualify for events and byes from playing in events, especially events populated with lower-rated players. It's a problem Wizards Organized Play ackno... (more)
category: Tournament | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: organized play, planeswalker points, Tournaments
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Extended – Running The Gauntlet
featured 381 days, 6 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 389 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes ago
Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:18:10 AM GMT Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:48:41 AM GMT
Extended – Running The Gauntlet
Still Had All These runs the gauntlet of top Extended decks from the MTGO Daily Events and PTQs! (more)
category: Constructed | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Extended, Strategy
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The Best Deck
featured 387 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 393 days, 11 hours, 18 minutes ago
Friday, January 14, 2011 3:52:45 AM GMT Friday, January 07, 2011 11:16:39 PM GMT
The Best Deck
You hear it all the time, people talking about what the best deck in a given format is.  It’s Faeries.  It’s Jund.  It’s Thopter Depths.  It’s U/G Goyf.  It’s Affinity.  It’s Vengevine Survival.  It’s this and that and every format tends to have one or two decks that rise to the top and get called the ‘best deck’.  It’s the deck the best players in your area want to play at the PTQ to win and get the blue envelope.  It’s the deck... (more)
category: Constructed | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: PTQ Preparation, Theory
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Scars of Mirrodin Sealed Primer – Set Theory
featured 490 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 500 days, 6 hours, 26 minutes ago
Saturday, October 02, 2010 7:42:54 PM GMT Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:08:44 AM GMT
Scars of Mirrodin Sealed Primer – Set Theory
Rather than a card by card, color by color breakdown, I look to explain the key concepts that make Scars of Mirrodin sealed different than other sealed environments like M11. (more)
category: Limited | clicked: 83 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Scars of Mirrodin, Sealed, Strategery
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5 Things I Learned From GP Portland
featured 503 days, 15 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 507 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes ago
Sunday, September 19, 2010 6:50:23 PM GMT Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:23:23 AM GMT
5 Things I Learned From GP Portland
I don’t do well with tournament reports. Especially in limited play, where the match report usually goes, “I played better spells than my opponent. Magic is easy!” It’s easy to say that I got the nuts sealed pool, made day 2, and then drafted well enough to barely make top 16. More important are the things you learn along the way, and I definitely learned some important lessons on the way to my first cashout performance on my first day 2. (more)
category: Limited | clicked: 8 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: GP Portland, Limited, Report
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National Qualifiers Week – Players’ Reaction
featured 628 days, 39 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 634 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:55:33 AM GMT Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:10:13 PM GMT
National Qualifiers Week – Players’ Reaction
US National Qualifiers are this Saturday, and for some, the new ‘one qualifier per state’ setup is making their weekend much easier, while for others, it’s ruining it. A couple weeks ago, I asked for your feedback in how the changes to the National Qualifier program from Regionals were going to affect you. (more)
category: Tournament | clicked: 13 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: national qualifiers, public reaction
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National Qualifiers Week – The Gauntlet
featured 629 days, 44 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 635 days, 9 hours, 50 minutes ago
Monday, May 17, 2010 9:50:37 AM GMT Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:44:46 AM GMT
National Qualifiers Week – The Gauntlet
With US National Qualifiers this Saturday, James take a look at the top decks in the format. (more)
category: Constructed | clicked: 39 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Constructed, Standard
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National Qualifiers – Informal Survey
featured 645 days, 1 hour, 55 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 645 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes ago
Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:40:12 AM GMT Friday, April 30, 2010 7:14:11 PM GMT
National Qualifiers – Informal Survey
Playing in a US Nationals Qualifier? I'd like to know and I'd like your feedback! (more)
category: Tournament | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: national qualifiers, travel
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The End of Another Season
featured 657 days, 2 hours, 50 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 660 days, 17 hours, 24 minutes ago
Monday, April 19, 2010 7:44:47 AM GMT Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:10:25 PM GMT
The End of Another Season
Well, here we are at the end of another constructed season, and the Still Had All These team acquitted themselves fairly well… except for yours truly, of course. G Pelly had two top 8 finishes, including a final, and Dwayne and Kasey both got to the top 8 in Portland. Dwayne also had a cash performance in GP Houston. I cubed a lot and played a lot of Catchphrase... (more)
category: Constructed | clicked: 6 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Extended, Mirrodin, rotation
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Regionals No More – Wizards Announces National Qualifiers
featured 667 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 669 days, 12 hours, 5 minutes ago
Friday, April 09, 2010 7:00:19 AM GMT Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:29:55 PM GMT
Regionals No More – Wizards Announces National Qualifiers
Wizards of the Coast today announced changes to the tournaments previously known as Regionals.  You can see their info sheet for the 2010 National Qualifiers here.  The major change is that the tournaments are no longer fixed to offer four slots to US Nationals. (more)
category: News | clicked: 11 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: national qualifiers, News, regionals
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Rise of the Eldrazi Limited – An Uninformed Preview « Still Had All These!
featured 672 days, 3 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 674 days, 6 hours, 56 minutes ago
Sunday, April 04, 2010 6:35:37 AM GMT Friday, April 02, 2010 3:38:57 AM GMT
Rise of the Eldrazi Limited – An Uninformed Preview « Still Had All These!
No one knows what Rise of the Eldrazi limited is going to look like.  Not even the designers, developers, and playtesters at Wizards of the Coast.  They have told us a lot about what they believe the format will look like, but the real test will come at the pre-release and MTGO release events.  We can, however, make some assumptions based on the cards that have been spoiled and draw some conclusions. (more)
category: Limited | clicked: 15 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Limited, Rise of the Eldrazi, speculation
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How to Play Magic – Part 5 – The Stack « Still Had All These!
featured 675 days, 4 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 677 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes ago
Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:25:01 AM GMT Monday, March 29, 2010 6:54:08 PM GMT
How to Play Magic – Part 5 – The Stack « Still Had All These!
Part 5 of a series on how to play Magic: the Gathering. (more)
category: Strategy | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: how to play, tutorial
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Tournament Magic – A Game of Endurance
featured 714 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 717 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes ago
Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:35:29 AM GMT Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:27:20 PM GMT
Tournament Magic – A Game of Endurance
Magic is a difficult game on its own to play and play well. Each turn has its own series of decisions to make on when to play certain spells, to attack, what to attack with, etc. It’s a game as complex as chess… if the chess board and all the pieces kept changing every two minutes. Now take all that decision making and multiply it out by seven, eight, ten matches in a single day, all with the pressure of limited margin of error and the chance for one person in ... (more)
category: Tournament | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Preparation, PTQ, Tournament
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The Cleanup Step Podcast – 1/27/10 – Part 1 « Still Had All These!
featured 732 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 734 days, 13 hours, 28 minutes ago
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:00:18 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:06:15 PM GMT
The Cleanup Step Podcast – 1/27/10 – Part 1 « Still Had All These!
Our first podcast at StillHadAllThese.com is a super-sized edition, reviewing Worldwake and preparing you for pre-release and release events! (more)
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Drafting with Dwayne pt2
featured 732 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 734 days, 14 hours, 8 minutes ago
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:00:18 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:26:26 PM GMT
Drafting with Dwayne pt2
Ok all, here are the match results of the first draft recorded. So I agree with some of the comments, this was clearly not the best draft. I could have made a lot of different picks through the process, and ended up with clearly a better deck. That, plus a pretty bad misclick (you can see in the video), resulted in not making finals. Take a peek, and more drafts are on the way. Share this post!TwitterDiggFaceboo... (more)
category: Limited | clicked: 7 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
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How to Play Magic – Part 1 « Still Had All These!
featured 724 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 747 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:51:51 AM GMT Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:53:02 AM GMT
How to Play Magic – Part 1 « Still Had All These!
Magic is a hard game to pick up on. As a friend of mine that doesn’t play said, most of my posts look like they’re written in ancient Hebrew or Sanskrit to him. Explaining to a non-player why Tarmogoyf is one of the best creatures ever printed is like taking someone who’s never seen any of the Star Trek franchise and using the phrase “you will be assimilated” around him. It just doesn’t work without context. So, let’s bring a little bit of context to the d... (more)
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tags: how to play, tutorial
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GPT Oakland – 1/16/10 – Edmonds, WA *3rd*
featured 744 days, 11 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 747 days, 9 hours, 58 minutes ago
Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:06:17 PM GMT Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:37:12 AM GMT
GPT Oakland – 1/16/10 – Edmonds, WA *3rd*
Seems that instead of writing down Violent Outburst, I wrote down Violent Eruption instead. That card’s not even legal in Extended, it’s so good. (more)
category: Constructed | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Extended, gpt, Tournament Report
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PTQ report 1/2/09 *2nd* « Still Had All These!
featured 744 days, 11 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 751 days, 9 hours, 22 minutes ago
Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:06:17 PM GMT Friday, January 15, 2010 1:12:49 AM GMT
PTQ report 1/2/09 *2nd* « Still Had All These!
This time, I wasn’t going to be Jedi mind tricked so easily. I had an invitation to test at Dwayne St. Arnauld’s house the night before the PTQ. I was going to take both lists for a spin, play some games and then settle on whichever one I was most comfortable with. After a few hours of testing, I realized that both decks were quite good, but I liked the zoo deck a bit more, so I ran with it. I decided to give Doogle my Scapeshift deck and I would play zoo. I also used my extra playset of Cryptic Co... (more)
category: Constructed | clicked: 11 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Constructed, Extended, PTQ, Zoo
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Pauper Cube: Infinite Limited in a Box « Still Had All These!
featured 747 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by stillhadallthesestillhadallthese 751 days, 9 hours, 28 minutes ago
Monday, January 18, 2010 10:51:27 PM GMT Friday, January 15, 2010 1:06:35 AM GMT
Pauper Cube: Infinite Limited in a Box « Still Had All These!
James had just asked us to come up with bios for this site. In doing so, I hit upon my love for all things cube. It got me to thinking: what about an article on cube of the pauper variety? I’ve definitely spent a lot of time constructing, refining and most of all playing mine. In today’s article, I’m going to detail my thoughts and experiences with pauper cube and I’ll talk about ways to construct your own. It’s a ton of fun and... (more)
category: Limited | clicked: 9 | comment | | source: stillhadallthese.com
tags: Cube, Limited, pauper cube