Before we get to the tournament report, I'd like to start this week's post off with a few things. First, I've been noticing a lot of tournament reporting and event blogging on the Pox Primer thread, which is totally awesome! Keep it coming folks. I personally feel that these reports are an asset to magic players, both readers and writers. It creates an environment where people can see lines of play they may have never thought about, and gives writers time to reflect on their play and decision...

I started this way back in march, and never finished it. It's worth reading, I think, but it's also a bit outdated.

There's nothing like taking time to play a game with a different skill set to crystallize your thoughts on magic. I just got back from playing what is possibly the most difficult e-sport in the world: starcraft 2. While you should keep in mind that I'm not a professional player at that game, I do feel comfortable saying it's different from magic, and especially from...

Deck
Creatures: 2 Centaur Healer 1 Snapcaster Mage 3 Thragtusk Sorceries: 2 Supreme Verdict 1 Rakdos's Return 2 Lingering Souls 3 Terminus 3 Farseek Instants: 3 Think Twice 2 Forbidden Alchemy 2 Essence Scatter 3 Dissipate	Artifacts: 1 Door to Nothingness 3 Chromatic Lantern Planeswalkers: 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker 2 Jace, Architect of Thought

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Part two of my complete Dragon's Maze set review.

Gold:
- Advent of the Wurm: Wow this thing is good. I'm calling it now, Selesnya-Bant is going to kick ass in standard. This is good enough that it may find a home in EDH, but I doubt it will be a must play.
- Armored Wolf-Rider: Limited filler.
- Ascended Lawmage: This has a good combination of abilities, decent stats, and reasonable cost that makes it stand out as a potential constructed card. EDHs which need...

http://moxdoogle.wordpress.com/2013/...-dragons-maze/

This is my first set review. As I have been working towards making more competitive EDH decks I thought I'd share my opinions on this new set, primarily for EDH.

White:
- Boros Mastiff: While this is a great limited card, I see very little EDH application.
- Haazda Snare Squad: Limited filler.
- Lyev Decree: This is a fantastic detain card, potentially with EDH application in pauper or budget.
- Maze Sentinel: Vigilance isn't that great, neither is 6-cmc....

Hello, and welcome to On the Stack. Today, we're going to discuss one of the hardest things about being successful at magic: tough cuts. I'm sure most of us have been there, looking at a card that looks like a great fit for your deck, but can't find anything else to take out to make room. What are you supposed to do when all of the cards are good? I've been in these situations before, and to solve this problem, I often have to sit there and think A LOT before I finally make a decision, and even...

I'm just going to use this as a place to list some ideas I have for Magic products. This isn't going to be for card designs, but for products outside the main MtG line.

Idea 1 - MtG themed coins

After seeing the ultimate of Ral Zarek, I realized it would be cool to have some metal coins minted for Magic. There could be a set of 5 coins with mana symbols as "Heads" and the MtG logo as "Tails." The date should also be printed on them.
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Note: Decklist added now.

29 people in the tournament. The store manager, his wife, and the other guy they usually have judge, ended up playing, to fill out the tournament to 32 people.

P1P1: Signal the Clans was the rare. I took One Thousand Lashes over Orzhov Charm, Knight of Obligation, and Mugging. I think Basilica Screecher was also in the pack.

I took Skyknight Legionnaire over Warmind Infantry and Gutter Skulk. I decided to hedge rather than...

I won again tonight. Thats 3 or 4 in a row now. This one was FNM with a slightly larger crowd of 13-16. I'm a little surprised I won. Nothing in the draft itself was seriously in my favor. There were at least 5 draft pros playing. It occurred to me after I got home I'd given my deck to Ian for his little brother to use for his standard deck without writing it down for the blog. I was able to still recite it from memory when I got home which tells you a little about why I won. A lot of people draft...

Deck
Commander 1 1 Ruhan of the Fomori Flip a Coin 18 1 Chance Encounter 1 Desperate Gambit 1 Fiery Gambit 1 Game of Chaos 1 Goblin Bomb 1 Impulsive Maneuvers 1 Karplusan Minotaur 1 Krark's Thumb 1 Mana Clash 1 Mogg Assassin 1 Odds // Ends 1 Planar Chaos 1 Puppet's Verdict 1 Ral Zarek 1 Risky Move 1 Squee's Revenge 1 Stitch in Time 1 Tide of War

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Some M13 Sealed Thoughts While Preparing for the MOCS

eBay proxy sellers to report. One of these folks took the super art P9 from the blog, edited them to remove the *NOT FOR SALE*, expansion symbol, and WOTC line before attempting to sell them.

Please report to eBay and WOTC.
First fool.
Second fool, the one that's selling my renders.

Proof on that second one being my work:
Moxen - http://zeerbe.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-baga-five.html
The blue power from - http://zeerbe.blogspot.com/2013/03/b...eing-busy.html

Salutations Readers,

I thought I would join TheJGits in keeping a log of how my games go at our weekly Legacy Tournament.

16th April:
played Pox; Finished 3rd of 18 Players.
Results: 2-1 vs Maverick, 2-1 vs Elves, 0-1 vs B/W Tokens, 2-0 vs Nivmagus Combo.

R1 Maverick: Lost a game by planing on T2 Ritual-Void but he dropped Teeg and had too many creatures for Blood/SP to clear the board.
G1 & 3: It is a deck with 4 basics so I...

Proxies are a very divisive issue in the Magic community. In my experience most players don't like them, especially when their opponent's proxy good cards. A common phrase I hear goes something like "You didn't win, you had proxies". I would argue the exact opposite. If a player is willing to proxy that means they must have put effort into their deck, but have come up short when picking cards out of their collection. If anything I consider proxies a sign of a good player, one who is willing...