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Sideboarding for Multiplayer | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. Wizards has officially declared this summer to be the Summer of Multiplayer. With the release of the new one-versus-many format Archenemy. And the upcoming release of the new core set Magic 2011, it’s a good time to be playing Magic with your friends. In this article, I’ll take a key concept from one-on-one Magic the sideboard and show you how it adapts to play with more than two people. What is the real purpose of the sideboard? 2 Multiplayer Games are Long.
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Top Five Casual Contenders of ROE | The Lotus Report
https://lotusreport.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/top-five-casual-contenders-of-roe
The only Magic blog with flying and trample. Top Five Casual Contenders of ROE. Yesterday saw the official release of Rise of the Eldrazi, but we’ve already heard from plenty of reviewers sharing their opinions on the best cards in the set. Leaf. And others have all weighed in with their Top 5, 8, or 10 cards from ROE. But while I think we all agree that cards like Vengevine. And Linvala, Keeper of Silence. These are the cards you’ll see making an impact on tables where the money rares are absent. 8220;T...
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MTG Set Concepts, Welcome to Wedgeworld, Part Two | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. MTG Set Concepts, Welcome to Wedgeworld, Part Two. Welcome to Part Two of my set concept for Wedgeworld! Let’s look at the other three wedges in this set. Elemental Nexus of Science and Sorcery. Shouts one of his colleagues. Warship approaching to port! With a fiery roar of engines, the spellship swoops up into an endless starry sky, leaving the cavern to disappear under a rising tide. Dominant creature types: Elemental, Weird, Pirate, Serpent. Target gets 2/ ...
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. Rise of the Eldrazi Spoilers: Emergency Bulletin. March 24, 2010. I hadn’t planned to post two spoiler updates in a row, but extenuating circumstances have forced me to give you a timely heads-up for the new set. And by “extenuating circumstances”, I mean. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Spoiler image courtesy of MTG Salvation. Now THAT is a destroyer of worlds. It’s as if the MTG R&D team sat down and had the following discussion:. A: Not nearly powerful enough.
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MTG Set Concepts: Welcome to Wedgeworld, Part One | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. MTG Set Concepts: Welcome to Wedgeworld, Part One. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big supporter of TappedOut.net. The Challenges and the constant stream of new decks keep me coming back to the site. My set concept brings us to a plane in five parts. But unlike the plane of Alara five shards, each composed of a color and its two allied colors this plane is divided into five wedges, each is composed of a color and its two. And one other isolated example. Each l...
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It’s The Card Advantage | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. It’s The Card Advantage. Have you lost a game and left wondering why the cards you played didn’t win the game for you? Ever stopped to ask yourself how that control player stopped your aggressive army of creatures? Confused about why spells like Dark Confidant. Card advantage, in its simplest form, is having more cards in hand and on the battlefield than the other player. Consider two cards, Raging Goblin. The Goblin will simply die, and you’ve wasted on...
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How to Play Magic and Keep Your Friends | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. How to Play Magic and Keep Your Friends. When I first started playing Magic, I dreaded playing against my friend Andrew and his Domain deck. He had been playing on and off for years, tweaking an old Planeshift theme deck until it was a five-colored menace. Long before Conflux made Domain a keyword, I lived in fear of Andrew’s Stratadon. S and Quirion Dryad. That he’d picked up sometime during Mirrodin block, while burning away my creatures with Tribal Flames.
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About the Author | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. Is a Magic: The Gathering writer and Rules Advisor who has been playing since 2008. He enjoys four-player free-for-all matches, crazy combo decks, and Planechase. His favorite cards are Master Transmuter. Follow the Lotus Report on Twitter at @lotusreport. For the heads up on new posts, or check out new deck ideas on TappedOut. Anyone else notice this panoramic duo? Banefire and Flameslash. who wouldda thought! Nic 6 years ago. Lookin good @ kellyreid.
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Practical Planeswalking, Part 1: Introducing Pauper | The Lotus Report
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The only Magic blog with flying and trample. Practical Planeswalking, Part 1: Introducing Pauper. The most sought-after rares in a set, the cards that tournament players use to build game-winningly powerful decks, quickly skyrocket in price; this problem only worsened with the introduction of mythic rares in. So how does a casual player build a fun and effective deck in a world where 50-dollar cards exist? In Standard (the format containing. The best online deckbuilding site in existence. You can upl...