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Competitive Edge: Failure to Brew

March 11, 2012   Doug   No comments

For a while now I’ve been brewing for Standard. Sticking to an Esper shell, I’ve made several control decks with different win conditions, tried my hand at making Chalice of Life work in an artifact combo deck, and finally have switched to aggro with an illusion/spirit tribal deck. I’m no Conley Woods, so naturally all of my decks have failed miserably. So now I’m going back to control, where I’m most comfortable, examining other Esper control decks in the format and finding one I’d like to play.

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2012 March Limited and Forbidden List

February 21, 2012   Toshi   28 Comments

It’s that time of the year again. Rumor mills going overdrive, many Photoshop entries for the fake list competition to see how many people they can fool, but we finally have confirmation for 2012 March Limited and Forbidden list. Make sure your deck is ready as this will be in effect on 1st of March.

For the full list, visit: http://www.yugioh-card.com/oc/limited/ (Make sure it’s March 2012 as there is a chance it takes a few days before it changes).

Now, let’s move onto the actual changes that happened along with what I think:

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Structure Deck 22: Dragons Collide

February 16, 2012   Toshi   16 Comments
Dragons collide

While Digby is on holidays combined with this year being a very busy year for me, I unfortunately haven’t been able to look into the latest Yugioh products with detail. However, a couple of weeks ago, my friend gave me 3 of the latest structure decks which I’m guessing is already released at Battlecraft Games and yes, I know I need to cover the contents.

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Top 5 Cards from Order of Chaos

February 07, 2012   Toshi   21 Comments

It’s been roughly 3 weeks since the release of Order of Chaos and I am pretty sure many of you are experimenting to see how cards from this set can be used to power up your decks. As for me personally, over the last week or so, fortunately I had the chance to actually test and see some of these decks in live action. Based on those experiences, Order of Chaos is a set where individual cards aren’t that strong, but used together to form a combo, it becomes devastating.

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Competitive Edge: Losing to Variance in Limited

January 20, 2012   Doug   1 Comment

Losing to variance sucks. There’s no better way to put it. Whether you get too many lands, or not enough, or your spells are too expensive, or you never draw your bombs, or your opponent simply gets lucky – there are just some games that you lose where you can’t do anything about it.

This is how last week’s Friday night draft went for me:

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Deck Building Strategies 102

January 20, 2012   Toshi   111 Comments

Welcome to the 2nd part of Deck Building Strategies. In this article, I’d like to help you build a deck by providing the fundamental reasons which I personally believe and use that leads to a good deck. Before continuing reading, I’d like to specifically mention that by reading this article, it does NOT guarantee that you will end up with a deck that will win tournaments – this article is intended to help you build a deck to begin with, along with what you should be doing and paying attention to while building.

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Deck Building Strategies 101

January 15, 2012   Toshi   16 Comments

Happy holidays everyone – I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, and I know that while majority of you guys are still on holidays, I’m unfortunately back at work and just came back from overseas (also work related). However, that doesn’t mean I will be out of action, as I still have plenty of tuning and testing to do for my decks, as well as participate in the Yugioh Super League tournament held every Wed, Thu and Sat from 11am. Everyone still have plenty of chances to win and score a free box of Order of Chaos as well as other prizes.

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Competitive Edge: My Dark Ascension Wishlist, part 1

January 13, 2012   Doug   No comments

By the time you read this, we’ll have seen at least one week of Dark Ascension previews, but at the time of writing I’ve hardly seen any of the set. What I have seen, however, has already got me very, very excited – Gravecrawler signals a push for a zombie deck in Standard, Increasing Confusion will replace Blue Sun’s Zenith as a finisher in decks looking to win through Nephalia Drownyard, and the new mechanic Fateful Hour gives us new ways to play with Phyrexian mana (and maybe even completely break it, finally, if there’s a Fateful Hour effect powerful enough.)

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Competitive Edge: Casting A Modern Eye

January 08, 2012   Doug   No comments

If you don’t know about Modern, it’s the newest non-rotating format introduced by Wizards of the Coast, includes every set from Modern onwards, and is still very, very open for exploration and experimentation.

I don’t play Modern, but I am looking at breaking into the format and starting to compete in Modern events, once I can afford to build a deck. I’ve been following the development of the format and what players are doing, and think I have a pretty good idea of what the format will look like for the upcoming PTQ season.

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Competitive Edge: Consistency vs. Synergy in Innistrad Draft

December 30, 2011   Doug   No comments

Hi everyone! Read these next few paragraphs carefully, because I’m only saying this once. Maybe three times. Maybe ALL OF TEH TIMEZ. I’m not sure yet.

Ahem.

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