How to Improve Your Mulligan Decisions With Magic Online

January 26, 2009

Magic Online LogoMike Flores has some useful thoughts about improving your mulligan decisions by playing in a lot of MTGO (Magic The Gathering Online) tournaments.

The difference between how I am playing now and a legitimate MTGO ringer is that there is nothing really at stake in how I play (other than my leisure / entertainment time). So I mostly just never mulligan because I care more about exploring new deck ideas than actually winning MTGO tournaments. But when you are playing tournaments and — like I was that summer — meticulously logging your ratings deltas and tournament win / loss percentages with every deck you play, there is more at stake.

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Two MTG Pros Fight to Make the Top 8 of GP-LA More Fair

January 25, 2009

Grand Prix LogoBill Stark has a great story about Mark Herberholz and Michael Jacob, two Magic The Gathering pros.

In Grand Prix–Los Angeles, for some reason, the head judge did not give out the decklists to the top 8 players. (Giving out the decklists is standard procedure.) Mark and Michael had an advantage since they were able to access the internet with their cell phones. Before the top 8, they had knowledge of some of the top 8 decklists since those decklists were covered already on Wizards.com.

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I Finally Created an About Page

January 7, 2009

dee-profile-pic.jpgMost sites seem to have an about page. I finally created mine. If you want to know more about me, here’s my about page.

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Shards of Alara Draft Walkthrough #4

January 4, 2009

Naya CharmThis is from a triple Shards of Alara draft in the 4-3-2-2 queue on Magic Online.

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