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	<title>Magic Game Plan Blog &#187; Miscellaneous News</title>
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		<title>New Deck Pricing Tool</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/new-deck-pricing-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to announce the launch of a deck pricing tool. The deck price tags have been useful to many MTG players, so I thought it would be good to let you price your own decks. To my knowledge, this is the only deck pricing tool based on eBay prices from Magic Traders. eBay is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Video] Chapin on M11, New Extended, and Deck Building</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/video-chapin-on-m11-new-extended-and-deck-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great interview with one of my favorite MTG deck builders and theorists.

Full 50 minute interview is here.
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		<title>Deck Price Tags Are Now Automatically Updating Daily</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/up-to-date-deck-price-tags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to announce that the deck price tags are now updating automatically each day. My brother is a programmer and he created a program to scan the Magic Traders eBay price guide (Non-Foil Physical Magic Cards) each day and then use the new data to update the posts. Each of the deck price tags [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Game Draft: Combining Free-For-All Multiplayer With Draft</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/group-game-draft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually cover multiplayer formats since I&#8217;m a competitive player instead of casual. But this format called Group Game Draft seems pretty fun and competitive. It&#8217;s competitive because of the draft and &#8220;Rumble Rule&#8221;.
Here are the basic rules:

Each player uses four booster packs, rather than the traditional three (with the pass order being left-right-left-right).
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Diary of the Top 8 Webcast for Worlds 2009</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/running-diary-worlds-2009-webcast/</link>
		<comments>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/running-diary-worlds-2009-webcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Standard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2:50am CST &#8212; Looks like they&#8217;re a little late. The webcast was supposed to start at 2:45am CST but there&#8217;s no link yet on the webcast page.  
2:56 &#8212; Ah, just got a tweet. It starts in 6 minutes. No problem. That gives me time to make some predictions.
David Reitbauer (Jund) vs Florian Pils [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Evaluate New Cards for Constructed</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-new-cards-for-constructed/</link>
		<comments>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-new-cards-for-constructed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Utter-Leyton on using the average case scenario for evaluating new cards instead of the best case or worst case scenarios:
Lotus Cobra is symptomatic of a flaw in how we think about Magic: we tend to be pretty bad at thinking in terms of average case. We do a good job of thinking about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States is Back for 2009</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/states-is-back-for-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/states-is-back-for-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Stark brings us the scoop.
States is back on December 5, 2009.  The format will be Standard and the winner gets a plaque, a custom DCI card, and free entry into all Constructed Premier Events for a year.  Also, the top eight players get a custom design playmat that&#8217;s unavailable in stores.
The 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early PTQ Schedule for Pro Tour San Diego</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/early-ptq-schedule-for-pro-tour-san-diego/</link>
		<comments>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/early-ptq-schedule-for-pro-tour-san-diego/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thestarkingtonpost has an early look at the schedule of the upcoming Zendikar sealed Pro Tour Qualifiers (PTQs).  Here&#8217;s the link.
The list is not complete since some tournament organizers have not finalized their PTQs.  But the list does have a good number of PTQs already.  
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		<title>Paul Rietzl’s Magic The Gathering Hall of Fame Ballot</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/rietzl-hof-mtg-ballot/</link>
		<comments>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/rietzl-hof-mtg-ballot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Thestarkingtonpost:
I didn’t think Hall of Fame voting was going to be so hard this year. After eliminating everyone I had not heard of or had a negative impression of, I ranked all the remaining players using criteria such as integrity, sportsmanship, general contributions to the Pro Tour, quality of finishes and how scary they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two MTG Pros Fight to Make the Top 8 of GP-LA More Fair</title>
		<link>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/two-mtg-pros-gp-la/</link>
		<comments>http://magicgameplan.com/blog/two-mtg-pros-gp-la/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill 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 [...]]]></description>
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