Keep or Mull: The Best Tips on Keeping an Ideal Starting Hand

Setting up a good starting hand was one of my major issues in my early days of playing Magic: the Gathering. That is because I always keep a land-short seven cards with the hopes that I will top deck my next land mana source. Most of the time it fails, and cost me the game.

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Phyrexia: All Will be One Store Championships Weekend at the Local LGS

Coming this weekend is another major Magic: the Gathering tournament for the local gamestores. That is the Phyrexia: All will be One Store Championships. Store Championship is a structured, in-store tournament program that follows many major Magic: The Gathering releases. It is an opportunity for your players to prove their mettle and earn commemorative promos.This time, the preferred format approved by our TO Rei was Pioneer.

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What Makes a City Bikeable

Bikes are awesome, so more people ought to ride them. The era of the automobile is coming to an audible close, and the quaint aesthetics of the lowly bicycle are prepared to reclaim the center stage. “Four wheels terrible, two wheels excellent”, as the famously misquoted saying goes.

A bikeable city is one that is designed and developed to prioritize the needs of cyclists, making it safe, convenient and comfortable to ride a bicycle as a mode of transportation.

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Magic: the Gathering ONE Standard Deck: Jund Tyvar Invoke

I have been checking again on the recent Magic: the Gathering tournament results posted online at the MTG Top 8 website, and one event, in particular, was the MTGO Challenge done last Feb. 18th, 2023. The top decks were Grixis, Azorius Soldiers, and Mono-Blue but one deck that caught my attention was the Jund Midrange build.

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A Few Common Magic the Gathering terms

In playing the game of Magic: the Gathering, we opted to be familiar with some of the common terms used during gameplay. We might unknowingly understand it but it is of good advantage to be versatile in the words and phrases used. It helps to familiarize and understand the game rules and card effects with the right words and terms identifying them.

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