How to Prepare for your 1st Magic: the Gathering Tournament

For a first-timer, entering a Magic: the Gathering tournament is quite intimidating. I remember the first time I joined the local tournament in our area, seeing these new players got me somewhat scared in a way because of the factors of lack of card knowledge, gameplay, and rules factor.

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Tips and Tricks for Improving your Magic: the Gathering Skills

Getting better at playing Magic: the Gathering TCG is not just a walk in the park. It takes quite a lot of time and effort to study and learning not only the rules and gameplay but also in being well-rounded by the various deck strategies. Here below are some of the tips for improving your skills in Magic: the Gathering gaming.

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Magic: The Gathering Prerelease Event Preparations

A Magic: The Gathering prerelease is a special event where players get a chance to play with new cards before they are officially released. It has changed somewhat for the recent sets, but the joy of playing the new cards first-hand remains. The Phyrexia All will be One Prerelease event is this weekend.

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What the New Players Would Look Forward to Learning Magic: the Gathering Gameplay

We would initially think that a new player in a certain trading card game would be overwhelmed with information on the game rules and the like. That would not be the case in Magic: the Gathering TCG as there are steps of topics to read and learn.

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Magic: the Gathering Strategy – How is the Sideboard Plan Decided

In Magic: the Gathering (MTG), a sideboard is a set of cards that a player can use to modify their deck between games in a match. A sideboard is separate from the main deck and can only be used during a match, not in the initial deck construction.

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MTG BRO Standard Update: Why Reckoner Bankbuster is the Most Played Card in the Format

With The Brother’s War set now in full swing use in the Standard format, we check on some of the popularly used new cards from the set on the MTG Top 8 website. That is on their Most Played Cards page with the data based on the recently submitted tournament results in various events locally and on MTG Arena or MTGO.

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