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The Time There Was a Riot at a Magic: the Gathering Pro Tour

Today we have the story of the "Pro Tour Riot" that happened at Pro Tour Angeles way back in 1997!

Mar 20 | by SaffronOlive
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Against the Odds: I Built a Machine to Infinitely Crack Clues for Free! (Historic)

Ever since Mutagen Man, Living Ooze was spoiled, I've been on a quest to build an infinite free Clue-cracking deck, and I think I finally figured it out!

Mar 18 | by SaffronOlive
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Tooth and Nail (2005) vs. 4C Copy Cat (2017) | Best Standard Deck Ever Top 64

This week for the Best Standard Deck Ever Tournament, we have Tooth and Nail, a Tron-based ramp deck from 2005, taking on the notorious Splinter Twin-style combo deck 4C Copy Cat from 2017!

Mar 9 | by SaffronOlive
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RecSur (1998) vs. Bant Company (2016) | Best Standard Deck Ever Top 64

This week, we have two creature value decks that dominated their Standard formats nearly 20 years apart, with Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest from 1998 against Bant Company from 2016!

Mar 2 | by SaffronOlive
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Affinity (2004) vs. Golos Field (2019) | Best Standard Deck Ever Top 64

This week, it's notorious aggro / combo deck Affinity from 2004 up against Golos Field of the Dead Ramp from 2019! Which deck moves on, and which goes home? Let's find out!

Feb 23 | by SaffronOlive
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Jund (2009) vs. Mono-Black Devotion (2013) | Best Standard Deck Ever Top 64

This week, we have a battle between iconic midrange decks, with Bloodbraid Elf and Jund from 2009 taking on Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Mono-Black Devotion from 2013!

Feb 16 | by SaffronOlive
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Academy (1998) vs. Delver (2012) | Best Standard Deck Ever Top 64

This week, we have the notorious Academy combo deck that caused Combo Winter in 1998 up against the UW Delver of Secrets tempo deck that dominated 2012 Standard! Who will move on? Let's find out!

Feb 9 | by SaffronOlive
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Black Lotus Control (1994) vs. Simic Oko (2019) | Best Standard Deck Ever Top 64

This week, we have the oldest deck in the field, running a full set of the Power Nine, in Black Lotus Control against a deck fueled by a planeswalker banned in basically every format in Simic Oko!

Feb 2 | by SaffronOlive
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The Nice "Old Man" Who Beat the Pros with the Meanest Deck

Today we have the story of one of the most unlikely wins in Grand Prix history, when a nice "old man" shocked the pros with one of the game's meanest decks!

Jan 12 | by SaffronOlive
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The Most Broken Card from Every Year of Magic: the Gathering

Over the past 32 years, there have been some amazingly broken cards printed in Magic: the Gathering. Today, we're going to look at the most broken card from each year of the game!

Dec 1 | by SaffronOlive
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When No One Could Find Modern's Best Deck for Years

Today formats are solved super fast, sometimes before a set even releases, but today we look at the story of how all the pieces to build Modern's best deck existed for years before anyone managed to put them all together!

Oct 13 | by SaffronOlive
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Much Abrew: Grist's First Day of Class (Historic)

What if you could turn all of your creatures into Grist, the Hunger Tide and then use them to make infinite Insects? Let's find out!

Sep 19 | by SaffronOlive
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The Time Pizza Saved Standard

Today we have the story of one of the weirdest ban list updates in Magic's history and how a pizza saved Standard!

Apr 28 | by SaffronOlive
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The Meme that Broke Magic

It might have taken a decade, but here's the story about how Magic's biggest meme finally got its revenge and broke the game!

Dec 2 | by SaffronOlive
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Magic: the Gathering's First Meme (and Most Powerful Creature) | The Complete History of Throat Wolf

In 1994 in the deckmasters group of Usenet Magic's first meme was born, a creature so rare and powerful it took the multiverse 25 years to find it!

Dec 11 | by SaffronOlive
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The Best Reanimation Targets in the History of Magic: the Gathering

Today we're looking back on some of the biggest, baddest creatures in all of Magic by examining the history of the game's best reanimation targets.

May 7 | by SaffronOlive
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Magic History: Breaking Bad Cards

Islandswamp looks at his favorite broken cards that started out as unplayable junk!

Feb 26 | by Islandswamp
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Vintage 101: From Dark Rituals to Dark Petitions

From Burning Wish to Dark Petition, Islandswamp takes a look at the history of Ritual-based combo!

Jan 22 | by Islandswamp
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Magic History: The Dawn of Combo

Islandswamp takes a look at the birth of combo!

Dec 25 | by Islandswamp
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Magic History: Summoning Power Creep

Let's take a look at how creatures have evolved since Magic's early days.

Dec 3 | by Islandswamp

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