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The Monday Mulligan: Will be back Tuesday!

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

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The Monday Mulligan: Will be back Tuesday!

Furthermore, MPDC needs some help, we are looking for:
[b]Dedicated Data Junkie[/b], [u]Job Components:[/u]
[list][*]Gatherling Metagame Entry; Collecting the metagame (played decks per attendee) during the event (with the help of the attendees themselves and watching games) and inputing the decknames into Gatherling, preferably alongside a couple of cards to indicate colors.
[*]Working the MPDC Season File, which includes posting the win/loss/play-off scores per attendee per event into an excel file (once every week) and posting the calculated Rankings as a response to the MPDC Season 2 Master Document.[/list] I did this myself at the end of last season, but with full blown hosting duties, I’d like some help in this. PM me on the boards or in-game if you want to help out!

The Monday Mulligan #10: Going Dark: Musings

Friday, April 4th, 2008

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Last Monday was “Screw Up Paradise” for me. You cannot possibly comprehend how many things I did wrong both running DCI-r and playing Grimdrifter. But I must say, keeping 36 (MPDC record, SPDC has only topped that thrice!) players in check is a whole lot of work, expecially with unreported drops, etc. Even after everything was said and done, I still managed to slip again, thinking coolbartbr running Blue Illusion won; but instead stiffdiddypinky won with WW…
Today’s MM will feature an interview with yogev_ezra, who gives answers of Kingritz’ proportions, and it will put Faeries in the Spotlight, it gets some nice Morningtide additions. I’ll also touch on the MTGOIII release that seems to be coming our way, and the great Shadow it will cast over us.

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The Monday Mulligan #9: He Said He’d Be Back

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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Hellooooooooooooooooo* everybody and welcome to the Monday Mulligan. Last Monday was a very succesfull event once again. I couldn’t host because of family obligations, but kehmesis filled in. Hosting didn’t hamper is play, he took Blinkdrifter to the top after a hiatus since SPDC 4.07. His deck will be in the Spotlight, because it is the first time since I started this series I think the old standby has a chance. The Mic is passed to JMason, another MPDC regular.

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The Monday Mulligan #8: The Impact Of A New Dawn

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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A normal Mulligan this week, including a Spotlight (Gruul Warriors), Mic (SerraGodFather) and the usual metagame overview. This week we finally felt the impact of Morningtide on the game. The top eight featured two decks that couldn’t have existed without it, and almost every deck utilized some new tools. Want to know what? Read on!

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The Monday Mulligan #6: Championship, From The Losers Bracket

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

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Last monday was a big day for MPDC: The Season One Championships! Kehmesis did at the MPDC Championship what he couldn’t do at SPDC World’s: take Storm Control to the top. The top placers included other great players and/or regular names such as Kingritz, icarodx and kaityson36. Read on for the coverage of all the semi- and final matches, or even better, watch these great games yourselves with the video coverage! What about my accomplishments, you ask? Well, the title isn’t fictional.
On top of the Championship, the last part of the Morningtide overview, Red, is included, while the Mic and the Spotlight are postponed due to the Championship coverage.

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The Monday Mulligan #5: Can Red Decks Win?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

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Storm Control takes its seventh standard trophy home, winning MPDC 1.16. This time it was piloted by its creator kehmesis, who beat MPDC regular ZeroFusion with Use UR Illusion in the finals. It is blue’s turn in the Morningtide review series and the Mic is passed to Kingritz, who shares some awesome intel on Kingdrifter and does his own Morningtide review. The Spotlight is aimed at Red Deck Wins, the forgotten aggro deck in standard.

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The Monday Mulligan #4: Storming Through Standard

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

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What We Have For You Today

Last monday’s MPDC (with a turn-out of a whopping 22 players!) was won by everyone’s favorite (and only) MPDC article writer, myself, playing kehmesis’ version of UR Storm Control (which is featured in the Spotlight), defeating mikec_00 piloting Use UR Illusion in the finals. On top of this I’ll continue to look into Morningtime with standards least played color: Green. Will Morningtide change this? Last, but not least, an interview with kehmesis, his first article feature after “going nuts”!

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The Monday Mulligan #3: Week Of The Weener

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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What We Have For You Today

This week I’ll have to listen to [url=http://www.ts-discovery.de/images/Guns%20N'%20Roses%20Use%20your%20illusion%201.jpg]Gun’s and Roses[/url] more. The article will contain the continuation of the Morningtide overview, this time with the color best at destroying you footware; the color of the swamp (Don’t step in!). MPDC was won by jtamaro with an old favorite, White Weenie, beating a modified version of UR Storm Control, played by ChronicHeaves in the finals. The deck in the spotlight this week will be Grimdrifter, and the mic is passed to RaiserUK, who gives many interesting answers about, among others, his ability to go to multiple top spots while being a newcomer. Click the link and come on in, [url=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007WQJ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg]Hot Chocolate[/url] inside!

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The Monday Mulligan #2: I Don’t Hate Mondays!

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

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What We Have For You Today

In todays Mulligan, I’ll talk about last mondays MPDC, which was won by 53N531 playing UR Illusions, beating hurriboy with his Sticks ‘n Stones list in the finals. The mic is in the hands of Sensei this week, talking about the state of the meta and the upcomming Morningtide release. This weeks winning MPDC list will be in the spotlight, having multiple pilots and top places in the last two weeks. I am also starting my five part “comprehensive” Morningtide standard overview, with the most worthwhile white commons for standard. The delay of both MTGO3.0 and Morningtide will give me enough time to finish this before we can flip the cards through our digital fingers.

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I Hate Mondays #1: When It All Began

Friday, February 1st, 2008
Introduction

Welcome to my first ever article for PDCmagic.com! For you that don’t know me/don’t read the “Hello, I’m …” thread I’m SypherSun (Jeroen in real life), a 20 year old chemistry student from the Netherlands. I’ve been playing PDC since June, mostly MPDC because its the only event I can regularely attend. If I’m home in the weekends I like to play some classic PDC, where RnR has helped me to some top places (sadly not THE top yet). I have a weakness for black and/or red based control decks and I can’t play aggro or combo.

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