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Well, May 10th and 11th is J-Championship Nashville. I'll be attending, and seeing as how it will be my first J-Championship I thought I'd share my feelings with all of you total strangers. Honestly, I'm anxious. Not about whether I win or not (I'm going to have fun; and trade a LOT), but about the attitudes of the other players. Some of those kids take it to the extreme and take it a lot more serious than the rest of us. I expect my opponent's to call a judge over to the table a LOT. Not b... Read More

For the first time since chaos sorcerer, and then 4 months later Stein were banned, we've been plunged in a format with a single dominant deck again. What's more is that the dominant deck is stable and extremely fast, which spurs only OTK's and FTK's as viable alternatives at major competitions. As if that wasn't enough, it seems this game is going downhill in more than just one way.

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Spurred by recent successes with the latest booster set Phantom of Darkness, UDE seems... Read More

Ryan Murphy writes another irrelevant article on the traditional format, and more importantly, sjc Costa Mesa has gone by (along with several ruling errors in games posted on Metagame alone) and to no one's surprise, Dark Armed Dragon (DAD) took the prize. Actually, it took a lot of prizes. The sheer amount of DAD decks obviously contributed. I think a field of 25% random / E-Hero decks, 25% DAD decks and 50% anti-DAD decks is a good rough estimate. Yet the power of DAD is undeniable. Or is it?... Read More