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Today I'd like to add on to a topic that Jon Swearingen touched on in his article "Thoughts of a Ginger" and explore one thing that he mentioned in his piece even further. His message was to try to explain why good players continue to succeed. Yes, they have the skills and the preparation, but so do many other players. Assuming you are equally good and equally prepared, what does Olivier Ruel have that you don't?  Intimidation.
  Do not underestimate the intimidation factor. It is... Read More

I'm in no mood to write a full tournament report. I couldn't sleep last night because I slept 'til 4 on Sunday, so I'm working on 19 hours of waking life (factoring in that tricky savings time) with 4 more hours of classes ahead of me. So I will not be writing a full report for this PTQ, but a summary of the important facts and inclusion of useless tidbits.  If you wish to know more details you can contact me. Fact sheet: Went to Universe of Superheroes (my local card/comic shop)... Read More

My friend Jon Swearingen has some thoughts he'd like to share with you, so he wrote this article. And as you can tell from the title, he is an unabashed ginger. Enjoy.
 For those of you reading this article who don’t know who I am (which is probably most of you), allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jon Swearingen. I am a PTQ player from the Ohio valley region. I have moneyed both Pro Tours I have played in and top 8’d eight of my last eleven PTQs, as well as being an FNM all st... Read More

Panda Connection. Cheesequake. King in the Castle. What do these three seemingly unrelated things have in common? They're deck names. Magic has a long history of odd, ridiculous and sometimes downright stupid names for decks. Some players, like Luis Scott-Vargas and Brian David-Marshall, are particularly prone to awful deck names. "So how," you may ask, "can I make my deck have a terrible name too?" Well, other than being naturally blessed with the gift (and apparently h... Read More

In a recent blog I wrote, TCGplayer user concede2me commented that we should revisit the discussion on Bitterblossom. Perhaps mostly he was chiding me for being "pretty bad at magic (in almost every way)," but regardless I think it's work talking about again. A side note: this is in no way a slam on concede2me. indeed, he has always backed up his arguments with solid fact, even back when I wrote for a certain other website and I appreciate him not simply accepting everything I say as fact t... Read More

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