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The Major Formats of Magic by Solpugid

I've seen a lot of posts on the eM forums asking about the different Magic formats. Some of these questions involve the benefits of one format over another, whereas a few people are completely clueless as to what T1 or Extended mean.
Orginally published 1/8/2007

The Magic format for the obsessed by Solpugid

Orginally published 8/2/2006

The Sum Of All the Parts: Combo, Synergy and Manaceleration by Scott

Come hither and listen, to a story I have to tell: "Oh once there was a player, a gamer, who thought he knew the tune, he posted his combo and grinned to himself as he knew he had a winner. But the very next day he logged onto see, that his post had been deleted. Why he wondered did this horrendous thing happen?" So before you go posting and possibly get burnt; come here and give a good read.
Orginally published 3/29/2010

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Scythe of the Wretched Buy + Ancient Hydra Buy + Ashnod's Altar Buy Have the scythe equiping the hidra with at least one countar and one mana available. damage the hydra with the countar, sac to the altar for two mana, hydra returns use one mana to ping hydra use the other to ping oponent or creature, sac to altar... etc. Posted by gzdrago Rating: (11)
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