Showing posts with label Grand Prix. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Phyrexian Arena News and Updates

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Phyrexian Conquests

First off, I have some congratulations to give out to 2 of our columnists, Eddie Walker and Scott Tompkins.

Both Eddie Walker and Scott Tompkins made Day 2 of the largest Grand Prix in Magic: The Gathering history, Grand Prix Charlotte.

Eddie Walker had an amazing 2 Day run ending the event with a 13-3-1 record, a 22nd place finish in a field of 2963 players.

Scott Tompkins unfortunately lost in Round 10 knocking him from the main event but it certainly didn't stop him from unleashing his fury on the SCG Miami 10K side event.  Scott dropped bombs on his 10K opponents with an 18th place finish in the 623 player side event.

Line Up Shift

We are shifting our line up.  Starting this week both Thirst for Knowledge and Ideas Unbound columns move up one day.

Thirst for Knowledge will now be on Tuesday.
Ideas Unbound will now be on Thursday.

News and Announcements

I promised last week that I had some things in store for you all this week.

First off, I have been working on some products to roll out to promote the brand.

Here are some of the items I'm working on getting in stock:

Stickers

These would be sized to 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches so they could go on deckboxs (or other small items).

Playmats

This just came in today from InkedPlaymats.com and it looks fantastic.  I could not be happier about the product.  I am hopeful that I will be able to start processing orders for these soon.

Life Pads

 I am working on these with MtGpad.com.  All I like is getting the logo & slogan at just the right opacity and then the order will be submitted.

Shirts

 I am working with Vistaprint on the shirts.  I did a polo for me to see how the printing would go since it is embroidered, not an Iron on patch like most places.  I have to say the embroider emblem looks fantastic.  I am also working on T-Shirts as well

Other Viral Marketing

 You guys remember the Poison Counter tokens in Scars block right?  I have the idea to place stickers on the back of the Poison Counter tokens and write "You've Been Infected" on the front.

I am also trying to get an artist to work on doing formal artwork for tokens.

Twitch Channel

 We have moved the Twitch channel over under the user Team_Phyrexia.  I have the link above in our menu as well.  This channel will be used by any / all of our columnists for live streaming.

Bradley Reeves
@YawgmothsWill

Infecting Magic One Grinder At A Time

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Thirst for Knowledge - 11/26/12

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This past weekend had only one major Standard event, GP San Antonio with 908 players.  Let's take a look at what shifted in the past week:


 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th Total
RB Aggro 1 1




1 1
1




5
4C Midrange

1












1
UW Flash





1

1


1

3
Bant Control


1











1
GW Aggro




1









1
RWU Midrange



1










1
Reanimator











1


1
Naya Midrange










1



1
4C Control













1
1
GW Midrange














1 1

It looks as if the metagame has come full circle.  The first week of post RTR standard started with players preparing for public enemy #1: Zombies.  After filling the format with Zombie hate cards, the deck slowly dropped off in numbers and performance.  With new innovations, RB Aggro returned to the spotlight in a huge way at San Antonio with 5 copies in the Top 16.  GW Aggro didn't have the same success as it did during the previous few weeks as it only posted 1 copy in the Top 16.  UW Flash continues to place well with another 3 copies in the Top 16 this week.

There were a lot of players who had complained about the Standard format but after the last couple of weeks, this might be the healthiest Standard format I've ever seen in 13 years of playing competitive Magic.

Totals by Placing:


 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th Total
GWB Tokens 1 1













2
Reanimator
1
1 1

1
2 1
1


8 17
Frites 1 1
1
1
1




1

6
Hoof there it is! 1











1
1 3
Jund Midrange
2 3 1 3 3 1 1 1
1

1 2
19
BG Zombies

1 1


1







3
UW Control



1
1 1 1 1
1 1

1 8
Bant Control 1 1 2 1 1 1

2

1 2


12
Mono Red




1


2


1

4
RB Aggro 2 1 2 2


1 1
2 1
1 1 1 15
Esper Tokens










1



1
GW Midrange











2

2 4
RWU Midrange 1 2 1 1 2 1 1
1





1 11
GW Aggro 1

2
1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 18
Jund Aggro





1



1



2
Bant Midrange








1


2

3
UWR Control 1








1
1

1 4
Jund Zombies




1








1 2
WU Aggro
1

1
1



1
1 3
8
Naya Midrange






1

1 2



4
Grixis Control







1






1
RUG Soulbound









1




1
Esper Midrange











1


1
Junk Midrange










1



1
UW Flash 1



1 4 1 1 2


1

11
Esper Control







1




1
2
Esper Aggro



1










1
Naya Aggro













1
1
White Weenie








1





1
5C Control









1




1
4C Control













1
1
4C Midrange

1












1


First thing, I merged the RB Aggro and RB Zombie deck into RB Aggro now as such they are basically the same deck at this point, which brings its 8 week total to 15 Top 16 so you better be prepared for Hellrider and company.  Next, if UW Flash isn't on your radar by now, better wise up, it needs to be.

Totals by Week:


 Wk 1 Wk 2 W 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Wk 7 Wk 8 Total

Cincy Providence Indy New Orleans St Louis Dallas Seattle GP Charleston GP Bochum GP San Antonio

Junk Tokens
1




1

2
Reanimator 1 1

2
1

1 6 17
Frites 1
2 1
1 2 1

8
Hoof






1 2
3
Jund Mid2 3 5 4 1 1

3
19
BG Zombies 1 1



1


3
UW Control
3


1 2 1

7
Bant Con 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 14
Red Aggro
1
1

2


4
RB Aggro 2 2


1 1 2 2 5 15
wub Tokens
1







1
GW Mid
1





2 1 4
UWR Mid

2 4 1 2

1 1 11
GW Aggro 1
2 3 2 3 2 4
1 18
Jund Aggro

1






1
Bant Mid 1
1






2
UWR Con 2
2






4
rgb Zombies 2








2
WU Aggro 1 1

2 1 1
2
8
Naya Mid


2
1


1 4
Grixis Con



1




1
Soulbound



1




1
Esper Mid



1




1
Junk Mid




1



1
UW Flash



2 2 1 2 2 3 12
Esper Con




1
1

2
Naya Aggro





1


1
Esper Aggro





1


1
WW







1
1
5C Control






1

1
4C Control








1 1
4C Mid








1 1














16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16



Join me Wednesday on my Twitch TV channel, Arcane Melee on Wednesday this week.  I will be testing Modern with the Modern PTQ season starting in Late December!  Let's crush this format!

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Monday, November 5, 2012

Yawgmoth's Agenda - A Modern Perspective

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Wizards of the Coast and Magic R&D have embraced Modern as a much easier to support eternal format (due to the effect of the Official Reprint Policy).  The players are somewhat torn on the format itself however.  Here are some of my ideas to get the format going.


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