Since I last wrote of Pauper, much has changed on MTGO! Included here are a full MTGO field archetype breakdown, multiple new decklists, and reader questions from Twitter.

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You can read Part 1 of my Trip Report here: A Most Magical of Weekends. Welcome back to The Brewery! It's certainly been a while since I've written for Quiet Speculation, and it sure feels good to write again. 🙂 This past weekend was a busy one with Grand Prix Dallas marking my first Grand […]

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Congratulations to Ben Stark, Pro Tour: Paris 2011 Champion! Note: This posting is being updated as every game ends. Check back often for more play-by-play! Hello, and welcome back to The Brewery at the uncharacteristically early 8:00 AM hour. Why be awake so early? To watch the Top 8 of Pro Tour: Paris, of course! […]

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Game 1, Standard Matignon starts off with Scalding Tarn, matched by Seachrome Coast for Brad Nelson. Matignon searches up an Island, shuffles up his deck, and presents it to Brad Nelson to shuffle and cut himself. Matignon drops a Mountain and tries to play Sphere of the Suns, waiting for Nelson to signal a Spell […]

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The Top 8 of Pro Tour: Paris has been set, and the finals are set to play later today. In the mean time however, we have eight new decklists to analyze and drool over! I've been losing a lot of interest in Standard lately with Extended being the current Constructed PTQ season and Standard feeling […]

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Jund is one of the top decks in the Extended format, and here is everything you should need to supplement your playtesting with it for Grand Prix: Atlanta!

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Taking a look at the best finishing Jund decklists in the early PTQ Nagoya season to create a baselane "consensus" list.

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Pauper is the best format that you're probably not playing. A healthy Eternal format with some of the coolest decks you'll find? And it costs a fraction of any other Constructed format you can find!

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Worlds Top 8, seeded: 1. Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, BRA (UB Control) 2. Love Janse, SWE (Eldrazi Green) 3. Guillaume Wafo-Tapa, FRA (UB Control) 4. Guillaume Matignon, FRA (UB Control) 5. Eric Froehlich, USA (B/r Vampires) 6. Lukas Jaklovsky, CZE (UB Control) 7. Christopher Wolf, AUT (UB Control) 8. Jonathan Randle, ENG (UW Control) […]

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Welcome back to The Brewery! I hope this middle-of-the-night writeup goes over well enough; Worlds 2010 is going on literally as I write this! I had no plans on writing anything tonight, and then I saw this exceptional brew played to a 6-0 record by Brian Kibler: Caw-Go, as played by Brian Kibler Untitled Deck […]

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There was a time when this deck was flying under the radar (well, as much as arguably the strongest deck from last season can really do) and the best reason to bring in a card like Kiln Fiend or Frost Titan was that your opponent simply sideboarded out their removal for game 2! This would also put your hapless opponent in a difficult decision for game 3 [...]

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First, an introduction: I know it's been a week full of them here at Quiet Speculation, but new content is always exciting! My name is Dylan Lerch, and I am both a writer and editor for Spike content here at QS. I began playing Magic in 3rd grade, way back in 1995. Countless booster packs […]

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