Standard Pauper – Red/Black Blightening Deck Discussion

August 21st, 2009 by messels

Much of Power 9 Pro’s focus in our articles is on tournament-level play but we also play casually when we can find the time. One of our teammate’s Zak participates in a “Standard Pauper” tournament from time to time. Zak thought he would bring up the decklist with our team to see if we couldn’t [...]

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$5k Standard Tourney — G/W Tokens Report and 3 Lessons

August 12th, 2009 by messels

August 7th through August 9th, Superstars Game Center hosted a $5k Standard event. Friday the 7th was an early bird, main flights on Saturday and then the official day 2 on Sunday. (If you’re looking for my 3 main take-aways, those are at the very bottom of this report). I played in the Early Bird [...]

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Grand Prix LA — Tournament Report — James — Three lessons to take to every tournament

January 20th, 2009 by messels

before getting into the details of the tournament and a brief outline of the decks and opponents, some quick updates. first, power 9 pro will be shipping the Dragon’s Egg to local vendors starting tomorrow and we’ll be opening the online store to consumers by friday. second, we did get a great interview with volkan [...]

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GP LA: Event Coverage and Player Interviews

January 15th, 2009 by messels

just a quick note to let our readers konw that we’ll be attending GP – LA (Wizards’ site) not only as competitors (team power 9 pro) but we’ll also be on the scout to get you the best footage possible, including event break downs, discussions about meta-game, player impressions and hopefully an interview with volkan [...]

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Team Power 9 Pro 2009

December 19th, 2008 by messels

in our further commitment to be a force of reckoning in the magic the gathering community, we’ve formed an official tournament team.  there are currently three players who will be attending ptq’s, grand prix and anything in between that we can get to.  (we’ll be posting exact schedules as they’re established–for now we are attending [...]

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