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Magic is hard. Legacy is even harder. And while videos are a great way to suck up a broad range of information & experience in an efficient way, articles are the resource that make for conscious, in-depth learning. Or so we claim. Most of our articles are a mash up of tournament reports & travel blog, with tons of pictures to set the mood.
LEGACY
ARTICLES
Magic is hard. Legacy is even harder. And while videos are a great way to suck up a broad range of information & experience in an efficient way, articles are the resource that make for conscious, in-depth learning. Most of our articles are a mash up of tournament reports & travel blog, with tons of pictures to set the mood.
Barcelona, Rome, Frankfurt & Hamburg 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 | A Tale of Four Cities — And 2 Trophies
It’s 11:57pm on a Sunday night. Two men in their early 30s gather around a table in an abandoned hotel lobby. Their bodies are tired, hungry, and exhausted from a long day in a foreign town. They have spent the last two hours roaming the suburban streets, desperately trying to find some food. After being...
Prague 🇨🇿 | Apocalypse Now
Last weekend MKM hosted its third major tournament of the season in the Czech capital of Prague, one of my favourite cities to ever play Magic in. Not only is it relatively close to Munich, but also the city itself, the venue, the food and especially the people you get to meet always make the...
Every Match Revealed: An Analysis of all ~2,000 matches at CMS Frankfurt
Some of you will remember the amazing Too Much Information articles series the legendary Hatfield brothers used to run on SCG many years ago. In the spirit of this complete analysis of tournaments, including all the matches played, we have now analyzed the first big tournament of the post-Miracles era: the 437 player MKM Series...
Frankfurt 🇩🇪 | CMS – Unfinished Business & A Surprise Top8
Last year, MKM Frankfurt saw me Top8 their 600+ player Modern event, while only placing 19th in Legacy following an 8-2 finish. On top of that I had also won the Grand Modern Trial on Friday and finished as runner-up in the Legacy Super Finals taking home over 1,000 Euro for the entire weekend. I...
Paris 🇫🇷 | Eternal Weekend Triple Top8
Officially dubbed the European Legacy Championship, this year’s Eternal Weekend in Paris gathered a staggering 450 Legacy players from all over the country — and it would have even been more had the event not been capped at that number, relegating some people late to register on the sidelines. With such an amazing turnout, I’m...
Milan 🇮🇹 | CMS – Fresh New Season
It’s the start to a fresh new season! The previous weekend in Milan some of the best and brightest minds in European Eternal gathered in the Lombard capital of Milan to crown the first champions of the season. And I was there, too! With MKM introducing the so-called “Power 8” rewards system, my plans are...
SLOW PLAY — Why I stood up & left the table
Disclaimer: This was meant to be a long and thorough article about Slow Play in Magic, particularly in Legacy. Unfortunately, I never had the time (pun unintended) to finish my earlier draft of it, but still really wanted to get the word out there. I have never been this pissed about a situation in a...
Prague 🇨🇿 | Grand Prix Report
Grand Prix time! The annual event the entire continent’s Legacy community is looking forward to. It’s quite a shame Wizards of the Coast decided to hold both the US and EU one on the same weekend, given how interconnected the community is, with several players usually flying across the pond for each other’s Grand Prix....
Frankfurt 🇩🇪 | Top8 in The Largest Event of ’16
First of all: big Shoutouts to MKM and their tournament organizer JK Entertainment for finally putting Germany back on the map of big international tournaments. Ever since the disaster of GP Xbox in 2009, where local laws caused WotC to substitute cash prizes for consoles and other stuff, German tournaments had earned a reputation for...
Annecy 🇫🇷 | Bazaar of Moxen — Team Effort!
After no Bazaar of Moxen in 2015, it was so great to see Annecy back on the European tournament map for this year! And while it’s almost a 7-hour from Munich, the tournament itself, the great organization by the BoM team as well as the stunningly beautiful scenery of the entire Annecy region make it...
Milan 🇮🇹 | OvinoSpring – Groundhog Day
“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” — Bill Murray, Groundhog Day (1993) Milan, one of the epicentres of European Eternal for over a decade now. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve played in the...
1,043 Matches Later — My Legacy by the Numbers
Do you still remember your first-ever Legacy match? I do. It was November 2007 and I was playing Enchantress. Ok, playing is already pushing it. In fact, I didn’t get to actually play as I was late for the tournament following what would become my weekly 3+ hour train ride to the event. When I...
Prague 🇨🇿 | Runner Up @ Prague Eternal
Julian’s Excellent Adventures in Europe continue! Following his Top16 finish in Madrid in the previous week, Julian travelled to the Czech capital to compete in the biannual Prague Eternal (11th-13th March) Legacy and Modern tournaments. Check out how he managed to hit the Top8s of both events with his recently developed Chaos Elves and Ad...
Madrid 🇪🇸 | Bazaar of Moxen Kick-Off!
Welcome to another episode of Julian’s Excellent Adventures in Europe. This time we’re looking back at my finish at the inaugural Bazaar of Moxen Series stop in Madrid (26th-28th Feb), including a review of Legacy, Modern and most importantly Cube! Friday- Legacy Trials I gotta say it felt kind of weird flying back to Madrid...
Milan 🇮🇹 | Winning the CMS with Chaos Elves
“In the beginning, there was Chaos as a primaeval state of existence. Chaos was the primal emptiness — a dark, silent, formless and infinite oddity with no trace of life. Out of Chaos, Gaea first came to existence.” — Hesiod, Theogony (c. 700 BC) For longer than I can remember, has been the most sided-out...
Madrid 🇪🇸 | CMS Report & Outlook for 2016
The weekend before Christmas I went back to the roots of my international Magic career in Madrid. Despite having played the game for much longer, Grand Prix Madrid 2010 marked both my first ever major and international event. I remember being super excited but also a bit scared about the sheer size of what at...
Prague 🇨🇿 | CMS – Back To The Future!
Did you know that in Back to the Future II, Marty McFly travels to 21st October 2015? That is this Wednesday! I’m already super excited for my new hoverboard and all the other awesome toys we are about to get! But did you know also that one of the most relevant parts of the entire...
Lille 🇫🇷 | Grand Prix – A Castle Full of Nerds
The idea to rent a castle for Grand Prix Lille first came up during Team Euroswag’s American raid in November 2014. For the most part, nobody really took it very seriously — up until Felix started collecting offers for different places in and around Lille. We initially found a huge chateau 100km outside the city,...
Milan 🇮🇹 | Ovino Spring – It’s That Time of the Year Again
Every spring and autumn most of the European Legacy population heads south towards Lombardy’s capital city Milan. Soon going into its 10th year, Ovinogeddon has long become one of our continent’s main Eternal fixtures. We often like to think of the duality of the Bazaar of Moxen in France and the Ovinogeddon in Italy as...
Rome 🇮🇹 | CMS – Legacy & Vintage in The Eternal City
Earlier this month, Europe’s premier online card-trading platform MKM held the first event of its recently announced continent-wide tournament series. From 10th to 12th of April over 200 players duked it out in what must have been the ideal place — The Eternal City of Rome! Our Crew for Rome: Felix “Phelix” Munch — 43Lands.dec (Legacy) // UR Delver...
Milan 🇮🇹 | Milano Eternal Debrief
Last weekend my friends and I travelled to Italy to participate in the newly created Milano Eternal tournament organized by JK Entertainment from Frankfurt. Even though nobody really knows why Jens decided to hold the tournament in Milano, it’s always just a rather short 5h drive for us Munich guys, so we were happy to make the transit across...
Paris 🇫🇷 | Winning Bazaar of Moxen
Bazaar of Moxen : L’intégralité des live “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.” Why Elves? I strongly believe that Elves is one of the top decks in Legacy. Unless people start not only throwing a lot more hate at it but also understand how the deck actually plays out post-board, Elves will...
Amsterdam 🇳🇱 | Grand Prix – A Lesson in Choosing Your Deck
Hey fellow Sourcers, so I’m back from GP Amsterdam and got quite a lot of stories to tell. While some of you might just be interested in the tournament report, I’d like to share all my impressions and experiences outside the battlefield with the intrigued rest of you! My journey starts on Thursday at the...
Beijing 🇨🇳 | Two Weeks in China
Each year, one Chinese city is selected to host the prestigious “Orlov” Legacy tournament, gathering the country’s entire community for one big event with arguably the most profitable payout in the history of the format. In 2018, this honour would fall to the nation’s capital Beijing, where on December 15th & 16th 152 players gathered...