While you dont need the in-depth knowledge of a judge, you should be both familiar with and up to date on the following aspects of Magic: The Gathering : Rules of how to play The sanctioned formats promoted by WotC (Commander, Standard, Pioneer, etc.) Top decks, strategies, and cards within sanctioned formats This will help you not only understand why certain cards are desirable compared to others, it will also hone your instinct for what might make a good card in the future
itd be too tempting to make the deck Oops, all Chandras, but having planeswalkers with different names helps avoid confusion at the table
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Plays well with : Blade of Selves gives you multiple removal spells Rishkar, Peema Renegade to turn him and his new 4/4 friends into mana dorks
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They have a very similar setup with price history, and use an escrow system so buyers are much better protected
