158: Playing Against the Unknown with Sergiy Sushalskyy
Sergiy Sushalskyy started playing Magic in 1999 with the Urza block. He’s been regularly competing in Grand Prixs since 2012 and has 3 Grand Prix Top 8s, 2 Ukraine National Champion’s titles and a recent Magic World C
up Top 8 with team Ukraine. Segiy is from Kiev, Ukraine but lives in Edinborough, Scotland. Read More...
157: Dream Big but Start Slow with Petros Tziotis
Petros Tziotis is a Greek Magic: The Gathering player who in his first year of playing won Nationals 2007. This year he came back to win the World Magic Cup with his teammates Bill, Panos and Nikos. Petros lives in Athens, Greece.
Read More...156: Finding The Balance with Peter Vieren
Peter Vieren played continually on the Pro Tour from 2010-11, then took (sort of) a break when he started working. He got back to the Pro Tour in 2015. He has two Magic Grand Prix top 8s (Lyon ’10, Prague ’15), 1 Pro Tour top 16 (Milwaukee ’15) and is the captain of the 2016 Belgium World Magic Cup team which took second place. Peter lives in Leuven, Belgium.
Read More...155: How Being Nice Will Get You Ahead with Lauri Pispa
Lauri Pispa has been playing Magic competitively for 2 years, which comes after a 10-year break from the game. In that time he played other games competitively and even opened a card shop one year ago named Sensei’s Divining Shop. He’s a member of the 2016 Finnish World Magic Cup team and lives in Tampere, Finland.
Read More...154: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Ryan Cubit
Ryan Cubit made it to his first Pro Tour (PT Madrid) in early 2016 where he made day 2. He’s been playing on and off since 2000 and has won states and regionals as well as other low-level tournaments. He’s a member of the 2016 Australian World Magic Cup team who loves building new decks and tweaking current ones. Ryan lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Read More...153:Masters of Modern Founder Alex Kessler Talks Content Creation and Mana Management
Alex Kessler is the creator of the web show Top Decking, the previous host of Mad Magic, and the creator and host of the Masters of Modern Podcast. He’s a Founding member of the website www.Collected.Company, and is the President and game and toy designer of the KessCo toy and Game company. Alex lives in Santa Monica, California.
Read More...152: Why Playing the Best Deck is Right with Zachary Kiihne
Zachary Kiihne is a 19 year old Computer Science major at Umass Amherst. Grand Prix Providence 2016 was his first Grand Prix Top 8. Previously he had top 64ed two GPs and top 8ed the last RPTQ. This is his first time breaking through to the Pro Tour. Zachary lives in Amherst MA.
Read More...151: Andreas Ganz Knows There is Always More to Learn
Andreas Ganz has filled his life with many Magic-related activities. When he’s not playing Grand Prixs he works at a local Magic store, manages content for Blackborder.com and does some trading of his own. He has top 8ed 2 Grand Prixs and won 1! Andreas lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
Read More...150: The Mitas Touch of Tournament Prep with Alex Mitas
Alex Mitas is a college student from Albuquerque, NM, and an up-and-coming Magic player with a penchant for playing control decks, experience on the pro tour and, most recently, a grand prix top 8 competitor.
Read More...149: Special Guest Jason Preston Helps Us Apply Magic Skills to the Workplace
Jason Preston is the co-founder of Dent, a conference and a community of entrepreneurially minded creatives who seek to put a dent in the universe through great leadership and personal mastery. He’s known as “Spade” in Counter-Strike, and recently picked up Magic. Jason lives in Seattle WA with his wife and two kids.
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