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Returning to Paper Play - Preparing for Your Next In-Person Event

Returning to Paper Play – Preparing for Your Next In-Person Event

PVDDR comes to us to share the tricks and tips to returning to paper magic.

For almost all of its existence, Magic was predominantly a paper game. However, the Pandemic quickly forced digital spaces like Arena and MTGO to become the defacto ways to play Magic at a competitive level. Now, with the returned focus on paper, plenty of digital era players are signing up for big in-person tournaments for the first time. Because of this, there seems to be a lot of questions about what is legal/proper/acceptable in paper Magic and what isn’t, and how it might be different from online Magic, so I decid...


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PVDDR

Paulo Vitor "PVDDR" Damo da Rosa has been a professional Magic: the Gathering player and writer for over 20 years. He was Player of the Year in 2017, World Champion in 2020, and is tied for most Top Finishes in history with 17. He will play whichever decks he thinks are the best, but his favorite style is aggro-control. Other than Magic, PV is also a fan of watching TV shows, reading fantasy novels and playing several other games such as Bridge, LoL, TFT, Storybook Brawl, Baldur's Gate 2 and Diablo 2.

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