Zvi Mowshowitz

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name = Zvi Mowshowitz

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residence = New York, USA
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winnings = US$ 141,460cite web | url = http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=protour/standings/winnings | title = Lifetime Winnings Leaders | accessdate = 2007-12-07]
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Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional player who also held a developer intern position at Wizards of the Coast Magic R&D. He is known for having created innovative and sometimes game-breaking decks like [http://www.germagic.de/nda/deck.php?id=99 TurboZvi] and My Fires, as well as many other notable decks that put up respectable finishes at highly competitive Magic: The Gathering tournaments. His first place finishes include a Pro Tour and a Grand Prix. He has placed in the top eight of four Pro Tours, and earned over $140,000 playing Magic competitively.

Mowshowitz was particularly noted for exploiting previously undiscovered card interactions and demonstrating that cards once believed to be quite poor were in fact "broken", meaning sufficiently powerful as to be game-dominating, when fully understood. Examples include "Yawgmoth's Bargain", ["Yawgmoth's Bargain" [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=15193 Card Details] ] once believed to be unplayable but which was rapidly banned as "too powerful" after Zvi demonstrated its potential when fully exploited [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mr5] , and "Dream Halls", ["Dream Halls" [http://gatherer.wizards.com/gathererlookup.asp?set=Stronghold&name=dream_halls Card Details] ] the card-drawing engine behind the now-legendary [http://www.germagic.de/nda/deck.php?id=99 TurboZvi] deck archetype.

He is also a popular internet writer, previously with Brainburst, [http://www.starcitygames.com StarCityGames.com] , and then for the official Magic website [http://www.magicthegathering.com MagicTheGathering.com] . In April 2006, Zvi stopped writing for MagicTheGathering.com.

In 2007, Mowshowitz was elected into the 2007 class of the with induction scheduled for December 5, 2007 [cite news
url = http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/bd296
title = The Class of 2007
publisher = Wizards of the Coast
date= 2007-09-07
accessdate = 2007-09-09]

Accomplishments

* Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famer
* Top 8 at Grand Prix-Boston (1998)
* Top 8 at Pro Tour-New York (1999)
* Top 8 at Grand Prix-Washington D.C. (1999)
* Top 8 at U.S. Nationals (1999)
* Top 8 at Grand Prix-Manchester (2000)
* Top 8 at Pro Tour-Chicago (2000)
* Champion at Pro Tour-Tokyo (2001)
* Top 4 at Pro Tour-New York (2001)
* Top 4 at Grand Prix-New Jersey (2002)
* Champion at Grand Prix-New Orleans (2002)
* Top 8 at Grand Prix-Boston (2003)
* Champion at Grand Prix-Pittsburgh (2003)
* Top 8 at Grand Prix-Atlanta (2003)cite web|url=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hofplayer/zmowshowitz|title=Zvi Mowshowitz — Hall of Fame Profile|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|accessdate=2007-12-07]

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