{"id":1591,"date":"2017-04-05T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T09:21:43","slug":"exemplar-wave-8-features-saagar-laxman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/2017\/04\/05\/exemplar-wave-8-features-saagar-laxman\/","title":{"rendered":"Exemplar Wave 8 Features \u2013 Saagar Laxman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0St<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/files\/2016\/01\/XPOK-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"XPOK\" \/>ay tuned to this blog or to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/mtgjudgeseurope.east\/\" target=\"_blank\">Europe-East\u00a0Magic Judges Facebook group<\/a> to read more features, today we present\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/6213749912\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=6213749912&size=200 alt=\"Saagar Laxman L1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates \"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saagar Laxman L1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Saagar\u00a0is\u00a0an L1 judge from Dubai since 2015. He started playing magic with\u00a0the original Zendikar block, and his favorite formats are\u00a0modern, EDH, and more recently legacy. \u00a0He has been involved in the Dubai MTG community for a long time, \u00a0and has been mostly\u00a0focused on promoting EDH in the region. Outside of magic, he plays a lot of video games and works in software.<\/p>\n<br style=\"clear: both; height: 1px; margin: -1px 0pt 0pt; overflow: hidden;\">\n<p>Saagar\u00a0received 3\u00a0nominations in Wave 8, let\u2019s have a look at them.<\/p>\n<p><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/70230859' > <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/chriga\/\">Christian Gawrilowicz<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=70230859&size=200'><\/span><\/span> had this to say about Saagar:<\/p>\n<p>[cets_callout_box style=&#8217;gray&#8217; align=&#8217;full&#8217; title=&#8221;]<em> Hey Saagar! Excellent job with the replacement effect presentation at the Dubai conference. I found it extremely useful and I could even learn something from it &#8211; which rarely happens. Well done!<\/em>[\/cets_callout_box]<\/p>\n<p><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/36960971' ><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/Samoa\/\">Masaru Koide<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=36960971&size=200'><\/span><\/span> had this to say about Saagar:<\/p>\n<p>[cets_callout_box style=&#8217;gray&#8217; align=&#8217;full&#8217; title=&#8221;] <em>Hi, Saagar. You lectured Layers &amp; Replacement effect in Dubai official Judge Conference \u2013 winter,2016. Your lecture which explain by actual card combination is interested and easy to understand effect &amp; result difference one by one. I felt that your lecture gave good inference of improvement our community rule knowledge. Actually, It was good opportunity for me to review this rule part in this time. Thank you !!<\/em>[\/cets_callout_box]<\/p>\n<p><span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/49197774' ><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/trixobird\/\">Giorgos Trichopoulos<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=49197774&size=200'><\/span><\/span> had this to say about Saagar:<\/p>\n<p>[cets_callout_box style=&#8217;gray&#8217; align=&#8217;full&#8217; title=&#8221;] <em>Saagar, during our Middle East conference it was apparent that you are quite ready to be a L2. &#8211; David trusted you to run a seminar, which verify your document knowledge &#8211; You are in very good terms with all the organizers\u00a0(all of them will be very happy to have you as a L2) which verify the transition from the local judge to an Area judge Saagar, I&#8217;d like you to answer this question: Why are you not a L2 yet?<\/em>\u00a0 [\/cets_callout_box]<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on\u00a0so many recognitions on your performance as a presenter at the judge conference, hope to see more from you at our next conferences!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wave 8, we will continue to feature some highlights of the Exemplar nominations received by judges in our region. Today we present <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/6213749912' >Saagar Laxman <\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=6213749912&#038;size=200'><\/span><\/span>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[84,132],"language":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recognitions","tag-saagar-laxman","tag-wave-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/europeeast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}