That Time Again

It's a good thing I'm not aiming for detailed play-by-play reports anymore. Because the tournament with the most on the line and the one where I played the most interesting deck, the N00bCon itself, has already mostly faded away among everything else happening during the weekend. I hardly have any photos, and my travel stories …

Arvika 2024

First, some general thoughts about the blog. I have considered stopping writing for a while, at least tournament reports. I'm going to the same old events, playing the same old decks, so brewing, tuning and traveling all feel a bit stale to write about now. In the beginning of the blog, just writing a tournament …

2023 Year in Review

When it comes to Magic, it wasn't that bad of a year. I got to visit some interesting places and hang out with a lot of fantastic people. I also shouldn't complain about my results even though I'm disappointed in my failure to deliver when it mattered the most, i.e. in the shark tournaments. Therefore, …

Bringing Home the Bacon

A few weeks ago, I learned I don't have an invite to next year's N00bCon. I couldn't count on it before, but I have had one for the past few years, for various reasons. Now, invites are more based on organizers and communities than single names, and so I was left without, at least as …

Lighting up Leeuwarden

Winc0n was a disappointment, at least results-wise, as was quite obvious from my last post. Going forward, I considered running back The Deck, to prove that it's good and that I can pilot it, especially with a few improvements, but I also felt like doing something quite different. Namely, I wanted to play some kind …

Didn’t win the con

This was good: Roof terrace of our airbnb I love the verticality of Genoa. So many more photos like this were taken Observe the fabled Lighthouse (Lanterna) in the middle Pesto ... Better than playing X-point. Going on a hike in Camoglio Up here we were hiking. Genoa in the far distance to the left …

Summer Stories 2023

The past few weeks, I've been playing a couple of events where the company and the non-magic activities are even more important than the magic playing as usual. First, it was visiting Christian Reinhard in Switzerland. The weather was worse than last year but it was still fantastic. Not pictured: one day with pouring rain. …

Lobstercon 2023

When I decided not to go to Lobstercon, back when registration opened, months ago, it was based on a serious misplay: I never considered the option of a quick weekend trip enough, thinking I had to travel around and spend more time once I had made the trip across the ocean. Whereas, in fact, there …

Raging Bull 2023

As some of you know, I live in the small city of Linköping, Sweden, 2-3 hours away from Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö. The city does have an international airport, however, which currently has only one connection: KLM to Amsterdam. Therefore, I have flewn through Schiphol more times than I can count, and I used to …

N00bfest 2023

There was to be no real N00bCon this year, but that doesn't mean Easter wouldn't be filled with old school magic in Gothenburg. In fact, what is and what isn't a n00bcon is largely a question of nomenclature. Does it need a shark? Does it need to be at the Rotary pub? Who knows? From …