Musings on old school magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Qj2x3gAXQ So, the world didn't quite end. Hang on out there. We are getting through this. I hope any regular readers will excuse me talking about Premodern for once. I originally meant to write about more things than just Old School here, so this doesn't mark any kind of departure from the plan. I spent … Continue reading Doomsday
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLf9q36UsBk No, Taylor, we're not out of the woods yet. Last Saturday I played in Florian von Bredow's 1-day online event Lockdown X-mas Tournament. 36 players trying out Slanfan's brand new Tolaria platform. And for some reason, I played this: I acquired the mono-green cards during the summer for several reasons. One is that I … Continue reading Out of the Woods
Reading this recent post on Åland's blog made me realize I had a job to do. Just needed to stop slacking. Yes, that's right: Rereading Centurion is back. This time with issue #9, very likely my favorite one of all. There are so many good things here, I will break up the post into two. … Continue reading Centurion #9, part 1
Today, I have the great honor of opening a Spectral Chaos booster. Spectral Chaos is an unreleased Magic set, designed by Barry Reich in the early 1990s, which is now being released as a fan art project by Micah at RagingRiverMtg. All the details can be found on that site. The backstory of the project … Continue reading Spectral Chaos Pack Opening
Hello. It's been a while. After Arvika, I had planned to travel a bit less, starting to feel slightly burned out. N00bcon, Magic Island Tour+Ivory Cup, and then probably nothing else until Winc0n/Fishliver in late September. I needed a break. And then the pandemic hit. So no IRL games at all, halting my desire to … Continue reading Update on Scryings and Others
I don't think I was wrong, but I don't really have the results to prove it. Last time, I wrote about my predictions for Scryings. Now I played the Scryings event in Arvika, Sweden, trying to put that to the test. My deck of choice was this Twiddlevault list: I had goldfished it a lot … Continue reading Scryings Follow-up: Arvika 2020
This is long overdue. I should have written something about my initial impressions of Scryings after the entire set was released, including some notes on the Limited format as I participated in the release draft event, but I got a bit busy with other things and also didn't really know what to focus on. Instead, … Continue reading Scrying into the future
It's the start of round 5. There are four of us left undefeated: Brian Urbano, Geoff Willard, my dear friend Paul DeSilva and me. I am going to play Geoff, Paul is playing Brian. And then it hits me: if we both win, Paul and I are going to face each other in the finals. … Continue reading We Are the Robots: Urza’s Chalice 2020
I'm not really sure there's any merit to me doing a year in review here. Everything I've done, I've already written about, and a retrospective would probably be mostly depressing or boring or both. Maybe I will say something about Scryings soon, and maybe not. However, in the meantime, I can give you a review … Continue reading 2019 Year in Review
Okay, my BSK report is way overdue. The tournament was first weekend of November but I felt like I had to get the London content out there first. Also, doesn't look like we get an Organizer's Report this year, like we got the past two years I've organized the BSK tournament. We played straight Swiss … Continue reading Too Late Is Also a Time: BSK 2019
