Centurion #9, part 1

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. …

Spectral Chaos Pack Opening

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 …

Update on Scryings and Others

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 …

Scryings Follow-up: Arvika 2020

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 …

Scrying into the future

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, …

We Are the Robots: Urza’s Chalice 2020

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. …

2019 Year in Review

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 …

Too Late Is Also a Time: BSK 2019

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 …

Chains Unchained

This is such a strange card.   It works like this: So, it basically turns off any card draw spell, making draw into cycling. But it also turns Wheel of Fortune, Timetwister and (most importantly, since it costs 1 and is unrestricted) Winds of Change into symmetrical Mind Twists. Then there is a lock with …

Not so unchained

This is going to be brief. But at least you do get a post, so don't complain. Time for Team Unified Old School again. This time full-on Swedish rules (but with lax reprint policies), unlike the modified Atlantic at Mobstercon: I was playing the World Cup in London this past weekend. My team had three …