Recall Should Stay Unrestricted

First of all: sorry for not updating more. March was insanely busy for me, with a bunch of work-related deadlines on papers and grants applications, along with moving to a new apartment. Back to an at least monthly schedule from now on. On to the content! On the weekend of February 23rd, there was the …

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Trolling the Winter Derby

For the longest time, I played almost nothing but The Deck. During this period I faced Troll Disco from time to time and I always thought it was a joke at best, a trap at worst. It seemed really bad, lacking powerful plays and full of marginal cards like Drafna's Restoration. Then I started playing …

On not playing pirates in Hannover. For some reason. I don’t get it. Pirates?

(Editor's note: The latter parts of this report was written under increasing levels of intoxication.) I should have known better. We've been here before. It's so much better now: I play both Icy Manipulator and Relic Barrier, making Howling Mine actively good almost every time. And true, that was not the problem. There are others, …

On Swedish Tectonic Stability

Here in Sweden, our mountains are very old, low and eroded, home to various trolls and giants but altogether stable. It's a very tectonically uninteresting part of the world. No earthquakes anywhere near, not ever. And it turns out, the same applies to deckbuilding in the 93/94 format under Swedish rules. In the ongoing Winter …

Dreaming of a White Christmas

Tournament report time! 23 people at Biljardpalatset in Stockholm, organized by Gordon Andersson, with a N00bCon invite up for grabs, although it turned out that about ten people attending were already invited. Let's see if I remember anything about the matches. I was playing Field of Dreams: It's basically a Swedish port of this EC …

Rereading Centurion, issue #7

Time to continue the dive into old Swedish magic magazines. This time, from March, 1996. Homelands had been released last fall, Alliances was still just a rumor. What was happening in the Magic world at the time? Well, straight up, we learn that for the upcoming issue, we would have a report from GothCon and …

BSK 2018: Organizer’s Report + Losing with Lich

Organizer's Report This past weekend, for the second year in a row, I was the organizer of the 93/94 tournament at the BSK gaming convention in Borås, Sweden. We had 26 players, running 5 rounds of swiss with a top 8, starting at 5 pm. In my opinion, 26 players is maybe the perfect size …

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Consider The Deck

I think I will try to write something on the blog about my complicated relationship with The Deck It takes me into weird territories on the spike/fun scale It's not even a scale really, it's a map of a roadless country, with weird places to disappear into (I played it at the Scandinavian Championships in …

Failing with Fork

I've been playing a bunch of Fork combo lately. Mostly this list, which I played at a small gathering the day before Grand Prix Stockholm this past weekend. I went 1-3 at the tournament, and I don't think I won a single game when we were playtesting at Belgobaren over lunch before, so I won't …