Musings on old school magic
Hello! Two topics today: the process for choosing a deck for N00bCon, and the tournaments at the N00bCon weekend. I won't, however, spend very much time on the ambience, the hangs, the beers and the misadventures on the way. There's too much magic to be had now. Listen to some podcasts if you want to … Continue reading The time of the orc has come
Hello. It's been a while. Why has it been so long? This is a quick recap of the larger tournaments I've been playing. I've mostly stayed out of any leagues, only playing the occasional private 1-day online tournament really, so these are the more major ones. I don't do this for "the community". The community … Continue reading Some old rugs
Last week, I played Ivory Cup VI, the first online version of the classic Stockholm Swedish event (last year was local and very small for obvious reasons, and I wasn't there). It was quite small, and with Swedish reprint policy I didn't expect all spikey powered decks, so I decided to try out a brew … Continue reading Disco Universe
Ages ago, when I first started this blog, I was just about to leave The Deck and explore other archetypes in 93/94. My first interest was the combo decks. I had a plan: to outline what I was going to call the Combo School of Magic through a series of articles. First, I was going … Continue reading The Combo School of Magic That Never Was
This will be quick. There are no really interesting matches, no travel stories and no deck tech worth talking about, really. I played this: Not a very exciting list, but I had never cast Flying Men outside of Unified before so I figured it was time I gave this old classic a try.I should have … Continue reading Some Notes on the 2020 Winter Derby
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
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
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