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 …

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. …

The time of the orc has come

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 …

Disco Universe

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 …

The Combo School of Magic That Never Was

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 …

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, …

Spice Rack Deck Tech

Editor’s Note: Second guest post in a row, Jared Doucette returns with part 2 of his Summer Derby experience, this time a deck tech on the Spice Rack archetype he took all the way to the top. Enjoy! I won’t be able to totally stay away from commentating this time around, though. /Svante   Since …

Living on Borrowed Time

I hope we didn't fuck up. Last Friday, I played some Swedish 93/94 at the Danish Old School 3.5 event in Copenhagen, a side event at the Grand Prix taking place during the weekend. This meant no beers, the location being the event hall (and even in Denmark no beers on site, what is up …

Brewing Temple of Power

I've been testing a this list a bit. It's an Atlantic deck, based on Temple of Sped, but with a lower curve, using Icatian Javelineers, to support more card draw in Braingeyser and both draw-7s. To fit these in, I've cut the Power Sinks and any Serra Angels or Control Magics from other versions. The …

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 …