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 …

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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, …

Mobstercon Mixtape

These are some random thoughts about the whole Mobstercon experience. For a more comprehensive account, see Will's report. I am still quite disappointed that we didn't do better, and all of that is due to my deck-building and playing. I failed spectacularly at building a good The Deck list for the format. It was too …

Alpha, Heroes, Vault

Edit: I've re-edited this to be as it originally was. Fuck it. I haven't played a tournament for a month but have a bunch of upcoming events: Mobstercon, Danish Old School 3.5, Magic Island Tour 4, Ivory Cup 4 within the next 6 weeks or so. Also Premodern nationals, which I might write about too. …

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 …

Total Recall

Recall has been unrestricted in the Swedish format for a couple of months now, but there haven't been many tournament results or even published decklists sporting multiple copies yet. I'm mostly aware of this Instagram post by Danny Friedman and my own report from the Boat. Even missing much data, I think there's some merit to …

Some notes on NA Eternal Weekend 2017

The Old School tournament at last year's NA Eternal Weekend sported a whooping 118 players, making it a great snapshot of the EC format metagame, as well as a vast source of interesting decks. Go check out the coverage on Eternal Central on which this article is heavily based. It's great! All images are curtesy …