Some light reading

This is out of order a bit, as I haven't written about the Winter Derby yet, but first, time doesn't really flow as it should anymore anyway, and second, this one is short and simple and the other one isn't. First, the facts. Arvika Festivalen 2023, this year's Shark tournament in Sweden, 120 people at …

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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 …

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Or: Taking the Atog to the zoo

I played the following list in the New England Old School October monthly tournament (8 groups of 7, round robin within the group, winner advances to top 8, one tournament a month, seasonal standings for each 5-month season, Atlantic format) and some online games. Having gone 5-0 in the group play (one player unfortunately had …

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 …

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 …

Mirrors in Arvika

I've realized I'm not very much into writing tournament reports at the moment. The motivation just isn't there; the narrative gets repeating, and I'm far too bad at remembering interesting board states and play-by-plays, even when aided by short notes on the life pad. I will return there, I'm sure of it, but for now, …

Drawing cards in Arvika, part 2. Almost getting there

Picking up from where we left off last time. The tournament starts at about 5.40 pm. It's going to be a long night. About 44 players, I think. Six rounds of Swiss. The winner gets an invite to Noobcon, there's a prize for best unpowered deck, as well as some other prizes for top 8. …

Drawing cards in Arvika, part 1. Getting there

Please don't hate me. Or if you do, hate me because I take all the fun in the format and use it for myself; hate me because I'm the villain, because I'm Magneto or Ozymandias, don't hate me because I'm a boring old fucker with no regards for the true soul of the format. (As …