Centurion #9, part 1

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. …

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Rereading Centurion, issue #8

Time for another one of these. Since it's been a while since the last one, I might have to do a quick introduction: Centurion is an old Swedish gaming magazine from the mid-90s, mainly focused on Magic, and I'm rereading it one issue at a time. Today: issue #8, May 1996. After a page of …

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 …

Rereading Centurion, issue #6

I know it's been a long time, but I've been busy writing about other things, or not writing at all. Now, however, before diving into possible N00bCon reports the upcoming weeks, let's take the chance to dive into another issue of Centurion. Issue #6, from December of 1995. The news section mentions non-English cards, where …

Rereading Centurion, issue #5

I've put off writing about issue #5 because nothing in it really interests me. There's the same price guide with mostly identical prices as in #4; there's an introduction to Marvel OverPower and a long FAQ for the newest expansion for Doomtrooper; a guide on how to build budget mono-black discard, similar to the treatment …

Rereading Centurion, Issue #4: 1995 Swedish Nationals

Oh, we should have been there. We should all have been there, at the 1995 Swedish Nationals, slinging dual lands and Demonic Tutors in Type 2 for the first and only time. That tournament is the subject of a couple of long articles in Centurion issue #4, the first Magic one, written by the recent …

Rereading Centurion: Introduction, and issue #3

So there I was, wide-eyed and stressed out, browsing through the shelves of non-plastic-wrapped role-playing games at the Tradition store, deep down in the Nordstan mall in Gothenburg, Sweden. Discovering games I'd never heared of, weird and strangely beautiful games, like Shadowrun with its glossy pages sporting full-color illustrations of street samurais and elvish cyberpunk …