Arvika 2024

First, some general thoughts about the blog. I have considered stopping writing for a while, at least tournament reports. I'm going to the same old events, playing the same old decks, so brewing, tuning and traveling all feel a bit stale to write about now. In the beginning of the blog, just writing a tournament …

N00bfest 2023

There was to be no real N00bCon this year, but that doesn't mean Easter wouldn't be filled with old school magic in Gothenburg. In fact, what is and what isn't a n00bcon is largely a question of nomenclature. Does it need a shark? Does it need to be at the Rotary pub? Who knows? From …

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 …

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, …

Chains Unchained

This is such a strange card.   It works like this: So, it basically turns off any card draw spell, making draw into cycling. But it also turns Wheel of Fortune, Timetwister and (most importantly, since it costs 1 and is unrestricted) Winds of Change into symmetrical Mind Twists. Then there is a lock with …