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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Some Short Summer Stories

Some updates are long overdue. First, I went to Malmö for Tier1Con, a large, GP-wannabe event featuring a Modern main event, numerous vendors and side events, including a classic Danish Old School tournament and a Premodern one the day after. It was all held in a convention center, and largely a disappointment for everyone, since …

Consider the Lobster

What a trip, huh. Eleven days of mising, traveling, eating, drinking. Wandering around, playing magic. Honestly, the magic playing was not among the highlights of the week, except as a pretense, but that's what you want to read about so that's where we're going. First, just after landing from Europe, due to Mano we got …

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. …

A quick trip to Copenhagen

I think I broke it. Last time I played The Deck, I got into some serious issues with the format, having fun, playing to win, and the like. Apparently, the solution was to drink beer in Denmark and not care. A month ago, I played the following deck at the Danish Old School 3.0 in Copenhagen: …

Almost Getting There Again: N00bCon 11

And here I thought I was the villain. But Martin Lindström is sitting across from me, playing flawlessly like an alien machine from the future, not one hair on his head out of position, perfectly relaxed in his sharp shirt. Looks like a Bond villain, as somebody commented. The Deck versus my Eyetog deck. He …

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 …

Nine Notes on N00bCon

On The Deck I'm strongly convinced this is the best 75 in the format (if playing in a less blue-heavy metagame than N00bCon, feel free to switch places of the Abyss and the maindeck REB): Still, that is not what I sleeved up for N00bCon. Why? I did put this exact deck together on the …

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 …