That Time Again

It's a good thing I'm not aiming for detailed play-by-play reports anymore. Because the tournament with the most on the line and the one where I played the most interesting deck, the N00bCon itself, has already mostly faded away among everything else happening during the weekend. I hardly have any photos, and my travel stories …

The Combo School of Magic That Never Was

Ages ago, when I first started this blog, I was just about to leave The Deck and explore other archetypes in 93/94. My first interest was the combo decks. I had a plan: to outline what I was going to call the Combo School of Magic through a series of articles. First, I was going …

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 …

Too Late Is Also a Time: BSK 2019

Okay, my BSK report is way overdue. The tournament was first weekend of November but I felt like I had to get the London content out there first. Also, doesn't look like we get an Organizer's Report this year, like we got the past two years I've organized the BSK tournament. We played straight Swiss …

Magic Island Tour IV

A bit over a week ago, Stockholm in a Bottle organized the fourth annual Magic Island Tour: King of the Archipelago. This year, I was a small part of the organizing group, but the absolute majority of the workload was done by Elias Gröndal. He handled everything concerning logistics or economy, whereas I just gave …

Living on Borrowed Time

I hope we didn't fuck up. Last Friday, I played some Swedish 93/94 at the Danish Old School 3.5 event in Copenhagen, a side event at the Grand Prix taking place during the weekend. This meant no beers, the location being the event hall (and even in Denmark no beers on site, what is up …

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 …

Failing with Fork

I've been playing a bunch of Fork combo lately. Mostly this list, which I played at a small gathering the day before Grand Prix Stockholm this past weekend. I went 1-3 at the tournament, and I don't think I won a single game when we were playtesting at Belgobaren over lunch before, so I won't …

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 …