February 2012
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The Mirror Match: Your EDH history. →
themirrormatch:
How did you get into EDH?
I got into EDH only about a year and a half ago thanks to a writer for the format. I can’t recall if that writer was Adam Styborski writing for DailyMtG’s Serious Fun or Sheldon Mennery himself writing for Star City Games, but back then I had more freetime and was much more open to reading every article I could on Magic. I was thinking of...
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Friday Flashback... Build-a-Card: Estate Tax
Last fall I had to give up writing for this blog regularly. When the summer came to a close and my duties as a graduate student became greater with the new school year, I simply didn’t have the time to write as often as I had gotten myself into. I continue to post to the blog occasionally, and these posts have gained me even more followers than previously. As much as followers have the...
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Fun in Commander Defined
A big argument that happens at many Commander playgroups is over what “fun” means. Some players claim that another is making the game unfun to them, and what they’re doing should be stopped, but those players can just as easily say that fun is relative - we can’t even agree on a definition - so how can it be violated?
Last week, Commandercast had a segment about turning...
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A Critique of a Critique of Time Spiral's White... →
confessionsofapuzzledwizard:
thirdchoiceurl’s original post
“I can explain every card on this list, but I can’t be bothered, so I’m reblogging this in case a follower wants to do so, maybe jinmod.”
There are so many things wrong with this post…
Since others have pointed this out but did not actually write specifically about it, I felt I needed to. Note that not every...
NERDTHINGS VS. NERDTHINGS: Hello my lovely... →
Nerdthingsvsnerdthings:
I’m sure you’re all very curious as to who won last week’s match!
Well, I am very pleased to announce that we had a total of fourteen votes! That is so amazing, so thank you to everyone who voted!
Now as for the results…..
Pokemon: 3
Digimon: 11
That’s right, Digimon is the winner!…
No contest. Magic: The Gathering is better than Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and...
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Friday Flashback... One More Piece of the Pie
Last fall I had to give up writing for this blog regularly. When the summer came to a close and my duties as a graduate student became greater with the new school year, I simply didn’t have the time to write as often as I had gotten myself into. I continue to post to the blog occasionally, and these posts have gained me even more followers than previously. As much as followers have the...
Looking up some good Star Wars novels.
confessionsofapuzzledwizard:
his-own-design:
Stories outside of the movie characters.
Can anyone help point out some good stories that are out there?
Anyone got some suggestions for this guy?
It’s hard to find Star Wars stories that are outside of the movie characters, because that’s what people are most interested in. All of my suggestions will include the movie characters,...
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““We, the game designers, aren’t trying to make things easy for you....”
– Mark Rosewater in today’s column on why cards can’t just have every single keytword players think they absolutely should have had to be “good.”
Seriously, I get so tired of hearing “[CARDNAME] sucks because it doesn’t have [keyword].” Most often this is...
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Friday Flashback... Build-a-Card: Charon the...
Last fall I had to give up writing for this blog regularly. When the summer came to a close and my duties as a graduate student became greater with the new school year, I simply didn’t have the time to write as often as I had gotten myself into. I continue to post to the blog occasionally, and these posts have gained me even more followers than previously. As much as followers have the...
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The Other Guys: Reliquary Monk
I really like janky cards sometimes. Worse than that, I dislike when “janky” cards are rated less than 3/5 on Gatherer because players don’t accept that the cards aren’t terrible, just average. I recently “purchased” Reliquary Monk (the local shop owner decided since I was getting just 1 common that I could just take it, thus “purchased”), and...
January 2012
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How Many Commons do you Run in Your Commander...
In my game today one of my opponents commented that I ran a lot of commons. He said this after only seeing me play three common spells. He even went as far as saying that I could play Pauper Commander. It made me think, though, and counting nonbasic lands I guess I have 20 commons in my Glissa, the Traitor deck that I played last Thursday. That certainly is more than the 16 in my Rafiq deck and...
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Friday Flashback... Embracing Vorthos: Solemn...
Last fall I had to give up writing for this blog regularly. When the summer came to a close and my duties as a graduate student became greater with the new school year, I simply didn’t have the time to write as often as I had gotten myself into. I continue to post to the blog occasionally, and these posts have gained me even more followers than previously. As much as followers have...
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I can’t wait until Dark Ascension is released so I can go and 4-5 star all of my favorite cards on Gatherer.
