Thursday, May 13th – In Magic, there have been a handful of cards that have been printed with activated abilities that can be triggered by opponents. Going all the way back to Arabian Nights with Ifh-Biff Efreet, this has been so. Some of those cards everyone will want to activate, like Squallmonger. Others will only want one person to activate them, like Zerapa Minotaur.
Wednesday, May 5th – Hello folks, and welcome to another week here at the Kitchen Table. Today I want to talk about what the relative power levels of the colors are in multiplayer Magic, and which I think are the strongest.
Wednesday, April 28th – Hello folks, and welcome to the column dedicated to the casual side of life. And Magic. Rise of the Eldrazi looks like a great set, and to celebrate, let’s build decks around some new cards! Today’s article is simple enough. I aim to find cards I want to build around, and then I build around them. Yay decks!
Wednesday, April 21st – Today, I want to review and consider the cards from the most recent set, in light of casual play. Although this article series began – and still wants to focus on – Five Color, it also has space for other casual formats, like Peasant, Acid Magic, Multiplayer, and more.
Wednesday, April 14th – Recently, I had purchased some Portal cards from SCG, and I was using my 15-20 minutes of bathtime to ensure that the whole delivery had arrived by checking the cards. While I was doing this, suddenly an idea came to me. What if I built a Five Color deck with nothing but cards from the starter sets?
Wednesday, April 7th – For years, this has been an issue, and although I’ve mentioned in many of my articles that Red is underdeveloped, I’ve never taken it to the article level. I keep hoping that it will change, and it doesn’t.
Thursday, April 1st – Welcome to the Bazaar. Step right up, make your payments, and proceed to build the deck of your choice. It’s very simple. You just arrived at this unnamed Plane and you intend to use it as a battlefield. However, you realize that you are bound by a few different rules than normal, as this world infringes on your previous freedoms. You are in the Merchant Square of a large city, and intend to find the items you will need to fight your foe.
Friday, March 26th – Hello folks, and welcome back to the column for all your casual needs. Today I want to write a full article about one deck, Pox. During the past ten years, I’ve been playing various versions of Pox in a variety of formats, including tournaments and such. I’ve clocked in hundreds of tournament games with Pox, as well as countless casual games.
Hello folks, and welcome to an article 329 entries in the making. For almost a decade, I’ve been talking about this deck in my column, and it’s time to show it off. Without hesitation, here is my uber deck: Abe’s Deck of Happiness and Joy.
Thursday, March 11th – Today I want to build a few decks and generally stretch my deck-building muscles. Like normal, I will probably use some new cards and some old standards. There’s nothing wrong with adding Harmonize to a Green deck or Commander Eesha to a defensive White deck. However, I also want to use new cards that usually don’t get a day in the sun.
Wednesday, March 3rd – Back in 2007, I wrote an article that changed the way some people played Magic. During 2008, I twice revisited the series with errata and optional changes. However, since then? There have been numerous sets released, and now there are questions…
Wednesday, February 24th – Today, I want to do an update on Acid Magic and then actually build a deck for you. Many of you may remember Acid Magic from my article on Pauper-Prismatic-Singleton. In it, I went over the online casual format generally referred to as PPS. I talked of many ways to bring it offline, using the rules of 5 Color, Pauper and Highlander (which abbreviated is 5PH, or Acidic on the pH scale).
Wednesday, February 17th – Today, I want to do my typical follow up to the Worldwake review article, where I take some of the cards from the new set and build some decks based around what inspires me.
Wednesday, February 10th – Although this review is ostensibly for Five Color, I have recently begun adding cards and comments about other casual formats as well, such as Peasant, Acid Magic in real life or PPS online, multiplayer, EDH, and so forth. That way, everybody can get something out of today’s article.
Wednesday, February 3rd – Hello folks, and welcome back to the article that explores the casual side of Magic-dom. Today I want to simply talk about the All Foil packs that were made by WoTC. Are they worth buying? What else comes in them? Are the tokens foil?
