Wednesday, July 1st – A few times in the past, I’ve highlighted various cards with a detailed look at each. I have spent articles on cards like Portcullis, Cloudstone Curio and Mages’ Contest. Today I want to spend some time investigating just a small number of cards, and then discussing deck building strategies for my choices.
Tuesday, June 23rd – As most of you have heard by now, Wizards of the Coast has instituted a large number of rules and terminology changes as of M10. These changes were supposedly made with the casual fan in mind. As one of the few columnists with a dedicated casual column, this seemed like the perfect chance to chime in on recent changes, and give you my thoughts.
Wednesday, June 17th – Today, I want to do something very simple. I want to build decks! Yay! However, there is one little trick. There’s just one simple little thing to spin today’s article. I cannot use any card that I normally use. No Swords to Plowshares, no Goblin Bombardment, no Harmonize, nothing.
Wednesday, June 10th – In four previous articles, I have taken the Shandalar decks used by your foes and updated them with the two expansion sets that were made for the game, introducing cards from The Dark, Legends, Antiquities, Arabian Nights, Beta and the promo cards. Then, after making some modifications, I also update the deck idea.
Wednesday, June 3rd – Way back in April of 2005, I wrote Entry Six for the Compendium of Alternate Formats. This was a newly updated version of the Chess Magic format that debuted way back in Duelist #4. The great thing about Chess Magic is that is simply is not like a lot of other formats, so it feels really different…
Wednesday, May 27th – Suppose that one of your opponents has just played a Black Big Nasty Creature. If you are attacked by said creature, you will take the damage and die. You have no creatures out. You have ten mana of any color available to you, and one card in hand. You have a nicely stocked graveyard, since it is late in the day. The card in hand is Dimir Infiltrator. In your deck is a Terminate. What do you do?
Wednesday, May 20th – Today I want to bring you one of those cuisinart articles where I have a bunch of topics to discuss. Most of these won’t take up too much time, but I wanted to get a chance to talk about a variety of things. Not every topic can be something massive or grand or article-length. Therefore, let’s take a quick tour through casual land, and see what we can find.
Monday, May 18th – I’ve written articles on Elder Dragon Highlander before, and I enjoy the format. Other writers talk about it more often, so I’ve allowed them to take up the space on this format, but I still like it. EDH is enjoying a great bout of sunshine as the casual format du jour, and no one knows whether it will be long lasting or not.
Wednesday, May 6th – Regular readers may remember that I write an article for my column when the newest set comes out and build some decks around the new cards. This is a chance for me to take the new cards for a spin and test them out. In other words, in this article… Decks!
Friday, May 1st – For years, I have reviewed sets from the perspective of Five Color. I have also recently begun to use my set review for more generic casual formats as well, such as multiplayer and Peasant. However, Five Color still dominates my thoughts when I look at a new card.
Friday, April 24th – Hello folks, and welcome back to the column that investigates various aspects of the casual world. Today I want to discuss the Divine Vs. Demonic decks after having played with them after I got the set from my order with StarCityGames. Luckily, I have a few staff who like the occasional game of Magic, so I was able to get some games in with the new decks, facing off against each other.
Wednesday, April 15th – Hello readers and friends! This is the column with articles regularly for the casual player in all of us. Whether flipping cards at the kitchen table or between rounds at a tournament, whether finding matches online or on an airplane, we all play games casually. This column is dedicated to bringing you articles and formats and variants and decks and insight to that casual side of all of us.
Thursday, April 9th – it’s the third entrant in the Shandalar Deck Series. If you have missed them so far, allow me to get you caught up to speed. I have been taking the decks played by the foes in the 1997 Microprose game Magic: The Gathering, with a campaign called Shandalar, and then modifying and updating the lists.
Wednesday, April 1st – Hello again, and welcome. This is the column with articles dedicated to the casual player every time. Today, I continue the series that began with the article from last week. I have begun taking the opposing decks from Shandalar, showing them to you, and then modifying them. Then I update the deck for today’s audience…
Wednesday, March 25th – I have long touted the value of Shandalar in this column. Designed by no less a game star than Sid Meier himself, the 1997 PC game Magic: the Gathering was one of the best games of all time (in my not-usually-humble opinion). The campaign was entitled Shandalar.
