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AuthorBruce Richard

If you seek limited or constructed tournament knowledge, wrapped up with excellent comedic writing, you are in the wrong place. Planted firmly at the kitchen table, Bruce is all things casual, focusing primarily on strategies for multiplayer games wrapped up with horrific, train wreck attempts at humour. Bruce is married to an extremely tolerant woman and has three children who will not go near him in public. In real life Bruce works as an attorney and lives just outside Boston.

The Casual Report #6: Mono-white, Mono-tony

This report is an example of multiplayer Magic gone horribly wrong. The games describe everything that is wrong with my current playgroup. This isn’t an attack on any of the members in particular – just read on and you will understand. A quick note before I get right into things: my thanks go out to…

Stop The Plague!

Over the last month, a plague has been spreading across StarCity’s site. It is insidious and subtle, but it is there. There has been support for prissy little white mages and their filthy lifegain tricks! This plague must be stopped here and now. Andrew Healy admits to being the white mage spreading this plague (although…

The Casual Report #5: Three Important Multiplayer Lessons

Welcome back to both of you who have been waiting with baited breath for the next installment of,”The Casual Report.” Since the , I suspect anyone who was waiting for the next report has long since moved on to reading the lame, and (rarely) not-so-lame tournament reports being offered on the web. Since it has…

Magic Online v. Magic Offline: Who’s Playing When?

The discussion involving Magic Online seems to revolve around whether it can survive against Apprentice, or whether Apprentice can survive against Magic Online. The internet Magic community seems to think this will come down to which product will be supported by the Magic community, and both sides have their arguments explaining why the product they…

And You Knew It Had To Happen: The First Fill-In-The-Blank Tourney Report Submission

PTQ Location: Spuzzum, BC (this is an actual place) Date of PTQ: September 31 Number of people attending PTQ: 10 Where Did You Finish? (Check One): ___ i never rote no tourneis reportz before, but i finished first an i promised myslef that if I wun id write one ___ I finished in the Top…

My Odyssey Prerelease Report

I want to apologize for the lateness of my report; I suspect it was Rizzo’s Bruce that made me dawdle. I could go on for six or seven pages about why I brought the deck that I did – but this is a prerelease, so instead I’ll just give you the deck that I built….

The Chicken Deck Contest Winner: Some Guys Have All The Cluck

I have submitted what I now call,”Chicken deck of the People.” I have no doubt that Rosewater will pluck this deck from the many selected: “Chicken deck of the People” (“Choking the Chicken” was so much better, but I bowed to commercialism) Creatures 4x Chicken a-la-King 4x 4x 4x 3x 1x 1x Shu Soldier-Farmer 1x…

Chicken Deck Contest Update #1: The Embryo

Wow – you say the word”contest” and everyone goes crazy. I had an overwhelming* response to what I thought was a pretty silly idea. I can’t imagine how manages to deal with all of the Break This Card Contest Entries. It is truly overwhelming. My thanks to everyone who responded – and congratulations to Taylor…

Why Won’t You Help Me Create A Deck For The Invitational? What’s The Matter? Chicken? (Warning: Prizes Offered)

When put out the call for theme decks, I immediately thought chickens. Maybe you thought Goblins, angels, merfolk, elves or thallids… But I thought chickens. Those of you who read”The Casual Report: Week 2″ are probably not surprised. MaRo specifically stated that only one deck per theme will be available, so seventeen different theme decks…

Worlds Tourney Report – 3-2

Okay, either you clicked to read a Worlds report under the casual section, or I tricked the Ferrett and this is under the tourney listings. In any event, this isn’t a Worlds report — it’s the Casual Report, Week Four! (Okay, you got me — that was really lame, and all you tourney guys can…

The Casual Report, Week 3

I have reached number three. I honestly thought I would have given up on this idea by now, but it just keeps rolling along. Just a note for those of you considering an article for StarCity: I strongly recommend sending it in. The first”Casual Report” managed to win the”Article Of The Week” contest. If you…

The Casual Report #2: The Sky Is Falling!

I just wanted to start by saying thank you to everyone who wrote me last week to offer suggestions and praise. That sort of thing builds up my ego – and isn’t that the real reason everyone writes? Pre-game show I decided it was time for my group to loosen up. Don’t get me wrong,…

The First Casual Play Report

Everyone seems to want to write a tournament report. The theory is that if everyone else writes a tournament report, then you will learn how various decks respond to other decktypes. In reality, most people writing tournament reports actually tell you very little about their decks, and far more about the tournament experience. They tell…