Thursday, July 31st – A number of small topics, most actually having to do with actually playing Magic, get covered in this week’s column. Where else can you see discussion of Noggles, Woodfall Primus, and the rejuvenating power of Santana?
Thursday, July 24th – Eventide’s nearing the shelves, so it’s time to look through the cards and find those “necessities” that the budget player should be focusing on finding.
Thursday, July 17th – What do a stairway taller than the Empire State Building, a too-long lunch at Long John Silver’s, and a fourth Tarmogoyf have in common? If you, somehow, guessed “Eventide Prerelease,†you’re right!
Thursday, July 10th – My love of pre-releases comes from the Invasion block. (In fact, most of my love of Magic comes from Invasion block.) I had become involved in Magic in a bunch of ways by the time Invasion came around, had played in some PTQs, gone to a Pro Tour (albeit as a coverage person), and had started writing for Star City. But up until Planeshift, I hadn’t attended a pre-release…
Thursday, July 3rd – It’s the hot new fad. Everyone’s doing it. You know you want to. A little taste can’t hurt you. That’s what they say, and the next thing you know, you’re trying to figure out how to build your own giant stack of hundreds of Magic cards with which to draft.
Thursday, June 26th – White Weenie as a decktype is like that song from Beauty and the Beast. A tale as old as time… et cetera. Dave looks at the recent Kithkin decks from the Block Constructed PTQs from a budget perspective.
Thursday, June 19th – Hey, we all start out as Timmies. Okay, maybe not some of the hardcore Pros… but Dave certainly did. Shadowmoor has sent Dave on a trip down Memory Lane, fondly remembering the big tramply creatures with which he used to attack.
Thursday, June 12th – Dave sets aside the balanced checkbook and coupon pouch for just one week to recount his tale from Regionals – a tale featuring heartbreak, heirs, revenge, corruption, more revenge, and at the end, not so much the heartbreak.
Thursday, June 5th – Big news was announced on June 1st – the creation of the mythic rare. Will mythic rares bring in new players? Or is Wizards hoping to sell more packs as people search for the elusive Secret Ghost Mirror Rares?
Thursday, May 29th – With single prices on some cards approaching orbits previously only known to the International Space Station, Dave takes a look at some of the new, proven decks from Hollywood that can be adjusted to meet the more down-to-earth budget. Plus, dragons! Who doesn’t like dragons?
Thursday, May 22nd – Just like DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince taught him, Dave is cruisin’ by at two miles an hour, so everyone can see him, enjoying a couple of cool control options in the bright sunlight of summertime.
Thursday, May 15th – A Mono-Green aggro player somewhere down in the cockles of his heart, last week Mr. Tribally Thrifty put together a budget Mono-Green aggro deck for play at the FNM level. What happened? Did the deck succeed or fail?
Thursday, May 8th – Dave started playing Magic back when people weren’t afraid to eat their steaks raw, weren’t afraid to travel to exotic countries, and stayed away from namby-pamby combo decks. Okay, it was the nineties, but it was still a simpler time – a time when a guy could go into FNM and play Mono-Green and be feared…
Thursday, May 1st – Whenever a new set hits the scenes, Dave likes to revisit his previous decks and see what new and great cards will fit into them. This week, he starts back with the Obsidian Battle-Axe-fueled Warriors deck.
Thursday, April 24th – Wherein Dave learns the value of time management, plays creatures with activated abilities that require mana he can’t produce, drafts a deck of a single color, and name-drops “The Swiss Missile.â€
