It Would Be Funny If…
Uh oh, someone let Jamie get ahold of a spoiler and he has a *ahem* few opinions about the new cards.
Radiating Luck
Two PTQs, two near misses, four-thousand words of good beats. Wakefield is Magic’s everyman, always striving for the goal and yet rarely grasping it. Thankfully we still get his excellent reports, allowing good and bad alike to live vicariously through the adventures of the King of Fatties.
Boy, Is This Random
This week, Wakefield hooks his brain up to a random number generator and ends up producing some of his finest work yet.
PTQing in Beautiful Montreal
The King of Fatties is off to Montreal, Quebec to PTQ with his friends. Did he manage to qualify this time, or is it yet another chapter in the Wakefield string of brilliant disasters? Whatever it is, you know the article will be amusing and enlightening, so come along for the ride!
The Pikachu Master
Kamigawa Block Constructed continues to dominate our testing. I’m finding the block fantastic and very enjoyable. Today I’ll cover four different decklists that we’ve been working on in hopes of cracking the Block Constructed format wide open.
Kamigawa Block And The Death Of Green
Jamie discusses the issue of Magic Online account sharing, the future of post-Rotation Green, and discusses how his latest creation fared at a Kamigawa Block Constructed tournament!
Joshie Green and The Day the Earth Stood Still – Regionals 2005
Thursday
4:06 p.m. Get home from work.
4:07 p.m. Mare tells me to take her upstairs or “face her wrath.”
5:30 p.m. Get dressed. Try to wipe silly grin off face. Fail.
5:31 p.m. Tell wife I’m going to win Regionals now.
Joshie Green v.Final
The finalized list for Joshie Green, complete with sideboarding guide. ‘Nuff said.
Joshie Green and the Online Metagame
What’s that you say? Wakefield is playing a deck that actually wins? Now this I gotta see!
Rant Week
Jamie has some things he wants to get off his chest this week about certain Standard artifacts, Magic R&D, and Hal Jordan.
The Iwamori Hangover
When Jamie Wakefield is on, he is one of the most evocative and funniest writers ever to grace the Magic community. Today he is most certainly on. Two new decklists, tons of fun anecdotes, and a short tale of the drunken monk. You cannot miss this article.
One Dozen Eyes!
That Wakefield guy is always coming up with new decks that break the mold. Today he not only gives you his current Elvish beatdown decklist, but also discusses the other end of the Green scale with a decklist that focuses on an overlooked uncommon from Mirrodin.
MODO Learning
I’ve now spent… must be close to a hundred hours on MODO. I just can’t imagine getting back into Magic without this tool. Without a store nearby to play in, it would be impossible. Without being able to test my deck a couple hundred times before Regionals, it would be impossible. Without being able to see what everyone else is working on and how the metagame is developing, doing well at a sanctioned event would be the equivalent of buying a Powerball ticket. And yes, I’m still working on the Elf deck – but that’s not the only deck I’m working on…
Blown Away
I am blown away by the improvements to Green since I have been gone. For you youngsters out there, Green was the color of sharing. Anything it got that might have been good was made horrible by the fact that it shared the benefit with your opponent. These days Green positively rocks.
Redesigning Green
Jamie’s reintroduction to Magic has had a few bumps in the road, as expected. It’s hard to win when your collection consists of five-year-old cards and a few Lone Wolves. Today you get a peak at the evolution of his current Green deck, math problems with Joshie Trash Talker, playtesting setbacks, and much more. Please, come join the King of Fatties as he rediscovers Magic and comes to the conclusion that thus far he’s having a surprising amount of fun.