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AuthorStijn van Dongen

Please allow me to introduce myself - I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've played around for a long long time and laid many men's decks to waste. (With a long, long time being defined as since The Dark.)I sincerely love multiplayer the most of all formats and even dare decree that it is a form of art. I'm a student of Molecular Life Sciences in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where I spend a lot of time watching the Simpsons and writing bios in first person, in distinct opposition of the more convenient fashion.

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 11: Playing The Cards That Should Have Been In Unglued

Only the Mighty Stijn could create an original multiplayer deck that used both Goblin Game and Thieves’ Auction… And make it work! Also includes a small strategical discourse on the nature of card advantage in multiplayer.

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 10: Infernal Genesis

Many, MANY ideas on how to abuse Infernal Genesis in a multiplayer game, from one of the most evil minds to set his synapses to the casual environment. Draco first!

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 8: Building Decks For Canadians

Stijn takes a reader request to build a deck with Justice and Questing Phelddagrif in it – and then discovers that the deck works better once he removes them. What kind of request is this?

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 8: Giant Spider

Stijn finally answers the question all of us are waiting for: Is it possible to create a fun multiplayer format? The answer is yes… But only if it’s TRIBES, which Tom van de Logt and Kamiel Cornelissen play…

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 7: Gdel, Escher, Bach

Good god, perhaps one of the best multiplayer articles ever written! So what if the deck costs a couple hundred dollars? Just read this!

Going Rogue Is An Art, Part 1: On How To Nuke Your Local IBC Metagame.

Is this strategy? Probably not. Issues and Opinions? Not really. Casual play? Who the heck plays with a casual IBC deck? Oh, just read it.

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 6: Reins Of Power

One of my more demanding readers has demanded me to write an article at his whim! Can you imagine the sheer nerve?

Limited Is An Art, Part 1: Apocalyptic Prerelease *2nd*.

Stijn takes some time away from multiplayer deckbuilding to smash house with Necrocritter madness!

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 5: Spirit of the Night…

Not only does this provide the ultimate smash-face black deck, but it brings you the all-time great Magic misquotes!

Multiplayer Is An Art: Part 4: Blazing Effigy

Hey, no less a man than Anthony Alongi called Stijn”The
S**t.” With compliments like that, how can we NOT make him our latest Featured Writer?

Multiplayer Is An Art: Part 3: Corpse Dance

Death. Decay. Destruction. Doom. Those are all catchwords that have been missing in my two previous stories. The Gargoyles only used the tiniest bit of black, and didn’t use red at all. The United Nations were hypocritical in their white-and-blueness. You all most certainly think I’m a sissy for only writing about those happy happy…

Multiplayer Is An Art, Part 2: The United Nations

How many more responses to an article of his does a man need to make him happy? I received enough of them to make myself rush to write the next story about multiplayer decks. And it will be, as I promised, about politics and a very politic deck. Now I know some of the more…

Multiplayer Is An Art: The Ivory Gargoyle Deck

Reading articles about multiplayer or other sorts of casual play is a favourite pastime of mine. I always enjoy reading about good plays made by others in epic games with six or more players. I always enjoy reading about multiplayer strategies, and I always enjoy reading about decks created especially for multiplayer. And that’s why…