Insert Column Name Here – The Loveliest Time Of The Year
Monday, May 5th – The Ferrett reveals a strange and awkward secret about himself, and why this applies to first-time Shadowmoor drafting. Abject lessons in What Not To Do abound.
Very Good Decks From Very Crappy Cards – The Last of a Long Contest
Monday, April 28th – Some of the “crap” cards suggested for my “Crap Rare Contest” turned out not to be crap, but actually format-defining. And you broke them in half! Tune in to see how one man’s terrible card is the bane of Vintage… And it’s not just Deathly Gamble!
Craptacular!
Tuesday, April 22rd – Over two hundred of you submitted terrible, terrible cards that Wizards might print. But today? Today we choose and sort, finding the truly bad cards and choosing… The worst card of all of them. Watch in horror as we sift through the unplayables, then the unprintables, to show you a card that one day Wizards might print!
Break This Crappy Card And Win Some Crap!
Monday, April 14th – A lot of people submitted cards that, thanks to careful tweaking, would almost be useful in certain circumstances. I couldn’t quite rule these out as crap rares because, well, it seemed like there might be some way to make a good deck out of them. So I’m now chaining one contest into another, and asking you to break the “terrible” cards that others have sent me!
Return of a Crappy Contest, or: The Art of the Crap Rare!
Monday, April 7th – It’s been eight years since I held this first “crap rare†contest, and looking back I think it’s high time that I did it again! I think that you, my intelligent and cunning readers, can come up with a crap rare to beat all crap rares! And if you do it, I will send you not one, not two, but three crap rares of your choosing! And we have to do this, because frankly? Wizards has forgotten how to print bad cards.
Insert Column Name Here – A Wild, Drunken Card Bender Of An Evening
Monday, March 31st – It all started with a bottle of whiskey and a pretty girl’s party.
Insert Column Name Here – My Common Synergy Vs. Your Rares
Monday, March 24th – A bunch of Merfolk that like to tap. A bunch of very nice things to tap them. But how can all of that tap-happy synergistic work compare with a crazy set of rares in the opponent’s hand?
Insert Column Name Here – Choose The Right Aggro?
Monday, March 17th – I’m trying hard to get a handle on what makes a good Sealed deck in the format, but what look like decent builds collapse underneath me. And today, I got a deck with cards I would have sworn would have been a raging aggro deck, only to find that the real aggro deck was buried beneath.
Insert Column Name Here – Robbing Peter
Monday, March 10th – So I played Rock Band all weekend with some pals, staying up until five in the morning to live the high life by strumming a plastic ukelele. And now, bereft of sleep or good sense, I get possibly one of the most complex Sealed pools I’ve ever opened. What would you do with good cards scattered across the colors like this?
Insert Column Name Here – How Do You Draft When You Don’t Know The Cards?
Monday, March 3rd – Drafting a new set is tough, but that’s not what I’m talking about. No, to make life interesting, my local store decided to hold the Lorwyn segment of my draft in Russian packs – not bad for the cards I know a lot, but what about those loopy rares? Plus, I learn a Very Important Lesson about a Morningtide card that I misunderestimated, and the first announcement of The Ferrett’s new (and sure to be overhyped) webcomic!
Insert Column Name Here – Ask Not What Your Company Can Do For You
Monday, February 18th – The Vice President of Organized Play sat down with everyone and had a nice little chat. And according to Raphael Levy, thankfully, that first meeting went fairly well (though as I write this, we’re currently short on details from the Union’s side). But I think that the story’s not quite over yet, so let an old-time Magic grognard tell you what he thinks has to be done for the Union to thrive and flourish.