CategoryMagic The Gathering

Not much humor or game strategy to offer this week.

Could I make a qualifying deck based on my and my teammates’ understanding of IBC? In other words, could I make a GOOD deck? Dammit, I tried.

When I got home from PT: New York, I started packing. Awaking after getting in late on Sunday night, I could only think with wonderment about and the amazing things he’d done over the last year. A win in each of the three rated formats in Magic over one season went beyond anyone’s dreams a…

The Magic community is a strong one. I hope that, as a Magic community – and more importantly, as a community of people – we can find a peaceful way to get through this.

Magic, and inadequate and inappropriate as it is to bring up a card game when America mourns, may be one of the few things we have left to keep our sanity alive.

I hung around on IRC, and caught the holiest of”Holy Pikula” moments. I actually saved the log – and though it might seem lighthearted now, I think we were still too shocked to notice.

It’s been almost two months since I wrote an article now, and frankly, I wish this didn’t have to be it.

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…

I hoped to carry my hot playing streak forward and to break into the coveted top eight for the first time ever in my playing career. Momentum was my friend.

Adrian Sullivan, sitting next to me, said”Pete, you’ve GOT to lose. This other deck should be in the top eight.” But I was hoping to smash a dream or two.

John reveals the secret to his obscurely obscene deck, creates a few theme decks off the cuff, and tells you why he’s glad David Williams is out of the game.

A poem, bidding farewell to the block we know so well.

I feel like I’m getting better, and I’d attribute that to several things that go together… Mainly, Team Binary.

A fresh look at some old group theory, and what cards may be rising in importance now that Threshold is rearing its ugly head. Yay ferrets!

Rogue deck designer Adrian Sullivan and classic strategy writer hand Rizzo a deck to help him try and qualify. We’d leave the suspense up, but frankly, the title says it all.