Three Days, Five Dawns – Black, Red, and Green in Fifth Dawn Limited
Screaming Fury
You want screaming fury? How’s this:
Why Are Red’s Commons So Awful?!? Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg!
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The Black Perspective: A New Dawn
The Magic Invitational is most often described as Magic’s All-Star game, and this year would prove to be no different. Fifteen of Magic’s best players, and Berkowitz, gathered in Los Angeles to fight for the right to design their own card. The E3 Convention proved to be the best back drop for this event, because I never had such a good time at a tournament before.
Ask Ken, 05/25/2004
Ken, settle a debate for us… Is Tooth and Nail an Aggro deck, a Combo deck, or a Control deck?
It’s Chaos, I Tell You!
It took awhile to get your Memnarch and a Seedborn Muse out at the same time – but fortunately, your opponents were wasting their removal on all the wrong targets, and now you’re in the clear. They are helpless. You have counterspells in hand to prevent any Fog effects. It’s difficult to prevent the maniacal cackling gurgling up from the back of your throat, since the game is yours…
…Or it would be. If this were normal Magic.
You CAN play Type I #134: The Control Player’s Bible, Part XXXII.1 – “The Deck” is Now Aggro-Control?
The day before I left Manila, I was surprised to see that Kevin Cron’s daily thread posited that “The Deck” was drifting towards the Exalted Angel-centered aggro-control deck Eon Blue Apocalypse, or EBA. In fact, his message ended, “How many more changes before we start calling it Aggro Control?”
18,000 Words: Some Words About Fifth Dawn in Type One
Type One – vast wasteland of Magic cards, where over ten years worth of clutter dot the landscape in pockets of Haves and Have Nots. For every Ancestral Recall, there are three Carnival of Souls. Wait, Carnival of Souls is being played in competitive Type One decks now. I meant for every Ancestral Recall, there are three Food Chains. Wait…. Screw it – for every good card in Type One, there’s an equally good card out there just waiting to be broken in the right deck. With the complex interactions between so many different cards there, you’d think there’d be many more viable decks out there than what the current crop of Type One players have come up with so far.
Three Days, Five Dawns – Blue and White in Fifth Dawn Limited
There are some inalienable truths in our world. You have to do laundry. Some day, you will die. White/Blue is the best color combination when an entire block is released. No, it’s true. In every block since Mirage Block, the best deck after all three sets are released is W/U.
Card Quality 101 or The Search for Broken Stuff
In today’s installment of The Magic University, I’m going to take a look at card quality, a concept that is inherently understood by most Magic players, but one that is rarely examined in detail. I’m also going to take a look at a couple of the cards from Fifth Dawn that made Ben Bleiweiss say,”I think we may have the new Urza’s Block on our hands.”
PTSD 17th: The Way You Like It Part 2 – Menace to Society
Reading this article is hazardous to your health, your mom’s health, and will outright kill your dog. It is not recommended for children under eighteen, pregnant women, people with heart problems, or those taking Viagra. In fact, we wouldn’t recommend reading it at all, except for the fact that it’s a Tim Aten article. Proceed with caution.
PTSD 17th: The Way You Like It Part 2 – The Calgon Bath
The grand finale of Tim’s adventure, written in a style to soothe the savage beasts, and make you think Tim’s ego is smaller than your own.
18,000 Words: The Complete Fifth Dawn Set Review, Part 1
Welcome back from the Fifth Dawn pre-release! The set looks really fun for sealed play, and compliments the rest of the block perfectly for draft. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
The Obligatory Type One Fifth Dawn Review
Beacon of Tomorrow
There’s gotta be a way to go infinite with this. The problem is that it probably requires Gaea’s Blessing to reshuffle some combination of Mystical Tutor, Demonic Tutor, and Lim-Dul’s Vault – and I don’t think I’ve seen Gaea’s Blessing played since 2000.
Ask Ken, 05/24/2004
Excluding Magic, what do you feel are the top 5″best” and”worst” games out there?
Ask Ken, 05/21/2004
Which three cards in MTG history would you consider to be Wizards’s biggest overall mistakes?
PTSD 17th: The Way You Like It Part 1 – A Nice, Long Cuddle
Cuddly Bear Tim Aten shows his smoother, softer side, as he pleasantly recounts the events that took place at Pro Tour: San Diego. He sends this 17th place report out to all the lovers in the room…