Ask Ken, 08/20/2004
My question is about gender roles in the game. Why are female players so far and few in-between? I can’t imagine the poor personal hygiene of many male players to be the sole culprit.
My question is about gender roles in the game. Why are female players so far and few in-between? I can’t imagine the poor personal hygiene of many male players to be the sole culprit.
One day at Neutral Ground, Hashim and Jon (Finkel) were playing a game of Magic. Jon was a bit of a rapscallion back then, and was in the habit of tossing pens at people, just to bother them. On this occasion, he threw a pen at Hashim. The pen went past Hashim’s glasses, and hit Hashim right in the eye. Both of them froze. Jon had a look of panic in his eyes…
You cannot be fully prepared for the Type 1 Championship at GenCon this weekend without having read this article. Pip outlines all the lastest top 8 decks, tells you how deck builds have changed in the past month, and warns that you better prepared to play against Crucible of Worlds or you will be sorry.
I initially remember being exposed to scavenger hunt format several years ago on a now defunct website that described alternate formats. When Ben and Matt posted that StarCityGames.com was going to host a scavenger hunt tournament, along with a list made up by Ben, I was thrilled! You see, to my way of thinking, there’s nothing better than a deckbuilding challenge.
Today’s question about Limited mana curves is answered by four-time Pro Tour top 8 competitor Anton Jonsson.
DannyO are you trying to be as funny as me? I noticed that when you mana screwed me two games in a row at that PTQ and I threw the table with Halo sitting on it, you ran out of the room. Does that mean that you are entertained or not? Let’s call a cat a cat. My temper is frightening not entertaining and I like it that way.
Peace,
Hashim B
Furniture throwing champion of the World
Four reasons to play this deck at your next PTQ:
Reflexive dismissal should never have existed. Reasoned or thoughtful dismissal is a far more useful thing. I’ll define and discuss”thoughtful dismissal” more at length in this article and tell you why players continue to dismiss certain metagames and why it’s a good thing.
I beat Ted so badly that he’s gone underground to lick his wounds. My opponent today is Josh Rider, who I hear is the mayor of Alaska. Fancy politicians do not scare me, because they are all susceptible to one driving force: Blackmail.
The title touches something that’s been heavily discussed on the internet and by several teams recently. How good exactly is Crucible of Worlds? Team CAB’s testing indicates that it might indeed be as good (or bad, depending on your point of view) as Black Vise.
Ben accidentally deleted this fine article the first time so now he has to live with the shame of this teaser in his archives.
It’s pretty rare that Mike Flores and I disagree about Magical things. The last serious disagreement I can recall was at a Neutral Ground PTQ, where we disagreed over whether I should smash all the Neutral Ground faces and take the slot home to Your Move Games. Mike was understandably bitter about that one for a while. So when I read in the front-page blurb of his recent article that Mike disagreed with me – this time about the correct build for Flea Market – I had to step up.
One of the things that I’ve noticed over the course of my time reporting on Type One is The Metafight. In Type One, for so long, so many metagames were so dramatically bad that results from them could be dismissed as products of ignorance and underdevelopment. This reflex was most useful when most everyone truly did suck a few years ago, and it was important to have an intellectual shortcut available that could make more people pay attention to serious playtesting results from the Paragons than tournaments. This reflexive dismissal has outlived its usefulness.
The tournament began, and the format was Type One, single elimination. The turnout? Over six hundred people. This was before the Pro Tour, before Grand Prix, and was an event relegated mainly to the Magic players of the Northeast. I want you to consider how insane this turnout was by modern standards. There was virtually no internet advertising for this tournament. If you were from out of the tri-state area, the only way to find out about the New York Magic tournament was through word of mouth.