“To treat a woman like Laura Mills, or any of the other women who play top-flight Magic, as some kind of circus sideshow – or, even worse, a selling point (‘NEW! Magic: the Gathering! Now With 66% More Women!’) would be to insult and cheapen them, and yet Wizards has no problem doing just that.”
Not surprisingly, I have something to say about that.
America was based on the tenets of free speech – and so was StarCity. From the beginning, StarCity’s tried to be the voice of the community, picking up where the Dojo left off, allowing people of all sorts to have their say. Almost every Magic issue that can be debated has been on StarCity at some point, and the only thing I have to say is:
Boy, you sure are a bunch of whiny bastards.
You show up a day early with nothing but a few bucks and a dream and you walk up to the registration table and hand them your multi-colored money in exchange for the chance to play your heart out in a series of extremely expensive single-elimination tournaments. And then you win.
It occurred to me that a white weenie deck, with a splash of green for beef and tricks, might be what the doc ordered – something fast enough to punish slower developing decks, with enough flexibility to handle a wide variety of decks. And I came in second with it at my first OBC tourney.
It’s a very good deck that smashes mono-black, blows through white weenie, and punishes any number of other classic OBC decks… But there’s one matchup it just can’t beat. Why doesn’t it work? All that, and an invite to get together at Origins!
Out of five boxes of Judgment, he got only one Sylvan Safekeeper and two Cunning Wishes… But he got eight Balthor, the Defiled. Since he now has enough for both himself and his wife to play Balthor decks, I guess Peter will have to break Balthor wide open.
Can Fires work in today’s post-Judgment Type 2 environment? Abe looks to the past and tries to come up with a competitive Type 2 deck that doesn’t use Anger.
Geordie took yesterday off thanks to it being Canada Day or something. But in the meantime, he got over THIRTY THOUSAND people to read his Magic Online article, and now he’ll tell you how he ground in to Canadian Nats. Oh yeah, and I’m giving him a Rizzo box. What the hell else does he want?
The usual slew of analyzing cards for the most ancient format – and some intriguing ideas that may change the slant of some classic T1 decks!
Ever wonder why every change by anybody in the Magic community produces a torrent of bitching? Jay, returning to his old digs for a while from his stint at Magicthegathering.com, tries to break down the four styles of players in a way that’s not just”Casual/Pro” or”Spike/Johnny/Timmy.”
How would you build this deck? I went the”all killer, no filler” route, and paid the price in the mana department. Would you do the same?
What do the Tog decks gain from Judgment – and by Gaw, does a post-Judgment Tog deck truly hurt blisterguy’s pet mono-black deck? Let’s take a looksee.
Nomad Mythmaker is officially BROKEN!… by Anthony’s readers, of course. So anyone wanna see the deck that one that did NOT include Femeref Enchantress or Crown of the Ages?
How much would your play improve if you could have Mike Turian sitting over your shoulder during a draft game, explaining what he would have done, which cards he considers suboptimal, and what the right play should have been? Well, one lucky winner will get to have that chance….
I guess what I’m trying to say is, well, if calling my opponent an”assmaster” in response to his Morphling is wrong in the presence of the fairer sex – then by God, I don’t wanna be right.
