On July 15, 2002, Mark Rosewater is expected to post an article about Type I. Yes, a full article – not just another off-the-cuff, foot-in-mouth answer to a letter. Fortunately, a Wizards mole spilled the beans.
There are nuances in multiplayer, just like in duel. They lie in the questions you ask that don’t have answers.
The problem was Deep Analysis. Ever Persecute a control deck guy and look over next turn, only to find out that he’s got five cards in his hand again? That happened to me a lot.
Jim’s back after his annual post-Nationals break from Magic – and he’s got a new Type 2 deck he’s running through the local tourney! How did he do and what did he play?
They gave us an Emperor tourney… And we built a deck that broke the format. OI would recommend that every casual play group ban the deck we came up with immediately; consistent turn 2 kills on an infinite number of opponents are not what makes multiplayer fun.
The madness begins to break as his blazing start meets two killer decks, who pound this prolific writer into a break-even record….
Sengir Autocrat, Mask of the Mimic, and Cultural Exchange combine to create a frenzy of exchange – and a token-nabbing error in play that only StarCity’s own”Ask The Judge” could catch. Why not tell YOUR craziest multiplayer error and win $5 in StarCity credit?
The first round of OBC tourneys are over – and as expected, Quiet Speculation decks were everywhere. But there were two decks that absolutely smashed Quiet Spec decks…. And don’t you want to know what they are?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we interrupt this broadcast to inform you that Pale Mage will be leaving a Constructed tournament without a losing record on the day! Remain calm.
Well, I can’t put this off any longer: Eventually I knew I would have to buckle down and hammer out the match-by-match details of my Davis-esque performance on Day 1 of Canadian Nationals, and the time seems to have come.
Your opponent believes that going from twenty to seventeen is no big deal. How can you take advantage of that?
June 25th: Beyond Dominia finally dies – not with a bang, but with a whimper.
July 8th: Oscar Tan goes bang.
I’d assume Ancestral Recall would be fair if it could only get certain cards, and if it was a sorcery, and cost one more, but you wouldn’t have to discard from having too many cards in your hand because you had neatly stashed those extra cards in the yard o’ graves. Oh yes, I would. At least until the drugs wore off.
The”You Make The Nickname” contest is down to four entries: TK, Badger kNuts, Pimpmasta T, and Low Rider. Now VOTE, dammit! Oh, and Teddie Kneutered goes off on Geordie Tait, the Bush administration, his Godawful LD deck, and NeverWinter Nights.
“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.
