Ferrett keeps getting on me about writing opinion columns instead of Judging ones. (Only ’cause YOU get bored sometimes, Sheldie – ) I swear I’ll do that soon – as soon as I run out of fascinating (*cough*) Judge stuff to talk about. Oh, what the hell. Let’s skip the Judge stuff for a week….
In the spirit of holiday procrastination – yes, we are close enough to the holidays to start procrastinating, why put it off? – I am delaying the Connect the Dots contest winner for another week. Honestly, when I start one of these things, I look over the stuff I’ve promised in the recent past for…
Archaeologists were thrilled last year when they discovered a Persian library, which had lain in a remote ditch for the past fourteen centuries. Buried almost wholly intact underneath a canopy of vines, the library was nameless except for a set of mysterious symbols carved onto the walls; it turned out later that the words were,…
Things didn’t take long to settle down, did they? Okay, we still have a lot of decks out there that are considered rogue and that are doing very well, but we also have a bunch of decks that everyone knows about, thanks to the omnipresence of the net. A month ago we were all looking…
Well, three days to go and the English Nationals will be upon us. I’ll be heading over to Guildford this Saturday to get some drafting practice in a couple of side events, get a nice meal down me, a few drinks with some friends and (possibly) a good night’s sleep before the big day. One…
So, a naked walks into a bar, with Squee under one arm and a three-foot in the other. She sets the Staff down on the bar, and the bartender says… I’m sure there’s a punchline there somewhere, but I’m just not coming up with it. If you can think of one, email me and I’ll…
I tell myself I will not go even as I drive there." Big Black ‘Bad Houses’. After States, I was looking at the great Star City site here when I noticed that they had some of the decklistings for the top decks from those tournaments. If you haven’t noticed this yet, it’s under a black…
I submitted my first article to TheDojo on December 6, 1999. Two articles, actually; I guess it’s appropriate that they were both sent directly to the "humor" archive. That day marked my first big dive into the deep and sometimes fickle Pool of Magic. I guess that’s when it all started; what a friggin’ ride…
Ten Extended Decks to Beat #5: Sligh The Extended variant of Sligh can be traced back to the then-Standard legal Deadguy Red variant run by the "King of Beatdown," . The deck translated well to the Extended format, and was one of the few non-Academy decks that had a chance of winning when and were…
When last we left our hero, he was 1-0-1 going into the third round of Swiss at the Virginia State Championship. His G/r/w Blasto-geddon deck was being a little inconsistent, but it hadn’t lost a match yet. The glass is half full, right? Round 3 vs. Shane with Nether-go Shane was a real nice guy…
TAKING ROGUE TO STATES By now you’ve probably read at least Part One of tournament report, in which he ditched the illustrious Borg-2K deck that we poured time and blood and sweat and tears and at least two good decks of playing cards into (I had to template, so sue me: they were only buck-seventy-five…
INTRO: Howdy. Now the new Type 2 season is underway, and results from States are flooding in with a promise to define the elusive metagame. Yippee. To me,”metagame” can just as easily be translated into”now we have decks to copy on the web so we don’t have to struggle through developing our own.” Everybody break…
QUICK CORRECTION TO LAST WEEK: In changing (from a previous edition) to , I managed to keep the description for . is a 6/6 creature costing 4RR with echo, which does four points of damage to every other creature as it comes in. I am likely to get in the artwork for this article late….
So, last weekend was the weekend of the States. Lots of rogue decks, lots of Nether Go, , and Panthergeddon. I’ve spent some time poring over the reports I’ve seen so far, and it looks like some sort of metagame is starting to form. There seem to be a bunch of decks that, even if…
The first thing I need to do this week is tell you I screwed up. Last week, I published in my Grand Prix Dallas report that produces any color of mana save that which the land originally produced. This was an error. PoL creates a simple replacement effect. It replaces "This basic land produces <color>"…
