Combo of the Week – December 7
Dec. 7's Combo of the Week So for a very long time after was released in the original Mirrodin set, the card was banned in multiple formats including Modern. It was considered OP by many people along with the original...
Combo of the Week – November 30
Nov. 30's Combo of the Week This is the first of two parts for this week's Combo of the Week! It's two parts because it's AWESOME and works wonderfully with one very fun and potentially big critter. Back in the day, cards were sometimes created or named for designers...
Combo of the Week – November 23
Nov. 23's Combo of the Week Broken - that's what this combo is. I've never had enough copies of these two cards to try this combo out. And in my play group, we have a rule about "infinite combos" - if you get it to go off, that's fantastic! Now you're out, you won -...
Combo of the Week – November 16
Nov. 16's Combo of the Week Disclaimer: So this is the first of what hopefully turns into a weekly thing. Seeing as I'm a combo player and have been since about my 10th deck, I have decided I should really talk about some of my favourite combos. I likely won't be...
The Simplified Stack
Magic: the Gathering is a complicated game. This is, in part, due to a wide variety of technical rules with a wide potential for convoluted interactions within the rules. It's easy to fall into the trap of “how you think it should work” or “that looks right” and end...
Mike Sass – An Interview
Traditional Fantasy In an Age of Digital Art What do Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Baldur’s Gate, Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone have in common? Each of these games have featured art, either digital or traditional oil painting, from Canadian artist...
A League of My Own
In the last two months (give or take a day), there have been a few changes in my personal life. The biggest change for me was that I started a new job at an internet software company, which has actually given me for the first time my evenings and weekends. As the...
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A Series of Fortunate Events
A few years ago, I had taken a somewhat self-imposed hiatus from buying Magic cards. I just didn’t have the funds and my twins were newborns - money didn’t flow as easily as the mana did. Around that time, the OG battle for Zendikar was raging and it was all I could...
A Memorable Oath
Oath of the Gatewatch Prerelease was a rather memorable event for me. Memorable, in the way that I would mostly never want to repeat it again. While it's typical to be disappointed with seeing people pulling all of these lovely mythics around you while you stare at...
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