The Dark, Wet Plane of Zendikar
I have a confession to make - I was never able to make it to Zendikar the first time this plane came around in Magic. This was during a dark period of my life when I was unable to play Magic due to a lack of friends - no, seriously! Having just moved to Canada, I was...
Angelic Commander 2.0 – Fires from Heaven & Hell
About two weeks ago, I looked at the From the Vault Angels set since a friend of mine was curious about my opinion on one of his deck designs. At the time, I chose to look at his mono-white Commander deck and re-worked it, making it both a tribal and combo deck. Now I...
Angelic Commander
About a week ago, I had a friend ask me about looking at some decklists centered on the new From the Vaults: Angels set. Awesome – I can do that! However, there are about three things of note on the request. One: This friend has only been playing Magic for about seven...
It’s All Fun and Games …
I don’t exactly remember when I started playing Magic. It was around the time of Fallen Empires and Ice Age with a smattering of Chronicles and Alliances thrown in for fun. I’ve either past 20 years playing or am about to. Which means that I’ve played a few games and...
American Origins
About two weeks ago, both Canada and the neighbour directly south celebrated Independence from England. At that time, I wrote the first of two articles about Origins, which centered around White and Red planeswalkers. It was a little aggro and decidedly unapologetic –...
Canadian Origins
As some of you may know, Canada Day just passed. It’s a national holiday up here in the Great White North (though it’s not so white right now!) When I tried to do some research as to what exactly we’re celebrating, I realized that I need to study Canada’s history a...
ORIGINS – A BLAST FROM THE PAST FURTHER BACK
As Magic Origins will launch within the next few weeks, I have become a bit more nostalgic. In case you don’t know, Origins is the prequel of sorts for the five planeswalkers – Gideon, Nyssa, Jace, Liliana and Chandra. There will be a number of people who will look at...
What I learned at Tournaments
Build a cat-apult for the little furballs that get in your way! Cue music – cat yelping slowly getting softer as the cat goes farther away. Ooops, this is not a Ren Fest tournament that I’m supposed to be talking about is it? OK, so I was in the Peg (Winterpeg, er, I...
Plague of Tokens
Tokens, tokens everywhere – as far as the eye can see. I’m sure you’ve all seen quite a few played by people. They come out strong and usually make everyone’s night unbearable. I was guilty of this the other night – that’s another story. However, I got a random pack...
How I Broke the Unbroken
Once upon a time, there was a guy who really loved dragons, we'll call him . And one of those dragons really made . Then he went back in time and fixed everything – including his beloved dragons! Suddenly...
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