January 2012
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November 2011
3 posts
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eskouster asked: Will you ever write "From the Director's Chair: 2011"? I loved the editions from 2009 and 2010, and have waited 7 months (!) to get my big-picture look at the health of the game, and where it's going.
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The "Gatherer-Terrible" Format
Magic designer Shawn Main (@ShawnPlays Magic on Twitter) came up with a goofy constructed format that sounded like something I’d enjoy: “Gatherer-Terrible.” The rules are simple—you can only use cards rated by the community on Wizards’ Gatherer card database as 2.0 or less out of 5. There are currently over 12,000 cards legal in Magic’s largest format, Vintage, and Gatherer-Terrible restricts you...
July 2011
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How powerful is Overrun in limited?
A few weeks ago, I got into a reasonably-friendly back-and-forth on Twitter with Marshall Sutcliffe (@MarshallLRCast), host of the “Limited Resources” podcast, about the fact that Overrun was reprinted in M12 at uncommon.
The resulting chatter informed me that a great many high-level limited players dislike losing to the card, but they were also implying that it was a...
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Jor Kadeen commander deck, v1.1
I’ve played but a single four-player game on MTGO with this list, but I won and it was fun, so I’ll be building the paper version in the next week or so. Lots of tuning to come…
1 Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Origin Spellbomb
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Scrabbling Claws
1 Sol Ring
1 Wayfarer’s Bauble
1 Dispeller’s Capsule
1 Boros Signet
1 Mind...