An Addendum to my Winchester Experience

I have drafted now with the rest of my Innistrad boosters, this time with basic lands available and with 3 boosters for each player, as is the suggested norm, and I identified an issue with this format I wasn’t aware of before: I assumed that, depending on the drafters’ strategies, both drafters would either end [...]

The truth about Timmy, Johnny and Spike

Fun’s Got Nothing to Do with it According to Mark Rosewater, the three basic psychographics of Magic players are defined as follows: Timmy wants to experience something. Johnny wants to express something. Spike wants to prove something. While this classification in itself is insightful and useful, its definitions and interpretations are a bit off the [...]

Looking at a Random Card: Tireless Missionaries

(What am I doing here? Read here!) Tireless Missionaries: Okay. I do not know the exact creature/non-creature ratio among all Magic cards. I realize that 20 cards is quite a small sample. And I won’t bother to do the math needed for a chi-square test. But 90% creatures convinces me that I need to give [...]

Looking at a Random Card: Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

(What am I doing here? Read here!) Merfolk of the Pearl Trident: Creatures leading 17-2 now. I’ve decided to get to 20 entries fast, and then decide if I’m going to do something about this seemingly unbalance in the random card feature of Gatherer. What to say about this merfolk? First thing that comes to [...]