Looking at a Random Card: Night Soil

(What am I doing here? Read here!) Night Soil: Ah, Fallen Empires… What a bad time to start buying Magic! Fallen Empires was the most overprinted Magic set ever, because it was printed according to retailers’ preorders, which were incredibly overblown for the following reason: With the previous sets, print runs just couldn’t keep up [...]

An MTGO customer support experience, part 1 of x

Me: Deciding to give online drafting a shot again. Me: Going to the inbuilt MTGO store (while being logged in, obviously). Me: Buying 40 tix, paying via PayPal. Paypal: Notifying me that the transaction was completed and my money sent to Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast: – Me: Asking game support if [...]

Three level draft

Just now, an idea for an interesting draft format for two teams of three players each popped up in my head, which I want to share with you and get some initial feedback on it (obviously, it is completely untested right now). It is a draft format to be used with a cube (it can, [...]

Looking at a Random Card: Foul Imp

(What am I doing here? Read here!) Fowl Play: No, I’m not talking about Un-cards here. Next! Foul Imp: From “Fowl” to “Foul”? Really? This card hails from a time when creatures had a lot more often clearly apparent disadvantages to make up for advantages or just for “being over the curve”. These creatures still [...]