A deck which, quite explicably, won an Innistrad draft

Just back from a last Innistrad draft this year before the new year festivities start. Since I posted my last tournament-winning decklist, I drafted 5 more times, going 1-2, 2-1, 2-1, 2-1 and, finally, again, 3-0. The remarkable thing is that I felt my decks were getting better with each tournament (I really didn’t like [...]

“Looking at a random card” just got its 40th entry!

Okay, so I failed my initial goal of adding 5 cards per week on average – it’s much closer to two-and-a-half cards per week. Then again, my entries are usually at least twice as long as I thought they would be. You can find all cards I already wrote about via the index (which I [...]

Looking at a Random Card: Crowd Favorites

(What am I doing here? Read here!) Crowd Favorites: I resolved to bring the number of entries in this category up to 40 before the year ends, so here we go for the last time in 2011! There’s a certain species of cards in Magic which seems to be a collection of freak designs, but [...]

Looking at a Random Card: Horn of Deafening

(What am I doing here? Read here!) Horn of Deafening: Here it is, the first non-creature artifact in my series! When I first saw this card (probably on some inofficial Legends spoiler list, but shortly thereafter as a reprint in Chronicles), I immediately compared it to Icy Manipulator. To understand this, you must realize that [...]