It was finally again that time of year. The Saturday where all worldly worries are set aside, and the mind as well as the GPS is set for one thing and one thing only. It was time to rumble, to tumble, to spice and to fight At The Mountains of Madness VII! Now, as avid […]
Back in the beginning of April I turned the drastic corner of getting to the big 4.0. It was quite dramatic and, even though not a complete surprise, a bit of shock too. I really think it is quite a big number. The next round one is 50! But already at 40, you are definitely […]
Okay, for those who are in the know, you will already be aware that this is not an article about Old School Magic. It, actually, really isn’t. It is about my vintage cube, what I have observed playing it sometimes now, and what conclusions I think could be made from it. Mostly it is about […]
Imagine this: You are a Magic player, playing the Old School format. Probably not too much of a stretch of the imagination, I guess? Then imagine this: Wizards of the Coast – in all their greatness – announce that they have found a small handful of cards from the Legends expansion, that somehow never saw […]
I was asked by the organizers of the Eels Castle Cup if I wanted to write something for a little “newspaper” they were going to release in connection with their tournament. Such an honour! The task was broadly defined as “a tournament report, some deck tech or whatever you could think of.” Such recklessness! Giving […]
Could it really be? The cold, foggy, wet and ever-lasting month is already back?! It was hard to believe some five or six weeks ago, when January started, but here we are: everyone is coughing; the sky looks like a panel of dried up grey clay; everything tastes like water porridge. In short it quacks […]
Another one in the books. Another trip around the big Fireball. A year has passed, and it is time to look back and forth and all around and figure out what we did and what to do. Quite a steep hill on this the first day of January. I usually write these things before the […]
Another one I have been thinking about for a long time. A post about my favorite cards. Why – and how is it relevant to you, you ask? Well, because I have mentioned so many times throughout the blog that this and that card is on my top five or top ten or whatever, but […]
And finally something that goes according-ish to plan Okay. I know. I introduced a clever system for my mailday posts: one each quarter summing up what the acquisitions had been for the last three months. So clever. So simple. And yet, apparently, too difficult even for myself. Because I have not posted three quarterly mailday […]
What is privilege? It is not an easy question to answer. Especially if you’ve had it your entire life, like I have been blessed to have. It can be a host of different things – big and small – possibly also very personal and subjective. And the strange thing about privilege is, that when you […]