My Limited Card Pool: Multicolor with White
This is the 13th entry in a series where I comment on and explain my choices for my limited card pool in detail. Here are my previous entries: Lands & Artifact Creatures Non-Creature Artifacts...
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This is the 14th and last entry in a series where I comment on and explain my choices for my limited card pool in detail. Here are my previous entries: Lands & Artifact Creatures Non-Creature...
View ArticleMy Limited Card Pool: Born of the Gods Update
Born of the Gods has been spoiled completely a bit earlier than I expected, and I made up my mind about which cards I wanted a bit faster than I would have guessed, so here comes the update for my...
View ArticleMy Limited Card Pool: Born of the Gods 2nd Update
If you can read German: I have written a three-part preview of Born of the Gods for draft which is being published on Magic Universe. The first part is already up, and I hope the other two will follow...
View ArticleA Born of the Gods Draft Video
Toffel asked, so I had to do it: Here is a video of a BNG-THS-THS draft, just in time before PT Valencia! I might have done it in German and published it on Magic Universe, but that came to naught...
View ArticleAnalysis of a video draft by Pierre Liebsch
Pierre asked me for feedback on his newest draft video at Magic Universe, but since we’re both publishing drafts there now (after endless delay, I really hope my video will finally be up tomorrow! –...
View ArticleA Joke
I once read a joke I want to share with you: A Scot, who had been abroad for half a year, returns to his home village and meets a friend. After a bit of small talk, he inquires: “Say, Rob, I heard you...
View ArticleI’ve Been Busy Elsewhere
My activity on 00zero has become very sparse lately, and while I’m certain this will change again some time, I feel no immediate pressure – that was the whole point of closing down Zeromagic and...
View ArticleArtikelschreiber gesucht!
Habt Ihr Spaß an Eurem Hobby, Magic? (Offensichtlich!) Habt Ihr auch Spaß daran, darüber zu reden? (Selbstverständlich!) Habt Ihr vielleicht auch Spaß daran, darüber zu schreiben? (Warum nicht… wenn...
View ArticleAn unbelievable chain of MTGO bugs
I have put this blog here on hold while I’m busy managing the editorial side of the German Magic site Magic Universe, but I really do not want to withhold this absolutely hilarious client behaviour...
View ArticleFixing Old Cards: Arabian Nights White
(This is a link to the previous installment of this series. Chain clicks to find them all.) Wow, interest in this series waned abruptly, and once again I notice how much my motivation to blog is tied...
View ArticleFixing Old Cards: Arabian Nights Black
(This is a link to the previous installment of this series. Chain clicks to find them all.) Okay, I’ll keep going, at least for for the moment. Guardian Beast This ability is needlessly complicated....
View ArticleSome winning OOB draft decks
No, this doesn’t mean that my „fixing cards“ series has already ended. I just wanted to uphold the tradition of posting decks which won me drafts, and since the format isn’t exactly brand new anymore,...
View ArticleFixing Old Cards: Arabian Nights Green
(This is a link to the previous installment of this series. Chain clicks to find them all.) I’ll very probably keep going until I have finished Arabian Nights, but I’m yet undecided if I should proceed...
View ArticleAll that was wrong with Kamigawa
I’ll try out a few random one-shot articles where I talk about various design topics, to see if they meet interest, and to break the routine of my fixing cards series (slowing it down, obviously, but...
View ArticleFixing Old Cards: Arabian Nights Blue
(This is a link to the previous installment of this series. Chain clicks to find them all.) I held this entry back for a few days, because Ormus (the site’s admin) asked me to, so that his worldwide...
View ArticleKamigawa Remastered
This is a followup to my article All that was wrong with Kamigawa. Therein, I claimed that this setting was not so much doomed to be a failure from its very conception, but instead just misdesigned...
View ArticleFixing Old Cards: Arabian Nights Red
(This is a link to the previous installment of this series. Chain clicks to find them all.) Due to the positive feedback for this series (yes, that really makes all the difference!), I will keep it up...
View ArticleSideboarding in MTGO Sealed Leagues, and a Return to Zeromagic
(This entry has two parts; the latter being written in German. If you happen to be an international reader, it should not be of much interest to you.) A few weeks ago, sealed leagues finally returned...
View ArticleZeromagic is active again
My first entry after almost three years on Zeromagic has just gone online, comments are reenabled, and everything should be working again the way it’s supposed to! This means I will no longer blog...
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