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My 20-sided die put you in this order. Obviously once you see your opening hands, the set you're using will be apparent...

So in that one Commander game, I decided to play with the actual, physical deck rather than using Magic Workstation or whatever. This backfired because moving meant I packed everything up, and all the chaos from that delayed the game. So I'm doubling down on the idea of using real decks for...

Perhaps as befits my membership on a site called the Casual Players Alliance, I don't actually attend many tournaments. I've planned to at various points and had schedule conflicts or other things come up. On Monday, I was already working morning and afternoon in Seattle, just a little south of...

I can hardly believe it, but after all these years, I am finally caving in and playing Standard. I mean, I haven't actually taken this to FNM yet or anything, but I did build a Standard deck, so there is that step taken. An actual, Standard-legal deck is sitting on my desk in front of me right...

Full list of changes here: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/banned-and-restricted-announcement-2015-01-19 Notably, Jeskai Ascendancy was left alone in Modern, despite speculation that it would be banned for being too fast. And now I finally have to stop making that joke...

Spiderman and Mooseman have been dueling here with the 2013 Commander decks. I remember how, after the original 2011 Commander decks came out, we tried to start up a game with all five of them, but it went on hiatus and never came back or something. I haven't seen the new 2014 decks in action...

As I've pointed out in the past, I've had a Burn deck since 1998 or so, and it's the only deck of mine that hasn't been completely dismantled since then. My deck has evolved a whole lot in those 16 years, as I acquired better cards and as new sets introduced new tools. But I'd like to think that...

I had all of the possible cards for this game unlocked before the expansion came out. Since then, after playing through the expansion content, I've used a Bant Keeper deck to win some online matches and acquire the "battle boosters." Now I'm all caught up and have 100% of the card collection. I...

You dirty lurker, you.

Helcomb County Municipal Lake Dredge Appraisal version 3.1 (current decklist as of December, 2014) Commander 1x Karador, Ghost Chieftain Creatures 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper 1x Angel of Despair 1x Apprentice Necromancer 1x Ashen Rider 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim 1x Birds of Paradise 1x Boneyard Wurm 1x...

As you may have seen, comments directly on CPA articles have become problematic due to the comment queue being flooded with spam. Turgy suggested moving that here. While having a thread for every one of my articles is overkill, I figure there should be at least one thread, so I'm starting one...

Remember how I said I started a backlog last year for articles, so that I could edit them a bit, then submit them if I didn't have time to write new ones later on? Well, I went through that whole backlog and I've been writing articles generally off the cuff for a while, but there's still one...

From the Director's Chair: 2013 I'm not liking the little stamp thing...

A couple of my siblings got me precons for Christmas. I'd asked for containers to store my cards, but hey, exacerbating the problem works too. I'm not complaining... It's been a long time since I've had precons. Actually, I can be more specific: I picked up a couple of the Invasion precons...

Posting this on a holiday, so I'm assuming that it won't actually be relevant until tomorrow... I just submitted a new article It's my humble beginning to my not-so-humble attempt to actually write a weekly series on Magic. I have a little over a month's worth of weekly articles that I wrote...

I think some of the people here, like me, are interested in Magic's history and development over what's now been twenty years. I've always thought that having a comprehensive log of all changes to banned/restricted lists would be pretty handy. Well, I just stumbled across the closest thing I've...

For the past two and a half years, I've been attending the University of Washington. I just found out today that I have indeed graduated with a B.S. in chemistry as I was hoping to. I still have other matters of varying degrees of importance, but that has been the big one for two and half years...

Rules thread. My deck isn't quite finished yet (I just need to modify the manabase), but I'll work on that after I post this and I might have a deck ready to go by the time you read this text. I guess because the game hasn't actually started yet, this is sort of a roll call. People that have...

Note: I got rid of the previous note because it didn't even make sense anymore, now that this thread is its own thing with a sticky and such. As of October 8th, 2013, I've made some minor updates to this first post. The only important part is that goblins, elves, and zombies are banned. Tribal...

It's been a while since I've played Magic in the games run board here. I used to always use Apprentice, but then the number of cards in the game became big enough that the program could no longer cope, and the volunteers that were updating it gave up. So I switched to Cockatrice, a potential...