Decklist – Notion Grief Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged Every so often, Magic: the Gathering gets less chummy and more . . . let’s call it involved. You find a card that can do something special, and your inner Johnny kicks in and says, “I can actually do this? Well, now I have to!” Tuesday saw…
Gods and Monsters: Anticipating Theros Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged Since I’m going to be busy the weekend of the Dragon’s Maze prerelease, I’ve been a little mopey about Magic, even after my recent resurgence. Fortunately, that all changed after the coverage from the PAX East convention. Because friends, they finally did it. With the unveiling of the next…
This Overwhelming Week in Magic: the Gathering Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged In trying to focus on a piece this week, without leaving anything out, I found myself drowning in an ocean of content. Some tricksy Blue Mage apparently decided it was time to fill the Magic world with a billion things at once. But here…
Rekindling the Type 2 Flame Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged It’s been a couple of weeks, folks, but I’m back on the Magic: the Gathering beat. In the time I wasn’t writing, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. . . . And not sleeping and working crazy hours and being sick — but, you know,…
A Heaping Helping of Our Hospitality: Dealing with Troublesome Players Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged It’s been said by some readers that I don’t understand competitive players, or I have a poor view of competitive play. And it’s true that often, when combing the wires for Magic: the Gathering news, I’ll catch a quote or article…
Gatecrash Prerelease Recap: A Gruul-ing Tale Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged By now, you’ve been to your local prerelease. You’ve seen the cards up close. Some of our shadier pre-orders are coming in the mail. Gatecrash has happened. Three members of Play Unplugged staff attended prereleases this past weekend. Yours truly came in . . ….
At the Starting Gate – A Gatecrash Preview Roundup Richard Bland, Blackborder This article was originally published on www.blackborder.com and forms part of the Play Unplugged/ Blackborder partnership. Hello everyone, Gatecrash is just around the corner, and the preview season is in full swing. With it being a large set, with 5 new guilds, 5…
Fan’s Choice Academy 2012: Binders Full of Women Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged So, for the past few days, some of us in the Magic: the Gathering community have been talking about having our own “binders full of women” like Mitt Romney. Probably the reference nearest to my heart came from writer David Leavitt, the Boston…
Gatecrash Predictions: Gideon, Champion of Justice Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged You all remember Criswell, right? Criswell made his living on television making predictions. Many of them were ludicrous, which is an improvement over most predictions — so generic that there’s no point in making them, which is how most prognosticators work. If, for example, I…
Gatecrash Guild Abilities Revealed! Mike Eaton, Play Unplugged Wizards of the Coast have been slowly revealing one spoiler from each guild as a holiday present to us, in an event that some (no one) are calling (no one is saying this) “Ravnichannukah!” (I regret nothing; viva le pun.) On the first night, we met Fathom…
