When it comes to board games, the concept of age is often nebulous and far more subjective than most generally realize. It may be easy to research when a game was published, but beyond basic facts, how gamers address those...
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Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack. – Dr. Strangelove Few movies in cinematic history have more accurately – or more comically – satirized the decades-long Cold War and the fear...
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Math is everywhere in Magic: the Gathering. It only takes one prolonged game, one convoluted system state, or one hard to understand combo to see the amount of numbers that can get thrown around in the game, be it as...
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Magic is a complex, complicated game. No matter how much any one argues to the contrary, there are few games where the length of the rule book continually gets longer and undergoes changes on such a regular basis. Every set adds new twists,...
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As a casual player who almost exclusively plays with multiple opponents, I rarely adhered to the 60 card rule. While that makes sense from a competitive standpoint, I rarely found it a useful trait when staring down multiple enemies....
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The further we civilians get from an actual battlefield, the more we tend to rely on gloried fictional accounts or simplified versions of very tenuous situations. Most historical accounts are by the lay person treated more like mere lines from...
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Why did you put Card X into your recent deck? Was it because of its power level? Splashy appeal? Was it because of deck synergy or thematic purpose? Or did you just put it in because you liked the card?...
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So many EDH cards are easy to showcase in one form or another thanks to them simply existing. Whether they’re big flashy creatures, potent spells, dangerous enchantments, or highly versatile artifacts, many Magic cards can be flaunted just by pointing...
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There are some avenues of discussion Magic players never tire of. Whether it’s the multitude of ways a game could have played out differently, the debate over the best cards in any given format, or speculation over what the next...
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It’s all about the stories. Among the multitude of reasons people play Magic, whether it’s the challenge of facing opponents, the open-ended nature to deckbuilding, the (sometimes uneven) storytelling and characters, or the basic enjoyment of sitting around with friends...
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