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Dec

Planar Chaos: Ixidor’s Legacy Review (Part 2 of 2)

Our first foray into the temporal insanity that is Planar Chaos, I’m armed with the mono-Blue Ixidor’s Legacy. Putting it to the test is Sam with Unraveling Mind, a madness-based construction. Which of these forces out of time will prevail?

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16
Dec

A Very Merry Kamigawa Christmas Indeed!

Some of you might remember last year when our infant son Liam played Santa for Daddy. Well, a year on he’s grown quite a bit, but he’s just as eager to spread some holiday joy!

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15
Dec

Planar Chaos: Ixidor’s Legacy Review (Part 1 of 2)

The kick-off of the Time Spiral block in October of 2006 was the beginning of a yearlong dividend to Magic players, and unsurprisingly the payout was greater the longer you had invested. Obscure references, subtle twists, and perhaps even the occasional in-joke found less traction on newer players who didn’t have the history to grasp what the set was trying to do.

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13
Dec

Champions of Kamigawa: Snake’s Path Review (Part 2 of 2)

Our final visit to the land of Kamigawa finds us amongst the snake-like Orochi tribes, as they find themselves on the defensive against a kami attack. They have numbers and venom on their side, but will it be enough?

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11
Dec

Champions of Kamigawa: Snake’s Path Review (Part 1 of 2)

If your opponents weren’t afraid of snakes before, the Snake’s Path deck will give them a new phobia! With tons of sss-slithery creatures with sss-super abilities, you will sss-seize control in mere sss-seconds!

So begins the introduction to the final deck of our review of Champions of Kamigawa, Snake’s Path.

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9
Dec

Champions of Kamigawa: Way of the Warrior Review (Part 2 of 2)

The yamabushi of Spiritbane are back, but this time they play the spoiler’s role piloted by Jimi. We’ll be putting the White Weenie Way of the Warrior through its paces to see how it performs.

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8
Dec

Whispers of the Muse: Jadson dos S’s Carnival Of Blood (INN)

One of the things that preconstructed decks are great for is to serve as the foundation for doing a little deckbuilding of your own. When the deck has a very intriguing theme and a good core of cards, it becomes a lot of fun nipping here, tucking there until you have the deck you’re excited to play.

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7
Dec

Champions of Kamigawa: Way of the Warrior Review (Part 1 of 2)

Thus far in our visit to Kamigawa we’ve seen vengeful spirits and the fighting monks of Master Kumano in the Sokenzan Mountains. Today we’ll be turning our attention to that group without which no accounting would be complete: the samurai.

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5
Dec

Champions of Kamigawa: Spiritbane Review (Part 2 of 2)

Today I’ll be joining with the warrior-monks of the mountain yamabushi, though instead of Spirits we’ll be hunting the snake-like Orochi. Piloted by Sam, Snake’s Path will look to meet fire with venom until only one of us remains.

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3
Dec

Champions of Kamigawa: Spiritbane Review (Part 1 of 2)

The sudden and startling aggression of the kami caught the world by surprise. None could say why their gods had turned against them, but there could be no doubt that something had moved the spirit world to attack the mortal world, both faithful and faithless alike.

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