On the mothership, in his zendikar sneak preview article today, Kelly Digges reveals a new mythic rare legendary octopus creature called Lorthos, the Tidemaker.  Behold: Before I even see the casting cost or textbox or typline or anything, the name of this guy makes me wonder whether the psychographic profile / player type “Vorthos” is [...]

So the You Decided™ online card creation feedback system that Wizards has going on, recently produced, in its mechanical-turk-like cyber sweatshop, the new Zendikar planeswalker Sorin Markov, behold: This handsome devil caused quite a stir amongst some dorks I know, and I thought I’d therefore share my own thoughts on him.  First, let’s evaluate the [...]

At the stroke of midnight tonight a number of bannings will become effective in the elder dragon highlander format (here’s a sick link to the rules homepage for any unfortunate souls who have not heard of this fantastic format).  This time around, the chariot turning into a pumpkin is braids, cabal minion, who is now banned for use as [...]

I caught the EDH bug about two weeks ago when I got an email announcing that EDH was the new format for the NM Tech Invitational for this semester. A quick trip to the EDH homepage revealed that Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary was off the banned generals list.  Knowing the tournament was to be 1v1 matches [...]