In a World Where Words Can Get You Killed…

There's a passage I got memorized: Ezekiel 25:17.

In a World Where Words Can Get You Killed…

I like to consider myself a writer. And, as a writer, I choose which words exit my fingers. Sometimes my brain thinks I’ve written the word that I thought of using there, but not all the time. I like to think of it as my fingers are stumbling to try and catch up to my thoughts. But most of the time, I believe that people tend to get the general idea of what I’m trying to say.

That leads us to the announcement from Monday: Wizards is printing Magic 2012. Shocking, I know (unless you haven’t played in a while, in which case Core Sets come out every year now). The biggest issue that people found interesting was the tagline:

Gather Your Allies

Now, if you have been paying attention to The Great Designer Search 2, you’ve noticed that all of the contestants have been forced to write loglines for their world. This is important, because it seems either the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing or it knows excatly.

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Lotus Cobra is Evil – Admission Requirements

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to welcome Sixten and Lotus Cobra is Evil back to MTGCP.

After his run in the Star City Games talent search ran shorter than what us fans would’ve liked, Adrian will continue to do LCiE and I will be proud to post them here.

Today as your Christmas present, I give you the first of a two part comic. Don’t worry, you won’t have to wait long, the second part will be up Sunday.

Welcome back Sixten, welcome back.

Design Class – All of These Things Are Just Like Each Other

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I have an unhealthy obsession with card cycles.

Like really, really bad.

For my GDS2 entry, four of the ten cards I submitted were part of cycles:


And since this week’s GDS2 contest dealt with cycles, I’d thought I’d talk about them. Seems logical, right?

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Ain’t No Sunshine

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Editor’s Note: While not my favorite version of this song, it’s close (Video here). If you’re going to perform a song like this, get emotional. If you’re singing about pain, show pain and make me feel it. I get goosebumps when an artist gets it right.

I know that some of you just read my blog, and while I’m appreciate, this isn’t the only thing I’ve been working on. Even though the last date on this blog has been a while ago, I haven’t abandoned it. In fact, I’ve been spreading out. Just a quick update of everything that’s been going on.

If you haven’t heard, I’m writing weekly on ManaNation.com about EDH, er Commander. You can find my work here. That partially explains why 99EDHProblems hasn’t been updated much recently (though it will be, some content is being generated there). If you haven’t read the news announcement of EDH a few weeks ago, you can read my analysis on ManaNation (here).

I also have started to write for the new Quiet Speculation as well. Over there hopefully I’ll be writing more than once a month, but currently that’s the schedule. I’ve been asked to write about more of the casual side of Magic, kind of what I do here from time to time in my culture pieces, so I’ll be focusing that type of writing over there. However, I’ve got an awesome idea for a project that I have to get cleared to write about on QS. If you’re curious about my first piece, it’s here: Gamers of a Certain Age (it fits along the mold of Middle Children of Magic).

Where do we go from here?

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