The Year That Wasn’t

Guy on the left? He's from the awesome timeline where these posts were actually published.

Title suggested by @TheSundry.

If you write for a blog, or a blog, or just write, you know that not every post is your best. There are drafts upon drafts that some writers write to finally get that piece up. Coming from a fiction background I don’t write the usual Magic related posts (From my “Interviews” with MaRo, to my scripts, to deeply personal pieces).

You also know that you don’t use every idea you come up with either. Sometimes I don’t get a post done in timely fashion (as the time has passed for it to be relevant), or I don’t like where the post is going and it gets canned. As the sole writer and editor for this blog what I say goes, which can either be a good thing (all the content I want gets posted), or bad (such as non-deadlines).

Quick aside. Here’s something that some of you might not know: I don’t get paid for blogging. As you may have noticed, there’s no ads on this site, no one’s selling anything, nor any card site banners. There’s nothing wrong with that (as I have several blogger friends who do, and it’s perfectly fine), it’s just that I write when I have the time (and Wife, job and life comes first).

I’m not going to give you an end of the year review where I go back and revisit my top articles I posted. Today, you’re going to find out about articles that I didn’t post this year for one reason or another. If one thing had been different, you might have seen one of these posts up on this blog. But it wasn’t, so you get this reality we live in.

This is my Planar Chaos.

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MTGSalvation’s Holiday Card Exchange – My Gift

FtV:EDH - MtGColorPie Edition

They say giving is better than receiving.

At MtGSalvation, Lesurgo runs a holiday card exchange. The point is to take a card or how many ever, alter them and sign your name (just don’t make the alters offensive, you don’t know who’s getting what). This year I decided to participate. Here’s my entry:

After looking at what people did for the first year (this is the third time they’ve been doing this), I knew I wanted to do something fun. My big thing this year has been EDH and my EDH blog (which has more articles almost ready to go). Unfortunately I got into this action a little late and wasn’t able to do a full EDH deck (maybe next year). And with little artistic skills, I was at a loss about what to do. Then, as a see an extra From the Vault: Exiled box lying around, I knew what I had to do: Make a From the Vault: EDH version.

True, it’s not the end all, be all cards in EDH, but there’s enough variety and fun in the box of 15 cards to get someone started on the path of EDHness (this is a pic heavy post, so if you have a slow connection, don’t hate me). All the pics are click-able to their full size. Continue reading “MTGSalvation’s Holiday Card Exchange – My Gift”

Lotus Cobra is Evil x2 – Secret Elven Tech & Magical Christmasland

As a special Christmas treat, you get two Lotus Cobra is Evil comics. Both of them are Christmas themed (do they celebrate this holiday in the multiverse? Sure, why not.) so it would be silly to do these in order and when it’s not the season. If you don’t celebrate this holiday, think of it as a end of the year gift (as always, credit goes to houseofsixten.com)

Happy Holidays everyone.