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Hey guys! Andy here! If you didn't know, I write a bi-weekly column (with a focus on Vintage and Legacy) for StarCityGames. In the interest of taking off some of the pressure of topic-choosing, as well as trying to stay relevant to you guys, I'm reaching out to the TMD community! I'm basically looking for anything here. A broad idea could lead to a whole article, but even short, specific questions could contribute to a grab-bag style article (or just fit in well with a larger topic). You could post a decklist (I'd be happy to do a deck-doctor piece), or even suggest an off-the-wall topic idea. It doesn't have to be Legacy or Vintage specific, but Eternal and Cube are the areas I'm most familiar with. Heck, it doesn't even have to be about Magic - magic culture goes well past the cards themselves. Basically anything you would like to read in an article, I want to know about. I'm pretty sure my upcoming work will be free, so you could be reading articles on this stuff days after you post it. Let me know what you want to see! |
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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2011, 06:23:40 pm » |
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performance enhancing drugs and magic,along with a brief history of dutch underground rap.
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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2011, 06:27:11 pm » |
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Unpowered Decks
Underrated Cards
WGDx
Putting Ancestral Recall in Dredge
The Vintage B/R List
The Viability of an Over-extended Format (From Masks on)
Removing the PLE from Transmute Artifact and Abeyance
Control Slaver for 2011
How about those?
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Prospero
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2011, 06:32:36 pm » |
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How to revive Vintage in the Midwest/anywhere that isn't the Northeast/Europe.
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AmbivalentDuck
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Exile Ancestral and turn Tiago sideways.
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2011, 06:34:16 pm » |
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The brass deck building and/or selection process.
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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2011, 06:53:49 pm » |
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I always liked the old Oscar Tan Head to Head matchup columns, and I would be willing to help you kayfabe those out on MWS.
Interviews of people doing well in Eternal, and gameplay explanations, are always nice.
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The Atog Lord
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 07:14:25 pm » |
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Why do you hate draw engines?
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I just gotta topdeck better than you ^_^.
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 07:51:19 pm » |
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Maybe do an guide on how you play a particular deck?
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Shalom Aleichem
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« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2011, 07:54:38 pm » |
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Unpowered Decks
Underrated Cards
WGDx
Putting Ancestral Recall in Dredge
The Vintage B/R List
The Viability of an Over-extended Format (From Masks on)
Removing the PLE from Transmute Artifact and Abeyance
Control Slaver for 2011
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Colossians 2:2,3
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, both of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2011, 08:37:25 pm » |
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An article on your typical deck development/testing methodology.
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« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2011, 04:12:05 am » |
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performance enhancing drugs and magic,along with a brief history of dutch underground rap.
Strongly compeled to agree with This, I'm not even dutch, but playing top8s on an 72 hour coke binge sounds hot. Also some Testing reports and pretty much what the whole thread has listed. |
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« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2011, 06:02:33 am » |
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Full detailed tournament reports will always be interesting with any deck choice.
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« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2011, 06:51:08 am » |
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How much artifact / graveyard / blue hate does someone need in order to not get completely buried in Vintage?
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« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 07:35:09 am » |
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performance enhancing drugs and magic,along with a brief history of dutch underground rap.
I'm pretty sure I can provide some history about Dutch underground rap including translating some lyrics! How to revive Vintage in the Midwest/anywhere that isn't the Northeast/Europe.
Why do you hate draw engines?
Both these points seem rather good, I'd just call Prospero's suggesting how to build a community though without focussing specifically on a single region. |
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Riding a polka-powered zombie T-Rex into a necromancer family reunion in the middle of an evil ghost hurricane. "Meandeckers act like they forgot about Dredge." - Matt Elias The Atog Lord: I'm not an Atog because I'm GOOD with machines  |
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« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 01:49:04 pm » |
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Andy,
From experience: You wanna get hits? Do a matchup analysis article where you play one deck against another for one game or a match. You'll get lots of hits. Wanna get MAD hits? Do a matchup analysis article but make it fan fiction like, either pro tour fiction or fantasy fiction.
It'll also draw in non-Vintage players who love to watch or read about Vintage in action.
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« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2011, 02:03:58 pm » |
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An article on your typical deck development/testing methodology.
This is a good idea. I've noticed some pretty wild variation in what sample sizes different players rely on in drawing conclusions about particular cards, strategies, or matchups. Commentary on methodology should help your readers in deciding how to approach the task of testing. Also, I've noticed that there is basically no discussion of general principles underyling deck development. Giving your readership some insight there might save your readers a lot of time investigating fundamentally unsound concepts. |
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« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2011, 04:37:11 pm » |
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I'm pretty sure I can provide some history about Dutch underground rap including translating some lyrics! We don't need an article for that. Dutch hiphop started (and died) with The Osdorp Posse (last concert ever 09/2009). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDz8HjXRmwcheers, lplaat |
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« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2011, 04:45:18 pm » |
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I'm pretty sure I can provide some history about Dutch underground rap including translating some lyrics! We don't need an article for that. Dutch hiphop started (and died) with The Osdorp Posse (last concert ever 09/2009). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDz8HjXRmwcheers, lplaat QFT !!!!!!! |
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« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2011, 04:51:04 pm » |
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Remind me the next time we chat, I'd love to do a collaboration with you.
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“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
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« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2011, 05:32:23 pm » |
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Remind me the next time we chat, I'd love to do a collaboration with you.
Just to be clear: do you mean a dutch Rap Collaboration? |
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« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2011, 06:34:39 pm » |
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Is there any question? I'm sure that's what he means.
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Team Meandeck Team Serious LordHomerCat is just mean, and isnt really justifying his statements very well, is he?
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« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2011, 09:53:22 pm » |
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Discuss the death of card drawing (sans Gush) and the new age of tutoring/card selection.
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"After these years of arguing I've conceded that Merchant Scroll in particular can be an exception to this rule because it is a card that you NEVER want to see in multiples, under any circumstances. Merchant Scroll can be seen as restricted in a way because should you have 2 in a hand, only one is really useful (that is, only one can get Ancestral)."
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« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2011, 05:34:11 am » |
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Discuss the merits of U/W Artifact aggro in today's meta. :p
ON a more serious note, you could do a Budget Legacy article series, about the approximate order to get cards in, for maximum value out of your collection.
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