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The “You” in Community
Posted on May 16, 2010 by Travis R. Chance
Travis R. Chance Travis (book on Magic Online) is a game designer and fringe format specialist who loves building innovative, synergistic decks and making fun of Magic art.
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100c has came a long way since this.
Indeed, friend. Indeed. We need to get a few cards off that current Banned list and I will be happy here in the now.
Just for reference, here’s the list of banned cards for 100cs: http://www.mtgoacademy.com/deckbuilding-rules-and-banned-restricted-lists/#6
The current list, that is.
great article in which most of it still applies to pretty much any weekend format
Ah, the good old times….
Back in ’86, when long hair meant more than just half your wage being spent on shampoo.
Nice article. Though ill be honest I havent seen any successful deck doctor articles yet on any site, but i may not be looking enough, it sounds like a great concept and i wish you luck.
p.s. I think the overall failure of deck doctor articles is its not the reader’s deck 99.99999% of the time, though there is still great deckbuilding information to be gleaned from the article.
Oh, and where do people play magic in NYC nowadays? i was there last month in Upper Manhattan and could not find anything for my friday night fix.
Fenix,
This is an old, old article. We now are reposting old content on Sundays, touching up the dated formatting, and giving readers an opportunity to check out some of our earlier stuff. That said, I should have prefaced the article with this info, and expect to see this henceforth. At the moment, there’s no definite plan on the Deck Doctor. We managed to do one, but, alas, failed to get any submissions afterward. Additionally, the concept just became a semantic battleground for people to try and one-up me, and each other, in a way that wasn’t as constructive as we hoped. So there is def credence to your lack of faith in the idea being successful.
Regarding the NYC magic scene… My friend Alice Goguen just opened a shop in Williamsburg called Twenty-sided Die (I believe). It’s new, but doing great already. Give it a glance, any of you in the area, as she is a great person who knows how to organize shizz like no other!
I think the payout is a key part of getting people into the queues. I don’t think any eternal format should pay standard-legal packs. I started playing 100CS because it was paying ME3 at the time and I was tired of getting ZEN packs in the other queues.