Timing Restrictions, Part 2

 

I don't know about you, but it seems a little tone-deaf for Wizards to hold the prerelease for a set with "war" in its name on Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day. But then I guess they've already made it clear that they don't worry about this sort of stuff?

When Is a Mill Not a Mill?

It's one thing to have to change your mind on something. It's quite another to be pissy and indignant about it right up until you make the change.

Timing Restrictions

Of all the cards to spoil on 9/11...

Does Not Compute

Mark Rosewater has done some positive things for the game of Magic, but I have trouble believing he's done many of them. Why, you ask? Because he keeps pointing to the same tiny handful of decisions time and time again!

Gundam: the Gathering

As stated in this article, the giant mechs from Invasion were Mark's second-most hated inclusion in Magic.

Those are some pretty harsh words. Hated them on a conceptual level more than everything else except guns! You can be sure to never see giant robots in any set Mark's at the helm of.

Goblins of Kaladesh

It is here that we christen a new type of feature article - What a Story, Mark!, based purely off all of the nonsensical, stupid and/or contradictory things said by Magic's rotund idiot child-king, Mark Rosewater. He may forget things he said a year ago, but he'll never let you forget that he wrote for Roseanne.

Today's incredible story comes from what was probably meant to be a humorous article that Mark Rosewater wrote in 2005 about Dwarves. In particular he touches on a sore spot of his - the art for the card Goblin Scouts - which clearly he has issues with because it is at least the third time he wrote about this same little story. Hey, you start off by writing for sitcoms, you get used to writing the exact same jokes over and over again. This time he really gets into the nitty-gritty of things: