Jamie Wakefield

Pretty much everything i wrote for Star City Games is now available on the free side. I also wrote an article a couple weeks ago you may have missed. http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/article/14660.html

Our six week trip the states was a nightmare. We ran like lemmings from one cliff to another the entire time. I didn't get to see some friends as much as I would like, some not at all, and worked far harder than either of us had planned. Not good work either. Cleaning out garages and closets. Reorganizing living rooms. Trying to sell a mountain of books, DVD's, posters, books on tape and CD, backpacks, and various and sundry useful items that no one wanted. We hosted parties, we attended parties, we had dinner with friends and family. All of it completly necessary and vital. We had been gone six months. People want to see us. They won't be denied and we want to see them just as badly. Sure, we spent some days down at Wendy's home down at the lake swimming and drinking beer in inner tubes and water hammocks, but we did it with people who wanted to see us, had never seen Wendy's home, and people we wanted to introduce to the new life Wendy and I were sharing. I wanted...

Two new blogs have been added to my links on the right hand side. "There is no Path" is my housemates new blog about his quest for inner peace. He'll have some deep stuff there as well as some fascinating stories that started him on this quest. "Force of Will" is a friend of mine from Asheron's Call and half dozen other games, John Loggins. Slightly influenced by my ramblings he's selling everything he owns to sail the open seas with his family. some good stuff there.

Just some random observations about Tenth edition. Aggressive Urge Cost: 1G Type: Instant Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Draw a card. Every now and then I’ll go through a period of time when all I play against is Blue and all their card drawing. Like, every week. And one day I decided to see if I could make a beatdown deck with card drawing and keep my hand full while I smashed face. I’ll add this to my deck of Kavu Climber, Carven Caryatid, Ohran Viper and Primordial Sage. It doesn’t work because most of those cards suck. I’ll add aggressive urge to it and play some casual. Birds of Paradise Cost: G Pow/Tgh: 0/1 Flying T Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Right now, I’m enjoying having twelve one drops that can give me 3 mana on turn 2. Right now, there’s an insane amount of busted green things at three mana. Moldervine cloak, Troll Ascetic, Ohran Viper, Groundbreaker, and Pincer Beetles are fans of such plays. I’m spitting at you Rune Snag, Mana Leak, Delay a...

Told Lorelei I would post a picture of my new goatee. That's me in my new birthday shirt my sister gave me. Sitting next to me is former lover, lead singer of the Horsetraders, and childhood friend of The Beautiful Wendy - Deb Brisson. We're at Amigo's having dinner and Deb is singing there tonight. And a wild time was had by all. Want to see what I looked like the last time I posed with Deb? Awful.

So I get home and sign into a computer I hadn't rouched in six months. Let's see, first thing I have to do is transfer my writing and pictures over from the DVD I burned in Spain. Huh. Neither of my computers has a DVD drive? I network Wendy's laptop and get the files off her DVD drive. Okay, that's one problem solved. Lets check some email. huh. No Yahoo messenger installed. Install that. Wow, look at all the emails. Okay, that was fun catching up, now for some WoW . Download updates for 2 hours. Whoops, don't have Burning Crusade on this computer, lets download that for another 2 hours. Whew. Done. Play for fifteen minutes and decide to watch some Magic replays. Download updates for 2 hours. Okay this is getting old. Wow, look at all the islands in the top eights. Lets browse the web for a bit. Okay, my bookmarks are ancient. Lets fix that next. That was just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few days I noticed what a pain in the ass it was to be using Wendy...

If someone was to send me a link called - "How to become a Paladin in today's Modern Age" - I would go there and do it. I've always wanted to be a Paladin. There isn't a web site out there like that - so I decided to make one. Since I was about 18 I've always tried to be a Paladin. Sometimes I do well, sometimes I've failed. I've wrestled a lot with what a Paladin should do in certain situations in today’s complex world. You certainly can't just jump off your horse and run a sword through someone any more. You can't take the law into your own hands. You can't slay dragons. You can't even rescue damsels in distress anymore unless they want to be rescued and you have the legal right to do so. And in today’s world it’s really much more PC to rescue "people in distress" anyway. And that whole fanatically pledged into service to a God thing... well that’s not working out real well for a whole lot of people right now. And that whole...

Comments have scrolled off the page but I wanted to answer many people. Rodney said... Wakefield you are a collectors nightmare. Are you trying to drive down the price of Tournament Reports! ;0) I hate collector’s nightmares. Like Marvel and DC. With their 37 versions of Superman #1 and Teen Titans #1 ad nauseum. Man I hate that. There should be ONE “Superman” that numbers into the thousands. Anyway, I didn’t do that. :-) I renamed it. And sadly, the price of Tournament Reports dropped from 100 bucks to 30 in the last few months. I don’t know why. So, you’re not losing much Rodney, honest. :-) Benjamin Wild said... Were you excited to see a Mono-G deck in the Top 8 at US Nat's? I was blown away when I saw it. What concoctions do you have brewing with Overrun? I was more amazed than excited. With all the cheap elimination available right now, a creature based strategy seems risky. Of course, his deck smartly capitalizes on so many untargetables in the format right now. I think this ...