Yes, yes, yes… My character I carrying five rare items (WHATEVER Crown of Command, Dancing Shiv, Belt of Titan Strength, Star Opal Ring, and Winged Boots)… If it makes you feel better I have an unequipped Wand of Orcus, too. The crazy thing is what I just bought for 5,000 Gold…

Gloves of the Moon (+3 ATT, +3 v. Traps) just bumped Rogues Gloves… I am pretty sure these are better than Gauntlets of Destruction, which was the previous top of the line Gloves in Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures.

Long story short: The Powers That Be have updated the game!

So if you have been away for a long time, it is time to get back and check out new classes like Warden, Sorcerer, and Bard!

That’s it.

Hopefully they will finally fix the leaderboards so this becomes true again: [Remember When I was #1 in the World?]

LOVE
MIKE

BDM and I decided to do something a little bit different this time around. We are both writing previews for Baloth Woodcrasher, without consulting each other. They are both going up tonight, and you can see our differing reactions to this new Beast:

Okay - How about the stats? Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s not beat around the bush here and get right into the preview card at hand…

…I will admit that when I first saw the Baloth Woodcrasher I was rather underwhelmed but as I have been living with him for the past few days he has gotten more and more exciting to me. I was immediately certain that he is first-pick material in Zendikar draft but I am actually thinking this fattie could see Constructed play in both Block and even Standard. Read the rest of this entry »

After a handful of delays, Top8Magic.com is about to publish our second collection of Magic: The Gathering writing from the game’s most respected and prolific authors. This time out we will be publishing a collection by Pro Tour Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz that begins with his earliest works and follows his nomadic writing career from website to website.

There is hardly a Magic site of note that Zvi has not written for in his career and he was among the very first to treat writing about Magic as a way to augment a Pro Player’s salary. This is common-place in the modern era but — as Zvi points out in the new material he wrote for the section on his Magic Dojo careeer — that was not always the case.

Zvi has written abundant new material for this volume including “director’s commentary” after many of his more famous and favorite selections. As Mike did with  Deckade, Zvi has also written new material to sum up each era of his career. I am happy to present Zvi’s thoughts on The Dojo Philosophy. We hope you enjoy it and if you are interested in purchasing this volume, which will ship late September/early October, you can do so by clicking on this link.

The Dojo Philosophy
by Zvi Mowshowitz

In the beginning, we didn’t write because we were paid. We wrote because we wanted to share our wisdom. We wrote to make our name, to claim our ideas as our own while sharing them. We wrote because we enjoyed writing. We wrote because we felt it was part of our obligation to the Magic community in general and the Dojo in particular. We took in the words of others, and followed Sensei’s motto: Study and grow strong. In exchange, when our time came, we would report back on our decks, our tournaments and our ideas. Read the rest of this entry »