MTG Salvation Article Archives: Monthly: September 2008"You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first! Welcome to the fractured world of Alara. You’ve heard of losing the game before you even sat down to play, but you assumed that applied to having a defeatist attitude, not facing a 3/2 creature while you’re at 11 life without having taken a single turn yet. This may surprise some of you, but I like to win. "You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first! Hello, all! 'Tis I, your loyal tidepool-dwelling judge-turned-frazzled-college-student. It wasn't long after making friends with both a [b]Magic[/b] store owner in Nova Scotia (through MTGO, no less) and another here in downtown Taipei that I began thinking about a new article. Wizards of the Coast sure does hate [b]Magic: the Gathering[/b]. "You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first! You were expecting an article from Eli, right? Originally, this article was going to be this linear storytelling experience leading into an in-depth look at the decks that don't change all that much this coming Extended season that, length aside, the editors on MTGS seemed to approve of. "You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first! Exercises in Existentialism By Eli Shiffrin, Tom Fowler, and Diane Colley Greetings, loyal readers, "You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first! Hello loyal readers! Urchin here, transmitting from her new tidepool at Reed College in Portland, Oregon!
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