MTG Salvation Article Archives: Author: Nathan Fealko

• Baghdad Bazaar: A Statistics Primer (November 27th, 2008)

  Math!

• Conflux Set Review! (October 24th, 2008)

  [i]Shards of Alara[/i] has barely hit the tabletop, and [i]Conflux[/i] cards have already been circulated!

• Baghdad Bazaar: The Unsung Heroes (September 19th, 2008)

  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.

• Baghdad Bazaar: Let's Have a Funny Time! (July 3rd, 2008)

  Any given deck [i]may[/i] perform better when built with an emphasis on a diverse card pool that can respond to a wide variety of situations, rather than a card pool built around the reliable draw of a few key pieces of strategy.

• Baghdad Bazaar: FFA Draft #3 - The Power of Merfolk (March 21st, 2008)

  The Free-For-All Draft is easily my favorite format to write about, but it was some time before my Army buddies from Iraq could all collect together on the same day.

• Baghdad Bazaar: Improving your Topdeck (February 22nd, 2008)

  "BUTZ I HAVE 40% LANDZ!" they exclaim adamantly.

• Baghdad Bazaar: Tips and Tricks--Exploiting MTGO (February 1st, 2008)

  MTGO ploys go beyond simply knowing the ins and outs of the phases or even which cards work better in which formats (Kokusho in 2HG, etc.

• Baghdad Bazaar: Drafting FFA with Fealko (January 23rd, 2008)

  Today, I aim to lay out one of those aforementioned drafts, complete with picks and perhaps a thoughtful insight or two.

• Baghdad Bazaar: The Lorwyn FFA Draft (November 21st, 2007)

  Today I'm talking about a format that has been rarely tried and (to my knowledge) never written about.

• Baghdad Bazaar: Meet the Creeper (November 1st, 2007)

  This article, besides making obscure references to old Rob Zombie songs, handles a topic often mentioned but rarely dealt with: Power Creep! *cue scary music*

• Baghdad Bazaar: The Lorwyn Multiplayer Review (October 9th, 2007)

  Doing a card-by-card review of [I]Lorwyn[/I] would be both tedious and pointless. Technically, [I]every[/I] card can be used somehow, somewhen.

• Baghdad Bazaar: Metagaming Your FFA (September 5th, 2007)

  In keeping with tradition, my newest article will again be about my play group here in Baghdad, plus the unique situations that arise in our.

• Pro Tour: Baghdad (August 14th, 2007)

  Today's article will be a little bit different than normal, as this month I introduced my fledgling planeswalkers to the thrill that is Limited.

• How Not To Scare Off N00BZ (July 24th, 2007)

  Pushing aside how a nerd like me even ended up in the infantry (let's just say that even a nerd can have a little bit of Spartan in him), we turn instead to the topic of introducing people to Magic.

• Conditionality and the If-Meter (June 20th, 2007)

  The "Conditionality" of a card is a measure of how many conditions need to happen/be in place for the card to worth playing.

• Mike Flores for Dummies (May 29th, 2007)

  If you've just started playing Magic, or if you're still relatively new to the game, then before you stretches a giant expanse of infinite opportunity.