“The first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it’s perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.”

It drops October 10. Download it here.

[via Ryanne’s Tweet. Story link here.]

My friend Chris and I have attended a couple of Tenth Edition booster drafts that a local card shop hosts every Sunday night, and it’s been sinfully fun.

I won this past weekend, besting chumps left and right with a surprisingly consistent and strong green, red, and black deck. I played well, and attributed much of my success at the time to that, as well as some admittedly lucky late-game pulls (e.g., Terror).

What I didn’t realize until Chris and I played some more this week is how the design and mana curve of the deck is actually pretty well-rounded. Card advantage, removal, and some hefty creatures turned out to be a pretty good recipe. I was worried three colors might mana-screw me but I kept the splashes appropriate and a couple Civic Wayfinders became my best friends.

[No clue what I’m talking about?  See my first Magic post or Wikipedia.]

Chris didn’t fare as well, but he built a pretty good white and green deck, especially considering this is his second time playing limited ever. It might be easy to say the moral of the story is Hunted Wumpuses can’t be trusted, but I think we both agree they’re still a good limited card. He definitely lacked any real removal, tho, even of the white variety, and that’s just a plain killer.

Anyhow, I’m quite excited to play some more, especially since my spoils ($45 worth of store credit) mean I won’t have to pay a cover for at least a few more tournaments. Limited really is Magic’s purest form, and it’s super neat that it fits well into both my and Chris’ schedule, so it might become a semi-regular thing.

My deck list is below the jump, if you’re interested: (more…)

We’re in San Francisco / Napa for the weekend to explore and run a race. I’ll probably Twitter from my phone a few more times, if you want to check out what we’re up to and where we’re at.

[Iris, originally uploaded by thestatusjoe, is part of the new Balboa Park photoset]

[Big Brother is Watching, originally uploaded by thestatusjoe]

Mike and Jacob are blogging their drive to California from Chicago, GPS coordinates and everything!