Sep 27, 2022It’s a UNIX system! I know this! — A Highly Requested Tournament Report For F2F TorontoI think the average person has some intuitive understanding that programming isn’t quite the same as it is in the movies. In popular media, a genius hacker codes some solution from scratch in the space of an hour or two, solving a problem that would otherwise doom the other protagonists…Magic The Gathering17 min readMagic The Gathering17 min read
Dec 6, 2020The Queen’s Gambit Declined: A Memoir Of A Former Chess ProdigyContent warning: This piece mentions child abuse and other traumatic events. Oh, and spoiler warning, obviously. One night, without anything to do, I absentmindedly opened up Netflix. I immediately sat up in my chair as I saw what the header was. “The Queen’s Gambit”, what looked like a show about…Memoir7 min readMemoir7 min read
Mar 30, 2020Contributing to Trans Visibility as a Magic JudgeI’m going to start off by telling everyone who is reading this article from a Magic-related space that I promise you’re not going to be bored by me just blasting a ton of queer theory at you, so please don’t close the page. Likewise, if you’re seeing this from a…Tdov6 min readTdov6 min read
Dec 3, 2019A Tournament Report For An Unconventional Tournament: First Place at Saint Louis Vintage Rotisserie Draft IVOn November 24, 2019, I had the distinct privilege of participating in the fourth iteration of the Saint Louis Vintage Rotisserie Draft. For those of you unfamiliar, a Vintage Rotisserie Draft is a draft, inspired by fantasy football, where players draft cards one at a time from the entire Vintage-legal…Magic The Gathering11 min readMagic The Gathering11 min read
Nov 18, 2019Channeling Frustrations With the Current State of MagicSo this is something that I started thinking about after seeing Zvi’s article on why he doesn’t like the London Mulligan. The TLDR for that article is that its made decks so consistent that the only decks that are good are decks that have a clear vision of what their…Magic The Gathering8 min readMagic The Gathering8 min read
