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It's nice to affect the outcome of a tournament here BDM changed the course of tournaments, and dramatically for the better. Brian David-Marshall had an idea: What if we equipped players-players who might be interested in attending tournaments but maybe didn't know even the first thing about what to do once they got there-with some basic tools? It seems kind of obvious in hindsight, no? Well, a decade and more later there have been many, many successors to 'Prerelease Primer' and with good reason: It turns out that printing this article was highly effective in helping to drive Prerelease attendance for the Legions debut. At the very least it was an early domino in the inevitable progression of Magic's growth. That, in a sense, is what 'Prerelease Primer' did. Maybe we spike a tournament or maybe we produce a World Champion. Certain of us fancy ourselves movers and shakers in this society of specialized scribblers, but for the most part, the best any of us can brag about is a little movement in the metagame. Probably the most underrated Magic strategy article of all time, 'Prerelease Primer' is the rare Magic article that actually changed the world after it hit the digital presses.

' Prerelease Primer' by Brian David-Marshall (Mothership) Mark Rosewater rewrote how we talk about Magic players and put us in boxes even more effectively than Finding the Tinker Deck in this seminal quest for identity.ġ. Yet, I felt it would be inappropriate to write about the great works without at least tipping my hat to what is probably the best of the genre as a whole. It's an article about thinking, and how we think about ourselves, but also a band apart for this group. Possibly the greatest Magic article of all time is not a Magic strategy article at all. And, certainly, there are more than twenty articles worthy of note, even during 20th Anniversary Week.Īnyway, I decided to choose only nineteen strategy articles, and with good reason.Ġ: ' Timmy, Johnny, and Spike' by Mark Rosewater (Mothership) but might raise more eyebrows than IQs today. There are wings of Magic writing, whether for their loose language or (in 2013) suspect subject matter that might have been vital and important once upon a time. The task of choosing the twenty greatest Magic: The Gathering strategy articles OF ALL TIME is quite simply impossible, even for someone with an exhaustive familiarity with the landmarks, lines in the sand, and legendary lore of the genre-something even I don't have.

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