In 2018 I introduced the Premodern Magic Community Award, acknowledging a person who has done something extra for the Premodern community and the format during the year. The first award went to Matteo “Mr Magic” Caravatti. Although we’re almost a month into 2020 already, I hereby announce that the 2019 award…
I hope you’re enjoying your holidays—here’s a short public service announcement by Ron Taylor. Cheers! / Martin Hello again to my fellow old cardboard lovers! If you’re anything like me, you’re always hoping to find more people to play Premodern. Where I live in Florida, the playgroup is quite small…
Wondering how to put to use, now that it’s unbanned? If Hapless Reanimator or Squee-Plenish (Juan Manuel Delgado’s deck in this post) is not your cup of tea, perhaps you might enjoy this one instead: The deck is straight-forward. To get started you need a or . Thereafter, becomes a…
Seb is back with another piece of Premodern prose. Enjoy! / Martin The meta seems to be shifting in Premodern, which is nice to see in a format with a static card pool, aside from bans and unbans. Premodern’s neighbour format, 93/94, has the same predicament and only uses cards…
This time we have something different—a spoiler from the upcoming set Scryings. Magnus “mg” de Laval—grandfather of the 93/94 format—has decided to inject some vitamins into the format by assembling a custom set of cards from the sets Fallen Empires, Ice Age, Homelands, Alliances, Mirage, Visions and Weatherlight. The name…
The mills of the editor grind slowly, but here’s finally Jens Jaeger’s tournament report from the European Championships. If you want to catch up on that tournament, check out my organizer’s report and the commentated stream as well! Enjoy! / Martin From the 18th to the 20th October there were…
Anton Glans is back on the blog, this time with a report from “Norrlandsmästerskapen i Premodern” (the Northern Swedish Championships), which he organized in October. Cheers! / Martin The Northern Swedish Championships, first edition In Örnsköldsvik—the small town in northern Sweden where I’m from—Legacy is perhaps the most played Eternal…
19 October, Madrid, Spain, was the time and place for the second edition of the European Championships in Premodern. The first edition took place in Genoa, Italy (see my report here), as part of the Fishliver Oil Cup. This time around, however, was the first time ever for an international…
Seb Celia is back with an, umm, well-researched article. Enjoy! / Martin Let us talk about Reanimator. And I will show you my thought process in three gentle steps. But before we do that, I need to tell you what I had in mind when putting it together. I wanted…
The changes Yawgmoth’s Bargain is banned Frantic Search is unbanned Moreover, the Watch list is abolished Motivation A little more than one year has passed since the last ban list update, at which point was unbanned and a few cards were removed from the watch list. The format has grown…