Today’s guest post is written by Ron Taylor, who organized the latest online tournament. Cheers! / Martin Hello! My name is Ron Taylor, and I was the organizer for the second edition of the Premodern Online Open. These tournaments have hosted players from around the world playing primarily over Skype or…
In the first week of 2019, Big-Cat Aaron Coleman arranged The Mid-Atlantic Premodern Championship in Baltimore on the US east coast. With 23 players, it was the largest US tournament so far. Today’s guest post by MJ Worsham is the runner-up’s report from that event (this seems to become a…
Premodern is a community format, its success being the sum of your interest and engagement in playing it, promoting it and organizing events. I hereby introduce the Premodern Magic Community Award, acknowledging a person who has done something extra for the format during the year. The award for 2018 is…
Today’s guest post by Per Rönnkvist is all about ‘dem goblins. Enjoy! / Martin Introduction Hi everyone, This is an in-depth article about one of the most powerful and robust decks of the Premodern format—Goblins! I’ll be covering my journey so far with this deck—all the way from Joel Larsson’s…
Well, actually, I ended up not rocking it very much, but the deck had a good run all the way to the very end. Without further ado, here’s my tournament report from the first edition of the Premodern Online Open, featuring The Rock. If you have been following this blog,…
Today we have the honour to enjoy a deck tech by Erik “Sigismund” Sundberg, candidate for Sweden’s most enthusiastic Premodern player and runner-up of the 2018 European Championships! As usual, you’re welcome to discuss the article on Facebook or on Discord. / Martin Intro New horizons, untouched land, unsolved meta. There…
Hi Premodernists! Recently, we finished the first ever online Premodern tournament—the Premodern Online Open—played with real cards on webcam via Skype or appear.in. The whole thing was flawlessly organized by Clifford Mathieson and out of the 24 participating players, Jared Doucette came out on top with his mono-red Sligh deck. Congratulations! 🙂…
Prologue Somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, I’m not a very nostalgic person. But one thing I really liked about playing Magic in the Premodern era was the unified geographical tournament structure, with Nationals feeding the European Championships, in turn feeding the World Championships and the whole Pro Tour circuit. No matter at…
Hello again, Premodern humans! With now seeing the in Premodern, I’ve seen some folks experimenting with the old Tax-Rack White Weenie deck. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone going into red though, which was common in the old Extended version of the archetype. Essentially that’s what I have for you…
Every now and then the Grand Prix circus hits town, and I figured that this time was a good opportunity to gather some Premodern players from places far away for a casual tournament. I opted for day two, Sunday the 16th of September, since this would allow those who didn’t…