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…
In this article I do an overview of different Premodern deck archetypes, using the decks from the Swedish Nationals as examples. In my report from the Swedish Nationals, I showed the top 8 decks and commented particularly on the breakout Devourer Combo deck and the Dementia Drake deck. Aleksi Väänänen…
Karl Pfeiffer from Germany has written this deck tech about the Zoo archetype. Enjoy! / Martin If you want to go aggro in Premodern but don’t feel like playing Sligh or one of the already established monocolored or tribal based strategies, Zoo just might be the right deck for you!…
The blog is rolling a bit slow in these vacation times but here we have a sweet long read perfect for a lazy summer day. Enjoy! / Martin Humble beginnings Greetings, dear reader! Yours faithfully today are Ville “Kake” Kaukoranta and Erkka “Prote” Jouste, and today’s subject is the well-celebrated…
Here’s a good ‘ole tournament report from Ron Taylor in Florida. Enjoy! / Martin It was a beautiful day for 20 year old cardboard in Tampa, Florida. The sun was shining, the humidity was oppressive, and the air conditioning was pumping. On Saturday, June 29 of 2019, we played our first…
Today we have a guest post about Tron by Aleksi Väänänen from Finland. Enjoy! / Martin I’m Aleksi Väänänen—a Finnish player and deck brewer. Last weekend my friend and teammate Sakari Castrén played a GW Urzatron deck in the Swedish Nationals and was asked to write a blog post about…
April. I had just booked a venue for Swedish Nationals, capped at 36 people. That should probably suffice, in light of the attendance of 18 players at last year’s Nationals, right? Shortly thereafter, Erkka “Prote” Jouste hits me up on the Premodern Discord and asks if the event is open…