Type What? is a blog about casual magic on MTGO. As you can tell by the title, it’s all about recreating that kitchen table magic we all used to play, back before we knew about mana curves, virtual card advantage, or Michael Flores. The format was whatever the hell you could get your hands on, the banned list could be updated every night, depending on how irritating your friend’s Royal Assassin+Icy Manipulator deck was, and Ihsan’s Shade was an absolute house.
In other words, Magic was Magic.
I’m a huge fan of variant formats – the more outlandish and restrictive the better – and probably haven’t played a game of Standard for a year. I’ll be covering these and anything else that grabs my attention. I go by erikg885 on MTGO, and I welcome all challenges. I swear I don’t play with counterspells.
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