Power and Corruption: An origin story

The BT7 format has been quite the arduous journey for me. I had some success with Titamon in the previously saturated GabuBond meta of BT6 and wanted to replicate those play patterns and results. I had fallen hard for the Ginkaku crew and was engrossed in the safety I felt sitting behind a Rebelli. All […]

The Permissible Bamboozle

Today I’m going to operate under the assumption that there have been plenty of games where you have “bricked” and had to give your opponent an insurmountable amount of memory and simply could not answer the threat(s) provided. It’s happened to all of us and will continue to happen. Variance is quite the fickle mistress, […]

Destructive Innovation

Kimeramon is, by far, my favorite Digimon who exists in the 1.0 format. Being able to have a Digimon answer an opposing ‘mon for the small price of seven memory as well as a sacrificial lamb may be too much for many players to stomach. His inclusion within his own color seems obvious. Purple thrives […]

Unity. Precision. Perfection. Understanding Perceptor

There is a hefty number of things going on with this bot. He slices. He dices. He even makes Julienne Fries! That may be a bit much for everyone’s favorite microscope, but he does have an awful lot going on. It can be quite overwhelming to unpack everything that he is able to accomplish but […]

CURMUDGEON’S CORNER

Titan Masters Attack will change the entire landscape of the Transformers TCG. Of that there is no doubt. Being able to have multiple characters within a single character is very Metroplex-esque. The difference this time is that there is no additional work required to get those extra bodies. This set also has some cards that […]

Kaio-Ken x 5

ADAM BIXLER I have been putting off writing about the deck I took to the Energon Invitation. The main reason being that I felt ashamed of my performance. And partly because I knew why. The deck I took was raw, and unrefined. It didn’t have the privileged or rigorous testing or the fine sharpening it […]

Aggressive Evolution

Evolution is unstoppable. It doesn’t care if you are ready or not. If you fail to embrace change, you will be left in the collateral wake that follows ever so closely. Insecticons has always been the most ruthless and brutal deck since the game’s inception. Love it or hate it, you MUST respect it. Those […]

Sorry for Your Loss

By: Adam Bixler I have a temper that isn’t immediately apparent. I’m normally slow to anger and tend to bottle my aggression up and overcome it. Except for times when I really really should have won that game but god, he was so lucky, and I just didn’t draw that thing I needed and…. […]

CATHARSIS

The first season of Transformers has culminated in the crowning of a Champion. The best of the best. Any and all doubts have been washed away and replaced with pride atop a pedestal of authority. Unfortunately, that honor is not mine. I fell incredibly short of the high standard that I was holding for myself […]

This is Why we CAN’T Have Nice Things

Who remembers all the excitement back in March? Rise of the Combiners had just released, and everyone was excited to try and form Superion and Menasor. There was an innocuous little card that would later be banned because it would warp the entire format around its existence: Press the Advantage. There was also one of […]