bloodbraid month | Quiet Speculation

Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 5: Evaluation

David Ernenwein — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:00:23 +0000

This is the big one. It's time to answer the question I've been dancing around all month: Is Bloodbraid Elf safe for Modern? Ought Wizards to rescind its banishment, to the delight of many? Or should Elf remain locked away, to the delight of many others? There have been a number of narratives running through this […]

The post Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 5: Evaluation first appeared on Quiet Speculation.

Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 3: Qualitative Data

David Ernenwein — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:00:32 +0000

It has come to this. Time to start rolling out the results of the latest banned card test. Conducting this test has been weird for me. Having a hard deadline was actually a blessing as it helped discipline the testing period and we got done much faster than expected. However, this wasn't a fun experience […]

The post Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 3: Qualitative Data first appeared on Quiet Speculation.

Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 2: Finding the Deck

David Ernenwein — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:00:24 +0000

I am always amazed at how often people make relatively simple tasks hard for themselves. There just seems to be something in all of us that gets suspicious whenever anything is unexpectedly easy. We are ready for conflict. We prepare for projects, lessons, and assignments to be hard. When they're not, we don't know what […]

The post Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 2: Finding the Deck first appeared on Quiet Speculation.

Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 1: History of a Ban

David Ernenwein — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:00:30 +0000

Happy New Year! At least, I'm assuming it's the new year. Hard to say; I'm typing this article from the bottom of what used to be a barrel of eggnog. Anyway, let's not let less-than-optimal writing conditions get in the way---it's Bloodbraid Month! Which is an excuse to hold off revealing the data from the […]

The post Bloodbraid Month, Pt. 1: History of a Ban first appeared on Quiet Speculation.