To hell with resale value, Magic: The Gathering is better when you bust out a permanent marker and draw on the cards

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To hell with resale value, Magic: The Gathering is better when you bust out a permanent marker and draw on the cards
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Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games.

Back in 2011, Risk Legacy shook the staid little world of board games with its anarchic approach to the sanctity of playing pieces. It was a game designed to be customized in play—after a few sessions you'd have written new names on the board, ripped up cards and thrown them away, added new rules, and permanently altered it in ways that made each copy unique to your gaming group.

In Magic: The Gathering, where the collector market considers cards to be investments it's frankly barbaric to play an actual game with, the equivalent is an unofficial format called Sharpie Cube, or Redacted Cube. It takes the normal Cube Draft format—in which you pre-select a pool of 360 cards, which stack in a rough square, to build your decks from—and attacks it with a permanent marker.. Or, in one of my favorite examples, changing the Spellgorger Weird into the Spell Weird.

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames,, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the.

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