Thursday, January 9, 2020

Year two in Review: A Retrospective.



Two years! Where does the time go? I don't know, but what a two years it has been. In this year, I've had the honor of participating in the creation of another TCG, which I'm humbled to help with, I got caught up in a angry mob and was greatly embarrassed over it, I moved two hours north of my previous home, which was a family ranch that had successfully been sold, and started restoring a house, and I wrote a total of 43 Articles on the blog, most related to MtG (I believe three are short stories).

Most viewed article (Card Review): Stasis: Magic art piece, with over a 1,000 unique views! It details the history of not only the design of the card, but the piece of art as well. Easily one of the most intensely written and studied articles I've ever done.

It also surpassed Uncle Istvan as my most viewed card review.

Least viewed article (Card Review): Narwhals: Inventors of the Shisk Kabab.More famous for the image attached to it, then the actual post itself. It's only has 81 reviews, actually going lower from the 87 views over Fire Sprites.
It's also less then last years least viewed card review, which is none other then Weakness.

Most Viewed Article (deck review): 5 color legends. A review of my last year Winter Derby deck (I wish I had more time to try Treefolk this time around). The deck did get quiet a bit of fanfare, as being 'ballsy'.

Least Viewed article: Surfing Omegle. A EDH/Brawl deck that was appropriately named White Weenie deck, only got 58 views, several of which was probably from me.

Most Viewed Article (Other): Surprisingly it wasn't a "Tale of two formats", but instead, it was the "An Open Letter to WotC", in which I complained about the year of changes for the tournament scene, and a number of other related incidents around more 'main stream MtG'. It's currently my most viewed, as well as discussed articles, with over 3000 unique views! However, this could be due to the fact it's an article that far exceeded OS Magic and fell into MtG as a whole.

Least Viewed Article (Other) Chandra, the importance of consistent character design. I guess people just didn't care.

I'm hoping to continue reviewing cards, getting feedback, and of course, improving the game as a whole!

Here to an awesome decade!

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