MTG Salvation Article Archives: Monthly: October 2005

• Battle of the Sets VII - Round of 32 Preview, Gamebreakers, and Play-In Report (October 31st, 2005)

  Editor's Note: Hope you've been able to wait this long .

• Cranial Insertion: Relearning Humility (October 30th, 2005)

  Cranial Insertion Relearning Humility or, Who's Afraid of Continuous Effects? - Take Two By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska This article originally appeared back in April.

• Aimless Wanderings: The Poster that Changed it All (October 26th, 2005)

  Editor's note: don't take this article to mean that the MTGS staff appreciates or condones pranking the Rumor Mill, so please don't do it.

• Battle of the Sets VI: Finals Recap (October 25th, 2005)

  Editor's Note: Just to keep things clear, the BOTS that is about to happen is number 7/VII.

• MBC on a Budget: A Cheap Deck in a Post-Ravnica World (October 24th, 2005)

  I make no secret of my love of the Torment set.

• Battle of the Sets VII: Introduction Pt. 1 (October 23rd, 2005)

  Let's duke it out!WELCOME TO BATTLE OF THE SETS (BOTS) VII!!! This is the official BOTS tournament center.

• Cranial Insertion: Bring Out Your Dead (October 22nd, 2005)

  Cranial Insertion Bring Out Your Dead By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Tom Fowler Edited by Goblinboy With the state championships just behind us, we thought this would be a perfect week to discuss state-based effects on Cranial Insertion.

• A First Glimpse at Ravnica Block Constructed. (October 19th, 2005)

  by Poukis In this article I will be examining the various decks Ravnica block can offer us (of course looking only at Ravnica: City of Guilds).

• [MTGS Classics] Why Can’t I Play Vintage (Type 1) Online Legally? (October 19th, 2005)

  FROM THE EDITOR: Not all of you have been reading our articles since Valentine's Day of this year when we started them, so we thought it might be fun to show you one of the older articles.

• This Just In! Goblins Set to Terrorize L.A. (October 17th, 2005)

  The Magic Pro Tour will be making a stop not so far from me at the end of October.

• The Lightning Bolt Metric (October 16th, 2005)

  by Tom Fowler Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for 1993.

• Cranial Insertion: Guess the Theme Week! by Woapalanne (October 16th, 2005)

  Cranial Insertion Guess the Theme Week or, Guess the Obvious Theme Week! By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Tom Fowler Special thanks to Lee Sharpe for hunting down obscure new rulings.

• Guilds of Ravnica (October 11th, 2005)

  What happens when a guild has to be two colours, when it has two philosophies, two meanings of life, two goals? It has to find a way to unite them all in one, clear idea, and this becomes the guild's identity.

• Ravnica Rock (October 10th, 2005)

  Yups.

• Vintage: Peace in the Middle East (October 9th, 2005)

  This article is meant to be an in depth review of Bazaar of Baghdad decks currently being played in Vintage.

• Cranial Insertion: Matters of State (October 8th, 2005)

  Cranial Insertion Matters of State By Tom Fowler, pinch-hitting for Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska Edited by Goblinboy “Hey, you’re awesome and all, but you don’t normally write this column.

• Vintage: Pimpin' Aint Easy (October 5th, 2005)

  The look, the style, the flair.

• A History of UG Madness: and What to Expect! (October 5th, 2005)

  A History of UG Madness: and What to Expect! By Will Farrington In one of the most wonderful, and fun, blocks in history, we experienced a surge in new and viable decks.

• For Richer or Poorer: Legacy. (October 3rd, 2005)

  For Richer or Poorer is to show the way of legacy.

• A Ravnica Rookie: A Seattle Pre-Release Tournament Report (October 2nd, 2005)

  Its the pre-release of a new block and everyones excited! Follow the deckbuilding procedures and brand-new card evaluations that Gavin Verhey did at his pre-release.

• Cranial Insertion: That One With All the Pictures (October 1st, 2005)

  Cranial Insertion That one with all the pictures By Eli Shiffrin, Thijs van Ommen, and Jeff Vondruska Edited by Ravnica brought us lots of interesting new cards, rules, and interactions between them, so it looks like Cranial Insertion will cove