Friday Fiction: The Mark in The Garden
There are not many answers. There’s a quick shift in tone. And we never learn anyone’s name.
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Bloomburrow: The Best Green and Multicolored Cards (And Some Lands)
I have a bias: I love Izzet and cannot help but build decks in those colors whenever possible. But I promise that the latter half of this list was based on what I thought were the strongest cards in Bloomburrow. It being so skewed toward Izzet is just because the Izzet cards are really good.
Bloomburrow: The Best Black and Red Cards
I said that black had some of the best cards in Bloomburrow, and I was not kidding. Some are eerily close to historically powerful cards and are within a cost range that most decks can use. The best of the red cards aren’t as clear cut, but it’s astonishing how aggressive they’ll be in the right deck.
Friday Fiction: The Horrible Future of An Unbroken Vase
It’s the future, and all Edward cares about is a single vase remaining broken.
But why? What has come over Edward that makes him want to break his favorite vase?
Bloomburrow: The Best White and Blue Cards
It’s good to be back with these. I haven’t reviewed a Magic set in a little while, but Bloomburrow is too dang charming. So, I’ve looked over all of the cards and narrowed my selection down to the best ones. Three per color, and three for multicolored.
Doctor Who Episodic Coverage: “The Legend of Ruby Sunday”
“The Legend of Ruby Sunday” is the first part of a two-parter. We spend a lot of time being given mysteries, and then most of them are resolved at the end of the episode, or in the next one titled “The Empire of Death.” It’s not a stand-alone adventure by any stretch.
Friday Fiction: Alien Physics Challenge
Today’s story is about physics. More specifically, aliens playing around with physics and making humans have to deal with that.
The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Breaking Ground”
“Breaking Ground” is another exposition episode, mainly serving to establish a few more pieces of information about the “Protocol” that we’ve heard so much about. This doesn’t make it a bad episode—or even a mediocre one—just that it doesn’t have much in the way of a self-contained story. It doesn’t have the time to build to much tension.
It Came From The Archives: “The Luminous Dead: A Polarizing Horror Descent”
The Luminous Dead is perhaps one of the hardest reviews I’ve done in a long time. The nature of the work has clashed with my usual operations.
Unspeakably Scary Things Issue #10
“What?” I asked the figure, not sure what I was hearing. “What do you mean—?”
There was a rush. The ground met me, and I kept going.
Doctor Who Episodic Coverage: “Rogue”
“Rogue” is a fun enough episode that could’ve been better with more time. Or, ideally, being split into a few different episodes. The pacing, storytelling, and character motivations suffer because we need to have four separate stories interlocking with each other.
Doctor Who Episodic Coverage: “Dot and Bubble”
“Dot and Bubble” is maybe my favorite episode of the new season so far. Yes, it does rely on a tired critique of people overusing cell phones for its whole premise to work, I won’t deny that—but, if you can accept that slightly cringey idea, this is one of the most poignant, emotionally devastating, and interesting episodes we’ve gotten since “Wild Blue Yonder.”
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