berryjon says there ain't no Hulk here! Just an explanation about how the game design of Magic has stayed stable for years and years and years.
berryjon keeps coming back for more and more and more in this installment of Pattern Recognition. Just what can keep a good creature down anyway?
Go big or go home with this week's issue of Pattern Recognition. And even if you do go home, there might be nothing left by the time you get there.
In Response to a certain Banning,
berryjon will sit and spin in circles until he gets what he wants.
In this issue of Pattern Recognition,
berryjon looks at one of the weak points in Magic's design - and the brilliant workaround that Wizards created to make the concept workable again.
2017 April 27 by berryjon
In this issue of Pattern Recognition,
berryjon attempts to prove that a whole class of cards don't exist! Success not guaranteed.
2017 April 20 by berryjon
A little bit of this or a little bit of that means that cards can be made easier to play. In this issue of Pattern Recognition,
berryjon discusses the history of Hybrid Mana.
2017 April 13 by berryjon
Sneaky-sneaky goes the mechanic. Right into the dustpile of history.
berryjon looks at Ninjitsu in this issue!
2017 April 06 by berryjon
What goes up, must come down. Join
berryjon as he goes down into the dark depths of Magic's history to show why we play the game the way we do.
2017 March 23 by berryjon
You know whom I despise more than anyone else? A certain character who has mediocre cards, and could be forgotten about tomorrow and the story would go on without?
Yeah. I thought so too.
2017 March 16 by berryjon
You know what rocks? Mana rocks! In this issue of Pattern Recognition, I go back to an old subject and bring forward one of the possible solutions to it.
2017 March 09 by berryjon
In this issue, we look at cards that are hunted for the benefits they bring. And I mean that with a straight face!
2017 March 02 by berryjon
You all know it. You all want it. So... where did it come from, and why was it a mistake? After all, Modern wouldn't be Modern without it.
2017 February 23 by berryjon
In this issue of Pattern Recognition,
berryjon talks about the first rare he bought as a single, and the subsequent versions of that card that have been printed.
2017 February 16 by berryjon
ACC. Bet you don't know what that is a backronym for, do you? Well, neither did I before I started writing this article. What
is Aggro, Combo and Control?
2017 February 09 by berryjon
What is there to
Fear when you play against Black? Quite a lot, it seems.
2017 February 02 by berryjon
What goes around, comes around. So, what exactly
is going around anyway?
2017 January 26 by berryjon
In this issue of Pattern Recognition,
berryjon touches on the many different formats there are in the game.
2017 January 19 by berryjon
Well, why not blow everything up?
berryjon talks about the hows and the whys of wiping out the board.