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 Pojo.com's Main Page News Archive
February 2005

Monday, February 28, 2005  It's Monday morning, and that means that Paul Hagan has picked a new deck to evaluate in his Deck Garage.  Today, Paul is looking over a Budget Ninja Deck in Paul's Deck Garage. 

Today's Card of the Day is Orb of Dreams, a rare artifact from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  DeQuan Watson, Jason Chapman, Jeff Zandi & Monk have reviews for you today. 

Saturday, February 26, 2005  Jeff Zandi stops by today with his regular weekly article.  Today, Jeff discusses the Extended Playing Environment playing with Fire.  Read: "Red Deck KEEPS Winning - Current Extended Format Boils Down to Simplicity Choices " in The Southwestern Paladin today.

Friday, February 25, 2005  Today's Card of the Day is Threads of Disloyalty, a blue rare from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  Christine Gerhardt, DeQuan Watson, Jason Chapman, Jeff Zandi, Paul Hagan & Monk have reviews for you today. 

Thursday, February 24, 2005   Today's Card of the Day is Iwamori of the Open Fist from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  Christine Gerhardt, DeQuan Watson, Jason Chapman, Jeff Zandi, Paul Hagan & Monk have reviews for you today. 

DeQuan Watson stops by with his weekly Featured Article. Today, DeQuan discusses the impact March 1st Bannings might have on the environment. Check out The Dragon's Den today.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005   Today's Card of the Day is Ogre Marauder from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  Christine Gerhardt, DeQuan Watson, Jason Chapman, Paul Hagan & Monk have reviews for you today. 

Monk is back with another Featured Article in Monk's Corner. Today Monk discusses Magic's Junior Super Series (the JSS).  The JSS is for MTG players that are 15 years old and younger. 

And Judge Bill is back again today answering 20 more of your Magic The Gathering Questions!

We received a new Peasant Magic Deck Idea today from "Brock".  Brock sent us a mono-red deck called Speed Lines and Big Eyes. 

Tuesday, February 22, 2005   Today's Card of the Day is Goblin Cohort from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  Christine Gerhardt, DeQuan Watson, Jason Chapman, Paul Hagan & Monk have reviews for you today. 

Monday, February 21, 2005  Jeff Zandi has a new Featured Article for you guys.  Today, looks at the proposed Pro Tour $$ payouts at Philly. Read: "The Pro Tour FINALLY Pays Off - Wizards is Showing Players Some Brotherly Love at Pro Tour Philly" in The Southwestern Paladin today.

Judge Bill is here again to answer all of your Magic The Gathering Questions.  Today, Judge Bill answers 16 questions submitted by readers.  The first question deals with Frantic Search & Madness costs.  Check out the Judge's Corner today. 

Today we welcome Jason Chapman back as a Featured Writer on our site.  Jason has been working on Pojo.com off & on for over 3 years now.  Jason like the Peasant Magic Format of Magic the Gathering.  His articles are nice deck-building articles for those looking to build Peasant Magic decks, and Casual Decks on a budget.  Today's article is a doozy ... over 5,000 words!  Check out "Re-introductions" today. 

For the 2nd week in a row, you get two Cards of the Day today?  (as we missed posting one on Friday).  Our first Card of the Day is Neko-Te, some rare equipment from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  Our 2nd card will be posted shortly.

And our 2nd Card of the Day today is Final Judgment, a Betrayers Card with a Wrath_of_God-like effect. 

Thursday, February 17, 2005  DeQuan Watson stops by with his weekly Featured Article. Today, DeQuan discusses the Extended Environment, and also looks at 8 different decks you can play-test with. Check out The Dragon's Den today.

Monk also stops by with his 2nd article this week.  Monk goes about building decks with Betrayers of Kamigawa in Block Format.  You'll find this article in Monk's Corner. 

Today we look at another common from from Betrayers of Kamigawa in our Card of the Day section. Today's COTD is Minamo's Meddling - a blue counterspell. 

Wednesday, February 16, 2005   Judge Bill is here again to answer all your Magic The Gathering Questions.  Today, Judge Bill answers 14 questions submitted by readers.  Check out the Judge's Corner today. 

Monk spaced off writing a Featured Article last week.  To make up for it, he'll be writing two for you this week.  One today, and one tomorrow.  Today's article is titled: "Changes".  Check out Monk's Corner today to see what Monk has been up to. 

Today's Card of the Day is Crack the Earth from Betrayers of Kamigawa.  Jeff Zandi, DeQuan Watson, Paul Hagan & Monk have reviews for you today. 

I forgot to link yesterday's Card of the Day to the main page yesterday. Yesterday's Card of the day was Bile Urchin from Betrayers of Kamigawa. 

Monday, February 14, 2005  Happy Valentines Day everyone!  As a Special Treat, how about Two Cards of the Day today?  (Well, mostly because I never got around to posting last Friday's before now)  :-P

The first  Card of the Day is Ninja of the Deep Hours ... a pretty nice blue common.  The 2nd COTD will be up in a few minutes. 

Then Monk picked the closest thing to a Valentine's Day card for you guys for the 2nd Card of the Day - Heart of Light. 

It's Monday, and that usually means that Paul Hagan has picked a new deck to evaluate in his Deck Garage.  Today, Paul is looking over a Casual Black Cleric Deck in Paul's Deck Garage. 

Friday, February 11, 2005  Jeff Zandi stops by today with his regular Friday Featured Article.  Today, Jeff has fun translating cards. Read: "Lost in Translation - Fun With Magic’s Japanese Flavored Champions Block " in The Southwestern Paladin today.

Judge Bill, a level II MTG Judge, is back again today for the 2nd time this week to answer all your Magic The Gathering Questions.  Today, Judge Bill answers 14 more questions!  Check out the Judge's Corner today. 

Well, I won't be able to post the Card of the Day today. I'm at the Illinois High School State Chess Championships with my daughter's High School Team, and working on my laptop.  I forgot to bring the card reviews the staffer wrote.  I'll post them over the weekend for you. ;-)  - Pojo

Thursday, February 10, 2005  DeQuan Watson stops by with his weekly Featured Article. Today, DeQuan discusses a different kind of Extended Deck: "Jack".  Check out The Dragon's Den today.

Today we look at another white common from from Betrayers of Kamigawa in our Card of the Day section. Today's COTD is Split-Tail Miko.

Wednesday, February 9, 2005  Today we look at an interesting white common from from Betrayers of Kamigawa in our Card of the Day section. Today's COTD is Waxmane Baku.

We have a couple new February Peasant Decks up for your viewing pleasure at Magic Yammers and double posted in our Peasant Deck archives.

Tuesday, February 8, 2005  Today we look at another black common from from Betrayers of Kamigawa in our Card of the Day section. Today's COTD is Takenuma Bleeder.

Judge Bill is here  to answer all your Magic The Gathering Questions.  Today, Judge Bill answers 9 questions submitted by readers.  Check out the Judge's Corner today. 

Monday, February 7, 2005  Today we look at a black common from from Betrayers of Kamigawa in our Card of the Day section. Today's COTD is Horobi's Whisper.

Paul Hagan is in his Deck Garage today looking over a Type 1/Casual Black & White deck for a fan. 

Friday, February 4, 2005  Jeff Zandi stops by today with a cool Top 20 List ... The Top 20 Common cards of Betrayers of Kamigawa. Read: "Best of Betrayers - 20 Solid Gold Hits for Limited Play" in The Southwestern Paladin today.

Paul Hagan is in his Deck Garage today looking over a reader's Mono-Black Deck.  Check out Paul's ideas on how to improve his deck.  Maybe you're Magic will improve as well.  ;-)

Judge Bill, a level II MTG Judge, is back again today for the 2nd time this week to answer all your Magic The Gathering Questions.  Today, Judge Bill answers 9 more questions!  Check out the Judge's Corner today. 

We finish up Shoal week in our Card of the Day section! We have looked at all 5 Shoal cards from Champions of Kamigawa this week. The last one is Disrupting Shoal. 

Thursday, February 3, 2005  We continue with Shoal week in our Card of the Day section! We are looking at the 5 Shoal cards from Champions of Kamigawa all week. Today's card is Nourishing Shoal.

DeQuan Watson stops by with his weekly Featured Article. Today, DeQuan discusses Building Original Decks with an article titled: "Originality or No". Check out The Dragon's Den today.

Wednesday, February 2, 2005  I apologize for not getting any meat posted yesterday.  We were working on the new layout behind the scenes and it is very tedious.  Today you get two Cards of the Day though ... two more shoals ... Blazing & Shining.  Monk, DeQuan, Scott Gerhardt, Doll and Jeff Zandi check in with reviews today.  I saw Scott on AOL Instant Messenger after I posted the COTD's.  He saw the reviews today and said: "Jeff, Ray, and DeQuan....all people I know well and respect....are on crack."  Too funny not to post.  ;-)

Monk is back with another Featured Article in Monk's Corner. Today Monk discusses Magic, and Vs. and Poker and .... in "What brings you back to Magic?"

And Judge Bill is back again today to answer all your Magic The Gathering Questions.  Today, Judge Bill answers 20 of 'em!  Check out the Judge's Corner today. 

Tuesday, February 1, 2005  We've started moving our MTG site to the new and improved pojo.com format. If you think it looks sweet, well, you'd be right. Enjoy, you deserve it.