a little Pink Floyd when we're feeling mellow, so I
guess that shoots your theory to hell.
Rage Realism
Don't get me wrong, I love the game
Rage. You know what I can't understand,
though? Parents, fundamentalist groups
and fanatics are always up in arms about
Satan-mentioning or erotic art or cursing
but they never talk about how gory Rage
is! I mean, Entrail Rend is pretty grue-
some. Why aren't they raving about the
violence in Rage? Shhh...maybe we
shouldn't tell them.
Carl Smith
Beaumont, TX
Maybe the fundamentalists are all werewolves and
it's a particularly clever plan to divert attention away
from themselves.
The Flimsy Fact
What's going on with the new Over-
Power cards? I bought a box and it
weighs about half as much as my origi-
nal box. The cards feel different...the
PowerSurge expansion cards feel much
cheaper. Are they trying to save money?
guess that shoots your theory to hell.
Rage Realism
Don't get me wrong, I love the game
Rage. You know what I can't understand,
though? Parents, fundamentalist groups
and fanatics are always up in arms about
Satan-mentioning or erotic art or cursing
but they never talk about how gory Rage
is! I mean, Entrail Rend is pretty grue-
some. Why aren't they raving about the
violence in Rage? Shhh...maybe we
shouldn't tell them.
Carl Smith
Beaumont, TX
Maybe the fundamentalists are all werewolves and
it's a particularly clever plan to divert attention away
from themselves.
The Flimsy Fact
What's going on with the new Over-
Power cards? I bought a box and it
weighs about half as much as my origi-
nal box. The cards feel different...the
PowerSurge expansion cards feel much
cheaper. Are they trying to save money?
My friends didn't believe me till I
showed them. The true test: Take a card
from the original OverPower set and one
from PowerSurge. Tell me PowerSurge
doesn't feel flimsier.
Matthew Higgins
Paramus, NJ
As hard as it is to believe, they changed the paper
stock on the OverPower expansion. The cards
look and feel different, which isn't a good thing
since you can now cheat a heck of a lot easier if
all the really good cards in your deck look and
feel different. That's a really bad decision on
Fleer's part.
Enough Cheese!
There are over 300 types of cheese
made in the world today. What does this
mean? Burn decks are not alone! Yes, per-
mission decks are pure cheese. And their
cheesy leader, the evil Counterspell, is
plotting world domination.
showed them. The true test: Take a card
from the original OverPower set and one
from PowerSurge. Tell me PowerSurge
doesn't feel flimsier.
Matthew Higgins
Paramus, NJ
As hard as it is to believe, they changed the paper
stock on the OverPower expansion. The cards
look and feel different, which isn't a good thing
since you can now cheat a heck of a lot easier if
all the really good cards in your deck look and
feel different. That's a really bad decision on
Fleer's part.
Enough Cheese!
There are over 300 types of cheese
made in the world today. What does this
mean? Burn decks are not alone! Yes, per-
mission decks are pure cheese. And their
cheesy leader, the evil Counterspell, is
plotting world domination.
What can you do to stop it? Easy:
Devote yourself to annoying those wiz-
ards on that coast until they restrict coun-
terspells. This will result in more creativity
in decks as permission players will have
to use more-exciting spells than Power
Sink and Remove Soul.
Jason Van Glass
Orinda, CA
Pure permission decks, like straightforward direct
damage decks, are cheesy decks for the unimagi-
native and uninspired.
Goblin Artisan Crisis
I am writing to point out a great
travesty. One of the greatest cards in
Magic has been neglected for so long.
The Musician from Ice Age is a crucial
key to all decks that have trouble with
large creatures.
A 1/3 creature with a cumulative
upkeep of one colorless mana that can
put music counters on opponent's cards
that give them a one-mana upkeep is a
great card, yet it has received no press
coverage. It's a conspiracy, almost as
bad as the Goblin Artisans crisis of what-
ever year it was.
Devote yourself to annoying those wiz-
ards on that coast until they restrict coun-
terspells. This will result in more creativity
in decks as permission players will have
to use more-exciting spells than Power
Sink and Remove Soul.
Jason Van Glass
Orinda, CA
Pure permission decks, like straightforward direct
damage decks, are cheesy decks for the unimagi-
native and uninspired.
Goblin Artisan Crisis
I am writing to point out a great
travesty. One of the greatest cards in
Magic has been neglected for so long.
The Musician from Ice Age is a crucial
key to all decks that have trouble with
large creatures.
A 1/3 creature with a cumulative
upkeep of one colorless mana that can
put music counters on opponent's cards
that give them a one-mana upkeep is a
great card, yet it has received no press
coverage. It's a conspiracy, almost as
bad as the Goblin Artisans crisis of what-
ever year it was.
Luke Copping
Youngstown, NY
Yeah! Yeah! We're with you man, we're with you!
The Musician's great! We'll run a cover with him on
it, insert free Musician cards in the book, have an
entire Stumpers section devoted to...wait, he's like
Goblin Artisans?
Forget it.
Half an M&M
Is one M&M called an M?
Jeff Grossman
New City, NY
Depends. Put it on its side and it's a pointy E. Roll
it upside down and it's a W. Someone's little brother
once sucked a green M&M up one nostril and almost
killed himself. Call it whatever you want.
That's it for this month, kiddies. Write us some more let-
ters. In the meantime, we're all goin' to sleep.
