Blog Fanatic: Playing With the Worst
Mark Rosewater once talked about the three types of players in Wizards’s eyes: Johnny, Spike, and Timmy. They represent the hardcore win-at-all costs player, the win with combos player, and the win with big creatures player. I don’t like the terms Timmy, Johnny and Spike. To me, there are two types of Magic players in the end — those who play to win, and those who don’t.
*[Note: Some of the names today have been changed out of respect for the people I played Magic with throughout college. The experiences and stories…
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