The Basement Scientist

EDH Hidden Gems: The Age of Urza, Part I

Recently, I wanted to dive into the backlog of Magic the Gathering cards to see if I could find any overlooked or undervalued cards to include in my games. The catalog of cards is 22,502 different cards ever printed as of today, so I needed some way to whittle it down to something more manageable and ended up filtering it to cards that were legal in EDH, had never been reprinted, and cost less…

Knocking out the cobwebs

Long time no see! Around the time of the last update, my partner and I ended up needing to move due to a job change. This was followed up with a job change of my own to match the new area, several promotions and a busy schedule, a masters degree, a new house, a global pandemic, and various sundry miscellaneous life events. In the meantime, I’ve been designing games, wrote a book (Hardwired:…