Nyxathid Goes To Town

2016 was a huge year. So many things happened across the globe… the majority of them Wizards’ product releases. Seriously I think Wizards farted out twice the amount of products that they did last year- all of them overprinted to hell.

While it was exciting to think we were getting so many Magic releases at the start of the year, about halfway through I became exhausted. By the time Kaladesh rolled around I just didn’t care anymore. There was too much.

I feel like Wizards has well and truly succumbed to corporate greed. In the last few years Magic has sold incredibly well, so now they’re pushing hard to keep that ball rolling (much like Sisyphus). Don’t they realize that ‘continual growth’ is an impossibility? It gets me worried.

Now don’t get me wrong- I don’t think Magic is going to die. But I might. Check in with me several years from now as my withered consumer husk scrapes itself across the floor to get another booster pack.

But enough doomsaying! Here are the best bits of 2016!

No. 10

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Like a kid facing the wrong way on school photo day, Conspiracy will forever stand out amongst its peers. For a long time the set was regarded as truly unique. Unlike the kid facing the wrong way- he was just stupid (my classmates made sure I never lived it down).

But now there’s a hot, new competitor on the scene in the form of Conspiracy: Take the Crown.

This review is all about how Conspiracy: Take the Crown plays, innovates on design, and compares to the original. Is it the real deal? Or is this hot new thing just masquerading behind heavy makeup and a cheap boob job?

Let’s not get caught staring as we try and find out.

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Well, its been a long time hasn’t it…
It’s 2015 now and I don’t believe I updated this blog once last year.

So this is my place to say sorry to all my fans, as well as a sincere thank you to everyone who messaged me at some point or another going ‘Hey what’s up!’ or ‘When are you going to add more content?’ or ‘I miss you so much I’m going to cut myself if you don’t post something PS here is a picture of my penis’.

Actually that last one was pretty creepy. Please don’t send me that.

Truth is I got stuck a little for time, and stuck a lot for energy. It was always my dream to have my own video games company, and so late 2013 I started one. You can check it out here: Monkeynaut Games.

At the start I continued this blog as best I could I think, but in the end working on my business just got the better of me. Honestly starting your own company is recommended to anyone who’s looked at the artwork on Zombify and thought ‘God I wish I was that guy’.

On the plus side I am an official indie game dev now, and thanks to my design efforts my business has been placed on the backburner as well (a relief!) as the work I did landed me a pretty sweet job where I don’t have to worry about marketing or tax law.

So Nyxathid Goes To Town is back. I feel like I have some unfinished business at the very least in writing my Top 10 Cards for 2013 and 2014, both of which are coming soon.

I feel like I can’t promise anything regular because I know just what the games business is like, but I want to assure all of you loyal followers that Nyxathid is not dead. And if it ever goes dead again, rest assured there’s plenty of reanimation in Magic.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 89,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.

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