About

We live in a sad world. Soon, 90% of the internet will all be netdecks. In several years time I will not be able to log onto HuffingtonPost without seeing the latest Tarmogoyf-infested junk. And yet the conventional Magic author continues to produce nothing but this. There is just so much more to this great game of ours than to no-one else is tapping into (get it? Tapping? Yes, sorry, my bad, that was terrible).

This isn’t like any other Magic: the Gathering blog. You’re not going to find a whole stack of decklists and tournament reports here (well, not conventional ones). There are all too many of them elsewhere on the internet.

It was born out an idea I had two or so years ago, where in order to hide my embarrassing defeat in a tournament report I was writing, I turned it into a hilarious comic instead. That comic was probably the single most popular tournament report of all time published on the Good Games community website, and since then people have been clamouring me to do more.

So Nyxathid Goes To Town is my take on the other sides of Magic. The lifestyle that comes with the game. The flavour that comes with the game. The…

Oh what crap. It’s just an excuse to satirize and humourize the whole thing. Because there just isn’t enough Magic content out there that actually makes me smile.

Petr Joura, 2011