Hello all --
My name is Kevin McKee. If you're reading this, odds are you either know me personally, or you know someone who does. I'm the Veteran Explorer guy. I'm also the Oath of Druids guy, the Trinket Mage guy, the Gifts Ungiven guy, and the Havengul Lich guy, depending on the format and what I feel like building at any given time. I would profess to be a competent player of Magic: the Gathering, although I will freely admit that I don't yet have many achievements under my belt in that domain, aside from playing for a moderately long time. I've only been competitive since Shards block, though, so I guess most of that time doesn't account for much in the grand scheme of things. Aside from Magic stuff, I also study mythology's effect via literary theory, listen to almost any degree of metal you can imagine (and some you probably can't), and spend time playing DotA2, Civ5, and Dungeon Defenders with friends. There might be periodic rant posts or days where I need to organize something in my head, so they'll get posted here...but first and foremost, this is a Magic blog.
To me, philosophically, the theory behind a deck is as important as the final list. While I recognize that this is a topic by itself that could span several posts, I'm just going to leave it there for now and keep going forward -- I will likely come back to it at a later date. What this means is that this is not a decklist blog. I will happily post a decklist to go along with whatever topic I'm talking about at the moment, but most of my time will be spent talking about the theory behind that list...why certain choices are made and why other cards are omitted. However, I will not just throw a decklist at you. I'll leave that for the more popular pundits whose technology gets spread far and wide at the slightest mention of a card.
And so, I ask: what would you like me to go into first? Format, archetype, etc. I'll do my best to provide my thoughts on it in a relatively timely manner!
