[The Year In Review] 2018: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another article here on Strictly Average MTG. It’s the end of 2018. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? It seems like it has taken forever to get here; however here we are. Let’s take a look at a few things that have happened in the world of Magic: the Gathering this past year. However before I start I do want to thank you all for reading my articles here, and for the folks at Strictly Average for bringing me on board earlier this year. While I may not be grinding out my weekends for a shot

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The Waste Lands

The only thing worse than forgetting your past is having two of them The Waste Lands, book three of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, jumps ahead a little over a month following the events in The Drawing of the Three, allowing our ka-tet a chance to heal and recover from the events on the beach. It deals mainly with the paradox Roland created when he saved Jake from Jack Mort in the third doorway, and begins the travels of the group towards In-World. Told on two different worlds, Waste Lands‘ paradox comes into play because the gunslinger and Jake

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The Drawing of the Three

A junkie, a crippled thief and a kid walk into a bar…. Stephen King’s second installment in The Dark Tower series, The Drawing of the Three, comes immediately after the events of The Gunslinger. Roland has palavered with the man in black and been given a glimpse of his future. Drawing continues to expand that future and brings Roland together with his ka-tet. Before he meets his companions, he has an unfortunate run-in with a lobster-like creature that cripples the gunslinger by removing two fingers from his right hand (and part of one toe.) This becomes infected, leaving the gunslinger

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The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower Book 1

Stephen King’s magnum opus begins here. Kind of. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With those words, Stephen King started his magnum opus in 1978. The series would take decades to complete and, while Gunslinger was not the strongest of the books, it laid the foundation for what would be one of King’s greatest works. Gunslinger is the shortest of the seven books and lays the basis of the world(s) it inhabits. Roland Deschain is the titular gunslinger, an old fashioned knight of a dying world, chasing who he thinks to be his nemesis,

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