Reviving "Thinking Outside the Deckbox"
Challenges and Articles forum
Posted on May 16, 2015, 10:55 p.m. by ducttapedeckbox
You may remember that at the end of last summer I attempted to start an article series titled "Thinking Outside the Deckbox" (TODB for short) that would discuss ways to explore an interest in magic aside from deck building and playing games. However, once I jumped into the academic semester I realized that writing would not be possible with my workload. With the summer just starting, I was thinking of resuming this series (more like begin).
Is there interest? Do you have suggestions for topics?
ducttapedeckbox says... #4
Awesome, thank you DMR! I'm going to try to make sure I get at least a few articles under my belt. Hopefully in a week or two I'll be able to come out with an article once a week. I've already started writing the first article and have a few ideas, but I'd absolutely love to have more.
Once I get closer to releasing the articles I'd like to have a user or two proofread my work before it goes up; I'll keep you in mind :)
May 16, 2015 11:16 p.m.
Good stuff, just contact me if you need anything. Best of luck!
May 16, 2015 11:23 p.m.
ahem. you are looking for ideas... what area of interest are we looking at?
May 17, 2015 1:54 a.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #9
Woah. Who are you? I've never seen you before, tempest.
I'm looking for ideas that allow you to do Magic-related things without deck building or physically playing games. For example there's a user on here who's a photographer and creates "banners" for his/her decks.
May 17, 2015 11:08 a.m.
Did you mention before, or have seen one/built one? What I'm talking about is a life counter made from cards that is like a shadow box? Take a bunch of the same card and take an exacto knife to it and bring the art out. Use needs or a spinner as the life counter part. It's pretty cool and I've been wanting to do one forecever
May 17, 2015 12:37 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox- XD literally every time hahha. whenever i see your activity, its always trading with other users so there's nothing for me to see lol
you can write about something like, hmm... making deck boxes out of duct tape?
May 17, 2015 9:51 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #13
Hey, I've been working on two Modern lists, tempest! But I guess you wouldn't really see if that if you weren't subscribed to the decks.
Maybeee o.o
May 17, 2015 9:53 p.m.
i mean, i'm not too active, but i still comment on the forums that interest me... my rank has gone from 8 to 20, but it hasn't reset like buffy's. remember him? ahhh memories
May 17, 2015 10:19 p.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #15
I do! He's actually the reason I stuck around T/O. He helped me with I wonder if it gets boring playing against myself.
At some point way back when I was in the teens, then I quit though.
DMR says... #2
This sounds great! I remember the series dropping off, which was a shame because I enjoyed it. I'd love to see it come back again, and if you need help on anything, let me know and I'd be happy to do whatever I could to get it started, whether it's proofreading/editing, or whatnot. For now, I'll try to brainstorm a couple topics for you to write about.
May 16, 2015 11:12 p.m.