This week, we’re going to play Richard Garfield’s second best game, Magic. Sure, you’re all saying, it’s no Android: Netrunner, but it has the advantage of being able to be played on XBLA, so that’s what we’ll be doing: specifically, we’ll play its latest incarnation, Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers.

Which should be lots of fun on its own, and it will also allow us to talk about deckbuilding and the associated metagaming that that gives rise to. If you wan to join in the play or just in the conversation, we’ll be meeting on XBLA at 9:30 pm EDT / 6:30 pm PDT on Thursday, August 8th; send a friends request to “malvasia bianca” if you’re not already on my friends list.