I mean that literally. Brainburst.com or magic.tcgplayer.com frustrates the hell out of me.
Today they published a free article by Brian Smith who is one of the few authors that actually manages create compelling content. His article on the RWU deck he piloted at a tournament was very insightful and full of meat. It was really too bad his timing wasn’t more punctual because at that moment Time Spiral previews were slowly leaking in over at MTGsalvation.com. Even though deck lost the chance to make an impact on the T2 metagame his analysis on Sunforger did broaden our scope of the card. His current article is another format change article which does not doanything more than tell us what we already know. You know the drill. “In case you’ve been living under a rock here are all of the influential cards from the block thats rotating out!” No more Meloku! Fucking genius!
He forgot Promise of Bunrei though…
The editorial staff at brainbust.suk has awakened my torpid anger because they released an article that speculated on replacements for powerful Kamigawa cards, speculated, when the official fucking spoiler was already released. A brainbust.suk forumite, as deft as I am, caught him on this and he responded with a pityful “omg mai lief is so buzy”.
I estimate that the total amount of time that it would of taken him to scan the spoiler, even the unofficial one at MTGSal, and update his article would have taken less than an hour. He had the potential to make his article really shine yet a rush to get it out the door and a lack of quality standards enforced by brainbust’s editors pushed this mundane pos to the frontpage.
For the record brainburst.com does have a very healthy and smart forum community and Brian Smith usually publishes content of value. However the ineptitude of the following line makes me wonder if his busy and hectic home schedule is having an effect on his quality:
“block will fundamentally change how we build our decks. The tools available to you and your opponent will shift significantly”
O RLY? A entire BLOCK rotates out and we only FUNDAMENTALLY change how we build are decks?
I bet some guy will say Tormod’s Crypt is going to ROCK the extended metagame in his next article and consider himself a genius, I just hope it’s not Brian Smith and his team at Brainbust.suk.
