*Note : This entry is aimed at people who have a basic knowledge of sewing skills. I’m not going to go over the details of how I actually sewed the cosplays I made so if you’d like more in depth instructions then just feel free to ask.    There are plenty of times when you decide on a cosplay that the outfit is pretty straightforward and you have lots of reference images for the character you want to play. But there are other times when you don’t have as much to go on or you want to make a conceptual outfit for portraying an animal, inhuman character, or making a more realistic version of a character’s outfit. Many people like to cosplay as Pokemon and making an outfit that resembles a certain Pokemon is called know as making a gijinka. (Here is a Deviant Art Group all about gijinkas http://pokedex.deviantart.com/) Pokemon gijinka are usually very popular at anime conventions and thus the specific topic that I’m going to discuss today.    Some gijinka outfits are...

*I’m trying to get my second post on cosplay up, but I want to add some sketches and my scanner is broken at the moment so it will be up later. For now I’d like to make a quick post about my first experience playing a game of Two-Headed Giant   Magic. On Friday night I was playing Magic like I usually do but I wasn’t playing the standard format. It was my first time playing the Two-Headed Giant format. For anyone who isn’t familiar with the format here are the basic rules: Two-Headed Giant Constructed decks must contain the minimum of sixty cards. Two-Headed Giant uses the Unified Deck Construction rules. With the exception of basic land cards, a team's combined decks may not contain more than four of any individual card. (For example, if one player is using four Naturalizes in a Multiplayer Constructed event, no other player on that team may have a Naturalize in his or her deck.) Sideboards are not allowed in Constructed Multiplayer tournaments because only one match is played...

One of the first things that I thought would be a good idea to cover on this little blog of mine was something I have a fair bit of experience with, and that’s cosplay. I’m going to cover each of the big steps that I think a person should take in making their cosplay and provide some picture examples where I can. The first step that you always need to make is choosing your cosplay. This may sound like a simple step, “I love random anime character from random anime, so I’m going to cosplay him/her.” Well folks, it’s really not that simple most of the time. There are a lot of aspects that you need to consider before making your definitive choice. Though I will say that choosing a character that you know and love is important. If you just choose a random character that you don’t know much about simply because you like their outfit or hair or some other detail, then it wont really be as fun for you to play that character and you wont get a lot of references that people will make about the ...

Anyone who is an active player of Magic the Gathering should know that the next set, New Phyrexia, will be out very soon. Launch Parties for the new set will be the weekend of May 13-16, that’s less than two weeks away as of today. Of course I’m excited to see lots of new cards but I’m not sure how excited I am about seeing even more creatures with Infect. Personally, I just don’t like going up against it. In the new set it seems like every color will have creatures with Infect. This will add to the range of different types of Infect decks that players can create which will make things interesting and probably means that everyone will be carrying around poison counters. Right now I play a Red deck full of goblins and a few artifacts. I have a lot of small cost little creatures and I use creatures with Battlecry to boost them all up. Looking over New Phyrexia I didn’t see any Goblins and there were no Red creatures with Battlecry. (IF I missed any then please let me know.) I was rather ...