Save-It Saturday: X-Babies Attack!

That is the card that I never imagined would be printed. The final card in the final official expansion set. Here follows the article that inspired its appearance in reality.

Risk Vs. Reward: X-Babies Attack!
By Rian Fike
9/3/2007
Marvel Legends fulfills quite a few fanboy desires, not the least of which is a major upgrade in the power [...]

Save-It Saturday: Celebrated Summer.

(Herewith follows the last article I wrote for Upper Deck. As the school year wraps up and we head into another summer, it still tastes as sweet as ever.)
Rallying Cry: Celebrated Summer

By Rian Fike

9/18/2008

This has been quite an eventful summer on many levels.  World-class athletes from all over the world converged in China for the [...]

Save-It Cinco De Mayo: GOAL!!!

(This is my favorite Cinco De Mayo article… REMIX!)

Risk Vs. Reward: Some Days are Better than Others
Rian Fike
May 14, 2006
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Cinco De Mayo is hot. It started in Mexico with a day of liberation, and it has become one of the spiciest worldwide fiestas of the year. May 5, 2006 was [...]

Save-It Saturday: Three Years Later.

Man, I remember this one. Exactly three years ago I wrote this and Upper Deck published it. Good times.

Risk Vs. Reward: Suspended Animation—A Scrapbook
Rian Fike
April 30, 2006
It feels like time is standing still. As I write this, there are only four days left until the Infinite Crisis Sneak Preview tournaments. In less than six weeks, [...]

Save-It Saturday: Pro Circuit Glory. (With podcast.)

It was the best of times. Pro Circuit Indianapolis 2004. My day in the sun, including the utter domination of the legend who had his face immortalized on the Avalanche Riders card in Magic the Gathering.
After I archive the match report, you can re-live the Pro Circuit with some behind-the-scenes inside dope and listen to [...]

The only person ever to play Chaos Magic on the Pro Circuit.

The only person twisted enough to actually include Chaos Magic in a constructed deck on the Pro Circuit? That would be me. It was exactly three years ago, and it remains one of my most glorious achievements.
Vs. System history is chock full of deliciously trivial tales like that. This one is especially sweet. Sneaking in [...]

Save-It Saturday: Sadu-Hem.

This Weekend In Heaven will be spent with the Thule Society and its creepy cardboard characters, playing the Hellboy Essential Collection until our eyeballs  fall out and sprout Ancient Godlings. While we turn Mike Mignola’s terrific translations of the Old Ones sideways on our kitchen table, you can wallow in an article almost exactly [...]

Save-It Saturday: Huge, Annoying Tentacles.

Here at Full Body Transplant we have been getting some sightseers surfing for squid. Watchmen squid, to be precise, but squid nonetheless. So, Save-It Saturday is serving historical calamari this morning as the next recipe in our archival soup.
The photograph at the top of this post is one of the crowning achievements of our time [...]

Save-It Saturday: Shuma-Gorath.

Shuma-Gorath has commanded my attention since he first appeared in the Capcom video game called Marvel Super Heroes in 1995. He has a large, single eye and huge, annoying tentacles. His abstract essence embodies the purity of desire, free from the detailed annoyance of politics and petty squabble. In the video game, his special [...]