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Me when I build: What’s Pippa Playing, featuring Momo, Mimic, and Toga!
Welcome back everyone, today I am officially codifying a series of What’s Pippa Playing, where I do a dive into the decks I have been...
Jul 9, 202413 min read
A Brewer Reviews the Contenders of Yu Yu Hakusho: The Dark Tournament
With the reveal season of the next set of UVS in full swing, it is time for the content machine to get rolling! While I would love to...
Feb 2, 202432 min read
The Ultimate Shapeshifting Toolbox: An in-depth discussion of Elder Togoru and his options
This is an article discussing and theorycrafting around my character reveal, Elder Togoru, if you are looking for the reveal article...
Jan 24, 202427 min read
A Futuristic Face-off of Fantastic Proportions! A Brewer’s Guide to Spike, Faye, Vash, and Wolfwood!
With the Challenger Series decks releasing TODAY, January 19th, not only are 4 new powerful characters being introduced into the...
Jan 12, 202430 min read
Wanted Dead or Alive: A Brewer's Guide to the Trigun Stampede Challenger Deck
Outlaws and mercenaries, I have a task for you all. A bounty has been put up for Vash "The Stampede", and whoever brings him in, dead or...
Jan 8, 202416 min read
Howdy Space Cowboys and Girls! A Brewer’s Guide to the Cowboy Bebop Challenger Deck
Come one, come all, and join us as we explore the wonderful world of Cowboy Bebop with the soon-to-be released Challenger Series decks,...
Jan 8, 202417 min read
Have a Happy Strive-mas! Guilty Gear Set Tabletop Sim Workshop Release!
Merry Strive-mas to all! With my UVS fan set for Guilty Gear being around 75% complete, I figured now would be about time to release a...
Dec 25, 20232 min read
Heaven or Hell – An Introduction My Guilty Gear Fan Set!
Duel 1, Fight! It is with great pride that I am introducing a project I have been working on recently and have been dying to show off. As...
Dec 4, 202331 min read
Deities of Lightning, Thunder, and... Snakes? Another look into the decks I have been playing!
With Jetburn releasing recently and everyone preparing not only for the upcoming webcam events run by both UVS as well as prominent...
Nov 30, 202319 min read
“Hey, Good Game” Analysis on Fistbump Mimic, a Nationals War Story and Retrospective, + Announcement
“Good Game” as a term has always carried a positive connotation, as quite literally it means “good game”, a thanks oftentimes used after...
Nov 9, 202333 min read
A Dragon, Bird, and Frog walk into a bar... An Early Look into What I am playing in Jetburn
The dragon orders a shot of fireball, the bird orders a flight of beer, and the frog abstains as it would kill her. Welcome everyone to...
Oct 31, 202313 min read
Pippa's Guide to Deckbuilding, and Why I Love Theorycrafting
There I sat at my computer, glued to the screen, running impossible calculations, plotting sequences and lines, preparing endlessly for...
Oct 17, 202320 min read
What The Frog Doin’? A Perspective on Asui and Why Characters Stop Seeing Play
What is the action of “doing”? Is doing not simply a state of being, the state of partaking in action, whatever that may be. Then one...
Oct 9, 20239 min read
Picking Apart Potential Prospects: Metagames, Why Characters are Successful, and how to Tech
The prisoner’s dilemma is a classic thought experiment where two linked parties must cooperate without communication for furthering their...
Oct 2, 202314 min read
A Brewer’s Review of the Toga III Starter Deck
Welcome back to A Brewer’s Review, and today I am going over the newly revealed starter deck featuring Himiko Toga III. With her face...
Sep 29, 20237 min read
A Brewer’s Guide to Jetburn: Plus Ultra (Rares)!
Another day, another Brewer’s guide to the upcoming set Jetburn, this time we will be focusing on the revealed Ultra Rares being...
Sep 27, 202311 min read
A Brewer’s Guide to the Backpage Characters of Jetburn!
Welcome to A Brewer’s Guide, as I review the new cards coming out in the next set of UVS, Jetburn. Last time I went over the characters...
Sep 24, 20235 min read
Tempo: The Song and Dance of TCGs
One two three, one two three. A delicately balanced dance, step here, sway there, a piece of art in motion, a battle almost, with two...
Sep 23, 202313 min read
Culling the List: Delve into the Darkness with Tokoyami II
Welcome to Culling the List, a series of deck breakdowns in preparation for the National Championships of UVS, being held on October 19th...
Sep 23, 20239 min read
A Brewer’s Guide to the Characters of Jetburn!
Welcome to A Brewer’s Guide, as I review the new cards coming out in the next set of UVS, Jetburn. This article will cover just the...
Sep 23, 202311 min read
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