Category Archives: Letter from the Editor

I will generally post things that I am thinking about that are about the site or other non-game items in this category.

Cube, Letter from the Editor

Looking forward to the Professor’s Visit

It’s shuffle time for the cube and the Professor has agreed to help me. Looking forward to it. Might be some photos of the work that we do.

Otherwise, the Cube has been updated. New list is available here: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/1f277

Looking at scheduling the next Cube Night and organizing invites. Litigator has provided some availability. Also, wondering if non-Saturdays would work for some? Please comment.

I am also looking at my collection overall. Generally as I pour over the collection, I end up pulling cards to add to my decks. Well, I have sorted all those cards and I’ve added some fairly substantial purchases as well recently so those will need to be organized. You can follow all that activity over at https://www.moxfield.com/users/MrGonz.

Also, I am working on opening a Store on TCG Player. The store name is Things for Thinking. It’s not live yet as we are still working on some details on the backend (we’re in testing). Things For Thinking will primarily be store front for Action Figure stuff but I will be trading cards through TCGPlayer to keep things current. My niche on the site will be lands and rocks. I’ll be calling that effort “MrGonz’s Manabase”

Administration

All Clear

Krark’s Thumb

I was able to recover the old site and link the new site to fill in the missing gaps. I even got the card of the week widget set in the sidebar. I apologize for the inconvenience. All systems are nominal.

Administration, Letter from the Editor

Spoke too soon!

I am so glad that you made it here. Accounts have been set up for each of you. I thank you for responding promptly today; please follow through on the account.

Why we are here: I messed up while preparing the website for the move to the new address. I backed up, applied some updates to Word Press and some plugins, updated the security settings to better protect our site and then backed up again.

Worldslayer

I tried to stub the new website in on the site but it complained since there was another Mana Drain already hosted on my domain. I had to disconnect the old Mana Drain and put it into Read Only. Everything looked good so I thought, “Hey, looks like I just import the backup and we will be good to go…” Well, no. Blammo, Errors everywhere and then the security warnings started. “XXXXX.png has errors and will not be imported.” By the time the import finished, my host was warning that the original site wasn’t safe. Which would mean agreeing to security exceptions every time you visited. I tried downloading the files, giving them all a scan with my security software which found errors and threats. I tried restoring from backup but it too was riddled with the same problems. All I could do was delete all of those resources.

I apologize for the mess I made. But hey! We’ve got a fresh start here and everything (but me) is more safe and anonymous.

Professor and I are busy trying to get the systems up and going. A big special thank you for taking time out of a teaching day to help!

A few notes: Looks like the Card of the Week widget that I made will be no longer. I will keep an eye out for a new widget for that. And I will attempt to restore or provide new images in the old posts.

ANYWAYS, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I PRESENT TO YOU THE NEW MANADRAIN!

Let’s refer to it as “Mana Drain Unlimited Edition”.

The new URL is:

manadrain.thingsforthinking.com