It had been a long hiatus, but in mid-2017 I finally fell off the wagon. I started playing Magic back in the halcyon days of high school. My friends and I in 2002 decided that to get the fullest experience, we’d play what was known as Type 1. All the sets were legal, there was a banned and restricted list, and we could do whatever we wanted. We wanted to do the coolest things possible,...
“What the fuck is a sideboard?” I asked myself this as I watched a VHS titled “MTG: Road to the 1998 World Championships” when I was around 11 or 12. Way back in the late 90’s I had gotten super into the championship decks. I bought a few and ended up with this video and I watched the hell out of it. I always played extremely casually as a kid, because, well, I was a...
I awoke in a cold sweat. Was it where I left it, tucked safely in my boot? I reached down and instantly felt relief when I touched the worn and tattered parchment between my knife and my foot. The map pointed to a forbidden place where many have died before. Some may have found the place marked by the blood red X, some not. But none have ever lived to tell the tale. I breathed...
The above header picture is the most old school picture of Nashville, TN I could find (circa 1860). I moved here a year and a half ago with my family to start a job and not long after, got back into Magic after not playing since I was a kid.
