I miss playing Magic: the Gathering. I remember countless late nights of marathon gaming sessions, four of five of us surrounding a table in intense concentration. It was a very expensive but insanely fun hobby. At one point I was following the scene pretty closely; I knew the names of pro players and I read columns on the official Magic website every week. Before my ill-fated trip to Austin, Texas (where I stayed for four months), I sold all of my cards (for a criminally low price) and never really had the money to start building up my collection again.
I picked up some cards from Gatecrash and Dragon's Maze today and cobbled together a deck to play with some friends. It was really fun and the cards I used really got the gears in my brain turning again. I think I'm going to try to put a real deck together once I have some cash, but I worry I won't have people to play with consistently. We'll see what happens; at the very least, I know of some people I could call.
I really like this new set; I was a fan of the original Ravnica block so all the guilds are familiar to me. I used to have a blue/green Simic deck built around Murkfiend Liege way back in the day that was really fun to play. I'm looking forward to looking through the Magic card database online and coming up with ideas for decks, although I'm not particularly eager to part with the cash. It's an expensive hobby, but I'm going to try my best to purchase responsibly and do my research so I don't end up with cards I'm not going to use.
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