*Originally posted July 08, 2012

Hi there!

Though I wish I had a more significant or elaborate reason for beginning this blog, I really just want to talk about life as a nerd and the geek world as a whole.

With that being said, this blog will be dedicated to anything and everything nerdy. It will cover my general interests and possibly anything that will have an impact on the nerd world.

So let me begin with a topic that I hold near and dear to my heart.

Magic the Gathering.

This past weekend was the prerelease for the new 2013 core set. What is that? Well it's just a set of cards that will be available for use in competition for the next year. There are other sets out there currently and the core set is more of a supplement for what is currently being seen in tournaments.

But back to the prerelease. A prerelease event is just an early opportunity for anyone interested to play with the cards in a small tournament. I opted to participate in 2 this time. Midnight and another at 2pm. Sadly, I went home empty handed for both. Aside from the 6 packs you are given, I did not perform well enough to win any extra packs at either of the events.

T_T

My normal colors of choice are blue with a sprinkle of white or black but having pulled Thragtusk, the appeal was just TOO much and I went green/white at the midnight event. Horrible, horrible idea which ended in me misplaying a bunch and ending the night with 2-2 record (3-1 or 4-0 is needed for prizing). Fast forward to the 2pm event. I had swore I would never play a color that I just didn't enjoy. Well, that meant I would play some blue, some black, and some white. But that just wasn't in the cards either ; ). My pulls for all 3 of the those colors just wasn't strong enough to build a solid deck. Green again was a beast as I had pulled a Primordial Hydra. But no, performing even more poorly, I went home 1-3.

  

Have I mentioned how much I hate green? It's quite possibly the most straight forward way of playing Magic. Ramping up so you have significantly more mana than your opponent early on and just tossing out some beefy beasts. This just never appealed to me. Blue on the other hand makes every turn feel like a puzzle where thinking multiple turns ahead of your opponent is a must. 

But it's OK! It's all for the fun of the game and the spirit of competition, right? For sure. I don't have any aspirations for breaking in the competitive scene though playing just slightly above the casual level is quite enjoyable and if you ever see yourself dabbling into MTG, give it a shot. You never know how much you might enjoy it.

Now it's time for me to start building some new decks now that the set's release is in sight.

Thanks for enduring this wall of text.

Be seeing you ( " )^