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For less than a year, I’ve been in a sort of Magic Renaissance.

While I’ve made a few allusions to it, here’s the story:

Years ago (circa 1999), I stopped playing Magic. There was no one reason why. I was busy with other stuff, didn’t have a lot of people to play with and didn’t have a lot of money to spend playing. It was just “one of those things” that get dropped when life gets in the way of life. It’s happened to most of us.

Less than a year ago, pretty much out of nowhere, I got the urge to play again (or at least to look into playing again). I poked at a couple of guys in my group at work and found two that used to play and breached the subject of getting back into it. We bought a box of Magic 2010 and split it 3 ways (12 packs each) and tried building basic decks. They weren’t the worse decks ever, but we were all definitely very rusty. After buying a bit more product, we started to regain our footing and ventured out of our small 3-person group.

These days, two of us regularly play in constructed and sealed events (including release and pre-release events). We haven’t gotten into drafting yet (still a bit intimidating), but I recently got an account on MTGO and I think that’s something I’m going to play around with after I get a bit more comfortable with the software. Speaking of MTGO, I played my first constructed game last night. I won with an Overrun alpha-strike, which while not terribly original, was very satisfying (especially after I accidentally mulliganed down to 6 and started the game witha worse hand than my original 7).

For anyone still visiting my blog, there will be M:tG posts scattered throughout my normal musings since this is something I’m going to be up to. I’ll try to keep it more “blogging” and less “facebook” – but you’ve been warned.