I'm not a new MTG player, having started playing since Champions of Kamigawa. I'm not exactly an outdated returning player, since even during my inactive periods of playing MTG, I try to attend at least pre-release events and keep up with the general updates of Magic. I'm not new to MTGS either, I had accounts during the separate periods of time when I was active (or tried to be active) in MTG, but still ended up lurking more than posting each time, eventually forgetting about them. I'm thankful for MTGS for not having a strict one-account policy, so I could rejoin this great community each time.
The last time I played Standard was during Alara-Zendikar Standard, with a Jund deck. Modern-wise, I intended start off with a Pod deck since I had most of the cards (from the "leftovers" which I didn't sell when they were released and in Standard) and slowly acquire the remaining ones, but with the banning of Birthing Pod, that plan was halted. I was an active EDH player when the first set of Commander Decks were released. Eventually, due to several factors, I ended up building more decks than playing, and then conceptualizing more decks than even building them. Admittedly, I got lazier to attempt to rejoin constructed formats over time.
I fared slightly better in Limited, where I at least attended one pre-release per set. Nothing like what I used to do (All the available pods as long as I had the time that day), but considering the recent changes to the pre-release formats, I doubt I'll regain that level of playing for the time being. I seldom do pack-drafting, but I'm in a small group that manages its own cube, so I do get drafting experience, just not often with the traditional packs.
Several factors had made me decide to be less active in Magic then, and even after those factors weren't around, laziness crept in and I didn't really bother returning to active Magic. I'm trying to change that and so here I am (again). At least this time I returned with a plan of some sort after observing the overall Magic scene:
- I'll probably opt for a "Podless Pod" deck for Modern, likely leaning towards the Collected Company decks. Eventually, I might build a proven Tier-1 Deck, probably Affinity, but that's further down the line.
- For Standard, I might just go for something cheap but viable, most likely a Mono-Red deck of sorts (those are usually the cheaper ones regardless of era).
- Well, I consolidated my EDH ideas and decks before I dared to take this step, so I'm left with acquiring some cards I need for those decks.
- I'm not going to increase my Limited play by that much, since I want to concentrate on boosting my Constructed Magic Activeness.
Okay, this turned out to be more of a self-motivation post for myself to get back to active Magic than an introduction, but still, whatever it takes to get the engine going.
I'm not a new MTG player, having started playing since Champions of Kamigawa. I'm not exactly an outdated returning player, since even during my inactive periods of playing MTG, I try to attend at least pre-release events and keep up with the general updates of Magic. I'm not new to MTGS either, I had accounts during the separate periods of time when I was active (or tried to be active) in MTG, but still ended up lurking more than posting each time, eventually forgetting about them. I'm thankful for MTGS for not having a strict one-account policy, so I could rejoin this great community each time.
The last time I played Standard was during Alara-Zendikar Standard, with a Jund deck. Modern-wise, I intended start off with a Pod deck since I had most of the cards (from the "leftovers" which I didn't sell when they were released and in Standard) and slowly acquire the remaining ones, but with the banning of Birthing Pod, that plan was halted. I was an active EDH player when the first set of Commander Decks were released. Eventually, due to several factors, I ended up building more decks than playing, and then conceptualizing more decks than even building them. Admittedly, I got lazier to attempt to rejoin constructed formats over time.
I fared slightly better in Limited, where I at least attended one pre-release per set. Nothing like what I used to do (All the available pods as long as I had the time that day), but considering the recent changes to the pre-release formats, I doubt I'll regain that level of playing for the time being. I seldom do pack-drafting, but I'm in a small group that manages its own cube, so I do get drafting experience, just not often with the traditional packs.
Several factors had made me decide to be less active in Magic then, and even after those factors weren't around, laziness crept in and I didn't really bother returning to active Magic. I'm trying to change that and so here I am (again). At least this time I returned with a plan of some sort after observing the overall Magic scene:
- I'll probably opt for a "Podless Pod" deck for Modern, likely leaning towards the Collected Company decks. Eventually, I might build a proven Tier-1 Deck, probably Affinity, but that's further down the line.
- For Standard, I might just go for something cheap but viable, most likely a Mono-Red deck of sorts (those are usually the cheaper ones regardless of era).
- Well, I consolidated my EDH ideas and decks before I dared to take this step, so I'm left with acquiring some cards I need for those decks.
- I'm not going to increase my Limited play by that much, since I want to concentrate on boosting my Constructed Magic Activeness.
Okay, this turned out to be more of a self-motivation post for myself to get back to active Magic than an introduction, but still, whatever it takes to get the engine going.