I'm sitting here at my kitchen table, coffee at the ready, preparing to update my trade thread, which badly needs it. So badly, in fact, that I'm thinking of putting it off until tomorrow...
(I'm finally accepting the fact that no one wants my old crap rares from sets prior to the current Standard, so I'm not going to include them in my thread. Instead, I think I'm going to try selling a bulk lot of rares on eBay.)
The Lorwyn prerelease was all I could think about for weeks before the actual event; now that it's over, I still can't stop thinking about Lorwyn. Maybe it's the "Timmy" in me (or more likely, the "Vorthos"), but I've never ever been disappointed in a Magic set (I've been playing since around December 1994). I loved Coldsnap. I'm of the opinion that everything has its weaknesses, and I tend to overlook said weaknesses when looking at a set as a whole. I'm drawn in by the flavor and the artwork of a set just as much as I'm drawn in by the mechanics. I get especially excited every autumn, when we get a new large expansion and often an entirely new world to explore in the game. It's just one of the things that makes autumn my favorite season of the year.
Lorwyn's flavor and artwork is superb. I've always been a fan of the sort of storybook fantasy world portrayed in Lorwyn. For example, Final Fantasy III (or VI in Japan) and Final Fantasy IX are my favorite of the Final Fantasy series, because they are more "storybook" fantasy than any of the others (well, FFIII was the first of the FF series games that I played, so I'm not counting the earlier games in this assessment). I have the DVD collection of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre sitting on my shelf (which I enjoyed immensely as a kid growing up in the 1980s). I could probably go on, but I'll stop for the moment.
Flavor and artwork are so important to me that I tend to focus on building block constructed decks rather than Standard decks, because I don't like to "mix worlds." I don't want my Lorwyn faeries to have to deal with Tarmogoyf, or Troll Ascetic—and not just because the 'Goyf and the Troll are two of the best green creatures ever printed. I don't even want my LOR faeries in the same deck as Faerie Conclave!
Yes, I know, it's stupid, and I do tend to "grin and bear it" in the name of playing a good deck. But looking back on the decks I've played (and kept together) over the years, most of them are block constructed versions. Let's see, there's a Gruul deck, a Gifts deck, Ravager-Affinity, Onslaught-era Goblins (meanwhile, my 4x Goblin Lackey, 4x Goblin Matron, and 4x Goblin Ringleader sit untouched in a box under my bed), Odyssey-MBC, etc. This tendency towards block constructed, combined with my typical excitement for the new large set, is especially at odds with the fact that block constructed decks sorta don't work as well without, well, an actual block to construct with (as opposed to just one set). I'm afraid that I'll get frustrated with my Lorwyn Faerie deck before we see any new faeries from Morningtide. So for now, I'm including Standard cards in my Faerie build. What's a few Momentary Blinks to go along with my Mistbind Cliques going to hurt?
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Posted Oct 4, 2007