Hello everyone,
Recently I've gotten myself back into playing M:TG, and decided tonight was the night I was going to go out and hit a FNM. I stopped playing in late 2004, so it's been a long time since I've had to build any deck, let alone in any kind of a draft.
Some further background... about three weeks ago my brother-in-law gave me a bunch of M13 and RTR cards, as he did not want them. He said "build a deck and we'll play", basically. Well, I organized the cards, put them in sleeves, built a couple of decks, and set them aside for the most part. Went to a friend's house two tuesday's ago and played there with a deck I had made, and while I had fun, I lost every game I was involved in (every game was basically 5 people at the table, in a free-for-all, everything goes type play).
Since then I've bought a few more cards, threw together some other decks (for very casual play with friends/family) and decided I wanted to get more invloved in M:TG again. When I quit, I don't recall FNM even being a "thing" you could attend, though it may have been. I grew up in a very rural area, where the closest game store was over 25 miles away (about a 35 min drive), so I didn't pay much attention to it if it did exist. Just mostly played with some friends.
Anyway, a friend-of-a-friend owns a game store near me, so I thought I'd head on down to dive straight in and see how much I suck now. It was a sealed deck format (I believe, right? Buy 6 booster packs and build a deck from that). I took more than the 25 minutes allotted to build my deck, but there were only 3 other players, so everyone was cool with it. I finally settled on a Red/White with a splash of Black deck. I was fairly confident in it, as it had good "test" draws and a good mixture of removal and creatures. One major thing I was lacking was evasion, though I only had three total evasion cards in the packs I opened, none of which I could fit into my deck reasonably.
Anyway, I tossed together the deck and played the three matches with it. Ended up going 1-2, which honestly was better than I had expected going in.
I had a lot of fun, and looking back at the deck I built and the cards I opened, I should've done a fair amount differently. But that's why we play, right? To learn. I'll be going back in the next week and will continue to play, learn, and evolve.
That's my story for now. Just wanted to post it and say how good it feels to be a mage again!
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Recently I've gotten myself back into playing M:TG, and decided tonight was the night I was going to go out and hit a FNM. I stopped playing in late 2004, so it's been a long time since I've had to build any deck, let alone in any kind of a draft.
Some further background... about three weeks ago my brother-in-law gave me a bunch of M13 and RTR cards, as he did not want them. He said "build a deck and we'll play", basically. Well, I organized the cards, put them in sleeves, built a couple of decks, and set them aside for the most part. Went to a friend's house two tuesday's ago and played there with a deck I had made, and while I had fun, I lost every game I was involved in (every game was basically 5 people at the table, in a free-for-all, everything goes type play).
Since then I've bought a few more cards, threw together some other decks (for very casual play with friends/family) and decided I wanted to get more invloved in M:TG again. When I quit, I don't recall FNM even being a "thing" you could attend, though it may have been. I grew up in a very rural area, where the closest game store was over 25 miles away (about a 35 min drive), so I didn't pay much attention to it if it did exist. Just mostly played with some friends.
Anyway, a friend-of-a-friend owns a game store near me, so I thought I'd head on down to dive straight in and see how much I suck now. It was a sealed deck format (I believe, right? Buy 6 booster packs and build a deck from that). I took more than the 25 minutes allotted to build my deck, but there were only 3 other players, so everyone was cool with it. I finally settled on a Red/White with a splash of Black deck. I was fairly confident in it, as it had good "test" draws and a good mixture of removal and creatures. One major thing I was lacking was evasion, though I only had three total evasion cards in the packs I opened, none of which I could fit into my deck reasonably.
Anyway, I tossed together the deck and played the three matches with it. Ended up going 1-2, which honestly was better than I had expected going in.
I had a lot of fun, and looking back at the deck I built and the cards I opened, I should've done a fair amount differently. But that's why we play, right? To learn. I'll be going back in the next week and will continue to play, learn, and evolve.
That's my story for now. Just wanted to post it and say how good it feels to be a mage again!