Come join us at our store for a worldwide Magic Celebration in September 2011.  Lots of goodies and free stuff – come play for free!

Magic Celebration

An event unlike any other we’ve run before, Magic Celebration will bring together Duels of the Planeswalkers and Magic 2012 Core Set players on September 10th at WPN locations around the globe. More details will be unveiled as we get closer to the event, but you can learn more about Magic’s in-store events and find a hobby store near you at Wizards.com/locator.

Last week – we had the most players/gamers for Magic The Gathering – thanks to our trusty acer netbooks we were all able to get our scores recorded.  I don’t know why the others bought their netbook – but when I bought my – it was for traveling  – since it was so small and easy to carry.  Little did I know that for my Magic The Gathering Games – it would come in so handy – I not only use it to record the game – I also use it to look up rules for the games and the value of certain cards that I’m not sure of.  Plus gamers trade their cards all the time – with our trusty acer netbooks – we can instantly find out about the value of the card – and do our trading in the gamer’s dungeon.  So if you are playing Magic – don’t forget to bring along your acer netbooks.

I picked up a neat little combo using Rust Tick and the black enchantment that adds poison counters when the enchanted artifact gets tapped. Let the tick untap and then retap the artifact during their upkeep. It’s a small thing, but once I hadn’t noticed before.

I won one game with a grafted exoskeleton/darksteel axe on a glint hawk, that was fun, 2 whacks and he was poisoned to death, talk about a colon cleansing! Another game was won with the help of a swampwalking dude equipped with some extra damage goodies. Overall I’m pretty happy with the pool I got but a couple more infect guys would have made it much easier to build. Or some way to proliferate, that would have been sweet.

I’ve been trying to get some Genesis Waves for my Titanic deck but the price keeps going up on those, after the release events though the market will be flooded and most card prices should drop a fair bit. I can wait a few days. I should have grabbed all the Lux Cannons I could though, they were as low as 2 tix, mostly 3 tix, but they’re climbing pretty fast too it seems.

Someone joked about how the Titanic sunk on it’s maiden voyage, to which I responded “In Magic Online, Titanic sinks you!” It may not be as smooth as a Royal Caribbean cruise, but it gets the job done. It crushes Soul Sisters more often than not, so I enjoy that immensely. And it’s just fun to say “You’ve been sunk by the Titanic”.

Now I need to work on a Classic deck. Well, I’ve got one in the works but it needs a lot of tweaking.

A few days ago after I started playing online again I was buying up some commons for my collection and noticed a lot of the bots were from MTGO Library so I went to check it out and it seems to be pretty good. Pretty straight forward, no running in ellipticals trying to figure out how to use them, you can either pay a small monthly fee to use the bots or they can charge a small percentage of your transactions. 2.5% to 3.5%, which you can buy credit in advance so that no one ever has to log in and take money direct from your bot. So far I haven’t had any sales, but it’s taken a couple days just to get the kinks worked out and get it running stable. Competition seems a lot more fierce than a couple years ago though since all the new bots are “smart bots”, they can track prices for individual cards much easier than they used to.

There’s only 1 hobby shop in town and all they sell is packs and a few singles, they’ve only got around 3000 cards for sale, mostly commons. I’ve got handy 18000, probably more but I haven’t bothered to really add up the boxes/binders.