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.

A friend had invited the entire family for a BBQ -  in his cottage – which was actually one of those  park model trailers – now I didn’t realized that they were so nice and that there were more than one family in the country having the same kind of model trailers.   So while the family is swimming by the lake and bbqing – the guys did some gaming – of Magic there.   Now the spouse got really interested in it because of my brother who lives out in the woods near my parents.   She figured if it wasn’t expensive and affordable – maybe my brother should buy something like this model trailers instead of living out in his little cottage that he built himself that doesn’t have electricity.  Now that is an option worth thinking of for my brother – for we’ve always wondered if his cubby hole is safe for him.  But having said all that the spouse had mentioned that we might want one too – for a summer hideout in the country.  It would be nice – near the lake for the kid loved to swim.

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.

So we had a bbq at the store during our Magic the Gathering gaming day – invited a few customers randomly to come have a hotdog on a Friday and a few did show up.  Everyone who came brought something with them – and one of them broughat a chocolate birthday Sharis Berries which the kid and the spouse loved.   The kid had her school friend come for bbq and guess who finished up the chocolate berries?  no price for guessing – haha!  the bbq went well but most importantly, we wanted to give back to our customers by sharing our food and drinks with them.  Hopefully, next time we have more people showing up because there were lots of leftovers except for the chocolate berries.

I sure don’t know what the best diet pill on the market is, but I do know that making my own decks is more fun than looking up the winning deck of the week on the internet. So if I put some Doubling Seasons, some Snake Baskets and a couple Chandras in my deck, don’t go accusing me of netdecking just because I happened to come up with the same cards as some other guy. I don’t netdeck, and my eyes kinda just glaze over when someone tells me they’re playing Jund or Soul Sisters or some such thing, or they say “oh you’re playing Naya colors”. What the hell are Naya colors? I’m playing a deck where I get to say “I’m throwing 3 mountains at you, take 6 damage”. Dang kids these days and their fancy magic words.

Actually it’s not 100% complete though, I still need to do a little green shopping, as in, I still need 3 Primeval Titans. I feel they’re not the best Titan in the deck though since by the time I can cast 1 Titan I have enough mana on the board to cast any of them. Greenie does thin out the deck though so I have a better chance of drawing more Titans instead of land once I get on a roll.

Since I’m running tournaments now it would be good to become an official Judge, but to do that you need to actually go to other tournaments and learn from other judges. That’s a problem since I’ve got a wife and kid and a business to look after. With the nearest big tournaments over 3 hours drive from here, I can’t just abandon everything to go play cards, learn stuff and be forced to use gross public toilets. So I’ll settle for becoming a rules adviser instead, it’s just a step below judge and all you have to do is pass an online test. Being a tournament organizer gives me the right to be head judge anyway, but it would be nice to have someone official if I ever attempt to run larger tournaments.

The best moment was probably when my mono-black opponent with 4 swamps on the table and a Whispersilk Cloak in play dropped a Nantuko Shade. It’s a combo he had used to win most of his previous games of the evening. My mountains were tapped so I guess he thought he was safe to bring in the shade and equip it before I could bolt/fireball it next turn. He tapped his last 2 swamps to equip the cloak and I responded with the green beast that is Hornet Sting. Aww yeah.