Magic: The Return!

It's been years, but last week me and my friends decided to start playing Magic: the Gathering again. I used to play this game quite religiously with a rather large group of friends, but then pretty much quit when all of my friends got out of it. That was over 15 years ago.

Now, times are different. And Magic is now on it's 11th edition (my last was FOURTH). Times have changed. The cards look different (no more white bordered core sets lol), everything is more vibrant and colorful and the artwork is top notch...much higher quality than it used to be.

At least one of my friends is a hardcore player...he seems to be able to name any card he sees based on what it does; and he'll scour entire sets for that one card that will help him construct the deck he's wanting. I'm not like that, though I'd made some pretty good decks in my day, they were generally simple to understand and relied on only a few core mechanics to operate.

So now, years later, I spent way too much money and bought quite a few cards from the new edition. Partly to play, but I'm also thinking about doing some collecting again...mostly because that hobby can be fun...and also because I'm not sure how much we'll be playing. There's six of us, but a few really don't have the money to put down for cards somewhat limiting what we can do with it. Our tenative plan at this point is to create decks, and then randomly pick who plays them instead of everyone having to buy their own cards to play.

I ended up buying 2 M2010 core set booster boxes, and a core set of 5 decks. That almost completed a full M2010 set (I think I'm missing 10 cards at this point). And I'm also buying some Shards of Alara, Conflux, and Alara Reborn mostly because they are designed for multi-color (and I LOVE multicolor decks).

Along with that, I've bought a bunch of supplies designed to help me store this crap. And to properly put away a lot of my old cards which have been sitting in boxes for the last 15 years. The cards are in very good shape, but I'd like to get them properly put away.