Totengräber's Workpläce

Well, my wife’s brother Scott has had some interest in playing Magic. He hasn’t really played since the mid to late nineties. With that in mind, she invited him over to play some cards with me. As usual, when I get excited about a game, I go full-bore. Now I have a good amount of Magic cards from the last few sets plus some leftover cards from the collection I sold last year. I’ve also found myself looking up the power decks and strategies.

He and I played probably 6 games last night. The first couple were his favorite old-skool deck versus my new R/B Aggro deck. He won the first one because I got stuck on one mana and I won the second one when he had the same thing happen to him. We then switched decks and I played a Lorwyn-block goofy Goblin deck. I won that one due to the speed I could get it going. At this point, I started feeling bad, so we both then played one of his older decks. I had the Spiritmonger deck he’d been playing earlier and he had a W/G deck. I ended up winning that one just based on good draws. I had gotten a couple of smaller creatures well before bringing out the Spiritmonger. Finally, we each then played a Shadowmoor precostructed deck. I chose the W/B and he the R/B. His deck was significantly faster than mine, especially since I got one Plains the first turn and no more lands for like 5 turns.

All the games were fun and so was the conversation. We’ll probably be playing more about every other Wednesday and he seemed interested in Draft when I told him about it.