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Editor:Staff 14th November 2007
Magic in the Country
By John Savill I remember it clearly. I had just turned twelve, and it suddenly dawned on me, I was a nerd. I enjoyed reading books where others did not, I found computers interesting, easy to operate and could see the great advantages where others wouldn’t and was doing well at school. I wasn’t like those other blokes who’d lost their virginity at the age of 11, playing footy, or were drinking and smoking already. A mate rang me up and invited me around to play some N 64 and to chill, when I noticed these odd looking cards on the table. These turned out to be two starter decks…I was hooked. The pictures, the flavour texts and the strategies and intricacies, man, where had this game been all my life? And that was how it started. There was one little store in town that sold them for $6.50 a booster, and at the time there were only myself and two other mates who were playing, I was truly oblivious to how much cards were worth and how they worked properly, let’s just say over quite a few years I got ripped…(for example, trading a Planar Collapse for a Workhorse, lol) as well as making decks out of random “cool” cards. After my mates left town, there was a two-year hiatus from Magic, till I had a new group of friends in High School. Two of my mates were excellent players, continually thrashing me and making excellent decks. I still hadn’t picked up on a lot of the intricacies, but I was always doing something new, card combinations not seen before, and picking up synergies all by my own. My mates were always going on about MTGParadise and how good it was. They put down a lot of their wins to deck ideas they got after visiting the website. I didn’t believe them. I didn’t want to, my decks were fun, I didn’t care if I lost 80% of the time, because when I did win, it was an outstanding win, and I was proud of what I did. So there you go, to this day, I still make decks from “cool” cards, however, I have come to develop into a solid player, I still pride myself on always doing something a little different, but now, I get a little help from MTGParadise and it’s articles and community members. I come from a little town, but this is also a little town of my own. A community where I can discuss MTG with others along with drunken escapades and other general spam. One day, I intend on driving the four hours to Perth to take part in a State Champs or something similar, and I can’t wait. I love this game, and I love the people I’ve met, I’ve enjoyed my development and will continue to do so. For nostalgia’s sake, I will include 4 deck lists to show my progress over the years, these are my pride and joys: 1. Somnophore Love (Created from Urza’s Saga: “Tombstone” Precon) Lands Creatures Spells After my friends laughed at me, this was a deck I made after some scrupulous trading and stealing from my little brother. Not much can be said about this deck, it worked well one on one, otherwise I got hated on and killed in group play. Plus I sucked at blue, and continue to do so 2. The Kavu Deck Lands Creatures Spells A simple, but fun beat down deck. Of course, control totally whooped my ass every now and then, but this deck was great in Multiplayer, especially with others playing green or red permanents, feeding Yavimaya Kavu.
Lands Creatures Spells My conversion to black. ‘Nuff said… 4. Squirrel Grab Lands Creatures Spells Peer pressure with a crap load of squirrels out after dropping a standardize….I don’t think there’s many better ways of winning. Of course, Wrath of God always posed a problem, but sometimes it got countered. I am by no means a pro or a noob. I love this game and have been playing for around 10 years against good players, bad players and starters. One day, I may decide to take the game seriously, until then, I’ll continue to stay away from blue, especially counterspells and continue to have fun. I hope one day to meet a lot of the people I have talked to over MTGParadise and have a few drinks, a laugh and a few games. Cheers John Savill p.s: Thanks for the challenge Kye, big thumbs up
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