Hello again Old Schoolers from sea to shining sea and across the mighty oceans. It has been less than a week since my last post, but there is some big news out of Akron this weekend. Today's post will be relatively brief but filled with major news regarding mycollection. I was playing this weekend with my brother Jim when I got to talking about my plans for Eternal Weekend. We were both tossing around ideas for what we might try to get while we were looking through each other's binders. One thing led to another and then something decidedly Old School took place: a blockbuster trade. After a lot of friendly negotiating I added the following to my collectionThat's right: my first dual land. It is by far the most valuable card in my collection. Now I have seen many dual lands before, but obviously this is my first one without the tap symbol. Growing up Jim and I had fourdual lands (Savannah, Tundra, Underground Sea, and Plateau.) Though it is of no use to me in so far as deck building goes at the moment, I love it already. To make it even more exciting, I also added another totally bad ass cardI had anversion of this card until Jim and I split up our collection a few months back, but God is this card cool. It held mythological significance to me from 1995 onwards when I found out that theversion was in fact not the original. The art is amazing, the words "Mono Artifact" are beyond awesome to anyone who started with, and it is of course useful in many varieties of deck, including my main deck (which I promise I will FINALLY blog about next time.) Now since no cash was part of this deal some may be wondering what I sent packing. What made this a blockbuster deal was that I sent away my most valuable card, both in terms of cost and usefulness in my deck: myVolcanic Island. It was a tough choice, but I don't want to stretch myself to thin and moving forward my quest must come first in so far as major acquisitions go.Trading is super fun, I now have not one but two awesome additions to mycollection, and my brother is getting tantalizingly close to a full set of dual lands, including full playsets of many of the individual duals. On a side note, I also completed the most basic part of my quest: I finished out the basic lands.And with that my friends I bid you all farewell...just in time to go watch Fox NFL Sunday. Take care everyone and have a safe, Happy Halloween with your friends and families.Bill