Hello fellow old-schoolers. When I created this blog back in January I had aspirations of posting about once a week. I have been adding a new post about once a month and that seems to be a better pace as it allows more time to not only acquire cards but also to report on other goings-on in my Old-School adventure. Though I did not get too much further in my quest to acquire a completeset this month, I have had a tremendous amount of fun dueling and brewing with my buddies here in the burbs of Cleveland.Those of you who have read my earlier posts know that I started playing with my brother back in March of 1994. We saved our collection of about 2000 cards fromto(the overwhelming majority being split evenly betweenand.) Having all of our cards together was great when we were younger because whenever anyone wanted to build a deck they had access to the full collection. Now that we are adults this presents a problem, it would not be very convenient for my brother to come to my house any time he wants to brew, or vice-versa. Since he is now getting into the format about as much as I am the shared cards model is starting to be a hassle. After about 5 months of Old-School adventuring we came to a conclusion: it was time to divide our collection.On the day of the "Great Division" we got all of our cards together on a table, including our binder of rares. We were both aware of the enormity of what was happening. There was never any concept of individual ownership of these cards. Though I kept them at my various apartments and now at my home I always saw myself as a caretaker of shared property. The commons and uncommons were easy, we simply took any card we had more than 1 of and divided them in half. If there was an odd number we talked it over. If there was only 1 copy we took turns picking from the pile with a coin flip to determine who picked first. When it came to the binder we did the same thing. Since there were no dual lands or power in there it was a pretty easy process with no hurt feelings. In fact we both enjoyed it. After 25 years we each finally had our owncards. This was a watershed moment.As far as my quest for a completeset is concerned, there was not much activity in April. The first addition was another generous donation from my brother. I have mentioned before that I am not interested in any gifts from strangers or solicitations since one of the most fun parts of this for me is slowly building up my collection so I can savor each card, but I won't turn down a gift from my brother. Since he only had 1in his collection he wanted 3 more for a green deck and decided to simply get a play-set ofSprites. I am now the beneficiary of that decision!The Sprites are awesome. 1/1 flyer for 1 mana? A great first turn play. The art and flavor text is really cool also. "."The other card I acquired in April came from an LGS about 25 minutes from me that I checked out. It is always cool to go visit another LGS besides your own. I picked up a really nicewhich is cool because my dad had those in his blue and black deck that always crushed me all those years ago.Wasn't it cool how back in the day they used to put famous poems and literature in the flavor text of the cards? It made them so much more universal. One did not need to be up to speed on all the back story of Ravnica or whatever else to understand and appreciate what they were looking at. For this and many other reason I am glad I kick it Old-School.Stay tuned for more steps in my quest...