Don't we all feel this way sometimes?





I am going to spend a lot more time doing what I love this year. From playing Nintendo to watching movies and of course playing Magic: The Gathering, I fully intend to prevent myself from becoming a robot this year. I am really looking forward to moving forward with my quest, after Chaos Orb I am already thinking of what my major acquisition will be this year. Only time will tell. Thanks for reading and wash those hands!!

Good morning and happy Friday fellow Old School players across the world. It has been an especially hairy month at work (I am a financial planner) and I have not been able to focus on Magic anywhere near as much as I would like. It sure seems like the sky is falling these days with the Coronavirus and the world markets. I hope the media in other countries is not as hysterical, misinformed, and prone to inducing unnecessary panic as it is here in America. If you are reading this from Europe or Asia stay away from sick people and let's all hope this blows over when the weather changes! Now on to more radical, bodacious things.My wife Lauren is a real boss lady. In addition to being highly intelligent and extremely beautiful, she also is always open to playing video games, board games, and Magic with me. Now I don't have any illusions of her coming to a tournament or even wanting to play Magic if I suddenly stopped, but she will sit down and build decks with me and then play for a few hours on a weekly basis. I consider myself blessed in this regard, she even buys the occasional card for herself! Lauren runs a pretty killer white/green deck featuring Armageddon, Ernham Djinn, Serra Angel and Savannah Lions that she plays well. She also will sit on the couch with me and watch the occasional Youtube video. Very cool.Being the frugal person that I am, we limit ourselves to relatively inexpensive Christmas presents, somewhere to the tune of $25 a person. This makes shopping more difficult but also more rewarding. Not to sound saccharine, but Christmas is about so much more than presents. That being said, I love presents! I was shocked on Christmas morning that Lauren got me this awesome card:There is nothing more exciting than getting a card you have never seen. We all know the Power 9 and cards like Chaos Orb and Time Vault, but there is something even cooler about the other cards removed from the base set after. Theis amazing. That is some of the best art I have ever seen, Richard Thomas always made such good use of vibrant colors in his art. In addition to this the mechanics of themake it a really neat card. Give one of your white weeniesand let it become a martyr in a stunning!!As I sit here on a snowy day in March in suburban Akron, Ohio I find myself in a reflective mood. It feels like I have done nothing but work this entire year. While I love my job and am extraordinarily passionate about what I do, I also must guard against allowing work to overtake my life. One must strive for...wait for it...