Remember Magic The Gathering - the card game - that I dominated you at?  It must be about 10 years since the last time I played a serious game of Magic The Gathering.  Apparently they’ve been producing new sets since we used to play and now there are over 2 million different sets.  Well maybe not that many but there are a lot.  I think they are up over 10th edition and there are tons of named sets.

Now you can also buy pre-built theme decks.  I remember the starter decks that were just a random mix of everything that was hardly playable out of the box.  Now those pre-built decks will probably kick ass on my decks that haven’t been changed in over 10 years.  Yeah - I still have my decks put together.

Recently I got to talking to a co-worker who also used to play.  We decided we needed to polish off the old Magic cards and give it a go again.  I think today I’m going to take my black/blue deck into battle.  Just for shits and giggles here is the deck:

Black/Blue (82 card deck)
14 island
12 swamp
1 underground sea (black or blue mana)
Animate Dead
Bad Moon
(4) Blue Elemental Blast
Brainstorm
Brine Shaman
Clone
Control Magic
(3) Counterspell
Dark Ritual
Deathgrip
Demonic hordes
Fear
Foul Familiar
(2) Gangrenous Zombies
hell’s Caretaker
howl from Beyond
(2) hydroblast
Infuse
Kjeldoran Dead
Lifetap
Murk Dwellers
Nettling Imp
(2) Norrit
Paralyze
Pestilence
(4) Plague Rats
Power Sink
Raise Dead
Royal Assasin
Sengir Vampire
Skeleton Ship
Soul Burn
(4) Spell Blast
Throne of BoneSorceress Queen
Twiddle
Unholy Strength
Vesuvan Doppelganger
Wall of Vapor
Wrath of Marit Lage
Zuran Spellcaster

I totally expect to get my ass kicked.  The one thing that might save me is that I think I will be up against a red deck - which is probably the best situation for me with this black/blue deck.  We’ll see.

Do any of you still have your Magic cards?  Who wants a game?