Playing Again, Finally!

I read a lot of Magic content on the web. In fact, I should probably recommend some sites to you, and will definitely do so in a future post. At the very least, for now you should be keeping up with the official Wizard's of the Coast site, which does daily articles, has downloadable wallpapers and other materials, is full of all the deck list and tournament info you could ever want, and plenty more where that came from. Here's the link, at magic.wizards.com/en/articles, and I love reading their stuff every day. Unfortunately, reading is about all I've been able to do recently.

For the last 2 or three months I've been working exactly the wrong schedule to pretty much ever get to play Magic. Not many people want to sling spells with me between the hours of 9am and 3pm, and I'm a little hesitant to start teaching my three-year-old daughter Magic. We're still working on Candyland and checkers, with Clue Jr. coming up on the horizon. My five-year-old shows a little more promise, but pulling her away from Legos and her new-found love of art is probably not the best course of action right now. So I've been reading, and reading and reading some more. Khans of Tarkir draft sounds awesome, but I have yet to experience it first hand. 

About a week ago, I got to hang out with a friend and play some one-on-one Commander, as well as pit my fledgling Burn-splash-Dig Through Time deck against his casual Zombie deck. His Jalira, Master Polymorphist Commander tore through my Kaalia of the Vast deck twice fairly soundly, but it was a lot of fun. I payed him back by igniting him and his Zombies a couple of times in fair retaliation.

She seems harmless. She's not.
It's a lie. A big, fat lie.

Standard, on the other hand, I got to play today.
I turned my last season's Red-White burn into a Jeskai deck, a list very similar to the one listed here, built by Shaun McLaren and taken to 2nd place at the last Pro Tour. I've been sitting on it for a while now, and not only did I get to break it out, I steamrolled my opponent in my first match of Standard since Khans of Tarkir was released. His controlling four color Abzan/Temur build had no chance. Best two games of Magic I've played in a very long time. Well, only two games... You know what? I don't care. It felt good. And yes, Dig Through Time is as fun and broken as it sounds.

Having trouble finding what you need? Cast this,
for way less than you should be able to, and find it, every time.

Hopefully my schedule with sort itself out at work and my life will revert back to some semblance of normal, but until then, I will take the little victories I can get. I have a vacation now which I am going to fill with as much Magic as I can; between the wedding, kindergarten field trip, chores and video games I have to play as well. Oh well, I guess we'll see just how much Magic actually gets done. (At least it con't be less than I've been playing lately...)