Celebrate good times, come on!

[Coffee Vampire]

Yes you do appear to be slacking... *cracks whip* Work harder, my minion! My white fluffy minion! Muahaha

[Teysa karlov]

This is my 109th post

[Dudecore]

2,000 posts! They came so quickly. I wrote a little autobiography for you all to enjoy;

I started playing Magic the Gathering during Tempest. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I liked the cards. The art was silly (and still contains some of the strangest art in MtG history), the cards were good and the game was fresh. The one card that would forever change my life was {Counterspell}. From the day I first tapped my 2 islands, till today, control has been my game.

Control for me was much more then controlling the board, it was a challenge to my opponent. I want to outwit them, not win. I enjoy setting traps, I enjoy the mind games, I feed on the frustration of them tapping out for a bomb and then dropping a {daze}, I enjoy them planning around a {mana leak} I don't even have.

Control has had it's ups, it's downs but it has never let me down. Since I've been playing Standard for almost 16 years (some hiatus here and there) I made the leap this year into EDH and re-dedicating myself to all those older cards I've amassed over the years. The truth is, control in current capacity isn't compelling to me, not because It isn't dominating, its because it taking heroic efforts to pull off.

Magic the Gathering has been growing in popularity every single year, and with every new player comes a great experience. Teaching new players, helping their skills, explaining how well-rounded you have to be. The unintended consequences is a dumbing down of the game. Not talking about removal of Mana Burn, I agree with getting rid of it, I'm speaking of creatures with big splashy effects and no drawbacks. I am a firm believer that "a creatures only drawback shouldn't be it's mana cost" (looking at you {Primeval Titan})

But ultimately everything comes down to this...I just miss my old cards. I miss playing for fun, I miss playing classic control, I miss the insanely swingy games. I am for the first time planning to build a cube of all my favorite cards (struggling not to make blue the only good deck), I'm playing more EDH (with deck ideas overflowing) and my Legacy game has never been sharper. I will miss the competition in Standard, I'll miss the people, but I won't miss the restrictions based on what Wizards thinks the format should look like.

Thank you for reading. Here is to another 2,000 posts and a great year on my favorite application. If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be a moderator on a iMtG, I wouldn't believe it. Places like this, a community like this, and a product like this coming together is very rare. I'm glad to be a part of it

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100

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Very

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Very

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Soon

[Seth5000]

315 hmm I went from 157 to 315 in 2 1/2 weeks

[Silent1236]

2222!  Oh.... Wait...  2223

[Fenster]

2002 Hell yeah!

[Quisequise]

I'm at 61, but you're right CV. I Read more than I post and I've learned so much in the past few months. I love it.

[toastani]

2 more to 50. halfway to karma! ha!
Enjoyed the bio, Dudecore.

[Dudecore]

2,500

[smokin terry]

1001.

[Piotr]

I have 100 karma, yay!