I brought my Deck along, 60 cards crammed into a 2012 Chandra Nalaar box which I'd gotten from a friend back in probably 2012 before signing up officially.
Here are my sign up bonuses.
5 30-card packs. 150 cards of all five types. Just plopped on the counter like glamorous casino chips. I immediately shuffled open the glorious 2014 Chandra Nalaar box and started to improve my existing deck which was no more than a starter pack, a mana bulk up, and several I'd traded last week.
I still have yet to spend any money on Magic and eternally feel bad about it. I need to buy something as soon as I'm not broke.
DCI Membership Card. This card stores info of each session and is a requirement if you so much as want to go near a tournament. So that's pretty cool. I've already logged in my info and authenticated it. Still, it's going to live in my wallet for the forseeable future. (I.e. forever.) It's pretty neat that it automatically logs progress.
Also, the webcam contrast is at it's highest so my name, number and authentication scratch number are whited out. Just in case you're wondering what all that empty space is about. Can't be too careful.
I also won some Minstrels and got given a Christmas Card and a big ol' box of Chocolates. Because it's Christmas, I got more swag than I could have foreseen. It's incredible. I was only expecting a promo card.
And since it's every Friday, upstairs in Game On in Winchcombe Street, they continued running the shop WHILST running the duels that were happening on the 1st floor. Like, how awesome is that? Very.
I must buy things when my wallet stops producing comical moths, indicative of how poor I am.
Everyone was pretty chill too, which was nice. It's usually hard being the new guy, but nobody seemed to have a problem with the fact that I often forgot to tap cards, had absolutely no clue between permanent and non-permanent monsters and didn't own a single Planeswalker. They were genuinely lovely people.
I partook in a mini-tournament thing called The Cube.
Basically, a guy who's clearly a regular and knows his stuff has a massive metal box (The Cube) and in this box are the History of Magic. Tonnes of cards from every expansion. Jeez, they looked incredible. One person complained that his eyes hurt from looking at the sheer number of holofoils.
45 cards are sectioned around the table. In three piles of fifteen, the same number of cards you'd find in a booster pack.
You pick up 15, choose one, and pass on the cards to the person seated beside you, who will then pick one and pass it on. When they have all been exhausted, the next pile will be picked up, you will choose one and then pass the cards in the opposite direction. After you get yourself a nice little deck, you reduce it down.
The rules are simple:
- Leave your own cards off the table.
-Request your land at the end.
- Pick a card from a hand of land. (Dr Seuss eat your heart out.)
-Play an opponent who drew the same one.
These guys were pretty pro. I played against a person who casually put down a monster that negated a win-state, decimated me down to -3, and then killed his monster which, in turn, destroyed me. They knew it.
Inside out.
It was fantastic fun.
Off to re-arrange my deck now.
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