Joe Gamer

It has been over a year since the last time I purchased any Magic: The Gathering cards. Other than that brief respite, it had been even longer since I had previously purchased M:TG cards. I was beginning to think I was completely over this game.

Tonight however, while picking out packs of Bella Serra II Miniatures for the littlest Little, I broke down and purchased the black theme deck for M10 (Wizard of the Coast’s latest base set for Magic). I told my wife that I would buy her a deck as well if she would play with me … and she took the bait.

Three surprises awaited us when we opened the decks. First my black deck was in fact black and green. My very first M:TG deck was a custom built deck of Revised cards that was black and green. The color combination has been a favorite ever since. Second was that one of the cards in the booster that came with the preconstructed deck was of a completely new type and rarity than I had ever seen before. The card was a Planeswalker and the rarity was Mythic Rare. Planeswalkers are a special, powerful form of card that represents an ally rather than a creature. Mythic Rares are apparently half as common (or twice as rare) as a regular rare. Finally, my wife got as one of her rares a rare that sells on eBay for a little more than we paid for all of the cards. Very nice.

Upon opening the cards I took a big whiff with my nose pressed to the edge of the preconstructed deck. Nothing smells quite the same. Very few smells spark an inner glow quite like freshly opened Magic: The Gathering cards. I hope my wife realizes quite what we’re in for. Wait … she lived through about ten years of this before so I guess she does.

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I really hate it but I have done VERY little gaming the past month. My own campaign has fallen to the way side as things have gotten busy. I was able to attend an L5R seal tournament for Path of the Destroyer. I won the tournament playing Spider against 2 Scorpions, 1 Unicorn, and 1 other Spider player. In similar news I also win again as I expect two boxes of PotD in tomorrow. Time for a half day at work!

In other news, I subscribe to the Pathfinder Adventure Path service that Paizo provides and have considered writing reviews of each. So don’t be surprised to NOT see that here any time soon.

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The little gamer in training loves small toys. The smaller – the better. She has a pretty good spot check but her search lacks a lot. She is always misplacing her small toys. But knowing how much she adores small toys, we thought that she would enjoy some of the horses from the Bella Sara miniatures set.

We bought her three to start with and she just simply loved them. So we bought more. As we bought a few more packs, we began to like these adorable horses as much as Little Gamer. Now we are looking to buy us more and am looking forward to series 2 being released.

Bella Sara is a collectible card game that features horses and now other animals. Cards display a positive message. With the actual cards there are several games you can play. You can also use a code to unlock a virtual animal on the Bella Sara website to play with and play more games. You can’t actually play with the miniatures in the game but still they are pretty neat.

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The CCG Legends of the Five Rings is coming out with its newest base set this summer – the Celestial Edition. It’s due out June 22nd. Of course there will be pre-release tournaments. Already JoeGamer and company are making plans to attend one. The last pre-release I didn’t attend but thought about going to this one. Participating is another story since I’ve only played L5R once or twice. I doubt I can learn enough to actually play by the end of June since L5R is a pretty complicated(but fun!) game.

The Imperial Gift(2) will also become available to any player that wants it. It includes two decks so you are ready to teach anyone how to play L5R. The Imperial gift is really cool in that it’s a set of free cards to players. The set is released in increments but will be a full set when completed later this year.

It’s my goal with Celestial to really start playing L5R and getting into the game with a base set should be easier than trying to start in the middle of a series.

To learn more about Celestial, visit Alderac’s L5R Celestial Edition web page.

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