Hello everyone. This is the Nettling Dad and it is a pleasure to be back in the MTG blogging world1. Many thanks to the Benalish Dad for the invite. Before we get started a little background is in order.
About me: My gaming life is primarily defined by two games MTG and D&D. I started playing both during the same year, 1994. Originally MTG was dominant, until Ice Age (’95) when D&D took over2. However I was back to MTG a decade later when Ravnica: City of Guilds debuted (’05). Finally the pendulum swung back to D&D after Theros Block (’14). Which brings us to today … the introduction of D&D IP into the MTG multiverse. Let’s see what happens…
… one more thing you need to know about me … I’m a limited player. Don’t get me wrong, I build 60-card decks for fun if an idea strikes my fancy. I’m not a monster. But there is just something about the purity of the limited format that calls me.
So here’s my approach. I am in for one set and one set only3.
I mean just looks at what cards are like in this set.
But there will be a lot of things to learn. I have no idea where the color pie is at now: Is Howl from beyond still black? Is Granite Gargoyle still red? Is green still about nature? Did Mark Rosewater write an update to his 2017 color pie article4?
This will be my first foray into playing MTG digitally. I downloaded MODO about ten years ago but it was … crash time city … so I gave up. I’m off an running with MTG Arena so I should have no trouble learning which buttons to push before D&D:AitFR (AFR) drops on July 8. I still have to figure out where to put my DCI number … but I am super excited for NO SHUFFLING EVER AGAIN!
Footnotes
1. RIP Magical Notes2. You may suspect, and you’d be right, that it was really Fallen Empires that drove me away, but the process wasn’t complete until Ice Age was released. In much the same way that the rot set in with The Last Jedi and then we all unfairly took it out on Solo.
3. I know, I don’t believe it either, just humor me.
4. MECHANICAL COLOR PIE 2017
high fantasy carnival; Planeswalkers roamed the halls with staves alit, hopeful magi littered giant tables whispering of secret sideboard tech for the oncoming battle, elves goblins and artifacts adorned colorful banners put up by those who had brought them to life, and legendary warriors bolstering guild colors strode about striking awe into the eyes that befell them! Wanna go to the next one? Me too! But before you go clamoring for your sword and shield consider a few of these pitfalls so as not to find yourself looking up with a pike through your belly
Benalish Dad 