iPad bottom line: amazing device
Full opinion tomorrow. These past 3 days have been very tiring & I need some downtime!
I wish the visual word press editor worked on the iPad…
Category: Miscellaneous
Life In The So-Called Space Age
When I bought my iPad this morning at about 9:28 am, it was like buying a slice of the future.
Everything is different in this new iPad world, and I feel privileged to be part of the tiny segment of human history than can forever more say:
“I was there on April 3, 2010. I was one of the first humans to take that brave first step into the New Era of Man.”
(photos to follow…)
Here’s The Post That Makes AW Grin, Shake His Head And Mutter “He’s crazy!”
I bought some Magic cards online.
Specifically, 41 different boosters from 38 expansions, plus 2 premades.
To make the long story short – I like having cards from all the expansions, and there were gaps in my collection 🙂
The oldest cards bought were from Fallen Empires and the most recent were from 2010. Some of the packs were from expansions that I don’t remember ever seeing (Scourge, Prophecy), and some were expansions I already had cards from but couldn’t resist the $2.50 per pack price. In only one case did I pay more than $4 for a pack – and that was the $6 I paid for the single Chronicles pack I bought.
I only opened 4 packs yesterday, including one of the two Fallen Empires. I was hoping for a ‘Hymn To Tourach’ (they are common after all), instead I pulled these two cards from the 8 card pack:
Ah, you have to love the multiple-art approach in that expansion. I expect BS and AW are having fond flashbacks to opening boxes worth of FE boosters right now 🙂
Many of the older cards I bought will likely be unplayable. But a lot of the fun of the game is working out which are and which are not. Looking at a strange card and thinking “Can I use that…?”, and devising some deck that can utilize it. This is in some ways as much fun as actually playing the game!
I’m going to break down the decks I made for Australia and remake a bunch of decks more suited to solo play. I’ve already done that with the black deck, replacing it with a (a bit too) powerful Vampire deck. Next will come green and then I have an idea for a black/blue discard deck as well. Here’s hoping many of the cards in these as-yet-unopened packs will find a place in these as-yet-unmade decks.