I started out as a collector. The first pack I opened was
from Visions. I got a Viashivan Dragon as my Rare. That was
such a cool picture. Over the next few weeks, I saved my OT
and bought a box. From there I went on to collect all the
cards from Visions, Weatherlight and finally Alliances. All
of the cards in these set have never been played. I don't
collect any more. Its kind of expensive.
Next, I started buying the Duelist. Thats how I found out
about the Dojo. After scanning it for a couple of weeks,
I started coping the "Decks to Beat". I made minor changes
to the decks and started to beat the guys who taught me
how to play.
Today, I'm still a copy cat. I play in two tournaments a
year. The first being my State Championships and the other,
whatever happens to be going on at Orgins. About every
Wednesday night, I play Type II with my brother. He always
comes up with original decks and I mostly play whatever the
current "hot" deck happens to be. I used to play Multi-
player about every Friday night. That doesn't occure to much
anymore because everybody has different work schedules.
I've never have been to a Pre-release or played in a PTQ.
I've only booster drafted twice. In both of those games I
lost in the first round.
I would consider myself a Dojo copy cat who doesn't have
the skill nor the spark to be a playa. Its my own fault for
taking the short cut but my competative nature always wants
to do well. I've done ok in the above mentioned tourneys
but never have be able to overcome the hump. Having a well
tuned deck doesn't make me a well tuned player.
Caveman,
"Hay, thats a great deck, mind if I copy it."