Mooseman said:
I started in the 4th ed/ice age era and started judging in the block after Tempus.... or somewhere in that area.
Can you even get ONE block or set name right?
Quick, without looking anywhere; What was the name of the last set?
Anyways, I think I've got this down to a quick short story:
~When I was playing OVERPOWER the game store I bought my cards from called "Bad Guys Comics" in Lower Burrell, PA the store owner would be playing Magic. I remember once telling him how I thought Magic wasn't the only TCG game around but loads of people treated it that way. I think I thought that way because there were very few OVERPOWER players out there and I was mad. That was the winter of 95-96.
The next year I worked at a Catholic High School and in my "Study hall" were two really smart kids who always had their homework done but always sat in the back doing something. I busted them playing this demonic game, oh yes, it was M:TG! But they showed me how to play and told me to get a deck, so I went to Eides Records and Comic Book store in downtown Pittsburgh and bought what was a tournament pack of Ice Age and I thought that that was all I needed to play. Pfft!
Later that year I started a "Magic Club" in my band room on friday afternoons. I was buying packs at Phantom of the Attic in the college campus area of Pittsburgh called Oakland (where Pitt and CMU are) and I told the owner (my old friend Jeff) what I was doing and he donated a box of fallen Empires to our group. Hey, it was a "FREE" box and I didn't know that they were bad cards (but cool to draft with). I was thankful for the donation nonetheless.
It wasn't until I moved to Endicott, NY and taught up there at Johnson City HS (where I met Almindhra) that I started getting semi-serious about playing MTG (Fall of '97). I played at Centerfield Comics in Endicott. This is where my famous story of passing up a Hammer of Bogardan in a draft happened
The rest I've told many times before....
Member of this site since:
Jan 2000 I was member of the Dojo prior
Years playing Magic (as it were):
9 years
