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So some people may know I actually cancelled my WoW sub a few months ago. I meant for it to be a temporary thing while I had some financial stuff going on but by week two or three I was in a position to restart and choose not to. I haven't lost interest in Warcraft completely. I bought the newest novel Shadow of the Horde and will be reading it soon and I am still holding out for Hearthstone though any hope of it coming out anytime soon is becoming a pipe dream.
The news around Hearthstone rekindled a small flame - my love for card games. A cursory Google search of my handle will let anyone know in my teenage years I was big into trading card games. Big. Like Yu-Gi-Oh! primarily filled all of my time and I was a mid-level judge and at one point ranked high in tournaments. During the height of my playing that game I was introduced by a card shop buddy to Magic: The Gathering. Of course I had heard of it all the way back in the Pokemon days when Wizards of the Coast made both card games but I had never played it (as I never really 'played' Pokemon either, but all the little kids of my generation collected them). Unfortunately I couldn't split into two card games at once and it as merely a year or so later that my involvement in card games dwindled anyway.
I was searching actually for cheap used Gameboy Yu-Gi-Oh! games to fill my card needs and found out that they actually made a series of cheap Magic games - Duels of the Planeswalkers - that was an easy entry point as you unlocked preconstructed decks instead of having to buy virtual packs like in Magic Online. I immediately bought the 2013 version and spent 100+ hours in it. I preordered and am now playing the 2014 version. I might post some about that or get some YouTube content out, I don't know yet, but I do know that I've caught the card bug again and I don't know how long it'll be before I cycle back into MMOs.
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You can reach me here in the comments, on Twitter @formerruling, and on my YouTube channel FormerRuling
Yup! That's where I'm spending near all of my gaming time too on magic2014 DotP. You are always welcome to drop by my new site (magicthegatheringhelper.blogspot.com) and do a guest post. I just wish we could play duels cross platform in magic2014 cuz looks like I can only play other iOS users since I play on iPad.
ReplyDeleteCross platform play would be the best update the game got, but they'd have to fix the easy cheating in Steam. I hope they eventually patch that, like maybe when they do the expac or something.
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