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Name's Ingram, I've been playing for long enough to miss the old days. I started playing at the tail end of Alliances, took a break after Apocalypse, sort returned during Mirrodin block(worst block ever). After that debacle of a set finished up the second worst set I've ever seen was released. Luckly they did ok with Ravnica or I might have left for good. Needless to say, I love Timespiral. Anywho I haven't played to much on the tourny scene lately, but back in my heyday I was quite the player. I'd still call myself pretty good. I'm deeply into the story, characters and all the fluff of Magic, so I'm so happy they are returning back home. I just hope they stay there.

Well, going by how things have been recently they will most likely jump to a new plane after this block. Really with out a plot that goes over the game it really seems less like a whole to me.So I think this is just going to be an ok block followed by more of this drek they've been spewing out these last few years.

I hope so, but I think I'll soon have to return to Vintage. Stupid T2.

I've been playing for about 7 years now and have become one of the best players in my town, only beaten out by a handfull of people that have been playing for alot longer than me.

My first deck was a rainbow deck given to me by a friend for my birthday. It was an incredibly horrible deck with no strategy to it and I dismantled it almost immediately and used parts of it to create my first personal deck. I was a white and green deck that focused on healing, damage prevention and pumping up my creatures. This deck was my first attempt at a multilayered deck and it took me to the final round of the first tournament that I ever played, but I was quickly beaten by a veteran player that was probably the best player there.

Over the years, I've gone through numerous playing styles and color and type preferances. I've played using pretty much every color's main strategies, although until recently I've mostly played using black. For several years straight I used a zombie deck that I constantly tweaked slightly in order to combat new sets when they came out. My favorite deck that I ever built would have to black direct damage deck that I built in my sophomore year of high school. It only had a couple of creatures in it and the rest was land, instants and sorceries. It did quite well until everyone started adjusting their decks to conpensate. Although it was fun to use, I found that it wasn't as flexible as I wanted, so I went to zombies.

Now, I use two main decks in my everyday gaming: my old (and rapidly becoming less effective) zombie deck and my slightly antiquated (though still potent) samurai/kitsune deck. I haven't ever played in an official tournament, but have played in a few amatuer tournaments and I usually do very well. My firends and I don't build tournament legal decks as we find tournament rules to be too restricting to our playing styles, so I probably won't participate in any online guild tournaments that require a tournament legal deck, but once I figure out Magic Workstation I'll be happy to play in non-official rules tournaments and in one-on-one games.

The surprise/death deck sounds cool what are you planning to put in it?

So good to see you here!!

I was going to ask if your new love was TimeSpiral! We have a Sliver Checklist thread around here somewhere..um...*scrounges around...* Here it is!!

Awesome. I've pulled out my old Essence Slivers for trade cos there's a whole bunch of people who seem to love them now...

Mephisto_fred, Carisell, Zelznic and I recently pulled at least 2 (but mostly 4) of each of the new slivers at our local TimeSpiral Sneak Peek tournament. I think we'll be making a Sliver deck very soon...