Recently a few of us started playing Magic: The Gathering again. It has gotten to a point where we are spending a fair amount of money on a regular basis to buy new cards and spending even more time talking about new cards or new decks (and playing the actual game of course). I have a deck that I have been using for about 15 years now. I am constantly tweaking it and making it more versatile and competitive, and I consider it my main and "best" deck. For a amateur player, I would say it is pretty well built and fares quite well in almost all situations. Two times already, another player was so frustrated with my deck that they chose to construct a new deck to deal with mine. As you can tell by the way I talk about this deck, I am very fond of it. This is where my nightmare begins.
I walk into a tapioca store with my usual set of friends who play MtG. We find a table upstairs to set up and we begin to lay out all of our cards and supplies on the table. As I look through my boxes of cards, I cannot seem to find my deck! What is this?! Where is it?! I begin to panic and ask Brian if I had left it at his house. Nope.
I scour through my boxes of cards and nothing... The box that I usually keep my deck actually contained a deck that I had constructed years ago without the intention of ever playing it because it was so bad. /sad face. I am inconsolable.
My aunt (Calvin's mom) asks me to walk back downstairs and get her milk tea. She hands me a $100 bill. Puzzled, I ask, "How many do you want?" She replies, "Fifty-two. One for every week for the next year." I think to myself, "They're definitely going to go bad before she can finish them..." Being the good nephew I am, I do not question her and put in her order. I am denied immediately as they do not have the ingredients for such an order.
Then an acquaintance from high school taps me on the shoulder and asks if I can give her a ride downtown. WHAT THE HELL!? I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN YEARS AND YOU ASK ME FOR A FAVOR?! I say no.
End dream sequence.
I feel silly calling this dream a nightmare but it really was. It is a bit embarrassing to tell but I have no shame (sort of).
-Thundalips
