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So like I said in my inaugural post a couple days ago I mentioned I wanted to play more magic this year that was outside my normal comfort zone. That being either at the office with the guys or the drafts I have been doing on MtGO. Well this past Friday I ventured forth and joined Jeremy at our LGS Yellow Jacket and took part in not one, but two FNM events. 

At 3:00PM we took part in an 11 player Innistrad draft. It was handled a little differently than usual as it’s rather hard to split 11 people into two groups so the store just opted for an 11 player pod. Not the ideal situation, but it lead to a very interesting draft. I ended up GW as I very often do in Innistrad drafts and managed a 1-1-1 record. I wasn’t super happy with either my deck or my play but I didn’t let it bother to much as I needed to get ready for Standard.

After the draft wrapped up and everyone that had arrived during the last round had settled in, it was time for a very large (at least for that particular store) 6 round Swiss. Now while I have drafted outside my close friends and online, I haven’t ever played Standard in any sort of competitive way. I ended up going 3-3 which was good enough to score me a couple packs which I just threw onto my store credit to go towards doing another FNM again in the upcoming weeks. I played RDW for those interested and had a really good time. Didn’t get stuck playing anyone that pissed me off and every match I lost went to 3 games. 

I have no desire to turn playing Magic into anything other than a fun hobby. But getting out into the community more often is something that I want to achieve this year. And this was a fantastic first step. Next on the Magic agenda is to attend at least one more FNM event before the Dark Ascension pre-release and then the GP in March. Which, after following along with the coverage of GP Austin this past weekend, I’m super stoked for it. 

I suck at the whole blogging thing.

You can stop looking at me like that… that “No Shit Sherlock” look isn’t really helping anyone is it?

I don’t know why I think this time around will be any different.

I don’t have a theme like my best buddy Matt. 
I have not the skill in writing like my Matt look-a-like buddy Tim. 
I don’t have the know how to talk about music like my music loving friend Jeremy.
I don’t… oh, actually I think that’s pretty much it in terms of personal friends of mine with blogs.

Back on track.

I’ve cleared this blog out, I deleted everything that was on it - fresh start!

So lets jump right in.

2012 is shaping up to to be a pretty stellar year. From the continued growth of LoadingReadyRun to all the fun stuff that now falls under the category of “things we do because of the site” Which range from Conventions to Desert Bus. 2012 will be a good year for LRR and hopefully I’ll write a little about it here.

I am looking to play more Magic this year, and by that I mean outside of my current little bubble that is the LRR Moonbase. I plan on venturing out to my first standard FNM event this week and hopefully it will be the first of many (unless of course I get bullied and have my cards stolen) Along with the FNM I plan to attend both GP Seattle at the beginning of March, and GP Vancouver at the end of June. Again, this year should hold some fun Magic times and this is where I’ll do my best to share my experience with that.

You might have noticed I linked to Mr. Wiggins blog a little earlier in this post. Last year he tried to see a movie in theater once a week and write about it. It didn’t pan out (mind you he did better than I thought he would) Well he’s back at it this year and with a shinny new blog (but seriously dude, get a new theme) no doubt I’ll be tagging along a lot of the time and while I don’t have much desire to write about movies, I’ll do my best to let you know if I feel it’s worth your time or not. Other than that I’ll just refer you to Matt’s blog as I often agree with him on movies. 

I have a bunch of other stuff planned for this year and with any luck you’ll hear about some of it through this blog… but don’t count on it :P