An Update!

So, it's been a bit since I've worked on this thing. That's been due to a hearty blend of laziness, being on leave, and working through some stuff. But I'm back now, and I've got more to say (obviously).

Christmas happened. I got to go back to Alberta to visit my folks, which was nice. It had been too long since I'd seen them last, almost a year. We got a few days back home, after which DK arrived. It was a good visit, if probably boring for him, but we got in some Magic, some boardgaming, and even some 40k, which I dusted off after ~5 years away from the game. So, I think it was a good time.

Man, 40k. For most of junior high and high school, that was my main hobby. I introduced it to the RMC crew, and most of them are probably better at it than I ever was. Still, I enjoy the lore to this day, and I remember writing some "fluff" for the last big campaign I was a part of. Those were some good times. BP, a guy I've known for years, is actually in my neck of the woods. He's big into 40k now, maybe he and I will head down to Games Workshop while he's here.

Flipping through the new Space Marines Codex, it seems they fixed a good chunk of what I disliked about the army from when I last played. High Marshal Helbrecht still kinda sucks, but maybe that's his thing? I don't know. But getting the occasional game in downtown might not be too bad.

On the Magic front, the holidays were good to us; with the acquisition of a Phyrexian Elesh Norn, a Judge foil Imperial Recruiter, and some other awesome cards, including an English Revised Volcanic Island that my fiancee got me as an early birthday gift. The deck looks so nice. Yesterday, I even managed to pick up a promo Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. He seems like he does everything you could possibly want a planeswalker to do, and his mana cost, while high, isn't at all restrictive. I have another one coming for another deck, but I could see running him in most, if not all, of the decks I have built. I added Ugin to my 5-Colour deck in lieu of my SDCC 2013 Chandra, Pyromaster. I love her 0 ability, but Ugin is just... better, pimp factor notwithstanding. I might still try to run a Chandra, as some redundancy for my Chain Veil combo would be good, but Chandra Nalaar might be a better call. It's hard to say. Red is by far the worst represented colour in the deck. Sarkhan might just do the job better, and Tibalt isn't really an option.

EDIT: Likely going to cut Momir Vig from the deck, will add something cool in his place. Vig deserves his own deck, and it will be glorious.

The last little bit of news would be that I'm building a Zur the Enchanter deck. The aim isn't to have the deck be super oppressive, but to have a good time tutoring out more obscure enchantments. I love tutoring, it's one of my favorite things to do in Magic, and he does it for attacking, which I also love to do. I'd love to run Maralen in my 5-Colour deck, as she herself can be grabbed by Imperial Recruiter, but the price is probably too high for her ability. I might still do it; the aim of the deck after all is to run whatever I want, with the self-imposed restriction of the creatures and planeswalkers being "good" aligned, and the cards being foil/pimp. So, who knows?