Wizards Makes Me Happy

This calls for a celebration. The deck that completely dominated, and has continued dominating the Standard environment of the past year and a half has been the Affinity deck: a deck that wins very fast and requires very little thinking. Everyone who doesn't play it, and even some who did, hate it. Wizards today, has in my mind redeemed itself by banning everything that has made Affinity decks so unfairly overpowered: Arcbound Ravager, Disciple of the Vault, AND the five artifact lands. By banning just the first two, as most people like me thought they would do, affinity decks could still be mediocre. Since they also banned the artifact lands, affinity is completely CRUSHED!! That makes me a very happy little boy! I never, EVER liked affinity's presence, despite having the deck just because it was good. Banning the lands has pretty much made my day, and I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Magic players around the world feel similarly. In celebration, I bought a Betrayers of Kamigawa box on ebay just now. The set, as I've said, looks quite fun, interesting and powerful. I can't wait to start building some decks and discover what cards I will receive. Yay! Aside from my glee with Wizards, I went to some classes, and anthropology was cancelled because of the snow. I also played a little bit of halo, but our internet connection is wicked slow because Alfred isn't hard-wired to anything, so the snow made the play glitchy and stupid enough to make Brian say, "dah!" We had a fire alarm go off while I was playing at 5, and I kept playing for a few minutes. I was like, "You go on without me!! I'll be okay!" to my suitemates, but eventually I left, and nobody died. Then, instead of wither and freeze in the cold, I went w/ Nick to eat. Genius! Since then I've been reading Magic articles while listening to music, because I'm cool like that, and I have to catch up on my magic skills, since I haven't paid any attention to magic in a couple months. I also thought of a wicked good line in poetry (not just a good line). It makes me shimmer with joy when I think about it. Maybe someday soon I will come up with a poem to put it in. Anywho, I'm done telling all you non-magic familiars about my happiness with magic. Time for something productive.