All Good Things...

[nockergeek]

...Must Come To an End.

After much reflection and pondering, and after taking a look at the lay of the land, I think it's time that I bid Warlord a fond adieu. I can't say that I'm quitting with a heavy heart; I haven't played since October, really, and I haven't been able to run events (since I refuse to install MSDE on my box just to run AEG's new event tracking software), so it's been a while in coming. Just time to get out there and get it over with.

Now, this doesn't mean I'm quitting the game entirely. I'm still going to keep decks around to play with for the fun of it. If anything, this is extremely liberating - if I'm not following the tournament scene and keeping my decks legal in the current environment, then I'm free to play with anything I have. Sure, I traded off some of my old-school power cards, but I've still got a decent amount floating around. I'm free to make any decks I want with my cards. I'm also thinking about selling/trading all my other cards to richman1 and evildennis to use in deck-making, so that they too can know the love of open deckmaking. It's also financially liberating - one less game to keep up with!

So yeah, it's been fun for the last couple of years or so, but I think it's time to move on, game-wise. Strangely enough, my original big CCG, Magic, is drawing me back in. Looking at where the game has gone in the past few years, I have to say that I like where they're going with the game, and that it's a great game to have on the side for casual/fun play. I'm good with that.

Comments

[the-z.livejournal.com]

Magic really does seem to have regained popularity within our group, hasn't it? Is it just the interesting new storylines that have drawn people in? Or nostalgia?

[nockergeek.livejournal.com]

There's always nostalgia. We also got drawn in by Kamigawa's faux-Japanese setting, and then Ravnica kept us, not with the story, but with the neat color combos and mechanics.

In the end, Magic's just a really good, fun, sustainable game.

[the-z.livejournal.com]

It is tried and true!

And you also get those super keen tourney cards!

[evildennis.livejournal.com]

I blame Dan. I mean the story/setting/ishness of the cards.

Kamigawa brought back memories of the old L5R days when it was about armies of warriors, magicians, spirits.

Ravnica is just neat in the fact it kinda makes people think outside the box instead of focusing on one color, they make you focus on two. And not just the staple pairings that always seem to go together, but even the odd pairings... such as Blue/Green (which will happen next set).

[evildennis.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. As for the extra/old Warlord cards... I don't know. In my mind Warlord has already gone the path of L5R. It was a great game, and had its time, and now it's memories.

I can still see us picking it up for a Warlord night once every few months, and true I do still have a couple decks I've been wanting to make/finish. So maybe sometime we could do the Warlord night and releave you of cards you don't want. (I know I've inherited all of Dan's old Rage, which we still haven't done anything with. *chuckle*)

[richman1.livejournal.com]

Seen this coming for quite a while now. I figured when my attempts to get some Warlord play in before the new Magic set came out went in vain, that I would have no difficulties putting the Warlord cards back into the closet (not that my lazy but has actually done that yet)

It's all good though, Magic has always been my favorite, hell I've never really stopped buying packs since I started years ago (Ahh fond memories of 'The Dark') just had slow times when I didn't buy as much.

I join you in bidding a fond farewell to yet another 'Cardboard Addiction'