All the Magic is gone...
...so, it looks like it's coming down to the point where I can no longer play Magic.
From that opening, you can surmise that I did not play in any City Championship games over the weekend. Nope, no I didn't. Because, after travelling 30 miles to get to the store, you should reasonably expect the store to be open at 1 PM on a Saturday. Of course, they weren't. And I wasn't going to be jerked around by a store a quarter of a tank of gas round-trip away just to play Magic. So I went home. And I'm probably ready to get the cards around and at least try and salvage something out of them.
Because the problem is still here, and even bigger than it was a year ago when I first noted the trend. Now, there is quite literally nowhere to play Magic within a 20-mile radius from my house. No card shops, no comic shops, no game shops, absolutely nothing. This is a black hole of Magic. It's getting so theferrett may just be a viable option for semi-regular Magic playing, and he's a good hour away from me.
It's not that Northwest Ohio is totally void of Magic-playing goodness...two guys I know from when Bowling Green actually had card shops took Top 8 places at the Ohio State Magic Championship a coupla weeks ago. It's just that, with my current financial situation, my current job situation, and my current...well, everything situation, I am pretty much unwilling (and borderline unable) to waste that quarter to half a tank of gas with the probability that I'm not getting anything out of it.
There are rumors upon rumors: The guy who decided to take another job and close up his shop is rumored to want to put another shop in BeeGee under proxy rule; and Mark has talked about possibly getting back into the game again. However, both ventures cost money, and it's pretty hard going. I know Mark is pretty much out because he had to have surgery on a blown out knee a few weeks ago, and I haven't heard a peep out of him since then. But even then, I would be willing to help him start the store...if, of course, I had the capital to do it. Which, of course, I don't. Catch-22: To be able to have an accessible place to play the game I love (and have a possible full-time job to do it), I have to have the capital, which because I've been trying to play the game I love, I don't have.
Of course, the remarkably simple solution to that problem would be to sell all my cards and open up a Magic Online account...but, I'm not gonna open up any sort of account until they get to 3.0. And that might take a while. Maybe I'll just find out where all of the passwords to my non-cash poker accounts are and get started on them...maybe make a name for myself in time for next year's World Championship of Online Poker...
Hopefully, things will get better soon. At least tomorrow I'll have THE GAME to think about...
From that opening, you can surmise that I did not play in any City Championship games over the weekend. Nope, no I didn't. Because, after travelling 30 miles to get to the store, you should reasonably expect the store to be open at 1 PM on a Saturday. Of course, they weren't. And I wasn't going to be jerked around by a store a quarter of a tank of gas round-trip away just to play Magic. So I went home. And I'm probably ready to get the cards around and at least try and salvage something out of them.
Because the problem is still here, and even bigger than it was a year ago when I first noted the trend. Now, there is quite literally nowhere to play Magic within a 20-mile radius from my house. No card shops, no comic shops, no game shops, absolutely nothing. This is a black hole of Magic. It's getting so theferrett may just be a viable option for semi-regular Magic playing, and he's a good hour away from me.
It's not that Northwest Ohio is totally void of Magic-playing goodness...two guys I know from when Bowling Green actually had card shops took Top 8 places at the Ohio State Magic Championship a coupla weeks ago. It's just that, with my current financial situation, my current job situation, and my current...well, everything situation, I am pretty much unwilling (and borderline unable) to waste that quarter to half a tank of gas with the probability that I'm not getting anything out of it.
There are rumors upon rumors: The guy who decided to take another job and close up his shop is rumored to want to put another shop in BeeGee under proxy rule; and Mark has talked about possibly getting back into the game again. However, both ventures cost money, and it's pretty hard going. I know Mark is pretty much out because he had to have surgery on a blown out knee a few weeks ago, and I haven't heard a peep out of him since then. But even then, I would be willing to help him start the store...if, of course, I had the capital to do it. Which, of course, I don't. Catch-22: To be able to have an accessible place to play the game I love (and have a possible full-time job to do it), I have to have the capital, which because I've been trying to play the game I love, I don't have.
Of course, the remarkably simple solution to that problem would be to sell all my cards and open up a Magic Online account...but, I'm not gonna open up any sort of account until they get to 3.0. And that might take a while. Maybe I'll just find out where all of the passwords to my non-cash poker accounts are and get started on them...maybe make a name for myself in time for next year's World Championship of Online Poker...
Hopefully, things will get better soon. At least tomorrow I'll have THE GAME to think about...