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THE END (This isn't fake, I'm really telling you it's the end.)

    The End. I've been on this blog for 9 years, and I'm tired of it. So NOTICE (never omit this information cease ephemerally) that on January 1, 2014, this blog will close and won't be used for 7 years. There will be no 10th anniversary or 15th anniversary. Why? Because this blog won't open again until January 3, 2021. This blog will close, and a new blog will open but only for MTG Players. You guessed it...  Right?

    Meanwhile, in 2021, the MTG Blog will still run until June 25, 2053 or whenever I stop playing MTG myself, whichever comes first. June 25, 2053 is the day when I sell everything- My entire collection- and make a profit. What a deal. But until June 1, 2025, only college aged kids will be allowed on my blog- and I'm telling the truth here. The blog will run for 30 days, celebrate the 20th anniversary, and then shut down forever. You must wait.

Nate

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Daily News 3

Before I type my post, I want to say I featured a weird opinion question on a personality quiz. It was asking what would I do if I were promoting in a graduation? My answer: Make a voodoo doll of the graduating person, then put pins in it during my lunch break. Now with the survey:

1. What is the worst situation you could get into?

2. As I said before the survey, would you take my response if the person graduating was someone you hated?

3. Which religion do you believe in?

4. Approximately, how many confusing moments have you had in the past 3 years?

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Enjoy!

Nate

Daily News Updates- Week 1 Day 2

As I said in yesterday's daily news update, I will be resuming this tradition I stopped doing in 2011. Here's today's survey. Due in a week:

1. You are at the midway point between your beach cabin and your house cabin. The wind is blowing you repetitously. You intended to go to your house, where you have your car, but the wind is trying to pull you to your beach cabin. Should you

A: Go to your beach cabin

B: Go to your condo

2. How many days a year on average do you stay off work?

A: 0 to 10

B: 11 to 25

C: 25 to 100

D: 100 to 365

3. For how many generations has your family been around?

A: 0-10

B: 10-25

C: 25-40

D: 40 or more

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, rate your fashion sense.

5. Over two years, on average, how much time do you spend being near your dearest freind?

A: 0 to 150 days

B: 151 to 365 days

C: 366+ days

Well, I see we have many submits to yester's survey. I'll review it on Monday.

Not much news today!

Nate

News Update 2013- Week 1 day 1

Hey! It's the old Nate! In 2011, for about 5 months, I was writing weekly news updates. Well, I'm back to that. But I'm not going to do anything like what I was doing in 2011. Now I'm doing them daily. Each news update will now contain the following breakdown: One 5 question poll, then one paragraph on crazy things of upcoming events, followed by one or two large paragraphs about what's going on. I am going to start with this week's poll. Answer in the comments bar.

1. Is it relevant to visit your freind who lives 3000 miles away?

A: Yes

B: No

2. How many days a year do you do something you're mad at yourself for doing?

A: 0 to 180 days

B: 181 to 365 days

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, rate your decisions (Instead of answering A or B, answer 1-10.)

4. Would you rather be having a job other than your current job?

A: Yes

B: No

5. If you were washed away on a tropical island without anything else, what would you do first?

Tell me your answers.

All right. This is the most weird thing yet. Listen to this song: When the War Came. It goes fast, then slow. Wierd. By the way, poll results are due on November 1st at midnight. Starting on that day, I will discuss the results of the survey exactly one week ago.

Bart strike's over! Richmond split almost cleared! Government shutdown on hold! Everything's good! Nothing much until Wednesday, however. I'm waiting to tell you what'll happen then.

Anyway, I hope I get back sooner than Friday.

Nate

Not the SATs

Last night, Mom reached the point in the Little House series where Mary goes off to a college for the blind.  The book mentions that she has to take an entrance examination once she gets there.  So Nate, who is a specialist in exams, wants to know what they ask her in her entrance exams.  "I don't know," says Mom. But Nate has a theory:

"Maybe they just say, 'Hey, can you see this?'"

The Sweetness of Jonah B.

A few stories for when anyone asks whether Jonah was a nice boy as a kid:

 --So Jonah's French class made chocolate souffles, and each kid got one to eat and one to give away to a friend. Jonah decided to gift his bonus souffle to Nate's teacher. Why? "Because you're Nate's teacher, and you're really nice to Nate, and I love Nate, so I want to thank you for being so nice to Nate, and so you'll always be nice to Nate." I mean, it's the same thing I do every month or so with pumpkin muffins, just a little more obvious, but I found that incredibly nice from a 7 year old. 

--So then Jonah decided to spend his allowance on buying four coveted Magic the Gathering cards for Nate. When they came in the mail and he presented them to his brother, Nate was so astonished that he could barely speak, other than to shout, "Oh, THANK YOU Jonah, THANK YOU!!!" Brothers hugged. Jonah had a look of bliss on his face. It was a nice moment, people.

--Me: "Well, yeah, my hair looks pretty bad today, but I'm getting it straightened tomorrow, and then it should look better, I hope."

Jonah [indignantly]: "I am offended that you said that. You could never look terrible."

The kid has a way with words.

A deck costing less than $10 that will blow your mind if you have it

Note: Ask Ben to read this.

We like to call this deck 1919 because it is very dangerous to play it. It could usually kill a player in 3 or 4 turns. Let's review the cards:

For land, we have:

23 forests

1 Llanowar Reborn

The only weak thing about this land is the fact that it enters tapped. It adds a forest. But being able to put a +1/+1 counter on any creature for free will always be a powerful insentive to kill your opponent extremely quickly, especially when dealing poison damage. This is an unfair card.

Now, for creatures:

4 Glistener Elf

Infect is an extremely powerful ability, especially if you can get it for one mana. Glistener elf does that. Instead of dealing damage, infect puts that many -1/-1 counters on each creature and gives a player that many poison counters (A player with 10 or more poison counters loses the game.)

4 Blight Mamba

This is the same as Glistener Elf, but it costs one more and you could always regenerate it. Whether it comes to attacking or blocking, this could never get less powerful.

4 Ichorclaw Myr

Better than Blight Mamba. With a Mending Touch, this is never ending. It can always give a player one poison counters, or a creature three -1/-1 counters. The only weakness: Melira, Sylvok Outcast.

4 Plague Myr

Not as good, but more rare. Instead of Ichorclaw Myr's +2/+2 ability, it is used for mana. It is not necessarily important.

With those, you'll get the rest of it.

1 Rot Wolf

1 Forotten Ancient

1 Corpse Cur

2 Tangle Angler

1 Forced Adaptation

1 Burst of Strength

4 Mutagenic Growth

4 Unnatural Predation

1 Savage Surge

4 Titanic Growth

4 Wild Defiance

Sincerely,

Nate

Second Magic League Of Magic 2014- The Era Of Major Losses

    A new magic league started literally 5 days ago and I opened my 107 starters. Inside one of those packs, the most expensive card in the set came out. Nobody else in the league has it. I had made my deck two colors, keeping that card(it's name was Archangel of Thune) in it.

    The first series did not go so well. I could not afford any of my good spells. I lost 0-2.

    After that, everyone took a lunch break. So I had time to make my deck better. I now have a 45 card blue, red, and white deck.

    The first game was crucial. I had an Archangel Of Thune/Soulmender combo. The way it works is every turn I tap Soulmender to gain one life, then put a +1/+1 counter on each creature I control for an easy win, especially if I have 5 creatures (which I did at the time).

    The second game was cold. I should have mulliganed when I did not. It took me 4 turns to play a spell, plus, when I finally played a spell, it was Clone, which does no use if you have no other creatures. Right after I had enough mana to play clone, I was beaten by a very unfair sliver deck.

    The third game, I did have Archangel Of Thune, but only used it for the final attack. I still won that series.

    Well, that's all for this week.

    Please have Ben read this. He will understand this.

    From,

    Sincerely,

    Nate

    PS: More updates coming soon!

Jonah has penned his very first Periodic Table joke:

What did fluoride say to fluorine?

-- "You're overreacting!"

Because,of course, fluorine reacts (as in "ka-boom!") in water, and fluoride does not. That boy kills me.

Nate's current funny was more of the parent-mortifying variety. The assignment was to page through an encyclopedia of ancient civilizations and place post-it's with comments next to interesting facts. "Oh, wine!" Nate wrote next to a picture from ancient Rome. "We love wine! We drink it all the time!"

The Magic The Gathering League

I believe right now that I am in 2nd place. Now. I'l show you some of my cards, but I can't remember all of them.

Skullcrack, Daring Skyjek, Wojek Halberaiders, Boros Guildgate,

But, I have one card of over 26 dollars. It is Boros Reckoner.

Now, to describe the games.

First, I played against Jonah, who was apparently playing with House Dimir. The second game wasn't even close, but man. I can't believe I won the first game! Jonah literally would have beaten me and at the last minute I had a lucky draw which activated all my batallion bonuses, beating him 3--3.

Right now, on games, I am 6-4 on individual games. But in serieses, I am 3-1.