Return of the Mack

It’s 11pm and I’m putting words to digital paper for the first time in three years, at least on this site. Why? It’s not because I’m back to being unemployed. Far from it, actually. I’ve had a good job for these three years, and I’m looking towards higher education to get an even better job. But…I find myself needing to fill my time after work and before sleep in a more productive way. For now, that plan is going to be writing. Get ideas out of my head, make myself a little portfolio, maybe use it to get published on a real site once or twice. Wouldn’t that be nice?

I’d like it if people would read this, but honestly, I’m doing this to get shit done for myself. If no one reads this, I still wrote it. I still used my creativity in a way that makes me feel better. That’s what this is really about. But if you do run across this, or if you see me posting an ad somewhere and you like it, stick around. If things work out, you’re going to be seeing a lot.

What, indeed, will you be seeing? Well, my major hobby, the thing I spend money on almost as much as food and bills, the thing I think about too much, is Magic: the Gathering, predominately the Commander format, as well as cool art and story bits. So that’s what I’m going to write about. Yes, it’s a relatively limited topic compared to all the stuff I’ve written about before. But it’s something that I think I can speak on decently well, across a wide range of specific topics.

I’m still narrowing down the schedule. Do I want to write once a week? Four times? I’ll figure something out. But here’s the general idea.

There will be a cycle of posts, each cycle having 4 posts. Each cycle will be themed around a color combination for Commander.

1. I’ll cover the deck I’ve built for that color combination. It won’t be an in-depth look at every card, but I’ll cover what I consider the important categories of cards, and highlight anything in the deck that I consider non-“standard”.
2. I’ll pick a different commander from that color combination and put a deck together for it. The goal will be to make a very different deck, not just a few different cards, in order to show the great variety possible.
3. The best general cards/categories of card for the color combo. It’s not just “here’s the staples”, it’s the best cards for what that color combo likes to do.
4. Miscellaneous. I get one post per cycle to write about something Magic related that’s not those three topics.

Seems reasonable? Cool. Look for the first post about the first color combo, Colorless, sometime soon.