I began playing Magic in mid 1997 during the Weatherlight expansion. I became an instant junkie and have played ever since. Though sometimes I will go a few months without picking up a deck I will always come back to the game because it is the best thing around. I am currently teaching my boyfriend how to play and he's catching on quick, so hopefully we'll be able to play soon.

My favorite colors to play are White and Green; most often together. I do have quite a few mono-black decks also. Blue I don't play often and I never play red- mostly because I hate burn decks. I sometimes play red as a second color...but not often. I have always been preferential to White and have many mono-white decks and many white-green decks. I have a few mono-green decks; mostly elf decks and one really fun saproling deck. Black is my next highest mono-colored deck color...I have a few discard decks made up, a recycler deck, a gravepact deck, and a big-old-flying-meanie deck, plus a few others.

I have only one straight blue deck...and it is a pinger deck not a control deck. I made up a really good control deck for my boyfriend that he likes to play a lot. Other than that, the only blue deck I have is more an artifact deck with some blue thrown in...but boy does it kick butt in multi-player games. It is a complete lockdown deck and I once fended off 12 people who were all trying to kill me b/c my deck was screwing with them all...I finally managed to kill them all off, but it took a long time (longest game I ever played).

When I first was introduced to Magic I refused to play in tournaments and preferred multi-player games to one-on-one (something which is extremely rare to see these days...it seems no one ever sits in groups and plays anymore). Then I entered a sealed-deck tournament and became instsntly hooked on the tourney thing (it didn't hurt that I placed first in it). I do best in sealed deck and Type I, but I do enjoy playing in Type II also, and have placed as high as 2nd in area tournaments. (I have won first in both Type I and sealed-deck...though not on a consistent basis).

I now own well over 25,000 cards and seldom trade for cards. I prefer to buy packs or singles. This is the more expensive way to go about things, but I have found every time I trade away a card it ends up being the exact card I need for the next deck I make...and then no one will trade it back to me, or even sell it. So now I only trade away cards I have more than four copies of and buy the rest.

I pride myself on being one of the few girls who plays Magic on a regular basis (at least around my hometown...in fact I am the only one that I know of in Pensacola that plays regularly...and not b/c my boyfriend plays...which he doesn't..yet) and often guys will underestimate me because I am female...at least for the first game. Then they see I am out for blood and they treat me the same as anyone else, which I prefer.

I've only played in one non-local tournament and that was at Georgia Music in Atlanta. It was a sealed-deck for the release of Nemesis. I made it past the first few rounds but then lost badly. One of the guys with us ended up winning the tourney though, so it was still a good time (and we got a peek at the cards before you could buy them which was pretty cool).