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Jace, Memory Adept

I have no idea how I’ve missed this card, Jace, Memory Adept, in all my research for my mill deck. Regardless, I came across this Planeswalker tonight and he is legal in the Modern format. Unfortunately, he is around $13 per card right now on Channel Fireball. I really don’t want to spend that kind of money on a single card, let alone getting at least two of them to round out the deck and avoid the chance my opponent would be able to burn him or counter his spell by just having a single instance of it in my deck.

Just when I thought I was done getting cards for the deck I find this card – although I bet that happens a lot in Magic. I want to start work on a Green deck of some sort. One with a whole bunch of big creatures and mana ramp. I think that sort of deck would be fun for my wife to play, and help me to build stronger non-green decks. For whatever reason, I think Magic players tend to have a single color they don’t like to play often; for me that color is green.

It has gotten really late at this point and I should go get myself into bed. Until tomorrow.

Twitter, EVE Online & MTG cards

Tonight was great! Had a chance to get settled back into EVE Online, fly around and gather my ships in a central location — specifically my Caldari Navy Hookbill — and run a few L1 security missions. They are definitely a bit too easy, but it was a good way to ease myself back into the saddle.

I’ve got my 2x Caracals, Raven and Hookbill all in the same station now, with a few L1 Security agents and a L2 Security agent one jump away. It makes for an efficient use of my time. Fortunately, tonight my wife was busy taking care of arrangements for a neighbor who was hospitalized today, so that gave me most of the evening to mess around on my PC.

In addition to a fun night on EVE Online, I jumped back into the #tweetfleet feed on Twitter. I’d forgotten how much fun those peeps were! Keeps you entertained when you’ve got 23 jumps between bases of operation.

Then around 19:30 I got a great notification in my inbox — all the Magic: The Gathering singles I’d ordered from Channel Fireball on Saturday night arrived in Salt Lake City. That means I should have a nice package waiting for me when I get home tomorrow night from work. Thursday nights are generally quite packed with kid activities, watching The Big Bang Theory with my wife and karate, but hopefully I’ll find time to sort through them all, sleeve them and play test the Blue/Black Mill deck after 22:00.

Running L1s and L2s

I got the kids in bathed and into bed, plus I even worked out a bit too. Now I get to sit down and spend some time tonight flying internet spaceships! The new agent finder is a really nice, new-to-me feature in EVE Online. I was quickly able to find several Caldari Navy Security agents in the same system that will offer me both L1 and L2 missions.

The tricky part tonight is figuring out what I was training towards before I disabled my account last fall. I have a Raven sitting in a station, so if I remember correctly, I was trying to train up to get more of certifications to become more of a shield tank. I’ll have to download the EVE trainer program and get that rolling while I am hopping between stargates.

Hopefully I won’t lose a ship. I plan on staying out of low-sec and null-sec space this go around — I’ll just be a care-bear for a time.

EVE Online … and I have come back!

The new Crucible expansion looks pretty slick. Add to that the complete lack of games currently in my game library, I can foresee myself turning the EVE subscription back online. Let’s face it, the whole Jonas Sotken persona came alive when I began playing EVE last spring, why not bring him back in full force?

I guess I know what I’ll be doing tonight when I get home … downloading the new client and getting a PLEX to reactivate the account!

Update: I re-enabled my account this evening and I am now downloading the new Crucible v1.1 client. Looking forward to logging back on and flying internet spaceships!

Not-so-patiently waiting for Diablo 3

I have not yet been one the chosen many to get a beta invite from Blizzard for Diablo 3 and it saddens me. So what to do when you’ve turned off your World of Warcraft account for the “final” time? Reload Diablo 2 and set a goal of completing it on Hell difficulty, starting from scratch. No cheats, no trainers, just pure grind.

That lasted about a week, before I killed Diablo on Normal and reminded myself how much of a monotonous grind Diablo 2 was. Plus, it was built for computers 10 years old. The graphics are dated, it doesn’t work in widescreen or a windowed mode, so it makes watching Stargate:SG-1 on the other monitor impossible. How the hell did we manage as a society without dual monitors?

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