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Hello to everyone.
I'm Jørgen from Oslo, Norway. I'm 33, work as an Executive Creative Director in an Advertising Agency, and I love Magic the Gathering. My Magic story goes like this:
I first started playing Magic around Ice Age. My friend introduced me to the game, and after a while we I loved it. Serra Angel, Shivan Dragon, Kjeldoran Outpost, White Knight and Nightmare where cards we all wanted more of. I remember traveling to a nearby city to buy cards, but thinking that 15$ for a dual land was too much. White was my favorite color, and Feldon's Cane and Ivory Tower was always present in my decks. We traded, laughed and in general had no clue what so ever about what was good, bad or valuable. I don't think I made any horrible trades, but I'm pretty sure I got screwed over pretty bad more than one time doing trades with "near by city sharks".
Fast forward a bit: I started studying, played less with my original friends but started playing more competitively during Odyssey. I piloted a UG Madness deck to 5-0 in Norwegian nationals, losing in the final round because I couldn't find a green source to get rid of a Astral Slide. The draft went horrible, and after another couples of months I sold my collection. I can't remember the exact contents of the collection, but it wasn't that impressive to be honest.
Fast forward to November 2010: For some strange reason I started watching Star City Games Legacy stream. Survival of the Fittest was crushing and I really loved that Wild Mongrel and Basking Rootwalla was part of the deck. I started researching if there were a Legacy community in Oslo, and found a couple of guys playing regularly. After even more research I finally decided to get back into Magic, and ordered a lot of cards online. Having a good income I decided to get everything at once, and after a couple of months I owned the entire Legacy card pool. I started playing in local tournaments, getting to know really friendly and smart people, and consuming enormous amounts of content online. Articles, videos and podcasts, I probably spent like 3-4 hours a day reading and getting back into the game (I still do that today as I find it extremely appealing and a huge part of my love for the game and the community).
After a while some of my new Magic friends suggested that we attend Bazaar of Moxen and I was really exited. We travelled to France in 2012 and the experience was awesome. For 4 days it was like the outside world didn't exist, which for me was a great feeling. My job is all consuming and I work all the time. But being totally disconnected from everything that was normal and job related was like heaven. We went back to Bazaar this year, and I started thinking about playing Vintage. I couldn't find the cards I wanted, so I stuck to Legacy. Wandering around the venue though, seeing people play Vintage... it was a combination of frustation that it wasn't me and "oh, that Black Lotus looks insane!" & "did he just win that game?!". I returned to Norway, but I was hooked.
Three days later I had found a set of Alpha P9 online (Norwegian Ebay site) and I had contacted the buyer. A week later I was the owner of Power. It felt: GREAT! I'm currently in the process of buying Vintage staples and I guess this is my story. At least so far. I'm really looking forward to read through this forum, ask questions, discuss and learn more about the format.
I guess this is me in Magic terms:
1. I love blue.
2. I really enjoy that losing to brokeness in Vintage is ok, and I really feel like people play the format to have fun.
3. I love cards from the original sets. I don't like foils or alterations.
4. My next project is getting Alpha or Beta blue duals, trading in my German FFB ones.
5. Learning about the game is almost as much fun as playing it.
Thanks for reading.
Jørgen
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