i guess now its your responsibility to destroy the chip and save mankind?

 the baton has been passed!

Ha ha ha. Agreed

P.S.
although i agree with most of the video; it wasnt "the government" that orchestrated 9/11, it was a few rich and VERY powerful men.   as bumblingly stupid as the government is, it would be more feasible that an organization outside the government, but with tons of pull over it, would do such a thing *cough*federal bank*cough.*  and like all politicians, they were probably either out of the loop or bought into silence about the whole mess. 

When you are ignorant of the facts it is just as easy to jump to rash conclusions.  our politicians are no different than us in that respect.

And although one video will be hard pressed to convince you of that, all it takes is a little research and a good deal of patience to see that things like 9/11 have been happening throughout history. 

If any of you think "how could they?  our country could never do that to itself"  go look at any war where the US was involved and then look at the civil war where brothers were killing brothers and look at the hundreds of years of torment the native Americans have gone through at the hands of our leadership and look at the hundreds of years of torment our nation has put African Americans through (or people of any "non-white" race for that matter.)  Then look me in the eyes and tell me our leadership, or the people behind them, could never to such a thing as plan the deaths of 3000+ Americans for personal gain.

That is all

-Nicholas-

Part 1 was probably used to shoe you into the video and illustrate how religion is a bogus manipulation tool.  much like the media is today.  Religion is a powerful thing, it can move nations to destroy each other.  and its all just a pretext.   

the fact that part 1 was on religion is largely because they wanted to show how our political and religious leaders have been manipulating the masses for thousands of years.  not just in the last 200. 

i agree that right now i have NO credibility to speak of, but i hope to change that with time and good performance.

i understand EXACTLY what you are talking about, trust me.


and on the point about no tournament experience.  I've been playing magic on and off for 10 years, losing several massive collections to natural disasters and crazy grandmothers.   But I've never tried to be competitive.   However, recently i have been reading articles and threads to gain as much of an understanding of the format as i can muster in preparation for serious competitive play.  I've grown a lot as a vintage player in the last year that I've been trying to come back, so now all thats left is to actually put together a deck and actually try my skills in a real tournament setting. 

The next SCG event is on my birthday next month so i will hopefully have a deck put together by then.  Your advice is very valuable and i will definitely try to adhere to it. 

thanks a lot!

-Nicholas-

P.S. sorry for asking such a subjective question, i should have thought about it before actually asking.  Thanks again.

thanks for the reply!  ive only been to neutral grounds a couple of times, and im still working on actually assembling a decent Vintage decklist.  and from visiting neutral a few times ife come to find that there is almost no vintage support at that shop! XD 

it would be good to play someone face-to-face again though.

Hello Drainers!

My name is Nicholas and i just recently made the transition from the Starcity Games forums to here.  Ive obviously heard a LOT about the Mana Drain and i hope to find a nice home here.

I have no real life tournament experience as i am still trying to build up a viable vintage collection, but i play a lot of Vintage online to keep my practice up.

I have experience playing Flash, Stax, Landstill, Bomberman, Oath, and am currently practicing with Goblins.  I also tend towards my own original lists for kicks and giggles (i find it fun to smash teir 1 decks with something as obscure as an original control list.)

If any of you have any advice about  which decks i can play and put together for real, or just advice in general about the current metagame.   

Any tough players to look out for?  Is there a "best" player as far as you guys are concerned.  At SCG you ask that and the thread immediately becomes a flame-fest! XD

also i am in the northeast.  New York city to be exact and am wondering if there is a playgroup i could possibly join to brush up my real-life skills.


thanks for reading and i hope to enjoy becoming part of such an awesome Magic community!


-Nicholas-