I've been playing since I was in my 7th grade year when a friend at the time sold me my first Magic TG deck in a hallway for a few bucks. It was mostly blue and I remembered it had a lot of Drakes in it. I loved the art and I was all about Dragons and Drakes, so I began collecting buying up boosters here and there I saved most of the wrappers up until a few years ago. I had bought boosters from as far back as Homelands and Weatherlight. I currently own all but 1 of all the Drakes ever released. Sea Drake I own all of the Elder Dragon Legends High school was where I sort of fell out of the game for a time. I still took some time to collect here and there but I never played, I had no one to duel with. Shortly after graduation I became close friends with a guy that was also close friends with a female friend at the time. Surprisingly I realized he was also into Magic one night after some Digimon/Pokemon bashing we sort of admitted our most guarded secret.. We were nerds. Kind of like when you hear Backstreet Boys or Spice girls on the radio you wanna grove and sing along, but you are very cautious about who sees you.. lol. You may never have a girlfriend again. Anyway, my friend and I decided to start playing again and we met up on a weekly basis for the next few years off and on for Friday night Magic up until one weekend, along with a few other chumps we added along the way.. created what would become the "Charging Badger Tournament", and "The Gathering" [Facebook Group] within a few months we have gone from 3 players to over 9 on Magic nights. Fellow Nerds.. They are finally coming out of the woodwork