An Introduction

I have tried blogs before and lost motivation but this time I'm determined to not let that happen. I figure I should start out my new attempt with an introduction of myself, and a reason for you to (attempt to) care about things I have to say.

For starters, I'm 22, and live in a small town in Illinois. I'm a level one DCI judge, and I try to play in any PTQ's I'm not judging that are a format I enjoy. That means mostly limited... sometimes legacy or standard. I plan to take (And pass, I hope) my Level 2 exam in February. I play EDH (or "Commander" now I guess) pretty frequently, playing Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon and Arcum Dagsson (Links to decklists). I recently judged GP Nashville, I've applied to judge the upcoming GP Denver, and I'll either be judging or playing in Starcitygames Open Indianapolis in February. Beyond my minor Magic career, I've played bass guitar for a couple of years, and am an on and off college student. Previously I was majoring in music, but I'm fairly sure I'm going to switch to Psychology next semester.

This is basically just a chance for me to work on my writing and put my personality into the Magic community. I'd like to start a podcast in the near future as well. Hopefully I'll have some tournament reports soon where I top 8 and/or take things down. We'll see.

(Unfortunately I created this blog after I had a crazy road trip PTQ weekend with my friends from Milwaukee and have retold the stories so many times I'm sick of typing/saying them. Suffice it to say that it was basically pure awesome. I'm positive there will be more crazy road trips and such with that group though, because we are all insane.)