Yes, we’re still alive.
Our attempts to update the blog have been thwarted by the release of Time Spiral, World of Warcraft TCG, World of Warcraft online game (but more about it later) and my 10 days trial period on Matrix Online.
Firstly – Time Spiral 
– We were totally caught off guard about the Time-shifted cards and i must say that it was a good move. It was nice seeing old favourite cards of mine getting reprinted. Like Bad Moon, Auratag, Feldon’s Cane, Gaea’s Blessing and Mystic Snake.
Moving on to World of Warcraft TCG 
, the sale of it was crazy! out of stock at the local stores within a few days of release and also the surge of the pricing. It sort of reminds of the days when Pokemon was still hot in the card game market and the demand for it was so huge that each booster pack cost about $10. It seems to me that most of the WoW TCG players are also Magic players, which made the learning experience a lot easier. The game in a whole, is a pretty easy game to pick up, yet perhaps being a new game, some parts of the rules seem pretty buggy. I shared several boxes with Mel, built a deck and played a couple of times. I enjoyed playing it only because im playing the online game, it’s fun to see characters on the game appearing as my ally in the card game. But give me Magic anytime!
And the main reason why i havent been updating much is because of WoW online game. I finally hit 60 after 8 months of procrasinating and i still can’t believe that im 60 now. Well, being a level 60 mage (Alliance in Runetotem) really means nothing since i couldn’t really solo elite mobs of my levels, but at the same time im having great fun running Scholo and Strat UD almost on a daily basis with my guild members and trying to get my Magister’s set items. Mel has been trying to level up his mage as well, but the funny thing is that he got his girlfriend hooked up to WoW and now she’s more hardcore than both of us. She has like 4, 5 characters in the server and they range from 20s to 40s. I didn’t have much patience leveling up one main character, not to mention her training 5 characters at one go!
Also, i tried the 10 days trial for Matrix Online…and I hated it. Really hated the gameplay, the interface and just the game in general. I just got the trial cd for Dungeon and Dragon Online and I might try it one day when im free. Pretty eager to play that game, being a huge D&D buff, but now im trying out Neverwinter Night 2 that just got released.
A really lengthy update i know. I shall try to update this at least once per week. Been trying out this d20/homebrew Magic: The Gathering rpg and maybe i shall log the process with this blog. Meanwhile for those WoW players, head over to The Weekly Murloc for my favourite WoW podcast these days.
-Jar-
