Hey everyone I hope you're all having a fantastic day!
I just wanted to take up like ten minutes of your lives in order to talk to you all about the basic building block of Magic the Gathering: lands. These are also known as mana and they are the most common way for a player to cast a spell. Other ways to cast a spell would include paying life, discarding from your hand, sacrificing creatures, and other such things that can be in addition to tapping land or even just an alternate cost. Now there are some spell that have a converted mana cost of 0, but we'll get into those later.
Basic land comes in five different type: Plains (white), Island (blue), Swamp (black), Mountain (red), and Forest (green). I will be using a Mountain to explain because I most often play red and I am what is commonly referred to as a "Red Player".
A Mountain can tap for either one red mana, or one colorless mana (meaning the color used to cast the spell is unimportant). Generally speaking, about one third of a players deck should consist of mana while the remaining two thirds contains the spells.
There are more land types than just the basic lands (the five above listed lands), but I'm too exhausted to get into all of that with you right now. Let's just say that some lands can add more than one color and some add none at all O.O crazy right?
Anyway I hope you all have a wonderous night and don't party too hard! I, on the other hand, will be going to class tomorrow and it will be no fun because English. Yes, I'm taking English, it's required for my transfer stop hating.
And once again I'm sorry about the posts that aren't so much about me, I'm just trying to jot down the things I've been thinking about and my boyfriend has been on a HUGE MTG kick lately and then I'm trying to teach one of my friends and she wants to know about the details so I went over lands with her and........it's a long process and I have Magic on the brain.
Moving on.
Stay beautiful everyone!
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Sunday, June 28, 2015
Saturday, June 27, 2015
The Magic Takeover
Magic The Gathering is a card game. I've played it for years, same with my brother. My boyfriend wrote a paper about it and so he interviewed us and he learned how to play and even taught a few of our friends how to play. From there the game exploded at school. Even now, I'm taking my brother with me to a Magic Night with a few of my friends where we are going to play a couple of games and then we'll just hang out and build a cube (I don't have time to explain that right now...) and it will be really nice.
In Magic, or MTG, each player starts with 20 life and a deck of 60+ cards. there are five colors the cards can be and they can also be colorless which means they don't affiliate with any of the colors. Each deck can be one or a combination of these colors. There are creatures, spells, artifacts and other such things and the goal is to bring your opponents life total to zero and/or make them run out of cards in their deck meaning that they can no longer draw a card on their turn.
The game starts with players deciding who will go first (generally by rolling dice, highest roll chooses when they wish to go). Each player draws seven cards from their deck, if they don't like what they have then they can shuffle their entire hand into their deck have and opponent cut the deck and then they draw six cards. This process continues, each time the hand size decreases by one. In the one on one games, the first player does not draw a card on the first round, but in games where there are more than two player, everyone gets to draw on the first turn.
Each turn begins with the untap step which is where all the cards or tokens on your field untap so you can now use them. Then comes the upkeep step which is where any abilities that say "On your upkeep" "During your upkeep" or if an opponent has a card that says "on each opponents upkeep" or "at the next upkeep" happen. After everything has resolved, comes the draw step which is where you take the first card from the top of your deck (which is called your library) and place it into your hand.
Next comes the first main phase which is where you may cast sorcery spells, instants, creatures, enchantments, artifacts, planeswalkers and even place one land onto the field. Then the attack phase where only instants may be cast. Next is the second main phase which is just like the first main phase. Clean up and end of turn comes last. In the next few days I will go over each of the phases, spell types, and give a few of my own personal deck ideas.
I encourage you all to check out Magic the Gathering and try learning how to play. It is a lot of fun, especially if you keep it casual. There are numerous play styles that I will be going over with you all and please please please, if you have any questions comments or concerns just type them out in the comments below.
Have a wonderful day every
Stay beautiful!
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In Magic, or MTG, each player starts with 20 life and a deck of 60+ cards. there are five colors the cards can be and they can also be colorless which means they don't affiliate with any of the colors. Each deck can be one or a combination of these colors. There are creatures, spells, artifacts and other such things and the goal is to bring your opponents life total to zero and/or make them run out of cards in their deck meaning that they can no longer draw a card on their turn.
The game starts with players deciding who will go first (generally by rolling dice, highest roll chooses when they wish to go). Each player draws seven cards from their deck, if they don't like what they have then they can shuffle their entire hand into their deck have and opponent cut the deck and then they draw six cards. This process continues, each time the hand size decreases by one. In the one on one games, the first player does not draw a card on the first round, but in games where there are more than two player, everyone gets to draw on the first turn.
Each turn begins with the untap step which is where all the cards or tokens on your field untap so you can now use them. Then comes the upkeep step which is where any abilities that say "On your upkeep" "During your upkeep" or if an opponent has a card that says "on each opponents upkeep" or "at the next upkeep" happen. After everything has resolved, comes the draw step which is where you take the first card from the top of your deck (which is called your library) and place it into your hand.
Next comes the first main phase which is where you may cast sorcery spells, instants, creatures, enchantments, artifacts, planeswalkers and even place one land onto the field. Then the attack phase where only instants may be cast. Next is the second main phase which is just like the first main phase. Clean up and end of turn comes last. In the next few days I will go over each of the phases, spell types, and give a few of my own personal deck ideas.
I encourage you all to check out Magic the Gathering and try learning how to play. It is a lot of fun, especially if you keep it casual. There are numerous play styles that I will be going over with you all and please please please, if you have any questions comments or concerns just type them out in the comments below.
Have a wonderful day every
Stay beautiful!
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Friday, June 26, 2015
Everything is New!
Hello everyone!
I hope you are all doing well, and are not extremely upset with me for not posting here for over a year. Shit happened, guys, and then (if I can just be honest for a moment) I forgot all about you. Sorry :(
Well let me just tell you that everything is new. I feel like I hit to reset button on my life and have just completely started over. I am still in school, yes, but I changed my major from Art to Psychology. Big change. I'm dating this new guy, well, not exactly new. We've been together for 9 months now and I really do believe that this one will stay for years to come. I'm on top of my homework and projects, I have a very small weekly income which is a great start to a job (which is one thing that hasn't changed, I still don't have a real stable income).
I've been challenging myself in school lately, I took a four week statistics class where I sat for four hour a day, four days a week. I was so bored out of my mind and tired because I was getting up at six for this class, I was more than glad when it finally ended. Now I'm in a six week summer course with two classes, child development and English which covers critical thinking and the structure of argument. I'm not sure how well you all remember, but I am not big on arguments so this class will probably be really difficult for me.
Well, thank you all for just accepting the fact that I'm a terrible person and might forget that I have a little blog to keep up to date. I'm going to try to post on here more often (I know, you all doubt that this will actually happen), probably at night. Let me warn you now that it will probably be short rants about homework assignments, Magic decks I've put together, summaries of my day, and other such boring things. Please bear with me though because I want to get into the habit of posting frequently before I start putting more time into writing out long interesting things for you all.
Have a wonderful week!
Stay beautiful!
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I hope you are all doing well, and are not extremely upset with me for not posting here for over a year. Shit happened, guys, and then (if I can just be honest for a moment) I forgot all about you. Sorry :(
Well let me just tell you that everything is new. I feel like I hit to reset button on my life and have just completely started over. I am still in school, yes, but I changed my major from Art to Psychology. Big change. I'm dating this new guy, well, not exactly new. We've been together for 9 months now and I really do believe that this one will stay for years to come. I'm on top of my homework and projects, I have a very small weekly income which is a great start to a job (which is one thing that hasn't changed, I still don't have a real stable income).
I've been challenging myself in school lately, I took a four week statistics class where I sat for four hour a day, four days a week. I was so bored out of my mind and tired because I was getting up at six for this class, I was more than glad when it finally ended. Now I'm in a six week summer course with two classes, child development and English which covers critical thinking and the structure of argument. I'm not sure how well you all remember, but I am not big on arguments so this class will probably be really difficult for me.
Well, thank you all for just accepting the fact that I'm a terrible person and might forget that I have a little blog to keep up to date. I'm going to try to post on here more often (I know, you all doubt that this will actually happen), probably at night. Let me warn you now that it will probably be short rants about homework assignments, Magic decks I've put together, summaries of my day, and other such boring things. Please bear with me though because I want to get into the habit of posting frequently before I start putting more time into writing out long interesting things for you all.
Have a wonderful week!
Stay beautiful!
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
The Best Times For Cigarettes
Hey everyone!
So I know it's been a long time, but I have a few perfecctly valid reasons why I haven't been posting anything. I had a bunch of tests and essays due in all my classes, my boyfriend lost his grandmother whom he was living with and now he might be kicked out by his grandfather, my friends have been dragging me around trying to get me to do things with them and I just haven't had the time or the will to sit down and post something for your entertainment. Sorry. :/
Now then, let's talk about what is really on my mind right now. Cigarettes. Okay I know what you are thinking, "Riku, you smoke? Why? It's so bad for you!" Yeah I know, I've heard this all before. Trust me, my mother works for the county health department, she won't stop telling me these things. It's just that I am a social smoker, which means that if I am with a group of people and one of them lights up, I feel like I should light up as well. The weird thing is, I could go a long time without smoking, but since it is a great stress relief and adds another social aspect to my life, I'd really rather not quit. Besides that, there are two cigarettes that I look forward to every week and it just so happens that those are the two cigarettes that I smoke by myself.
The first is the one that I smoke every Wednesday night on my way back to the house after AWANA get's out. I help out with the K-2nd graders and i love them, they are a great little group of kids. When I get to the church, I meet up with my friend, we each buy one slice of cheese pizza and one soda, then we sit in my truck until AWANA starts. Afterwards we come back to the truck and wait for her brother to come ad pick her up. The whole thing is really relaxing and after she leaves and I am driving, I light up a cigarette. That is generally the best cigarette of the week because almost all of the conditions are right. I'm not super stressed, I've had recent human interaction which was worth while and I don't have to worry about the next day. Plus, I have half a soda to go with my cigarette which is really just icing on the cake.
The second smoke I look forward to is the one of Friday night. Can I just start this off to say that for some odd reason, smoking on Friday is generally just amazing? Great, thanks haha moving on. So I take my little brother to a Magic shop here in town where he plays in tournaments for hours every Friday night. I used to play too, but then shit happened and now I just hang out for a while, catch up with the guys there and then take off. Well after I take off, I light up a cigarette while I'm driving and that is also generally a really great cigarette.
Other than those two, I never really smoke while I drive. I don't care for the smell it will leave on the seats or the hassle of flicking the ash, turning, ignoring dirty looks and other such things. I don't know why, but those two instances I just told you guys about, those really are the best cigs I could ever smoke alone. I mean, I smoke all the time with my boyfriend in his car (that'll be a later post. You'll need to see pictures to believe it haha) but I generally don't care for people smoking in my truck. I smoke at school surrounded by all of my friends, but that is social smoking, not so much for the cigarette but for the enjoyment of other peoples company and there is something about sharing a cigarette with someone that really makes me feel like I'm that much closer to that person.
Anyway....XD I have a whole day to get through so I'm taking off.
Goodbye everyone
Stay Beautiful
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So I know it's been a long time, but I have a few perfecctly valid reasons why I haven't been posting anything. I had a bunch of tests and essays due in all my classes, my boyfriend lost his grandmother whom he was living with and now he might be kicked out by his grandfather, my friends have been dragging me around trying to get me to do things with them and I just haven't had the time or the will to sit down and post something for your entertainment. Sorry. :/
Now then, let's talk about what is really on my mind right now. Cigarettes. Okay I know what you are thinking, "Riku, you smoke? Why? It's so bad for you!" Yeah I know, I've heard this all before. Trust me, my mother works for the county health department, she won't stop telling me these things. It's just that I am a social smoker, which means that if I am with a group of people and one of them lights up, I feel like I should light up as well. The weird thing is, I could go a long time without smoking, but since it is a great stress relief and adds another social aspect to my life, I'd really rather not quit. Besides that, there are two cigarettes that I look forward to every week and it just so happens that those are the two cigarettes that I smoke by myself.
The first is the one that I smoke every Wednesday night on my way back to the house after AWANA get's out. I help out with the K-2nd graders and i love them, they are a great little group of kids. When I get to the church, I meet up with my friend, we each buy one slice of cheese pizza and one soda, then we sit in my truck until AWANA starts. Afterwards we come back to the truck and wait for her brother to come ad pick her up. The whole thing is really relaxing and after she leaves and I am driving, I light up a cigarette. That is generally the best cigarette of the week because almost all of the conditions are right. I'm not super stressed, I've had recent human interaction which was worth while and I don't have to worry about the next day. Plus, I have half a soda to go with my cigarette which is really just icing on the cake.
The second smoke I look forward to is the one of Friday night. Can I just start this off to say that for some odd reason, smoking on Friday is generally just amazing? Great, thanks haha moving on. So I take my little brother to a Magic shop here in town where he plays in tournaments for hours every Friday night. I used to play too, but then shit happened and now I just hang out for a while, catch up with the guys there and then take off. Well after I take off, I light up a cigarette while I'm driving and that is also generally a really great cigarette.
Other than those two, I never really smoke while I drive. I don't care for the smell it will leave on the seats or the hassle of flicking the ash, turning, ignoring dirty looks and other such things. I don't know why, but those two instances I just told you guys about, those really are the best cigs I could ever smoke alone. I mean, I smoke all the time with my boyfriend in his car (that'll be a later post. You'll need to see pictures to believe it haha) but I generally don't care for people smoking in my truck. I smoke at school surrounded by all of my friends, but that is social smoking, not so much for the cigarette but for the enjoyment of other peoples company and there is something about sharing a cigarette with someone that really makes me feel like I'm that much closer to that person.
Anyway....XD I have a whole day to get through so I'm taking off.
Goodbye everyone
Stay Beautiful
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
A Day Without Injury :)
Hey Everyone!
So my day started off amazing :D I woke up, stayed home from church, smoked a few cigarettes and studied for my religions test (which is tomorrow). I mean, my morning sounds kind of boring, but I actually really enjoyed it ^-^ that's what matters right? I couldn't stop smiling all morning haha
And then my family got back. My family and I really don't get along very well, but it is even worse when they are fighting among themselves because they have all of this anger that is building up and I guess I'm like a key that opens up the bottle of all their frustration. Yeah, they take everything out on me. No, I'm seriously not saying all of this to make you all feel bad for me, I'm saying this as an honest statement. My family generally takes out their anger by yelling at me or in some cases hitting me. For the most part it isn't a violent household, I'm easily the most violent one living here at the moment but tat comes from me not really wanting to scream and yell back because that has never proven to solve anything. If my siblings were pissing me off, instead of screaming at them I would just hit them hard enough to make them cry. It shut them up real fast and then I got to go play in my room by myself for a week (grounded). That is how I solve my problems, and yes, this will eventually get me into real trouble and maybe jail one day, but that day isn't today.
Yeah so my family came home and they were all upset with each other, dad being annoying, my brother silently glaring at anyone who tried to talk to him and my mother openly arguing with anyone who dared to speak. Guess who asked how church went because she didn't properly gauge the situation first...this chick. I smart. I asked how church was and my dad answers first by saying "I'm not talking to myself!!!! Church was great!" and then glaring at my mother. My mother then went off yelling at him while holding a knife and at that point I just walked off.
Part of me misses when my parents fought behind closed doors while they thought we were asleep. This past year or so they have started fighting in front of me at least once a week or so and I am seriously waiting for someone to get shot or stabbed.
Hope you all had a better day than I did haha
Good night and happy dreams
Stay Beautiful
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
A Good Day with Ice Cream
Hey Everyone!!!
Today was a good day for me, there wasn't really a single sad moment which was a nice change of pace haha I even smiled for real a couple of times :D
My morning started off at 11:45 am when my boyfriend texted me until I woke up to see if I could come hang out with him. I was there until 4:30 or so which was nice. We hung out, drove around, bought cigarettes, drank amazing coffee with milk and sugar, messed around a little and had deep conversations about the future and kids and our pasts. I'm no where near ready to talk about spending a lifetime with a person or getting married or even talking about our relationship in terms of years yet, but I am really lucky to have this kid in my life. He really does care about me and I want to be a part of his life because I guess in a sense we need each other. Right now both of us are going through shit and it's nice to have that one person who we can talk to and tell our problems while standing outside in the cold and sharing a few smokes. It's just really great.
After I got back to the house, I took my little brother to Magic night. There were a ton of people there, my ex included. Now I don't know if I have told you guys or not, but my ex and I went from being really close to zero contact and I hated it because I really did love being around him and I enjoyed his company so when he left I really did hurt for a long time (I got with my current boyfriend actually as a rebound, but it turned serious so...this is all another story for another time haha). Tonight I saw him and the first thing I thought was "He looks happy." and that is when I smiled a real smile, because I knew that he was doing alright. Honestly, I'm glad that he is happy, he really does look good :) and we even talked a little (yes, I may have initiated. I miss talking to him, can you blame me?). I think this is a good sign that we can mend our friendship, hopefully it is, I mean, we didn't hug or anything but talking is the first step, right? Besides that, I kicked his ass in Magic haha which was a GREAT feeling because I had always had difficulty beating him and to win with a deck I had put together by myself in Standard format, I mean, it was a pretty good feeling.
Other than all of that, I got to see a few of my friends who I have missed a lot. Everyone looks happy and I am so excited that they are all doing so well. I got a free bowl of mint ice cream from Cold Stone, one of my friends bought it for me because I didn't have any money and she was sad I couldn't afford it (or something along those lines).
Yeah so I have had a great day. I have church in the morning though so I need to get some sleep.
Good night all, happy dreams
Stay Beautiful.
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Today was a good day for me, there wasn't really a single sad moment which was a nice change of pace haha I even smiled for real a couple of times :D
My morning started off at 11:45 am when my boyfriend texted me until I woke up to see if I could come hang out with him. I was there until 4:30 or so which was nice. We hung out, drove around, bought cigarettes, drank amazing coffee with milk and sugar, messed around a little and had deep conversations about the future and kids and our pasts. I'm no where near ready to talk about spending a lifetime with a person or getting married or even talking about our relationship in terms of years yet, but I am really lucky to have this kid in my life. He really does care about me and I want to be a part of his life because I guess in a sense we need each other. Right now both of us are going through shit and it's nice to have that one person who we can talk to and tell our problems while standing outside in the cold and sharing a few smokes. It's just really great.
After I got back to the house, I took my little brother to Magic night. There were a ton of people there, my ex included. Now I don't know if I have told you guys or not, but my ex and I went from being really close to zero contact and I hated it because I really did love being around him and I enjoyed his company so when he left I really did hurt for a long time (I got with my current boyfriend actually as a rebound, but it turned serious so...this is all another story for another time haha). Tonight I saw him and the first thing I thought was "He looks happy." and that is when I smiled a real smile, because I knew that he was doing alright. Honestly, I'm glad that he is happy, he really does look good :) and we even talked a little (yes, I may have initiated. I miss talking to him, can you blame me?). I think this is a good sign that we can mend our friendship, hopefully it is, I mean, we didn't hug or anything but talking is the first step, right? Besides that, I kicked his ass in Magic haha which was a GREAT feeling because I had always had difficulty beating him and to win with a deck I had put together by myself in Standard format, I mean, it was a pretty good feeling.
Other than all of that, I got to see a few of my friends who I have missed a lot. Everyone looks happy and I am so excited that they are all doing so well. I got a free bowl of mint ice cream from Cold Stone, one of my friends bought it for me because I didn't have any money and she was sad I couldn't afford it (or something along those lines).
Yeah so I have had a great day. I have church in the morning though so I need to get some sleep.
Good night all, happy dreams
Stay Beautiful.
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Friday, February 7, 2014
Burn The Test hahaha
Hey everyone!!!
So I've been really upset these past few days and I have been trying to put on a good face and act like everything is okay but really I'm dying on the inside and I have no idea what the hell is wrong with me. I mean, I'm not fighting with my best friend, in fact things between the two of us have been really great. I'm on good terms with my friends, which is a rare thing for me since I'm generally a disagreeable person. I have a great boyfriend who bought me Taco Bell (my favorite fast food) this morning and has been sharing his cigarettes with me since I haven't been able to buy them for myself after I ran out. I'm talking to my parents like we are all adults and without raising my voice which is the most incredible thing and the most rare of all things in my life. I just. I don't know, I mean, could I just be anxious that this is the calm before the storm? Am I jumping the gun a little? I mean, I can't really think of a time where life has been much better than it is right now. I want to be okay and enjoy the quiet that has become my life, but I just can't help but want to scream and kick and cry because I'm not happy. I don't know what the hell my problem is, but I can't seem to just be happy. Yesterday I actually did break down. I'm not sure how it happened, but one moment I was sitting in my room working on simple math problems the next minuet I'm hugging my pillow and trying to muffle my sobs so my dad doesn't hear them. That's not normal.
Yeah so I think there is something wrong with me, maybe I'm just mental haha that would explain a lot ^-^ I've been listening to this song on repeat almost nonstop the last few days, that might have something to do with my depression as well...
Click Here to Hear the Song I have Been Obsessing Over
Anyway, So I took a test in Math on Monday and got the result on Wednesday. I got the only 100% in the class and the first thing I did after leaving class was head off to the smokers tables to have a celebratory burning of the scantron XD I set it on fire and placed it in the ashtray while my friends and I all watched it burn. That truly was a happy moment for me, one of the highlights from my week :)
Well, I'm going to head out now, do something productive with my life.
Time to work out until I can't move lol
Stay Beautiful
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So I've been really upset these past few days and I have been trying to put on a good face and act like everything is okay but really I'm dying on the inside and I have no idea what the hell is wrong with me. I mean, I'm not fighting with my best friend, in fact things between the two of us have been really great. I'm on good terms with my friends, which is a rare thing for me since I'm generally a disagreeable person. I have a great boyfriend who bought me Taco Bell (my favorite fast food) this morning and has been sharing his cigarettes with me since I haven't been able to buy them for myself after I ran out. I'm talking to my parents like we are all adults and without raising my voice which is the most incredible thing and the most rare of all things in my life. I just. I don't know, I mean, could I just be anxious that this is the calm before the storm? Am I jumping the gun a little? I mean, I can't really think of a time where life has been much better than it is right now. I want to be okay and enjoy the quiet that has become my life, but I just can't help but want to scream and kick and cry because I'm not happy. I don't know what the hell my problem is, but I can't seem to just be happy. Yesterday I actually did break down. I'm not sure how it happened, but one moment I was sitting in my room working on simple math problems the next minuet I'm hugging my pillow and trying to muffle my sobs so my dad doesn't hear them. That's not normal.
Yeah so I think there is something wrong with me, maybe I'm just mental haha that would explain a lot ^-^ I've been listening to this song on repeat almost nonstop the last few days, that might have something to do with my depression as well...
Click Here to Hear the Song I have Been Obsessing Over
Anyway, So I took a test in Math on Monday and got the result on Wednesday. I got the only 100% in the class and the first thing I did after leaving class was head off to the smokers tables to have a celebratory burning of the scantron XD I set it on fire and placed it in the ashtray while my friends and I all watched it burn. That truly was a happy moment for me, one of the highlights from my week :)
Well, I'm going to head out now, do something productive with my life.
Time to work out until I can't move lol
Stay Beautiful
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