User:Organous

Aloha all. I used to be a contributor to another Magic wiki before I was referred here from Wizards' boards (most of this profile came from that wiki, too). I'm also kinda on the Yu-Gi-Oh wikia, and from what I can see, that's got to be the golden standard for a wikia. It has so much detail and it's so incredibly organized. I do not have much wiki-writing experience, so basically all I can do is copy other pages and edit them for the appropriate context.

Magic History
I first got into Magic way back in the days of Portal. I'm perhaps one of the few people out there who did not get into the game by means of a friend who played, or even by word of mouth. I just happened to be in a Target store, saw a Portal deck at the "impulse buy" area, and convinced my mom to buy it from me. It was simple enough for me to grasp at the time, but I did not truly get into the game yet. I just introduced it to my neighbors and played it with them. I thought it was just a standalone game, and was fine leaving it at that. Eventually, I came across some people at my middle school that played Magic, but I could never understand what they were saying. It sounded cool to me, but it was a world I couldn't get into. Once again, I was thrust into the multiverse by means of chance. I happened to be with my father at a Best Buy one day when I saw the Shandalar PC game on the shelves. I recognized the name of Magic, but the art looked completely unfamiliar to me (keep in mind, I thought the Portal deck was it). I wasn't sure if this was what I was so interested in, but I decided to take the chance and ask my dad to buy it. Once I got that thing loaded in, I went through the video tutorial, and let me tell you, WotC has never made an intro so beginner friendly as they did that time. Once I was done with the tutorial, I S-T-U-D-I-E-D the game thoroughly by reading that hulking tome of a rule book that came with it. It took me a long time to truly understand the nuances of the game, but thanks to that, I'd like to think of myself as a self-made planeswalker. Finally, I happened across a Tempest theme deck and I was finally off to become your everyday Magic player. Since then, I've learned a lot, but have never had the resources (AKA money) or experience to try becoming big stuff. Rules are my real thing, and the only thing stopping me from becoming a judge is that I don't know any level 3 judges around me. I'm not concerned so much in actually playing the game as knowing and understanding it. Of course I love to play, sure, but I've always put aside experience in the game for experience in the rules.

Current Decks

 * Standard Merfolk aggro: Uses low-cost merfolk along with their lords (+1/+1 to all other merfolk) and shapeshifters to copy the lords. Win by swarming with islandwalk and forcing an island on the opponent.
 * Standard Diabolic Chant: Control-Combo deck featuring Undertaker and Oriss, Samite Guardian. Purely casual, as I haven't put a great deal of thought into it.

Favorite cards
Coalition Victory

Contact info
MSN: Organous@hotmail.com AIM: Judge Organous Yahoo: judgeorganous Brawl: 0860-2977-9060