{"ops":[{"insert":"Born to Read. Forced to Work. Love to Play. \n\nFirst picking up the game's basic rules around M10 with my brother and father, we put the cardboard back down until college where my roommates and TTRPG friends picked it back up around the original Theros block. Over 12 years later now MTG is a pillar of our friend groups' social circle and self-expression.\n\nThe law degree might help with understanding some of the near-infinite possibilities of Magic the Gathering, but I find true joy in this game as a form of community and a place where gameplay meets thematic creativity. Commander is my format of choice and almost exclusive relationship with the game, and my deck lists focus on committing to a theme and experience for myself and friends around the table, old and new. \n\nCentral tenets of my deck building philosophy include making suboptimal card choices when they benefit the theme, building mana curves that support earlier turns and card draw that enables later ones, and making the commander choice matter to the game plan. Unless a good reason exists, we don't play game changers or Sol Ring and similar \"auto-includes\" to support card diversity, but believe that color fixing in lands is one of the least interesting elements of the game system so don't generally hesitate to include staples for the land base. \n\nPlease enjoy reading through the artefacts of this decades long journey we've taken together and take any inspiration you may find! \n"}]}