2023, to the moon!

I am horrible at predictions. Actually, most humans are. I have nothing to share along what I think 2023 will bring... but I do have a goal or two moving forward:

 #1 Learn to play mono-red painter.  I've been poking at the "why do people love this deck so much?" edges for a while. No one one locally was a devoted pilot that I could watch/ask questions of, so I had resorted to on-line life. So far- seems like fun. Just gotta know the matchups. (stop laughing)

#2 Do not pick up the hot deck in 2023. There will come a time this year that EVERYONE is talking about some Legacy deck. (I'm looking at you initiative) I do not want to get sucked into that deck this year. I can barely function with the decks I have now!  

    #2a Take advantage of #2 hopefully by picking up hot cards before they take off, and cashing out. Its worked a couple times already for me- looking at you White Plume and Chaos Defiler. Able to flip less than $10 of investment into $75 of new cardboard I want in the collection. Most of this relies on MTGO not having the cards in time for testing.

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   Things I don't understand from 2022:

• Why didn't they re-printed Lotus Petal in Brother's War? They reprint everything else to the ground... 
• Why hasn't there been a meaningful reprint of Painter Servant or Grindstone since their initial sets?
• I am sure there are plenty of similar cards, but those are the two I am annoyed with right now.
   
• MTGO- you are my bane and savior for deck ideas... I cannot afford the time or money it would take to play you.
• The amount of Secret Lairs in 2022.  Jebus... just holy crap.
• The greed that Hasbro placed into the system of WoTC. Its sad... and changed the course of people I know. Like, changed their lives to do other things.
• The amount of people touting Flesh and Blood. I can't handle another CCG. I don't know how people do it. 

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I only just found out that Brian David-Marshall had shared one of the earliest home videos about a magic tournament. He worked with Marshall Sutcliffe to put it up on his "Magic Rewind" Youtube channel, but that no longer exists. (WHY WHY?!) Wonder what happened... sigh.