ThinkGeek's Bag of Holding

Magic: The Gathering- An Advent Calendar

I had no idea what to get my eleven-year-old brother for Christmas. After brainstorming for a while, I decided that I wanted to get him a LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar, but I wasn't really willing to fork out fifty bucks for twenty or so dollars worth of pieces.

I really like the idea of giving him an advent calendar. And after coming home from college to "DANI! I WENT TO THE COMIC BOOK STORE TODAY! LOOK AT THE CARDS I GOT!", I knew that I must make him an advent calendar that would feed his new addiction- Magic: The Gathering.

I bought a Deck Builder's Toolkit of Amazon for $15. Kareshi helped me sort the cards into twenty-four categories, one category for each day in December until Christmas.

The first envelope is a wrapper to a booster pack. This was Kareshi's idea. He thought I'd be good to make my brother guess what the other envelopes were. Surprisingly, my brother didn't notice the colors of the tree "ornaments"- mana! Envelope 2 contains the tokens from the booster packs.

3 - 8: Land

9 - 20: Each contain a "set" of 3 or 4 cards. Angles, vampires, birds, werewolves, etc.

21 - 23: Double-Faced cards (which my brother loves), Rares, and Mythic Rares.

24: Booster pack!

Day 25 will be his actual present under the tree- the rest of the cards from the toolkit, along with the box it came with.

I can't wait for the first of December to come!

Halloween!

My Halloween Post: 15 days late, or 350 days early?

This year, I was at the university during Halloween. The dining hall was completely decorated for the holiday- they even had a staff member dressed up as Jason (he was a really good actor- seemed so real!). The dorms are opened up to families to come trick-or-treating, so my roommates and I hung around and handed out candy. I wore my favorite outfit- my set of jedi robes. XD

Afterwords, I went over to my sister's place. We carved pumpkins and watched our favorite Halloween VHS tapes.

 My sister carved Perry the Platypus and I carved Pikachu.

It was a fun night! I can't wait for next year!