The Color Challenge | Episode 1 | Mono Black Aggro | MTG Arena RNA Ranked Deck Guide and Gameplay

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When I learned Magic it was at Boy Scout camp. Those of us who found decks to buy simply shuffled the deck as it was, 60 cards, 5 colors. As we bought more cards, decks got bigger - I think I got to around 300 cards before one of us had a huge epiphany.

“What if we only played one color instead of five?”

Battle lines were being drawn - my friend AJ was the white mage, Jason was the red mage, Mikey was the blue mage, and me and my best friend Tony, well…we were both mono black mages!

The card we both fought over the most was Nightmare. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=369 Please remember, we didn’t know the rules, and had nobody to teach us.

My deck contained eight, EIGHT, Nightmares. Tony decided to one-up me however, and his deck soon contained six Demonic Tutors, a card that is restricted in Vintage and banned everywhere else!

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=355

Tony would use Demonic Tutor to find various ways to kill Nightmare, but the worse was Royal Assassin, which seemed so unbeatable in those early days because I had so few ways to kill things, and Terror didn’t do the job.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202486 http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=676

One of my favorite collection items was a card binder page with those eight original Nightmares from Revised, and one day at a convention I saw Melissa Benson was there. Melissa is the artist for that amazing original Nightmare art that still stops me in my tracks when I see it. I think of the song Ghost Riders in the Sky every time I see it, because my dad used to play that song on our road trips growing up and I thought it was just the coolest song ever.

I did not know Melissa was going to be at the convention, I just rounded a corner in the vendor area and there she was. I dropped my deck and cards on the floor when I saw that giant print of Nightmare. Melissa signed all eight of my Nightmares for no charge, and I don’t think I found the words to tell her how much I loved the card. I was fifteen years old.

Somewhere along the path of life I sold that page of Nightmares. I sold all my cards, multiple times, as life demanded money for a car, a college education, or a wedding. I don’t know what the Nightmares sold for, and whatever it was, I doubt it was enough. I wish I still had them, they mean more to me now then they even did back then, a piece of my childhood lost along the way. If you are young, under 20, don’t cling to every single thing you own by any means, but cling to something that is special, something other people wouldn’t understand. That is part of what makes you who you are, don’t lose it, don’t sell it. You will miss it in fifteen years, I promise.