I started playing Magic: the Gathering in early 2014, specifically just after the Born of the Gods set released - also my freshman year of high school. My first ever deck was a 60-card Mono-Green mana ramp deck that won off of Vorapede and Avenger of Zendikar beats that was given to me by my friend Tusco. The deck absolutely terrorized my school, but then again it was competing against decks that ran things like Sengir Vampire and Hunted Wumpus.

After probably about two months, I got the urge to brew my own deck. I remember going up to my local game store to play with the dude who initially made me my deck, and there was another person there who had a standard Selesnya tokens deck. I thought the idea of making a bunch of creatures and beating someone with them was cool, so I decided the first deck I'd try to brew myself would be a Selesnya Tokens deck. Keep in mind this is the RTR/Theros standard. It was a failure. Trying to build a G/W token deck without a single Voice of Resurgence or Temple Garden is kind of destined to fail miserably. Then again, I didn't really understand the nuances of deckbuilding at this time - after all, my first deck was a mono-colored creature-based deck, and I didn't see the need for things like instants, sorceries, enchantments, or artifacts because they didn't turn sideways and beat people.

Fast forward to late 2014, specifically, about a month after the release of the Khans of Tarkir expansion. By now, I had made a B/G Constellation deck that was nowhere near as good as the standard variant, but still performed quite well at my school. In addition, I had also made a relatively cheap Rakdos aggro deck that also did decently. It was around this point I met and started to play with ForceSymphony - someone I still play Magic with to this day. He had a pretty fierce Jeskai deck that he often kicked my ass with. However, it was around this time I also got introduced to a format called Elder Dragon Highlander - also known as Commander. I bought the Oloro, Ageless Ascetic pre-con because it was touted as the "strongest" of the bunch, and immediately was hooked. Not long after, I ended up building a janky lifegain-based Trostani, Selesnya's Voice EDH deck that was not good in the slightest.

After experiencing a small lull in my Magic career the second-half of my sophmore year and most of my junior year, I started to play much more again around the release of the Shadows over Innistrad set in April of 2016. I don't think I played any standard around this time, but instead I picked EDH back up, building Chorus of the Conclave +1/+1 counters that would eventually become Selvala, Explorer Returned +1/+1 counters. By now, I had gained a better understanding of deckbuilding, particularly EDH deckbuilding.

Fast forward to November 2016 - specifically the release of the Commander 2016 set. I bought the Atraxa, Praetors' Voice pre-con, and I bought the Breya, Etherium Shaper pre-con for my friend ForceSymphony - his first EDH deck. I should say, back in 2014, Magic took my school by storm, especially my grade. There was always around 15~30 people in the library in 8th period playing Magic, and usually half of them were my grade. However, by late 2016, ForceSymphony and I were the only two people who still played Magic. So, as such, we only really played against one another, and we had a literal arms race against each other.

It was around late-2016 to early-2017 that I started to dabble in more combo-esque styles of play. It was around this point I built Karametra, God of Harvests combo, that won off of generating infinite mana by repeatedly casting things like Whitemane Lion with mana rocks and Paradox Engine out. I loved the deck, and won a ton of games with it. It was also around this point I got into cEDH, and built Selvala, Heart of the Wilds - a deck I still have together to this day, albeit much more refined. It was also around this time I started to get into Modern with the Affinity deck. However, I'd never complete it.

I graduated high school in May 2017, and left for college. At the University I attend, no one plays Magic; or at least, not back when I first got there. It was sad, but it meant a hiatus for my Magic career.

Or at least, that's what I thought too. In mid-2018, WotC decided to release Arena on the PC, and I decided to pick it up. It was here I found my favorite 60-card deck since my first ever deck - Mono-G Stompy in the Kaladesh/Amonkhet/Ixalan/Dominaria standard. I have such fond memories of swinging with a 9/9 Llanowar Elves at people. I miss this deck. However, after Kaladesh rotated out of standard later that year, I stopped playing Arena, and Magic altogether.

Around Summer 2019, I had started working in a Warehouse. I met some guys at this job who played Magic, but I thought I had finally put my Magic career behind me, and I ended up selling many of my cards to them. However, I still kept the bulk of my collection. By now, I was pretty sure I was done with Magic, and even well into 2020 I still thought about selling off my collection. However, I am very glad I didn't.

Early 2021 my friend BioFrost117 - a good friend of mine I worked with and sold a bunch of cards to - told me he was getting back into Magic. Since we were in Pandemic-mode at University, I was living back at home and actually knew people who played locally. I decided that I'd get back into Magic, and haven't stopped since.

I began by rebuilding my Brimaz, King of Oreskos tribal soldier deck. Then, about a month or two later, I built Oona, Queen of the Fae combo. A month after that, Zo-Zu the Punisher. Finally, in June 2021 perhaps my favorite legendary creature since Selvala, Heart of the Wilds was released - Sythis, Harvest's Hand. I had a bunch of enchantments laying around from my days of building Karametra, God of Harvests and Sigarda, Host of Herons, so I figured she'd be a relatively cheap and easy build for me. I was wrong. I ended up taking Sythis, Harvest's Hand a completely different direction, and built her in a Prison-esque method, which quickly became my new favorite style of play - beating out combo.

Since then, I've gotten big into building and brewing; more than I previously had been. Currently, I'm trying to find a Grixis storm commander that I really like, as I really want to build an instant/sorcery-based storm deck that isn't mono-red.