Subject: Unsolicited Article attached
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:32:53 PST
From: "Albert Hendriks" albertgreat@hotmail.com
To: webmaster@classicdojo.org

I've played magic for a couple of years and enjoyed it pretty much. I joined several small tournaments and had some success with dojo-decks. Of course, you're a better man if you play with your own deck, but I thought I wasn't capable of building winning decks. In fact, no-one is nowadays.
Because of an important change in my life, I stopped playing magic last May. Last week, however, I called a friend, Niels Veth, to visit him, and he asked me to bring my cards. We played a couple of games, but I got bored, so I started reading a new Inquest. I found a nice combo, and I wanted to try to make a deck around it. We did. Boy, did we have fun. Playtesting, goldfishing, adjusting the deck.. The number of colors ranged from 1 to 3. Finally, we found that the deck was no longer improvable without an Urza's Saga checklist (we used proxies for US cards that were mentioned explicitly in the Inquest). It won a goldfish in 3-5 turns at that time. We were really enthusiastic, and decided to tell no-one about it, but to surprise everyone at tournaments.
Today, I went to university to get a checklist from the Internet. I read some article headers in newsgroups and clicked on one that said "MoMa-decklist", just because of the funny name. You can guess what happened. It was almost exactly the same, except for some US cards (Windfall), and for the Mox Diamonds (we used Fellwar stones instead, 'cause we played with Mana Severance and Dreamhalls). Even the details that, we too, found, were already worked out (e.g. Mind over Matter = keycard, not the Academy).
So here I'm sitting depressed, writing this article. I don't know what to do:
1. Copy & play
2. Play our version
3. Sell my magic cards

Many people have been saying that magic is sick. Unfortunately, the only way to believe it is to find out yourself. And may I choose to play our or thedojo's version, are I then "contributing to the delinquency of type two" (quoting Jon Gording)?

Albert Hendriks