Table Manners #8: Time Spiral Draft

Wow, this has nothing to do with the content of your article, but I must say thank you!

You jolted my memory. You see (bear with me), when I signed up for mtgo in the spring of 2010, I had a suspicion that I had already created an account a few years before. But I couldn’t remember the name and my memory was fuzzy, with no distinct recollection of specific games played. All I felt was a bit of familiarity with the system and images of playing in Ravnica and Time Spiral limited events in my head.

It sounds strange to not remember something that happened fewer than ten years ago, but at the time I had a medical condition that involved a lot of pain, really bad pain that would keep me up at night and haunt me during the day, so much that I actively repressed my memory in that period of time. So, later I did not trust my own memories of having an account, explaining them away with the time I played on my brother’s account when his work made him too busy to finish his league play. (Don’t do this, I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to play on others’ accounts.)

But when I saw the two Akromas at the top of your article, I recalled a distinct memory of having a blast playing a limited deck with four Akromas, two of each color. Finally I had a confident feeling that I had surely created my own account, and that those fuzzy memories were real!

I did try to guess my old account before I made a new one in 2010, but nothing I guessed worked. After being inspired by your dual Akroma pic, I searched harder in some older email addresses I don’t use anymore and I dug up a message from WotC with my old account name and password. I logged on and lo and behold, it still had the four Akromas and some other cards from TSP and RAV block, nothing worth much but a lot of sentimental value. And 6 whole tickets!

In conclusion, thanks for randomly restoring some connections in my brain with those Akroma images.

tl;dr having 4 Akromas in a limited deck is totally sweet.