Welcome to the largest undertaking I have ever attempted on Hive. My name is @mirroredspork, and my goal is to post, in it's entirety, every single Magic: The Gathering card ever printed, complete with as much oracle text that I can find. As this is an enormous undertaking, it will have to be spilt up over quite a few posts. Now, to ensure this isn't just some copypasta, I will personally comment in some fashion about each and every card, along with a current price. So, without further ado...

Welcome to the largest undertaking I have ever attempted on Hive. My name is @mirroredspork, and my goal is to post, in it's entirety, every single Magic: The Gathering card ever printed, complete with as much oracle text that I can find. As this is an enormous undertaking, it will have to be spilt up over quite a few posts. Now, to ensure this isn't just some copypasta, I will personally comment in some fashion about each and every card, along with a current price. So, without further ado...

It has been about 2 weeks since my last update here, and during that amount of time it has been very arid. In the Midwest United States, it seems as though we either get bombarded by storm after storm or we get long stretches of time where there is virtually no precipitation. We all know that plants need water to survive, so when the rains don't provide for our gardens, we have to improvise. Normally, this would involve getting out the watering can and hitting each of our plants with enough water to keep them not only alive, but thriving. We do this with our handy-dandy water hose with a spraying nozzle attachment. It's a 50 foot hose. It gets the job done, but is kind of time consuming to get the proper amount of water to each plant. Plus, I don't like to get leaves wet when there is so much sunlight and heat. So I improvised. There is a LOT of gravel in my garden, so I decided to put it to use. I dug a nice little hole and made a bit of a reservoir by packing some of the larger pieces of gravel tightly. The idea was to have a nice place for the running water to freely pour in without eroding the soil, thus preventing a nice big muddy mess. Improvise.

I am a nerd. That statement comes with it's own stigma; that statement comes with it's own rewards. I know Magic: the Gathering better than most people in my region. I know the game, I know the interactions, the play. I used to chase the Pro Tour in the hopes of making it my job (spoiler alert: it costs a lot for that kind of gig), I used to be a L1 judge. (nerd.)

In my last post here, I was documenting my attempt to make 1000 USD by selling Magic: The Gathering cards on the tcgplayer website. Well, I made a very solid attempt at this daunting task, but unfortunately fell short of the mark. Let's take a quick look at the numbers for just the month of May:

We have had so many storms and so much rain at home this year, that I have been delayed from doing any real work in the garden. I tilled about 3 weeks ago; there was an ubiquitous amount of trash plants, grass, random weeds and such. I decided to do a double till and let the sun cook the weeds and grass that then had exposed roots.