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Part 2: Best Beginning Strategies for Free Play If you are just tuning in, this article is a continuation of the previous article: MTG: Arena Part 1 - How to Play Magic: The Gathering Arena for Free You should already be playing Magic: The Gathering Arena (MTGA), before reading rest of this series. If you are new to MTGA, I would encourage you to read the previous article first before continuing with this series. If you are already playing MTGA and want to now learn the basic strategies daily and weekly gold and free card farming, then continue on. As I was writing this article, it became large enoguh that I decided to split it into two separate articles. This first half of this article will explain the basics of gold farming and obtaining as many free daily and weekly cards as you can. The next half will explain what to do with all of the gold you will be earning in the coming days and weeks, and how to best spend it for the...

Baller on a Budget: Second Hand Haul Reviews After quitting my job, I wanted to do something different. One of my ideas was to create new food ideas and cater them, or sell them to local stores. The state of Florida's food industry laws quickly shut most of those ideas down due to cost, so instead I decided to blog about my creations and will be creating video content for them with how-to's and lots of tasty food glamour shots. In preparation for this, I needed to outfit my kitchen with some new tools. Of course without a job, it's hard to buy new stuff. So, how does one go about doing so? Second hand, of course! This will be a running series. I will write new articles on as I find new and interesting items to upgrade my life via thrifting. This first haul was pretty decent. I was just looking for new kitchen gadgets to try new things out and ended up finding a few other cool items as well. We are lucky and live in an area with over a dozen Goodwill stores. W...

  Game Night! Each and every Tuesday, I have been gaming at a friends house for the past 10 years. It initially started out as Tekken Tues, then progressed to other console games. It then moved to Rockband 2, then 3 for a couple years. It has since then become tabletop and CCG gaming for the past year and a half. Currently, there's about 6 of us regulars. We usually make dinner, have some drinks and then play for several hours until everyone goes home. Our current hot game for the past year has been Star Wars Destiny. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's a Collectible Card Game (CCG) that also includes dice with some of the cards, all in the Star Wars universe. Matches are usually played out in under 30 mins. We then rotate who plays who based on who won/lost.   If you like card games, and you like rolling dice, and you like Star Wars, you may like this game.  It's very easy to pickup and learn. Quite a few of us enjoy the art of deck buildi...