Recalling my first time encountering the Magic: the Gathering TCG vice err hobby, I started playing in Urza’s Destiny expansion as the recently released set. I think that was way back in 1999 during my fourth year in high school. A classmate introduced me to it and let me borrow decks to try and get familiarized with the gameplay.

At that time, I only knew that winning the game was by attacking with creatures. Hence, my first deck was a Red Green Aggro deck. It was composed of cards I bought from the local hobby card shop located in Marymart Mall and a mix of cards from an Urza’s Saga Preconstructed deck. It was Urza block at that time so Echo creatures were pretty popular.

The deck’s creature lineup was Viashinos, Goblins, Simian Apes, Pouncing Jaguars, and spells such as Giant Growths, and Rancors to get ahead of the damage. The finishing touch was a burn to the dome with spells like Shock and Arc Lightning, which can also act as creature removal of the opponent. It was funny as I was enjoying its gameplay that I wanted it as my deck for the local Magic: the Gathering tournament.

Here below is what I think that deck would look like. I could not afford to buy Rares at that time and only had a few Uncommons that were already available:

Lands
10 Forest
10 Mountain

Creatures
4 Pouncing Jaguar
4 Goblin Patrol
4 Goblin War Buggy
4 Viashino Sandscout
2 Viashino Cutthroat
2 Simian Grunts
2 Goblin Berserker

Spells
3 Arc Lightning
4 Giant Growth
4 Rancor
4 Shock
2 Symbiosis
1 Jagged Lightning