An Introduction

 Hello, there!

My name is Edwin "Kalonimos" Dantes. Well, that's my penname and online handle, at any rate. I digress.

Without getting too deep into the weeds of things, because I'm trying to swing this out in the last fifteen minutes before I go to work for the night, I just wanted to get out a quick description of what my plan with this whole shebang is.

The relatively short version is that my current work schedule is 7-on-7-off. I work 7 days in a row, then I'm off for 7. And in those days off, I play a lot of TCGs. Or rather, I play 3 TCGs on 5 separate nights. I also happen to really enjoy writing! But with my job having the long hours it does, and then general adult life during my weeks off, I don't always have the time or energy to dedicate to trying to write the fantasy fiction I normally do.

So I want to combine these two hobbies of mine in some way. Thus, this blog. The plan is to write-up "after-action reports" from my locals of the three TCGs that I play - Pokémon, Magic: the Gathering (specifically Commander, since that's what the shop I go to does for Friday Night Magic), and the Final Fantasy TCG. The idea is going to be to talk about the decks that I played, the decks I played against, and the ways that I had to approach the different games that I played throughout each night.

The three games being rather different from one another mechanically, and the different ways that I play each of the three, will also be a fun thing to examine. But that's all in due time.

The intended schedule for this is going to be, well, trying to write each post up immediately following each of my usual game nights.

Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, I play or judge Pokémon TCG.

Fridays I play Commander.

And on Mondays I play the Final Fantasy TCG.

Like I said, I work 7-on-7-off, so roughly speaking I'll be writing posts every other week on those nights.