about myself

like an oracle update i would like to do to myself. my name is weng rongcan. close friends from NS calls me affectionately as weng. close friends from my workplace calls me alex. close friends from my secondary school calls me rongcan pronounced as rong chan. close friends from my poly and uni calls me rongcan pronounced as rongcan. LOL

I am an avid Magic player and have been in the game since primary school days. I started out as a black player but eventually i fell in love with blue. probably because i like to think too much. blue cards are always about thinking. brainstorm, ponder, think twice etc. last time i was a noob and wasnt so familiar with the rules and with the things that blue could do. blue was just so powerful that it could do everything to the point that people suggested island should be banned.

i started with playing a mono black control deck with hynoptic specter and vampires like sengir vampire and krovikan vampire. a 1st turn dark ritual into hypnotic specter is so damn shiok! then came urza's saga in my secondary school days and OMG all the powerful black cards!!! duress, corrupt, darkest hour, yawgmoth's will, yawgmoth's bargain... but it didnt last long as yawgmoth's bargain and necropotence was banned :(. my friend's capsize deck couldnt even beat me. hahahaz.

i then stopped for a while because that woman threw away my deck when i quarrelled with her. and also due to me not hanging out with my secondary school players anymore. it was until i went to work at mac then i got my paycheck back and met my longtime playtest partner wenjun. i built the rebel deck and went to my first friday night magic (FNM) at serene center. i lost badly but i saw a lot of decks there. i could still remember my first match up against enchantress which i didnt even know how to beat! my second match up was against a UW control with weathered wayfarer. it had rewind and decree of justice. i immediately fell in love. that deck could say go and then think of what to do at the opponent's end of turn. therefore i built it and played it all the way till the first extended GP singapore. i bought flooded strands that time was S$10ea.

i needed an extended deck for gp singapore but i couldnt finish my psychatog deck in time so i borrowed pieces from my friends to build slide deck. i traded away my flooded strands for windswept heath at no top up:(. i scrubbed and decided to drop and go meet my gf. qs told me he was at that tourney too but i didnt see him. lol. then after this tourney my friends suddenly decide to take a break from magic and i took too. but i didnt desert the game. i did complete my 'tog deck but his mortal enemy was printed. sad.

fast forward to my army days. it was a twist of fate that I should meet qs who reignited the Magic player in me. Our conversation ever since then never fails to bring up the game but this is the story for this post. i played roughly all the blue decks in extended because i couldnt afford a set of tarmogoyfs. i sold away the windswept heaths and bought back flooded strands for S$12ea. eventually i top S$2 to turn those flooded strands into "溢れかえる岸辺". i also bought polluted delta at $28ea. i even bought another set for 1 of my friend who said he wanted it. he didnt buy from me in the end :)

in army days i played izzet tron with original antiquities 12 different tron artworks and usually got my tron pieces vindicated and extirpated by qs who's playing a zoo deck. after that i had a little success playing reveillark deck. then we moved on to extended where we had the most fun. we went to bishan's asia card shop as it was still called. my bobs which were borrowed from james never helped me to win games and often lost me the games...but won me games in tourneys... a theme which continued to this day. cwwwww didnt have to top to use counterbalance and i always topped to 3 lands. i couldnt afford goyfs that time so i played something that could eat goyfs alive... jotun grunts. that deck stayed with me all the time until i sold most of the bulk away. that was another turning point of my life. i loved those jap onslaught fetchlands and jap counterbalance so much.

so we played until we ord. then we took a break from compettive but still invested in a bit and got all the zendikar fetchlands for S$140.

i broke up with my girlfriend and in a folly 看不开 and sold all my prized possessions. even those goyfs i bought for S$50 when i helped qs to clear. all except my whole set of zendikar fetchlands and here i am now. upgraded and my life turned for the better. i improved in every aspect of my life, even in the aspect of struggling. ive gotten myself a wonderful girlfriend. i got a job which allowed me to get what i am playing now. i thank God.

then extended officially died and modern came along. but i only have fetchlands and i found out that my fetchlands have quadrupled in price! hahaz. during one of the reservists at the request of qs i brought in 2 of my decks to play and one of my section mates asked me this famous quotes..."weng, why got proxies ar? no money buy ar?" at this point my mind snapped. it triggered something in me. i went out to prove to him that is not i dont have the money to buy but i needed to test before buying the cards. anyway thanks birdman :) and the rest is history

• i topped up $8ea to upgrade my ur, ug and gb fetchlands to jap
• i bought jap shocks at S$10ea when people were still playing innistrad cards.
• i bought jap deathrite shaman for S$8ea when they were not popular in modern yet.
• i bought english tarmogoyfs at S$100 and people said im crazy. furthermore i paid S$45ea to upgrade all of them to jap goyfs. so how is it? still laughing at me?
• i bought jap dark confidants at S$75ea and people also laughed at me.
• i bought jap liliana of the veil at S$50ea and people still laughed at me.
• i bought jap lorwyn thoughtseize at S$50 after averaging out the price for the first 3. go ahead and laugh but we'll see when it rotates ><

most of it were thanks to hareruya. after the last thoughtseize it was to the point of no return. eventually my whole deck was japanese. to me fun cannot be monetized. to pay for hours and hours of fun is acceptable to me. being able to particpate in tourneys and win stuffs is a bonus. being able to cash out and recoup everything after having fun with the cards is something i cannot even imagine. being able to cash AND make a profit is wow...just WOW! but i just cannot believe some people see all this as just $$$. i purposelu left that part of my magic career out just so that i can rant on an entire post just on that outcast of a disciple i wish i didnt have.