Alltimate Gaming Lounge - DeLand — Local services in DeLand

First time I walked in to Alltimate Gaming Lounge I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I needed a new place to play EDH and it was recommended that THIS was the place I would want to be at to Gather the Magic...and boy did I ever gather that magic.

I had no idea that I was up against some pretty talented card players with threatening auras, especially a key player named John-John. IF you play against this John-John write your will now because he is coming to destroy what life you have.

I wasn't scared though, because the other players had it out for John-John while John -John had it out for me. However, I felt safe, confident, and collective....until I realized John-John had the same deck as I did. He was out for blood, there was no doubt about it. He wanted to destroy what little I had on the board. I wasn't ready.

It was a battle of wits, an audience of maidens, year 30, were looking onward trying to distract my competition. Another key player took this opportunity to go after John-John while he was distracted. Nobody, not even John-John could see what was coming.

Total. Mayhem.

Life was lost, the other opponent at the table who died ascended into the great night sky. You should have seen it; John-John who thought he had one up on me was slayed, destroyed, DISTRACTED, by the competition, but he was not alone. I went down too, but not at the hands of John-John.

The winner at the rounds knight table was a man named Gandalf. Gandalf who was mistaken as a Daytona Beach biker babe upon meeting him, destroyed us. Nobody, not even John-John stood a chance.

I felt weak after that competition, defeated, down on my first-time-playing at a new card shop luck. Nobody had any idea that gathering the magic would end up in despair.

I picked myself up after that knowing there was no way I was going to recover from that embarrassing loss. I decided it was time to go home. The owner of the card shop advised me that next Friday, I can come back and gather the magic again.

After the experience I had, would I really want to be defeated like that again? You bet.

I left the card shop with a feeling of patriotic pride. I thought to myself, "God I love this country!"

And went home.

Alltimate Gaming Lounge will be my new place for EDH. It's comfortable, wonderful, and you guessed...

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