It hurts... the pain in my, I'm sure it's source isn't natural. I open my eyes, see the bloodstained battlefield. It's littered with the corpses of fallen allies and enemies. Were they comrades? Servants? Worthless cannon-fodder? I don't remember. I can only see silhouettes on the other side, my opponent and his most powerful ally, an infamous witch as beautiful as she is deadly. My last soldiers barely manage to distract her, I have to do something, or the battle is lost.
Then I remember.
The book in my arms, it calls out to me, whispers. Bound in human skin, written in blood, a cursed artifact far beyond my own abilities. I tried to use it, three times already, but I don't understand it. I couldn't use it, yet the payment was harsh, it consumed more and more of my mind. But I don't have a choice anymore.
I open the book and the letters glow in an otherworldly light. The book bursts into dark flames and all I can do is laughing like a madman, while the eldritch magic flows to my veins and devours the rest of my mind. Countless corpses rise again, ally and enemy alike,  their blank eyes staring at my opponent. The witch vanishes into the aether, abandoning her ally. The horde of nameless horrors shambles forward, ripping him. All I can do is keep laughing.

Turns out not even liliana can do anything against the fucking necronomicon.
I wanted to write a journal entry about the new Magic: the Gathering set, Innistrad, for some time now, mainly about the art (because... deviant, art... you know), but... I kind of forgot about it.
So why I'm writing about it anyway? I played a prerelease sealed event yesterday on MtG: Online and... dunno, just want to write about it, although its not really about the art anymore. The scene written above happened in one of the games... at least a bit like that. My opponent had aforementioned liliana, while my invisible stalker poked at her to prevent anything nastier than discarding. Then I remembered... I kind of had the book of the dead lying around, so I just discarded to the book instead to lili and... yeah. A million zombies kill you dead.
Innistrad is a lot of fun, not only do I really like the flavour, the gameplay is also very fun and refreshing, there are many small synergies and interesting mechanics like the graveyard stuff and the werewolves, which make the games more interesting.
I also had village cannibals in the deck, who have just the best art in the set, period. Since the deck was mostly build around humans and you will find some humans in almost all limited decks... lets just say there was much noming

Sean might also like this one if he reads this. xD
The flavour is basically "if you go insane, you win the game instead of losing", which doesn't make too much sense... but I still like it.

On a somewhat unrelated note:

The Binding of Isaac is awesome and anyone should play it! Yeah, it's kind of just a flash game, but still worth the 5€ I paid for it. It's basically a roguelike/zelda/shooter mix and pretty addictive. And hard, although not as hard as meat boy. The art is from the same guy, which is kind of obvious if you see it
The art style, monster design and story are pretty dark (and insane), it's obviously based on the Story of Isaac from the bible, only that YOU are playing isaac and you have to kill you mother who is trying to kill you, because god told her to do it. Yes, it's a game for the whole family
You run through randomly generated dungeons with a layout similar to the first zelda game, kill fucked up enemies with you tears or other body fluids (no, not what you think xD) and collect items which power isaac up.
So yeah, seriously, play it. It's awesome. Avaible on steam.

Maybe I will write more often here?!
j/k I say that every time