Do you have it? Do-do-do do you have it?
In late August, my significant other spent some of her hard earned cash to start a Magic: The Gathering™ feud between myself, and Arin Hanson, of Egoraptor and Game Grumps fame. She contracted Arin through Cameo to ruffle his feathers about his Magic prowess. I hear it needs work. Well, he had some choice words for me in his reply, outright challenging me to the deadliest game of cardboard wit, and I hereby accept that challenge. In the video he sent, Arin specifically mentioned his knights deck. He’s new to the game, so I’m guessing the format of that deck is standard. Is this what I might have to look forward to?
Or maybe he’s going all in on kitchen table or casual. Well, it doesn’t matter to me. So bring on your knights deck, Arin, or whatever else you’ve cooked up, because I’m ready to play. You think this will be so easy? It’s going to be as difficult as Sonic heroes! Do you have the GUTS? Do you? Let’s spellsling in the multiverse!
I’m sure you already know about him, but Arin has been creating content all over the Internet for almost two decades now. While my S/O has known of him since his early days animating on Newgrounds, I only became aware of him in 2012 through her, with his “lets play” group, Game Grumps. Despite the fact that he so rudely challenged me to Magic, he shows himself as an incredibly caring, funny, and nice individual who has done a lot of great things for a lot of people across the world. Numerous fans of the show, myself included, attribute his willingness to go so far for his craft to directly correlate with benefits in our own lives. Unfortunately for him, he has challenged me to a game of Magic, and I won’t be going easy on him! It doesn’t matter what format you choose Arin, I’ll defeat and despark you like Bolas was in Ravnica!
It’s all for a good cause, right?
It looks like Arin took to Cameo partially in support of a charity, Baby2Baby. I did a little bit of research on Baby2Baby, and this is how they describe themselves:
Baby2Baby provides children living in poverty, ages 0-12 years, with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities that every child deserves.
That’s an incredibly noble cause, and while I was initially a little miffed that my S/O spent so much just for me to be insulted by a kind and thoughtful Internet celebrity, knowing that a portion of those funds go to such an incredible charity makes it all OK. According to Charity Navigator, they rank a 100/100, which is just amazing.
I guess it’s time to put up or shut up Arin, so name the time and remote place (there is a “Back Street Boys Reunion Tour” on after all,) and I will bring you down! Maybe we can do two-headed giant with Val and Dan, huh?