Dies to Removal

The full block limited is going to be awesome. I'm actually excited doing the sealed ptq in tampa and then the gp in atlanta having seen this set spoiled. Full block sealed is always the most fun for me too =D.

I think it could be a thing, and it'd be nice to play cards that haven't gotten hardly any play since they've been out. Firemane is a powerful card, but it is so reliant on other factors.

Playing Iroas with so many evasive creatures seems counterproductive. He wants to be in a low curve aggro deck, not a deck topping out with Aurelia.

I really just want to play those cards, and nothing tier 1 or 2 has been even close to viable for the battalion mechanic. I wish it was. I might try to force this and see what happens I guess it what im saying, Lol! There are some lower curve guys with battalion so it has the potential to curve out with decent protection from boros charm and legions initiative. I really really don't think anything will come of it, but man I wanna bash people's face with those r/w angels.

Iroas is pretty mediocre without a lot of help coming in Journey. Purphoros probably dealing as much damage on the whole in Red Devotion and red aggro doesn't need help getting around the like 4 people still playing Caryatid's. If actual Boros aggro ala Ben Lundquist / Pat Cox style is good again then Iroas could have a legitimate place to exist.

UR God I want to be good, but it's SO SLOW.

Ya, Iroas maybe has a shot for a Boros Midrange ala Tajic, aurelia, firemane avenger. Being hard to block and indestructible makes battalion maybe a little more reasonable? Idk, I want to play it just because I've wanted a shell for firemane avenger since I smashed face with it back in draft.

UR god -- america control? America will be much easier to
play consistently with the new temple. Plus I heart Izzet charm <3

DO YOU WANNA GO BRAH!?!?! Lol. Come with us and venture south!

@redthirst -- lol! Are you in/around tampa?

@khaos do you wanna go? I can try to work something out, me and my VP are leaving work early friday and heading up.

@Alex -- Ill be going with a few people to GP Atlanta. I'm in Tampa so its not too ridiculous a drive.

@red -- idk why, but I laughed uncontrollably at your comment.

Got the job, now a Senior Inspection Officer with the Financial Ombudsman Service.

So yeah, going to be playing a fuck load more magic.

Grats!

@Z -- grats! My wife is the office manager for a law firm, so my family has their feet knee deep in that ish too lol. Thankfully her lawyers mostly do non-litigation stuff, so her hours rarely fluctuate.

I don't use my degree for my profession -- but the fact I have one is good enough for anywhere I've applied. They haven't even cared what it was in. Most employers like to see it because it shows you can finish something. I have a degree in Biblical studies with a minor in music, was a pastor for 7 years, and now am the Ops Director for an A/C company. My past work/studies have nothing to do with what I'm doing now. I have a wife, a beautiful daughter, and my outlet is Church/Volunteering and MTG/Gaming. I don't have all my stuff together by any means, but sticking with something to completion is a big deal no matter what you're trying to accomplish. Keep on keeping on brother =/

Im just gonna leave this here: they are remaking Gauntlet Legends. THE FEELS!

GUNSMOKE!

@dechs I haven't really played it enough, but from what I've played it has been fun. Everyone talks about the druid and priest being OP, but I've had some success with all of them really. The game im most excited about being a part of is HEX though. I did the kickstarter so I'm in the alpha, and they just released the patch for booster drafts. Holy crap is it fun to draft that game. Everything about it has been awesome so far, the biggest draw to me being that they built it for virtual only, so they purposefully make cards do things that paper cards could never do -- ie make 10 copies of this trap card and shuffle them into opponents deck, and when they draw that card they take 5 damage. Another cool one is the keyword *escalation*, everytime you cast that spell the text on the card changes and becomes more powerful. Really cool mechanics, loving it so far.

*vinegar strokes

IDK if any of you are on the HEX alpha, but man drafting is awesome in that game. Heck, everything about hex is awesome lol.

@Z -- 58 is outa control. So ridiculous. You can spend em like ones at the club.

QP total up to 11 -- 4 more for qp's to qualify for prelim =D. I've been running 1 SBD main, 2 wear/tear, 2 fated conflag s/b w the rest very similar. I wanted to slant my s/b toward 3 matchups -- control, g/r monsters, and b/w midrange/control. Been going really well. On the draw vs g/r monsters in the 8 man I just won I curved, s/b on his t2 elf, wear/tear his courser, chains his polu and play phoenix, t4 helix, t5 sbd. Was gross. Was the best game I've played on the draw vs g/r monsters.

Told to "play a real deck count" -- 14

I got sexy time with Khaos last night at FNM. Be jealous.

Will you pull the trigger of my love gun?

@val, grats bud! Being a dad to a baby girl is the best thing ever =D.

Ya muta really makes the deck work well. IDK that it would work without it.

If you aren't sick of me yet, you will be soon. Someone is being featured in not one, not two, not three.....but FOUR CFB contributions next week.

Grats man!

My daughter's name is Zoe. She also approves of them. I wish I was as cool as the guy who beat his girlfriend's ex-husband with Link's sword, but we can't all be rockstars.

As a person with the Hyrule shield tattooed on my body (with my wife and daughter's name in it to be more acceptable), I approve of rupies.

I'm not going to take the time to find it right now but there's a very old article by Mike Flores about why it's important to always shuffle your opponent's deck. Pile shuffling isn't random and if they pick up those piles and then mash them just a few times, they can still know what to expect from where you cut. But if you mash shuffle about 7 times, taking the cut at slightly different places each time, you know for a fact their deck is sufficiently randomized.[/quote]

Oh I know there's a chance they could be that kind of player -- I'm simply going to let them be that kind of player and let their karma beat them if that's how they want to be. I've played magic for about 5 or so years (with a break in the middle when I sold all my cards to pay for my baby's furniture before she was born), and have never cut an opponents deck. I don't like people messing up my cards (which they will sometimes do with their
janky shuffling), so I extend the same courtesy I'd like to be given.

Whenever I play REL I use the dragon shields just because nobody whines about them and they will stand up to the feverish shuffling my opponents subject my cards to hoping that it will affect my draws if they shuffle my deck 400 times. Me? I just tap their deck and you're good. I've had people call a judge on me because I didn't shuffle their deck -- the judge comes over, asks if i saw them shuffle, I say yes, and they say alright. We're done here. Who knew that trusting fellow magic players can put them on tilt before we start, LOL.

Need a few volunteers for my GP Melbourne Report. Because I am covering the game loss incident, I mostly want to make sure that reads acceptably.

I'll be happy to help.

Oh snoes, A Jonny rivalry! Lol, I'm the new guy so I can be referred to as something else if that makes it easier =D.

So since Khaos posted about his PTQ w/ the R/W burn, I figured I would as well

I ran a very similar list, identical m/b with the previous iteration of the s/b -- 4x chained, 4x satyr, 3x spark trooper, 3 toil/trouble, 1 firedancer

I played 8 rounds, SEVEN OF WHICH were g/r monsters. One of them splashed black for a little removal, but it was still exactly g/r monsters.

Satyr firedancer, spark trooper, and searing blood were the all-stars. If I could searing his mana dorks early and keep them off their beats for a turn or two I was generally good. If they didnt rip Domri with an active creature I could usually take out all their creatures with firedancer. I was fine when they wasted a mortars on him -- that still meant they spent a turn doing nothing for their board.

R8 was mono black, which was a rofflestomp. G1 was searing
blood a packrat, skullcrack in response to Gary, helix to the face. G2 was a ginormous trouble to the face that he couldn't recover from despite putting 2 demons out. If only just ONE of my other matchups was anything but g/r monsters, I most likely would've squeeked out one more win.

Spark trooper was an all star in every match I played him, he was generally enough lifegain to keep me in it for one more turn. Double searing blood to a stormbreath was pretty awesome too =D. Firedancer was great in this matchup, he always did serious work. I'm anxious to try out blind obedience out, and love using the viashino instead of trouble. Trouble definitely has done work for me, but the viashino feels so much more consistent. My only fear with him is last breath, but oh well!

Ended up 6-2, losing 2 matches to g/r monsters that just curved out too well. I'm happy that I scraped out that many wins vs my least favorite matchup, and was still able to come in 13th.

Love playing this deck, and can't wait to
make the few changes.

Is control the only matchup you bring viashino in?

Zem I'm excited to try blind obedience. It feels awesome. I love the idea of firstblade instead of toil/trouble. I got some serious value off trouble today, but I feel I got lucky with it.

Khaospawn I made it, nice to meet you all! Looking forward to getting to know you all.