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Because I've got a lot to do, instead of going to the tournament today (again), I've stayed home and naturally, I've spent it reading instead of working. Of course, why not? I have a hefty roster of books to move through, and I have been enjoying them. On Wednesday, I stopped in to Half-Price books, browsing its rather anemic Philosophy section. There was one bookcase near the door dedicated to it, next to the 4 or 5 cases touting used volumes of new-age religion. My theory : philosophers are not selling their books back and new age spirituality is overtaking philosophy. Both are likely to be true. There is nothing new about this at all.
I bought Ralph Steadman's "The Jokes Over : Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson" on a lark, because they did not have a bevy of Hunter's work for sale. I had to mosey on over to Barnes and Noble, where they tried to sell me a 20 dollar book card that gives me a discount. If I didn't buy something around 75% of my books from Half Price these days, I would of jumped on it. As it is, I still might. Even 25% is a hefty number. Who knows how many books I have read these last few months already?
Yesterday, I went to the draft tournament and went 2-2 with an absolute wreck of a deck. I placed something like 12th out of 16, only saving my last two games because I was playing against a couple of teenage megalomaniacs with vacent eyes and awful voices. "What." I thought. "It looks like their mother dressed them." and I think she might of. I saw her later, beaten and terrible, with a bent nose and a small stick that she beat those boys about the heads and shoulders with. What a terrible life they must lead, and that is where they must of picked up their terrible habits. I had to denounce one in front of the store when he attempted to cheat for the third or fourth time.
"No!" I shouted. He looked genuinely shocked. Nobody up till now had commented. I felt bad, but I didn't know what else to do. Explaining calmly hadn't worked, and besides knocking him about, I couldn't think of any better way to stop him from doing whatever he please, short of asking him to be ejected from the store. "Better a battered ego" I thought "then outright rejection. He will get over this." But he still lost.
Next Friday is the last Standard tournament that my deck will be able to be registered for. I have not gotten to play (and lose) with it in any sanctioned format as of yet, and I want to do it before next Saturday's pre-release, so I am strongly thinking about attending over my regular duties. This is long and awful, so I will cut it for you. You don't need this crap plugging up your friends list. It is bad enough I post so much as it is, I understand.
This is the list I've settled on for Friday, should I go.
RGB Land Destruction
R/G/B Land Destruction
Creatures
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Putrid Leech
2 Hell's Thunder
4 Fulminator Mage
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Broodmate Dragon
Spells
4 Manamorphose
3 Terminate
2 Incinerate
4 Rain of Tears
4 Bituminous Blast
Land
3 Savage Lands
3 Karpulsan Forest
3 Sulpherous Springs
6 Mountains
6 Forests
3 Swamps
SB
4 Pyroclasm
3 Guttural Response
1 Vithian Renegade
2 Naturalize
1 Terminate
3 Jund Charm
1 Thought Hemorrhage or Putrid Leech
I have not gotten an oppertunity to play with this much, but when it plays, it is extremely smooth. There may be some final modifications and I have actually purchased some additional cards online again, but they are cards that have withstood the test of time and I expect to play them for a very long time to come. This deck itself is very consistant, and I enjoy playing it. I have trimmed the land destruction, but it still comes when I want it. It would be terrible if not for the cascade mechanic, and I get to skip an awful lot of land with it. I do not get mana screwed, but hopefully my opponent will. Yes, absolutely.
Birds of Paradise are expensive, and they are worth the money. I bought an additional two, and they are the perfect first turn play. They are the only card I do not really want to cascade into, which is why I didn't outfit the deck with four Mogg Fanatics. It is designed really only to have cards I want to play and cascade into. The leeches really are good at any point in the game, and I cascade into Hell's Thunder with Bloodbraid Elf often enough to turn a risky game into a sweep. It is good, and I enjoy doing it.
Manamorphose has not dissapointed me at all. The mana base is not really wonky, but there are times I can not hard-cast something I want to play, and Manamorphose not only makes it possible, but makes my deck more consistant. There are Pyroclasms against Faries, and I can see just going full aggro in some circumstances where it seems unlikely that the Fulminators will be any good. Maybe add another Incinerate instead of a Terminate for additional damage. I'm not sure. Pyroclasm wrecks some of my creatures unless I spend life, but that is a risk I am ready to take.
When Rain of Tears moves on, it's likely the deck will just become another RGB aggro deck. It will sport 4 Lightning Bolts, 4 Duress, and maybe some combination of Black Knight, Putrid Leech, and Blightning. Terrible stuff.
Because I've got a lot to do, instead of going to the tournament today (again), I've stayed home and naturally, I've spent it reading instead of working. Of course, why not? I have a hefty roster of books to move through, and I have been enjoying them. On Wednesday, I stopped in to Half-Price books, browsing its rather anemic Philosophy section. There was one bookcase near the door dedicated to it, next to the 4 or 5 cases touting used volumes of new-age religion. My theory : philosophers are not selling their books back and new age spirituality is overtaking philosophy. Both are likely to be true. There is nothing new about this at all.
I bought Ralph Steadman's "The Jokes Over : Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson" on a lark, because they did not have a bevy of Hunter's work for sale. I had to mosey on over to Barnes and Noble, where they tried to sell me a 20 dollar book card that gives me a discount. If I didn't buy something around 75% of my books from Half Price these days, I would of jumped on it. As it is, I still might. Even 25% is a hefty number. Who knows how many books I have read these last few months already?
Yesterday, I went to the draft tournament and went 2-2 with an absolute wreck of a deck. I placed something like 12th out of 16, only saving my last two games because I was playing against a couple of teenage megalomaniacs with vacent eyes and awful voices. "What." I thought. "It looks like their mother dressed them." and I think she might of. I saw her later, beaten and terrible, with a bent nose and a small stick that she beat those boys about the heads and shoulders with. What a terrible life they must lead, and that is where they must of picked up their terrible habits. I had to denounce one in front of the store when he attempted to cheat for the third or fourth time.
"No!" I shouted. He looked genuinely shocked. Nobody up till now had commented. I felt bad, but I didn't know what else to do. Explaining calmly hadn't worked, and besides knocking him about, I couldn't think of any better way to stop him from doing whatever he please, short of asking him to be ejected from the store. "Better a battered ego" I thought "then outright rejection. He will get over this." But he still lost.
Next Friday is the last Standard tournament that my deck will be able to be registered for. I have not gotten to play (and lose) with it in any sanctioned format as of yet, and I want to do it before next Saturday's pre-release, so I am strongly thinking about attending over my regular duties. This is long and awful, so I will cut it for you. You don't need this crap plugging up your friends list. It is bad enough I post so much as it is, I understand.
This is the list I've settled on for Friday, should I go.
RGB Land Destruction
R/G/B Land Destruction
Creatures
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Putrid Leech
2 Hell's Thunder
4 Fulminator Mage
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Broodmate Dragon
Spells
4 Manamorphose
3 Terminate
2 Incinerate
4 Rain of Tears
4 Bituminous Blast
Land
3 Savage Lands
3 Karpulsan Forest
3 Sulpherous Springs
6 Mountains
6 Forests
3 Swamps
SB
4 Pyroclasm
3 Guttural Response
1 Vithian Renegade
2 Naturalize
1 Terminate
3 Jund Charm
1 Thought Hemorrhage or Putrid Leech
I have not gotten an oppertunity to play with this much, but when it plays, it is extremely smooth. There may be some final modifications and I have actually purchased some additional cards online again, but they are cards that have withstood the test of time and I expect to play them for a very long time to come. This deck itself is very consistant, and I enjoy playing it. I have trimmed the land destruction, but it still comes when I want it. It would be terrible if not for the cascade mechanic, and I get to skip an awful lot of land with it. I do not get mana screwed, but hopefully my opponent will. Yes, absolutely.
Birds of Paradise are expensive, and they are worth the money. I bought an additional two, and they are the perfect first turn play. They are the only card I do not really want to cascade into, which is why I didn't outfit the deck with four Mogg Fanatics. It is designed really only to have cards I want to play and cascade into. The leeches really are good at any point in the game, and I cascade into Hell's Thunder with Bloodbraid Elf often enough to turn a risky game into a sweep. It is good, and I enjoy doing it.
Manamorphose has not dissapointed me at all. The mana base is not really wonky, but there are times I can not hard-cast something I want to play, and Manamorphose not only makes it possible, but makes my deck more consistant. There are Pyroclasms against Faries, and I can see just going full aggro in some circumstances where it seems unlikely that the Fulminators will be any good. Maybe add another Incinerate instead of a Terminate for additional damage. I'm not sure. Pyroclasm wrecks some of my creatures unless I spend life, but that is a risk I am ready to take.
When Rain of Tears moves on, it's likely the deck will just become another RGB aggro deck. It will sport 4 Lightning Bolts, 4 Duress, and maybe some combination of Black Knight, Putrid Leech, and Blightning. Terrible stuff.
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