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Claw of the Dragon
Magiccardmarket.eu is basically (European) ebay for MTG, by the way.
edited 18th Sep '14 4:09:09 PM by 2Zak
They call it the Rumour Mill because every time one specific guy posts I definitely feel cards going from my library to my graveyard
Lost in the finals of my first attempt at playing the magic online cube. Had a pretty sweet blue/white fliers deck that i was very happy with but combine me not understanding how my cards work in game one and my opponent getting the perfect top-decks in game 3 i was unable to win. Still made back my entry fee though. I definitely wasn't playing my best at the end there since i was just happy to win any prizes.
My maindeck: 1 Coalition Relic 1 Vendilion Clique 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner 1 Archangel of Thune 1 Martial Coup 1 Geist of Saint Traft 1 Wrath of God 1 Court Hussar 1 Stonecloaker 1 Exalted Angel 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad 1 Hero of Bladehold 1 Oust 1 Mulldrifter 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence 1 Glen Elendra Archmage 1 Celestial Flare 1 Umezawa's Jitte 1 Sword of Fire and Ice 1 Restoration Angel 1 Journey to Nowhere 1 Mother of Runes 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 1 Windswept Heath 1 Mystic Gate 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Flooded Strand 1 Arcane Sanctum 1 Adarkar Wastes 1 Celestial Colonnade 5 Plains 3 Island 2 Swamp
edited 18th Sep '14 7:06:22 PM by mrshine
No, I don't work for them. I hock the cards I find too expensive to keep there, and I get my single cards and boosters I use for drafting there. Just thought I'd give a tip.
So, I just got back home from the prerelease, and I gotta say it went really well for me.
While I had to settle for my third clan choice (Mardu and Temur where all taken already by the time I got to pick a pack), my Sealed pool had both a Sidisi, a Sorin, and a foil Treasure cruise. Went 2-1-1 and actually won a single prize booster. :D
And I gotta say, playing with Delve is way more fun than I expected. It basically adds a whole new resource to the game to consider, so you need to put the right mix of delve cards and cards the enable Delve together, which is a pretty fun thing to figure out imho. 
When I hear stories about places running out of pre-release boxes, it makes me glad that my store has as many pre-release events as it does.
And that I've been getting into the early ones each time.
Man, I think my store still has pre-release boxes from Born and Nyx left over. Possibly even earlier, too. Couldn't have been that long ago they still had a handful of Dragon's Maze pre-release things left over.
Anyone up for a game or three?
I'm game.
Room's up.
Claw of the Dragon
Prerelease report:
Opened UW fetchland. Got a promo Crater's Claw, a foil Icy Blast and a Clever Impersonator. Opened Sultai rares. But I was Temur. Went 2-0. Had lunch. Then went 2-4 due to my deck being obnoxious to me all the four afternoon rounds (had to mulligan to five or less literally half of the matches). A friend of mine was Sultai, but got Mindswipe, the 4/4 for GUR, Bear's Companion...
It was fun and I got neat cards, but losing because of mana flood or excessive mulliganing sucks (mostly because not playing is not fun), especially after a 2-0. I was second for a while there.
PS: Oh, right, I also yelled TEMUUR! when they asked who had chosen Temur as their clan to hand out the boxes. I think I startled the girl who was sitting at my right.
PPS: I also made a promise to a friend to always yell TEMUUR! when I played Roar of Challenge
from now on.
edited 20th Sep '14 1:55:34 PM by 2Zak
They call it the Rumour Mill because every time one specific guy posts I definitely feel cards going from my library to my graveyard
Just opened the most busted Abzan pool at the pre-release. 2x Wingmate Roc (a foil!), 2x Ivorytusk Fortress, Utter End, Abzan Charm, 2x Abzan guide and 8 other guys with outlast (2x of the trample, first strike and reach and 1x of the flying and the lifelink one). Went 6-0 but split in the last round with the other guy.
A Practical Observer
I really need to start paying attention to this thread again...
So, I'm back from my prerelease. Went Jeskai and almost all my rares were Jeskai (Deflecting Palm, Jeskai Ascendancy, 2x Flying Crane Technique (1 promo), Crater's Claws) so I, of course, went Jeskai in the typical "prowess" build, which was... hit or miss? Sometimes the deck went crazy and killed everything and sometimes... nothing. Splashing black seemed to help. There are a lot of nice black cards for a Jeskai-style deck. And I was only ever manascrewed once in 4-colors, and even then I was able to put up a good fight. All in all, it went well.
''The eternal question of reality, it still stands today.''
The Shrouded Knight
I went 1-2-1 at my prerelease. I chose Jeskai. My rares were:
- Thousand Winds (Promo)
- Mantis Rider
- Jeskai Ascendancy
- Deflecting Palm
- Mindswipe
- Butcher of the Horde
Beginning to think nobody drafts white in the mtgo cube, it seems so wide open. At least i keep doing well enough to chain into more drafts, so that's neat. Also, going 2-2 in my pre-release was mediocre but opening a flooded strand that i traded in for store credit made it a worthwhile afternoon.
Wall of text Pre-Release report:
Things didn't start well when I came to late and almost couldn't participate in tournament anymore. Both Abzan and Mardu were already taken, so I settled with Temur.
My pool was decent, albeit with little Temur stuff, but my mana curve was totally screwed up. My deck had two one drops. I won three games total, and those were the ones where I got my deck going fast. Opened a WB fetchland and traded it for a Genesis Hydra and some other green stuff.
In round one, I got to play aggressive and utterly destroyed the WG deck of my opponent. Since there was some time left we played another game, where he got his life up to 50 and built a wall of meat. So I used my Ashcloud Pheonix to blow myself up.
In round two I faced another first timer playing Abzan. Both games were tense and by far the most fun of the day. I got his life down fast, but couldn't finish him because his Lifelink. In both games he rolled over me with an army of buffed up warriors.
My opponent in round three showed a Temur deck done right: I got busted within ten minutes and played mere three spells in that round. That guy blasted through the other players at the same speed.
In round four I fought a former Jeskai player now using a "five color cool stuff" deck. I didn't get to do much in game one thanks to having the wrong mana, vice versa in game two. In game three, no one could play anything for the first few turns, except for my 0/3. My opponent quickly got board control with big three color things, I however could steal his Surrak Dragonclaw for a turn and trample him down. But thanks to his Lifelink creature, he still stood and despite me using pretty much every control spell I had, I could do nothing against him slowly cleaning my board while getting his life back.
So in the end, I placed 12th out of 14 with 1-3-0. I won two booster packs, one for participating and one on luck because that one was still left. It was really fun and my deck actually did well considering I had only five minutes to built it.
Two problems I had during the tournament: My horrible mana curve of course, and Abzan Guide. Except for the other Temur player, every one of my opponents used it. And he was the reason I lost most of the time. Sure I could dish out 30 damage quite fast, but I can't hold board control at the same time.
It's also a bit of shame that I never got to use my Dragonthrone, but Ghostfire Blade was a worthy representations of Artifacts amongst all those boring banners.
On another note, no one played Jeskai. Three players picked the Jeskai kit, but one played WG and the other two went five colors. Didn't see Sultai either, except for one rare I had.
Claw of the Dragon
I think I got a picture of my deck laid out on a curve somewhere. Yeah, here
◊ it is (the bottom cards are the cards I would probably want to play as soon as possible, there were exceptions though). You'll have to make out what the cards are based on the small fragments of art you can see, though, they're in Spanish (the red one without any art visible is Tormenting Voice). Now that I think of it, maybe my deck would have done better if I scrapped a couple spells and put two more bomb-ish creatures on it, but hey, deckbuilding is not my forte, especially when I've only slept three hours that night.
On the other hand, I think I managed to hit the sweet spot on my mana base, since I only got color screwed once and never had any mana problems except for the fact that half my opening hands were either a cluster of lands or just completely devoid of them, which I attribute to Real Life having a glitched randomizer (I was running 17, so that shouldn't have been a problem).
I saw few Abzan Guides (one or two), actually, I saw a ton of the Sultai's common Morpher (this one). The last guy I played had three. THREE. And played them consecutively. Screw that thing. The one player who had Abzan Guide killed my Clever Impersonator right after I copied it. So evil.
As for Jeskai players, I too saw just a few. And the table I was sitting at had a cluster of Sultai players right next to me. However, Master of Pearls won so many games at that prerelease that I think Jeskai was well-represented enough.
By the way, Scion of Glaciers carried me through so many of the matches (even if I went 2-4, I won at least one match in every game except two) that I'm actually considering he might not be that bad for Constructed play in a midrange-controlish sort of deck. Sort of like a poor man's Morphling. I'll have to try it if I manage to go to an FNM next week.
edited 21st Sep '14 5:05:56 AM by 2Zak
They call it the Rumour Mill because every time one specific guy posts I definitely feel cards going from my library to my graveyard
Back after a long hiatus
I wasn't able to go to the prerelease 
Anyone up for some havoc?
Room's up.
Your opponent having a recurring Massacre Wurm while you are holding on to an Empty the Pits with a really big Graveyard is a huge blow to your confidence, I can tell you.
I would have really preferred to get my Living Death in that last turn than Lashwrithe.
Got back from the prerelease. Played Jeskai and it worked out well for the most part, with Seeker of the Way being one of my heavy-hitters and flying crane technique single-handedly winning several games.
Sadly, I only went 1-2 overall since it's far too easy for someone to simply counter flying crane technique or play burn spells to shut down smaller attackers.
Anyone up for a game?