Warning, Magic the Gathering geekery to follow.

So, went to a friend's place yesterday and 12 of us got together and played Magic most of the afternoon. The idea was to play extended constructed until we had a winner, then do some multiplayer games, Emperor, or 2 Headed Giant. Fun fun. I had a crazy week at work, trying to catch up some, and managed to not get a deck built. Worse that that, Saturday morning when I went to find my old decks to fiddle with to play, I found that my 'good' old decks, had been disbuilt, rebuilt, changed in ways I'd forgotten until I looked at them. My five color destruction deck now had counterspells, bad. My lifegain deck, scattered to the four winds. My favorite card carrying tin, MIA. Gah...

So, I picked up a new preconstructed, and added fifteen cards, and played it all day. Weirdly, I ended up almost winning for the day, getting second to a tuned tourney deck. Pretty darn good. Then I played an Emperor, and our side won, in good part to my five color deck being fairly helpful, and a couple of cards that got added at the last minute, suggested by someone else on my team.

Anyway, just looking back, kind of weird, started out so frustrated because the decks I thought I wanted weren't ready, then did well without them. That probably means something, though it might not too. Might have just been lucky.

Anyway, off to see a girl today. Girls rock, you know?
-b

Warning, Magic the Gathering geekery to follow.

So, went to a friend's place yesterday and 12 of us got together and played Magic most of the afternoon. The idea was to play extended constructed until we had a winner, then do some multiplayer games, Emperor, or 2 Headed Giant. Fun fun. I had a crazy week at work, trying to catch up some, and managed to not get a deck built. Worse that that, Saturday morning when I went to find my old decks to fiddle with to play, I found that my 'good' old decks, had been disbuilt, rebuilt, changed in ways I'd forgotten until I looked at them. My five color destruction deck now had counterspells, bad. My lifegain deck, scattered to the four winds. My favorite card carrying tin, MIA. Gah...

So, I picked up a new preconstructed, and added fifteen cards, and played it all day. Weirdly, I ended up almost winning for the day, getting second to a tuned tourney deck. Pretty darn good. Then I played an Emperor, and our side won, in good part to my five color deck being fairly helpful, and a couple of cards that got added at the last minute, suggested by someone else on my team.

Anyway, just looking back, kind of weird, started out so frustrated because the decks I thought I wanted weren't ready, then did well without them. That probably means something, though it might not too. Might have just been lucky.

Anyway, off to see a girl today. Girls rock, you know?
-b