Online Journal

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006--Happy All Hallow's Eve!

So today, I got off work early so I could go get my copy of FF12 from GameStop. So I pop in the disc, and you know what's the first thing I hear? The Prelude! (aka, the Crystal Theme) You know what's the third thing I hear? The Prologue! (aka, the Final Fantasy Theme) Almost directly transcribed from the FF4 version! I'm loving this game already, and I haven't even played it!

So I do play it. And it's such an awesome game. It alludes to the previous FF games in so many ways, and it does it subtly, yet awesomely. I ended up playing a good 6 hours on the first night.

Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 3) Total: 6

Good Game!

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Monday, October 30, 2006--So tonight, there's gonna be a midnight release of Final Fantasy 12 at GameStop. However, I'm not gonna be stupid and wait in line when I could prolly just walk into the store tomorrow afternoon and pick up a copy. It's not like I'm gonna be playing FF12 tonight at midnight anyway.


Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 4) Total: 8

Good Night!

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Sunday, October 29, 2006--Today, I wrote my journal entries for the last two days while the events were still fresh in my mind. (Ironically, this journal entry about me writing journal entries was written on Nov 13.)

Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 2) Total: 6

[good night]

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Saturday, October 28, 2006--So today was States. Before the tournament, I met with the Crossroads folks at Denny's and had breakfast before carpooling to the tournament (which was across the bridge in Seattle).

In round 1, I played against the previous State Champion. He was running Solar Pox. (It's a deck that runs Haakon and Court Hussar as a card drawing engine and Pox for killing stuff. It also uses Dread Return to reanimate Akroma. It's pretty powerful, but convoluted. I don't like it much.) He beat me in game 1, so I sideboarded in my land destruction. In game 2, I managed to slow him down, but he was able to get out his Akroma. However, I had a Two-Headed Sliver, a Bonesplitter Sliver, and some other slivers, and I managed to attack around his Akroma for the win. In game 3, however, he got his revenge and beat me. Record: 0-1

In round 2, I played a red-white-green aggro deck (which I later discovered was Zoo). At first, I thought I was doing fine. Then all of a sudden, my opponent went burn, burn, burn, burn, and I was dead. It happened to me two games in a row. So I lost. Record: 0-2

In round 3, I played against the guy who I carpooled here with: a dood named Bryson. He was running Solar Pox. He beat me. Record: 0-3

In round 4, I played against a dood who appeared to be a total beginner. He had a crap deck that I can barely even describe because it was so crappy, he didn't know what a mulligan was, and he had never heard of Split Second. Needless to say, I beat him. Record: 1-3

In round 5, I played against a dood with a red-white-blue deck featuring Lightning Angel. He beat me in game 1, but I beat him in game 2. Unfortunately, in game 3, he sided in Teferi's Moat, which basically shut down my rush offensive. Record: 1-4

In round 6, I played against a Boros deck. He beat me in game 1, but I beat him in game 2. Unfortunately, in game 3, I was so mana screwed that it wasn't even funny. Record: 1-5

In round 7, I played against a dood who ran Mono-Blue aggro (just for fun), featuring Flying Men. It was amusing, but I smashed his face in with my slivers. Record: 2-5

In round 8, I played against an Izzet Deck. In game 1, he never managed to get any creatures in play, so I beat him pretty easily. However, since I didn't see any creatures, I decided, what the heck, I'll bring in my land destruction. That proved to be a mistake in game 2, because this time, he managed to bring out his Wee Dragonauts and his Gelectrodes. Since I took out burns for land destruction, I didn't have enough burns to stop his army of small thingies and burns. In game 3, I brought back in my burns and was able to burn every single creature he had. At one point, he decided to Browbeat me, and I was like, "Hmm, I think I'll take the 5. I'm at 15." Then, later, he Browbeat me again, and I was like, "Hmm, I think I'll take the 5. I'm at 10." Then, even later, he Browbeat me again, and I was like, "Hmm, I think I'll take the 5. I'm at 5." Then, I won. Record: 3-5

So yeah. I failed my goal of winning half my games by a single game. On the bright side, though, 2 out of the 3 Dragonstormers in my playgroup made it to the top 8. And they were the only Dragonstormers in Washington to make top 8. (So yeah, we're hoping that when people net-deck Dragonstorm, they're gonna net-deck Crossroads Dragonstorm.) One of them was eliminated in the top 8 and the other was eliminated in the top 4, though, both by the same deck. That deck (a Boros deck) went on to win the Championships outright.

In any case, I've had my fun with Slivers. Next time, I'm gonna play a serious deck. (Unless the next time is 2-Headed Giant, in which case I'm gonna get another dood to play Slivers, too, and we can have a 2HG Sliver team. It's gonna be awesome!)

Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 1) Total: 5

Unlike most entries written after this one, this entry was written on Sunday, Oct 29, so I actually remembered this Good Night!

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Friday, October 27, 2006--After work, I went to Crossroads Mall to play another Standard-Legal Proxy-Legal Non-Sanctioned Magic: the Gathering Tournament, hosted by Uncle's Games.


So in round 1, I played against Ryuichi, would played mono-black aggro. I couldn't keep up, and he wiped my Slivers away pretty quickly. Record: 0-1

I got a bye in round 2, so I used the opportunity to go get some dinner. Mmm... Korean BBQ Spicy Pork... Record: 1-1

In round 3, I played against Jeff again. He was the guy with the Dragonstorm deck who defeated me last week. This time, I tried the Land Destruction strategy. It seemed to slow him down in game 2, but not in game 3, so in the end, he beat me anyway. Record: 1-2

Gabe didn't bother putting up pairings for people with 2 losses, so instead of playing round 4, I played a 3-player FFA with some other doods.

In any case, it seems that this week, the players are a lot more serious, what with States being tomorrow. Last week, I cleaned up the competition. This week, the competition cleaned up me. (I guess today, I was in Soviet Russia, huh?) Well, regardless, I'm going to States tomorrow. I already knew I wasn't going to win when I got my ass kicked by Gruul and Orzhov and now Dragonstorm. Oh well. As a casual player, the important thing is to have fun!

Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 3) Total: 7

Unlike most entries written before this one, this entry was written on Sunday, Oct 29, so I actually remembered this Good Night!

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Thursday, October 26, 2006--Shortest entry ever!

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006--

Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 2) Total: 5

Good night, milady!

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006--Happy Birthday Cindy S!

Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 4) Total: 10

I said Good Day!

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Monday, October 23, 2006--If I don't remember what I did today, should I just not write the journal entry? (This entry was written on Nov 13.)


Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 4) Total: 8

Good Night! Sweet Dreams!

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Sunday, October 22, 2006--I spent most of today writing old journal entries that need to be writtened. (Not all of them were written today. Most of the M:tG event bloop entries were written the day of. That's why they're longer and have more details--'cause I wrote them while I still remembered.) But yeah. All the entries since October 11 were written today. (That's, like, a dozen or something.)


Lamed. Still MLB today, so no Simpsons. Lamed.

Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 1) Total: 7

Log: Entries from October 10 until October 22 were completed and uploaded on November 10.

Good Night!

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Saturday, October 21, 2006--Today, I ran a playtest against Justin to test my new sideboard strategy against Dragonstorm (namely, land destruction). Apparently it worked, although in game 3, Justin nearly scared me shitless when he tapped out at 2 mana and played 3 Rites of Flame in a row. Fortunately, that only got him 8 mana, so instead of playing Dragonstorm (which he didn't have in hand), he hardcasted a Bogardan Hellkite. Fortunately, I managed to destroy his last two lands, leaving him landless for the rest of the game. Also fortunately, I managed to draw into two Might Slivers, and their combined might managed to stop the Hellkite. Justin conceded, having no land, and therefore, no way to win.

We didn't build the Dragonstorm deck off an actual decklist, though. We just kinda mangled one together from scratch, so we don't know if it was an optimal deck. Still, the concept of stopping Dragonstorm with land destruction seems pretty solid. Time to test it against the real 'stormers on Tuesday and on Friday, and then for reals next Saturday.


I also discovered that I now have 4 or more of every common and uncommon sliver from Time Spiral, with the exception of Telekinetic Sliver and Firewake Sliver. (And the last Firewake Sliver is coming in from eBay.) Does this mean I should stop drafting slivers and actually draft an archetype that's not so 5-colorish and risky?

Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 6) Total: 7

Good Night!

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Friday, October 20, 2006--

After work today, I went to Uncle's Games to participate in my first ever Constructed Magic: the Gathering Tournament. As you have undoubtedly surmised from my previous posts, I brought my Standard-legal Red-Green Sliver deck. It was a proxy-legal tournament, which was good, because I don't have all the cards for my deck quite yet. A lot of them I had already ordered on eBay and are en route.

So anyways, in my first round, I played against a dood who had a 4-color deck. Needless to say, he got color-screwed badly, and I ended up winning. Record: 1-0

In round 2, I played against a kid. Within about 3 turns, I realized he was playing an Orzhov deck. On the one hand, my Slivers had lost to Orzhov during playtests, so I didn't think I could win. On the other hand, since I was expected to lose (I was expected to lose to begin with, coming in with a Sliver deck), there was no pressure on me at all. Fortunately, in game 1, even though my opponent had boatloads of Shrieking Grotesques and a Ghost Council, for some reason, he didn't attack (possibly because he's not an aggro player, and doesn't understand the need to constantly apply pressure to the opponent). After building up an army of large slivers (thanks to the Might Sliver and the Bonesplitter Sliver), I overran him for the win. Game 2, I think he won. In game 3, shortly into the game, I had a Firewake Sliver in play, two lands (representing both Red and Green), plus a Skarrg (, the Rage Pits). My opponent played a Castigate on me, and I revealed my hand, which consisted of a Gemhide Sliver, a Bonesplitter Sliver, a Might Sliver, and a Fury Sliver. Now, at this point, I didn't have enough mana to play any of my big threats. (I had 3 mana. Bonesplitter costs 4. Might costs 5. Fury costs 6.) So the correct play would be to either remove my acceleration (Gemhide) and making it harder to play my threats, or to remove the Bonesplitter, which is the threat that would come online the soonest. Unfortunately, my opponent chose to remove the Fury Sliver, on the grounds that it would mess him up the most. (Apparently, he forgot about the whole mana thing.) So the next turn, I draw a land, play it, play the Gemhide, and then use the Gemhide's ability to play the Bonesplitter, and start smashing face. My opponent manages to play out a Shrieking Grotesque ('causing me to discard my Might Sliver). The next turn, however, I attack with all my Slivers. Now, if he had chosen to block my Gemhide Sliver or my Firewake Sliver, my opponent could have traded his Grotesque with one of those Slivers. Unfortunately, he decided to block my Bonesplitter Sliver (a 4/2) with his Shrieking Grotesque (a 2/1). Normally, that would have been an excellent play, but he forgot about my Skarrg. So I used my Skarrg to pump my Bonesplitter to a 5/3 trampler, causing him to waste his Grotesque and dealing 10 damage to him. The next turn, it was game over. So yeah. Slivers beat Orzhov, but only because it was a sub-optimal build of Orzhov and because of my opponent's play mistakes. Record: 2-0

In round 3, I played a guy who had a Red-White-Green control deck. He had a really good deck, but I somehow managed to push through for the win. Record: 3-0

Okay, so I totally didn't expect my Sliver deck to do so well. I mean, during my playtests, I get slaughtered by Gruul, Orzhov, and Dragonstorm. Apparently, no one's playing Gruul or Orzhov or something like that. (People are playing Dragonstorm, though, and I suspect people will be playing good Gruul and Orzhov decks at States to crush people.) But yeah. At this point, after a performance like this, my Slivers want to go to States, so I will take them there. This is a 4 round tournament, so I'm already guaranteed at least second place. Anyways, on to the next round.

Round 4... On turn 1, my opponent plays a tapped Steam Vents and suspends a Lotus Bloom. At that point, I go, "Oh crap! You're playing Dragonstorm." Like I said before, since I'm playing against a deck that I expect to slaughter me, there's no pressure on me to perform. Especially since I already know that I'm guaranteed prizes. So anyways, in game 1, my opponent gets the Dragonstorm the turn before I'm able to kill him. In game 2, my opponent made some play mistakes (by his own admission, even though I don't know what they were), so I managed to pull off a win. In game 3, again, he gets the Dragonstorm the turn before I'm able to kill him. Final Record: 3-1

Pretty good for my first ever Constructed tournament. Slivers helped out a lot. You know, by being really good.

So yeah. By being in second place, I won 6 booster packs. I wasn't sure whether I should crack them all ('cause you know, I enjoy cracking boosters), or if I should save them for the next draft ('cause you know, it saves me about $10 per draft if I bring my own boosters... kinda...), so in the end, I compromised and cracked 3 of the boosters and saved the other 3. Rares (and purples) in my prize packs include: Deep-Sea Kraken, Magus of the Mirror, Thelonite Hermit, Dauthi Slayer, Gaea's Blessing, Stormscape Familiar.

Afterwards, me and a bunch of other doods (led by fellow 'softie Brian) went to Denny's for late night dinner. Apparently, it was the playgroup's tradition to go to Denny's after Friday Night Magic. There, I ate breakfast for dinner and we discussed decks and States (MTG State Championships on the 28th). After telling Brian how my Red-Green Sliver deck loses to Dragonstorm, he suggested that I run lots of land destruction in my sideboard. Dragonstorm can't go off if it can't play spells! (The #1 answer to Dragonstorm, apparently, is Shadow of Doubt, but it's a blue-black hybrid card, so I don't have access to it.)

Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 5) Total: 10

And I still managed to get home before midnight to see the re-run of today's Battlestar Galactica. There were some awesome scenes. *spoiler*Like, for example, the Galactica FTL jump in atmosphere.*spoiler*

So yeah... See you at States!

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Thursday, October 19, 2006--Today, Michael, Rohan, and I meant to go to the Pro Club to finally get some exercise. Except that Michael and Rohan (being testers) were really busy and unable to make it. And I didn't feel like working out alone. Next week, hopefully.

Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 2) Total: 5

!thgiN dooG

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006--
between magic games
makes for boring entries here
good stuff on Friday


Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 4) Total: 7

Good Night!

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006--

As is normal for Tuesday evenings, I drafted with the building 16 doods again. I didn't really mean to, but somehow, I ended up drafting slivers again. It was unfortunate, because there was another guy at the table drafting slivers, too, so we both ended up with sub-par sliver decks.

In any case, here's my decklist:
5xPlains
5xIsland
6xMountain
Terramorphic Expanse
Sidewinder Sliver
Pull from Eternity
2xTemporal Isolation
D'Avenant Healer
Essence Sliver
Sage of Epityr
Think Twice
Snapback
2xShadow Sliver
Telekinetic Sliver
Aetherflame Wall
Ironclaw Buzzards
Viashino Bladescout
2xOrcish Cannonade
Fury Sliver
Disintegrate
2xOpaline Sliver
2xVenser's Sliver

As you can see, I went down to 3 colors to try to get some consistency.

Other cards in my pool: Dralnu, Lich Lord; Lim-Dul the Necromancer.

I ended up playing the other sliver dood in round 1 (which is how I found out that someone else had drafted slivers). Unfortunately for me, he had a Sedge Sliver, and since I didn't have any swamps, he had the advantage.

I also did some test with my Standard-Legal Red-Green Sliver deck. First round, I played against Alan Comer's Ixidron deck. And, well, Alan Comer is Alan Comer. To no one's surprise, he beat me. Then, I played against some dood's Dragonstorm deck. It was so fast, it scared the shit out of me. The deck was basically ignore me for a few turns (or maybe Remand or otherwise counter some stuff to slow me down), and then get a Dragonstorm for three or four, summoning a bunch of Borgardan Hellkites. Yeah. Dragonstorm scares the shit out of me.

So yeah. My Slivers lose to Gruul, Orzhov, and Dragonstorm. I don't think I stand a chance at States. However, Gabe from Uncle's Games announced today that on Friday, Uncle's Games will be holding a non-sanctioned proxy-legal standard tournament, so I guess at the very least, I should take my Slivers there as a proving grounds.

Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 3) Total: 9

Good Night!

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Monday, October 16, 2006--Happy Birthday Alan Watson. We lost him to World of Warcraft. My his real life spirit rest in peace... as his WoW character continues to kick Alliance ass. Or something.

You know what I need? Some junk food in my apartment. To quote Jrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8 (from Futurama), "There are plenty of reasons to eat: hunger, boredom, wanting to be the world's fattest man, but revenge isn't one of them." So yeah. I can eat junk food when I'm bored. Except no, I need to lose weight. So it's a good thing there isn't junk food in my apartment.

Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 1) Total: 5

Good Night!

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Sunday, October 15, 2006--Today, I drove mom back to the airport, as she would be flying home today.

Damned MLB. I wanted to watch my Sunday Night animated sitcoms on Fox (ie, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad).

Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 5) Total: 8

God Knight!

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Saturday, October 14, 2006--Happy Birthday Princess Vivian!
Mom: No, you don't have to wash the dishes. I'll wash those dishes for you. That's what I came here to do.
me: I thought you came here to visit me.
Mom: That and to wash dishes, clean up your apartment, buy you new stuff, and fill the refridgerator with zip-loc bags full of ready-to-cook meals.

I guess Mom just can't stop being Mom, even after both her sons moved away.


We also had Dim Sum today. Mmm... Dim Sum...

Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 1) Total: 5

Good Night!

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Friday, October 13, 2006--Happy Friday the 13th! Lucky lucky me!

Except that my mother (after re-arranging everything and cooking dinner) dragged me off to Target to buy some stuff. Fortunately, she's paying for it, so it's all good.

She did, however, buy me a weight scale and forced me to weigh myself. Apparently, I gained 15 pounds (I guess it's to make up for the Freshman Fifteen I didn't gain), so now I gotta lose that weight again.

I did discover that I use too much cooking oil in my cooking. Like, about twice as much as the amount my mom uses. So maybe that's why I gained so much weight.

Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 5) Total: 7

I also watched the new episode of Battlestar Galactica.

Good Night!

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Thursday, October 12, 2006--So today, my mom flew in from San Jose to come visit me, so I drove to the airport to pick her up. Unfortunately, the traffic was very bad (as it often is on weekday evenings... you know, rush hour?). On our way back, we stopped at Kiku Sushi for dinner.


Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 1) Total: 6

Good Night!

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006--Happy Birthday Justin Kuo! and Lizzie Choi.

Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 3) Total: 4

Good Night!

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006--
After work, I went to another booster draft in Building 16. Apparently, Alan Comer (the guy who helped make Magic Online and Hall of Famer) was there. He sat to my right during the draft. Which I assume is either a really good thing or a really bad thing.

Anyways, so I opened my third pack. It's one of those legendary triple-rare packs. I got a foil Wheel of Fate, a Jaya Ballard, and an Uthden Troll.

me: Oh my god! I just got a triple-rare pack!
Comer: Wow, that's a crazy pack. You should show everyone. It'd amuse them.

(It's a casual non-sanctioned draft, so it doesn't matter.) And while the three rares are on the table, I grab the Jaya Ballard.

me: Hmm... I should prolly at least look at the other 12 cards in the pack.
Comer: Look, but don't take. You've already made your pick.

I ended up making a Sliver deck, just like last week. Except this week, the Sliver deck was much better. I had more slivers and a better selection of slivers, as well as plenty of removal to keep me alive. Here's the decklist:
2xPlains
2xIsland
4xSwamp
4xMountain
4xForest
Terramorphic Expanse
Watcher Sliver
Pulmonic Sliver
Shadow Sliver
Cancel
Dementia Sliver
Premature Burial
Basal Sliver
Strangling Soot
2xAssassinate
Vampiric Sliver
Ghostflame Sliver
Lightning Axe
Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
Orcish Cannonade
2xBonesplitter Sliver
Firewake Sliver
2xGemhide Sliver
Spinneret Sliver
Saffi Eriksdotter
Harmonic Sliver

My first game was against John, who had a boatload 1 mana Suspend creatures, as well as a Mirari, which doubled all of his spells. He beat me. Second game was against Brian. He had a good deck, but some lucky top decks helped see me through the day. Third game was against a kid who called himself "Alpha". I brutalized him the first game, but he beat me easily in the second game. In the third game, he got the better board position, and I ended up committing ritual suicide by discarding a card to Jaya Ballard to cast Inferno, thereby clearing the board, but also killing me. Good times. Good times indeed.

Well, at least I succeeded in my goal to make my Sliver deck this week better than the one last week.

Slivers that I drafted that I didn't play included: a triad of Screeching Slivers, a Mindlash Sliver, a second Basal Sliver, and a triad of Venser's Slivers.

After the draft, I also playtested my Standard-legal (albeit proxy) Red-Green Sliver deck against this dood who was playing a control deck feature counters, Stormbind, and Golgari Brownscale. I never saw what his Victory Condition was, because I put constant pressure on him so that he was really unable to do much damage to me. Well, on the bright side, the RG Slivers won a few playtest games against another Standard deck. On the other hand, it still doesn't stand a chance against Gruul or Orzhov. Let's see how this plays out.

And now, back to your regular programming...

Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 4) Total: 7

Good Night!

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Monday, October 9, 2006--Last night, I dreamt I was working in Arizona, when in reality, I was actually working in Washington. How weird.

Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 5) Total: 7

Good Night!

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Sunday, October 8, 2006--Since I tested a Green-White Sliver deck yesterday, today, I tested a Red-Green Sliver deck. It was much more powerful than the Green-White Sliver deck, but still not powerful enough. I'm gonna proxy it up and take it to the guys on Tuesday for feedback.

Damn FOX and their MLB. I want my Sunday night cartoons!

Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 4) Total: 9

Good Night!

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Saturday, October 7, 2006--It's funny. I have yet to see a Cal Football game this season. Either I haven't had a TV, or I've been busy, or the game isn't on TV that day.

So yeah... I finally watch a Cal Football game today. Against Oregon. We owned them, even though they were ranked higher than we were. It just goes to show that Cal is underrated. 'Cause you know, we actually have a good quarterback this time.


I also made a Green-White Standard legal Sliver deck. It lost to the Azorius, mainly because the Azorius sided in Hivestone, and that messed the slivers up pretty badly.

Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 1) Total: 6

Good Night!

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Friday, October 6, 2006--Happy Birthday, Kim H!


Anyways, there was an Office Bake Sale & Texas Hold'em Tournament today (all for charity). I played in the tournament and lasted for 3 hours. I did pretty well, I think. It's the best Hold'em tournament I've ever played.

After work, I went to Uncle's and bought the Time Spiral Fat Pack. Unfortunately, they were out of Sliver decks, so I couldn't get that also. But I did get one of the legendary 3-rare packs. It included a Vesuvan Doppelganger, a Dragonstorm, and a Pulmonic Sliver. Other interesting cards in my Time Spiral Fat Pack included Liege of the Pit, Mistform Ultimus, Stonebrow, Krosan Hero, Thornscape Battlemage, Living End, Stormscape Familiar, Angel's Grace, Sacred Mesa, Strangling Soot, Magus of the Jar, and Gaea's Blessing. Slivers I added to my collection include Screeching Sliver, Basal Sliver, Ghostflame Sliver, and Venser's Sliver.

So I saw the new episodes of Battlestar Galactica today. They pissed the hell out of me. The humans are morons. The Cylons are morons. The only people who seem to get it--who REALLY seem to get it--are Baltar, Sharon, Six, and Jammer.

Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 1) Total: 2

Good Hunting!

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Thursday, October 5, 2006--I waste time too easily... oh yeah, and more SG-1.


Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 2) Total: 7

Good Night!

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Wednesday, October 4, 2006--Watchin' more SG-1.

Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 1) Total: 2

Good Night!

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Tuesday, October 3, 2006--

As I mentioned on Friday, I was informed that there were Microsoft people playing Magic every Tuesday night in the building 16 Cafeteria. Except today, there was some kind of other event going on in the Cafeteria with speeches and stuff like that.

Fortunately, the Cafeteria is a really big place, so we just moved to another part of it, around the corner. So I did play Magic after all.

Anyways, we played a triple Time Spiral draft, two tables of six people each. I ended up drafting (no surprise) a sliver deck:
3xPlains
3xIsland
4xSwamp
3xMountain
4xForest
Watcher Sliver
Screeching Sliver
Shadow Sliver
Dementia Sliver
3xMindlash Sliver
2xDeathspore Thallid
Feebleness
Basal Sliver
Assassinate
2xGhostflame Sliver
Two-Headed Sliver
Rift Bolt
2xGemhide Sliver
Spinneret Sliver
Cockatrice
Harmonic Sliver
Jasmine Boreal
Venser's Sliver

Anyways, since it's uber-casual, we didn't really have rounds or pairings. We just played. A dood on the other table had a sliver deck, too, so I played him. I won. I'm not entirely sure how, but I won. Twice in a row.

I lost against both of the other two people I played against, though.

Anyways, the other doods there somehow managed to convince me that a Sliver deck might make an impact in Standard (even despite Hivestone and Plague Sliver). So I'm gonna do some playtesting over the next half-month and, if the Slivers prove to be as powerful as they have led me to believe, I'll take a Sliver deck to States.

Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 1) Total: 7

Good Game!

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Monday, October 2, 2006--I be watching SG-1.


Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 2) Total: 5

Good Night!

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Sunday, October 1, 2006--Waking up late, I went to Denny's for breakfast.

Since Denny's is right next to Wherehouse Music (and since they sell DVDs there), on impulse I went in and bought a hundred dollars worth of Stargate SG-1 DVDs. I was deciding between some Jay & Silent Bob movies, Battlestar Galactica, Futurama, and Stargate, but I decided to go with the show I hadn't already seen the entirety of.

So yeah. I bought a hundred dollars worth of Stargate SG-1 DVDs. All I got were the complete first and second seasons. Only about 2000 minutes of entertainment. Man, I'm such a money-waster!

Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 1) Total: 5

Good Series! Really, it is!

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