A Magical Huffalump Resides Here: October 2006

A Magical Huffalump Resides Here

My name is Ed, I am a programmer. Just another dude with another blog. I like MTG, Open Source (more towards FREE software). I like sports, and eventually I hope to do business and do good for the world in general. This blog is gonna be about Magic The Gathering. Decklists and snippets will be posted here. It may lead somewhere or nowhere, as with all things arcane, that was bloody obvious =)

Sunday, October 29, 2006

I suck at Limited

As promised,

I said I'd blog about last weekend.

Well there is nothing much to say really.


I just blew it big time lol.


Until I get my cards in order, I do not think I can play Standard even though all the cards are there lol.


So Standard tourney was on a saturday.

I wanted to try out the R/B Landy'Vore I built.


As fate/laziness would have it.


I decided to wait untill 2 hours before to put together the deck haha.


Of course i could'nt find the parts (actually even now I have no idea where my wildfire and magnivores are)


So it was too late, but I really wanted to test out plunder.


So I went with some strange LD deck with Stone Rains and Cryoclasm.


Of course I died.


my first match was up against a ww. Which ws the eventual winner


I think I could have beaten it =P


Why?


Good Lord.

I wiped the board clean of lands.


Of course I still had the priest and Serra avenger hammering me.


A Wildfire would have been nice.


very

VERY

nice.



*sighz*


Still the ww was a good meta choice.


There were many U decks around. So I suspect the aggro just trounced all the control decks out there.


Ah well.


Now against control decks it was very different.


Of course mine was a wildfire, magnivore deck.



Sans the wildfire and Magnivore.


Thats called neutered.


hahahaha



Anyways. All in good fun I guess.


My second round is a U/B with finkel. With Dread return for Akroma.


My Third was a U/W with Resurrection for Akroma.


Playing against the U decks.


Man suspend sucks big time.



Still testing the original build (with Magnivores and Wildfires), it still died to Erayo Ninjas. But it dragged long and hard.


Against the U, i exerted zero pressure. They just build their hand and crushed me.


Sighs.


Ofdid I mentioned I did'nt have volcanic Hammers so I resorted to Rift bolts?


Trust me.


Rift boltd suck.


Unless you are running a burn deck and you don't really care what you hit with the bolt and you just want efficient burn.


The main problem is that someting needs to burn you wanna burn it NOW.


Against the U/b Finkel piloted by bernard, my best move was to draw out his counters and attempt to drop a blood moon.

but with zero presure I was never going to be able to do it hahahaha.


3rd round versus Charles,

it was the ONLY match that I seriously thought I was gonna win!


Why?


hehe I managed to drop two magus of the scroll.


Seriously the magus is good for the same reasons that Grim Lavamancer and Cursed Scroll are good.


They are 1 cc.



i.e. they are below counterspell radar.


Still Akroma beats faster than Scrolls.


Sighz.




moral of the story.

heh keep a Standard deck handy. =P
(actually I did have my snow stomp, but I really wanted to try out plunder and stone rain in tandem.)



The second draft tournament I joined was a Two Headed Giant.


I guess we were alittle unfocused.


I drafted r/b while my other head drafted w/g.


The reason being he got a Mystic enforcer.

Hehe i wanted the Avoid fate.

In the end it did save our ass.

For that move anyways.


One thing.


You want to draft slivers. Choose early and commit.
You really should'nt be asking if you wanna draft slivers by the time the third pack comes around haha.


Anyways.

I never knew there was a free mulligan for 2 HG ??


If i knew mabbe we would have died so pathetically.


1st round I stalled on 2 land.

We died to 6/6 or 7/7 flying, bone-splitting, pulmonic, regenerating slivers.


Oh yeah we passed those....


sighz.



In the second round. It was much more entertaining.

We got our mana =)


It was interesting. We should have been more aggressive.


Our opponents had AKROMA!!!!


But wow wow wow.


A psychotic episode ensured we that we never saw her =)


Yup psychotic episode is REMOVAL!


but they had too many of the red uncommon sweeper.

2!

They swept the board TWICE.


Sighz.


In the end my other head got mana flooded and we could maintain our lead and we died.


the last few turns were quite interesting.

I think we could have won... but ah well.

My third draft on monday was the most disasterous.



understand that drafting is still new to me. and I just stupidly kept to g/b. Even though those colours were running dry.

I was also unfocused. and ... man I just sucked.


i lost.


0-2
0-2
1-2


The last one was the only one that was close.


Permission kills suspend and wurm calling.


sighz.

I ended up right at the bottom.

Moonlace.
Moonlace.

Sighz.

Magus of the Candelabra
Stonebrow
Moonlace

Actually the first 2 were'nt too bad I guess. The candelabra is as yet unproven.





Beads.


yes beads.

gettin' late I'll talk about beads another time.


To read about my first draft, click here

Timespiral : Cards I cracked

You know you wanted to see this.


Everyone likes to see how lucky or unlucky each other is....

But having cracked 12 boxes I guess I have card advantage.


Still whatever. Timespiral is a ridiculously large set.

I hope WOTC won't do this again =(

Anyways if there are any cards you want do drop me a message, as always offer me a good price. I am not in hurry to sell =P


FOIL Psionic Blast. Yours for 80 USD.




BOx 1 + Fat Pack

Magus of the Disk
Momentary BLink foil
Opal Guardian
Spike Tiller foil
Thelonite Hermit
Hypergenesis
Unyaro Bees foil
Magus of the scroll * 2
Sedge Sliver * 2
Reiterate
Wheel Of Fate
Living End
Sudden Spoiling
Mishra * 2
Kaervek
Phyrexian Totem foil
Draining Whelk foil
Lotus Bloom
Draining Whelk
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Gemstone Cavern
Grinning Totem foil
Safe Haven
Desolation Giant
Call of the Herd
Pandemonium
Sinbad
Arena
Bad Moon
Wall of Roots foil



box2

magus of the scroll
bogardan Hellkite foil
Restore Balance
wheel of fate
teferi
serra avenger
walk the aeons
Sprite noble foil
vesuva
vesuvan shapeshifter
gemstone caverns
call of the herd
arena
bad moon foil
lightning angel
unstable mutation
sinbad
dauthi slayer foil
Pandemonium
safe haven
Tormod's crypt
desolation giant
candles of leng
Stonebrow
kaervek
psionic blast
hypergenesis
weatherseed totem



Box 3

Draining Whelk
Sage of Epityr foil
Serra Avenger
Restore balance * 2
Magus of the Disk
Jaya
Sedge Sliver
Wheel Of Fate
Fortune Thief
Thelonite Hermit
Stonewood invocation
SoltariPriest
Mirari
Serrated Arrows
Sudden Spoiling
Faceless Butcher foil
Magus of the candelabra
Uthden Troll
Desert
Flagstones of Trokair
Jasmine Boreal
Kaervek
Shadowmage Infiltrator
Gaea's Liege
Nicol Bolas
Teferi's Moat
Teferi
Stormbind
Stonebrow
Honorable Passage foil
Grinning Totem
Desolation Giant
Avoid Fate
Flying Men
Dragonstorm
Vesuva
Lotus Bloom


Box 4

Stonewood Invocation
Thelonite Hermit foil
Thelonite Hermit
Magus of the Candelabra
Plague Sliver
Sudden Death foil
Sudden Spoiling
Teferi
Stonebrow
Opal Guardian
Restore Balance
Reiterate
Serra Avenger
Rift bolt foil
Sedge Sliver
Soltari Priest
Stormbind
Teferi's Moat foil
Bad moon
Akroma
The Rack
Avatar of Woe
Avoid Fate
Eron the relentless foil
Dragonstorm
Jasmine Boreal
Flying Men
Academy Ruins
Gemstone Caverns
Chronatog Totem foil




good stuff from box 5

Wheel of Fate
Sedge sliver foil
jaya
magus of the candelabra
call of the herd
bad moon
avatar of woe
Lim Dul foil
knight of the holy nimbus foil
Ancestral Vision
Akroma
lotus bloom
candles of leng
terramorphic expense foil
flagstones of trokair


box 6
stonebrow
flying men
psionic blast foil
vesuvan shapeshifter
teferi
draining whelk
unstable mutation foil
wheel of fate
sedge sliver
dragonstorm
avatar of woe
sudden spoiling
bad moon
akroma
magus of the disk
serra avenger
gemstone caverns
vesuva
candles of leng
The rack
thelonite hermit
avoid fate
Stonewood invocation
Jasmine Boreal

Box 7

lotus bloom
Draining Whelk
Teferi
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Ixidron foil
Magus of the Jar foil
Vesuva * 2
Academy Ruins
Magus of the scroll
Reiterate
Sedge Sliver
Pendelhaven
Psionic Blast
Lightning Angel
Stupor foil
Soul Collector
Krosan Cloudscraper
Squire Foil
Plague Sliver
Serra Avenger

Box 8

Gemstone Cavern
Plague Sliver
Fungus Sliver foil
Reiterate
Call of the Herd
Sudden Spoiling
Sinbad
Candles of Leng foil
unstable mutation
Restore Balance
Safe HAven
Sedge Sliver
Magus of the Candelabra
Desolation Giant
Tormod's Crypt
Academy Ruins
Magus of the Scroll
Lightning Angel foil
Lightning Angel
Psionic Blast
Draining Whelk
Pandemonium


box 9
grinning totem
Living End
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Pendelhaven
Wheel of Fate
Yavimayan Dryad
Kaervek
Hypergenesis
Mishra
Ancestral Vision
Jaya Ballard
Mystic Enforcer
Squire foil
Stupor foil
Faceless Butcher
Reiterate
Walk the Aeons
Gemstone Caverns
Magus of the Disk
Plague Sliver
Soul Collector
Stonewood Invocation
Gemstone mine
Teferi's Moat
Krosan Cloudscraper


box 10

hypergenesis
lightning angel
Wheel of Fate
Sudden spoiling
mishra
Pendelhaven
Unstable mutation
Stonebrow foil
Gemstone Cavern
Plague Sliver
Safe haven
Avalanche Riders foil
Tormod's Crypt
Serra Avenger
Teferi
Lotus Bloom
Ancestral Vision
Vesuva
Kaervek
Sinbad
Psionic Blast
Witch Hunter foil
Draining Whelk
Pandemonium
Arena
Demonic Collusion foil
Living End
Magus of the scroll
Jasmine Boreal foil
Sedge Sliver


Box 11
Gemstone Caverns
Mystic Enforcer
Shadowmage Infiltrator
Serrated Arrows
Uthden Troll
hunting moa foil
Soltari Priest
Magus of the Disk
Dragonstorm
Academy Ruins
Grinning TOtem
Vhati il-Dal foil
Thelonite Hermit
Nicol Bolas
Stormbind
Jasmine Boreal
Feldon's Cane foil
Gemstone mine
Living End
Gaea's Liege
Magus of the Scroll
The Rack
Ancestral Vision
Hypergenesis
Wheel of Fate
Sudden Spoiling
Teferi's Moat
Desert
Mishra
Kaervek
Voidmage Husher foil
Mirari
Reiterate
Stonewood invocation
Flying Men
Walk the Aeons


Box 12
Sengir Nosferatu
Living End
Chromatic Star foil
Ancestral Vision
Bad moon
Jaya
Flying men
Stuffy doll
Dragonstorm
Wheel of fate
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Hypergenesis
Akroma
Kaervek
Sacred Mesa
Mishra
Gaea's Blessing
Nether Traitor foil
Lightning Axe foil
Fiery Justice foil
Disenchant foil
Soltari Priest
Weatherseed Totem foil
Draining Whelk
Gemstone Caverns
Thelonite Hermit
Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
Avatar of Woe
Magus of the Disk
Opal Guardian
Sporesower Thallid foil
Plague Sliver
Jasmine Boreal
Sedge Sliver
Avoid Fate
Lotus Bloom
The Rack


also bought 2 flagstones of Trokair and 2 deserts.

Got a full set of everything I wanted =)

Thursday, October 26, 2006

A weekend of Magic - 061026

I'll blog proper later....


but currently its kinda sad.


I managed to get into 4 tourneys over the weekend.

FNM, I actually did quite alright placing 5th out of 12.

But I bombed everything else lol


Standard, 2 Headed Giant draft, Monday draft. lol


Interestingly I have never won any standard games, but then again I have only joined 2 tournaments in my whole life as of this moment =p

Oh yah, did I mentioned that though I signed up a DCI account in 1997. I only accessed it online today???? 061026

9 years yes.


Frightening how time flies lol.

I also want to talk about beads.


Yah.

Beads.


TIme Spiral has so many counters (partly inspired by my first draft - Deep-Sea Kraken baby!)

I decided to go berserker on beads.


Of course I bought too many.


Sighz.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

My First Draft Tournament Time Spiral Magic the Gathering MTG

So goes my first draft tournament.


I was in a rush as I wa held up at work. In the end i just wore a green shirt over my uniform to avoid playing for hours in my company attire =P


So I rushed all the way to Toa Payoh At the Char Kwey Tiao Store.

but they haven't started haha.

So anyways just decided to go have a cup of tea at a nearby coffee shop.

I bought 3 SGD worth ofbeads (1 SGD for 10 beads)

and 2 fortune thiefs.




Its funny.


12 boxes and you only get 2 Fortune Thiefs and 2 Deserts.

But I thank God anyways. Why? Cos those are like the 50 cents rares.

(Though I also only had 2 Flagstones of Trokair... ah well...)



I drafted a U/B/r


mainly blue with some black.

Base is blue (as in with uu in the cc)

Black cards do not have bb.

The only red card is Sol'kanar.




One of the first pulls i got was the Swamp King.

I knew that b was one of the favourite colours (the colours being b/r/u) so I picked it as it had swampwalk. Essentially unblockable.

The lifegain part never did show up, but the swampowalk stomped!



Next I started drafting towards those colours.

Initially I wanted to focus on black. But I passed a few corpulant corpses.

I was passed cancel and the buyback counterspell (spell burst).




Got the Rack too..



So I started moving towards blue.

The pinging mawcor shifted me more.




I let an Ixidron passed.

Another Ixidron came by an I took it as it was really removal.

I was also passed the 6/6 Kraken.


Some said suspend isn't good.


it really is very psychological, as it was with the kraken.


Rack and two mind stabs came by.


I picked an avoid fate as i think it would be worth something =P



2 Deathspore Thallids.





2 Crookclaw Transmuter



Assasinate

The Rack

Giant Oyster.




In the end my pool looked like this:


The ones I used:

Sol'Kanar the Swamp King
Spiketail Drakeling
Looter il-Kor
Sage of Epityr
Fledging Mawcor
Giant Oyster
Viscid Lemures
Spell Burst
Fallen Ideal
Dream Stalker
Eternity Snare (one I passed, one I picked)
2 Chromatic Star
2 Mindstab
2 Deathspore Thallid
2 Crookclaw Transmuter
2 Coral Trickster (1 I passed...)
Assasinate
Ophidian Eye
Bewilder
Prismatic Lens
Dreadship Reef
The Rack
Cancel
Deep-Sea Kraken
Ixidron


The ones I did'nt:
Dralnu
Grape Shot
Flowstone Channeler
Ancient Grudge
iVORY gIANT
Haunting Hymn
2 MIndlash Sliver
Shadow Sliver
Brass Gnat
2 Drifter il-Dal
Call to the Netherworld
Clockspinning





It was a very tough choice.


I liked everything =D



I had 39 cards i wanted to stuff.

So I knew I had to cut it down.


In the end I used:

1 Mountain
8 Swamp
9 Islands
Sol'Kanar the Swamp King
Spiketail Drakeling
Looter il-Kor
Sage of Epityr
Fledging Mawcor
Giant Oyster
Viscid Lemures
Spell Burst
Fallen Ideal
Dream Stalker
Eternity Snare (one I passed, one I picked)
2 Chromatic Star
2 Mindstab
2 Deathspore Thallid
2 Crookclaw Transmuter
2 Coral Trickster (1 I passed...)
Assasinate
Ophidian Eye
Bewilder
Prismatic Lens
Dreadship Reef
The Rack
Cancel
Deep-Sea Kraken
Ixidron



48 Cards total.


Almost a deck =D



Funny thing is people commented that the deck is very consistant =D




There were 3 rounds.

First round I was paired to a relatively new player (though having said that this is the first time I am playing draft). He was nice and just wanted to have fun.

He played G/R

When Jaya hit. it was over for me =P

But first game was very long.

None of my bombs showed.

And I had to be contented with just ping 1 a turn. Two when my thallid finally joined the fray.

In the end Jaya destroyed most of my creatures (notice most are blue!! lol)

Some elemental with echo came down and ate me.


2nd game, he had a shocker thingie that kept cycling my hand. It was disruptive but as long as I made the best of my situation, its effect would be inconsequential ;)

Again I started with the Looter and desperately looked for an out.



I also played a Fallen Idealed on the Looter.


And it grew horns and flew.



He also eventually had the red elemental, but I had oyster

But time was called and we had 5 turns left.


I had to deal 15 damage in a turn to win there and then. (this is turn 1 or two I think (of the last five)).

I could'nt.


but I managed 12. By a combination of Mawcor flying Thallid attacking and saccing to Fallen Idealed Looter (which he could not block).



Then on his turn he needed to deal 13 damage to win next turn or my looter finishes him next turn.

He could'nt so the round is a draw. Won 1 lost 1



Round 2

I paired up with a white/black player.

First Game

His deck came out very swiftly.
And he had me on the ropes but Ixidron showed up. turn his unblockable normads into mindless 2/2 he had 3, one was eternity snared.

I managed to pull a mind stab on him. and then Rack him.


All the while my deep-sea Kraken was slowly emerging from the sluice of the rift.

Kraken made quick work of him.


2nd Game.

He had some mana leech thing. It held down a land and he came pounding with 3 2/2s.

HOlding down one blue I could not cast Ixidron.

Looter tried to sieve through my cards. but to no avail.


I did have b/u/r though I think through the TS signet. but the MVP was zapped by the 1 cc justice. and he tapped 3 white critters. I died shortly after.



3rd game.


Solkanar and the Kraken made it on time to the party.



Rack was there, but this time he kept 3 on hand. When I finally hard casted a mindstab on him, he discarded it to the Icatian Cryer to make more loyal citizens. My thallid kept coming. and eventually Kraken hit and it was over. A swamp walkin' Sol' Kanar helped too!

I think I used the mefolk to tap. In any case I don't think I lost life....



3rd round, I went up against a R/b deck.

an early suspended keldon 4/1 first strike. I had many opportunities to kill it, but I kept goofing.

Like I discarded a mawcor and kept spiketail.

The mawcor could have just zapped the keldon. Also totally forgetting i could have morphed the damned thing out. *Sigh*

But somehow I survived.

I was beginning to like the merfolk alot. I tapped his critter.

my illusion got axed.

It was very dramatic.

I had a fully spored thallid. and a merfolk that attaacked. So I had no blockers.

I and 7 life left. He had to finish me next turn ior he says hello to my hasty Kraken.

He attacked I created a saproling. I showed him the cancel and it was over.


I looked really solid right? 1st game. Well he mulliganed twice and I mulliganed once.


Second game he kept while I mulliganed.


This time I was getting pounded. my illusion got lightning axed. Again.


I managed to suspend my friendly kraken, and Sol' Karnar made it to the party.


Yay right?







wrong.


He had the faceless Butcher!!!!!!


Sol' never even tasted him!




Now that is topdeck (he said he just drew it)


So by now hw had enough tto kill me about 6 damage more.


Kraken still had 3 time counters.






3rd round. Time was called and we could not finish. Though this time he got a god hand or something. He came out very fast. And if he had one more turn he would have won. But as it is he could not finish me off in that turn (a flashed crookclaw saved my sorry butt). So it was a draw.



Won one, lost one, drawn one.



Overall it was Drawn first round (1,1,0), won second round (2,0,1), drawn 3rd round (1,1,1).



I think in the list I made 4 th or 5th place in a field of about 15++ people??

So I got to pick the cards a little higher and got for my toubles:


a FOIL Sudden Spoilings



a Thelonite Hermit (no one htoguht much of him apparently.. why? Angry Hermit anyone?)
a Scion of the Ur-dragon






Not too bad.

THough a Draining Whelk and my other MYP the Deep-Sea Kraken would have been nice.


Overall it was a good fight today.

Bernard was nice and all. Everyone was friendly too =)

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Scratchpad

This will be the scratchpad for this site


What is a Scratchpad?

it is a thinggie for me to scratch stuff on, but are not really post worthy, but I might develope in a post.



Like how Jotun Grunt might smash face with milling.


or that I really want to write about B/R LD deck right now =)

Oh since I am at it, the timepsiral mauling post will be continued... but i am a little lazy right now... hey post or something, make me happy and I will write harder lol


BOx 1 + Fat Pack

Magus of the Disk
Momentary BLink foil
Opal Guardian
Spike Tiller foil
Thelonite Hermit
Hypergenesis
Unyaro Bees foil
Magus of the scroll * 2
Sedge Sliver * 2
Reiterate
Wheel Of Fate
Living End
Sudden Spoiling
Mishra * 2
Kaervek
Phyrexian Totem foil
Draining Whelk foil
Lotus Bloom
Draining Whelk
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Gemstone Cavern
Grinning Totem foil
Safe Haven
Desolation Giant
Call of the Herd
Pandemonium
Sinbad
Arena
Bad Moon
Wall of Roots foil



box2

magus of the scroll
bogardan Hellkite foil
Restore Balance
wheel of fate
teferi
serra avenger
walk the aeons
Sprite noble foil
vesuva
vesuvan shapeshifter
gemstone caverns
call of the herd
arena
bad moon foil
lightning angel
unstable mutation
sinbad
dauthi slayer foil
Pandemonium
safe haven
Tormod's crypt
desolation giant
candles of leng
Stonebrow
kaervek
psionic blast
hypergenesis
weatherseed totem



Box 3

Draining Whelk
Sage of Epityr foil
Serra Avenger
Restore balance * 2
Magus of the Disk
Jaya
Sedge Sliver
Wheel Of Fate
Fortune Thief
Thelonite Hermit
Stonewood invocation
SoltariPriest
Mirari
Serrated Arrows
Sudden Spoiling
Faceless Butcher foil
Magus of the candelabra
Uthden Troll
Desert
Flagstones of Trokair
Jasmine Boreal
Kaervek
Shadowmage Infiltrator
Gaea's Liege
Nicol Bolas
Teferi's Moat
Teferi
Stormbind
Stonebrow
Honorable Passage foil
Grinning Totem
Desolation Giant
Avoid Fate
Flying Men
Dragonstorm
Vesuva
Lotus Bloom


Box 4

Stonewood Invocation
Thelonite Hermit foil
Thelonite Hermit
Magus of the Candelabra
Plague Sliver
Sudden Death foil
Sudden Spoiling
Teferi
Stonebrow
Opal Guardian
Restore Balance
Reiterate
Serra Avenger
Rift bolt foil
Sedge Sliver
Soltari Priest
Stormbind
Teferi's Moat foil
Bad moon
Akroma
The Rack
Avatar of Woe
Avoid Fate
Eron the relentless foil
Dragonstorm
Jasmine Boreal
Flying Men
Academy Ruins
Gemstone Caverns
Chronatog Totem foil




good stuff from box 5

Wheel of Fate
Sedge sliver foil
jaya
magus of the candelabra
call of the herd
bad moon
avatar of woe
Lim Dul foil
knight of the holy nimbus foil
Ancestral Vision
Akroma
lotus bloom
candles of leng
terramorphic expense foil
flagstones of trokair


box 6
stonebrow
flying men
psionic blast foil
vesuvan shapeshifter
teferi
draining whelk
unstable mutation foil
wheel of fate
sedge sliver
dragonstorm
avatar of woe
sudden spoiling
bad moon
akroma
magus of the disk
serra avenger
gemstone caverns
vesuva
candles of leng
The rack
thelonite hermit
avoid fate
Stonewood invocation
Jasmine Boreal

Box 7

lotus bloom
Draining Whelk
Teferi
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Ixidron foil
Magus of the Jar foil
Vesuva * 2
Academy Ruins
Magus of the scroll
Reiterate
Sedge Sliver
Pendelhaven
Psionic Blast
Lightning Angel
Stupor foil
Soul Collector
Krosan Cloudscraper
Squire Foil
Plague Sliver
Serra Avenger

Box 8

Gemstone Cavern
Plague Sliver
Fungus Sliver foil
Reiterate
Call of the Herd
Sudden Spoiling
Sinbad
Candles of Leng foil
unstable mutation
Restore Balance
Safe HAven
Sedge Sliver
Magus of the Candelabra
Desolation Giant
Tormod's Crypt
Academy Ruins
Magus of the Scroll
Lightning Angel foil
Lightning Angel
Psionic Blast
Draining Whelk
Pandemonium


box 9
grinning totem
Living End
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Pendelhaven
Wheel of Fate
Yavimayan Dryad
Kaervek
Hypergenesis
Mishra
Ancestral Vision
Jaya Ballard
Mystic Enforcer
Squire foil
Stupor foil
Faceless Butcher
Reiterate
Walk the Aeons
Gemstone Caverns
Magus of the Disk
Plague Sliver
Soul Collector
Stonewood Invocation
Gemstone mine
Teferi's Moat
Krosan Cloudscraper


box 10

hypergenesis
lightning angel
Wheel of Fate
Sudden spoiling
mishra
Pendelhaven
Unstable mutation
Stonebrow foil
Gemstone Cavern
Plague Sliver
Safe haven
Avalanche Riders foil
Tormod's Crypt
Serra Avenger
Teferi
Lotus Bloom
Ancestral Vision
Vesuva
Kaervek
Sinbad
Psionic Blast
Witch Hunter foil
Draining Whelk
Pandemonium
Arena
Demonic Collusion foil
Living End
Magus of the scroll
Jasmine Boreal foil
Sedge Sliver


Box 11
Gemstone Caverns
Mystic Enforcer
Shadowmage Infiltrator
Serrated Arrows
Uthden Troll
hunting moa foil
Soltari Priest
Magus of the Disk
Dragonstorm
Academy Ruins
Grinning TOtem
Vhati il-Dal foil
Thelonite Hermit
Nicol Bolas
Stormbind
Jasmine Boreal
Feldon's Cane foil
Gemstone mine
Living End
Gaea's Liege
Magus of the Scroll
The Rack
Ancestral Vision
Hypergenesis
Wheel of Fate
Sudden Spoiling
Teferi's Moat
Desert
Mishra
Kaervek
Voidmage Husher foil
Mirari
Reiterate
Stonewood invocation
Flying Men
Walk the Aeons


Box 12
Sengir Nosferatu
Living End
Chromatic Star foil
Ancestral Vision
Bad moon
Jaya
Flying men
Stuffy doll
Dragonstorm
Wheel of fate
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Hypergenesis
Akroma
Kaervek
Sacred Mesa
Mishra
Gaea's Blessing
Nether Traitor foil
Lightning Axe foil
Fiery Justice foil
Disenchant foil
Soltari Priest
Weatherseed Totem foil
Draining Whelk
Gemstone Caverns
Thelonite Hermit
Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
Avatar of Woe
Magus of the Disk
Opal Guardian
Sporesower Thallid foil
Plague Sliver
Jasmine Boreal
Sedge Sliver
Avoid Fate
Lotus Bloom
The Rack


also bought 2 flagstones of Trokair and 2 deserts.

Got a full set of everything I wanted =)






DragonStorm

(21) Land
4 Steam Vents
4 Shivan Reef
4 Gemstone Mine
3 Mountain
6 Island

(11) Creatures
4 Drift of Phantasms
4 Bogardan Hellkite
2 Hunted Dragon
1 Grozoth

(28) Spells
4 Dragonstorm
4 Seething Song
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Rite of Flame
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Remand
4 Telling Time

(15) Sideboard
2 Hunted Dragon
3 Repeal
3 Gigadrowse
3 Pyroclasm
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Shadow of Doubt





Timing to stop Enduring Renewal/Dragonstorm


// Lands
3 Mountain
10 Island
4 Shivan Reef
4 Steam Vents

// Creatures
2 Hunted Dragon
2 Grozoth
4 Bogardan Hellkite

// Spells
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Rite of Flame
3 Gigadrowse
4 Seething Song
4 Telling Time
4 Remand
4 Dragonstorm
4 Lotus Bloom

// Sideboard
1 Gigadrowse
4 Dodecapod
4 Snapback
3 Trickbind
2 Boomerang




3 Pyroclasm
1 Gigadrowse (3 MD)
3 Wipe away
3 Ignorant Bliss
2 Teferi, mage of zhalifir
3 Shadow of doubt

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Timespiral - Box numero 1

Now first thoughts.


TS has alot for everyone... but it feels disjointed and after WOTC's actions in the last few weeks, I don't have a good feel of this set at all.

I am only still going through the packs and boxes as I had pre-ordered them (oh yah i do this with or without spoilers... so ermm anti-spolier people's or MARO buttlickers - piss off ;)). The only person to hurt if I do not fulfil is not WOTC but the cardshop owner. (note that the preorder is based on trust, nothing is bound, and if you try to argue from the trust stand point, relationship, basic respect blah blah... gee WOTC just screwed the community, talked down to its customers like they are kids, manipulate words to hide the true marketing agenda, and you are shielding them??? - all I can say is go on, give your monies to them =) you deserve them =P - because you are worth it !!!)

I am going to do this by colour and then give comments as the pics are posted.

First i sorted them by colours and purples






Lets start with the Purples:





Definitely, the Rakdos were here, just look at the bloody void they left !!

Seriously, Void would give the B/R decks a boost. Void's problem is that it is often, too little too late.

But with the focus on two colour decks in the last set, Void might prove good enough, or rather there might be enough support to actually make Void good enough for tournament play!

Also, note the suspend and even the morph mechanic. Chances are the new rule is to burst at turn 4 and above.

1. Cancel is 3cc
2. Morph is 3cc
3. Suspend is often 3 and above

Hence I dunno... much points to RnD trying to make the mid game the focus.



Still this is all speculation =P


I do think that the Lotus Bloom is going to pump the usability of morph!







Oh the grave is becoming more and more prolific, and with the new reanimator card (which I cannot remember at the moment...) + Akroma... Reanimator is definitely on the cards! ermm I just did a pun right hahhahahah




Beloved Mosquito ... most efficient of the poisoners. Here to grace TS... but unfortunately taking a purple slot!!!!! lol




Still .. its not so bad... I mean I REALLY REALLY like poison as a mechanic. I just wished that .. IF they are gonna do poison... don't throw us a bone??? Throw us something meaty, make poison GOOOD for once. Poison has the potential to be so BAHROKEN!!!

Nuff said'


Oooh and something really nice.







Foil.







Purple.






Not Psionic Blast =P










WALL OF ROOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






Wow Wall of Roots ... its nice =)






Now this set of cards are what i call, the goodstuff I got from the purple section of my box.

You should see Bad Moon, Assault/Battery, Wall of Roots (FOIL), Void, Whispers of the Muse

Why is THAT the goodstuff you say?

Well now, its obvious.

I did'nt get a psionic blast =P







lol seriously though. Bad Moon is one of the better purples. It definitely has a place in mono B =)






Assault/Battery ? You needed an introduction???





Wall of Roots, it is mucho better than people give it credit for =)

oh and its foil.

Void, we talked about.



Whispers of the muse.






This one card is gonna make mono U work =) (the one we were accustomed to anyways =P)

Hey, its instant draw! =)







Swamp Mosquito, well if they were to print only one, this would be the one =)

I do hope that they plan to build on it though =( 1 poisoner alone does not a poison deck make......




Oh and I had 2 Lord of Atlantis .... what are the odds huh lol


U think they are TWINS!!! lol








These are cards that ..... mmmmaaaaaayyyyyy..... see play.


But probably won't =P


On this dubious list are:
Dodecapode
Funeral Charm
Arena
Sinbad
Spined Sliver
Defiant Vanguard
Undead Warchief
Icatian Javelineers
Shadow Guildmage
Dragon Whelp
Voidmage Prodigy
Mindless Automaton
Joreal, Empress of Beasts

Now on this list probablyonly Funeral Charm and Icatian javelineer will see some play.

Whats that you say? Icatian Javelineer????




yeah, a one shot ping is actually a pretty good 1 cc drop, so I can see this guy in WW. Funeral charm is good, so long as there is nothing else to outclass it. The rest are either sideboard or stuff you gotta build around.

Not bad.

Its just maybe not the tournament level goob.


Other "goodstuff" categories I got....





Wildfire Emmissary, Spike Feeder, Disintegrate

Now... WE is really meta-dependant, Spike Feeder though it is a card that requires building around, it is a really strong card. The question then really is, is the Spike Tiller man *cough* spike enough to be supported. The days of Spike Weaver shenigans is OVER! Will Tiller take up the mantle?????? Time(spiral) will tell....


*Ahem*

Disintegrate.


Nothing much to say here.

Its a burn spell.

You whack em' over the head with it.

See here!! Like this!

*Ahem*

Yeah.

There is still Demonfire.. so I dunno. Disintegrate had always been the "other one", the "third party" in an embermage's affair with his/her favourite X burn spell.

Has'nt changed.



More to come.

But for now its bedtime in Sunny Singapore.


Sign off.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Timespiral - FATPACK







Serra Avenger looks really sweet here huh?

Thats the card catalog or something... I never ever do anything with it .. it just looks pretty ... hahahahaha if you are a collector and you would like it and would pay a pretty penny for it, drop me a line ;)






More from the fatpack, the card dividers.... (again I hardly use dividers ... whythe hell do I buy these things??????)




Craig Jones!!!!!

OMG!!!

CRAIG JONES!!!!


Ermmm.. what use do I have for these again?



Of course my mom would argue that my cards are utterly useless (and i am slowly beginning to agree, I'm lookin at you WOTC ....)

But the pro player cards really take the cake!!


...



what use do I have for these again?





More to come... so please do come back


Oh... you want to know why i bought them??


no not for this:




But this:





I'll write more about what I think of the book and about the stuff I cracked later.... gonna like sleep


Oh what packs did I crack?

I'll do those together with the boxes =) specifically the first one

Timespiral - Its that time of the year again

Yeah... you know that 3 rares in a pack thing.


Its true.





That sounded like a Canon and did'nt it ???


ahahahahahahhaha


Oh yah this is not to just post those three pics.. more to come... essentially I will list the cards I crack.... if you want something just lemme know... but just to let yah know i am not looking to liquiate badly, so none of those ripper prices yah

Monday, October 02, 2006

Instant Gratification - Time Spiral : Psionic Blast - Learning from Guildpact








Gotta go work.. but do check back for the latest update =)

Timecheck: 6:45 am



Oki I am back, time check: 11:42 pm

hooo boy.


Well this articles will do a little bit of an evaluation. =)

Note that I will not advocate for or against, I will just present some facts and you have to make your own decision =)

Feel free to add your own, gentle reader.


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

So you want to buy this hot new card from Time Spiral, but you are not sure if it is worth it???





You've heard it.




Even today on the main WOTC site, they have stated it:

"All the uber-powerful stuff had to go, and they were replaced with much tamer cards. What the cards were isn’t particularly important, but suddenly the Timeshifted set felt like a huge let-down. Multiple people in R&D commented that the set felt incredibly lame without all the jaw-dropping cards—Psionic Blast was still there, but little else—so I resolved to find stuff to juice it up again."

the article is here


Conclusion: This baby is one of the hotties in the crowd.












The hottest card at the moment, think about it:





You'd even think it looks good on you.




But are you really just givin' in to ...






Now just think about it, the original white bordered ones are worth like 15 USD ea pre Time Spiral.

But now they are going like 76 ++ USD on ebay.

and purportedly going higher.

So that is like a 10 USD ++ increment.

This was a reason I was prompted to write this article. Everyone is going gaga over this card.

Now the thing is this.

If the card is oh so hot.

Why was'nt it how before?

Now not that Psionic Blast is'nt good.

But is it that good?

People say: But look at Char!!





Well Char is red.

Even then not everyone plays with a full suite of Chars =)

So should psionic blast go higher?


Now the Investor in me says:

Look at it this way. Don't speculate. Invest. Investment is when you KNOW there will be an increase in VALUE. Speculation is when you hope or bet on an increase in PRICE.


There is a slight difference between VALUE and PRICE.

VALUE is the intrinsic value, or "is the card actually good?".

PRICE is the perceived future value, or "this card is gonna be oh so GREAT!!! .. and it is in what deck...??? ... Well I dunno... b but, this card is gonna be oh so GREAT!!! "


You get my drift.


I hope anyways =)


So lets reason.


Is Psionic Blast good?


gonna slp now ... more tomorrow!!!!!



Time check:061005:0601 ... wow 2 days since i started and I am not done yet lol

Anyways i got some cards in, so that is some good, but I'll share those later...

Seriously, back on topic, shouod you buy those Psionic Blasts??


It depends, it really depends.



Seeif there were a "Killa Deck" out there right now. And Psionic Blast is such a desperately needed, unsubstitutable card, then yes. Go out there. Go crazy, get your four purples. But until then you have to ask your self WHY? are you buying it?

Lets face it, the average magic buyer would probably not go on a shopping bonanza and buy tens of boxes of cards, and even if you did you are not guaranteed of getting multiple copies (or even one ;)).

So its rarity, will likely keep it high.

Collectors will make it high.

Tournament Players will make it high.

Do you fit in either category.

Moment of truth people =)


We all like to build competitive decks.

But how many of us join a tournament

REGULARLY ?


Think about that carefully.



...

Timecheck 1644

well now... where were we?


Oh yes how many of us join a tournament =)

If you are the tournament person, then you gotta ask?

Is the deck I am fielding, going to require this card?

Am I playing some form of blue that requires it?

Or am I just netdecking?

Is there anything else I could play?

And before you simply stuff the blasts into the deck, think if you will require 8 Chars?


Todate the only deck to do that is the "Katayama Sand Burn Deck" or Satanic Sligh.

Flames of the blood hand is currently about 6 USD on high, 2 USD on low =)

So if the Psionic blast are to replace the Char?? I dunno, thats the value of that cardslot.


You might say, "you are missing the point!!!" Flames of the Blood Hand is RED!!!!

Psionic Blast is BLUE!!!!


ITS FOR BLUE DECKS ... or izzet varieties. But hey we were talking about 8 CHAR decks right ? ;)


Oki, so does blue need it?

Honestly I dunno.

1. But are you gonna play blue?

2. Is blue gonna be entertaining?

3. Most importantly is blue going to be a force?


If your answer to 1. is "no", then ermmm... well dude, nuff said for you , stop reading this already .... unless you play X/u decks, in which case... well hang around, we'll get to it.


If your answer to 2. is "no", then... hmmm the value of the Psionic Blasts will be proportional to the popularity of the deck. (regardless of its current price).

If your answer to 2. is "yes", then pucker up and get ready to ass-kiss this card.


If your answer to ... oh this is kinda answered in 2. =)


Well more later, I need to take a piss.


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

wow...

its been so long.. Planar Chaos is here lol

070113

Well Psionic Blast x 4 is still about 40ish now.

Playset of foil psionic blasts go for about 80ish.

Will it go down further?

My guess...








yes.







But I think over time.


mabbe over a long time.



It will be about 60 ish.


Worst case scenario: 20ish see Char. =P


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