CardShark

The only ones who will ever stay dead are Uncle Ben and Ben Reilly. It's a Ben thing, so you'd better get your shots.

Yeah, I'd better. Although I'm planning to come back to life MORE POWERFUL THAN BEFORE...

Apparently, I get distracted too easily. I have been meaning to write up a tournament report from the PTQ in Roanoke that happened a week and a half ago. There were 11 people from the store in Durham where I go for FNM that attended the event. I went 6-3 with 5CC. My three losses were all against decks with maindeck Anathemancer. Somebody I know that ended up top 8ing with 5CC had 2 Runed Halo in the main with an extra in the side as a way to fight that. One of the other guys, and one of my judgely compatriots, ended up winning the event with Merfolk. He lost in the second round, and did not lose another match. My 5cc friend should have moved beyond the quarterfinals, but while resolving his Cruel Ultimatum, he accidentally put the Broodmate dragon that he was supposed to be getting back with it into the graveyard along with the Ultimatum. He and his opponent proceeded to play draw go until his opponent was able to play an Anathemancer, have it countered, and unearth it in the same turn. Adrian would have easily killed him with the dragons by that point. One of our other storemates was playing a homebrewed cascade control deck that he and two others had put together after testing for two weeks straight. He finished in 17th as the last 7-2. Unfortunately, prizes only went as far as 16th. One win that I was rather proud of was in the second round. I was facing Shaheen Soorani. He is a long-time professional who finished in second at a PTQ in Boston two weeks beforehand. He was playing a Naya Ramp deck that I was able to get enough control of in games 1 and 3 between my counters and removal that I was able set off the ultimate ability on my Ajani Vengeant in both of those games. In the second game. I mulliganed to four, seeing either no lands or only a Reflecting Pool in all of those hands. I kept four spells and hoped for the best. He was able to get a fourth turn Ajani Vengeant of his own that tied down some of the lands that I did draw. Eventually he played a Realm Razer, and I scooped them up. The one big mistake that I remember from this game was when he went for a Thought Hemorrhage in the second game. He already had the Ajani Vengeant active, so I knew that I was pretty screwed already. I should have gone ahead and scooped in response to the hemorrhage rather than let him take a look at my deck and see how I had sideboarded against him. For the third game, I brought back in one of my Volcanic Fallouts as a little extra insurance against Realm Razer. Overall, I had a great time and got to meet several more experienced judges. I also got to spend a few minutes speaking with Evan Erwin towards the end of the day. One of the cool things that was done was that at the start of the second round, they announced that they were putting a bounty on the heads of any DCI judges that were playing in the event. I was glad that I only gave up three packs on the day, though I was disappointed that the bounty did not count for my first round win against my friend Mills, who is also a judge. Oh well. Good times with good friends, and a good record.

hi y'all i ain't dead ive been busy redeploying from iraq now im back in the states. if any one is from La and lives near leesivile hit me up on im i got a store thats starting up and needs help from judging to running events. and if anyone is in the Ma hit me up 2 i need to start floping real cards again i got too much rust from not playing.

So i have to share an experiment i just conducted with you guys. If you skip randomly through the pod cast 8 out of 10 times the place where you land, the first thing you will here is brians voice...hmmmmmm....well i guess somebodys gotta do it

Well, he is the lead rambler. Someone should measure the percentage that his voice appears. I'm listening to the podcast right now, and Brian has not stoped talking the entire time I was typing this. Does he even breathe?

i just burnt the first 100 episodes on a DVD, and i plan on making copies to give to friends.

Anyone here go to Conventions? (horror,comic,toy)

First, To Jars, Sorry to hear about the floods. I hope that everyone is safe and that the clean up is going smoothly.

Now, for my post. Has anyone played with the Group Hug deck? It was meant for EDH but I recently built and used it in a free for all game. The deck is designed to give free gifts to all your opponents with no ulterior motives and no specific win conditions. I consider myself a Johnny, so playing with a deck with no win condition sounded like fun. Now as I said I think of myself as a Johnny perhaps with a little Timmy and very little Spike. But while playing with this deck and having no good chance of winning that 1 or 2% of Spike in me took over. For 12 turns I sat there helping out the other players. None of them were attacking me because of the help is offered, but I was board out off my mind. I tried to look for an upside, but not having some goal for my deck was killing me. So I decided to try and win. And the funny thing was I did. After nearly and hour of helping others, no one considered me a threat. So I made a move. Two turns, some fogs, and a few Hunting Wampuses later I was the only one left alive. The game was long, and slow, and boring, but winning with no win condition was fun in the end. I would recommend this deck to anyone, but with a small change. Put in at least one uber combo or super fatty. This way while you are helping everyone else, you can at the same time be slowly collecting your combo pieces or game finishing creature.

Lorincz: I was on staff at the Durham/Raleigh anime con Animazement from 2004 to 2009, but other than that I wasn't big on con attending. I'm going to break my anti-con streak and go to Dragon*Con next year, though, and my girlfriend has convinced me to go to Anime USA. Conventions don't do much for me these days, but I figure I might be able to have fun having a weekend of null responsibility for a change.

Kurai_Seraphim wrote:Lorincz: I was on staff at the Durham/Raleigh anime con Animazement from 2004 to 2009, but other than that I wasn't big on con attending. I'm going to break my anti-con streak and go to Dragon*Con next year, though, and my girlfriend has convinced me to go to Anime USA. Conventions don't do much for me these days, but I figure I might be able to have fun having a weekend of null responsibility for a change.

Cool...I'm going to Chiller Theatre(horror convention) this month. Going to meet Linda Blair(Exorcist) and a lot more guests.

www.chillertheatre.com

thank MuZyar. the cleanup's going well, but we're expecting another storm to make landfall either later today or early tomorrow, so we're getting ready for that as well. thank you for the concern.

we're expecting another storm to make landfall either later today or early tomorrow

Do you put 4/4 beast tokens into play like Rampaging Baloths, or do you just get bigger like Steppe Lynx?

Sprouting vines deck eh?

In other news, one of the ads on this board said "Ask a mechanic" I was so disappointed they were talking about cars. I totally wanted to chat with landfall.

http://nebulafire.deviantart.com/art/Co ... -139878351

I'm winning! I have a campaign poster!