The Bright New Thing
Last night Lance stayed the night and we had alot of fun. First thing we did was play some Magic. I pulled out the W/B/G Sands deck I had been working on. It works alright. Spoils of the Vault, as a member of my MTGnews clan the "Alliance of Rogue Deckers", is far too dangerous. If I can get hold of some Night's Whispers it'd help alot. After playing for a while we went and played Super Smash Bros. Melee in the front room for a few hours. Eventually that got boring so we played some Magic again. I traded him a couple Death Clouds for two Marrow-Gnawers, because I decided I wanted to build a Mono-B Rat Control deck. It works very nicely alot of the time. We took another intermission and played MK: Deception for a while. Lance is pretty good at Puzzle Kombat, and is growing to be good at Versus mode. I also pulled out my Mono-R deck and played with it for a bit. Most the time it accelerated too slow. If I can finish it out with the Arc-Sloggers and Chrome Moxen, it'll be nearly complete. After that we just sat around and talked for a long time about everything we've been going through lately. I could tell how long its been since we've actually gotten to talk about shit, because it went on for hours. I don't mean that in a bad way, I just mean that we definitely have too much on our minds, and it's driving both of us crazy.
I also decided that starting today, I'm shifting my focus and going to attempt to start playing T1. Over time the cost will be much less compared to playing T2 and having to buy the chase cards every time a set comes out so you can have a deck worth playing. I decided that I'm going to play TPS (The Perfect Storm), U/G Madness, and G/W/U Life. All 3 are decent. TPS uses P9 but since the majority of tournaments allow you to use 10 proxies, I can pull it off with the only expensive cards needed being Mana Crypt, Force of Will, and Vampiric Tutor. The moderately expensive cards will be cards like Tolarian Academy and Underground Sea, which I may just replace with the B/U Painland, Underground River. The aspect of playing old Magic kind of makes me feel good with all the troubles as of late I've been experiencing. I feel good knowing Justin is cool with me being the way I am, and that he told me I shouldn't worry about it. I know I posted that already but I just feel relieved because I feel there's definitely a good friendship going between us and I'd like it to keep developing.
So yeah. I'm going to try and trade all my T2 (Standard) stuff for stuff for my T1 (Vintage) decks. Well that's all for now. I'm in a period of soul searching right now, and thinking. I'm trying to decide on the direction of things and where I'm heading. Mainly, I'm trying to catch things before I make a decision that I hadn't thought about before but will cause problems later down the road.
Later.
I also decided that starting today, I'm shifting my focus and going to attempt to start playing T1. Over time the cost will be much less compared to playing T2 and having to buy the chase cards every time a set comes out so you can have a deck worth playing. I decided that I'm going to play TPS (The Perfect Storm), U/G Madness, and G/W/U Life. All 3 are decent. TPS uses P9 but since the majority of tournaments allow you to use 10 proxies, I can pull it off with the only expensive cards needed being Mana Crypt, Force of Will, and Vampiric Tutor. The moderately expensive cards will be cards like Tolarian Academy and Underground Sea, which I may just replace with the B/U Painland, Underground River. The aspect of playing old Magic kind of makes me feel good with all the troubles as of late I've been experiencing. I feel good knowing Justin is cool with me being the way I am, and that he told me I shouldn't worry about it. I know I posted that already but I just feel relieved because I feel there's definitely a good friendship going between us and I'd like it to keep developing.
So yeah. I'm going to try and trade all my T2 (Standard) stuff for stuff for my T1 (Vintage) decks. Well that's all for now. I'm in a period of soul searching right now, and thinking. I'm trying to decide on the direction of things and where I'm heading. Mainly, I'm trying to catch things before I make a decision that I hadn't thought about before but will cause problems later down the road.
Later.