Thursday at Origins
In the morning I played in a Sealed Deck event that started at 10:00. I built a green/white deck that was low on removal. It lost round 1 to Adam, with his something Stone that quickly mills an opponent to death in game 1 and in game two I drew nothing but lands. Round two with John at least went to three games. I think I won that, finally. Round three I switched in my "other" deck, red black with Sarkan the Mad. Dropped two straight games. Then Clint suggested we try one for fun, and I brought back the green/white deck. After I pounded him with it he suggested I stick to that one. 1-2. Round 4 versus Brian I had a lot of life gain and two quick victories. 2-2. Round 5 with Riley (age 10?) I had another two wins, now 3-2 for a 9th place finish. Prizes went to players 1 through 8.
Somewhere during one of my quick defeats I made time for a flying visit to the Krema Nut Company down near the food court. They had premade peanut butter sandwiches just for Origins (closed their kitchen over a year ago but received so much dismay last Origins that they made them just for us!). I had the classic old timer with sliced strawberries. Awesome as always.
Spent an hour or so in my room, resting up for the 6 pm MiniMasters tournament. This was new to me: start the game with two booster packs and build a 40 card deck. I used almost everything (had only one blue card, so ran 4 colors). It was single elim, so many players had a round 1 bye. Not me, alas. I played Tom, and almost blew it by forgetting about rebound in our third and final game. He was one land short of taking me out, but hey, a win is a win.
Round 2 each surviving player gets another pack and 10 minutes to rethink their deck. I pulled all the red and added a beautiful mythic rare foil Transcendent Master. Pretty much a game winner whenever I drew it, especially early game. Scott lost two quick games.
Round 3, another booster. I'm still black-green-white, not enough terrific cards in any two colors yet since I'm working from 4 boosters. I played Bob, friend to Scott and Tom. They were all expecting to lose early and go to dinner, so Bob was starving. Still, he put up a very tough fight, taking it to three games.
Round 4, another booster. Still BGW. This time I'm playing Adam, an opponent from the morning. I think I played him last year too. Everyone remembers me because I'm often the oldest player at the table and always the oldest (and sometimes only) femaie. Adam had a nasty Red-Black-Green deck with Brimstone Mage and that vicious vampire that can make my creatured -4/-4. Game three was a long battle with me stuck on 4 lands so by 10:30 pm my day was done.
Somewhere during one of my quick defeats I made time for a flying visit to the Krema Nut Company down near the food court. They had premade peanut butter sandwiches just for Origins (closed their kitchen over a year ago but received so much dismay last Origins that they made them just for us!). I had the classic old timer with sliced strawberries. Awesome as always.
Spent an hour or so in my room, resting up for the 6 pm MiniMasters tournament. This was new to me: start the game with two booster packs and build a 40 card deck. I used almost everything (had only one blue card, so ran 4 colors). It was single elim, so many players had a round 1 bye. Not me, alas. I played Tom, and almost blew it by forgetting about rebound in our third and final game. He was one land short of taking me out, but hey, a win is a win.
Round 2 each surviving player gets another pack and 10 minutes to rethink their deck. I pulled all the red and added a beautiful mythic rare foil Transcendent Master. Pretty much a game winner whenever I drew it, especially early game. Scott lost two quick games.
Round 3, another booster. I'm still black-green-white, not enough terrific cards in any two colors yet since I'm working from 4 boosters. I played Bob, friend to Scott and Tom. They were all expecting to lose early and go to dinner, so Bob was starving. Still, he put up a very tough fight, taking it to three games.
Round 4, another booster. Still BGW. This time I'm playing Adam, an opponent from the morning. I think I played him last year too. Everyone remembers me because I'm often the oldest player at the table and always the oldest (and sometimes only) femaie. Adam had a nasty Red-Black-Green deck with Brimstone Mage and that vicious vampire that can make my creatured -4/-4. Game three was a long battle with me stuck on 4 lands so by 10:30 pm my day was done.