TCGPlayer $5k tournament in Philly today. I expect about 3 of you reading this to understand any of it at all, and about one of you to have anything approaching knowledge of the cards being talked about...

( Tournament Report. )

I'd sort of forgotten how much I dislike waking up early on weekends just to attend prereleases in Philly.

Now I remember.

I opened one of the most absurd Sealed pools ever at Friday Night Magic tonight. Unfortunately, it only yielded a 1-2 result, since I got mana-screwed/flooded in 4 of the 5 games of my first two matches ( Read more... )

Just got home from prerelease. Kicked ass and took names. Finished the Swiss rounds in 6th place (out of 50 participants), then marched through the single-elimination top 8. Didn't actually play out the finals, as the other guy and myself were more interested in just getting the hell out of there (semifinals ended at quarter after one in the ( Read more... )

Magic prerelease this morning. I am operating on about 4 hours of sleep, thanks to insomnia.

This to me is not a good combination.