I play a fair bit of Magic: the Gathering in addition to my board-gaming and role-playing. This evening, I competed (I used the term very loosely) in a Khans of Tarkir Sealed Daily event. My card pool was… underwhelming. Have a look: It’s not that the pool doesn’t have bombs – it certainly does, especially with Crater’s Claws and Duneblast. The trouble is that the … Continue reading Khans of Tarkir Sealed Pool
I’m writing this at the 11 am prerelease for the newest set of Magic: the Gethering, Born of the Gods. Apparently the midnight prerelease got 45 players here, and there are quite a number here for the season, about 28 by my count. The final number turned out to be 33. I chose Green as the colour of my pack, and ended up with the … Continue reading Magic: Born of the Gods prerelease (Ballarat Good Games)
Well, I’ve finally managed to play a Mirrodin draft, albeit online. (Playing RPGs every Friday evening does tend to cut out Friday Night Magic for me). The deck I drafted would probably be termed a classic infect deck, and I won almost every game with infect. 1 Plague Stinger 1 Corpse Cur 1 Blight Mamba 2 Contagious Nim 2 Ichorclaw Myr 1 Ichor Rats 3 … Continue reading My first Mirrodin draft…
I attended our local Scars of Mirrodin prerelease yesterday – well, one or two of them. The real enthusiasts had started at midnight, but I opted to play D&D yesterday and then play a prerelease in the morning after I’d gotten some sleep. I went 3-1 in the prerelease, with a deck I’d describe as rather average. It was a White/Blue deck which had some … Continue reading Scars of Mirrodin prerelease musings
I managed to get in one or two boardgames and CCGs over the weekend, but not – alas – any RPGs. My D&D group was missing someone (again) for the final session of this particular threat, so we chose to miss it. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get three people together for a one-shot D&D game either… So, I played a couple of games of Memoir ’44 … Continue reading Weekend of gaming: Magic, Republic of Rome, and other games
Well, I have my new computer. So, what have I been doing pretty much more than anything else with it? Well, that’s not a hard question to answer if you’ve been paying attention to my subject line: yes, I’ve been playing Magic Online. I hadn’t before. I think I played in one draft using Sarah’s account once, but mostly I’ve had to listen to my … Continue reading Magic Online
Last night, Randy was ill, so I was free to go to the Magic draft at Good Games Ballarat. There, I met with old friends Julian and Craig for the first time in quite a few years. It was really nice to see them again, especially Julian, who played D&D with me for a couple of years in addition to all the Magic games we … Continue reading Old Friends and Magic
I’m now mostly over the cold I’ve had for the last week and a bit. Hooray! I was never happier that Martin cancelled Friday’s Star Wars session because it allowed me to recuperate a lot. Unfortunately, I had to cancel Thursday’s boardgaming session, which would have probably found Randy, Sarah and me playing Android. I was well enough on Saturday to get to the … Continue reading Weekend fun – Le Havre, Age of Empires, Magic
CREATURES (17):1W Aven Squire (x2)2W Aven Trailblazer3WW Battlegrace Angel5WW Yoked Plowbeast2R Exuberant Firestoker2G Ember Weaver3G Algae Gharial3G Cliffrunner Behemoth3G DrumhunterGW Qasali PridemageRG Nacatl OutlanderRGW Woolly Thoctar1RGW Retaliator Griffin2(G/U)W Messenger Falcons4GW Pale Recluse (x2) SPELLS (6):2G Gift of the Gargantuan(R/W)G Trace of Abundance(B/G)R Sangrite Backlash1WG Sigil of the Nayan Gods4RG Vengeful Rebirth3 Obelisk of Naya LAND (17):5 Plains6 Forests4 MountainsAncient ZigguratJungle Shrine Continue reading My Magic draft deck
I’ve been a bit busy recently. The good news is that I seem to be a little ahead of the game at work; I’ve sent a pile of report templates away to be proofread so it looks like I’ll actually be able to make them available in good time to the teachers. Yay! Sunday’s D&D session saw us almost reaching the end of Pyramid of … Continue reading Back and Forth
