Sunday: 33:37
Monday: 8:55
I've been having a lot of fun playing Magic recently. By winning. In the last four Friday Night Magic tournaments, I've gone 11-1, including a 3-week streak of winning outright (no splits in the finals). Sure, one week was broken with the Phoenix and Chupacabra, but anther was tribe-less B/G with no synergy (I had sweet rare Champion of Dusk, but I had only 2 other vampires) and U/G with essentially zero awesome Merfolk. Last Friday was A25. I had a sketchy U/W/r deck with some sweetness like Luminarch Ascension and Cloudblazer. Plus Urbis Protector and a Cloudshift for extra nuttiness. I didn't think it was all that good, but Ascension is really good when your opponent gets mana-screwed, and I found myself in the finals against Craig. Craig is a good drafter and a good player. He has shown his deck to various spectators, provoking double-takes and guffaws. He was several seats away from me at the draft, so I didn't know what was up.
Craig had opened this card and first-picked it, of course. He then went full-on cycling. A25 has all the basic landcycling cards. Weak to cast, but obviously insane with Living Death. He then received ANOTHER Living Death something like 3rd-4th pick in the second pack! The card has a lot of text, I guess. Perhaps players unfamiliar with this card didn't read down far enough where the small print says "You win the game." Craig even had 2 Nihil Spellbomb to break the symmetry, Ravenous Chupacabra, and even Hell's Caretaker for more shenanigans. I got possibly my best possible draw game 2, cast Ascension turn 2, got it active turn 6. I could make 3 Angels a turn. The first Living Death was not fatal. The second one was. Who expects the second identical (and it should be an automatic first pick, people!) rare? Despite going a reasonable 2-1 in the end, it felt like I scrubbed out.
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