Magic Weekend!!!!

What is this all about?  Oh yeah, another Magic Weekend from the Source Comics and Games!  All weekend long!

In this all weekend long event the LGS puts on a lot of events.  I mean A LOT of events.  There was modern, commander, cascade, mini masters, draft, sealed, standard and some that I have no idea what they were.  On top of that, you can bring a group and play what ever you wanted.

I was only there on Saturday, but it was a packed house.  From what I could tell, most people were there to play in the events that were setup, and there really wasn't that many casual players.  I would say there was well above 10 different tables setup for 16+ players.  I actually saw 6 events going off at the same time.  The way they ran everything was quite impressive.  There was pre-ordered games that you could buy tickets for, but then they had a board that you could sign up for pick-up games. They also provided prize support for personal games.  If you showed up with 7 other friends, you could all play for a box of any of the new sets.

My friend and I just went up there to hang out and play, maybe do a little trading or maybe do a little buying.  It was a really good time.

We started out with Legacy and I found out that the Lands deck is pretty boring to play.  I am actually going to be taking that one apart and setting up a new Legacy deck.  But I did get a chance to play my Miracles deck, and let me tell you!  That was a great deck to play!  I was having a lot of fun with that deck.

From there My friend decided it was time to buy something and picked up 4 Eternal Masters, and I followed suit.

Nothing too great, but I did get a couple of Mythics.  Unfortunately that trading fodder is not that sought after, and the foils are nothing to get excited about.

We then switched it up to Modern, and I started with Lantern Control but I was not really understanding what I had to do and got beat pretty bad.  My friend was playing Burn, and so I switched to Infect to make it a bit more challenging.  That was pretty fun, but I really wanted to see how Lanter Control was supposed to work.

The second time around I had a lot more fun, and I just needed to figure out what the game plan was.  All that deck does is control what your opponent is going to draw in their next turn, and you are basically supposed to play with an empty hand.  And now that I just said that, I am going to try and put Lupine Prototype in that deck somehow.  But really, I enjoyed that deck very much, and I think I am going to be tweeking that deck some more to make that my Modern deck.

Modern - Lanter Control

2 Spellskite 

4 Mox Opal 

4 Ancient Stirrings 

4 Codex Shredder 

4 Ghoulcaller's Bell 

2 Inquisition of Kozilek 

4 Lantern of Insight 

2 Pithing Needle 

1 Pyxis of Pandemonium 

1 Surgical Extraction 

3 Thoughtseize 

2 Abrupt Decay 

2 Sword of the Meek 

3 Thopter Foundry 

4 Ensnaring Bridge 

1 Ghirapur Aether Grid 

2 Academy Ruins 

1 Blackcleave Cliffs 

3 Darkslick Shores 

1 Forest 

2 Ghost Quarter 

4 Glimmervoid 

4 Llanowar Wastes 

Sideboard

2 Welding Jar 

1 Duress 

2 Grafdigger's Cage 

2 Gut Shot 

2 Nature's Claim 

1 Pithing Needle 

1 Surgical Extraction 

1 Ancient Grudge 

1 Life from the Loam 

1 Sword of the Meek 

1 Thopter Foundry 

And yes, after some modern was time to pick up more product.  My friend decided to grab a Fat pack of Origins but also came back with a huge surprise.  He thought it was a good idea to pick up a pack of Revised as well.  Now I can tell you that I did not agree with that purchase, but I can't tell you I kept that to myself.  I gave him a lot of stick for buying that pack, but in the back of my mind I was secretly opening that pack.  He did not end up getting a Dual land, but he did get a Demonic Tutor. And I think he said the only thing he got from the Origins Fat pack was 1 foil card (common card). So yeah, pulls, and I decided to follow suit.

I did not do as bad as him in general, but I did not get anything like a Revised Demonic Tutor.

Starting out with the Origins Fat Pack only real thing to call home about is that Lilly, but I did get more foils than him.

I did not pick up a pack of Revised, but got 2 packs of Innistrad instead.

And yeah, Delver was the only good card I got out of that.

From there, we moved on to Standard.  I was playing UR Dynavolt and my friend was playing WR Tokens.  It took me a bit to figure out what I was supposed to do, but it almost seemed like the Dynavolt part of the deck was not required.  But considering what is going on the Pro-Tour right now, the deck would be too slow.  It does require a long runway to kick off, and there is removal to allow it to kick off, but I don't think it will be very competitive in Standard.  I might tweek it a bit to see if I can get something out of it.  I do have to say, I just love Torrential Gearhulk the more I play it.

After standard we needed to pick up some more product, so we went to Aether Revolt Bundle pack

Picked up 2 Mythics, 1 foil Rare, and just the standard fodder.  I did grab 3 Fatal Pushes which was pretty exciting, and I was able to trade one of them for some stuff, but I am will go through trades and singles in another blog.

It was getting to be pretty late for us old folks, and we did put in a good 8 hours of playing.  My brain was mushy, and I hope my friend's brain was the same or I am just that out of Magic shape.  But while we were packing up my friend wanted to get some more stuff so he picked up some more Eternal Master packs.  After some friendly banter I pulled the trigger on some Modern Master 2013 packs, and yes the pissing contest was in full effect.  In all honesty, I was just using this as an excuse to buy more packs.

I do have to say it paid off on this one.  Picked up a Doubling Season and Aether Vial for trading fodder.

I did not get anything I was looking for the collection, but it was a great time just hanging out and playing.  I got a lot of good comments for my Pupathon playmat, and it is always a great environment to play at.  People there are really friendly and welcoming at that LGS.  The only thing I wished was that there were more causal tables.  We were afraid the whole time that if we left, we would have lost our spots and would be moving around a lot more.  But besides that, it was great!

A piece of advice if you do go to the Source, pick up their yearly membership card.  It gives you 10% discount on most things in the store, and helps with purchases at the store.  They normally charge a bit more than any other store, so doing pickups there does cost more.  I can only assume that the increase of cost accounts for the discount card.  But yeah, this is not a store that tries to give out the best prices, and I normally just buy there during their sales events.

Great day playing, and great fun.  Hope I can post more of these types of playing blogs.