A buddy texted about a deck he was going to play at an upcoming event locally- Duel for Duals. (hosted by MTG First) Well, huh... ummmm, first place is 4 Revised Underground Seas... clocking in at a robust $1400 in value. The rest of the top slots go down in descending order of value for sets of duals. Several people could even win their entry fee back... (I hope you are sitting down for this) $60 per player.
YOUCH. $60.
Lets look at this way, I didn't plunk down $20 last week... I wasn't planning to go out next Friday... and if I don't go this week, there is the budget for FNM for entry fee. So there is that. Next is the time commitment... I'll comment on that later. Biggest problem was a tournament legal deck. Lol. Closest I have is about 18 cards away in Sneak and Show. Still missing the following VERY expensive cards:
3 Volcanic Island
2 City of Traitors
2 Flusterstorm
2 Omniscience
2 Sneak Attack
2 Emrakul, Aeons Torn
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Force of Will
Another friend said, if I wanted to play this deck- I could borrow his cards to round out the slots I needed. I'd have to sign a waiver that if anything happened to his cards I would have to sell a kidney though. Super huge bonus with having VERY kind friends willing to lend out over $1,000 in cardboard.
Needless to say, I have been spending the past 24 hours going back and forth if I should go or not... I really don't think I have much of a chance to win anything, but it would be a hell of a thing to go and take part. I am currently leaning towards going. Things are breaking my way at home to allow me to attend. Currently here is my debates on the deck list:
- Simian Spirit Guides? (likely not)
- Gitixan Probes? (likely, but not all 4)
- Sideboard slots?
- 4 Leyline of the Void for sure, I HATE graveyard as a resource
- Not using Leyline of Sanctuary, though it is very popular... going to fill those slots with some combination of- Defense Grid, Abrade, Kozilek'z Return/Pyroclasm
- There is a very interesting debate between the 3 converted mana cost of the last two there.
My biggest worry is that I won't be able to understand what the other deck is attempting to do and completely punt the critical cards to counter, or sideboard. I haven't played Legacy nearly that much recently. There looks to be a fairly large crowd for this event- like 100+ players. (I think MTG First is gonna do well)
I'm still not 100% committed to going but why not?
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