Finally got back to my regular weekly after two weeks of drafting. Spoiler, awful week 1 of drafting, went 2-1 week 2. Almost made 3-0 but if it wasn't a pesky black flying mythic. Dang. I was able to pick up two packs for my trouble, and cracked them for zero value. Darn you Double Feature!!!! Should have saved them for pack wars. Oh well, lesson learned.
At the weekly legacy- I brought out Titan Post. Wound up with a 1-2 record, going to 3 games each round... and nearly to time the first two. Thought for sure I would have time between rounds to do some minor shopping. (foreshadowing!)
Round 1 vs 4cc Uro control
Game 1- I had no clue what he was on for about 4 turns, and promptly didn;t find answers for a while. I turned the corner with a a live Eye of Ugin, and fetched up my favorite Eldrazi. He couldn't stop it, and couldn't deal with it. Promtly scooped.
Game 2- Ummmm- don't recall to be honest, but I kept a sketchy hand which promptly got riffle stomped by an Uro.
Game 3- Crushed it with an early Carpet, getting Needle and Reclaimers removed, then turning the corner with double Titan, backed up with finding all the lands I could possibly want to deal with his threats.
Round 2 vs Paul Lynch on Day's Undoing combo
Game 1- I had no clue what deck he was on. I had him pegged early with Day's Undoing, but never saw it so I was starting to doubt my spidey senses. Game 1 took at least 30 minutes, and felt fairly inevitable for me. There was a window that I had to COMPLETELY lock the game down with Emrakul and Karakas for replay... Paul had a known Dress Down, and I was playing around it. But for the most of the game he was spinning and search and spinning and search for Day;s Undoing and never found it.
Game 2- I mulliganed a poor hand and somehow found a 'ok' hand which went sideways EXTREMELY quickly. He got off the Narset into Day's Undoing combo and I had NOTHING.
Game 3- I kept a sketchy 7, and should have mulliganed. My early threats were answered, and I was in to complete top deck mode which provided no answers. Just lots of lands. He didn't need to produce the combo because he could have beat me with a flyswatter. sigh.
Round 3 vs u/b delver
Game 1- I had no clue what he was playing. Turned out to be a
Delver/Voidwalker/Murktide deck. It was nothing I had seen before... so
kudos? Famous awful sketch keep and got removed from my early stuff and never turned the corner.
Game 2- Wound up holding off the hordes with a Chasm and picked off the threats, went big with lots of Cloudpost despite the active Loam/Wasteland engine and successfully Ulamog'd his Murktide and another threat.
Game 3- Got delvered with a Voidwalker for a friend. I drew into nothing that could block anything or help ramp into the true answers.
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On to resolution of my fake cards auction win.
Timeline- Won an auction on March 13th. Prices were SLIGHTLY different than I understood. However, if I could sell the foils for close to TCG, I could somewhat break even on the deal. Within the week I got the cards- 3 of 6 cards were fake. (buy a loop people.)
I called the auction company that day. Nothing
I emailed the next day. Nothing.
I contact my credit card company to file a dispute- had to wait two weeks for them to contact me back. Nothing.
My credit card company wanted an independent expert to provide information about the "fakeness." So I got that from LevelUpMD store I go to. Got that, sent in. Waited another two weeks wait for the credit card company to get back to me.
YESTERDAY, the auction house calls me. Turns out- they had no clue how to tell. (as I suspected, it took the credit card company complaint to really get things rolling) I started explaining how easy it might be to tell. They also reveal that they never replied to my email. They offer to send a return mailer to me, and the dispute will not be contested.
So I get to send the mistake back. However, I had been selling some cards to help off set the prices in anticipation of being on the hook for fakes. I took the cash I made from those cards and spent it all at the game store last night as a bit of a thank you for helping. It isn't much in the grand scheme of things for them, but its what I can do at least.
Too bad I can't make their legacy 1k in two weeks.
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