Show and Tell, you are in time-out

Ryan F vs Paul L

 Got back to the weekly at Level Up. Killer crowd. Just stone cold players. 

I decided I didn't want to think too much, so I threw out g/u OmniTell.

Round 1 vs r/u aggro

Game 1, typical back and forth, counter somethings, I finally stuck the big nasty combo of S&T into Omni into Emurkul. Game set and match.

Game 2, He mulligaed to 5 cards. Not great, but he tried. I just powered out what I needed and stuck a Griselbrand. That was all she wrote. 

I had false sense of "this might work!" after that match. The downside was- he never had a DRC out, which is what makes that engine hum. I felt ok-ish.

Round 2 vs 8-cast (Jordan Berenhaus)

Game 1, I kept a bit of a sketchy hand and he stuck an early Chalice on 1. Pretty much shut me down as he did 8-cast things.

Game 2, I thought I had a chance when he mulligan'd down to 5 and realized one of the cards was wrong. I still lost due to my inability to find the combo or defense. He won off the back of a single Sai that I couldn't remove. It happens folks.

 

Round 3 vs Maverick (TK)

Game 1, I kept what I thought could be a good hand until I found no filtering and died with a hand consisting of 3 S+T and 2 Cunning Wish. Yeah.... ugh.

Game 2, Even worse than game 1. I don't want to talk about it.

After these results, I am putting Show and Tell based decks on hold. (actually, deconstructing my current build so I am not tempted) Just not good right now... Gonna focus on my other stable of decks.

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 Got a couple decent trades recently to fill out some corners of my collection for deck ideas. Nothing substantial to be honest.

 I did a spec of the latest Karn based on this one little tidbit of knowledge someone pointed out- The Karn generated Powerstone tokens only appear in the new set. Not the set it came out with. Huh.

I picked up 3 of the Foil Boarderless versions for $9 a piece. The new set is super artifact heavy, so this should be fun to watch.

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I have a theory about breaking the Reserve List...

With the next set, Brothers War, Wizards is introducing the idea of limited edition versions of cards- x/500. These are special foiling, and only so many made. Only found in collectors packs.

I have a theory that they are paving the way for re-introducing RL cards at WAY higher rarity as to allow three things: 

1) max out profit
2) keep the guise of protecting investments of old RL
3) soft breaking of RL, with real playable cards 

Think- SL printings of x/500 special foil editions of dual lands. No power... just Legacy/EDH stuff. I believe this is the next step after the 30th Anniversary debacle.

The only other bellwether will be Mark Rosewater retiring. That will likely be the big signpost saying- here it comes.