I've been playing Moon Stompy at the local for the past few weeks, and it has served me well. To the point that I have a decent credit at the store. Not sure what to do with it yet- likely pick up some cards I want. But I want to make sure I am still playing for free for a bit. So after next week I will know where I stand with things and be able to figure out what to pick up.
At last nights event, there were at least 4 others on Mono Red stompy versions. I am sure each was slightly different than the other. So I am glad I didn't audible to playing Eldrazi like I thought about on the way over. The amount of moon effects floating around in the room was higher than I expected.
On the flip side- I was battle an illness and I had a mask on. I had at least two people say thank you for wearing a mask. After dealing with being sick in January for a couple years running- I might just start wearing one for Dec/Jan when I go to the weekly. For my own health.
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Rd 1 vs Canadian Threshold (Danny)
Game 1, Felt like I was off to a decent start with Tomb, Mox, and a Fable. He Dazes my Fable and wastelands my Tomb. To which I do not find another mana source. At all. Nada.
Game 2, Turn 1 Trini, he goes- "oh no." Turns out, he kept a very mana poor hand dependent on filtering for more mana. I dropped turn 2 Rabble, and a turn 3 Rabble which gets the scoop.
Game 3, He found like all his lands in his deck I think. Which is not much. I found just enough pressure, and dropped some lock pieces between Blood Moon, and Magus he couldn't cast his answers. Kinda felt bad for him, but I get it.
Rd 2 vs Scott W on Delver
Game 1, he was a turn ahead of me the entire game. I didn't find any road bumps to slow him down. My hail mary was answered and that was that. He was just better.
Game 2, Again didn't find any road bumps and he had all the answers. Yeah- it was a mercy slaying.
Rd 3 vs Brady on Nadu
Game 1, I knew what he was on, which is fine. He knew what I was on. My game plan was to kill all the idiots than came out before the Nadu. Which mean Nobles, Bristly Bill, etc. I didn't want him riffling through his deck. I found my answers, he removed some of mine, but I felt more controlling and rolled through with damage.
Game 2, I found an early Moon which he was ready for, but turned out he fetched for the wrong land ultimately. He needed white, not green. Welp, whatcya gonna do? I kept up answers for things, feigning not having various answers... but he did get a Nadu down but didn't have the many to cast the answers he found. So Win.
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In other news- I sent my largest sell order off to Card Kingdom. Packed up a bunch of things I just don't see myself playing any time, and got a fairly juicy list of trade material. I have goals if things work out, but fall back if they do not. I lost some value on some things- but got plenty of value back from others. I don't feel bad for shoving off what I did. I can still play just about every deck I want to without problem. Plus I don't see myself in a paper legal tournament until............
Very excited.
Still debating if I want to send a second tranche of cards off to add to the value train.
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Card Sphere news- I threw a bunch of things back into the mix and had over $200 in credit.
One thing I didn't realize was the collapse of value for Chalice. Guess I will be getting a set of retro-frame Chalice for use. Like it. (two already shipped)
Do I need 2 sets of Chalice? Probably not, but I can wait for the value to go back up if I want to dump the other set.
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I did watch someone buy 3 masterpiece Mox Opals last night. Sure- why not.
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