WOW TCG Hobby League (Lazy Peon) report @ Toybox

Today we celebrated our Independents Day. This morning after coming back from work .. did not even get some shut eyes, i right away gone to Toybox. Was supposed to meet up with Mike earlier but couldn't, so we decided to meet up at Toybox. This is my 1st time playing Hobby League (HL) Lazy Peon (LP) style. The deck only consists on commons and uncommons. Rare and epic cannot be played ... well those are the rules when it comes to LP style. My team mate, Colin ... help me out in contructing this deck for the HL. We decided to play Dizdemona (Dizzy) cuz when it comes to LP, she's the best there is. So .. here's what I played,

Hero:
Dizdemona (Warlock)

Allies:
4 Sarmoth
2 Medoc Spiritwarden
3 "Chipper" Ironbane
3 Warden Ravella
3 Mya, Dragonling Wrangler
4 Korthas Greybeard
1 Acolyte Demia
3 Apprentice Teep
3 Apprentice Merry
3 Jeleane Nightbreeze
4 Parvink

Abilities:
4 Life Tap
4 Shadowbolt
4 Steal Essence

Quests:
4 The Defias Brotherhood
2 Kibler's Exotic Pets
3 Finkle Einhorn, At Your Service!
1 Are We There Yeti?
3 Chasing A-Me 01
2 The Missing Diplomat

Round 1 vs. Colin (Shaman - Horde)
I was against my own team mate and currently one of the top players. It was a fast game but slowly it went slower. Colin's hand was not that great but mine ... I have Sarmoth, Teep, Merry and some other abilities. Colin at a point did manage to control the board by killing all my allies with fire totem which I should have dealt with it sooner. In the end my allies came swarming out and attack the shaman, I can remember .. did i use Steal Essence to finish the shaman off. I took the game. Note to self, need to write down what i did.

[1-0]

Round 2 vs Jade (Mage - Horde)
Jade were using the promo mage from the Burning Crusade CE. Most of his allies come into play helping each other out giving other allies a +2 ATK and also with allies that comes into play, deal 1 fire dmg to target hero/ally. Most of the allies that I have was 1 health only. My hero keep on taking dmg and my allies keeps on dying. Later in the game ... i manage to use all my The Defias Brotherhood to draw massive cards and around 5-6 allies came on board (if im not mistaken). This game was a closed one.

[2-0]

Round 3 vs Don (Sen'zir - Horde)
Seem to me, im meeting horde on every round. Don hand's was not good and he mulligan .. but it was not good either. Most of his allies came out one at a time, which was not really a threat to me. I just keep on attacking and attacking his hero and the game was over.

[3-0]

And that was in, HL was over with me on top and I got a FoO booster pack for my troubles :) Thanks to Toybox for organizing this.

Cant wait for tomorrow cuz tomorrow will be the FoO Release Celebration at Toybox. Woohoo :)

Anyway ... to the players I got against with, sorry if i wrote the report wrongly as I have not slept for the pass few hours.

The Eye of a Spectral Tiger (A jump for JOY story)

Today was the release of Fires of Outlands, a WOW TCG expansion at Toybox today. When overthere in the afternoon to get myself a box. Ceack open up on the spot with Hong. Got some good rares and epic also .. even got a non-loot Spectral Tiger .. huhuhu :cry:. This is the epic I got from the box are Doomplate Legguards and Chen Stormstout .. yoohoo :)

My epics

Aaron came to the shop around 2pm+ and got a box as well, he also got a few good stuff, to name one .. its the card i need also, is the Unstable Affliction. A damn good warlock ability card. So we decided to go for lunch at the mamak shop downstairs of Toybox. I ordered curry mee soup + 2 Milo ais :yummy:. Got Slow (its a ablility card for Mage) from Hong for Colin.

Then Aaron decided to crack another box after shaking it a few times and saying .. sure got loot wan. As the box was opened, Hong jumped in and grab the 1st pack and opened it. He told us it was a loot but Aaron and myself dun believe him .. Hong kept os saying .. look, no hero cards but wil still dun believe. Hong slowy take a peek at the loot card and started to shout and jump for JOY !!!, Aaron when over to Hong side and have a look at it himself .. soon later, both started to jump.. and jump and shout as well. Damn lucky :) ... so I took my phone camera and took a picture of them with the card and including the loot card as well. It was a great day for both of em. Same to me as well.



Happy guys after getting the loot .. unknowed guy, Aaron and Hong



Currently the most expansive loot card in the market .. The Spectral Tiger mount

So Aaron and Hong .. when wanna spend me seafood lah .. me waiting LOL.

After that, came back home to my apartment and blog this into my blog. Cheers.

Note: So sorry for the blurr picture lar .. me no money to buy digital camera.. haha.

The Good and The Bad of Today

Well, where do i start. Okie, we start with the good. Today is Saturday, i went for the WOW Hobby League (HL) at Toybox. Met with the usual gang except for Colin, he is in Penang on vacation. We started the HL around 4pm cuz waiting for some extra players to arrive. Crack a few packs of FoO while waiting, got a few shitty stuff, while Raymond continue cracking. Then suddenly, Vincent spill root beer drink all over Raymond's cards, the funny thing was, it took us a few seconds to react to the situation. So, we quickly took damn alot of tissue paper and wipe the cards but it was already damage badly but still playable. "No Drinks On The Counter" .. LOL .. haha. One last thing, i finally got my EA Shadowbolts .. YAY !! check em out.



The Bad begins. Then after that the HL begins, just to skip ahead, i lost all 4 rounds. I was decktesting with a new female warrior, Victoria Jaton, its a warrior based deck combo with Twig of the World Tree and Mortal Strike. 1st round, i was against Raymond. He was using the Grumprys hunter deck which was used recently in the US Nationals. It was a good deck, with all untargetable allies. I just got bad draws and my Wraith Scyte did not come out, I cant heal myself, just taking damage all the time. 2nd round, i was against a new guy, sorry .. i did not know his name, he was using a Dizzy warlock deck, yet again .. i made another mistake and I did not even hear time was called during the match or I would have won but sadly, time was not on my side and I got he most damage on my hero ... and i loss. 3rd round, was against Charan, my mood was abit down already due to the mistake I made in the 2nd round. Charan was using Phadalus shammy deck, my hand was kinda bad, keep on drawing quests and only got a few a kris and some armor out on my side, something that Charan did .. well im not telling .. so its okie. In the end, the match he won. 4th round, Ron was using Sen'zir hunter deck. I just let him win. Well .. today match was very bad. Next time I should just stick to Pagatha warlock deck to be safe.

The bad continues .. after that I decide to go back with Charan using the LRT but when we reach the LRT ticket booth, the operator told use that the LRT having some problems and have to wait for an hour. I was like so pissed off. I was like saying "shit man" all the way. At that moment .. i when to use the bathroom at the LRT station and i drop my cell phone .. i was looking all over for it, luckly .. it was near the bathroom door, thanks goodness. So we waited for a taxi to arrive and it came and we took the taxi.

Finally im back home in my apartment. Rest and relaxing. Writing my blog. Thanks for reading. Alright .. need to call another fren now. Cheers.

Some great stuff heading my way

Yup ... really great stuff heading my way. Below are the upcoming WOW TCG products from UDE for this year. Check it out...



March of the Legion, the new expansion, should be releasing around Thanksgiving



Feast of the Wintervale is a winter-themed holiday box set, celebrating the Azeroth version of Christmas. This box set includes a Heroes of Azeroth booster, a Dark Portal booster and a Fires of Outland booster, a deck box, 10 exclusive cards, including two half-cards that are cosmetic pets for your TCG hero.





The WoW TCG should have a product line including deck boxes and sleeves releasing in November.

Magtheridon's Lair Raid Decks - January 2008
Continuing the celebrated line of the limited-edition World of Warcraft TCG Raid Decks, the new Magtheridon's Lair Raid Deck provides an entirely new dimension of the TCG. Featuring the powerful lord Magtheridon -- as seen in the World of Warcraft MMORPG -- the new Magtheridon's Lair Raid Deck allows TCG players to simulate a World of Warcraft online raid.

More Lorwyn preview cards

As I was searching thru the internet at 4am in the morning and during my graveyard shift .. i came across more Lorwyn preview cards ... take a look.

The whole of last week ...

Here's a recap of what happen last week ...

Monday:
Celebrated my pre-birthday with my parents and Zack. Had pizza as a birthday dinner. Then head over to the internet café just to surf and chat via MSN. Head home around 12 midnight, played a few games of Magic The Gathering. After that was too tired to do anything else .. and when to bed.

Tuesday:
Woke up around 8am. Have my breakfast which is my birthday cake with my mom and my sis. A sweet birthday song was sang to me. After that, head over to Damamsara Perdana to sign some documentation for my new apartment. Had lunch, Yam Pork Rice … really nice. Head back to Cyberia. During the evening, played tennis with some DHL staff. Yup, tennis … which I did not played for a long time, the last time I played was during my secondary school, which I was in the state team. Those were the days.

Wednesday:
After 2 days of off … comes back my working day again. Damn a lot of work during the day until at some point, I even had a head ache. Decided to play some MWS with my frens online and then I called it a day.

Thursday:
Well … its my birthday today but nothing special really happen for me on the day. Its just like any other working day. I have some friends wishing me and that’s about it. Head back home, have my dinner and then back to my room, did some surfing and chatting. Sleep in my comfortable bed.

Friday:
Ahhh … here comes Friday. Usually people have plans to do during the night after work but not me, I had to work during the night. I have no problem with it as long the people I work with are alright.

Saturday:
I was supposed to meet my Magic friends over at Midvalley for some decktesting and drafting but decided not to go. I went over to Toybox instead for WOW TCG Hobby League. I got 2 win and 2 loss in the tourney. I played my Pagatha Control deck which goes against Xian, Fong Kai, Jade and Tommy. U can read all about it here in my previous blog entry. Practicing hard for Nationals and hopefully able to win it and get the change to goto World Championship over in San Diego, US.

The WOW US Nationals started today. Gorebelly decks seem to be dominating on Day1 constructed format where Mike Loconto’s Gorebelly deck had a successful 8-0 undefeated in Day1 of the tournament.

Sunday:
Today is another tournament day which is the Magic the Gathering Nationals Quaulifiers, which yet again im supposed to go for it but I had some insuffient funds. So, I stayed at home.

Day2 of the WOW US Nationals, here drafting skills was the key to success. Many top decks players in Day1 did not finished top 8 in Day2. The top8 decks that were qualified for Day 3 are 3x Gorebelly, 2x Phadalus, Aleyah, Grumpreys and Sen’zir.

The surprise was my friend, Zack was staying at his uncle’s place at Putrajaya. He drop by my place around 7pm. Showed him where the tennis and basketball courts were. He used my PC to start his blogging which can be found at http://novelsight.blogspot.com. His 1st blog entry was on the Harry Potter 7 book which he bought it at Alamanda. Taken some pictures of the book and the nice looking mug which he got as a freebie for buying the book. We ordered burgers for our dinner before he had to leave, but sadly the burgers was not ready on time. He went back to Putrajaya with his uncle. After that, I took a shower and when to bed.

Cheers

WOW TCG Hobby League (Report) - August 18, 2007

After a long break from WOW, decided to make a comeback after the FoO pre-released. I went for WOW Hobby League @ Toybox last Saturday and piloted Pagatha control agro deck. Well, its almost the same at Chris McMurry’s deck but I added in Zy’lah Manslayer to make the deck abit agro-ish type. Here’s the report.

Round 1 vs. Jye Chang (Litori - Mage)

This game was kinda fast. As always, Litori is pack with massive abilities. I manage to have some board control and also manage to remove some key cards from his hand by using Eye of Kilrogg such as counterspells and Frost Nova. Later in the game, King Magni Bronzebeard was on board, I decided to Shred Soul King Magni but got countered by Counterspell. Basically there’s nothing I could do about it. I got beat down by King Magni all the way. The was all over.

Results: 0-1

Round 2 vs. Fong Kai (Pagatha - Warlock)

Control/Aggro vs. control in this match-up. Both of us were using Pagatha. I decide to keep my 1st 7-cards draw with 3 Sarmoth and the match started. Fong Kai has no allies for the 1st few turns as for me, my Sarmoth came down after 3 turn continuesly but Fong Kai kills it off easily with Shred Soul, Rain of Fire and Shadowbolt. The game continued on until Fong Kai has enough resources to cast out Spirit Healer. Both of us had Lokholar in our graveyard. As for me, at that time, I had a Fel Armor in play and 2 Rain of Fire. At the start of Fong Kai’s turn, he will received 6 points of damage with Lokholar and as for my start of turn, I will only received 3 points of damage to my Pagatha, the race on damage was on while Fong Kai waited patiently for Cannibalize. 6 points of damage really hurts. I won the match.

Results: 1-1

Round 3 vs. Jade (Timmy - Rogue)

Jade was trying a fun deck, well that’s what he said. Rogue is ultimately lethal when the right cards was on Jade’s side. I mulligan after my 1st draw. So, does Jade (I think). As always, I manage to gain board control for awhile when Jade weapons starts to show up especially Perdition Blade. Keep on hitting me and my protectors for 4 points of damage. All my The Haunted Mills were out in play and I used all of them but could not stop he rogue combo from executing. My hero keeps on receiving 4 points of damage and there’s nothing I could do to stop it and finished me off with Sinister Strike.

Results: 1-2

Round 4. vs. Tommy (Pagatha – Warlock)

This was another fast game. I kept my 1st draw but Tommy decided to mulligan. Tommy did not have any quest until the 5 turn, while after that I had Infernal in play. Tommy cast Hellfire to get my Infernal with 1HP left and finished it off with a 1/1 token from Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire.
Zh’lah Manslayer came down on my turn and then Tommy cast another Hellfire for another 5 points of damage. Tommy then cast Fel Armor followed by Nemesis Skullcap. I destroyed the Nemesis Skullcap by casting out Zygore Bladebreaker. In the end, after a few attacks were done, Tommy’s Pagatha is down to 6 hit points left and I ended the game by using Shadowburn and Steal Essense.

Results: 2-2

Yet again … I got another 2 win 2 losses. Same thing happen to me in FoO pre-released. I really don’t mind as long im happy to be back playing WOW tcg Hobby League.

Note: Sorry if the report is not accurate cuz, I remember the matches by hard. Perhaps nex time I should write it down.

Smallville Season 7 Premier poster

September 27, 2007 is the date that will surely be glued to the TV screen waiting patiently for the season 7 premier of Smallville. Recently during this year Comic-Con in the US, a short Smallville season 7 clip was shown to the good ppl on Comic-Con. Im in the process of trying to get the clip myself. Recently I heard that it could be downloaded via Xbox Live Marketplace .. im gonna check it out later. Btw, here is a premier poster that was shown at Comic-Con

Poster courtesy of www.kryptonsite.com

MTG: Pro Tour Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ... next year 2008

Was surfing the net this evening and found out that there will be a Pro Tour in Malaysia next year from Magic official website. Woohoo :) its about time. Below is the news taken from the site.





Note: Please click on image for a clearer picture :)

and I also found out that the next expansion will be called Morningtide from the article above.

Cheers.

Pre-Birthday Celebration

Yea ... its a pre-Birthday celebration at my hometown yesterday. Why is it "pre" cuz my birthday actually falls on August 16, 2007 but during that time I had to work and will not be able to go back to my hometown. Its just a small celebration with my family and a friend.

We had pizza for dinner. My sis ordered 3 choices of pizza, which is Hawaiian, Thai Seafood and the lastest cheese dip pizza which I do not know what is it call .

After that, Zack and myself decide to play some Magic before going to the internet cafe that day. As always, I tried with my U/B Teachings deck against his type 1 R/G and R/Artifact deck. Most of the games I won but there's 1 game that I loss was that I forgotten to play the upkeep cost for Slaughter Pact.

We hang out in the cafe till 12mid, Zack finally created a blog for himself and even posted his 1st blog entry (I hope there's more to come Zack). He posted on his 1st story in a book called Write Out Loud, which is a complilation of short stories. Zack wants to be a writer and this is his 1st step, which I think its great.

U guys must be thinking, why there are no cake on my Birthday .. hmmm .. but there is. I only cut my cake this morning before i came back to Cyberjaya ... take a look





Its a plain and simple Choco cake with some Strawberry, Peach and kiwi fruit on top .. looks like a healthy cake to me .. LOL. Anyway, I really enjoy it .. had like to slice of cake and call it a day.

Thanks to my parents and my friend for taking the time to celebrate. God Bless :)

Cheers

WOW: Fires of Outland pre-release REPORT

Well .. here's a short report on my performance at the FoO pre-release. There were like 30 players that day. I went 2-2 using Warlock hero Mazar. I pull out some good Warlock stuff with some pets as well. The Warlock cards i got were Unstable Affliction, Incinerate, Fear, Immolate and the pets I got were Angrida, Thunderhead Hippogryph and Saltwater Snapjay .. well .. i was not lucky enough cause both Thunderhead and Snapjaw are not loot card .. if they are, it would have been my day :)

The most annoying is that .. in all 4 rounds I met with all heroes with hp of 30, except for Raymond, which his hero is 29 hp .. LOL. I was like .. what the frag. My MVP is Angrida, I manage to use here for board control in most of my games.

Here's the decklist that I played in the FoO pre-release.

Hero: Mazar (Alliance Warlock)

Allies:
1x Trogun Smith
2x Jewelcrafter Zanaz
1x Krenig Soulguard
1x Enfea Contha
1x Ryn Dreanstrider
1x Mezzik Darkspark
1x Crazy Igvand
1x Ranthus Adler
1x Savina Greysky
1x Christopher the Devout
1x Tracker Gallen
1x Lafiel
1x Thunderhead Hippogryph
1x Angrida
1x Saltwater Snapjaw

Abilities:
1x Defensive Breach
1x Lie in Wait
1x Incinerate
1x Immolate
1x Exhaustion
1x Explosions!
1x Fear
1x Quick Strike

Equipment:
1x Whitemane's Chapeau

Quests:
1x Kibler's Exotic Pets
1x Leader of the Bloodscale
1x The Love Potion
1x The Ultimate Bloodsport
1x The Flawless Flame
1x To Serve Kum'isha

Thats the deck, the only regret for my deck is Whitemane's Chapeau and also I should have use another hero cuz I pull out an Unstable Affliction. What a waste.

Btw, here are some pictures from the pre-release.

WOW: Preparing for Fires of Outland pre-release.

Yup ... a new WOW TCG expansion has arrive and its called Fires of Outland. There will be a pre-release event happenning at Comics Corner Subang Jaya tomorrow at 10am and guess what, I will be going for it. I know I have not beem so active in WOW cuz I was concetrating on MTG and trying to get into Nationals while Im also waiting for the WOW Nationals to happen here which Im already qualify for it. These are the cool stuff that players will be getting in the pre-release event.

"The pre-release promo card"

" The Deck box"

"The Playmat"

So far, the playing mat is a must for me and also the new Battleground t-shirt. The only card im hunting for in Fires of Outland is this ...

I have been playing mostly with Pagatha, but that will chance cuz after I saw what Mazar (Hero card) is capable of doing with pets .. its another MUST for me.

Cheers

Hotdogs @ Cyberia

Yea ... hotdogs .. well .. i was supposed to post this ages ago and I always forgotten so, I only remember after I have consume the hotdog as my dinner meal. To me, this is the best ... yup .. u heard me correctly .. THE BEST hotdog. Even this hotdog beats 1409 hotdogs. Here's a pic..

The hotdog seller always arrives at Cyberia around 8pm and will do the set-up and be ready for business around 830pm. Its not a shop, its exactly a van of some sort, red in color with Ferrari. The interior of the van is deco with Ferrari merchandice such as t-shirt, caps, model cars and lots more. Really cool stuff.

Most hotdogs they sell are 7" long and they also sell burgers. Here are the menu, for burgers, they have the variety of single, double and triple beef or chicken meat with a reasonable price. U can also add either egg or cheese to your burgers with some extra cost. As for the hotdogs, if i can remember ... there are either 3 or 4 types of hogdogs to choose from. They are cheese and mushroom, cheese and blackpepper. The price is from RM4+. My favourite will be the cheese and muchroom, its really juicy and nice, cost me RM5.20 ... but its worth it.

Only only hotdogs and burgers do they serve but they also sell home-made chocolate brownies which is only RM2 a piece. To anyone who is reading my blog and live in Cyberjaya .. go and try it out .. u will luv it.

Cheers.

Lorwyn preview #1

Shriekmaw
Creature - Elemental
Fear
When Shriekmaw comes into play, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke 1B (You may play this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it comes into play.)
It's a bird!
Illus. Steve Prescott #139/301

MTG: Road to Nationals - Control vs. Aggro (Decktest #2)

I had a friend drop by my place yesterday and decided to practice our decks for the upcoming Nationals Qualifiers. He’s using a fast mono-red deck consist of burn spells and winnie red creatures. As for myself, I’m piloting a U/B Teferi Control deck from John Kolos, US Nationals Top 8 player.

Here’s both deck list

Red Deck Wins
Lands (20)
20 Mountains

Creatures (24)
4x Scorched Rusalka
4x Mogg Fanatic
3x Keldon Marauders
3x Magus of the Scroll
2x Greater Gargadon
4x Giant Solifuge
2x Frenzied Goblin
2x Spark Elemental

Spells (16)
4x Incinerates
4x Char
4x Rift Bolt
2x Seal of Fire
2x Demonfire

U/B Teferi Control
Lands (26)
1x Faerie Conclave
2x Desert
2x Dimir Aqueduct
5x Islands
2x Swamps
2x River of Tears
1x Urborg
2x Tolaria West
3x Dreadship Reef
4x Watery Grave
2x Urza's Factory

Creatures (8)
1x Brine Elemental
1x Tombstalker
1x Skeletal Vampire
1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
1x Draining Whelk
3x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Spells (26)
1x Tendrils of Corruption
1x Haunting Hymn
1x Careful Consideration
1x Last Gasp1x Repeal
1x Damnation
1x Slaughter Pact
3x Mystical Teachings
3x Remove Soul
4x Spell Snare
4x Remand
4x Rune Snag
1x Dimir Signet

We played a lot of games that day, almost 3 hours of decktesting. Some games I loss and some games I won. Thru my decktesting that day, most of the games I won was with massive counterspell in my 1st draw hand. I remember I had like 4 lands, 1 Reman, 1 Spell Snare and 1 Rune Snag, this was enough counterspells to make trouble for a red aggro deck. I also remember, if Desert were out on your 1st turn, it will be all over.

Some wins also by using my creature to beatdown my opponent. Creatures such at Teferi, Mage of Zhalfri, Tombstalker and Skeletal Vampire. Sometimes, I even use Vesuvan Shapeshift and copy the Skeletal Vampire to make more creatures during my opponent EOT.

I found out that Remove Soul is so good in this deck. It works well in aggro deck but I will certainly sideboard it against mirror decks. Haunting Hymn also helps a lot, discarding 3 Giant Solifuge and 1 Incinerate is so sweet.

I still think that this deck still needs to tweak up a little. A single Dimir Signet, Damnation and Tendrils of Corruption is still not enough. I will be adding more creature removal spells such as an extra Damnation, Tendrils of Corruption, Terror and also perhaps more counterspells such as Delay and Cancel.

The reason I loss some games to the mono-red decks is due to lack of lands or too many lands and lack of counterspells. Even with a single mountain, my opponent can even finished me off will Greater Gargadon, Keldon Mauraders and some burn spells.

My next deckteast will be against Blink variants decks. The current meta at my area are mostly Blink and Rakdos decks. I will keep updating my blog on my decktesting. Stay tune.
Cheers

MTG: Road to Nationals (Decktest #1)

Wsssup .. my Road to Valencia has ended sadly for me. Now ... its time for Road to Nationals. With the Nationals Qualifiers coming this August 19, 2007, its time again for me to practice my standard deck. I will be using U/B Dralnu (without Dralnu). I have been using this deck since I started back Magic one mth back. Here's (as always) my deck list.

U/B Dralnu

Lands [26]
1x Faerie Conclave
2x Desert
2x Dimir Aqueduct
5x Islands
2x Swamps
2x River of Tears
1x Urborg
2x Tolaria West
3x Dreadship Reef
4x Watery Grave
2x Urza's Factory

Creatures [8]
1x Brine Elemental
1x Tombstalker
1x Skeletal Vampire
1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
1x Draining Whelk
3x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Spells [26]
1x Tendrils of Corruption
1x Haunting Hymn
1x Careful Consideration
1x Last Gasp
1x Repeal
1x Damnation
1x Slaughter Pact
3x Mystical Teachings
3x Remove Soul
4x Spell Snare
4x Remand
4x Rune Snag
1x Dimir Signet

Tried this decklist with some frens over at Comics Corner. Mostly tested out with Rakdos deck. Sometime I win and sometimes I loss. Tombstalker is the game winner for my deck. The only thing i did not find usefulness are Brine Elemental and Vesuvan Shapeshifter. Most prolly I will replace it with more Damnation and Extirpate. I also find that the single signet is not worthy in the deck as well, im still thinking of what to replace it with ... whats on my mind is either extra Repeal or Cancel. I need all the counterspells i can get. The current meta got Nats Qualifiers, if im not mistaken .. will be Blink variants and Rakdos decks.

PTQ Valencia (Results)

Here's my report on the PTQ Valencia that I attended last Sunday. Over 40 MTG players were there. My result was kinda bad due to bad match-up and lack of practice. Here's the deck that I took to the PTQ.

U/W Pickles

Lands [24]
2x Terramorphic Expanse
12x Islands
2x Urza's Factory
2x Plains
3x Calciform Pools
3x Nimbus Maze

Cretures [18]
2x Venser, Shaper Savant
4x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
3x Brine Elemental
2x Willbender
3x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
4x Riftwing Cloudstake

Spells [18]
3x Cancel
4x Delay
4x Foresee
3x Momentary Blink
2x Prismatic Lens
2x Coalition Relic

Round 1: U/B Teaching
Game1: Its a very long game. My card play was great but in the end, his tendrils save his life. I bring him down to 6 life left and he Tendrils to 14 life and yet again .. i brought him down to 8 life left and he Tendrils to 17 life. That nuttin i can do anymore. He then beatdown me with Triskelavus.
Game2: When we decided to play game2, time was called. So the game ended with a draw.

Result: 0-0-1

Round 2: Mono-Blue Pickles
Game1: Its another mirror match-up. This game was fast, my cretures did not come out and i lost.
Game2: Just say, my opponent pull out a Brine Elemental and Vesuvan Shapeshifter and lock me up. Thats all over for me.

Result: 0-1-1

Round 3: Reanimator
Game1: This was a fun game, I remember that my opponent cast out a Hellkite and I copied it with Vesuvan Shapeshifter and then my opponent decide to bring back Hellkite from the graveyard into play and kill my Vesuvan... and its was over.
Game2: Kill my Hellkite 4 times and i lost.

Result: 0-2-1

So .. thats no way for me to go far or even make it to top 8. So .. i dropped the tourney and playing fun Magic with my frens. Now .. I hope to get top 4 in Nats Qualifiers.

MTG: Road to Valencia (Decktest #2)

Today, decktest with Win, whihc he happens to be around Cyberjaya. Tested with his standard decks, Dragonstorm (which is extended) and Mono-Red. As awlays, my deck is a TSP block deck which will have no chance against both his decks, its just decktesting.

After a few rounds of playing ... the problem with my deck is i do not have creature removal such as Damnation cuz im playing U/W Pickles deck. So have, I have decided to change a few things in my deck. Im thinking of adding Foresee, Ancestral Vision and Willbender. Still .. Damnation is not in the deck yet. Here's my new decklist.

U/B Pickles

Lands (24)
2 x Terramorphic Expanse
12 x Island
2 x Urza's Factory
2 x Plains
3 x Calciform Pools
3 x Nimbus Maze

Cretures (18)
2 x Venser, Shaper Savant
4 x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
3 x Brine Elemental
2 x Willbender
3 x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
4 x Riftwing Cloudskate

Spells (18)
3 x Cancel
4 x Delay
4 x Ancestral Vision
3 x Momentary Blink
4 x Prismatic Lens

Sideboard:
3 x Aeon Chronicler
4 x Serrated Arrows
4 x Aven Riftwatcher
4 x Magus of the Tabernacle

My sideboard is still uncertain. I still have 4 more days to decktest and get use to the control with this deck. I still have time to make changes. Now ... i have to go hunt for Ancestral Vision.

Thanks to Win for helping me decktest. :)