MySpace

Decided to register for MySpace a few days back. Its something like Friendster but most of my overseas friends and cousins never heard of Friendster before. So .. I just created one and added them in. Of course, my usual blog will be in there also. Here's the link .. have a look.

http://www.myspace.com/lifefromtheloam

Enjoy :)

They are coming, October 2007 ... whats coming ??

Here is a picture of a HUGE Magic poster at the US Nationals that caught my eyes, labeled with a cryptic “They're Coming, October 2007”. So ... im still wondering, whats coming ??

And I present to you Lihiana Vess .. she's abit scary ... yikes !

Gear of War @ Autumn (Internet cafe)

Friday morning, woke up early and went with Zack for breakfast at Modern mamak shop near my house. Eat our breakfast and then we went to Autumn, a internet cafe near my house also. told Zack about the shop plans to bring in Xbox360 console with games, and Zack told me, thay already did. It was cool. The Xbox360 were in the shop with a HUGE plasma screen TV .. i think is 42".

I called up the owner which is a friend of mine, asked him if I could just play Gears of War (GOW) for awhile .. he said no problem. So, I tested out the game and see how many ppl i could extract, the crowd who saw me playing the game were alot, i over heard a guy saying that the graphics for GOW damn good. I played from 9.30am till 10.30am and decided to call it quits cuz need to get back home and prepare myself to go out again.

MTG: Road to Valencia (Deck Test #1)

When back home to Klang after the MTG Draft at Manawerx. Called Zack and ask him to come over to my place to play Magic. We played till around 1.30am. After a few games of standard type 2 games, i decided to test out my PicklesBlink, which is a block constructed deck agianst my own R/G Aggro standard deck. I loss all the games but standard deck is just too strong for a block deck. Thats not the point whether I loss or win, the point is I still unable to control the deck, still need more practice. Here's the decklist ..

PicklesBlink #1 (decktesting)

Land (24)
10 Island
4 Terramorphic Expanse
3 Nimbus Maze
2 Urza's Factory
2 Plains
3 Calciform Pools

Creatures (17)
4 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
4 Brine Elemental
2 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
3 Venser, Shaper Savant
4 Riftwing cloudstake

Spells (19)
4 Cancel
4 Momentary Blink
4 Prismatic Lens
3 Careful Consideration
4 Delay

I will decktest with another deck soon before the PTQ starts on August 5, 2007.

MTG Draft session @ Manawerx

On Thursday, me and my friends decided to meet up for MTG Draft session at Manawerx, PJ. I turn up at the store around 3pm. I meet up with Wee Kiat and Khairul, both of them and myself plan the draft session on that day. It was a last minutes thingy which we will not know that we still lack of 5 players more.

So we decided to wait for more players to arrive. Finally after waited for 2 1/2 hours, Shaun and Peter showed up, the shopkepper Xeon also decided to join us for the draft. The players that drafted that day were myself, Wee Kiat, Khairul, Peter, Shaun and Xeon. Its a 6-man TSP booster draft.

After openning all 3 packs consist of Time Spiral, Planar Choas and Future Sight boosters, I finally has a 40-card deck to play. I called it my "Rojak" deck. Here's my decklist ...

Lands (17)
6x Forests
6x Swamps
5x Plains

Creatures (15)
1x Thallid Germinator
1x Nercotic Sliver
1x Amrou Scout
2x Shade of Trokair
1x Mire Boa
1x Spinneret Sliver
1x Sporoloth Ancient
1x Poultice Sliver
1x Virulent Sliver
1x Flickering Spirit
1x Yavimaya Dryad
1x Blightspeaker
1x Cutthroat il-Dal
1x Mindlash Sliver

Spells (8)
1x Ichor Slick
1x Dawn Charm
2x Petrified Plating
1x Gift of Granite
1x Might of Old Krosa
2x Cradle to Grave

Well honestly .. i sux at draft due to lack of practice and this is my 1st time drafting. My result were 1-2 loss. The winner were Peter. Well .. i manage to get my hands on Body Double and Dust Elemental .. good enuff for me :)

MTG: Road to Valencia (PTQ Valencia)

Its tournament time again for me, next week will be the PTQ (Pro Tour Qualifiers) Valencia Magic tournament. This tournament will be TSP Block constructed. It will be held on August 5, 2007 at Comics Corner Subang Jaya. 1st prize will be invitationals + accommodation to PT Valencia or USD 375. Basically, for players who cant goto the PT will use the cash prize, as for me .. im going for the invitational prize. Is worth to try.

Now .. I come to the decks that I wll be using for the PTQ. I have to choices, either i use the Pizza Stompy (Mono-red) deck or the U/B Control (Blue/Black) deck. Decks details as below ...

Pizza Stompy (Mono-Red)

Lands (25)
15 Mountain
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Forest
2 Pendelhaven

Spells (15)
4 Fiery Temper
4 Rift Bolt
4 Stormbind
3 Assault // Battery

Creatures (20)
4 Magus of the Scroll
4 Blood Knight
4 Mogg War Marshal
4 Sulfur Elemental
4 Timbermare

Sideboard:
4 Wildfire Emissary
4 Browbeat
4 Dead // Gone
3 Utopia Vow

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U/B Control (Blue/Black /s Red)

Lands (26)
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Dreadship Reef
10 Island
1 Swamp
1 Molten Slagheap
1 Academy Ruins
1 Urza's Factory

Spells (27)
4 Prismatic Lens
4 Damnation
1 Haunting Hymn
2 Think Twice
3 Mystical Teachings
4 Careful Consideration
4 Cancel
1 Snapback
2 Sudden Death
2 Tendrils of Corruption

Creatures (7)
2 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
2 Aeon Chronicler
2 Draining Whelk
1 Triskelavus

Sideboard:
1 Mountain
1 Fortune Thief
1 Plains
1 Disenchant
1 Temporal Isolation
2 Pull from Eternity
1 Extirpate
1 Sudden Death
3 Premature Burial
3 Detritivore

There might me some slight modifications to the decks. I will begin decktest for the 2 decks startin this Thursday at Manawerx, CCSJ and also online using MWS (Magic Work Station) with my fren Jeremy. I will keep updating on my decktest in this blog .. so stay tune :)

Anyone who wanna decktest at Manawerx or even using MWS. Drop me a comment with ur email and ill let u know. Cheers.

Onyxia Lair Playmat (WOW TCG)

Finally the Onyxia Lair playmat for the World of Warcraft TCG aws delivered to my doorstep a few days agao after a long wait of 7 weeks. It looks really nice and cool. Very detail as well.