FNM @ Majestix

Black Friday saw Jack

Andrew

Kate

and I at Majestix for Friday Night Magic.

I went 1-2 playing BU, I could not keep up with RW or GW Agro deck:

Andrew went 1-2 with a third round draw. He was playing Mono Red.

Kate had a three color deck and went 1-2 as well.

Suprisingly, Jack, how has been doing great this year, went 0-3 playing BG, I think.

We did get some OK cards & everyone went home with a promo card. It was a fun Friday night.

FNM @ Majestix

Jack, Alexander, & I drove over to Majestix for some FNM drafting.

Jack ended up on the champions table having gone 2-0. He lost and came in second.

My lame BW deck went 0-2, but ended up beating Andrew at the Shame Table in round three. Did draft a lot of value, but did have a lot of fun.

FNM @ Majestix

Jack & I went to the Costa Mesa Majestix CCG shop to play Friday Night Magic for the Theros Release.

 

This is the closest FNM shop to us, but traffic is still a bear to sit through to get to the shop--we were about 10 minutes late & the shop was packed. There was no parking so I parked at the super church next door after I drove over the Japanese restaurant's mop in the alley behind the shop! They wanted $50 for a new mop!

Majestix is an amazing comic / card shop -- the guys behind the counter are super friendly & knowledgeable. Extremely helpful. The other players, and there were a lot of them, were all there to have fun--they were friendly and nice & really made Jack and I feel welcome.

Great Shop!

One reason we wanted to go was to continue the Hero's Path game that started with the Thero's Prerelease.

To get the card

to go with the card we got on pre-release weekend. There was also this cool card protector page to keep all our Theros hero cards together.

this week you had to solve the puzzle in this image:

Jack and I stared at this for 20 minutes before someone told us the answer was Erbos--that the stars make an E and connect to display a 5/7, or semething--if this makes since to you PLEASE explain it to me--still very confused. I cannot see that at all & really have no idea what they were talking about.

Also, we got a Bident card for playing FNM.

Yep A BIDENT!

Majestic ran a sealed draft which was awesome. Jack was in a six player pod & I was in an 8 player pod [which means Jack had three rounds and I had 4 rounds--Jack and I left after ~ four hours at the start of round four].

The guys at my table were awesome--we had a lot of fun drafting these cards--I was mostly drafting for value since I still do not have a very good sense of what the cards do.

Jack went 2-1 for the night and one a pack. He crushed a kid round one that was not happy loosing to an eighth grader. At all. Then he lost to the guy who went 3-0. And then he beat a fairly good player who did not draw well.

I went 1-2-1 and won nothing. I lost the first round to much better player--I was crushed the first game & played a very close and fun game the second time. I went 2-0 against a control deck in the second round--Jason and I really had a good time--this was the most fun I had. The third match was against a Red Green deck that I just could not close against--he crushed me BIG at the end.

I learned the value of casting at the bestow cost.

I learned the value of moving slowly--I play very slow and do much better when moving slowly.

I had a really good time.

The shop is fantastic, the players are super friendly, and this was likely my best public play magic experience. Jack also liked it a lot, largely because he won and drafted some very good cards.


 

His Junk / Her Treasures

Jack and I played FNM at this shop in Coos Bay.

There were 10 players and we played M14 Sealed. The players were very good--surprising for such an out of the way shop. Several of them had binders with tons of rares & speculation cards.

I lost the first round. Jack lost the first round.

We played each other in the second round. I beat him but only because his black deck did not have much in closing--I think we split 2-1.

I played the guy Jack lost to in the first round, he stalled a lot and so we tied.

Pretty much the worst night of magic I have ever played.

The dudes who ran the store were very nice, negotiated the price of some cards we ended up not buying, and gave Jack a prize just for showing up, so overall not a total waste.

The drive back to Bandon was fantastic listening to Sirius radio on windy wood lined streets.