Friday Night Magic 02/07/14

Friday Night Magic at Mercenary Market in Costa Mesa was a blast. It started with trying to solve this puzzle from the Hero's Path:

Luckily I had cheated and looked it up on bing, otherwise I would have never figured this out--I think that these puzzles need to be a whole later more simple.

We drafted to Born of the Gods & one Theros which was awesome.

 Jack was in the other pod and built  a strong UW Heroic deck. He crushed me during play testing before things started.

However my deck was fairly consistent in other games and I was able to pull out a 3-0 [6-1] record and take home a few packs.

My deck was mostly a Wolf Pack which I am likely going to try to build out as a Standard Deck this week.

Pump after the Block

I swing with Beetleform Mage:

Matt blocks with Young Pyromancer:

I pay the two to pump the Human Insect Wizard and hit for four taking none. 

Matt argues that I can pump after blocks are announced; however, the flying effect does not override the fact that I was already in blocked state.

Actual Play Legacy of the Crystal Shard--D&D Encounters S16 S8

Swan Song's Sudden Betrayal & Controlling the Remorhaz

Last night at Mercenary Market, before D&D Encounters, Jack, Scott, Brian and I played some Two Headed Giant.

Jack was playing his very powerful mono black deck.

Scott has Red Green Creature deck that is very good.

Brian was playing his broken deck which continues to suck.

It is kind of this Budget Esper deck that does have a lot of removal, but no real win condition.

Brian and I lost 2-0, but the worst part was that I was betrayed by Swan Song! I was able to counter a Boon Satyr flashed in at the end of turn, however I did not have anything to block the resultant bird when it swung.

TRAGEDY!

 Curtis shows up to play some D&D Next.

He is pretty stoked to be running this season, I think.

Jack is playing Ratatoille the Gnome Theif & Brian has Bling the Human Bard.

They both spend a lot of the game shuffling magic cards & are not that into the story.

The party attacked the Cultist's Lair this week.

I actually remembered my dice.

Jack got 5 on Flappy Birds!

The other table also appears to be having a very good time.

Mercenary Market does have plenty of space.

I had a called 20 on a skill check at the end--but outside of that a fairly normal week of D&D Encounters. We did successfully control a baby remorhaz, which is a 1st edition monster I have no memory of ever fighting before:

Best Play Ever

At Dice House on Saturday, during the 12:00 Noon Prerelease, I saw the greatest play I have ever seen...

Francois plays Nessian Wilds Ravager: 

Johnny does not pay tribute. 

In response to the 'enters the battlefield' trigger, Johnny casts Hold at Bay:

targeting Artisan of Forms [the only creature Johnny has on the battlefield]:

Francois' Nessian Wilds Ravager fights Johnny's Artisan of Forms' Nessian Wilds Ravager copy and dies. 

Johnny does not take damage because he prevents the six points that Francois did.

Even after the cheers and the judge and the rest of it it was a pretty much perfect play.