Two Headed Giant

Check it out, I'm running a Two Headed Giant tournament at my church, come along if you happen to be in the .5% of the world thats close enough to Preston Victoria to bother coming :)

9.30am Saturday October 15
Northern Community Church of Christ
81 High Street Preston
$25 per person (includes product to build decks from + garanteed prizes)

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So Onto Nationals

But you heard me say I came 17th (even though the online details on the DCI site say I came 24th BOOO), so what am I doing saying I'm going to nationals? Well me and Warren (and his fiance and fiance's friend) are going to drive up to Canberra and try and grind in, then be happy to scrub out of the main event in time to play in the vintage national championship.

So now comes the tough point of trying to work out what collection of decks were going to turn up with. Some build of TnN will be sitting our bag I'm sure as it might just be the best thing to play. A few deck lists of mono red decks will also be floating in said bag with all the cards in matching sleeves so what ever build we feel like at the time is possible (agro, medium and big red being the main choices). Then some mono blue control deck is also likely to be around, probably featuring proteus staff as the win condition as I hear its some good. Kagemaro, Only to See Play will also be in attendance with all of his fun little creature hating friends.

Which brings us around to our current dilemma, what is the best deck at beating Kagemaro and friends? I don't think that mono black has great matchups against all that many (serious) decks, but the deck may be built better by some smart guy leaving us needing to beat it. With what?

Opps Regionals

I believe that regionals was a few weeks ago.

I also believe that I played in it and came 17th.

Out of 70 odd I believe.

I'm fairly happy with my 4-3 effort. I feel things may have been better for me if I hadn't of lost the first round to a Red/Black pile.dec. I mean who expects such a deck to sideboard how it did.

The situation you see is that he'd pulse of the forged me a few times, so I knew he had it in hand. I also knew that I either wanted to do 1 more damage to him, or enough to kill him on the spot, me having several insect tokens. So I attack with my lethal insect suited up with blanchwood armor and another token, thinking either he terrors the uber insect token or dies, if he has the terror then I do the max 1 damage that I wanted to do if I wasn't to win on the spot.

Naturalise.

Who plays Naturalise in a Red/Black deck when you can only cast it via pendant prisms?

Yes, I know the answer to that is people who beat me in round 1 of regionals.

The heartiest thing to me is that the most 'exciting' point of the day was when i called a judge over to check if my opponents deck was sufficiently randomised. At the end of game 1 my opponent spaced out the mana in his deck evenly (showing me the whole contents) then proceeded to block shuffle several times. So I did the only thing I could in good faith and called the judge telling him "I don't believe my opponent has sufficiently randomised his deck" and we retold the judge what he'd done. Mark then looked through the deck and decided it was shuffled sufficiently. Boy did calling the judge over for this get my fingers tingling.

naturally I proceeded to smash him in game 2 for the match.