Chelsea and I will be holding a Zendikar draft this Friday evening (27th November). Start time will be 7:15pm. Please let me know below or by phone if you’re planning to come.
Also, check out the Win a Mox Sapphire tournament at Games by the Beach in Frankston in January. .
Chelsea is out Friday evening (13th), but I will be holding a Zendikar draft. Start time will be 7:00pm. Please let me know below or by phone if you’re planning to come.
Also, don’t forget there is a Pro Tour Qualifier on Sunday in the city:
PTQ San Diego. 9am rego. Zendikar Sealed. $40 Melbourne High School.
Chelsea and I will be holding a Zendikar draft this Friday evening (30th October). Start time will be 7:15pm. Please let me know below or by phone if you’re planning to come.
The land is falling!
4 Noble Hierarch / Birds of Paradise
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Sigil Captain
4 Emeria Angel
4 Rampaging Baloths
4 Khalni Heart Expedition
4 Harrow
4 Conquerors Pledge
4 Overrun
This is a little chancy and a bit vulnerable. Having said that though it can produce 12 3/3 tokens on turn 4 (6 of them at instant speed) – which seems like just enough.
You can splash red for Goblin Bushwhacker to make it quicker and I’d probably play Summoners Trap in the side board. Also considering that you can play up to 16 sac lands and are running Khalni’s and Harrow, you will probably be drawing spells for the rest of the game (if it continues).
Open to feed back.
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The new world of Zendikar is soon to be released which means it is almost time for the ATOGATOG!
The Zendikar Atogatog will be on Sunday 25th October at my place as usual. Games start at 12.00 sharp. Feel free to roll along from 10.30 onwards to start cracking packs and building decks.
It will cost around $30-$35 as usual and I will likely be selling some cheap packs at the end. For Zendikar we will each receive 6 boosters with which to make decks and will be battling for 5 rounds to determine the champion.
Please let me know at least a week in advance if you are coming so I can organise all the packs.
Guess what? There is a Magic Grand Prix in Melbourne on October 10–11 2009. The format is “Sealed / Booster Draft” so is easily accessible to everyone. Plus, just for attending (not even playing) you can get a free 2009 Grand Prix promo card — Chrome Mox. Add it to your calendars!
Hey, I had to record this somewhere as a some of you are out of the country (business my arse).
But I’m exited by the fact that with the Zendikar cards that have been spoiled we can have 6 mana of any (or all) colour by turn 3. Does anyone want to guess how? Hint: There is a hint already on this site..
Venue: Melbourne High
Cost: $35 per individual flight, $50 per 2-Headed Giant Team
Format: Sealed deck — 6 ZEN booster packs per individual flight.
Promo card: Rampaging Baloths
Flights:
Saturday flights 10am and 3pm. 2HG at 10am.
Sunday flights 10am and 3pm. 2HG at 10am.
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So, I’ve been tinkering with Merfolk as a standard deck for the last month or so. I was having a fair amount of success with my U/W/B Reveillark deck prior to the M10 rotation until the deck lost Wrath of God, Windborn Muse and a couple of other cards. It was really having trouble beating aggro decks when the Wrath-like effect had to be a turn later. I liked the idea of Merfolk because it could play an aggro game backed up by counter magic, thereby making it a seemingly better choice than say Kithkin. Basically Merfolk gives more opportunity to out-play the opponent than most aggressive decks. Anyway, Steve Tuck and I have been working on the deck and playtesting it intermittently over the last few weeks, concluding with some testing on Friday evening.
Saturday morning saw Damien and I driving into the city to try our chances at winning an invite to the next Pro Tour. The tournament was at Good Games in Melbourne and 80 hopeful players turned up. Below is the final list I played on the day. It’s slightly different even to the final version we had on Friday — for some reason I made a snap decision while registering my deck to replace Ethersworn Canonist and Sleep in my sideboard with Meddling Mage and Glen Elendra Archmage. This turned out to be lucky as both of these were useful sideboard cards on the day.
Draft next Friday (4th September) evening at our place. 7:15pm start. Let me know if you can attend. Going to try and get back into fortnightly from then (apart from being in the USA for a couple of weeks in September)..