NOT SO RAGOST ANYMORE
NEW!
I just can't give up on the idea of having 3 'commanders'. I dabbled with the idea of using Othelm instead of Hargilde today, and there is suprisingly some resemblance of a theme.
In the old version with Ragost as the commander, the theme was very limiting and the play patters grew to be very repetitive. Classic case of it sounds cool but actually not very fun in practice. I also realized that I wasn't making fukk use of Zirda.
In this rendition, the theme is (looking to be) combat (goad) and graveyard focus.
So Bjorna goads by saccing artifacts (that can also be creatures) and Zirda makes it so that creatures can't block and reduces the cost of Othelm's ability. Maybe Bjorna can ping our own creatures so Otheim can bring them back (maybe too crazy but the possibility is there)?
So this will be a 4-color (WURG) deck, that has 2 commanders and a companion, focusing on combat, reanimation, artifacts and maybe politics?
Sounds fucking AMAZING!
I went to Japan and got some LEGENDARY cards
Spent theis morning goldfishing so I kinda have a functioning list so why not write an update
So I went to Japan and of course I had to visit Hareruya, after all it's '"The Place" for Magic: the Gathering fans!' as they say on their website. I came to the store a total of 4 times. I went multiple times because I fucked up my order the 1st time, got to the store too late to fix my order the 2nd time, finally got the cadrs I needed the 3rd time and had nothing to do so I went for the 4th time. I had 2 main goals going to Hareruya. 1. Pick up cards to finish my Izzet Terror Pauper deck and 2. Pick up cards for this blog's deck. Both required weird/kinda hard to find cards not readily available where I lived. And I was looking for cool souvenir cards on the side and some that my friends needed as well. So what did I actually buy for this list?
This is my current list, in it the cards I got from Japan are:
I got other cards as well of course but they're currently not in the deck so I'm not listing them here.
I've realized that I really like the Legendary subtheme in this deck so I just went full throttle into it. This also means that the artifact theme is dialed down now (Osgir felt especially awkward this morning, still keeping him in for now tho), but I actually like that, because I already have an Artifact deck that I love and I don't like my decks feeling the same. For Bjorna's ability, I think just having some artifact token producers and cantriping artifacts would be enough.
Last week I actually went to my LGS and played the deck. I played 2 games. The 1st one I think I won (?) So it got to a 1v1 and I had Protective Sphere in play against a mono red deck and they just conceded. I think they were a newer player and got tired/frustrated so they just quit. But hey a win is a win, and it was the deck's 1st game at that! The 2nd game was quite uneventful, got stomped (as expected) by the Jodah player (Phyrexian Praetor tribal is unsuprisingly very good when your commander is broken Martin). BUT after the game while I was putting the new cards into the deck, the other Martin (husband of the store owner) said my deck was weird. And it's extra funny comming from him, who just played a gambling Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge deck and has a, what I can only describe as, 'artifact masturbation' Ratchet, Field Medic deck, which whenever transforms he makes the Transformers tranforming sound. We both share a passion for dumb builds, only that his are kinda dumber.
Things are kinda coming toghether
Just attended Lorwyn Eclipsed prerelease and got some new toys!
PRERELESE REVIEW
Quite a lot of people attended the event (I played on Saturday but I think even more played on Sunday), that's what happens for actually having a good in-universe MTG set! Prior to the event things kinda got spoiled a bit by people reportedly getting TMNT rares as their prerelease promos AND Wizards removing the prerelease stamp, but fortunately no turtles invaded my LGS. For the promo, I just took a fine tip permament marker and wrote the date next to the set symbol. I actually experimented quite a bit for this, using all kinds of pens (gold, POSCA, permament) trying multiple styles but settled on this. It doesn't obstruct the text or art and is reminiscent of old prerelease stamps which I like. Might try other colors next time.
In terms of the event itself, I did quite good! I finished in 4th place so just missed getting a prize pack. I cobbled up toghether a GW Kithkin deck with a bunch of changelings. I actually really really like changelings in this format, they're so versitile and fit into so many strategies. The craziest thing that happened was that I managed to get swing with a 20/18 trampler for the win in one of the games. My pulls were also not too crazy, got 2 Hallowed Fountains tho, one got into this blog's deck of course and my friend Long traded the second one for a Bloom Tender that he pulled, which OF COURSE is for this blog's deck! Additionally, Giang pulled a full art double sided Temple Garden which I bought.
This is my current list. I actually went over an overhaul of all of my decks and decided to dismantle a few, so the deck's mana base is quite good now.