MTG Salvation

Since extendos are crashing and burning soon, this post will serve to be a focal point for quotes I find quite hilarious.

Speculation Gone Wrong

The main cards I have left to buy:

- Gaea's Cradle
- Savannah (maybe)
- Yosei, the Morning Star
- Survival of the Fittest

I can live without the Savannah, but the other cards are pretty much must needs. It's been a bit lame since I've really wanted to get this deck finished, but I've been kinda low on cash all summer long.

I really want to go to a nice EDH event the next time I travel to a tourney and bust out Captain Sisay. She is probably my favorite general :).

I have noticed several people took this funny quote I made from the Warren Instigator speculation thread:

Quote from Me »

Hell, with that logic, this card seems like fair game, right?

I die to removal spells:symg::symg:
Creature - Who cares
10/1

It still dies to Path, Bolt, Terminate, Doom Blade, and Fallout! That must mean it's fine! Sounds like a printable card to me!!! /sarcasm

Good stuff! "But... but... it dies to removal!" is just simply not a valid argument after seeing all the ridiclous speculations on what could have been. For those who agree with me, I applaud you for that :).

Surging Chaos's real name is Byron.
Surging Chaos is 19 years old.
Surging Chaos is male.
Surging Chaos is just over 6 feet tall.
Surging Chaos has lived in Oregon his entire life and thinks it's an amazing state.
Surging Chaos is going to go back to college in about 4 weeks because he's awesome like that.
Surging Chaos is currently majoring in genetics and working on his transfer degree so he can transfer to either OIT or WOU next year.
Surging Chaos works part time at his local hospital.
Surging Chaos's favorite band is Apocalyptica.
Surging Chaos hardly ever drinks soda.
Surging Chaos likes most food, but is somewhat of a picky eater.
Surging Chaos is probably the only person in his family that tries consciously to eat as healthy as possible.
Surging Chaos is somewhat OCD when it comes to brushing teeth, but he has never had a cavity in his entire life.
Surging Chaos has never broken a single bone in his body.
Surging Chaos has had a few girlfriends through high school and college, but is now currently single.
Surging Chaos can be pretty forgetful and absent-minded from time to time.
Surging Chaos has gone to Crater Lake every year since he was like 6.
Surging Chaos loves really underrated video games that never got their much-needed respect.
Surging Chaos believes that Marina (from Mischief Makers and the person in his current avvy) and Vela (from Jet Force Gemini) are two of the most awesome heroines ever aside from Samus.
Surging Chaos is pretty poor for the most part, but somehow manages to be able to play Magic because of his excellent ability to spot sleeper cards.
Surging Chaos has been playing Magic since Odyssey was just released.
Surging Chaos started playing Magic competitively in late 2003 as Mirrodin was released.
Surging Chaos top 8ed at a JSS when he was just 14 years old with Ponza.
Surging Chaos hates Affinity more than anything else in Magic because it killed his community back then.
Surging Chaos has been lurking at MTG News since early 2004, and lurked for a short time in MTG Salvation before making an account on April 3, 2005.
Surging Chaos sometimes wonders how well-known he his on MTG Salvation after being an active member for over 4 years and with 5,000+ quality posts.
Surging Chaos's favorite colors are red and blue, but he also enjoys playing the other colors as well.
Surging Chaos does not believe that strictly better exists in Magic, but has currently become extremely jaded in arguing it.
Surging Chaos loves designing Magic cards in the CCC forum.
Surging Chaos is addicted as hell to EDH, but also enjoys playing Legacy, Extended, and Standard when Zendikar comes in.

Surging Chaos says everyone else needs to do this.

Has been my goal for a while now.

Just cracked 4,600 posts.

400 more feels like a lot, but it really doesn't. Not when you have card ideas up the ***. LOL.

I can't wait for Lorwyn to rotate out.

I can't wait to see more full art lands.

I can't wait to see the game go back to focusing on less multicolor.

I can't wait to see new cards to break in EDH.

...just some random shizz. Zendikar should be amazing!

Next to Samus and Marina, Vela is one my favorite heroines.

Also, play Jet Force Gemini if you haven't. That game was like the Gears of War of its time :).

Nothing better to do at 1:25 in the morning. Except sleep I guess.

Basically, I only need two more cards:

FOIL Jhoira (coming in the mail soon)

...and then I'll work on hunting down a Mana Crypt since my deck would work soooooo much better with it.

I <3 Jhoira so much. My favorite general by far

As you guys might know, I love changing my avvys a lot.

I got some good stuff coming up soon.

Surging Chaos for best avatar(s!) 2009!

...it is so AWESOME.

Way too fun to play. I'm starting to get an EDH group in my area since there is a nice size of casual players around here, and I think they would love EDH.

Arcum Dagsson is tooooooooo good. Go ahead, hate me

Maybe Wizards will throw a curveball on Legacy and pounce on something they had on their watch list all this time...

Tarmogoyf?
LED?
SDT?
Brainstorm?!?! lol they did restrict it in Vintage along with Ponder

It'll probably be no changes, but who knows.

So the Arcana on wizards.com has spoiled a bit of what Alara Reborn will be like by showing in their card that the entire set is going to be multicolored.

After Ravnica block a few years ago, Lorwyn block, Shadowmoor, Eventide, Alara, Conflux, and now Alara Reborn I have seriously become jaded of multicolored cards.

Honestly, it was GREAT to have Ravnica bring multicolored stuff back to MTG after the brokenness of Mirrodin and severely underpowered Kamigawa. I had nothing wrong with Ravnica and I welcomed multicolored coming back.

...but this is just too much. Shadowmoor and Eventide pushed the hybrid mana while providing amazing filter lands and brining back Reflecting Pool. Lorwyn gave us the infamous Vivid lands and 10th STILL has the painlands going.

Alara gave us the theme of "3 color multiclolor" giving us MORE lands in tri-taps. Conflux pushed this even further by reintroducing Domain and pushing super multicolor.

When I learned that Alara Reborn was going to be all multicolor, I literally was sick to my stomach. I have a feeling AR will be a good set, but seriously, how much further should the multicolor theme be pushed? Never before in the history of Magic has multicolor been pushed to the limit like it has in these past few years.

It's pretty insane.

****, I must have been playing the wrong game.

I have been a vocal opponent against mythic rares since they were first spoiled. I know there are a lot of people who like mythic rares, but I obviously am not one of those people.

When I look at mythics, I do not see a purpose in making them at all. Was it supposed to be made for a flavor standpoint in Alara? If so, it was a pretty major letdown in my eyes. Sets that were designed majorily for flavor reason such as Kamigawa have failed miserably.

If this is not a one-time deal, and Wizards WANTS to keep mythics in Magic, they are making an egregious mistake. What is wrong with the current rarity system of rare, uncommon, and common? It has been excellent for several YEARS and there have not been any real complaints with it.

Why fix what ain't broke?

Mythics look flashy at first, but then I realized that it basically starts to turn the game into Yugioh's rarity system (which, BTW, is a complete disaster). Again, if Wizards want to just keep mythics in Alara as a flavor standpoint, I'm ok with it as long as they get scrapped promptly afterward.

Washington - winless in college football right now.
Washington St. - they have a win but it was against Portland State. They're defense could quite possibly become the worst defense in college football history.
Seattle Seahawks - Hasselbeck is still plagued with back/knee injuries. Wideout corps are depleted. Did I just mention they lost sack machine Patrick Kerney for the season? They are 2-5 right now, and I don't see them getting many more wins.
Seattle Mariners - 100+ loss season. Yeah...
Seattle Supersonics - Oh wait, they decided to abandon the city and go to Oklahoma City.

Say what you want, but I have not EVER seen one state's sports teams be so unbelievably bad.

At least I get to look forward to the Blazers this season. Good thing I live in Oregon.