Heartfelt Rambling about Illusions.
My love affair with Illusions started a few months ago, with, you guessed it, m12. First I saw Phantasmal Bear and thought to myself, "Holy ****! The white version of that is a staple of every White aggro deck ever! Except Zoo, because ****ing Wild Nacatl!" (Maybe not in those exact words). Then I saw Phantasmal Dragon and was not impressed. Lord of the Unreal made the whole thing look nuts, Adaptive Automaton made me think about Merfolk. Then we got one of the best cards from m12: Phantasmal Image. I got to work.
As soon as m12 hit, I was active in the discussion of Illusions. As in, first reply to the first thread about them. About 10 pages later, we had people discussing Grand Architect, a sort of Fish style, U/w, even U/b Illusions. When that much is going on in a thread, enough is enough, and it's time for a primer.
One hotel room in Houston, a 24 pack of Dr. Pepper, a marathon of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," and four hours later, it was done. Or, the first draft was done. I would ultimately edit it dozens, if not almost a hundred times, fixing code, adding or removing relevant/irrelevant information, adding new sections, so on and so forth. It was long, it was tough to write, and it was worth it.
Fast forward to now. Illusions top 8s a SCG event (though the deck was heavily geared for the meta). We're the real ****ing deal now. Primer gets locked, thread in Developing competitive. And that's that for me I guess.
I'll miss working on the Primer. I'm waiting on the coding from a mod, I'll post it to my blog once it's in, probably add a link to my sig. Thank you, I've had an UNREAL time brewing Illusions.
Comments