So, I've been on the site for a while, I'm not looking to join a clan or anything but I just wanted to poke in and say Hi.
I actually went looking for the Izzet and found they were dead and gone which makes me a sad sad girl....Izzet was my first clan. D:
Anyway, as for dom/bdsm things if you want a site where that type of thing is welcomed, encouraged let me know. I could help a fella [or a girl] out.
It's been over a year since I last poked into this site...I should try to make it habit if I do then I might see about joining. . . That way I can blind you all with my library science!
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Hey, DF, feel free to poke in. The League is definitely welcome here. While we were happy to gain control of Ravnica, we're sad to have it at the loss of an ally. Hopefully, we will see all your thoug--*ahem*--you soon.
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Lol, I'm going to rail on every card I don't like, and HEY! You can count on that, Jack!
I get what you're saying, and if you ramp into it, you can turn three drop and turn four, monstrosity for 2. But, it's a mythic legend. That's more like Small Village Eater, than World Eater.
Sure. =p You rail on cards. I like to argue/debate for no apparent reason anyway. So I'll be hear on the opposite side of you opinion =)
Also Small Village - > World Eater. Kozelik is the Butcher of Truths, right? But he doesn't really butcher dem truths? As a matter of fact! he draws you cards! What's up with that? =D
So, I've been on the site for a while, I'm not looking to join a clan or anything but I just wanted to poke in and say Hi.
I actually went looking for the Izzet and found they were dead and gone which makes me a sad sad girl....Izzet was my first clan. D:
Anyway, as for dom/bdsm things if you want a site where that type of thing is welcomed, encouraged let me know. I could help a fella [or a girl] out.
It's been over a year since I last poked into this site...I should try to make it habit if I do then I might see about joining. . . That way I can blind you all with my library science!
Hello hello. Welcome to...wait. what? (to the bold).
Sure. =p You rail on cards. I like to argue/debate for no apparent reason anyway. So I'll be hear on the opposite side of you opinion =)
Also Small Village - > World Eater. Kozelik is the Butcher of Truths, right? But he doesn't really butcher dem truths? As a matter of fact! he draws you cards! What's up with that? =D
Hello hello. Welcome to...wait. what? (to the bold).
Ya. I'll leave it at welcome.
Sounds excellent, I love to debate, as long as we don't end up arguing. As for Kozilek, It's the Butcher of Truth, not Truths. Annihilator 4 isn't Filet Mignon, but it's at least the T-bone. Of Truth, to me is synonymous with preceeding Knight, Keeper, Protecter, etc. Therefore, Butcher(hacks things up) of(to provide) Truth(card draw). I'm sure it's pretty plain that, flavorfully, Truth or Fact, or Knowledge, or things of that sort mean Card draw in MTG.
However, in contrast to my Village Swallower argument, I still maintain that some ridiculous mana production could make Monstrosity busted. A la 2 or 3 satyrs to produce:symr::symr::symr: each? Elvish Mystics? Burning-Tree Emissary? Zhur-Taa Druid? I'm just saying, you COULD allow it to eat the field.
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Sounds excellent, I love to debate, as long as we don't end up arguing. As for Kozilek, It's the Butcher of Truth, not Truths. Annihilator 4 isn't Filet Mignon, but it's at least the T-bone. Of Truth, to me is synonymous with preceeding Knight, Keeper, Protecter, etc. Therefore, Butcher(hacks things up) of(to provide) Truth(card draw). I'm sure it's pretty plain that, flavorfully, Truth or Fact, or Knowledge, or things of that sort mean Card draw in MTG.
However, in contrast to my Village Swallower argument, I still maintain that some ridiculous mana production could make Monstrosity busted. A la 2 or 3 satyrs to produce:symr::symr::symr: each? Elvish Mystics? Burning-Tree Emissary? Zhur-Taa Druid? I'm just saying, you COULD allow it to eat the field.
Debate in the sense like how siblings squibble. e.g. your bro/sis mispronunces something and you kinda grin to yourself, lean over to them and catch them on it. They give you 'the face' and you give them the troll face. Arguing for the sake of arguing! =D
And what I was getting at that Kozelik was butchering the truth. Butchering to me is cutting up (discarding first comes to mind when I think of a butcher), but the dude is drawing you cards!? idk. That's what first comes to my mind.
@Village/field swallower. nomnomnomnom.
Also, Sky Swallower didn't really eat the sky. That'd just be cool! =p
I love being able to translate Spanish sentences without actually knowing Spanish. 7 years of Latin 4tw.
@ Sky Swallower: last time I had one in play (the enhanced version of course), it ate my oponent. Opponent Swallower, then?
It swallowed while in the sky..
Is it just me, or did this inadvertently transition from DDld to eating/swallowing. The heat has blood boiling.
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Sure. =p You rail on cards. I like to argue/debate for no apparent reason anyway. So I'll be hear on the opposite side of you opinion =)
Also Small Village - > World Eater. Kozelik is the Butcher of Truths, right? But he doesn't really butcher dem truths? As a matter of fact! he draws you cards! What's up with that? =D
Hello hello. Welcome to...wait. what? (to the bold).
Ya. I'll leave it at welcome.
You sure that's where you want to leave it?
Also, Hi, thanks for the welcome.
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@Darkness Falls, welcome back to the site, and welcome to our little underground lair:)
Sorry for the inactivity. Guess what I've been doing?
I have a girl friend now. I know, I know. Been a while since consistency was had. And it's pretty freaking awesome. My kids love her. Se actually helps with them. That's a first.
Gottah admit, it's pretty hectic with the job and full custody. It's just... nice as **** to have some help finally.
Anyway...
Magic. I barely have time for it lately. I've been playing a butt load of Star Trek Heroclix, though.
@Darkness Falls, we can't really be specific here, but I can say if youre into BDSM, you should fit in fine around our hangout, haha.
@Darkness Falls, welcome back to the site, and welcome to our little underground lair:)
Sorry for the inactivity. Guess what I've been doing?
I have a girl friend now. I know, I know. Been a while since consistency was had. And it's pretty freaking awesome. My kids love her. Se actually helps with them. That's a first.
Gottah admit, it's pretty hectic with the job and full custody. It's just... nice as **** to have some help finally.
@Digi Congrats dude, glad to hear you're having fun. I can't get that page on FB.
Okay, in an attempt to not steal any Digi Thunder, I'm gonna keep it simple, Aquajolt.
1) Tell me that Bident doesn't scream blue hate.
2) Hope it's a fake, if only because there's NO reason to have Enchantment on it, other than some really dumb affinity, which better not be a returning mechanic.
3) Not only is the activated ability a Red ability, but if they have vigilance that ability has practically NO benefit(block = RW Legend, T2 = Slivers). Apparently, a tap ability was too powerful. Barring a removal of vigilance, that card is a trash legend.
That's all.
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Why the heck did Aja get suspended? :/
Also, sorry for hefty inactive spell, getting tied down at work, it's hectic!
@DF: Stick around, New Ravnica is the place to be
Why the heck did Aja get suspended? :/
Also, sorry for hefty inactive spell, getting tied down at work, it's hectic!
@DF: Stick around, New Ravnica is the place to be
I was curious myself, so I checked the thread. BlackVise posted that he is suspended for advertising that other Forum. He's gonna be furious.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA aja got suspended. No clue as to why but couldn't help laughing. But seriously guys, it's not funny so stop laughing. It's just mean.
Trade thread got updated. Trading for Modern Fish. Hit me up. Won about $80 from the casino last weekend and spent it immediately on Aether Vials and Mutavaults.
@Necropsy, post when you can/want to:) We know you're busy, but we also know you love and miss us.
@Nate, no thunder was stolen:)
@Aja's Suspension:
No where in the rules does it say you're not allowed to promote other sites. I can't find the thread in question. The rules are very clear that one has to be soliciting in a way that could make them money.
Hmmmm. That's weird. I don't believe aja had a bunch of priors or anything.
I wish icould see what the infraction was to help make sense of this.
@Aja's Suspension:
No where in the rules does it say you're not allowed to promote other sites. I can't find the thread in question. The rules are very clear that one has to be soliciting in a way that could make them money.
Hmmmm. That's weird. I don't believe aja had a bunch of priors or anything.
I wish icould see what the infraction was to help make sense of this.
@talk of a gentlemen's club: thespeakeasy.boards.net is a hive of villainy where talk such as this is accepted... and desired.
Shameless solicitation, hooooooo!
I can't make sense of it either, but there's the info. Can't quote the Currently suspended/banned thread, so I linked the page. Watch me get an infraction for this. Rather than back up plans, and since we now control Ravnica, we can always move the thread and plane elsewhere.
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Ok so tales from FNM time!! For those who didn't read my last one: snatched up a crazy hot girl who plays every week, won standard, and opened a Goyf. Well this nights events came a few weeks after this and was my first time back since that amazing night.
Wall of text inside the spoiler. Warning a fair amount of swear words in here so if you're underage and/or don't approve of that language then prolly don't read it (I bet I end up getting flagged for inappropriate language or something but whatever, it detracts from the story to censor my girlfriend).
So this night was modern, WOOT WOOT!!! Seriously modern is my thing, I love the format aside from the Second Sunrise ban. So Sarah and I hung out before hand and game planned while watching LotR Fellowship. I got promoted at my summer job this year so I've been making $11.50/hour for 60+ hours each week and I have WAY more money than I ever have in my life so I've gotten a bit impulsive with my card buying. Well due to this, I have 4 modern decks that are complete or at least about 90% complete and then a few more that are just half complete. Of the complete-ish decks, I have RWB, Grixis control, Doran Junk (only 2 Goyfs), and a janky but fun combo deck that uses Spellweaver Helix, Raven's Crime, and Time Warp. I guess I do have eggs still as that was my original modern baby but we all know that's just dead now. Sarah, on the other hand has 2 decks in UB mill and Infect combo. I keep telling her that mill just isn't well positioned currently but go figure, she won't listen to me. We talk a bit and I decide to play my Junk list while she goes with Infect.
When we get to the store, the owner sees me and yells, "And he makes his triumphant return!" to general laughter. I just roll my eyes at him and give him the bro handshake and shoulder bump/fake hug that we men do. I nod to a couple of the nerdy guys in the corner and go take a seat at one of the tables. Sarah gets stopped by one of the nerds saying hi to her. Since we're a little bit early, 5 of us decide to play some EDH. Played Kangee, Aerie Keeper against Progenitus, Kaalia, Mimeoplasm, and Omnath. Came in when Omnath one-shotted me after Mimeo one-shotted Kaalia. Progenitus ended up winning by just enchantment locking the whole board.
Anyway onto the actual modern portion. We do a 3 round round-robin to determine seeding for the actual tournament. Bill and John show up right as we're starting. 3 of the nerds are playing while only 2 of the skaters showed up. We also had a large group of first timers show up expecting standard. I think there were 7 of them that all showed up with just Standard decks. For the sake of a big tournament, I lent out my other 4 decks (one guy said he'd play eggs without Sunrise) and the store owner fronted half of the entry fee for anyone playing a fully Standard deck. Because I'm not stupid, I held these guys' Standard decks as collateral. The store owner and I also came up with a fun idea to help sweeten the odds too, for an additional $5 you were entered into a second pool where you had to bet on the winner. Problem was that you couldn't pick yourself and the person/people who bet on the highest placed finisher split the pool. When I put my bet on Bill, Sarah screamed, "Oh you little *****!!" I just laughed and kissed her. Bill and Sarah put money on me. 3 of the nerds and John bet on Sarah while 2 of the randoms who were playing Standard decks bet on each other for the hell of it.
Round 1 vs Skater #1:
He was playing Merfolk and is totally the reason I'm building the deck now. This deck looked insanely fun to play and really strong. The guy was a regular that I'm friendly enough with. He has an Izzet symbol tattooed on his wrist so I give him **** about me being a Dimir guy. He's on the play game 1.
G1: He turn 1's an Aether Vial while I get Deathrite. He passes turn 2 and I Abrupt Decay his Vial on my end step when he cheats in a Cursecatcher. He untaps and Spreading Seas' my land with 1 mana to spare. T3 I whiff on land so I use DRS on my fetch to put Loxodon Smiter out. He drops Lord of Atlantis and Master of the Pearl Trident. I swing with Smiter. He drops Mutavault, I path his Master he swings with his 2 creatures. I drop Stirring Wildwood and Abrupt Decay his Lord. He scoops.
G2: He mulls to 6 but T1 Cursecatcher stops my Inquisition of Kozilek. T2 Spreading Seas hurts so I pass. He casts Silvergill Adept revealing Lord of Atlantis. My Tidehollow Sculler grabs his Lord and I see no other merfolk. I top deck a Smiter and just run over his Kira and Spellskite.
1-0
Round 2 vs John:
He's been playing UWR control ever since Worlds because "it's obviously the best deck if they all played it." His problem is that he doesn't really know how to play it that well, he's more of a play creature turn sideways kind of guy. I love the kid but he's not the brightest crayon in the tool box.
G1: He Paths my Deathrite turn 1. I turn 2 Smiter and just flatten him.
G2: I don't know what hand he kept but the only spell I saw him play was a Lightning Bolt on my Goyf.
2-0
At this point my games had gone so fast that most of the other matches were still in game 1. John and I go to watch Sarah play one of the randoms. I'm assuming this guy didn't know I was dating Sarah because he kept trying to flirt with her. Sarah swings in with her Glistener Elf and rando doesn't know if he wants to block or not. Midway through deciding Sarah leans forward and pushes her boobs together to show off some more cleavage (she was wearing a strapless shirt so he had a pretty good view already) and he let it go through at which point she pumped him for the win. I drag a chair next to her and tell the guy, "You just fell for the oldest trick in the book." Sarah grabs my hand and moves it onto her leg when the guy tries to ask her what she was doing afterwards and says "Him." I just smirk and stare the guy down. She wins pretty easily so I go to watch Bills third match but got distracted talking to the store owner.
Round 3 vs Nerd:
Most of the nerds brought Twin with them. This game was really uneventful honestly. Abrupt Decay and Path just crapped on the kid. G2 I knew he'd grab Spellskites so I boarded in Go for the Throat (specifically in the board for this) and won easily.
3-0
We took a short break after this while the owner made up the bracket and a few people got food. A couple of the nerds puppy dogged Sarah around the store while I sat back and laughed. Me and a few of the randoms looked through trade binders and stuff and I got 4 Mutavaults and an Aether Vial overall for a few Remands and Snappys. At this point Sarah was at 3-0 and John was 0-3. One of the randoms ditched at this point so Sarah and I had to decide who got to take the first round bye. Being the perfect gentleman that I am, I insisted that she take it. She said she'd dump me if I tried to baby her so I took the bye and watched her match from the front row seat of her chair with her on my lap. She played John first round. He burned out all of her creatures while she held onto Vines of Vastwood hoping he'd run out of burn and she'd draw another infecter. She didn't and dropped G1. G2 was a turn 2 win with double Groundswell and a Mutagenic Growth. G3 was a close one with John at 8 poison counters he double pathed the Blighted Agent after a Vines of Vastwood shut off the first one. John eventually ran her out of pumps so she couldn't attack safely and he won with Colonnade.
Round 4 vs Random:
This kid had piloted his Standard deck to a respectable 2-2 after winning in the first round of the tournament. He actually raced me G1 with Bant Hexproof. G2 Path, Decays, and Tribute to Hunger allowed me to grind out a win with Stirring Wildwood. G3 was about 3 plays away from being an exact copy of G2.
4-0
Round 5 vs Bill:
Bill was actually running a normal deck as opposed to a weird homebrew. He played Mono U Tron. Bill complained a lot about Sarah sitting on me so she pulled a chair next to me and just put her legs over my lap.
G1: Turn 2 Goyf started to do work after he popped Chromatic Star and I hit a fetch and Lingering Souls next turn. Was able to get him low enough that he couldn't stabilize and drop a Wurmcoil or anything.
G2: He boarded in more countermagic and kept me behind until I stuck a Smiter and eventually Path'ed his Wurmcoil. He was 1 mana away from Emrakul when I won.
5-0
Now is where things really start getting interesting. So I'm back in the finals and I've already gone farthest for our betting pool so I can't get the money from that. When I sat down, I realize I'm playing a girl that I hadn't really noticed before now. She wasn't unattractive but she isn't nearly as hot as Sarah. Despite this, she clearly is used to being the hottest girl at FNM and acted like it all night. Now her and Sarah played in Round 1 of the round robin. (I found some of this stuff out after the night was over) Well apparently when they sat down for their first game they started talking about all the regulars at this shop and who played what, etc. Midway through their G1 the random girl asked Sarah what my name was and what I did. Sarah told her and then the girl asked if I was single. ***** mode activated and Sarah laughed at her. Then the conversation went as this,
"You seriously think you have a shot with him? He wouldn't ever go for you."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" girl said.
"He can do WAY better than you"
"Excuse me?"
"Come on let's be real here, you're not that pretty."
"What the hell is your problem?"
"I don't have a problem sweetie, just bringing you back down from the clouds."
"Shut the hell up you don't even know me *****. You clearly think you run this place but I know it's all just a fake way to get attention."
"So close, I DO run this place and I don't even like all the awkward attention. It's mostly just creepy but you clearly need the attention more than I do to affirm yourself as the pretty girl at FNM."
"Whatever, I'm not going to take this anymore." And she gets up and leaves the table before they even finish G1, giving Sarah the win.
During our short break while the bracket got made, this girl had come up to me and started talking to me while I was trading. She was really aggressive about it too. When she first walked up she dragged her hand all the way across my back and left it on my forearm. I took a step away from her and just said "Hi." She introduced herself (not putting a name since I never got her consent to put her name on the internet) and I just nodded and went back to trying to trade. She kept butting in and laughing at everything I said clearly trying bother Sarah. Eventually Sarah walked up to me and jumped on my back and I carried her over to get a drink. From that point on I kept seeing that girl staring at me. She would smile and wave whenever we made eye contact to which I would give her a weird look, nod, and then look away.
Round 6 vs Girl: FINALS
When I sat down, this girl slid a piece of paper across the table to me. I knew it was going to be her number but I didn't want to piss off Sarah so I just started shuffling my deck. Sarah decided it was time for some PDA and to put this girl in her place so she took my deck, put it on the table, straddled me and started kissing me. When she got up off me, she turned to the girl and said, "I don't think he'll be needing this." while she ripped up the piece of paper. This girl was just LIVID for the rest of the match and honestly that may have been the biggest reason why I won. She played storm combo to which I really don't have many interactions outside of Deathrite main.
G1: This basically was just a race and I lost. I didn't see my Deathrites and was a turn or two too slow. The girl was really shaky playing the deck though and just blew through the combo, almost making a fatal error in the process.
G2: My cheerleader sat down on my lap for this game. I boarded in my 2 Dryad Militants and 3 Kor Firewalkers. Firewalker on T4 meant that she needed to get a bigger combo so she just ended up going with Empty the Warrens to which I responded with my singleton Golgari Charm. She scooped.
G3: An IoK and Tidehollow Sculler kept her stopped up early. Then T4 Tidehollow grabbed Past in Flames and she scooped giving me the win.
6-0
I shook her hand then went to collect my winnings. I blew the money (and some of my own) on 3 Aether Vials and 3 Coralhelm Commanders. When I looked back over for Sarah I see Bill holding her back from trying to get at the girl. Apparently the girl kept calling her a ***** and saying that if she didn't change her attitude someone else would come and steal me. Thankfully Bill was able to grab her before she did any damage to the girl. I ran over and picked Sarah up and dragged her away. The girl left so things went back to normal. The store owner started joking with me that I wasn't allowed to play anymore since I never let anyone else have any fun or win. I laughed and told him to shut up since I'm the life of the party there and keep people coming back. When Sarah and I got back to my house she started crying about how she didn't want to lose me and blah blah blah (she smacked me when I typed this because I'm mocking her), so we had a long talk. Eventually I cheered her up and she went home.
Well at this past weeks FNM, a group of 4 girls walked in in front of me, Sarah, and Bill. When I got in, the owner says, "Hey you ladies, just wanted you to know that he's taken," and points at me, "So if you think of getting any ideas he's already in a relationship." Sarah flipped him off and didn't say anything. John called out from the back, "Just give Andrew his prize money now, Dad!" I laughed and said, "Nah eff that I'm playing eggs tonight." I went 1-3 but had a blast with it, joking around when my combo fizzled in half the games. I eventually just passed on playing my last round to watch Sarah's matches. One of the nerds came in first with Splinter Twin. Just to make the kid feel awkward I went up and slapped his ass and screamed "good job" in his face.
If you don't want to read it all, read from after Round 5 onward. That's where it gets most interesting. In short, won Modern at FNM with Doran Junk and started building modern Merfolk.
Shameless plug: check out my trade thread and help me build my Merfolk deck.
Anyways, she sounds like a helluva keeper. Just make sure you dont activate alpha-***** mode... sounds scary. Last time I did that with my lady friend, I got a 20 lbs. plant and pot thrown at me. Women are scary.
@aja gone for a week: He may of linked elsewhere. Protocol is to delete the post and its an auto-suspension offense. Its tailored towards stores looking for free ad space, but sometimes this happens.
Ok so tales from FNM time!! For those who didn't read my last one: snatched up a crazy hot girl who plays every week, won standard, and opened a Goyf. Well this nights events came a few weeks after this and was my first time back since that amazing night.
Wall of text inside the spoiler. Warning a fair amount of swear words in here so if you're underage and/or don't approve of that language then prolly don't read it (I bet I end up getting flagged for inappropriate language or something but whatever, it detracts from the story to censor my girlfriend).
So this night was modern, WOOT WOOT!!! Seriously modern is my thing, I love the format aside from the Second Sunrise ban. So Sarah and I hung out before hand and game planned while watching LotR Fellowship. I got promoted at my summer job this year so I've been making $11.50/hour for 60+ hours each week and I have WAY more money than I ever have in my life so I've gotten a bit impulsive with my card buying. Well due to this, I have 4 modern decks that are complete or at least about 90% complete and then a few more that are just half complete. Of the complete-ish decks, I have RWB, Grixis control, Doran Junk (only 2 Goyfs), and a janky but fun combo deck that uses Spellweaver Helix, Raven's Crime, and Time Warp. I guess I do have eggs still as that was my original modern baby but we all know that's just dead now. Sarah, on the other hand has 2 decks in UB mill and Infect combo. I keep telling her that mill just isn't well positioned currently but go figure, she won't listen to me. We talk a bit and I decide to play my Junk list while she goes with Infect.
When we get to the store, the owner sees me and yells, "And he makes his triumphant return!" to general laughter. I just roll my eyes at him and give him the bro handshake and shoulder bump/fake hug that we men do. I nod to a couple of the nerdy guys in the corner and go take a seat at one of the tables. Sarah gets stopped by one of the nerds saying hi to her. Since we're a little bit early, 5 of us decide to play some EDH. Played Kangee, Aerie Keeper against Progenitus, Kaalia, Mimeoplasm, and Omnath. Came in when Omnath one-shotted me after Mimeo one-shotted Kaalia. Progenitus ended up winning by just enchantment locking the whole board.
Anyway onto the actual modern portion. We do a 3 round round-robin to determine seeding for the actual tournament. Bill and John show up right as we're starting. 3 of the nerds are playing while only 2 of the skaters showed up. We also had a large group of first timers show up expecting standard. I think there were 7 of them that all showed up with just Standard decks. For the sake of a big tournament, I lent out my other 4 decks (one guy said he'd play eggs without Sunrise) and the store owner fronted half of the entry fee for anyone playing a fully Standard deck. Because I'm not stupid, I held these guys' Standard decks as collateral. The store owner and I also came up with a fun idea to help sweeten the odds too, for an additional $5 you were entered into a second pool where you had to bet on the winner. Problem was that you couldn't pick yourself and the person/people who bet on the highest placed finisher split the pool. When I put my bet on Bill, Sarah screamed, "Oh you little *****!!" I just laughed and kissed her. Bill and Sarah put money on me. 3 of the nerds and John bet on Sarah while 2 of the randoms who were playing Standard decks bet on each other for the hell of it.
Round 1 vs Skater #1:
He was playing Merfolk and is totally the reason I'm building the deck now. This deck looked insanely fun to play and really strong. The guy was a regular that I'm friendly enough with. He has an Izzet symbol tattooed on his wrist so I give him **** about me being a Dimir guy. He's on the play game 1.
G1: He turn 1's an Aether Vial while I get Deathrite. He passes turn 2 and I Abrupt Decay his Vial on my end step when he cheats in a Cursecatcher. He untaps and Spreading Seas' my land with 1 mana to spare. T3 I whiff on land so I use DRS on my fetch to put Loxodon Smiter out. He drops Lord of Atlantis and Master of the Pearl Trident. I swing with Smiter. He drops Mutavault, I path his Master he swings with his 2 creatures. I drop Stirring Wildwood and Abrupt Decay his Lord. He scoops.
G2: He mulls to 6 but T1 Cursecatcher stops my Inquisition of Kozilek. T2 Spreading Seas hurts so I pass. He casts Silvergill Adept revealing Lord of Atlantis. My Tidehollow Sculler grabs his Lord and I see no other merfolk. I top deck a Smiter and just run over his Kira and Spellskite.
1-0
Round 2 vs John:
He's been playing UWR control ever since Worlds because "it's obviously the best deck if they all played it." His problem is that he doesn't really know how to play it that well, he's more of a play creature turn sideways kind of guy. I love the kid but he's not the brightest crayon in the tool box.
G1: He Paths my Deathrite turn 1. I turn 2 Smiter and just flatten him.
G2: I don't know what hand he kept but the only spell I saw him play was a Lightning Bolt on my Goyf.
2-0
At this point my games had gone so fast that most of the other matches were still in game 1. John and I go to watch Sarah play one of the randoms. I'm assuming this guy didn't know I was dating Sarah because he kept trying to flirt with her. Sarah swings in with her Glistener Elf and rando doesn't know if he wants to block or not. Midway through deciding Sarah leans forward and pushes her boobs together to show off some more cleavage (she was wearing a strapless shirt so he had a pretty good view already) and he let it go through at which point she pumped him for the win. I drag a chair next to her and tell the guy, "You just fell for the oldest trick in the book." Sarah grabs my hand and moves it onto her leg when the guy tries to ask her what she was doing afterwards and says "Him." I just smirk and stare the guy down. She wins pretty easily so I go to watch Bills third match but got distracted talking to the store owner.
Round 3 vs Nerd:
Most of the nerds brought Twin with them. This game was really uneventful honestly. Abrupt Decay and Path just crapped on the kid. G2 I knew he'd grab Spellskites so I boarded in Go for the Throat (specifically in the board for this) and won easily.
3-0
We took a short break after this while the owner made up the bracket and a few people got food. A couple of the nerds puppy dogged Sarah around the store while I sat back and laughed. Me and a few of the randoms looked through trade binders and stuff and I got 4 Mutavaults and an Aether Vial overall for a few Remands and Snappys. At this point Sarah was at 3-0 and John was 0-3. One of the randoms ditched at this point so Sarah and I had to decide who got to take the first round bye. Being the perfect gentleman that I am, I insisted that she take it. She said she'd dump me if I tried to baby her so I took the bye and watched her match from the front row seat of her chair with her on my lap. She played John first round. He burned out all of her creatures while she held onto Vines of Vastwood hoping he'd run out of burn and she'd draw another infecter. She didn't and dropped G1. G2 was a turn 2 win with double Groundswell and a Mutagenic Growth. G3 was a close one with John at 8 poison counters he double pathed the Blighted Agent after a Vines of Vastwood shut off the first one. John eventually ran her out of pumps so she couldn't attack safely and he won with Colonnade.
Round 4 vs Random:
This kid had piloted his Standard deck to a respectable 2-2 after winning in the first round of the tournament. He actually raced me G1 with Bant Hexproof. G2 Path, Decays, and Tribute to Hunger allowed me to grind out a win with Stirring Wildwood. G3 was about 3 plays away from being an exact copy of G2.
4-0
Round 5 vs Bill:
Bill was actually running a normal deck as opposed to a weird homebrew. He played Mono U Tron. Bill complained a lot about Sarah sitting on me so she pulled a chair next to me and just put her legs over my lap.
G1: Turn 2 Goyf started to do work after he popped Chromatic Star and I hit a fetch and Lingering Souls next turn. Was able to get him low enough that he couldn't stabilize and drop a Wurmcoil or anything.
G2: He boarded in more countermagic and kept me behind until I stuck a Smiter and eventually Path'ed his Wurmcoil. He was 1 mana away from Emrakul when I won.
5-0
Now is where things really start getting interesting. So I'm back in the finals and I've already gone farthest for our betting pool so I can't get the money from that. When I sat down, I realize I'm playing a girl that I hadn't really noticed before now. She wasn't unattractive but she isn't nearly as hot as Sarah. Despite this, she clearly is used to being the hottest girl at FNM and acted like it all night. Now her and Sarah played in Round 1 of the round robin. (I found some of this stuff out after the night was over) Well apparently when they sat down for their first game they started talking about all the regulars at this shop and who played what, etc. Midway through their G1 the random girl asked Sarah what my name was and what I did. Sarah told her and then the girl asked if I was single. ***** mode activated and Sarah laughed at her. Then the conversation went as this,
"You seriously think you have a shot with him? He wouldn't ever go for you."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" girl said.
"He can do WAY better than you"
"Excuse me?"
"Come on let's be real here, you're not that pretty."
"What the hell is your problem?"
"I don't have a problem sweetie, just bringing you back down from the clouds."
"Shut the hell up you don't even know me *****. You clearly think you run this place but I know it's all just a fake way to get attention."
"So close, I DO run this place and I don't even like all the awkward attention. It's mostly just creepy but you clearly need the attention more than I do to affirm yourself as the pretty girl at FNM."
"Whatever, I'm not going to take this anymore." And she gets up and leaves the table before they even finish G1, giving Sarah the win.
During our short break while the bracket got made, this girl had come up to me and started talking to me while I was trading. She was really aggressive about it too. When she first walked up she dragged her hand all the way across my back and left it on my forearm. I took a step away from her and just said "Hi." She introduced herself (not putting a name since I never got her consent to put her name on the internet) and I just nodded and went back to trying to trade. She kept butting in and laughing at everything I said clearly trying bother Sarah. Eventually Sarah walked up to me and jumped on my back and I carried her over to get a drink. From that point on I kept seeing that girl staring at me. She would smile and wave whenever we made eye contact to which I would give her a weird look, nod, and then look away.
Round 6 vs Girl: FINALS
When I sat down, this girl slid a piece of paper across the table to me. I knew it was going to be her number but I didn't want to piss off Sarah so I just started shuffling my deck. Sarah decided it was time for some PDA and to put this girl in her place so she took my deck, put it on the table, straddled me and started kissing me. When she got up off me, she turned to the girl and said, "I don't think he'll be needing this." while she ripped up the piece of paper. This girl was just LIVID for the rest of the match and honestly that may have been the biggest reason why I won. She played storm combo to which I really don't have many interactions outside of Deathrite main.
G1: This basically was just a race and I lost. I didn't see my Deathrites and was a turn or two too slow. The girl was really shaky playing the deck though and just blew through the combo, almost making a fatal error in the process.
G2: My cheerleader sat down on my lap for this game. I boarded in my 2 Dryad Militants and 3 Kor Firewalkers. Firewalker on T4 meant that she needed to get a bigger combo so she just ended up going with Empty the Warrens to which I responded with my singleton Golgari Charm. She scooped.
G3: An IoK and Tidehollow Sculler kept her stopped up early. Then T4 Tidehollow grabbed Past in Flames and she scooped giving me the win.
6-0
I shook her hand then went to collect my winnings. I blew the money (and some of my own) on 3 Aether Vials and 3 Coralhelm Commanders. When I looked back over for Sarah I see Bill holding her back from trying to get at the girl. Apparently the girl kept calling her a ***** and saying that if she didn't change her attitude someone else would come and steal me. Thankfully Bill was able to grab her before she did any damage to the girl. I ran over and picked Sarah up and dragged her away. The girl left so things went back to normal. The store owner started joking with me that I wasn't allowed to play anymore since I never let anyone else have any fun or win. I laughed and told him to shut up since I'm the life of the party there and keep people coming back. When Sarah and I got back to my house she started crying about how she didn't want to lose me and blah blah blah (she smacked me when I typed this because I'm mocking her), so we had a long talk. Eventually I cheered her up and she went home.
Well at this past weeks FNM, a group of 4 girls walked in in front of me, Sarah, and Bill. When I got in, the owner says, "Hey you ladies, just wanted you to know that he's taken," and points at me, "So if you think of getting any ideas he's already in a relationship." Sarah flipped him off and didn't say anything. John called out from the back, "Just give Andrew his prize money now, Dad!" I laughed and said, "Nah eff that I'm playing eggs tonight." I went 1-3 but had a blast with it, joking around when my combo fizzled in half the games. I eventually just passed on playing my last round to watch Sarah's matches. One of the nerds came in first with Splinter Twin. Just to make the kid feel awkward I went up and slapped his ass and screamed "good job" in his face.
If you don't want to read it all, read from after Round 5 onward. That's where it gets most interesting. In short, won Modern at FNM with Doran Junk and started building modern Merfolk.
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Yeah, dude, Sarah seems like a handful, for sure. That's a good thing, imo. Feisty chicks are awesome, I married one, and it's great. Not saying you should do that, just saying things don't get old. Need to pick up some of my own Manlands for my Isochron build. Gonna either go UW Silence, or or UB with Mindlocking. Dunno yet. Congrats on another awesome FNM!
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Ashe my man, don't ever stop posting those FNM recaps, they are always entertaining. Wish I had somewhere to play, but alas - I live in a town 3 hours from the closest game store. Woop de ******* do
Let me pose a few questions to you all. When was the first time you went to a card/gaming shop? How old were you? How'd you feel going in and after you first got in there?
Well I was 9 years old when I first went into a card shop, Acme Games. My mom dropped my brother, my neighbor, and I off for a few hours to play/look at Pokemon cards. I was so intimidated when we first got there. There were so many games that I didn't recognize. I got lucky and the store owner had his son (age 12) there so we had someone our age to hang with. As we all became friends, the store owner took us under his wing and actually became a close family friend with my parents who were thrilled to have a place to dump us during the summer. Since then I've always tried to welcome kids and treat them well around card shops and such. In this light I need to rant a bit.
But seriously my experiences at the shop this summer don't even feel real to me. So many massive things have happened to me there this summer and I feel like some of this stuff only happens in movies and ****. Anywho, here's the story for background before I start the rant.
I FREAKING HATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO COMMON DECENCY!
This happened at last night at the store. I showed up at around 6 to hang out with John, we got Chipotle and just lounged around with his dad for a bit. A few regulars were there in addition to a group of 3 ~30 year old men. These guys were loud and obnoxious and had even tried to smoke inside the shop. After a little bit, two kids got dropped off by what I initially assumed was one of their parents. They nervously shuffled into the store, bought 2 of the Return to Rav intro decks, and started to play in the corner. I figured I'd be nice so I grabbed them both a Gatorade and introduced myself. I found out that they were 8 and 9 years old and cousins living with one of their moms. The mom had to work the night shift as a nurse and the dad was away as a semi driver. These boy told me that they'd just learned about the game from their neighbor and had spent all week selling lemonade and cutting grass to make enough money to buy cards. When I asked them how they'd be getting home, the older of the two just said, "We don't know. I hope my neighbor can pick us up."
I felt bad for these two kids so I threw a bunch of cheap rares/uncommons their way to help make their decks less clunky and gave them advice on how to play. At this point, Sarah showed up and I got distracted. After a little socializing, I dragged Sarah over to these boys to see that they've just been playing quietly for over an hour now. Sarah fell in love with the two kids immediately. She gave them a few more cards to play with and gave them sleeves for their decks. One of the nerds tried to heckle us about having kids so soon. Sarah's response? "What can I say, the sex is just too damn good I can't keep my hands off him. Oh **** kids don't tell your mom that I said that!" The nerd blushed and looked away.
We were trying to get a count on whether or not we could do a draft when I finally remembered the older guys (older than me, not actually old, 30's still really young). When I looked over to them, two of them had gone up to the two boys. I edged over to listen in and I heard one of the men say, "Oh man you don't want these cards, they're worthless! Here let me get you some better cards." He grabs both decks, walks over to his stuff, grabs some things, and throws about 10 foil Forests down in front of the kids. "These are worth way more than those crappy decks you have there. I'll do this trade just because I'm nice." I was FURIOUS to say the least. The kids were both too scared to say anything, especially since they knew nothing about card values. Let's just say I'm not too proud of what I did next...
I stormed up to the main offender, grabbed his shirt, and said "What the hell do you think you're doing?" He told me to back off and John ran up and tried to push me back. The man threw John to the ground over a table and I'd have enough at this point. Spoiler alert I'm a 240 21 year old with 4 years of varsity Hockey, 3 years of amateur boxing training (for Bengal Bouts at Notre Dame), and 2 years of college Lacrosse. I'm not someone to mess with in all honesty. One left hook straight to his chin knocked him out cold. His two friends just looked from him to me and back again. My adrenaline was still pumping so I turned on his friends and started to taunt them to come at me too. When they backed off, I went to see if John was ok, his nose was bleeding but he said he was fine. Then I hear, "YOU ****ING RUNT." Still amped up I turned around to shut this guy up again when Sarah jumped on me and this guys friends dragged him away. They left the store immediately after. I told the owner that I wouldn't be able to focus for a draft so we did some EDH. I taught the two boys the basics and they helped me throw around my Kangee deck. Everyone was just there to have fun at this point so they allowed all the misplays and poor decisions, eventually letting the kids win.
When it came time to leave, I didn't know what to do about the boys so I asked them if they'd heard anything yet. When they said no, I asked if they knew their mom's phone number. They didn't but they told me which outpatient center she worked at, I looked up the number and called. It took me a little while to get a hold of her but when I finally did I introduced myself and recounted the entire nights events, including the punching of the guy. When I'd finished telling the story I said to her, "Ma'am, I know we don't know each other at all and I know I may have overreacted early so I will completely understand if you don't want me around your son and nephew but I really do want to make sure these kids are ok. I've been in their position before and everyone needs a person to keep an eye on them. If it's ok with you, I'd like to drive them home, I'll stop and get them some food on the way too. If you'd rather them not be home alone or they couldn't get into the house anyway, I'll drive them over to your work and sit with them in the lobby until you're done with your shift." I'm met with complete silence. "Ma'am are you still there?" And then I hear hysterical crying. "Oh my god are you ok?"
"Yes yes I'm way more than ok! I honestly don't know what to say, never in my whole life has anyone shown me so much kindness. I have no idea how I could ever thank you enough!"
"You in no way need to thank me! These boys remind me of me from their age, I couldn't leave me hanging...I'm way too self-absorbed (insert laugh here)."
Well how it was resolved was that Sarah and I took the boys back to their house, let ourselves in with the key they had stashed, and got the kids to bed. Sarah left and I stayed around, eventually falling asleep sitting at their kitchen table. When the mom finally came home it was around 3am. I introduced myself and apologized for still being there but I that didn't want to leave them alone. I wanted to make sure I didn't come off as creepy so I just started telling her about myself. We started talking and didn't realize when it got to be 5:30. As I was leaving I offered to take them to FNM with me every Friday and keep them occupied. I also offered to help with school if they needed it. The mom really broke down and cried here and offered money. I refused. Many times. The dad will be back in town next weekend so I'm just going to call then and see if they want to go with me to FNM.
So yeah that's how I half adopted two kids yesterday. But what I really want to talk about is the scamming. Who the hell would think it's acceptable to try and blatantly steal from children? Yes I admit that I overreacted there but that was the most vile thing I think I've ever seen someone do. To be completely honest I'm not saying I wouldn't ever try to scam someone. They'd have to really deserve it but I wouldn't lose sleep over scamming a total a-hole. Hell if I'd thought about it at the time, I'd have stolen half of that guy's cards while he was knocked out. Although it is low to do, it's not so much the act of scamming that pisses me off, but the age group that was targeted here. Do people really not draw a line on things like this???
@Digi Congrats dude, glad to hear you're having fun. I can't get that page on FB.
Okay, in an attempt to not steal any Digi Thunder, I'm gonna keep it simple, Aquajolt.
1) Tell me that Bident doesn't scream blue hate.
2) Hope it's a fake, if only because there's NO reason to have Enchantment on it, other than some really dumb affinity, which better not be a returning mechanic.
3) Not only is the activated ability a Red ability, but if they have vigilance that ability has practically NO benefit(block = RW Legend, T2 = Slivers). Apparently, a tap ability was too powerful. Barring a removal of vigilance, that card is a trash legend.
That's all.
1) Blue hate? As in hate that is printed in blue? I'm not sure what you mean.
2) Coastal Piracy is an Enchantment. This is that. y/n? I would have thought this would scream Enchantment more so than artifact in a heartbeat.
3) Thatability has been in blue. Saying 'it's red' doesn't hold any water. And stating that this 'card sucks' because vigilance is hilarious. You sound like the typical Rumor-monger during rumor season. "This card dies to removal" and the such. Come now NtA. Will it see play? Meh. Again it's Coastly Piracy. It's not trash. But it's not to run home and scream about.
@Aja's Suspension:
No where in the rules does it say you're not allowed to promote other sites. I can't find the thread in question. The rules are very clear that one has to be soliciting in a way that could make them money.
Hmmmm. That's weird. I don't believe aja had a bunch of priors or anything.
I wish icould see what the infraction was to help make sense of this.
Pretty sure there is. Hence why most of the spam threads that say "Come here and watch free movies! =D" get banned and locked down quickly. Though this is Aja and it isn't quite like that, but it most likely got taken as those past cases.
I don't think you over reacted at all, and unfortunately, the world is full of people with absolutely no morals. It's people like yourself with strong morals and a sense of kindness that balance things out.
@Aqua 1) Blue hate by R&D
2) Artifacts have trigger abilities and static effects as well as activated abilities, make it legendary and there's no need for Enchantment.
3) It's not R W or G and it isn't awesome, which was my original complaint , piece of the puzzle that's making the Boros/Naya picture out of Theros. Watch there be a heroic creature that gives vigilance. On the flip side, GW gets cards like Voice that are pretty self sufficient against basically anything. Aetherling peaked at $7, while cards like Voice, Archangel of Thune, and Kalonian stay higher than basically any two blue T2 cards in standard, except snapcaster but I'm not talking about the roll-outs.
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@Aquajolt, to my knowledge, the thread was not started by aja, nor were there excessive amounts of spam. I did not see the thread in question, though.
@Ash, you in no way overreacted. He deserved worse. Maybe a calmer approach might have been better, but I see no wrong doing on your part. Then again, I'm asatru.
So, I've been on the site for a while, I'm not looking to join a clan or anything but I just wanted to poke in and say Hi.
I actually went looking for the Izzet and found they were dead and gone which makes me a sad sad girl....Izzet was my first clan. D:
Anyway, as for dom/bdsm things if you want a site where that type of thing is welcomed, encouraged let me know. I could help a fella [or a girl] out.
It's been over a year since I last poked into this site...I should try to make it habit if I do then I might see about joining. . . That way I can blind you all with my library science!
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Sure. =p You rail on cards. I like to argue/debate for no apparent reason anyway. So I'll be hear on the opposite side of you opinion =)
Also Small Village - > World Eater. Kozelik is the Butcher of Truths, right? But he doesn't really butcher dem truths? As a matter of fact! he draws you cards! What's up with that? =D
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Ya. I'll leave it at welcome.
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Sounds excellent, I love to debate, as long as we don't end up arguing. As for Kozilek, It's the Butcher of Truth, not Truths. Annihilator 4 isn't Filet Mignon, but it's at least the T-bone. Of Truth, to me is synonymous with preceeding Knight, Keeper, Protecter, etc. Therefore, Butcher(hacks things up) of(to provide) Truth(card draw). I'm sure it's pretty plain that, flavorfully, Truth or Fact, or Knowledge, or things of that sort mean Card draw in MTG.
However, in contrast to my Village Swallower argument, I still maintain that some ridiculous mana production could make Monstrosity busted. A la 2 or 3 satyrs to produce:symr::symr::symr: each? Elvish Mystics? Burning-Tree Emissary? Zhur-Taa Druid? I'm just saying, you COULD allow it to eat the field.
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Debate in the sense like how siblings squibble. e.g. your bro/sis mispronunces something and you kinda grin to yourself, lean over to them and catch them on it. They give you 'the face' and you give them the troll face. Arguing for the sake of arguing! =D
And what I was getting at that Kozelik was butchering the truth. Butchering to me is cutting up (discarding first comes to mind when I think of a butcher), but the dude is drawing you cards!? idk. That's what first comes to my mind.
@Village/field swallower. nomnomnomnom.
Also, Sky Swallower didn't really eat the sky. That'd just be cool! =p
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@ Sky Swallower: last time I had one in play (the enhanced version of course), it ate my oponent. Opponent Swallower, then?
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It swallowed while in the sky..
Is it just me, or did this inadvertently transition from DDld to eating/swallowing. The heat has blood boiling.
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You sure that's where you want to leave it?
Also, Hi, thanks for the welcome.
Credit for my sig banner goes to my friend Raptor. <3
Sorry for the inactivity. Guess what I've been doing?
I have a girl friend now. I know, I know. Been a while since consistency was had. And it's pretty freaking awesome. My kids love her. Se actually helps with them. That's a first.
Gottah admit, it's pretty hectic with the job and full custody. It's just... nice as **** to have some help finally.
Anyway...
Magic. I barely have time for it lately. I've been playing a butt load of Star Trek Heroclix, though.
@Darkness Falls, we can't really be specific here, but I can say if youre into BDSM, you should fit in fine around our hangout, haha.
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O. I'm quite fine. =)
Congrats Digi! Glad to hear you doing well!
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Okay, in an attempt to not steal any Digi Thunder, I'm gonna keep it simple, Aquajolt.
1) Tell me that Bident doesn't scream blue hate.
2) Hope it's a fake, if only because there's NO reason to have Enchantment on it, other than some really dumb affinity, which better not be a returning mechanic.
3) Not only is the activated ability a Red ability, but if they have vigilance that ability has practically NO benefit(block = RW Legend, T2 = Slivers). Apparently, a tap ability was too powerful. Barring a removal of vigilance, that card is a trash legend.
That's all.
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Also, sorry for hefty inactive spell, getting tied down at work, it's hectic!
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I was curious myself, so I checked the thread. BlackVise posted that he is suspended for advertising that other Forum. He's gonna be furious.
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Trade thread got updated. Trading for Modern Fish. Hit me up. Won about $80 from the casino last weekend and spent it immediately on Aether Vials and Mutavaults.
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@Necropsy, post when you can/want to:) We know you're busy, but we also know you love and miss us.
@Nate, no thunder was stolen:)
@Aja's Suspension:
No where in the rules does it say you're not allowed to promote other sites. I can't find the thread in question. The rules are very clear that one has to be soliciting in a way that could make them money.
Hmmmm. That's weird. I don't believe aja had a bunch of priors or anything.
I wish icould see what the infraction was to help make sense of this.
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Wheew, good deal
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I can't make sense of it either, but there's the info. Can't quote the Currently suspended/banned thread, so I linked the page. Watch me get an infraction for this. Rather than back up plans, and since we now control Ravnica, we can always move the thread and plane elsewhere.
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Wall of text inside the spoiler. Warning a fair amount of swear words in here so if you're underage and/or don't approve of that language then prolly don't read it (I bet I end up getting flagged for inappropriate language or something but whatever, it detracts from the story to censor my girlfriend).
So this night was modern, WOOT WOOT!!! Seriously modern is my thing, I love the format aside from the Second Sunrise ban. So Sarah and I hung out before hand and game planned while watching LotR Fellowship. I got promoted at my summer job this year so I've been making $11.50/hour for 60+ hours each week and I have WAY more money than I ever have in my life so I've gotten a bit impulsive with my card buying. Well due to this, I have 4 modern decks that are complete or at least about 90% complete and then a few more that are just half complete. Of the complete-ish decks, I have RWB, Grixis control, Doran Junk (only 2 Goyfs), and a janky but fun combo deck that uses Spellweaver Helix, Raven's Crime, and Time Warp. I guess I do have eggs still as that was my original modern baby but we all know that's just dead now. Sarah, on the other hand has 2 decks in UB mill and Infect combo. I keep telling her that mill just isn't well positioned currently but go figure, she won't listen to me. We talk a bit and I decide to play my Junk list while she goes with Infect.
When we get to the store, the owner sees me and yells, "And he makes his triumphant return!" to general laughter. I just roll my eyes at him and give him the bro handshake and shoulder bump/fake hug that we men do. I nod to a couple of the nerdy guys in the corner and go take a seat at one of the tables. Sarah gets stopped by one of the nerds saying hi to her. Since we're a little bit early, 5 of us decide to play some EDH. Played Kangee, Aerie Keeper against Progenitus, Kaalia, Mimeoplasm, and Omnath. Came in when Omnath one-shotted me after Mimeo one-shotted Kaalia. Progenitus ended up winning by just enchantment locking the whole board.
Anyway onto the actual modern portion. We do a 3 round round-robin to determine seeding for the actual tournament. Bill and John show up right as we're starting. 3 of the nerds are playing while only 2 of the skaters showed up. We also had a large group of first timers show up expecting standard. I think there were 7 of them that all showed up with just Standard decks. For the sake of a big tournament, I lent out my other 4 decks (one guy said he'd play eggs without Sunrise) and the store owner fronted half of the entry fee for anyone playing a fully Standard deck. Because I'm not stupid, I held these guys' Standard decks as collateral. The store owner and I also came up with a fun idea to help sweeten the odds too, for an additional $5 you were entered into a second pool where you had to bet on the winner. Problem was that you couldn't pick yourself and the person/people who bet on the highest placed finisher split the pool. When I put my bet on Bill, Sarah screamed, "Oh you little *****!!" I just laughed and kissed her. Bill and Sarah put money on me. 3 of the nerds and John bet on Sarah while 2 of the randoms who were playing Standard decks bet on each other for the hell of it.
Round 1 vs Skater #1:
He was playing Merfolk and is totally the reason I'm building the deck now. This deck looked insanely fun to play and really strong. The guy was a regular that I'm friendly enough with. He has an Izzet symbol tattooed on his wrist so I give him **** about me being a Dimir guy. He's on the play game 1.
G1: He turn 1's an Aether Vial while I get Deathrite. He passes turn 2 and I Abrupt Decay his Vial on my end step when he cheats in a Cursecatcher. He untaps and Spreading Seas' my land with 1 mana to spare. T3 I whiff on land so I use DRS on my fetch to put Loxodon Smiter out. He drops Lord of Atlantis and Master of the Pearl Trident. I swing with Smiter. He drops Mutavault, I path his Master he swings with his 2 creatures. I drop Stirring Wildwood and Abrupt Decay his Lord. He scoops.
G2: He mulls to 6 but T1 Cursecatcher stops my Inquisition of Kozilek. T2 Spreading Seas hurts so I pass. He casts Silvergill Adept revealing Lord of Atlantis. My Tidehollow Sculler grabs his Lord and I see no other merfolk. I top deck a Smiter and just run over his Kira and Spellskite.
1-0
Round 2 vs John:
He's been playing UWR control ever since Worlds because "it's obviously the best deck if they all played it." His problem is that he doesn't really know how to play it that well, he's more of a play creature turn sideways kind of guy. I love the kid but he's not the brightest crayon in the tool box.
G1: He Paths my Deathrite turn 1. I turn 2 Smiter and just flatten him.
G2: I don't know what hand he kept but the only spell I saw him play was a Lightning Bolt on my Goyf.
2-0
At this point my games had gone so fast that most of the other matches were still in game 1. John and I go to watch Sarah play one of the randoms. I'm assuming this guy didn't know I was dating Sarah because he kept trying to flirt with her. Sarah swings in with her Glistener Elf and rando doesn't know if he wants to block or not. Midway through deciding Sarah leans forward and pushes her boobs together to show off some more cleavage (she was wearing a strapless shirt so he had a pretty good view already) and he let it go through at which point she pumped him for the win. I drag a chair next to her and tell the guy, "You just fell for the oldest trick in the book." Sarah grabs my hand and moves it onto her leg when the guy tries to ask her what she was doing afterwards and says "Him." I just smirk and stare the guy down. She wins pretty easily so I go to watch Bills third match but got distracted talking to the store owner.
Round 3 vs Nerd:
Most of the nerds brought Twin with them. This game was really uneventful honestly. Abrupt Decay and Path just crapped on the kid. G2 I knew he'd grab Spellskites so I boarded in Go for the Throat (specifically in the board for this) and won easily.
3-0
We took a short break after this while the owner made up the bracket and a few people got food. A couple of the nerds puppy dogged Sarah around the store while I sat back and laughed. Me and a few of the randoms looked through trade binders and stuff and I got 4 Mutavaults and an Aether Vial overall for a few Remands and Snappys. At this point Sarah was at 3-0 and John was 0-3. One of the randoms ditched at this point so Sarah and I had to decide who got to take the first round bye. Being the perfect gentleman that I am, I insisted that she take it. She said she'd dump me if I tried to baby her so I took the bye and watched her match from the front row seat of her chair with her on my lap. She played John first round. He burned out all of her creatures while she held onto Vines of Vastwood hoping he'd run out of burn and she'd draw another infecter. She didn't and dropped G1. G2 was a turn 2 win with double Groundswell and a Mutagenic Growth. G3 was a close one with John at 8 poison counters he double pathed the Blighted Agent after a Vines of Vastwood shut off the first one. John eventually ran her out of pumps so she couldn't attack safely and he won with Colonnade.
Round 4 vs Random:
This kid had piloted his Standard deck to a respectable 2-2 after winning in the first round of the tournament. He actually raced me G1 with Bant Hexproof. G2 Path, Decays, and Tribute to Hunger allowed me to grind out a win with Stirring Wildwood. G3 was about 3 plays away from being an exact copy of G2.
4-0
Round 5 vs Bill:
Bill was actually running a normal deck as opposed to a weird homebrew. He played Mono U Tron. Bill complained a lot about Sarah sitting on me so she pulled a chair next to me and just put her legs over my lap.
G1: Turn 2 Goyf started to do work after he popped Chromatic Star and I hit a fetch and Lingering Souls next turn. Was able to get him low enough that he couldn't stabilize and drop a Wurmcoil or anything.
G2: He boarded in more countermagic and kept me behind until I stuck a Smiter and eventually Path'ed his Wurmcoil. He was 1 mana away from Emrakul when I won.
5-0
Now is where things really start getting interesting. So I'm back in the finals and I've already gone farthest for our betting pool so I can't get the money from that. When I sat down, I realize I'm playing a girl that I hadn't really noticed before now. She wasn't unattractive but she isn't nearly as hot as Sarah. Despite this, she clearly is used to being the hottest girl at FNM and acted like it all night. Now her and Sarah played in Round 1 of the round robin. (I found some of this stuff out after the night was over) Well apparently when they sat down for their first game they started talking about all the regulars at this shop and who played what, etc. Midway through their G1 the random girl asked Sarah what my name was and what I did. Sarah told her and then the girl asked if I was single. ***** mode activated and Sarah laughed at her. Then the conversation went as this,
"You seriously think you have a shot with him? He wouldn't ever go for you."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" girl said.
"He can do WAY better than you"
"Excuse me?"
"Come on let's be real here, you're not that pretty."
"What the hell is your problem?"
"I don't have a problem sweetie, just bringing you back down from the clouds."
"Shut the hell up you don't even know me *****. You clearly think you run this place but I know it's all just a fake way to get attention."
"So close, I DO run this place and I don't even like all the awkward attention. It's mostly just creepy but you clearly need the attention more than I do to affirm yourself as the pretty girl at FNM."
"Whatever, I'm not going to take this anymore." And she gets up and leaves the table before they even finish G1, giving Sarah the win.
During our short break while the bracket got made, this girl had come up to me and started talking to me while I was trading. She was really aggressive about it too. When she first walked up she dragged her hand all the way across my back and left it on my forearm. I took a step away from her and just said "Hi." She introduced herself (not putting a name since I never got her consent to put her name on the internet) and I just nodded and went back to trying to trade. She kept butting in and laughing at everything I said clearly trying bother Sarah. Eventually Sarah walked up to me and jumped on my back and I carried her over to get a drink. From that point on I kept seeing that girl staring at me. She would smile and wave whenever we made eye contact to which I would give her a weird look, nod, and then look away.
Round 6 vs Girl: FINALS
When I sat down, this girl slid a piece of paper across the table to me. I knew it was going to be her number but I didn't want to piss off Sarah so I just started shuffling my deck. Sarah decided it was time for some PDA and to put this girl in her place so she took my deck, put it on the table, straddled me and started kissing me. When she got up off me, she turned to the girl and said, "I don't think he'll be needing this." while she ripped up the piece of paper. This girl was just LIVID for the rest of the match and honestly that may have been the biggest reason why I won. She played storm combo to which I really don't have many interactions outside of Deathrite main.
G1: This basically was just a race and I lost. I didn't see my Deathrites and was a turn or two too slow. The girl was really shaky playing the deck though and just blew through the combo, almost making a fatal error in the process.
G2: My cheerleader sat down on my lap for this game. I boarded in my 2 Dryad Militants and 3 Kor Firewalkers. Firewalker on T4 meant that she needed to get a bigger combo so she just ended up going with Empty the Warrens to which I responded with my singleton Golgari Charm. She scooped.
G3: An IoK and Tidehollow Sculler kept her stopped up early. Then T4 Tidehollow grabbed Past in Flames and she scooped giving me the win.
6-0
I shook her hand then went to collect my winnings. I blew the money (and some of my own) on 3 Aether Vials and 3 Coralhelm Commanders. When I looked back over for Sarah I see Bill holding her back from trying to get at the girl. Apparently the girl kept calling her a ***** and saying that if she didn't change her attitude someone else would come and steal me. Thankfully Bill was able to grab her before she did any damage to the girl. I ran over and picked Sarah up and dragged her away. The girl left so things went back to normal. The store owner started joking with me that I wasn't allowed to play anymore since I never let anyone else have any fun or win. I laughed and told him to shut up since I'm the life of the party there and keep people coming back. When Sarah and I got back to my house she started crying about how she didn't want to lose me and blah blah blah (she smacked me when I typed this because I'm mocking her), so we had a long talk. Eventually I cheered her up and she went home.
Well at this past weeks FNM, a group of 4 girls walked in in front of me, Sarah, and Bill. When I got in, the owner says, "Hey you ladies, just wanted you to know that he's taken," and points at me, "So if you think of getting any ideas he's already in a relationship." Sarah flipped him off and didn't say anything. John called out from the back, "Just give Andrew his prize money now, Dad!" I laughed and said, "Nah eff that I'm playing eggs tonight." I went 1-3 but had a blast with it, joking around when my combo fizzled in half the games. I eventually just passed on playing my last round to watch Sarah's matches. One of the nerds came in first with Splinter Twin. Just to make the kid feel awkward I went up and slapped his ass and screamed "good job" in his face.
If you don't want to read it all, read from after Round 5 onward. That's where it gets most interesting. In short, won Modern at FNM with Doran Junk and started building modern Merfolk.
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Anyways, she sounds like a helluva keeper. Just make sure you dont activate alpha-***** mode... sounds scary. Last time I did that with my lady friend, I got a 20 lbs. plant and pot thrown at me. Women are scary.
@aja gone for a week: He may of linked elsewhere. Protocol is to delete the post and its an auto-suspension offense. Its tailored towards stores looking for free ad space, but sometimes this happens.
540 Peasant cube- Gold EditionSomething SpicyYeah, dude, Sarah seems like a handful, for sure. That's a good thing, imo. Feisty chicks are awesome, I married one, and it's great. Not saying you should do that, just saying things don't get old. Need to pick up some of my own Manlands for my Isochron build. Gonna either go UW Silence, or or UB with Mindlocking. Dunno yet. Congrats on another awesome FNM!
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Well I was 9 years old when I first went into a card shop, Acme Games. My mom dropped my brother, my neighbor, and I off for a few hours to play/look at Pokemon cards. I was so intimidated when we first got there. There were so many games that I didn't recognize. I got lucky and the store owner had his son (age 12) there so we had someone our age to hang with. As we all became friends, the store owner took us under his wing and actually became a close family friend with my parents who were thrilled to have a place to dump us during the summer. Since then I've always tried to welcome kids and treat them well around card shops and such. In this light I need to rant a bit.
But seriously my experiences at the shop this summer don't even feel real to me. So many massive things have happened to me there this summer and I feel like some of this stuff only happens in movies and ****. Anywho, here's the story for background before I start the rant.
I FREAKING HATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO COMMON DECENCY!
This happened at last night at the store. I showed up at around 6 to hang out with John, we got Chipotle and just lounged around with his dad for a bit. A few regulars were there in addition to a group of 3 ~30 year old men. These guys were loud and obnoxious and had even tried to smoke inside the shop. After a little bit, two kids got dropped off by what I initially assumed was one of their parents. They nervously shuffled into the store, bought 2 of the Return to Rav intro decks, and started to play in the corner. I figured I'd be nice so I grabbed them both a Gatorade and introduced myself. I found out that they were 8 and 9 years old and cousins living with one of their moms. The mom had to work the night shift as a nurse and the dad was away as a semi driver. These boy told me that they'd just learned about the game from their neighbor and had spent all week selling lemonade and cutting grass to make enough money to buy cards. When I asked them how they'd be getting home, the older of the two just said, "We don't know. I hope my neighbor can pick us up."
I felt bad for these two kids so I threw a bunch of cheap rares/uncommons their way to help make their decks less clunky and gave them advice on how to play. At this point, Sarah showed up and I got distracted. After a little socializing, I dragged Sarah over to these boys to see that they've just been playing quietly for over an hour now. Sarah fell in love with the two kids immediately. She gave them a few more cards to play with and gave them sleeves for their decks. One of the nerds tried to heckle us about having kids so soon. Sarah's response? "What can I say, the sex is just too damn good I can't keep my hands off him. Oh **** kids don't tell your mom that I said that!" The nerd blushed and looked away.
We were trying to get a count on whether or not we could do a draft when I finally remembered the older guys (older than me, not actually old, 30's still really young). When I looked over to them, two of them had gone up to the two boys. I edged over to listen in and I heard one of the men say, "Oh man you don't want these cards, they're worthless! Here let me get you some better cards." He grabs both decks, walks over to his stuff, grabs some things, and throws about 10 foil Forests down in front of the kids. "These are worth way more than those crappy decks you have there. I'll do this trade just because I'm nice." I was FURIOUS to say the least. The kids were both too scared to say anything, especially since they knew nothing about card values. Let's just say I'm not too proud of what I did next...
I stormed up to the main offender, grabbed his shirt, and said "What the hell do you think you're doing?" He told me to back off and John ran up and tried to push me back. The man threw John to the ground over a table and I'd have enough at this point. Spoiler alert I'm a 240 21 year old with 4 years of varsity Hockey, 3 years of amateur boxing training (for Bengal Bouts at Notre Dame), and 2 years of college Lacrosse. I'm not someone to mess with in all honesty. One left hook straight to his chin knocked him out cold. His two friends just looked from him to me and back again. My adrenaline was still pumping so I turned on his friends and started to taunt them to come at me too. When they backed off, I went to see if John was ok, his nose was bleeding but he said he was fine. Then I hear, "YOU ****ING RUNT." Still amped up I turned around to shut this guy up again when Sarah jumped on me and this guys friends dragged him away. They left the store immediately after. I told the owner that I wouldn't be able to focus for a draft so we did some EDH. I taught the two boys the basics and they helped me throw around my Kangee deck. Everyone was just there to have fun at this point so they allowed all the misplays and poor decisions, eventually letting the kids win.
When it came time to leave, I didn't know what to do about the boys so I asked them if they'd heard anything yet. When they said no, I asked if they knew their mom's phone number. They didn't but they told me which outpatient center she worked at, I looked up the number and called. It took me a little while to get a hold of her but when I finally did I introduced myself and recounted the entire nights events, including the punching of the guy. When I'd finished telling the story I said to her, "Ma'am, I know we don't know each other at all and I know I may have overreacted early so I will completely understand if you don't want me around your son and nephew but I really do want to make sure these kids are ok. I've been in their position before and everyone needs a person to keep an eye on them. If it's ok with you, I'd like to drive them home, I'll stop and get them some food on the way too. If you'd rather them not be home alone or they couldn't get into the house anyway, I'll drive them over to your work and sit with them in the lobby until you're done with your shift." I'm met with complete silence. "Ma'am are you still there?" And then I hear hysterical crying. "Oh my god are you ok?"
"Yes yes I'm way more than ok! I honestly don't know what to say, never in my whole life has anyone shown me so much kindness. I have no idea how I could ever thank you enough!"
"You in no way need to thank me! These boys remind me of me from their age, I couldn't leave me hanging...I'm way too self-absorbed (insert laugh here)."
Well how it was resolved was that Sarah and I took the boys back to their house, let ourselves in with the key they had stashed, and got the kids to bed. Sarah left and I stayed around, eventually falling asleep sitting at their kitchen table. When the mom finally came home it was around 3am. I introduced myself and apologized for still being there but I that didn't want to leave them alone. I wanted to make sure I didn't come off as creepy so I just started telling her about myself. We started talking and didn't realize when it got to be 5:30. As I was leaving I offered to take them to FNM with me every Friday and keep them occupied. I also offered to help with school if they needed it. The mom really broke down and cried here and offered money. I refused. Many times. The dad will be back in town next weekend so I'm just going to call then and see if they want to go with me to FNM.
So yeah that's how I half adopted two kids yesterday. But what I really want to talk about is the scamming. Who the hell would think it's acceptable to try and blatantly steal from children? Yes I admit that I overreacted there but that was the most vile thing I think I've ever seen someone do. To be completely honest I'm not saying I wouldn't ever try to scam someone. They'd have to really deserve it but I wouldn't lose sleep over scamming a total a-hole. Hell if I'd thought about it at the time, I'd have stolen half of that guy's cards while he was knocked out. Although it is low to do, it's not so much the act of scamming that pisses me off, but the age group that was targeted here. Do people really not draw a line on things like this???
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1) Blue hate? As in hate that is printed in blue? I'm not sure what you mean.
2) Coastal Piracy is an Enchantment. This is that. y/n? I would have thought this would scream Enchantment more so than artifact in a heartbeat.
3) That ability has been in blue. Saying 'it's red' doesn't hold any water. And stating that this 'card sucks' because vigilance is hilarious. You sound like the typical Rumor-monger during rumor season. "This card dies to removal" and the such. Come now NtA. Will it see play? Meh. Again it's Coastly Piracy. It's not trash. But it's not to run home and scream about.
Pretty sure there is. Hence why most of the spam threads that say "Come here and watch free movies! =D" get banned and locked down quickly. Though this is Aja and it isn't quite like that, but it most likely got taken as those past cases.
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@Aqua 1) Blue hate by R&D
2) Artifacts have trigger abilities and static effects as well as activated abilities, make it legendary and there's no need for Enchantment.
3) It's not R W or G and it isn't awesome, which was my original complaint , piece of the puzzle that's making the Boros/Naya picture out of Theros. Watch there be a heroic creature that gives vigilance. On the flip side, GW gets cards like Voice that are pretty self sufficient against basically anything. Aetherling peaked at $7, while cards like Voice, Archangel of Thune, and Kalonian stay higher than basically any two blue T2 cards in standard, except snapcaster but I'm not talking about the roll-outs.
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@Ash, you in no way overreacted. He deserved worse. Maybe a calmer approach might have been better, but I see no wrong doing on your part. Then again, I'm asatru.
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