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Apr 26, 2008CharlieD posted a message on Animated Movies Worth Seeingbrother bear + the lion king 1 & 2.Posted in: Alacar's Design Zone
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Apr 26, 2008CharlieD posted a message on Movies Worth SeeingPiPosted in: Alacar's Design Zone
The Science of Sleep
Across the Universe
The Science of Sleep
The Fountain
The Science of Sleep
Help!
Pan's Labyrinth
Chinatown
A Hard Day's Night
Brazil
The Illusionist
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Oct 1, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Best Music Records of the Year ... So FarIt's kinda new, I guess. It's his unreleased stuff.Posted in: sneakyh's Blog
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Oct 1, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Best Music Records of the Year ... So FarI saw this on RYM.Posted in: sneakyh's Blog
UM SNEAKS.
Where is Elliott Smith's New Moon?
I need to check out Jens Lekman. My friend keeps bugging me to. Haha. -
Aug 19, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Pokemon Diamond: Rosteri've been playing ruby because i can't afford a DS or pokemon diamond yet.Posted in: Alacar's Design Zone
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Aug 4, 2007CharlieD posted a message on current bands i am stuck onlisten to some rocket summer, dude.Posted in: Love, Loss, and Liberty
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Jul 7, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Update etc.Posted in: Swoon!Quote from Danny »Nice photos. "Electricityscape" is probably my favourite. You know how do minimalist stuff. But "Seasons" is lovely too.
And as for your order, I'm planning a similar thing soon except I don't have a job so I don't have all the money yet.
Thanks. And yeah, I've had to work ALOT to get the money to pay for this stuff... I did 42 hrs last week. x_x -
Jul 4, 2007CharlieD posted a message on The splendour that is July 2007OOH! Man, that makes it even better.Posted in: Swoon!
I think transformers came out on the 28th of June here? -
May 13, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Heroes Returns and Jack's Back!you know who I miss?Posted in: eye of the Storm
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May 10, 2007CharlieD posted a message on FAERIE AFFAIRS: Clinically Proventhere is something wrong with your head.Posted in: FL's Fey Dreamhold
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Jan 23, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Dreamhold's Day 2 Sylph ProductionDoes this mean i'm on your friends list, that I can see this?Posted in: FL's Fey Dreamhold
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Jan 22, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Testing layout.Well, I can type it out in word, and then just put it into photoshop.Posted in: Swoon!
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Jan 22, 2007CharlieD posted a message on Blogs? Grah?I'll check that out, it sounds cool.Posted in: 22 Grand Job
Admittedly I'm listening to Fall Out Boy at the moment - I'm seeing them live on the 10th of March, and their new album looks stupendous.
I'm also listening to Death Cab For Cutie. I bought three of their albums, and I really enjoy their music. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Congratulations on your finish at GP Lille, it is encouraging to see the deck doing so well!
My current list:
3 Cavern of Souls
3 Wasteland
11 Island
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Cursecatcher
4 Silvergill Adept
4 True-Name Nemesis
3 Phantasmal Image
3 Merrow Reejerey
1 Thassa, God of the Sea
1 Master of Waves
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
3 Aether Vial
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Echoing Truth
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Misdirection
2 Spell Pierce
2 Dismember
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Monastery Seige
1 Pithing Needle
Only changes I have made to the MB since I made top 8 of Australian Eternal Masters last year was moving Dismember to the sideboard, and I'm testing Master of Waves and Thassa. Both have overperformed so far. I think I need to shore up the SB a little bit, but it seems to be working. Would like an extra graveyard-hate card and another Chalice in there, though.
Sadly, there isn't really one. You just have to be really careful with your counters, play TNNs and hope they get bad hands. I have played against DnT at least twenty times and I've won maybe twice. Unfortunately it is just a bad matchup - at least in my experience.
edit - I might be a bit late to the discussion but I am a huge supporter of Wastelands in this deck. I have always played a 3/3/3 split of Cavern/Wasteland/Mutavault with 11-13 Islands, and it has always been fantastic.
I'm iffy about your claim that Seeker of the Way can net you 4/5/6 life in a turn. RDW tends to only have a few mana in play, and if they don't, they have flooded and they are going to lose.
The list looks absolutely fine on paper, I'm just hesitant about how good the Delver matchup actually is. Awkward 3-ofs are kind of my jam when I build legacy decks, but they don't make sense here. Either consolidate your Searing Bloods up to a 4-of by cutting a Fireblast and a Rift Bolt, or cut them to the sideboard and up your Fireblast and Rift Bolt. How is your sideboard looking?
3 Wasteland
2 Mutavault
13 Island
4 Cursecatcher
4 Silvergill Adept
4 True-Name Nemesis
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
3 Phantasmal Image
3 Merrow Reejerey
4 Daze
3 Aether Vial
2 Dismember
2 Flusterstorm
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Swan Song
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Misdirection
2 Submerge
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Pithing Needle
1 Echoing Truth
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress
There was a lot of awkward 1-ofs in the board (didn't have chalices, or a 3rd flusterstorm/surgical) but aside from that the list ran really smoothly. The dismembers are mainboard because the meta in my city is aggro-dominated and they tend to serve me well game-1 and quite often I don't see them g1 in irrelevant matchups anyway. It is a pretty stock-standard list, but I'd like to drop one island and up the Mutavault count by 1. The 3/3/2 split is really great, it seems like it would be too heavy, but I hardly ever have mana issues. Wastelands are just so unbelievably important, and get insanely good when you have Aether Vial. I will most likely try one week without Wastelands just to see the difference but I am pretty confident with how it runs. I played against BUG Delver, UR Delver, Omni-Tell, Sneak and Show, RDW, UR Delver, then BUG Delver in the quarters and UR Delver in the semis. My only losses were to the first and last UR Delver.
In terms of sideboard, this is what I think I am going to try next:
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Spell Pierce (I don't own Flusterstorms)
2 Submerge
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Vendilion Clique
While Flusterstorm would be way better, I am just playing Spell Pierce. Extra counters are purely for the Storm match-up, really, and these work *almost* as well. Chain of Vapor is there for Helm/RIP combo and Dark Depths which pop up consistently in my meta, Ratchet Bomb is for the 1 or 2 elf decks that are making a comback at the moment. I haven't had a chance to drop Chalice yet, but I'm sure it will be very enjoyable when I do.
I did about ten Conspiracy drafts last week, it is super fun.
I think the only other noteworthy thing that has happened to me in the last few months is I made the top8 of another sealed tournament with a first prize of $200, but lost in the quarters again. I also made the top8 of another big legacy tournament... again, lost in the quarters. I did make the top 8 of the vintage league i've been playing in - the finals are next sunday, and first place is a Mox Emerald. I am probably going to take Shops, but... I think everybody is going to be playing it, and if I play Dark Times it might come out of nowhere and do well.
3 Wasteland
14 Island
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 True-Name Nemesis
4 Silvergill Adept
4 Cursecatcher
3 Phantasmal Image
3 Merrow Reejerey
4 Daze
3 Aether Vial
3 Spell Pierce
Sideboard is still in the works. The Brisbane meta changes a lot from week to week as a lot of the regulars have multiple decks and we have a rotating list of semi-regular players (we get between 20 and 35 players every week). I am probably going to keep it as simple as possible, and go for a broad-reaching solution:
3 Swan Song
2 Dismember
2 Submerge
2 Chill
2 Pithing Needle
1 Umezawa's Jitte
Any thoughts? I don't know how I feel about Chill, but we have had a fair bit of RDW lately, as well as the normal amount of Jund and RUG delver, so it seems solid right now. Definitely could become something else, like Kira, though.
I went to GP Melbourne in February after going to GP KL. I started out hot on 4-0 with Azorius Weenie, then played 3 RG Monsters decks in a row and lost, so no day 2 for me! I played BG Dark Times in the Vintage side event on day 2 and went 5-1 into top 8, then lost in the quarters to Dredge. I got a pack of Italian Legends for my trouble, which was cool. Nothing good in it, though!
A week later I played Fish at a Legacy event with 4 Polluted Delta as the 1st place prize, and went 3-1-1 into top 8, and yet again lost in the quarter finals to Junk Maverick. A week after that, I played a $500 sealed tournament and made the top 8 with a solid GW pool (I had Spear of Heliod and Bow of Nylea with some really aggressive midrange creatures, curving out at Ornitharch and Evangel of Heliod), then drafted a beautiful RB deck with 2 Kragma Warcaller, 2 Fall of the Hammer, a Spiteful Returned, and lots of aggressive minotaurs. I lost in the quarters again, of course, because I overthought an attack in basically the last turn of the game and it cost me the round. Oh well!
I played a Born of the Gods/Theros sealed PTQ yesterday. I had a pretty solid deck with lots of creatures and four bombs - Herald of Torment, Whip of Erebos, Nighthowler, and Graverobber Spider... but no removal. I went 3-1-2 in the end, losing in round, which was unfortunate, because a win there would have got me in to top 8. Oh well! Next big event for me is probably GPTs for GP Sydney then GP Sydney itself.
1 Mutavault
1 Windbrisk Heights
1 Faerie Conclave
2 Island
12 Plains
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Path to Exile
1 Dismember
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Skullclamp
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Lingering Souls
1 Impulse
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Hero of Bladehold
1 Blade Splicer
1 Mirror Entity
1 Silverblade Paladin
1 Serendib Efreet
1 Man-O-War
1 Sun Titan
1 Flickerwisp
1 Mother of Runes
1 Imposing Sovereign
1 Wall of Omens
I can't remember whether I had another card in there or just another land. Either way, it was super smooth, and I went 2-1. The only thing I lost to was a Hellrider into Zealous Conscripts taking my Hero of Bladehold and dealing me around 20 damage in one turn. Filthy.
I am now unemployed, so I am just going into full testing mode for GP Melbourne. I think I am going to play Esper Midrange, but the lure of type 2 is not strong for me.
I've always enjoyed it when I have it in multiples and I always play it when I have a decent amount of bestow dudes (which I did) so I always think of it as a good common... maybe not a bomb, though.
I am very happy my $15 Bitterblossoms are now $50 Bitterblossoms. And my $2 Mistbind Cliques are now $25 Mistbind Cliques.
I scrubbed out of the GP, which was really disappointing. I had a very very good pool - Xenagos, Polis Crusher, Stoneshock Giant, Nessian Asp, Anthousa, Nemesis of Mortals, Vulpine Goliath were my bombs, as well as double Emissary of Purphuros). I was very light on removal but I had a minimal blue splash for Prophet of Kruphis and a Numbus Naiad. I was feeling very confident, but lost round 3 to a manascrew. It happens, no bother. I'm about to win game 1 in round 4 and a judge comes over calling my name and carrying my Nemesis of Mortals. My opponent in the last round had cast Portent of Betrayal on it and I scooped after thinking for a minute or two, and he shuffled it back into his deck as we moved on. I forgot, and got a game loss. That put me on tilt for that round and I lost again. Pretty disappointing, but I won the next two rounds pretty smoothly, then lost to double Keepsake Gorgon when I had a field full of giant dudes and my opponent on four life. I was pretty bummed, but I was excited to play Legacy the next day.
I was playing my Bant deck, and that day started badly too. At the start of my opponent's turn 4 in game 1 of round 1 I notice he had 5 lands down and I call a judge immediately. It ends in us both getting warnings and he gets to keep the land because "it's gone too far already". Ugh. I won that game but lost that round to bad hands (I think I kept one 7 in the whole 5 rounds of the tournament... I mulled to five at least four times). Then lost to WUR Delver, then drew with Junk Midrange, beat Mono-black devotion and beat Red Deck Wins. Ended up 16th and won 8 packs.
All in all it was a fun weekend but my results left me a little disappointed. I don't know whether to play GP Melbourne (it is Standard, and I'm not a big fan of Standard) Or just play the Legacy/Highlander/Legacy/Vintage tournaments happening the same weekend.
I love this kind of thing! I have never been smart enough to work stuff like this out.
I don't know if you guys have ever played 4 Card Blind, but the local Legacy group ran some tournaments for it a little while ago on their website. The best I ever did was:
It was super fun!
Yessss, this looks great, good luck! I've been playing a similar deck in Standard. Celestial Flare is my go-to for Blood Baron.
There is a GPT for GP Melbourne this weekend, both of which are Standard. I am still considering whether to go or not, as I don't even know if I'm going to the GP - and, if I do, I'll probably just play all the Eternal side-events.
GP Kuala Lumpur is next week. I wish I had prepared more, but I guess I know the format well enough. I'm going to draft a few times this weekend, maybe do a sealed if I can get enough people interested.
It has been so hot here lately. It hit 43 degrees today and it was very humid. Thank god my LGS has very good air-con.
Was going to draft Modern Masters and/or Shadowmoor today, but we couldn't get eight people and it didn't fire. Pretty bummed, but hopefully it will be busier tomorrow. I'm playing in a Legacy event tomorrow that has a first prize of an FNM Swords to Plowshares! I'm playing The Gate, something I have a lot of experience with (I 3-1'd with it at least ten times and 4-0'd twice, but the meta has shifted pretty drastically since then) so I'm feeling pretty confident. If I do scrub out I'm either going to MM/Shadowmoor draft or play Cube. It should be a fun day!
In other news, I broke my toe the other day. It's not that painful, though, so it hasn't been bothering me that much.
We have 6 stores within the city centre here. I play at the largest one, which is basically right in the middle of the city so it's pretty easy to access. They are actually moving to a new premises in the next week or two, but they are moving to a larger venue, which is really exciting. It means that, come the new year, they are going to start running monthly Legacy events with really good prizes (i.e. Legacy Staples). We already have a pretty big Eternal scene in Brisbane, I think probably the largest in Australia (weekly events get 20+ players), now we just need to get Vintage and Australian Highlander up and running!
It is officially Christmas Day in Australia. Happy Holidays everybody!
I was going to cube today, but I can't bring myself to leave the house yet. Except maybe to buy sushi/beer. I will most likely play some X Wing later though, that game is super fun!