MTG Salvation

I suddenly realised that I have added a few of giants recently, bloodfray giant and Ravenous giant and Howling Giant in green, so suddenly Thundercloud Shaman seems better than it used to.

Have others used thundercloud shaman or is he old technology?

Feeling bad about not "growing up" was a component of my anxiety problems at least when it got to crisis levels a couple of years ago (The major one was my younger brother dying of cancer). So I hopped on a plane and went and fended for myself for a while, travelling alone, and despite the occasional bad day, I did just fine with no one to fall back on. Most of the time more than fine since I am hypercompetent with the over planning habits of someone with anxiety.

It is rather bizarre to feel like you haven't achieved anything when you literally have a PhD but its just that PhD took a lot longer than you thought it would and your scholarship had run out for several years before you finished. To escape the stress I would just go play magic in my lunch break for however long a Commander game would take.

I have always found shuffling physical cards to be super relaxing, I actually always have a deck next to me at my computer so I can just shuffle it and deal out a hand, maybe play out a few turns before picking it all up again and shuffling some more.

There are enough things to worry about before getting to biological warfare (or what God thinks of you). You might just have anxiety, something that this virus is making worse, maybe seek some professional help. Seriously, you don't need to pull on those bootstraps yourself, Maybe, you just need some help because your brain doesn't produce the right amount of serotonin.

I was talking to you as if you were sane but you are a Peterson Fan *facepalm*

Prerelease done, I managed to get all the cards I needed (dumpster diving the chaff people left) I also managed to get some foil Ikoria cards I was missing.

Now there is just one card I am missing and it's not even that good... Splendor Mare to replace sandsteppe outcast (which is weak). Is there some other 3 mana good stuff white creature I can use instead?

3 drops

• Aerial Responder
  
• Danitha Capashen, Paragon
  
• Fairgrounds Warden
  
• Flickerwisp
  
• Militia Bugler
  
• Splendor Mare
  
• Stonecloaker
  
• Sunscourge Champion

maybe I have too many white 3 drops hmm

I was only finally able to get my hands on physical cards yesterday, when FNM started again, but I definately not going to risk a cube night yet.

Nope, I mean I was the only person to bring my own hand sanitizer. Although people were reticent to touch each other decks and there were no cash purchases. The hot chocolate resturant across the road had a sign-in process so they can track you down if there is an outbreak. MTG events track everyone in the event so they can find you if there is an outbreak.




We will be having an instore prerelease for M21 (although with limited numbers)

Okay, so the way our lockdown went was Late March into early April we quickly moved into lockdown. State borders closed, forced 14-day quarantine for anyone entering into the state. LGS was closed through April. The store opened again in May for purchases but not play. Then at the start of June, our lockdown was cautiously lifted. There was no increase in cases after 3 weeks.

Because our local authorities acted quickly, late March, we managed to avoid community spread and all cases were tracked. Mostly returned travellers or cruise ship passengers. If you happen to be one of the lucky people in a place where the virus is yet to touch make sure your local authorities are ready to act quickly.


edit: just to brag I also won the draft BG(u) Mutate ramp. Got a Blood crypt in my prize booster. Just had a great night.

In-person FNM tomorrow whoooo!
We currently have exactly 2 people with Covid-19 in my state (both in quarantine)

Edric, spymaster of trest or Derevi, empyrial tactician are powerful enough to carry a bunch of evasive commons.

In
Village Rites - effcient draw
Shipwreck Dowser - archeomancer than can attack
Bolt Hound - more battlecry
Heartfire Immolator - just great
Kinetic Augur - A red midrangey card of the type I was looking for
Quirion Dryad - best card of its type, although not an elf


Maybe
Mistral Singer - best wind drake but I wanted to try out Wingspan Mentor they might be swapped
Goblin Wizardry - great synergy but 4 mana is a bit steep
Experimental Overload - affects the board but can't be reused.
Garruk's Uprising - appears to have all of the value, I just don't have a lot of non-creatures in green
Chandra's Pyreling - not a wizard.
Watcher of the Spheres - I don't want to tunnel UW too hard on flyiers
Conclave Mentor - I don't want to tunnel GW too hard on +1/+1 counters.

It's frustrating because I don't want too much overlap
Good-fortune unicorn and Conclave Mentor
Empyrean Eagle and Watcher of the Spheres

I don't see a reason to have more than one of these pair.

Heartfire Immolator is a slam dunk

If Vryn wingmare was a 2/2 I's consider it 1 toughness is such a liability.

Oh good point about village rites, hmm I might give it a go.

I have jetting glasskite as my blue finisher or ominous seas when I get to try it.

I had a lot of fun with Riddleform the first time, I am hoping to have fun with it again... Once 3 mana Narset and Teferi rotate out... (but also rip Arclight Phoenix)

leaping augur is annoying for me because it is exactly the kind of mid-range card I was looking for but I am not sure the midrange deck will use a lot of instants and sorceries. Is it good enough as a 2/4?

A very effective sideboard card. I have been frustated at having this 5 toughness limitation for awhile now.

Bolt hound is really good, but super sabotaging my attempt to make red mid-range be a thing (This is aggro/tokens)