First off, for we Americans, now is the best time to invest in the market via mutual funds.
some good ones to look at and buy into:
PRNHX
NBGEX
RGAFX
those are three mutual funds, one small-cap, one mid-cap, and one large-cap.
it is a good time to get in, only way to go is up.
Follow up:
Reveillark is the most powerful creature in Standard. more powerful than tarmogoyf. more of a game impact that tarmogoyf. better than tarmogoyf... for those with a memory, remember when goyf was around $2-3 around release? yeah, just wait a couple of months and a couple of tournament reports.
i went 5-1 in tonights FNM, 4-0 swiss and a loss in the second round of top 8. my decklist is a homebrew reanimator from mid october, updated and tweaked into this:
round 1: 2-0 UB Teachings. Not much of a match, I take it 2-0 by forcing counters and dropping early looters/prowlers/fetches. game one was akroma and wanderer, game 2 i won with two hellkites.
SB:-1 akroma, -3 shriekmaw, +4 thoughtsieze
round 2: 2-0 RG Elementals. Easy match, I use shriekmaws and inversions to control the early game both games. nova chaser swings into an empty board--oh wait, mannequin akroma seems good. games go by quickly
SB: -1 haakon, +1 nameless inversion
round 3: 2-0 WB Aggro Rack. I hit an early prowler, discard into haakon and keep augurs and specters in check with multiple inversions. that's game. game 2 i drop looter into his smallpox. he mana screws himself as i drop prowler>fetch>hellkite. he wraths. i play cairn wanderer X2 for the flying, hastey win.
SB: -3 shriekmaw, +3 extirpate
round 4: 2-1 UB Mannequin. He wins by stalling my early game with shriekmaws. he hits every land drop thanks to mulldrifters. i get stuck on 3 land as he continues to bounce my land with cloudskate/venser. game 2 i play turn 2 prowler and attack turn 3, he discards mulldrifter to take one, i extirpate it, his hand shows pithing needle, extirpate, cryptic command. I hit cryptic command with a thoughtsieze. he untaps turn 3 into a ironfoot. Eot i discard hellkite. untap dread return it to his face, attack for 3. He draws dead for two more turns. game 3 I turn 2 looter, turn 3 fetch, turn 4 thoughtsieze his extirpate and discard and play haakon. he damnations and i follow that with cairn wanderer and hit him to 16. he plays mulldrifter at cost and passes the turn. I play haakon and inversion the drifter and swing down to 12. He cloudskates my haakon and passes. I attack, he doesnt block, so a inversion my wanderer and hes down to 5. I drop prowler and pass the turn. he passes. I topdeck hellkite and discard it. i attack, he taps my dudes with cryptic command, so i play dread return on hellkite. he pact's it. i flash it back ftw.
Top 8: GB Rack. 2-0. I honestly don't knw how i 2-0d this guy. he just played poorly. he attacked with double treetop and shriekmaw into my makeshift mannequin targetting hellkite. thats a 3 for 1. game 2 he tries to eyeblights ending my akroma. good times?? not so much. tarmogoyfs get eaten by shriekmaws.
Top 4: Mono Red Stuffy: 0-2. Stuck on 3 land game 1 for 7 turns till i finally get out my hellkite. i knock him down to 9 thanks to an early beating prowler, but since im at 8, he molten disasters me for 8 with kicker. stuck with no discard outlet or inversion game 2, so it was no contest.
the deck needs to drop red akroma and smallpox from the board... im still considering platinum angel and damnation, as well as profane command in place of them.
good showing, bad break against a matchup i was previously close to 100% in.
Why is it that people build decks top down, from the VERY top?
"Ohh! Lets make a Giant deck and name it New York Giants! or... Eli Manning and Co.! or Hagrid!"
can't we all just agree not to give names to ****** decks? its like you play four copies of 9 different cards with the same color, then 16 basic land, 4 scrying sheets and 4 terramorphic expanse. c'mon it should be a privilege to name a deck.
im tired of names like:
Sliver assault!
countryside crusher.deq (aka bank of america)
Burning flames of crimson chaos fire! (20 land, 40 burn spells, scoops to story circle)
The Hobbits (WW Kithkin)
and some taken from DFC:
Element mental body double beats
Anja's Pandeonium
RB gorglings
changing warriors!
"Fun"gus
Nokaah control
The concoction
power of zur
sorcerers power
locket of aeons
brighthearth elixir
yeah, if only they were good.
then you could name it something flashy, like "sonic boom"
Recently started Tukong martial arts. Its grueling. Got a friend back into magic after he hadn't played in 10 years. Still winning around 85% of my matches with my reanimator deck, while dredge is hovering around 75% and ideal at 60%. Solidarity isn't winning that often, maybe because of thoughtseize.
As this is my first blog entry, ill be sure to write in the future about all of my interests including but not limited to football, finance, women, politics, religion, magic, movies, television, and music.