Sometimes Magic Is Too Fun

So, yeah, we got together. Me, Neal, Joel and Tom. Tom was a little late thanks to a vet appointment for his feline friend. We played constructed EDH and some constructed multi-player. We lost track of time and when Neal and Tom had to bail, there was not enough time to do anything but randomly assign ULCs to each person and hand out the Mirrodin boosters.

Neal left before opening his Mirrodin boosters. I didn't see much of what Joel got, but I busted an Isochron Scepter and Tom scored big with a Platinum Angel and an Icy Manipulator. Both are auto-includes in the limited EDH decks we are building.

On the plus side - I got the art cover sleeves to use with the LEDH decks yesterday. Kinda nice to have bling bling sleeves for once, even if it's for the experiment. I should be able to lay hold of some more out of print boosters soon. I am trying not to spend more than I do on current sets, meaning that I might not be able to do Invasion block, though I would truly love to. It looks like I will be able to complete the Mirrodin block and Ravnica blocks. We'll have to see about Odyssey. I already have Kamigawa block. I didn't buy much when it came out, but scored on it later when the price deflated. You know, sometimes crappy blocks don't seem as bad when you pay $1.50 to $1.80 per booster for them.

I tried to get my 'abuse a crap mythic card' deck going, but never hit the pieces in a couple games. Essentially it has a combo-style element that is grafted in to another deck that plays like a regular multi-player deck. I didn't want to make it a dedicated combo-deck, though I surely could have, because I like my combos to come out of left field. One nice side-effect of having some combo pieces in a deck they usually wouldn't be in is that I discovered being able to use Spitting Image to make four or five copies of Iridescent Angel with a Wall Of Reverence on the table spells good times. But I still got smushed at least once by Joel's big beefy green deck. Man, I thought I had that thing under control for a while, but Primordial Sage is good card drawing. Pshaw!

Until next time, put your brazos to the cosmos!