Magic, magic, and more magic. After picking up my two boxes of RTR (Return to Ravnica) I decided on building a GWB Rock standard deck. After spending $200 on the cards I needed, I goldfished the deck and hated it. My deck kept morphing over the next couple of days from G/W midrange to Bant midrange back to G/W. Finally, I decided on G/W, but still needed to pick up some Tristoni’s. This weekend had States standard event on Sunday at Dreamwizards, but also had a sealed PTQ on Saturday. Since my better half was working this weekend I decided to part take in the all day PTQ on Saturday with James Peyton. I was passed a decent pool with Isperia, Supreme Judge, Mercurial Chemister, and Righteous Authority. I had some decent detain guys packed with a few good removal spells. Jimmy and I both started out 2 -0. We got paired in the 3rd round and ID’d so that we could get some PHO noodles. Our 4th round we both lost, but the games were close. I continued to dismantle opponents until the 8th round where before I sat down I told the guy I am X-1-1 and can make top 8 so whatever you are thinking the answer is yes, followed with a chopping motion in my hand to signify half the box prize split. He scooped and we played for fun, which he ended up beating me. The round ended with 5th-10th all having the same records. I got 10th. A guy whom I thought to be a nice individual, Ty Dobbertin, got 9th and was very pissed that my opponent who he knew scooped to me. Ty claims he could have gotten in as he had already played and beaten him earlier, screw Ty. I was not upset, I guess because it had been awhile since I had done well at a medium level event. I was also tired and wanted to go home (9 hours of magic). I received 12 packs for 10th and gave 9 to the guy who scooped to me as that’s what he would have gotten had he beat me with an X-2 record. I did also pick up an Overgrown Tomb and a Loelth Troll so I at least got my money back as rage busting the packs got nothing.
Sunday I was overwhelmed with many choices in States (Rockville), GPT (Sealed – Frederick), Colorfest with Jimmy (Thumont), Ravens game (Scalp Tickets), or fishing. States was immediately thrown out as Saturday I tested my G/W against a U/W control and got crushed. I could play my zombies, but didn’t feel like it. I decided to organize my cards and go to the GPT for another whack at sealed after doing so well the day before. Some guys I haven’t played with for awhile were there and Dave’s “Thanks for Playing” had moved to a new location, 5 mins from its old. I immediately sold off my extra Badlands for $40 and wanted to sell lots of cards I don’t use ever. I unloaded $350 to the store getting about half of Star City pricing. I didn’t mind as one day these cards will be worth less than it costs to make them. The tourney only had 16 kids which was nice as it was cut to top 8 with a draft. I opened a pretty good pool with 2 chaotic imps and the rakdos lord, but unfortunately had to pass it. I ended up building a bant deck. It didn’t have any real bombs just some good cards that worked well together. I ended up going 2-1 and everyone in the last round could draw in so we saved some time and started the draft. I had never drafted the new set RTR, but after playing so much limited I knew which cards were good. I opened a terrible rare, but the pack contained the u/w detain guildmage. This pick was a poor first pick as it could lock me into u/w off the bat. I didn’t mind though because this set has multiple fixers. Pack 2 opened a Supreme Verdict and pack 3 opened a Detention Sphere so it was probably a good choice going with u/w/g. I managed to pick up some detain creatures, lots of removal, 7 I believe. My bant deck came together nicely. I won the first 2 rounds. After finding out that Gran Prix Philly is the weekend before Halloween (P-A-R-T-I-E-S) I decided to drop before the finals with Nick Stone, giving him the 3 byes. I did want to play him for fun to see if my bant could beat his Rackdos, but it was getting late and I needed to get some stuff done. So another fun filled Magic weekend…
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