Long Weekend? Spend on Magic the Gathering

Tis another long weekend here in Australia and I'll be off to my neighbouring city to visit my long suffering girlfriend and visit the local gaming shop to stock up on Magic The Gathering items.  Unfortunately Journey into the Nyx won't be out by the time I get there, so I'll more than likely just pick up a few booster packs from Theros/Born of the Gods and try and finish off this Mono Blue deck I am trying to build...

A small update on my Aggro Mono Black Deck - I have acquired Erebos, God of the Dead to throw in there somewhere... interesting times, any opinions on Erebos?

Once Journey into the Nyx comes out however, I'll more than likely just pick up a Fat Pack, or if some of my Magic the Gathering friends would split a booster box with me that'd be great!, haha.

What kind of Mono Blue?  I haven't decided yet, but was quite impressed with the Fire Surge Magic 2014 Intro Deck (that I mentioned in brief here) so that I may add a bit of Red spice in there for good measure.
Yes, I do realise it was only an Intro deck, but I rarely play Blue or Red for that matter, but how it measured up to a Devotion Black Blue decks astounded me.

I also hopefully want to get back to the 2nd hand/pawn stores as well and try and find me some retro gear, there has to be some somewhere!  If not, I've hatched a plan to strip out a PS2, Nintendo Wii and possibly a PS1 and combine them in one enclosure, I have a frame made up out of angle iron ready to go but just need to find the time to actually figure out how it's all going to go together.

Check back often for updates, with photos, of course...

Magic the Gathering Aggro Mono Black Deck

Hello All, I've now pulled apart my deck and had it inspected and now has morphed into an aggressive deck, below you'll find what I had originally and what I changed it out with.  I've battled with this deck three times, winning the first two rounds and losing the last.  Not a bad result but more and testing has to be conducted!

Creatures - x18

REMOVED - 4x Forsaken Drifters - Zombie - 4 drop

4x Servant of Tymaret - Zombie - 3 drop 1/3
Inspired - Whenever Servant of Tymaret becomes untapped each opponent loses 1 life, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.  3 drop: Regenerate.

4x - Insatiable Harpy - 4drop - 2/2
Flying and Lifelink

1x - Mogis's Maruader - 3 drop - 2/2
When Mogis Marauder enters the battlefield, up to X target creatures each gain intimidate and haste until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black.

2x - Felhide Brawler - Minotaur - 2 drop - 2/2
Felhide Brawler can't block unless you control another minotaur.

2x - Warchanter of Mogis - Minotaur - 5 drop
Inspired - Whenever Warchanter of the Mogis becomes untapped, target creature you control gains intimidate until end of turn.

2x - Marshmist Titan - Giant - 7 drop - 4/5
Marshmist Titan cost X less to cast, where X is your devotion to black)

REMOVED - 1x - Felhide Minotaur - Minotaur - 3 drop

1x - Sengir Vampire - Vampire - 5 drop - 4/4
Flying - Whenever a creature is dealt damage by Sengir Vampire this dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Sengir Vampire

REMOVED - 1x Eater of Hope - Demon - 7 drop

2x - Tormented Hero - Human Warrior - 1 drop - 2/1
Tormented Hero enters the battlefield tapped
Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Tormented Hero, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

REMOVED - 1x Disciple of Phenax - Human Cleric - 4 drop

Enchantment Creature - x7

REMOVED - 2x - Nyxborn Eidolon - Spirit - 2 drop

1x - Night Howler - Horror 0/0
Bestow 4 - Nighthowler and enchanted creature each +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

2x - Cavern Lampad - Nymph - 4 drop - 2/2
Bestow 6 - Intimidate, Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has intimidate.

2x - Baleful Eidolon - Spirit - 2 drop - 1/1
Bestow 5 - Deathtouch - Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch.

1x - Spiteful Returned - Zombie - 2 drop - 1/1
Bestow 4 - Whenever spiteful returned or enchanted creature attacks, defending player loses 2 life.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1

1x - Archetype of Finality - Gorgon - 6 drop - 2/3
Creatures you control have Deathtouch.  Creatures your opponent control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

Sorcery - x5

4x - Asphyxiate - 4 drop
Destroy target untapped creature.

REMOVED - 1x Sip of Hemlock - 6 drop

1x - Gild - 4 drop
Exile target creature. Put a colourless artifact token named Gold onto the battlefield.  It has "sacrifice this artifcate: Add one mana of any colour to your mana pool"

REMOVED - 1x March of the Returned - 4 drop

Enchantment - Aura - x1

REMOVED - 2x Weight of the Underworld - 4 drop

1x - Claim of Erebos - 2 drop
Enchant creature - Enchanted creature has "drop 2 and tap: target player loses 2 life"

Instant - x5

REMOVED - 2x - Eye Gouge - 1 drop
REMOVED - 1x - Wring Flesh - 1 drop

3x - Cutthroat Maneuver
Up to two target creatures each get  +1/+1 and gain lifelink til the end of turn.

2x - Pharikas Curse - 2 drop (added one)
Pharika's Curse deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Lands - x24
24x Swamp Lands

This weekend haul!

Hello everyone,

I have returned from a massive weekend of hunting around 2nd hand shops and came up empty handed in finding an Nintendo Entertainment System to convert into a PC.  After finally giving in I went to the local games store and picked up this lot to dry my tears with.

Magic the Gathering Born of the Gods Fat Pack, Battle the Horde solitaire deck, matte black protective sleeves. some spare D20's and my awesome girlfriend got me for our Anniversary a Magic The Gathering hand made blue / black deck box!

Truly Epic!

So I didn't come up empty handed after all!, thanks for reading and will get another post on what I got in the Born of the Gods Fat Pack!

You like Magic The Gathering? Watch Top Decking.

I've discovered a nice web series called Top Decking from the Webisodes network.  The show revolves around a handful of characters working in a Magic The Gathering store.  It has a nice smattering of cliches, rivalries, stereotypes and Magic The Gathering game play throughout to keep it fresh and interesting.

Excellent writing and superb acting makes Top Decking, to me exceptionally addictive show.  Ten minute episodes make the show really accessible and bit size to consume just about any time of day whilst at work on your phone or at home when in between doing laundry loads (or what ever it is you do at home).  The added bonus is it has the element of Magic The Gathering throughout making Top Decking a must watch show for Magic The Gathering players.  Hell it even touches upon League of Legends and you'll may also notice some other Youtube Celebrities amongst the cast.

Magic The Gathering is awesome, Top Decking is superb I suggest you check it out!

Youtube - Top Decking playlist
Host Site - Webisodes Network