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...

Fire Surge Magic 2014 Intro Deck

Ok, Tuesday nights are now becoming a staple night of playing Magic the Gathering with my friends, so I should be updating this blog with Magic info more often now (yay!)

Tonight I played and played my Mono Black Aggro deck (correct me if I am wrong please) which can be found here.  I found I am thinking of adding Read The Bones to it to add a scry 2 feature to add some more control to my draw, especially if I am getting a shitty draw, and possibly add 2 more Pharikas Cure to counteract the 2 life lost using Read The Bones.  Anyways!

I recently bought another Intro Deck, this in particular as the title suggests Fire Surge Magic 2014 Core Set Intro Deck.  Red/Blue being its colours and it really surprised me as it come into its own against a Blue/Black devotion deck.  I won't go into too much detail but if I had played a Chandra's Outrage appropriately I would not lost by one life as that's what it came down too.  I elected to do deal three damage to a two toughness creature, rather than dole out that extra one damage to the player thus losing me the game.

That's all I wanted to say, if you're new to Magic the Gathering, (like me) pickup the Magic 2014 Fire Surge Intro Deck, I picked it up discounted as the new Magic the Gathering stuff is gearing up to be released and I really like it as an intro deck.

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

Weekend roundup

Weekend just gone was a good one, I finished editing my Shinobi III Return of the Ninja Master 'run through' series which will be uploaded on Youtube in a 5 part series over the coming weeks.

I did another run through playing Killing Floor, which I haven't picked up in ages and had a blast doing so. I have footage of the event edited up and nearly ready for upload by mid week. There are some tidy plays in the vid that's for sure.

I didn't purchase any games this weekend, my latest purchases from last week were Dragon Age Ultimate Edition (PC) and a spare deck slot in Magic 2014(PC). Dragon Age had 75% off or something ridiculous like that, so I'll be offloading my Xbox360 version, anyone interested, let me know.

Which brings me toooooooo

That I may do up a list of games and what not that I'll be selling soon, PS3, Xbox360, boardgames etc. But will have to decide whether I'll list on ebay or do a private listing.

Will keep you posted!
Thanks for reading!

Ausmetal.

Magic 2014 - Sealed Play - Red/Green Test Deck part 2

The card list is as follows.

• Red - Striking Sliver x 2 - Creature
• Green - Predatory Sliver x 2 - Creature
• Red - Blur Sliver x 2 - Creature
• Green - Fog - Instant
• Green - Deadly Recluse - Creature
• Green - Plummet - Instant
• Red - Regathan Fire Cat - Creature
• Green - Advocate of the Beast - Creature
• Green - Oaken Form - Sorcery
• Red - Slaughter Cry - Instant
• Red - Moltern Birth - Sorcery
• Red - Firewing Phoenix - Creature
• Red - Marauding Maulhorn - Creature Beast
• Green - Rumbling Baloth - Creature Beast
• Red - Awaking the Ancient - Enchantment Aura
• Red - Bonebreaker Giant - Creature
• Red - Cleaver Riot - Sorcery
• Red - Turn to Slag - Sorcery
• Green - Enlarge - Sorcery
• Green - Yavimaya Wurm - Creature

Magic 2014 - Sealed Play - Red/Green test deck part 1

Greetings all,

I have been playing around with Magic 2014 on PC in the Sealed Play component of the game.  I have built a 40 card Red/Green deck and been playing around with it, it's not flash by any stretch of the imagination but I am having some varied degrees of success.

The card list is as follows.

• Red - Striking Sliver x 2 - Creature
• Green - Predatory Sliver x 2 - Creature
• Red - Blur Sliver x 2 - Creature
• Green - Fog - Instant
• Green - Deadly Recluse - Creature
• Green - Plummet - Instant
• Red - Regathan Fire Cat - Creature
• Green - Advocate of the Beast - Creature
• Green - Oaken Form - Sorcery
• Red - Slaughter Cry - Instant
• Red - Moltern Birth - Sorcery
• Red - Firewing Phoenix - Creature
• Red - Marauding Maulhorn - Creature Beast
• Green - Rumbling Baloth - Creature Beast
• Red - Awaking the Ancient - Enchantment Aura
• Red - Bonebreaker Giant - Creature
• Red - Cleaver Riot - Sorcery
• Red - Turn to Slag - Sorcery
• Green - Enlarge - Sorcery
• Green - Yavimaya Wurm - Creature