Games night & actually winning

I've been busy so not really bothering with this, but I guess a few words can't hurt.

I've actually won some friendlies now.  Whether was as a result of me inviting everyone round to my house to play and giving them snacks, or my constant shouts of "don't attack me, I've got nothing!" but I won our first (and only) 4 player match.

Was a fairly standard resurrection deck really, but with black, white & blue it had a lot of counter too. Mana was so plentiful by the end and due to my getting 7 cards a turn from the Sphinx and draw I could pick & choose my hand.  Took two players out in one turn and then over-run the remaining guy with my big beasties.  I've changed most of the creatures in the deck now for the ones I actually wanted that were still in the post, so it'll probably never win another game.

The Artifacts/red mana Firin' Squad deck got a win that day too by out competing a valakut deck which isn't too bad.


I also knocked up an infect deck to see what cards I had that fitted and ended up winning three games out of 4 with that.  It's an interesting mechanic if the opponent isn't expecting it especially as it's not too hard to put 5 on someone with that first mad hit.

My Blue Draw=damage deck was quite fun too and while it's only ever won one game I think it could nest nicely into a control deck if I could be bothered to figure it all out.

The Red/Blue I'm looking at currently hasn't won yet, but I'm still refining the balance between control & destroy while keeping it cheap in both senses. As I only have 4 non common cards in it (and neither are essential) I might strip it back to Standard Pauper just for kicks & see how many mythics it can destroy.

Of course I could always go look up some deck-lists but that feels like cheating.

MTG on hiatus now until after exams & NPH launch. It's only a week I guess, but it's going to be a long one...

One for the real world

Cards I've ended up with greater than 4 of for people in my game group. 2 x DBC + a few boosters means I have a reasonable amount already!

Spares	Card	Colour	Clear	Colour	Total Mana	Rarity
3	Rise From The Grave	BK	4	1	5	U
2	Sign In Blood	BK	0	2	2	C
1	Aether Adept	BL	1	2	3	C
1	Guard Gomazoa	BL	2	1	3	U
2	Into the Roil	BL	1	1	2	C
2	Mind Control	BL	3	2	5	U
1	Steady Progress	BL	2	1	3	C
1	Unsummon	BL	0	1	1	C
1	Wind Zendikon	BL		1	1	C
2	Brass Squire	CL	3	0	3	U
1	Perilous Myr	CL	2		2	C
1	Plague Myr	CL	2	0	2	C
1	Psychosis Crawler	CL	5	0	5	R
1	Stone Golem	CL	5	0	5	C
1	Triskelion	CL	6		6	R
2	Garruk's Companion	GR	0	2	2	C
2	Garruk's Packleader	GR	4	1	5	U
1	Llanowar Elves	GR		1	1	C
5	Terramorphic Expanse	LD			0	c
1	Earth Servant	RD	5	1	6	U
1	Ogre Resister	RD	2	2	4	C
2	Anjani's Mantra	WH	1	1	2	U
1	Ghalma's Warden	WH	3	1	4	C
2	Kor Skyfisher	WH	1	1	2	C
2	Pacifism	WH	1	1	2	C
2	Souls Attendant	WH	0	1	1	C

First trial decks - report

So I'm currently something like 0 wins 10 losses in our casual Magic circle, and with my working burden still being high it's unlikely to change. Here's what I've tried so far:

Black Vamps & Blue Splash – decent set up but played a Legacy deck that's pretty well refined. Deck is mostly black singles in original form to see what works but one match isn't going to tell you that!

Blue Green Landfall – this is essentially Mysterious Realms updated with more uncommon and some excellent M11 and later cards and some great WW booster drops. This has been consistently good, but I seem to end up with more mana (due to action cards) than creatures. Lost a 3 player due to not realising I could counter a mass removal spell when I had way more creatures than opponents. Learning curve.

Blue Insanity deck – a gimmick deck that is purely for fun and focuses on getting lots of cards into my hand. Got mana screwed by drawing 16 lands in 18 cards when I only have 24 in the deck, otherwise shows potential.

White NHS deck – this is all about lifegain, but I'd misunderstood the ally clause on cards and included 8 useless cards, will remove these and repeat

Firing Squad – Red & art deck. Drew my two 8 mana joke creatures in my starting hand, didn't think to mulligan and still didn't loose too badly. Have put the cards I had in reserve in instead.

 

Pretty sure I tried another Magic The Gathering Planeswalkers style deck at one point, and I have an unused Worldwake 'Flyover' pre-made I got using store credit to play with.

 

Need to keep revising these (and revising for exams) and stop buying cards too. I estimate £120 total now – spreadsheet not up to date with prices.