Commitment to sparkle motion

I am seriously starting to doubt your commitment to sparkle motion... Donnie Dario is awesome. But right now I am completely converting to sparkle motion errr tezz the mind hammer... Ugh sparklemotion is better but alas! I have decided that acquiring jace is top priority for the legion of doom!! Seriously I only need 2 jace and the deck will be done and it really looks like I will be getting that jace todY making it only 1 thT is needed for the deck. This is the first time that I have actually decided to put my resources into a reall good deck and something that I actually want to play. The deck is fun, plays cards I like, plAys tezz and beats with tezz. It's great. Soooo bye bye cards that are rotating in a dew months And hello big jace. On a side note or rather a peek into my write up for this deck, I forgot my mana leaks on Monday and I was really freaking out because I had 3 stoics or 1 spell pierce 1 negate 1 mana leak.... So naturally I went with the mash of counters and while I wished that I had the leaks, I was pretty happy with my grip of non creature counter magic. Mmmm
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... With m12 coming out in a few months,the teaser art for the planeswalkers has got us all wondering who will be returning. It is speculation that Lilliana vess with be reprinted in innistrad which should be nice And at some point Ajani I will make his return. I say this because they are both being replace by sorin and Gideon. It's nice, it's new, and it's a change I welcome. Garruk probably wont under go any chance for a long time and Chandra might actually be changed to her Zendikar counterpart, Chandra ablaze, which is on I guess. I personly like the current Chandra as I play her in my legion of doom deck. But what of jace?
That bastard has been terrorizing everyone since worldwake but now he seems to have slowed down a bit. Your actually seeing decks side home out and you hardly see see baby jace being played anymore... So what if it is time to reprint jace in m12? He's no longer the menace that we all don't want to deal with but just an important part of several decks that actually use him. He's no longer the reason you fear uw control, it's caw blade. Sure he's strong in ub control but grave Titan is what kills you. Maybe it's time to consider him as reprintable. The price would go down and more people could play him. It's just a thought as his art could go either way, it doesn't really show much on what he could be

channel fireball testing group

today i found out that channelfireball or superstars or the good players at the store have started a large playing group together. and i have to admit i am really worried about this.  they are a good group of guys that know what they are doing and they play really great magic.
and its not like i am mad that they didnt invite me to their group, now i just have few people to test with i suppose. so far i have Vince, hey Vince, when he and i arent busy and we see each other at Superstars. Scotty, Jesse and a few other people on the email list that we have going for jesses tezz the something something....LEGION OF DOOM!

hmmmm
4 necropede
4 plague myr
4 phyrexian crusader
3 vatmother
2 skytherix

3 tumble magnet
3 stoic rebuttal
3 tezzeret
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 preordain
3 doom blade

insert land

i think this is the list that i have put together...i dont want to get up right now and find the deck that is together... i am lazy right now. i actually kept the Myrs in the deck becuase hes a 2 drop infect creature and can actually ramp you into vatmother on turn 3 and a turn 3 vatmother is a beating. the deck seems to be playing not only good creatures, but also control cards like Tumble mags, IoKs and Stoics. Kiblers played no counters or hand disruption and have barely any card draw.
the deck lacks artifacts to justify the use of Tezz but when i was goldfishing and started hitting with tezz, it seemed to find the creatures and magnets pretty well. if the ult gets off, its going to help in the long run as you gain the life lost.

ugh sorry that this post is lacking so much umph.this post also is just a bunch of scattered things. i have been exhuasted these last few days and i havent gotten a chance to catch up on sleep. if i decide to further my testing on this deck i will post my results but as of right now, it really looks like the Legion of Doom will be my deck of choice as myself,Jesse and the gang are in the works of making the deck better than it is right now.

Ok little blog, it's been too long for me to not write on you so here we go.
I decided to take a small break but that rally didn't last long. You see mr medina is a pretty convncing guy and a few messages here and there on twitter and some rather interesting SMS from certain people asking for my help,I was offs my break. Normally I take breaks like this and they typically last about 2 months or brio the next set comes out buyout q few hours seems ok too... I guess. I felt that if I did take a break, I would fall so far behind that it wod take a lot longer to catch back up than it has in recent years. The last time I took time off was Month after conflux and i pretty much all of he bant deck before knight and the mana fixer exPlodde into popularity.
As of right now I am doing a few things. 1 I am foiling out most of the tezz deck that inhale in the works along with the aintrazi mono blue list. Medina talks about how he foils it out and so far the reaction I see from people is pretty awesome. Plus the deck looks so ill. Second I am picking up as many SoM cards that I feel will have some impact on standard when zendikar rotates In a few months. Picking up koths was a great idea becuSe the price actually went up about 5 bucks on channel fireball bringing them to 25 instead of 20. I also picked uP masticores because if you actually notice,this guy is a 4/4 for 4 that regens for 2 and domes you for 4. Sounds pretty good. I am also building 3 decks Right now. The mono blue aintrazi deck, the legion of doom deck and this really sweet ub infect control deck I have built.
I built the infect deck before kiblers version and when I saw it on scg, I was just horrified at how bad it was. He made play mistakes but fuck, there was no control aspect what so ever and he just went all in and with ub infect you just don't want to do that. soni am pretty confident in saying that my lost is way better than he one inhis vids. I will be putting that list up later. I think that's enough for now. I was going to put of these 3 hit softball girls up but in can't get it to work on my phone. One of them is the whooty girl... Ugh shes so hot.
Also, I am pretty sure the eh team ep 28 is my fav podcast episode of all time.Seriously at an hour into the episode is my favorite part. Jayboosh is fucking brilliant

mono blue

4 enclave cryptologist
4 grand architect
4 lodestone golem
4 thrumming bird
3 tumble magnet
3 stoic rebuttal
4 spell pierce
3 preordain
1 treasure mage
2 mindslaver
2 ratchet bomb
3 everflowering chalice

16 islands
2 mystifiying maze
3 tech edge
3 inkmoth nexus


this is my verison of Ali Aintrazi's
i ran a slighty different version of this deck like 2 weeks ago and i was completely smashed. the problem with it is Inquistion is such a beating and on top of that the lack of counter magic puts you so far behind. so in this version i added the stoics and spell pierces to slow down the control matchup. unfortunatly, this slows the deck down aswell becuase if you get the right hand, you can explode into your 6 drop on turn 3 or 4.i added the lodestones because a 5/3 for 4 seemed like a really good plan in case i dont get the 6 drop plan. the golem also sets them because of the ability.
yesterday i saw that 3 of these architect decks placed in the SCG invitational events they have been running and i have decided to keep any eye on this build. ali build something out of the ordinary and placed with it. if people are having great sucess with something like this, then it might have more potential than it looks like it has.plus you get to play with mindslaver :D

thats fucked up

i go to my gfs softball games and out of everyone there, i am the only bf that goes to every home game my gf has. i gotta support the girl i love and the sport she is in like she supports me and magic. so i try to make friends with the girls on the softball team. alot of them are sweethearts and  really kind to me. some of them...most of them are just full of drama and bullshit so i tend to stay away from that, but for the most part i dont annoy anyone on the team and vise versa.
now for softball i dont really use twitter to show them my support but i do use facebook. i normally stay away from facebook but in this case everyone can see who i am supporting and who i am saying is doing a great job blah blah blah. so when someone on that team does something really awesome like catches an out or gets a great hit, i say something on facebook. now apperently from what my gf says these girls dont like that... apperently i am spaming good jobs to everyone on facebook and that i relentlessly say things to people, which is really really far from the truth...in fact it couldnt be more wrong. there are girls on the team that i like tons more than the others so like...what i dont understand is that if i am saying your doing a great job during your game...and nobody else comes to see you or any of the other girls playing...why shut down your 1 man cheering section? i dont see guys that other girls like show up. or other bfs show up or crushes show up. just me, my gfs dad and other parents.
what pisses me off about this situation is that they make it seem like i want a response out of them. its really simple and doesnt have to get blown out of proportion. you made a good play and didnt fuck it up like you could have, good job.
this has nothing to do with magic, its just someting that has been annoying me since my girlfriend told me. i dont understand why women have to complicate things and make them bigger than they are...da fuck

Departure

Lol I appreciate everyones interest in my taking a break from mtg, its really nice to see. But I will be back. Magic is this huge part of my life and I value all the friendships I have made, so I wouldn't ever just quit. If you, the reader, have noticed that I haven't really been writing much of anything. Nothing to 60cards or even my bliggity blog and I fucking love writing for 60cards. I kind of blame myself for not writing as much as I have been brewing and brewing and brewing so that I can have killer results to actually write about. But I made the mistake of severly underestimated the players at superstars and I was crushed each time I played in a Tournement.but I kept brewing to try to dent the meta a little bit but nothing ever paid off. So right now I am pretty discouraged from brewing but that really won't last long. At the same time I need to get some things straightened out and I might be going back to school because right now I just work and I wanna do something with my life other than be really handsome :D
I am still going to read mtg, watch the coverage, listen to casts. I probably won't play or brew right now. And I will definitely keep my norn duties and help the b team cast. I'll be back soon, no worries

Conrad kolos

...who is this guy and why do they let him write for tcg player?
The only other time I have heard of this guy, was during nationals and him making that horrid team that was representing the us at worlds. Future research revealed two things. 1. He's made some deck that was red white kith Jim during lorwyn... Which I didnt even know existed while I was heavily playing lorwyn and 2. Nobody know who he is nor does anyone actually care who he is... The wizards forum Is a mean place. So if anyone actually knows something about him and what he has done other than somehow make the nats team last year, hit me up. I am always curious about the people that put out these articles

man... i feel like such a douchebag today. today was the 1k at Superstars and i decided to play in it. i played my home brew tezzper deck that was... well it was pretty meh. i played back to back Kuldotha red decks, i played a home brew Rock deck in which i took him down with creeping tar pits and a shitty UB control deck in which i drew fuckin...a billion land but just 3 short of playing and hardcasting fuckin...blightsteel colossus. so i dropped1-3 so now... i am drinking lol! drinking and brewing. right now i have ali antraizis mono blue proliferate...broliferate HA!, deck and i am attempting to add/splash black just for tezzeret... i need a deck to play tommorow becuase the deck i constructed last nite is fucking shit...sigh, i should have just played fuckin Pawgo, i love that deck. anyways the real reason i am writing this post is becuase of a little incident that occoured tonite.

tonite i came face to face with jon sasso, the owner of channelfireball and Superstars gaming center in san jose california. now i didnt think i would be in his presence tonite nor did i expect to see him. but i ended up seeing him and standing 5 feet from him...i felt a little awkward because of all the shit i have talked about channelfireball and how they are behind SCG and blah blah blah. and tonite he saw me and said " ahhh the twitter guy" lol i laughed a bit and didnt really think much of it...but now i am sitting here thinking about and drinking and whatever and i feel bad. this guy jon, is so fucking nice. he didnt blow up at me or call me out on anything or ask my why i was talking shit. he just laughed and went on with life... and now as i am typing this...i feel bad. he a nice guy, he works hard at what hes trying to do and i just shit on him...i am sorry jon. its not fair to bash what you have built becuase what you have built is pretty impressive.
i have been going to superstars for years now and its gone from a store in a small shopping center to their warehouse to this giant fucking store that attracts basically the entire fucking bay area to it. i should be helping draw people to the store and saying nothing but nice things about the store because in all honesty, most of the people that work there are fucking great. and the service that they provide is exellcent and what jon has build is great and i greatly appreicate it..

Wizards to the rescue

Ok so remember when knight exemplar was spoiled and everyone freaked out wondering if knights were going to shake up standard?Knights as of right now hasn't affected standard in the slightest even with the addition of accorder paladin and leonin skyhunter making it's comeback. There has been talk of a knights deck on mtgsalvation.com, that a deck builder is claiming to be decimating every top tier deck in standard. I asked a few people about what they thought about that being a possible deck and they replied with... Seems weak and will Lose to valakut and DoJ.
And now it seems wizards has taken notice if this fallen tribe and gas posted this
http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/boab/132

An article by Jacob van lunen on how knights has beaten the two hot decks in standard; boros and cawblade. The list seems solid but something seems off with it don't you think? You don't simply shove weenies into a deck, say it beat strong decks and expect the knights tribe to be great do you? I dunno, it seems like wizards is trying to force knights, only problem is that they give so little to work with to make a good deck. Maybe with new phyrexia there will be stronger knights that actually effect the board in big ways instead of levelers, battle cry beats and a deceptively weak lord