I dont think i have been this depressed in a really long time. I am just sad, i feel defeated, i feel alone and worthless and nobody wants me. nobody wants to be around me or hang out with me, nobody wants to be WITH ME. i just want someone to love me, i just want to love someone, i want to hold someone and be that someones special something...but i dont think i am good enough for that. Its the feeling like i am defeated part of me that feels that way. I just want to love someone like i used to love someone. My last relationship, i would travel 2 hours, spend 200 a month on travel and it would all be worth it but now, like right now right now... i dont feel like i am ever going to be capable of loving someone that much again.
Today, Co-dependent issues popped in my head on the way home. I never looked into that, i didnt know what it was or what the symptoms are or were, nothing. Well today i looked it up and it sounds like i have a co-depended issue. A lot of what triggers it or symptoms of it are there for me...like a lot. Mostly abandonment issues and feeling alone. Ive been abandoned by my father twice, once when i was younger, baby like and then again when i was 15-16 when i decided it was time to give him a chance. Then i had an emotionally abusive relationship like years ago, where she just grabbed all of her stuff and just disappeared. no goodbye, no reason, no nothing. like that whole year of a relationship was nothing. like it meant nothing, like i didnt matter and the things we did were just a dream. Then I had my last relationship that ended 2 days after my fucking birthday and 2 days before our year together, just end. like...all the struggle and the fighting and the talking and the me changing for her and the me showing her and telling her how much i loved her. me expanding my boundaries and trying new things and getting along with her shitty dysfunctional family and me supporting her and what she wants to do and me trying to help her get herself back on the right track health wise or me trying to get her to get back into her art by constantly reminder that she needed to get up an be creative instead of watching House all the fucking time or getting her to go try a new place to eat with me or even watching something thats out of her comfort zone...that was so fucking stupid, Fargo is an amazing film adventure, why wouldnt you want to watch that.
I poured my heart out to her to let her know about my abandonment issues and just only slightly understood.
People leave me, they just go, no words, no explanations, they just leave.So thats why when im on twitter and i DM or i tweet or i text someone on their phone and they dont respond and i get pissed... its because why am i not good enough to respond to? why can you take the time to hit a fucking like but you can take the fucking time to write 140 characters to me....i take every form of friendship seriously bc its all i have got.if i didnt want to be friends with people i wouldnt engage them or try to build a relationship but there are those that i do try to make something with and its not always good but i feel like they are worth it. but fuck me right, its not always what it seems.
I am sure there is way more but venting out like this has made me feel a little better, i guess i should write magic stuff on here huh
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Lizzy Constance/Kassen, Im so fucking sorry
I loved you. i loved you so much, so very very much and i fucked up twice. BIG TIME twice. Seeing that you are married now, it really brings up old feelings and it makes me realize that i could have had something you with and we could and would have been happy. not telling you was my lifes biggest regret, number 1, right at the top. Elizabeth "lizzy" Contance, i loved you from the moment i met you and i didnt tell you till it was too late and i had already messed up.
I am writing this, hoping that i can just write up my feelings and i can just stop thinking about about this. it isnt agonizing or life ruining but it doesnt make me feel good about not telling her until it was too late. sooo its going to be unedited, sans good grammer and maybe some run ons. its just right from the heart and raw so im just gonna go.
I loved her from the first day i met her and even though high school all over the place, stupid, pressurefilled and just hell to begin with, you made me realize my mistakes, how to care about someone and that i could actually just love someone and they care about me for who i was . Liz was far from the most popular person in school, she was a fucking BRAIN, quiet, and shy but she was open to me. she would ask me to have lunch with her, she would rest her head on my shoulder, she would let me walk her to classes, she would sit next to me in almost every class we had together, she would have me be in her group when we had class projects together. she would share her food with me and vice versa, she would keep me in check from being a jerk and still love me for it and i wouldnt bite back.she would be honest with me...she cared about me. No matter what phase i was in, Jocks, band kids, MTG groups. no matter how many girls i hooked up with, she was there. sure she made fun and called me a man whore but the smile that followed up with it,i always knew she was messing with me and she knew i could take it and that she was right.
I asked her to a dance, i didnt think it was a serious thing, just two friends going to a dance. it was just a casual thing, to me at least. we danced a bit, they stood around and this girl i knew wanted to dance with me so i went to go dance with her and it was for awhile. Liz and her friends, we kinda wandering around and not dancing and i think they were thinking about leaving. The girl i was dancing with, i thought she was DTF and i was like yeah, i should try to get my D wet, she made plans, she left and Liz was pissed at me. MY ultimate fuck up, i should have stayed with her all night and just danced with her, we could have had a moment and i ruined it. i fucked up so bad.Fromthat moment on she never, ever let me forget that i did that to her which influenced my decision on who to go to prom with. I would have loved to take her but i was afraid she was going to say no and i was going to end up going alone i mean i totally fucked up and bent her trust. SECOND major regret in my life. the first two involve her.
So thats the first one, fucking up and not staying with her at the dance. I didnt realize it was that important to her. she never made a fuss about going to dances and bc it was senior year she decided why not just fucking go to one. and i fucked that up.
The other one is me never telling her how i felt about her...i think as the months of going to school wound down, i was realizing that i might not ever see her again and it was killing me. i cared about her, i figured we would be close forever and that even though she was going to leave, we would stay close. well we didnt, and i hate myself for not sticking with her. During our time writing in our yearbooks, i spilled my guts out everywhere and told her how sorry i was for the dance and that i loved her and that i always would love her and that i hope she was going to have a good time traveling, i think that was it, during the summer and that i hope to hear from here when she was settled in. well School started for the both of us and we drifted apart, we talked on and off for a while and some times not at all. at the point i was was this really hot yet incredibly crazy girl and we had been dating for about a year and a half when stuff started to fall apart.There was a weekend where i went to LA with friends and realized that i fucking missed liz so much and that i really needed to see her and talk to her. so i messaged her on FB and we started to chat and we got our friendship a little back on track. At that point my gf had become my ex and i thought to myself, fantastic i am gonna go up to see liz for the weekend at UC davis and see what happens. sweet, i bought a train ticket up there and we had planned for me to stay with her and that was going on. I mentioned that i wanted to have a nice quiet dinner just the two of us and talk about us and whats up with her schooling and stuff. But then she told me she had been seeing someone and that she didnt think it was a good idea that i go up there... and that was the last time i talked to her. i am sure i texted her a few times but after that, we just stopped talking. I guess it was too late for us and we were both moving on with our lives. yeah it sucked but i had 4 years to be with her and it was my fault for not saying anything to her or showing her how much she ment to me. when i saw that she was this one guy a few months later i just removed her from my TL notifications and just assumed that they would break up and we would or wouldnt talk again. well my life went on, she stayed with that guy and two weeks ago i found out they got married. She married her first boyfriend... I think this will stick unless one of them becomes unhappy.
Well i feel a little bit better now. There are a lot of details in there that i missed but i just skimmed over me fucking up and not maning up and telling her how i felt...I loved you so much Liz and im sorry i didnt do better and that i was a stupid idiot kid that just let someone amazing slip by. I would have given you the whole fucking world, thats how much you ment to me
I am writing this, hoping that i can just write up my feelings and i can just stop thinking about about this. it isnt agonizing or life ruining but it doesnt make me feel good about not telling her until it was too late. sooo its going to be unedited, sans good grammer and maybe some run ons. its just right from the heart and raw so im just gonna go.
I loved her from the first day i met her and even though high school all over the place, stupid, pressurefilled and just hell to begin with, you made me realize my mistakes, how to care about someone and that i could actually just love someone and they care about me for who i was . Liz was far from the most popular person in school, she was a fucking BRAIN, quiet, and shy but she was open to me. she would ask me to have lunch with her, she would rest her head on my shoulder, she would let me walk her to classes, she would sit next to me in almost every class we had together, she would have me be in her group when we had class projects together. she would share her food with me and vice versa, she would keep me in check from being a jerk and still love me for it and i wouldnt bite back.she would be honest with me...she cared about me. No matter what phase i was in, Jocks, band kids, MTG groups. no matter how many girls i hooked up with, she was there. sure she made fun and called me a man whore but the smile that followed up with it,i always knew she was messing with me and she knew i could take it and that she was right.
I asked her to a dance, i didnt think it was a serious thing, just two friends going to a dance. it was just a casual thing, to me at least. we danced a bit, they stood around and this girl i knew wanted to dance with me so i went to go dance with her and it was for awhile. Liz and her friends, we kinda wandering around and not dancing and i think they were thinking about leaving. The girl i was dancing with, i thought she was DTF and i was like yeah, i should try to get my D wet, she made plans, she left and Liz was pissed at me. MY ultimate fuck up, i should have stayed with her all night and just danced with her, we could have had a moment and i ruined it. i fucked up so bad.Fromthat moment on she never, ever let me forget that i did that to her which influenced my decision on who to go to prom with. I would have loved to take her but i was afraid she was going to say no and i was going to end up going alone i mean i totally fucked up and bent her trust. SECOND major regret in my life. the first two involve her.
So thats the first one, fucking up and not staying with her at the dance. I didnt realize it was that important to her. she never made a fuss about going to dances and bc it was senior year she decided why not just fucking go to one. and i fucked that up.
The other one is me never telling her how i felt about her...i think as the months of going to school wound down, i was realizing that i might not ever see her again and it was killing me. i cared about her, i figured we would be close forever and that even though she was going to leave, we would stay close. well we didnt, and i hate myself for not sticking with her. During our time writing in our yearbooks, i spilled my guts out everywhere and told her how sorry i was for the dance and that i loved her and that i always would love her and that i hope she was going to have a good time traveling, i think that was it, during the summer and that i hope to hear from here when she was settled in. well School started for the both of us and we drifted apart, we talked on and off for a while and some times not at all. at the point i was was this really hot yet incredibly crazy girl and we had been dating for about a year and a half when stuff started to fall apart.There was a weekend where i went to LA with friends and realized that i fucking missed liz so much and that i really needed to see her and talk to her. so i messaged her on FB and we started to chat and we got our friendship a little back on track. At that point my gf had become my ex and i thought to myself, fantastic i am gonna go up to see liz for the weekend at UC davis and see what happens. sweet, i bought a train ticket up there and we had planned for me to stay with her and that was going on. I mentioned that i wanted to have a nice quiet dinner just the two of us and talk about us and whats up with her schooling and stuff. But then she told me she had been seeing someone and that she didnt think it was a good idea that i go up there... and that was the last time i talked to her. i am sure i texted her a few times but after that, we just stopped talking. I guess it was too late for us and we were both moving on with our lives. yeah it sucked but i had 4 years to be with her and it was my fault for not saying anything to her or showing her how much she ment to me. when i saw that she was this one guy a few months later i just removed her from my TL notifications and just assumed that they would break up and we would or wouldnt talk again. well my life went on, she stayed with that guy and two weeks ago i found out they got married. She married her first boyfriend... I think this will stick unless one of them becomes unhappy.
Well i feel a little bit better now. There are a lot of details in there that i missed but i just skimmed over me fucking up and not maning up and telling her how i felt...I loved you so much Liz and im sorry i didnt do better and that i was a stupid idiot kid that just let someone amazing slip by. I would have given you the whole fucking world, thats how much you ment to me
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Wolves
This is the werewolves deck that i have been playing with the last few days. Right off the bat you will see that i am playing with 4 copies of the Meld card Hanwier Garrison and its a good thing I do bc it adds tons of power to the deck. its like a mini hero of bladehold that gets bigger if it survives until you meld it. Playing the deck is solid but it feels like its missing 2-3 cards and one of this might be Collected company, go fucking figure. i also think that perhaps adding Collective Defiance will give the deck a little more reach. The spot removal and player damage is valuable when you cant quite get there with creature damage but at this point in time you dont really have that problem.i have had turn 4 and turn 5 wins with lots of damage going through.
Arlin hasnt proved herself as much as i thought she would have but then again the games end so fast that she hasnt really gotten a chance to shine. Maybe shes a win more, maybe shes a dud, ill find out when i add one more copy to the deck. Ulrich has been more hit than miss. hes usually the nail in the coffin by adding the +4/+4. At the same time when i have gotten him to transform, its been mediocre at best as i have been wanting a creature thats uncontested to be bigger than a 6/6. if you are going to be uncontested at least have first strike or trample...something. i had to trick my opponent into blocking with his Dromoka just to be able to fight
There are 3 all stars so far with the deck that arent Garrison or Ulrich
1. Incendiary Flow.
yeah we needed this spell, unfortunatly its a sorcery speed but i will take it. I have won a bunch of games with three to the face thanks to this card. Totally happy that this was printed and i am looking forward to burning shit in standard.
2.Spirit of the Hunt
Great card, Gnarled Mass at instant speed that saves your crew from languish, Radiant Flames and Flaying Tendrils. And while you are able to save your team from board sweepers..kinda of, you are also able to stop Grasp of Darkness, Incendiary flow and most of the 2-3 damage spells in standard right now. The 3/3 body is awesome as well as the flash addition to the card. if you play Wolves, you have to play this card with it.
3.Geier Reach Bandit
the real threat from this card is the haste aspect. against control decks, they have nothing on you, you get you 3 in, if you are luck you can transform him and start hitting for 4. turn five with Ulrich is savage as you get to pump and transform clearing the way for lots of damage and at that point you should be close to closing out the game.
The deck seems solid, like i said, its probably missing a few cards, Sylvan advocate, Collective Defiance and something else...but im not sure what. I have beating almost every match up but company and thats because i havent played against it. honestly the grindiest game i have had is against the new burn deck and thats only becuase of the 0/3 ping guy. against humans you have enough firepower to kill their good stuff and you can out scale them with transforming AND spirit of the hunt is invaluable in that match up. they want to trade in thier favor and end up losing more than theyd like leaving you with more creatures on boad
Arlin hasnt proved herself as much as i thought she would have but then again the games end so fast that she hasnt really gotten a chance to shine. Maybe shes a win more, maybe shes a dud, ill find out when i add one more copy to the deck. Ulrich has been more hit than miss. hes usually the nail in the coffin by adding the +4/+4. At the same time when i have gotten him to transform, its been mediocre at best as i have been wanting a creature thats uncontested to be bigger than a 6/6. if you are going to be uncontested at least have first strike or trample...something. i had to trick my opponent into blocking with his Dromoka just to be able to fight
There are 3 all stars so far with the deck that arent Garrison or Ulrich
1. Incendiary Flow.
yeah we needed this spell, unfortunatly its a sorcery speed but i will take it. I have won a bunch of games with three to the face thanks to this card. Totally happy that this was printed and i am looking forward to burning shit in standard.
2.Spirit of the Hunt
Great card, Gnarled Mass at instant speed that saves your crew from languish, Radiant Flames and Flaying Tendrils. And while you are able to save your team from board sweepers..kinda of, you are also able to stop Grasp of Darkness, Incendiary flow and most of the 2-3 damage spells in standard right now. The 3/3 body is awesome as well as the flash addition to the card. if you play Wolves, you have to play this card with it.
3.Geier Reach Bandit
the real threat from this card is the haste aspect. against control decks, they have nothing on you, you get you 3 in, if you are luck you can transform him and start hitting for 4. turn five with Ulrich is savage as you get to pump and transform clearing the way for lots of damage and at that point you should be close to closing out the game.
The deck seems solid, like i said, its probably missing a few cards, Sylvan advocate, Collective Defiance and something else...but im not sure what. I have beating almost every match up but company and thats because i havent played against it. honestly the grindiest game i have had is against the new burn deck and thats only becuase of the 0/3 ping guy. against humans you have enough firepower to kill their good stuff and you can out scale them with transforming AND spirit of the hunt is invaluable in that match up. they want to trade in thier favor and end up losing more than theyd like leaving you with more creatures on boad
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Ranting
So a lot has happened. Girlfriend decided that she didnt want to be in a relationship anymore and just quit. Which has resulted in me not doing my writing twice a week during my traveling to San Fransisco. I just listened to the most recent eh team with Scotty Mac and it made me really question if I still want to do this magic thing much longer. I like playing the game and meeting some people but the community at large is just a huge pile of shit and it really makes me not want to be a part of it along side me thinking financially this is just a sink hole. I don't play in events, I'm always changing decks and I asked fucking Frank lepore, someone who I was incredibly excited to meet out of the community. Someone who I really looked up to in this fucking game for advice and not only did I get zero response from him, but after meeting him and hanging out with he and melissa, just doesn't even fucking care to say hey when I do during streams streams anymore or even acknowledge the fact that I exist. There are a handful of people I respect in this game as far as game play wise and strategy wise and he was one of them and...its just disappointing. It would be different if i was some random that was like "oh hey I like your articles and I'm a big fan, look over this deck and tell me what you think thanks" hung out at the go, been on podcasts together a few times, back and forth tweets and I get it... He doesn't owe me anything and I'm not saying he does or that he must answer me as fast as possible BC a fan... I just thought there was a little more history than with most people that critic or ask him.for shit...
And as for the ex...my brother asked Mr how I was doing and how i felt about the breakup. Last the this happened... It happened three times before, the breaking up and getting back together bullshit, I told her I wasn't going to fight for her if it came to this. I don't quit on relationships, I work and fight for thmr until there is no hope left and we both can't do it anymore. Anyways, he asked Mr if I was upset, last time I was in tears and trying g to figure out what could be done about this relationship and how to work it out. But this time, I honestly felt like the whole year was a waste of time
I changed as much as I could about the relationship to make it work and even though I asked her to change very little, she couldn't even try to make it work and so this didn't work. I made huge strides in our relationship yo accommodate her but it was never reciprocated and that's what the main factor was... Her family has zero chill but to. And when they get overwhelmed they take it out on each other or the nearest person and they get it instead
Her parents are aggressive to one another so I can see where she got it from. But overall I learned and gained a bunch of stuff for me but it was kind of a waste of time. It was never worth fighting for and for some reason I didn't see it. He also asked me of she apogized and asked to get back together, would I do it and I actually had to think about it but in the end its probably for the best. I am flawed, I have anxiety issues and u work at a shit grocery store job when I am qualified to lead people in a management position... Anyways, so now I have free time and I'll probably go back to the gym. I've gotten. Soft and if I am in shape again I'll find a cuddle buddy sooner..I like cudding... And making out yeeeeah :3
So yeah thats me and until I decide on if this magic the gathering is bad for me financially probably keep playing
..oh and I'm playing trash for treasure in modern. Its really fun and consistent for turn three shinanigains.if I keep doing well I'll probably go to the scg event in pacifica in april. Oh I'd probably see ashlen the cosplayer playing rg tron. Shes so fucking dreamy :3 le sigh.
End rant
And as for the ex...my brother asked Mr how I was doing and how i felt about the breakup. Last the this happened... It happened three times before, the breaking up and getting back together bullshit, I told her I wasn't going to fight for her if it came to this. I don't quit on relationships, I work and fight for thmr until there is no hope left and we both can't do it anymore. Anyways, he asked Mr if I was upset, last time I was in tears and trying g to figure out what could be done about this relationship and how to work it out. But this time, I honestly felt like the whole year was a waste of time
I changed as much as I could about the relationship to make it work and even though I asked her to change very little, she couldn't even try to make it work and so this didn't work. I made huge strides in our relationship yo accommodate her but it was never reciprocated and that's what the main factor was... Her family has zero chill but to. And when they get overwhelmed they take it out on each other or the nearest person and they get it instead
Her parents are aggressive to one another so I can see where she got it from. But overall I learned and gained a bunch of stuff for me but it was kind of a waste of time. It was never worth fighting for and for some reason I didn't see it. He also asked me of she apogized and asked to get back together, would I do it and I actually had to think about it but in the end its probably for the best. I am flawed, I have anxiety issues and u work at a shit grocery store job when I am qualified to lead people in a management position... Anyways, so now I have free time and I'll probably go back to the gym. I've gotten. Soft and if I am in shape again I'll find a cuddle buddy sooner..I like cudding... And making out yeeeeah :3
So yeah thats me and until I decide on if this magic the gathering is bad for me financially probably keep playing
..oh and I'm playing trash for treasure in modern. Its really fun and consistent for turn three shinanigains.if I keep doing well I'll probably go to the scg event in pacifica in april. Oh I'd probably see ashlen the cosplayer playing rg tron. Shes so fucking dreamy :3 le sigh.
End rant
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Heeeeeey pro tour oath of the gatewatch
How exciting was this pro tour eh? LSV made the top eight! Frank Lepore crushed his way to the top 8( it was a close one) a new challenger and his variety of friends have taken the field and completely dominated the modern format(for now at least) but its OK everyone eye of ugin will be banned in a few months and everything will go back to normal, right?
Wrong! To have an opinion such as that is very foolish and I don't think you understand how things work. Yeah eldrazi was the grand champion and tool the field by storm but it wasn't the only deck played with a sprinkle of other decks here and there. If you really think about it, face to face games, CFB and east yo west bowl are huge teams and they did excetionaly well durmg the tournament, its clear that face to face carried the erhem... Mutherfuckinshiiiiiiiet out of CFB by sharing the deck with them, and east and west had several different pilots on different variations of eldrazi.
Let's talk about why people may want to ban eye of ugin. Yeah the card is an ancient tomb with zero draw back and even taps for black mana when tomb hits play. But why ban it? Well I can't have one now, it's a million dollars and that's not OK because people have it and I want it. Yeah I am sure a lot of people feel that way. Friday morning before coverage I had eyes in my shopping not on mtgo and decided I want to go into standard instead. They were around ten at that point and I'm sure they are much more now. Ban because I can't think outside the box! Yes magic players are horrendous complainers and are so good at netdecking and not doing work to try to break the meta. They pretty much rely on event results and just copy those decks and when they are caught off gaurd because they can't buy the new hotness its time to ban that shit so they don't have to adapt to the new hotness. Yeah right now eldrazi temple and eye of ugin are great but what happens when people want to try to beat those decks and want to try new things? Oh my oh my where will we be.
They are still sad because twin is banned and eldrazi dominated this event... Yeah I mean magic players are salty as fuck so I can see this being a legit factor. My twitter feed and the chat seem to support me on this
Now I am sure you are saying "oh em gee WillieG, you master brewer and all around awesome guy, what the effffff dew I deeeeeeeeew!?" * sad face emoji. Well there were and are a few things you could have done. 1st you should have read my blog a few weeks ago on how modern will now be a game of mana resources and that you should prepare for an eldrazi deck. If you didn't then shame on you. Mana bases are super critical to making a top tier deck...top...tier. With out the essential lands in play to play whatever you want when you want, decks fall apart and that's no different for these eldrazi decks. You take away eyes and temples with cards like...
SPREADING FUCKING SEAS LIKE I SAID LAST WEEK and you stop them from progressing and dominating the board. Even better is that there is a one mana version that costs a single blue and doesn't draw you a card but I tell ya what, I'd rather have an answer to a turn 1 temple then not.
I noticed something interesting during the top 8 this morning and that that nobody had path to exile. Yeah they have what...2 wastes in the deck? Path removes every threat with zero effort and low loss. So yeah I am thinking path to exile, kinda good. Kinda reeeeeally good.
I asked MTG goldfish badass and all around super nice guy @safferonolive about the troll worship deck he build a few weeks ago and that seems really solid. Eldrazi decks play very very very low amounts of spells and removal so assembling the combo would be no issue at all.
Oh geez almost at my stop. Uhhh check out my post from a few weeks ago, I talk about this stuff and what you can do about it. Until next time, stop bitching and start brewing lolololol ahh taps. Go panthers!
Wrong! To have an opinion such as that is very foolish and I don't think you understand how things work. Yeah eldrazi was the grand champion and tool the field by storm but it wasn't the only deck played with a sprinkle of other decks here and there. If you really think about it, face to face games, CFB and east yo west bowl are huge teams and they did excetionaly well durmg the tournament, its clear that face to face carried the erhem... Mutherfuckinshiiiiiiiet out of CFB by sharing the deck with them, and east and west had several different pilots on different variations of eldrazi.
Let's talk about why people may want to ban eye of ugin. Yeah the card is an ancient tomb with zero draw back and even taps for black mana when tomb hits play. But why ban it? Well I can't have one now, it's a million dollars and that's not OK because people have it and I want it. Yeah I am sure a lot of people feel that way. Friday morning before coverage I had eyes in my shopping not on mtgo and decided I want to go into standard instead. They were around ten at that point and I'm sure they are much more now. Ban because I can't think outside the box! Yes magic players are horrendous complainers and are so good at netdecking and not doing work to try to break the meta. They pretty much rely on event results and just copy those decks and when they are caught off gaurd because they can't buy the new hotness its time to ban that shit so they don't have to adapt to the new hotness. Yeah right now eldrazi temple and eye of ugin are great but what happens when people want to try to beat those decks and want to try new things? Oh my oh my where will we be.
They are still sad because twin is banned and eldrazi dominated this event... Yeah I mean magic players are salty as fuck so I can see this being a legit factor. My twitter feed and the chat seem to support me on this
Now I am sure you are saying "oh em gee WillieG, you master brewer and all around awesome guy, what the effffff dew I deeeeeeeeew!?" * sad face emoji. Well there were and are a few things you could have done. 1st you should have read my blog a few weeks ago on how modern will now be a game of mana resources and that you should prepare for an eldrazi deck. If you didn't then shame on you. Mana bases are super critical to making a top tier deck...top...tier. With out the essential lands in play to play whatever you want when you want, decks fall apart and that's no different for these eldrazi decks. You take away eyes and temples with cards like...
SPREADING FUCKING SEAS LIKE I SAID LAST WEEK and you stop them from progressing and dominating the board. Even better is that there is a one mana version that costs a single blue and doesn't draw you a card but I tell ya what, I'd rather have an answer to a turn 1 temple then not.
I noticed something interesting during the top 8 this morning and that that nobody had path to exile. Yeah they have what...2 wastes in the deck? Path removes every threat with zero effort and low loss. So yeah I am thinking path to exile, kinda good. Kinda reeeeeally good.
I asked MTG goldfish badass and all around super nice guy @safferonolive about the troll worship deck he build a few weeks ago and that seems really solid. Eldrazi decks play very very very low amounts of spells and removal so assembling the combo would be no issue at all.
Oh geez almost at my stop. Uhhh check out my post from a few weeks ago, I talk about this stuff and what you can do about it. Until next time, stop bitching and start brewing lolololol ahh taps. Go panthers!
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Ooooh ooooh look, he's written!
Don't wanna run out of time like last time so I'm going to get right to it.
Spreading seas!
I love this card. Overall I am a huge fan of blue non red control decks. Sooo bant, esper, uw, UB, decks and with every base of a control deck, I start with spreading seas.
Mana bases are huuuuuge in modern and it never changes and with the super fast eldrazi deck, that statement holds lots of water. 3 or more color decks rely on being able to fetch up the exact mana they need and when they need that double green for eternal witness or they are hoping to play orzhov pontiff, they cant because you lock them out of a color. Now imagine shoving them completly out of green or shoving red right out of well...red. What do they have now? Nothing, zero,Nada, ziiiiip. They are now looking to top deck that temple garden for their knight of the reliquary or looking for their 3rd red for kiki jiki, you can't chord for that shit sucka.
And I am sure you are asking, willieg, my nigga, why not use the one mana land hosers instead? Well good sir or Madame, its because spreading seas draws you a card and in blue based decks, drawing cards only let's you go deeper into what you need to control the mid to late game. A great situation of spreading seas with two mana up and you draw a remand. Shit, now you are denying them mana, drawing a card and now you have a counter spell that draws you a card and shuts off a key play for their turn while drawing a card. MYGODTHEFUCKINGVALUE. Spreading seas,just do it
The eldrazi deck!
I wqs a huge fan of just banning eldrazi temple before the twin ban. I had been grinding mtgo in modern and holy shit, playing against that deck was rather tough. Being able to temple into map into temple or ugin then turn three drop oblivion sower is powerful. With the UB version you could turn 1 temple map,turn 2 tomb into heartless summoning turn 3 UB land sire of stagnation watch tears from opponents eyes. I mean I had fun doing that you could play other stuff lol. Its a powerful deck and having access to thoughtseize and IoK puts it ahead of so man other decks in the first two turns. I hoping to see this deck at the pt...and then lose In the top 8 so it doesn't get banned
Oath of Nissa and sire of stagnation
I love sire and as I mentioned before, I think he's very powerful in a UB eldrazi deck. Not so much in standard unless there is a UB control deck that can ramp him out sooner. Standard is an aggressive creature format right now so a turn 6 creature that benefits from your opp...
Had to stop writing because of a bomb threat on my train and in my cabin. Guess I'll finish with a part three. Thanks for reading
Spreading seas!
I love this card. Overall I am a huge fan of blue non red control decks. Sooo bant, esper, uw, UB, decks and with every base of a control deck, I start with spreading seas.
Mana bases are huuuuuge in modern and it never changes and with the super fast eldrazi deck, that statement holds lots of water. 3 or more color decks rely on being able to fetch up the exact mana they need and when they need that double green for eternal witness or they are hoping to play orzhov pontiff, they cant because you lock them out of a color. Now imagine shoving them completly out of green or shoving red right out of well...red. What do they have now? Nothing, zero,Nada, ziiiiip. They are now looking to top deck that temple garden for their knight of the reliquary or looking for their 3rd red for kiki jiki, you can't chord for that shit sucka.
And I am sure you are asking, willieg, my nigga, why not use the one mana land hosers instead? Well good sir or Madame, its because spreading seas draws you a card and in blue based decks, drawing cards only let's you go deeper into what you need to control the mid to late game. A great situation of spreading seas with two mana up and you draw a remand. Shit, now you are denying them mana, drawing a card and now you have a counter spell that draws you a card and shuts off a key play for their turn while drawing a card. MYGODTHEFUCKINGVALUE. Spreading seas,just do it
The eldrazi deck!
I wqs a huge fan of just banning eldrazi temple before the twin ban. I had been grinding mtgo in modern and holy shit, playing against that deck was rather tough. Being able to temple into map into temple or ugin then turn three drop oblivion sower is powerful. With the UB version you could turn 1 temple map,turn 2 tomb into heartless summoning turn 3 UB land sire of stagnation watch tears from opponents eyes. I mean I had fun doing that you could play other stuff lol. Its a powerful deck and having access to thoughtseize and IoK puts it ahead of so man other decks in the first two turns. I hoping to see this deck at the pt...and then lose In the top 8 so it doesn't get banned
Oath of Nissa and sire of stagnation
I love sire and as I mentioned before, I think he's very powerful in a UB eldrazi deck. Not so much in standard unless there is a UB control deck that can ramp him out sooner. Standard is an aggressive creature format right now so a turn 6 creature that benefits from your opp...
Had to stop writing because of a bomb threat on my train and in my cabin. Guess I'll finish with a part three. Thanks for reading
Monday, January 25, 2016
Hello again. If you are reading this, that means I am on the train home from my girlfriends place so I have about 45mins to write down a few things about magic the gathering.
So! Since last time I wrote some stuff down, several land important cards have gone up in price. Fulminator mage, flagstones and most Importantly, crucible of worlds. Huzzaaaah add another to the list. Without going into too much detail, crucible is Important because of the tech edges, ghost quarters and boom busts going around on mtgo ATM. Crucible being colorless allows every deck with and Important mana base recover very nicely. Honestly, I just like being right about calls but only time will tell and the pt will confirm if I was wrong or not.
So there are a few things I want to touch on in standard and modern.I love modern and I am always trying to figure out what I can do with such a large card pool. Standard is OK and ATM you cab play whatever you want so I'll probably so more standard stuff when the next set rotates to make room for the new one. But while I am mentioning standard I did see a deck with herald of the pantheon and the oaths which I thought was really cool. Its cute but not good enough for the standard meta imo. You are either gonna a get pooped on by large creatures or quickly take apart by red based aggro decks. Anyways standard, that's a thing, little disappointed by the lack of innovation at the latest scg event but I guess safe gets you wins. I was very happy to see world breaker being played. Chaining them seems ridiculous
MODERN
So I'm gonna mention a few things I love about modern. Decks and cards that don't get enough love
UW control
I love this deck in modern. I am sure there is a list out there that splashes red for bolt and kerenos and other stuff but I'm talking about plain solid uw control. Cards like spreading seas, secure the wastes, Casino Royale villain jace, Gideons, new jace, sphinxs revelation? Yeeeah! Logic knots!! Yeeeah!!!..wait what? Yeah logic knots. Counter spell with delve, nice art. Last year I heard wrapter and matt bass talking about if logic knot was going to make the cut in a uw(r?) control deck that was being created and it was 50/50. So I go online test out a uw control deck with the knots and its awesome, its great and its never seen coming. Sure it could be a remand with two mana left up or a negate but I'm playing a tasigur so it wont matter except it doesn't matter what it is, because it's now countered by logic knot. I played the full four but I think where you want to be with that is 2-3 max. I also mentioned Sphinx's revelation and that card is still a house, it gets countered you are fine eot if it doesn't, you are now very far ahead and potentially back in the game again. Yes, modern is a very fast format with powerful things going on, so you will need to actually play a control game and not just try to win asap. My finisher of choice is Gideon, consecrated sphinx and secure the wastes.
Oh man! I'm not gonna finish! Guess I'll have to finish up next time. Really quick before I take off, I have been thinking and oath of nissa seems very powerful. Trickbind is superb with he testing I have been doing in my endless whispers/phage deck. Gah! I'll finish next time, thanks for reading even if it was rambling about uw control.
So! Since last time I wrote some stuff down, several land important cards have gone up in price. Fulminator mage, flagstones and most Importantly, crucible of worlds. Huzzaaaah add another to the list. Without going into too much detail, crucible is Important because of the tech edges, ghost quarters and boom busts going around on mtgo ATM. Crucible being colorless allows every deck with and Important mana base recover very nicely. Honestly, I just like being right about calls but only time will tell and the pt will confirm if I was wrong or not.
So there are a few things I want to touch on in standard and modern.I love modern and I am always trying to figure out what I can do with such a large card pool. Standard is OK and ATM you cab play whatever you want so I'll probably so more standard stuff when the next set rotates to make room for the new one. But while I am mentioning standard I did see a deck with herald of the pantheon and the oaths which I thought was really cool. Its cute but not good enough for the standard meta imo. You are either gonna a get pooped on by large creatures or quickly take apart by red based aggro decks. Anyways standard, that's a thing, little disappointed by the lack of innovation at the latest scg event but I guess safe gets you wins. I was very happy to see world breaker being played. Chaining them seems ridiculous
MODERN
So I'm gonna mention a few things I love about modern. Decks and cards that don't get enough love
UW control
I love this deck in modern. I am sure there is a list out there that splashes red for bolt and kerenos and other stuff but I'm talking about plain solid uw control. Cards like spreading seas, secure the wastes, Casino Royale villain jace, Gideons, new jace, sphinxs revelation? Yeeeah! Logic knots!! Yeeeah!!!..wait what? Yeah logic knots. Counter spell with delve, nice art. Last year I heard wrapter and matt bass talking about if logic knot was going to make the cut in a uw(r?) control deck that was being created and it was 50/50. So I go online test out a uw control deck with the knots and its awesome, its great and its never seen coming. Sure it could be a remand with two mana left up or a negate but I'm playing a tasigur so it wont matter except it doesn't matter what it is, because it's now countered by logic knot. I played the full four but I think where you want to be with that is 2-3 max. I also mentioned Sphinx's revelation and that card is still a house, it gets countered you are fine eot if it doesn't, you are now very far ahead and potentially back in the game again. Yes, modern is a very fast format with powerful things going on, so you will need to actually play a control game and not just try to win asap. My finisher of choice is Gideon, consecrated sphinx and secure the wastes.
Oh man! I'm not gonna finish! Guess I'll have to finish up next time. Really quick before I take off, I have been thinking and oath of nissa seems very powerful. Trickbind is superb with he testing I have been doing in my endless whispers/phage deck. Gah! I'll finish next time, thanks for reading even if it was rambling about uw control.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
So bannings... Those happened and I guess 1 of 2 is kind of surprising. If you would have asked me last year if I thought twin was making modern less fun, I would have agreed with you. But in the recent months, twin hasn't really been a problem. Yeah it does great at events with the right pilot, it plays very strong cards on top of having a combo and unless you are playing a top tier deck, its hard to beat. While twin is annoying, bloom might be the best at being a pain in the ass or was the best. Being able to win on turn two is kind of shitty and there are so many cards that thrust you into being able to win by turn three it was bound to get banned out. I don't have many opinions on the bannings. Great for getting rid of a degenerate turn two kill but twin probably could have hung out for a while, it was oppressing the format as much as it was six to eight months ago.
For me, the issue is that nothing was unbanned, what's up with that? Enough strong cards have emerged and lots of decks have changed the way modern is played that unbanning powerful cards seems OK. I'm not saying "hey! You should unban hypergenesis! I know I wooould" but sword of the meek or stoneforge seem really OK. As for the case for stoneforge, what creatures with butts smaller than 4 live past the turn they are played? Very few and in fact turn three has lots of powerful things going on that getting a sword or batterskull doesn't seem that powerful right now. I'm also in the camp that thinks unbanning jace and bloodbraid would totally be fine. Yes powerful cards. Yes blue MIGHT get played more (UB faeries :3) and Jund might become a tier one deck again if it wasn't for 1 big issue for both cards. The main issue is that a 4cc in modern is a lot. Scapeshift, goryos vengeance and eldrazi decks are very powerful and are at their peak at around turns 3-4, so does a single cascade or a single brainstorm really make that difference If you are staring down eldrazi or you are facing down an online pyromancers Ascension? I'll leave it at that.
One more thing before I get off my train. In the last few days, there have been a lot of decks that control mana bases. Hate bears, boombust,rain of years in eldrazi decks, spreading seas in more blue decks, ghost quarters, fulminator mages. Lots of those have been floating around in the games I have been playing and while I agreed that a B/x eldrazi varient is possibly the culprit, it looks like the future of modern will be a fight to control resources. I feel crucible of worlds might be important at some point, it really depends of the PT. Also, hands down I think the eldrazi is the strongest deck out there. Its fast and powerful. Hoping sire of stagnation works out in that deck: 3
Oh! And blood moons and Magus of the moons. Every online and very very powerful
Thanks for reading :3
For me, the issue is that nothing was unbanned, what's up with that? Enough strong cards have emerged and lots of decks have changed the way modern is played that unbanning powerful cards seems OK. I'm not saying "hey! You should unban hypergenesis! I know I wooould" but sword of the meek or stoneforge seem really OK. As for the case for stoneforge, what creatures with butts smaller than 4 live past the turn they are played? Very few and in fact turn three has lots of powerful things going on that getting a sword or batterskull doesn't seem that powerful right now. I'm also in the camp that thinks unbanning jace and bloodbraid would totally be fine. Yes powerful cards. Yes blue MIGHT get played more (UB faeries :3) and Jund might become a tier one deck again if it wasn't for 1 big issue for both cards. The main issue is that a 4cc in modern is a lot. Scapeshift, goryos vengeance and eldrazi decks are very powerful and are at their peak at around turns 3-4, so does a single cascade or a single brainstorm really make that difference If you are staring down eldrazi or you are facing down an online pyromancers Ascension? I'll leave it at that.
One more thing before I get off my train. In the last few days, there have been a lot of decks that control mana bases. Hate bears, boombust,rain of years in eldrazi decks, spreading seas in more blue decks, ghost quarters, fulminator mages. Lots of those have been floating around in the games I have been playing and while I agreed that a B/x eldrazi varient is possibly the culprit, it looks like the future of modern will be a fight to control resources. I feel crucible of worlds might be important at some point, it really depends of the PT. Also, hands down I think the eldrazi is the strongest deck out there. Its fast and powerful. Hoping sire of stagnation works out in that deck: 3
Oh! And blood moons and Magus of the moons. Every online and very very powerful
Thanks for reading :3
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