Groovy Dork List....MOTUC, Magic, Coffee, Pathfinder, Arkham, and MineCraft.

Groovy...I was able to find a massive local source of Masters of the Universe items!  A dude at the Barnyard Flea-market sells them.  Workable on the price (I AM a cheapskate, remember!), and also a knowledgeable and enthusiastic fan.  I will be reviewing the three items I picked up today soon!

Dork...The problem finally appeared.  Snout Spout has a crack in his trunk.  The trunk is apparently made of blue foam-rubber.  :(



Groovy...I am Back-in-Black!  I am playing Mono-black devotion as my current for Magic: the Gathering strategy!  Just keep putting black permanents out, get that devotion ramped up, and then slam the opponent with a Grey Merchant of Asphodel.  And unless they cancel the Merchant, there is little they can do.  The fine folk at the Tangled Web were ready to trade the other day.  I scored a few more Nightveil Spectors, which I really, really needed, and a Desecration Demon as well!  Readers of this blog will know that my color is black.  I have recently been playing other colors, but it seems the old dark evil ways are returning!

Dork...Don't get me wrong...I had a blast, but I would play someone, anyone really, for almost 45 minutes.  And then somehow lose...I would disrupt their strategies over and over, only to be trumped eventually.  You can only run Four gray merchants!



Groovy...In the same vein...The Born of the Gods set looks amazing!  I can't wait to see what else they reveal.  I have preordered a box, and me and my two boys are going to play in the sealed deck pre-release.  I already see cards with promise for the Fencing Ace deck, and for the black devotion deck.  The inspired mechanic sounds interesting, and Mogis, God of the Slaughter is going to be crazy!

Dork...They haven't released a new challenge deck  :(  The Hydra has been a blast!



Groovy...The Keurig Vue system is wonderful!  This machine makes not only coffee, but cafe drinks and iced tea!  Most everything I have tried tastes great!

Dork...(semi-dork, I guess)...Those Vue cups cost a bunch.  BUT, I am subscribed to the Cafe Express Savings Club, that basically means I only pay half for the Vue cups.



Groovy...I am now a Dungeon Master...I mean Game Master.  Me and the SpartanSmurfs, and even the SpartanWife have been playing Pathfinder.  This is our first taste of this kind of gaming.  I don't know what I think about it yet.  I like being the game master.  But I don't always feel like it.  These games tend to run over an hour.  Also, the SpartanSmurfs are too easily killed off.  I have to be careful not to off them unintentionally.  This has already happened three times.  The first time I considered it a real death, to try and send them a message.  I didn't like it, though.  So I have been inserting lucky saves into the game.

Dork...I have a pretty good imagination, and can flesh out the Pathfinder world pretty good for the boys.  But they on the other hand tend to just want to battle constantly, rather than take in their world.



Groovy...I have been playing Batman: Arkham Asylum again.  That game is terrific!  I especially like taking out the armed thugs!  That is a lot of fun.

Dork...I don't get MineCraft.  I played it.  I just don't get it.

Magic: The Gathering......Modern Tournaments

Tonight I played at the Tangled Web's Modern tournament.  I played in one of these last month.  For those who don't know, there are really two main types of Magic played around here....Standard and Modern.  Standard only uses the last two years worth of cards....whereas Modern uses something like the last ten years worth of cards.

Last month I did awful in the modern tournament with my Bant Tokens deck,,,, but tonight I was ranked right in the middle at 12....(of 23) That is getting closer to Top 8, which is a good thing!

The deck I played was white/black/green....A fairly recent thing for me.  And it was mostly just a standard deck with a couple of older cards mixed in.

The idea is to exploit Vizkopa Guildmage's bottom ability, which says "Whenever you gain life this turn, your opponent loses that much life.."  I have been able to squeeze a lot of milage out of this strategy against the various deck my boys play, and tonight it did me right, getting me 6 solid wins.  A couple of times when I lost, it was me making a bonehead decision....

The deck also fights hard against discard strategies by using Elixir of Immortality and Treasured Find.  On the other hand, it is sort of slow....opponents that burn you quickly will beat it no problem...and if these cards get milled....

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But truthfully, I only saw one burn deck tonight.  My deck shut down most of my opponents..  I was milled and I was burned, and I was just outdone once also, but the point is,  I'm getting better.

I took SpartanSmurf #1 with me also tonight, and there were a lot of other kids there, so he had some competition.  He took home some wins also with his goblin deck.

Tonight we both won Core Set 2014 packs in the dice roll...I got a few new slivers and a Chandra's Phoenix....He got Seraph of the Sword.  So we fared pretty good.

Anyone want a deck list, leave a comment and let me know!