Get ready for a mini blogging splurge! Rather than having one massive and convoluted post, I'm going to make 3 entries about different bits and pieces. So here's Friday Night Magic to start with.
This week's FNM was pretty good, although a little bit messy to start with. I took my adjusted vampire deck along with me this week, and I say 'adjusted' because it's no longer pure vampires. It always had Grave Titan and Sheoldred in there anyway, but I added Skirsdag High Priest, Royal Assassin, and 2 Reaper of the Abyss just to see how they performed. Sadly the Reapers never made an appearence, but the Royal Assassin did his job well. The High Priest wasn't too bad, and I managed to activate his 5/5 Demon ability once, but he wasn't consistent enough to justify a future place in the deck. Definitely a sideboard card though, but in the meantime he'll be dropping out in favour of another low-mana vampire. It was also the first time I tried the deck with Witchbane Orbs and Norn's Annex, and both of those cards worked nicely.
The evening started messily seeing as I was given a Bye with the first round. There were uneven numbers and it was just luck of the draw. Then after I settled down someone else appeared and was told 'you might as well play Rob', so we had a couple of games. What neither of us realised was that we'd been officially paired up, so we thought it was just a friendly game to pass the time. As a result we weren't really keeping score, we were sitching decks, and basically not adhering to the rules of FNM at all. We only found out what had happened when we were asked to record our score and we didn't have one, so it was chalked up as a draw for official purposes.
After that the evening went considerably downhill with a pair of straight 2-0 defeats. The Vampires at least held their own, and managed to put up a good fight before being defeated. Now it's been a long time since I left FNM with less than two victories, so having racked up two defeats and a draw from the first three games I was on the verge of my worst performance for months. I needed two victories out of two, and my Vampires didn't disappoint.
Round 4 was a straight 2-0 win. The vamps came out thick and fast, and the removal spells in the deck helped me to keep control until I'd got an unstoppable tide of creatures out.
Round 5 was a little more nervewracking, as I was playing against a specifically anti-vampire white deck. The first game was a devastating loss, my poor little vamps being smashed mercilessly to bits. But then in the second game they managed to pull together and just scrape a win. And then in the third they well and truly got their revenge, with a clobbering victory over their human adversaries.
So all in all it was a decent evening. The simple result breakdown being:
Game 1: Draw
Game 2: Lost 2-0 vs Blue Illusions
Game 3: Lost 2-0 vs Red/White Artifacts
Game 4: Won 2-0 vs Black Vampires
Game 5: Won 2-1 vs White Humans
Overall ranking 16th (out of 31)
I'll probably be taking Vampires again next Friday, but version 1.0 of my Zombie deck is now finished :) I need to playtest it a lot this week, but if it looks alright then I may give it a FNM baptism of fire next week instead. I think it may be suffering a creature shortage though, so it may need some tweaking and some more low-mana zombies.
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