It has been a little while since I’ve put something up, so I’ll make a quick little update on my life right now along with pictures to help.

A few weeks ago I decided to leave the iPhone train and hop onto Android with the Samsung S4. So far it’s been awesome. A little confusing at first, but I’m getting the hang of it. The pictures are crazy clear and beautiful. I am however, feeling the lack of certain apps compared to iOS.

Been playing lots of magic. I’m building a new EDH / Commander deck with Thalia as my general. It’s going to focus on slowing players down and pumping out artifacts creatures. We’ll see how it goes.

I’ve also been playing some newer video games. I downloaded Far Cry 3: Blood Dragons which is an amazing, nostalgic jaunt through neon lights, cyborgs, 80s references and monsters with lazer beam eyes. I highly recommend it. I was enjoying it so much, that I decided to pick up Far Cry 3 and try out the game FC3:BD was using as a basis. I’m enjoying it so far.

After the season finale of Arrow, I decided it was time to start watching it. Because of Netflix, I don’t really like waiting for shows from week to week. It didn’t take too long to download the series. I’m on episode 11 so far, and I’m really digging it. I don’t mind the changes to the character from the comic. I do however have a gripe about calling it “Starling City” instead of “Star City” like it is in the comics. I don’t see the reasoning.

Finally, because of summer’s impending arrival, my mohawk has come into full force and is getting much love from everyone.

That’s it for now. 

Putting my kithkin tribal deck back together with some new tech.

My Izzet deck for tomorrow’s FNM. Pretty pumped.

I got to play with some Izzet cards on the weekend as well as some of the newer ones from Dragon’s Maze. I’m not usually an Izzet fan, but the synergy between some of the new cards made them seem like a viable and aggressive guild to build around.

It’ll have some decent burn and some decent control, all while pumping and swinging with some large creatures. I’m hoping for a good balance with it all. My only concern will be card draw if I’m spending my spells too fast.

Playing some pre-release today! My guild is Simic but due to the nature of the boosters and sever lack of good Simic cards, I built a Boros deck. So all my wins have progressed the Simic guild to the end of the maze. Woop Woop!

So I’ve been exploring the Kamigawa block because a lot of older Magic players really don’t like the set. I was talking to a few and I understand now that it came out during a time when the previous block was greatly overpowered in comparison. So standard was essentially ruled by the previous block until the new one after Kamigawa came out.

That aside tho, in 2012,Wizards put out a Night of the Ninja Planechase set that brought back some of the Blue / Black Ninja cards, so I decided to build a U/B ninja deck!

Its been a lot of fun so far, Ninjitsu is an interesting keyword. People can’t block some creatures and then POOF ninja takes its place and does more damage plus a cool effect usually.

Casual Magic can be a lot of fun and building obscure decks under $50 is even better. 

I got a bunch of Magic for my birthday! Some of my pulls / cards I was given include Tolarian Academy, Blind Obedience, Emrakul, the Aeons torn, Lilliana of the Dark Realms, Giant Adaphage and Promo Gravecrawlers.

There will be more birthday posts as this 28th birthday continues! 

I got to play Magic with some new people over the weekend and my legacy Dimir deck did pretty well for a while. My Nightveil Specters had snagged a few good cards and some land for me while Lazav on turned into Aurelia the Warleader. Not too bad. I got overwhelmed though with 3 other players. It was still loads of fun though.

Last night I ended up winning a 9 player free for all, with my Blue/Black zombie mill deck. When it was down to just myself and one other player, I had 15 2/2 zombie tokens (made earlier by Undead Alchemist) and a 20/20 Wight of Precinct Six. Plus the Nightveil Spectre. It was a serious amount of fun. 

I ended up staying alive, as most people started targeting each other with extreme prejudice. So people were being picked off pretty quickly and early on.

I was talking to a friend the other day about how I hated Elesh Norn. She is such a game breaker when she comes out. Then I was thinking, I should build an Elesh Norn themed deck. So I did. Its not terribly original, but it keeps in the flavor of her and all the cards are from New Phyrexia. Hopefully I’ll have it all together by tonight. I love building aggressive White Magic decks. They’re not usually expected.