I played in an extended PDC event tonight with my auramancer deck. This deck fares pretty well vs. a lot of decks but dies horribly to a Cloak deck. To shore up that matchup I changed the deck to include at least 8 removal spells that are good vs. their hard to remove creatures, included CoP: Green, and put some [card]Kami of Ancient Law[/card] in my sideboard to kill their cloak. I’d say about a third of the deck is effective vs. a Cloak.dec matchup.

My opponent, Lunchbox Superhero, was very angry that I kept drawing efficient removal spells for his creatures and bitched and moaned accordingly. I really am stupefied that anybody could really bitch about bad beats. Being successful at MtG requires a bit of luck. Getting beaten by a top deck is just a part of the game.

What frustrates me even more is I remember losing to him on a separate occasions with 3 Guardian of the Guildpacts in play on his side. If I remember correctly I might of sent a smiley or two his way for having such incredible luck. Since I possess a reasonable amount of maturity and am not ignorant about the nature of card games I accepted my loss and moved on. Lunchbox was full of comments tonight like “why don’t you draw better”. You know, if I drew one of my 3 Grim Harvests that last game my engine would of kicked on and I could of burned him out. I guess my luck isn’t that good because I was on card 29 when the game finally ended after he top decked his third Ledgewalker.

Lunchbox, why don’t you draw better?

Next post is going to be on a positive note, too much black mana swirling around this blog.

The most infuriating thing about this character was not because his deck is lame and boring but because afterwards we started up a trade and asked if I would trade my Polluted Delta’s. He said I could take anything I wanted out of his 1077 commons and uncommons… ORLY? MORE CROSSBOW INFANTRIE’S!?!

MTGO cards aren’t like currency. Even though you can buy commons for 3 cents a pop doesn’t mean they are worth 3 cents. Commons, to me anyway, are worth other commons. If they are hard to find commons then they actually become worth something. This is because I’m willing to pay mtgotraders.com 3 cents a pop to just go out and buy them rather than wade through the trading binder.

During a RRG 4-3-2-2 I’m playing a Boros deck. It almost felt like playing a deck from 4 months ago the dude had all of Ravincas RW goodies and almost nothing form Guildpact save a Pyromantics that kicked my ass everytime he played it. Whats worse is that I’m picking out his play mistakes while blistfully unaware of my own.

For the last 4 turns I’ve been trying to stall his beats because my only defense is a bunch of mana producers. He’s beating me down with Belfry Spirit and co. ( the tokens ), and my Starfetcher is the only thing thats preventing me from taking 3 a turn. Throughtout the game I can read his signals, taps this and that, yeah, pyromantics is coming. Oh yeah, you just “forgot” to stop my Rotwurm with your Thundersong Trumpeter; combat trick.

I know he’s got Rally.

After he does some attack declarations with only his white creatures, then red, it’s pretty obvious he wants to rally. I block the Belfry Spirit and feel like a fool when his bats swarm in.

The Fuck.

I could of survived one more turn. If he attacked with all of his white creatures he would of won. He didn’t though, and I watched the game slip away because I’m a fucking moron.

Get this though. My next draw was a Golgari Rotwurm. I have a Mortipede in play and enough mana to cast him, activate Morty, swing with my dudes, and sac some dudes to win the game.

The Fuck.