Do you ever feel like Magic: The Gathering events can be determined by one small instance during your day? Sometimes it seems as if an action in an early round will set the tone for the rest to come, good or bad. You draw three cards off a Brainstorm and it’s Dark Ritual, Lion’s Eye ...
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Last month I played my “new list” to a second place finish at Mythic Games. This month, I did the same exact thing. I’ve been playing in two local events a week with the deck as well as a bunch of games online and have been having a lot of success. I think for the...
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Waking up at 5:30am to get to the Tales of Adventure Eternal Extravaganza 4 Satellite event wasn’t exactly great. I picked up a few people at our local game store before hitting the road at 6am. We arrived in Coopersburg, PA with roughly half-an-hour before the event started at 10am. I ...
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My Grand Prix: Seattle weekend began with waking up at 4:30am, my wonderful girlfriend driving me to the airport and meeting up with Eli Kassis, Paolo Cesari and Ozzie. For as early as it was, I was absolutely wired with excitement for this event. I missed Grand Prix: New Jersey last year due ...
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The weekend of Eternal Extravaganza 3 (EE3) or as I like to call it, “A weekend at Aaron’s” begins with me taking a half-day on Friday so that I could travel down to Allentown, PA from Syracuse, NY so that I could fit in getting some cards signed at Illuxcon! For ...
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The weekend begins with being let out of work early Thursday afternoon, with my car already packed, I hit 81S for roughly six hours. I drive by Philadelphia and then Baltimore before arriving in Washington, DC. One of my good friends and former roommates from college, Chris, greets me at his ...
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I begin the weekend by getting out of work early due to the holiday weekend, pick up Nick Patnode, and we’re on the road. The trip isn’t long, just under four hours, mostly just sing-a-longs and figuring out strategies for the weekend. We get to Worcester hours before our friends ...
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The trip down to Tales of Adventure in Pennsylvania wasn’t as bad as his first event, where I spent most of the morning wonder why I woke up at six and slightly hungover. On the bright side, I did manage to top 8 as did my ride — Brian Finlayson-Schueler. Brian offered to drive again,...
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The trip down was a little rough, having to leave Syracuse the night after my job’s holiday party by 7AM wasn’t ideal. Brian Finlayson-Schueler, Nick Patnode, and myself made decent time on the way down — Brian was nice enough to offer to drive. Honestly, if he didn’t I ...
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For the last few large events I’ve gone to (mainly Star City Games events), I’ve been avoiding my classic Tendrils of Agony playmat for two reasons. The first reason being that it directly telegraphs what I’m playing for those who don’t know. Although, I’ll admit, ...
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I had been practicing counting to twenty for weeks leading up to Star City Games: Washington, DC. I felt that I had lost some of my skills, because of this I ran the deck in weekly local events for three weeks where I normally opt to play something else. I also piloted The EPIC Storm...
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Friday was miserable, there is simply no other way to put it. With storm Nemo on the horizon, when I awoke for work I knew it was going to be a tough day. Since when does society name snowstorms? If they continue this, I just hope the next one is Dory. Anyway, I left work...
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