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Monday, August 28, 2006

My recent endevour of testing the new unique set...

MTGO recently released Coldsnap expansion set the supposedly belated set for Ice Age block. I did have fun, even though I didn't do as well as much as I had been hoping to. I guess a year have passed making my skill a bit rusty.



I think I rushed my matches a bit and I didn't have anyone to practice decks that I build beforehand. Usually I get to practice the deck that we build with either Zaaba or Fahmi. For those interested, decks that I constructed for my league is as follows:

WUb Zur deck

I lost my first three point matches playing the first deck. Then I realized that my White and Blue might not be need enough to be played. I seems to be running short on decent creatures. I thought Jotun Grunt is a good creature, but I was mistaken. The upkeep cost is just impossible to get on a 40 cards deck. He became a 1 turn blocker most of the time.

I also thought that Rimewind Taskmage would be a bomb, practically an Icy Manipulator on legs, and I'm wrong again. I just didn't have enough snow permanent on board to support it. I even have to once, tutor Cover of Winter with Zur just to get the forth snow permanent. I also have problem with spells with recover such as Grim Harvest and Krovikan Rot because I don't have instant speed removal.

That's when it finally hit me that I need to tap into Green for more beef, and Red for extra removals. I have Ronom Hulk in green and 3 removals in red namely Skred, Surging Flame and Lightning Storm.

GRb deck

The combination worked really well, and I won my last 2 point match and many later tie-breaker match. I came to realise that removals is king in a limited tournament. Should have used that deck earlier. Nevermind though the key point is to have fun really. Without fun this game is just another hole in your pocket.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

It has been a while...

I have been in Malaysia for quite some time now. But only these few days have everything else in my life slowed down to a manageable speed. I haven't been blogging for quite some time, and I'm not quite sure where to start actually.

For starter, Awanis guests', the lovely Najma and Shanela just went back to London on the Wednesday. Before that, they have been staying for two weeks. I, as usual have been a faithful chaperone for the ladies during their and weirdly I haven't seen my pay yet. Anywho, I hope they have a lovely time in Malaysia. Well I do feel proud as a Malaysian to be showing them around to all the attraction in Malaysia, there a plenty of them around. So guys, next time let us just 'Cuti-cuti Malaysia' only ok ;)

We forgot to buy them a parting gift but I said to Wanis, no need cos we already gave them something. 'Black Gold', prices have even doubled since last year.

That's it for now, will be posting again shortly.