Good friends are my number one draw for Magic and I don’t think that will ever change.

Trip and tournament pictures taken by Markus

I’m back, thanks for waiting. here’s my 2nd draft deck:
cloud elemental
foresee
cancel
sleep
clone
maritime guard
scroll thief
aether adept
air servant
water servant
2 goblin piker
2 lava axe
fire servant
earth servant
prodigal pyromancer
act of treason
lightning bolt
fling
fireball
arc runner
juggernaut
9 islands
8 mountains
board hits: demolish, 2 goblin tunnelers, goblin balloon brigade, the second fling, vulshock berserker, volcanic strength, negate, and harbor servant.
I go into round 7 still quite nervous [...]

Hi.
good to see you again. I had a lovely time in eastern Canada, but yes, I am glad to be home. Strange though it may sound after returning from a magic-oriented trip, I’m fiending to get some games in. I only played 12 matches the whole weekend. that’s like the number of matches I normally [...]

Dave Herder goes nuts with a camera – prior to and during PTQ San Juan. Vancouver, March 6th.

Dave Herder goes nuts with a camera – prior to and during PTQ San Juan. Vancouver, March 6th.

Dave Herder asked me the night before regionals how I could keep doing it. Work until 11 at FNM, then eat, do some prep, and maybe drink and party until about 3am, then sleep for 2hours and go play a tournament in Vancouver. I replied that I felt I really had no choice. Even if I was off work at 6pm the day before my trip to Vancouver I would still probably stay up until the wee hours with excitement.

So at this year’s nationals qualifier event (regionals) our playtest group decided that combo was due for a comeback in standard.

Have you ever hidden a shadowmage infiltrator underneath an oblivion ring, then played obliterate? I like to think that Jon Finkel feels the same way I did at 5:30am yesterday morning. My alarm clock represents the oblivion ring’s second triggered ability, but in my case it would probably read “when alarm clock sounds, return nelson [...]