Less than a week away!!!

Also, there will be a Super Smash Brothers Melee side tournament. The rules haven't been finalized but it'll most likely be something like $5 winner take all.

QFT!! lol. This one is technically three stories because it has a small loft with tables.

Hello, I don't usually post on TMD as I'm more of a legacy player, but I will be holding a Dual Land tournament in the upcoming month. Also, here's a link to the same thread over on The Source.  THANKS!! Hope to see you guys there!



A few months ago we had an awesome tournament held by Team Brown/Unicorn in he NoVA area, and I've taken it upon myself to hold the second NoVA Legacy Draft Tournament. For reference, here's a link to the last tournament. Here's the details for our next one:

What: Northern Virginia Legacy Draft v2.0
When:Saturday, March 29th, 2008.
Where: Fuddruckers
1030 Elden St
Herndon, VA 20170[/U]
(703) 318-9438
Lower Level Party Room

Time: Doors open at 11 as does registration. Deck slips collected at 12:15 and round 1 starts ~12:20.

Cost: $25 Entry Fee (as of now I am not accepting pre-registrations.

Format: Legacy

Prizes: Top 8 will draft from the following sets of played staples in our format, then 1-2 will get another go resulting in 10 sets being selected:

Guaranteed
Tropical Island
Volcanic Island
Underground Sea
Tundra
Savannah
Polluted Delta
Flooded Strand
Force of Will
Chrome Mox
Pernicious Deed
Extirpate
Orim's Chant
Crucible of Worlds
Countryside Crusher
Thoughtseize
Cabal Therapy (DCI Foil)

Note: If we get 60+ I will put in a set of Goyfs as well.

Note2: This list is guaranteed. I will however be adding in more cards as I acquire them.

9th & 10th place: Draft sets

Judge: Akki will be judging the event.

Other Notes: There is a bounty on the three Team Brown representatives. Everyone to defeat Me(zulander), Anwar (AnwarA101) or Zohar (powergamer1003) will receive a commemorative prize(TBD).



This will be a Sanctioned event and normal DCI rules apply. If you have any questions please feel free to send me a pm.

i love the loam

Barry might go to 800 but Arod's on pace for over 1k. As long as he doesn't get injured or walk away early he's going to break the record.

Every saturday around 430-5pm the Lucky Frog in Annandale VA about 1 mile away from NOVA's annandale campus we hold a 1.5 tourny. It's $5 entry fee and prize is store credit. Afterwards we go eat and play ultimate frizby.

FYI 10th will be the best core set in a while.

Quirion dryad
Pithing needle
Squee
Platinum Angel
All the painlands
All the manlands
Mogg Fanatic
Incinerate
Reya Dawnbringer
Troll Ascetic
Tokens
Crucible
Hurkyl's recall(wtf, why is it being reprint as a rare )
Royal Assasin
Lord of the Pit(Casual players love this guy)
Root maze
Razormane Masticore

along with other goodies not yet public. I'm gonna actually order a case

I've pm'ed a moderator last week I believe when I tried to post in the humor forum but was unable to. Now I realize that it's not just me, the only people I see posting in it are mods/adepts/full members. Why is this? I don't understand the purpose of having full/basic members. I realize the importance of having mods and when there were separated boards for full/basic members to post in (to keep the serious discussions on topic and for more advanced players) but I don't see the importance of needing full member status to post in the humor forum. So my question is, why aren't basic members allowed to post in the humor forum?

Maybe not too much because wizards will make it BB in English too, but I personally would rather buy a case of Japanese sets than English ones.

Even if the force player had 3 force in hand he'd have to give up 3 blue cards in his hand, leaving him with 1 card in hand which means he can't win on his next turn because he'll have a combo of 2 cards : 2 lotus, 2 force, 2 desire, 1/1 force/desire/lotus. He needs 3 cards to "go off", even then he could fizzle. Meanwhile you are left with 4 cards in hand and in a much better topdeck mode than he is. I still think channel-torch wins. FOW is card disadvantage for a deck trying to go off turn 1.

R.I.P?? This dude killed his wife and kid then offed himself. If indeed the police report turns out to be true I hope he freaking rots in hell. He had no mental illness' that were aware by anyone either.

Anusien, your infectious zombie gives those abilities to the creature, but that creature is still in the graveyard.. you need a way to bring them back. The card says nothing about bringing back the dead creature to play.

Oh wow, sounds like a great tourny. I just might have to make some lazy people down here in VA come up with me to this place.

He has his pants I believe, but he's still suffering mentally. I say we stick him in a mental institute if he's suffering so much mentally that he needs to sue for $67 mil.

Yeah, but you start with 7 cards in hand. If they force one of them you play another one. They can counter 3 spells if they have a hand of 3 force + 3 other blue spells. Meanwhile you have 7 cards in your hand. And since you want more channel/lotus in your hand and only really need one torch then you would play 23 lotus/channel and 14 torch.

How... you have to pay 2 mana to target torch with force. Surging flame does seem better though. And even though the combo takes 2 lotus from your hand you have 20 in the deck, which is prety darn good. Maybe cut channel down to 15 and add 5 more lotus to ensure you draw double lotus.

Why not just use 20 black lotus, 20 channel, and 20 Kaervek's torch?

Yeah the manabase is a little slim, but with 8 fetches you'll always be able to get your basics against goblins. I didn't have a problem with the mana base at all and I played 2 goblins and 1 stax. As for leyline/confidant that's the price you pay to hopefully win. And against the decks that you bring the leyline in against the life loss isn't a big deal.

1.5 Report, 06-23-07

GAGOMY(Gators, Apes 'n 'Goyfs O My)

Decklist : 60

Lands : 21
4 Wasteland
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Taiga
2 Bayou
2 Badlands
1 Forest
1 Swamp
1 Mountain


Creatures : 20
4 Kird Ape
2 Tin-Street Hooligan
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Thornweald Archer
4 Dark Confidant
4 Phyrexian Negator


Control : 14
3 Duress
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Seal of Fire

Other : 5
3 Call of the Herd
2 Jitte


Sideboard : 15
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Engineered Plague
3 Pernicious Deed
4 Grosan Grip



So as some of you might have read the deck I've put together on the 1.5 development boards, I've been playing this deck for the past 2 weeks.
At our local 1.5 event this week I decided to play this over belcher/goblins to see how far it has come along, and hopefully sneak into the top 8.
So without further ado... here we go!


Round 1 GAGOMY VS Black Stax
Game 1 : Earlier on in the week we playtested this matchup and I got rocked 5-0 preboard... embarassing.. However, today I had my revenge. Game one he resolves some
early beats but Mr.Tin-Street comes into play and blows up one of his guys. The game gets close and he has a resolved chalice for 1 while I have double kird
ape, Double bolt, and a duress in hand. I have negator, thornweald and 3 lands while he has negator, chalice for 1,
and 2 lands in play swing and he ends up saccing everything while I do the same, but I float R and bolt his face for the win.


Side : in 4 Krosan Grip Out : 3 cabal therapy 1 kird ape

Game 2 : He plays an early juggernaut turn 2 and I bolt him. He plays Chalice for 1 (again...) while my hand is full of one drops but I resolve a thornweald.
He gets Negator on the board and I topdeck a krosan grip and hit chalice for one. I have 1 red source on the board so I play an ape. He can't really attack
or he'd lose his board so he plays draw, go for a couple turns. I put down seal of fires 2 turns in a row and hitting his negator which leaves his side of
board with 2 lands, mox diamond, negator, and a 4/4 artifact that I don't really remember. I end up just burning his gator until i resolve a goyf and win.


Round 2 : GAGOMY VS r/w goblins

Game 1 : I mull to five and loose to ringleader hitting piledriver, warchief and matron. He swings with 3 piledrivers, lacky, and warchief and I scoop.

Side : IN : 4 Plague, 3 Deed OUT : 4 Negator, 3 Duress

Game 2 : I have a deed on the board and a call token racing his 1 matron and 1 fanatic on the board. I get him to 4 life and I'm at 5. He plays a lacky
and I swing on my turn, he chumps and swings for 2, puts a ringleader in play putting 2 siege gangs in his hand. I deed for 4 and clear the board. He's
sitting on only 3 lands so I play tin-street. He plays matron on his turn tapping out for warchief. On my turn I should have flashed back cabal therapy
naming siege gang, instead I act like a bonehead and swing. He chumps, plays warchief and proceeds to kill me.


Round 3 : GAGOMY VS r/g goblins

Game 1 : I mull to five and get rapped again... ( I hate this against goblins)

I use the same sideboard plan.

Game 2 : I have an o/1 goyf on turn 2 after his turn 1 lacky. He makes a mistake in cycling his incinerator not realising that incinerator hits the gy
before dealing damage and my goyf is now a 1/2. I get a turn 3 plague on the board and proceed to start killing him with a 1/2 goyf.. lOl! I then resolve
jitte and he scoops.

Game 3 : I get a plague on turn 3 after taking 6 from his ringleader/fanatic. He grips it 2 turns later but gets stuck on 3 land. I therapy naming
ringleader, play goyf. Next turn I play ape flashing therapy back getting his siegegang, play and equip jitte and he scoops.

I make top 8 2-1.


Top 8 Round 1 : GAGOMY VS 4c thresh.

I know he's playing thresh and get excited. I have a great matchup vs threash because of the numerous threats I have. Thornweald owns their flyers,
we split goyfs, I have turn 1 kird apes and not to mention the card advantage Call of the Herd provides. I have disruption in duress, therapy, wasteland
and L.Bolt. THe only bad Card I have in here is Negator because of the red he's playing.

Game 1 : I play therapy on predict turn one, duress on his counterspell turn 2, and I play kirdape/flashback cabal on his brainstorm turn 3. All the while
he's stuck on one land because of the hand he kept (couldn't find land 2 off portent/serum visions 2 turns in a row.) I play Goyf and get a jitte to
resolve and win.

Sideboard : IN : 4 leyline   OUT : 4 Negator

Game 2 : He plays turn 1 goose. I play turn one duress and hit his predict. He get's a volc out and I waste it, and pretty much resolve anything I want
because he can't find his cards.

So top 4 ends up splitting for $20 each and I pickup another badlands/bayou and buy a box of Future Sight (got nothing good other than another goyf).



So...  Overall I really enjoyed the deck today with the only exception being me playing like an idiot and giving away game 2 in round 2 to goblins. If I
had played smart I may have been able to force a game 3 and who knows what could have happend.

As for the decklist itself I don't see any changes coming up anytime soon, I had plenty of disruption all day and confidant played a major roll in helping
me topdeck. And for everyone out there, thronweald is freakin tech. I can't tell you how many times in testing I've played him and just stopped my opponents
from attacking. He stops almost every great creature in the format for only 1G. Goyfs, threasholds flyers, goblins, faery stompy, stax... just about
everything..

Well I hope you enjoyed the report (I'm sorry if it got too boring) and I'll see you guys same bat time same bat channel with next weeks report!

I'd add in a tinker yourself as an extra win condition. You are running a full set of moxen, sol/crypt so you'd be able to easily accommodate it.

Is it possible to stack the squee and Razormane Masticore triggers so that squee is put into your hand and then you discard him to Razormane Masticore?

Oracle for squee :
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Squee, Goblin Nabob is in your graveyard, you may return Squee to your hand.

Oracle for Razormane Masticore :
First strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Razormane Masticore unless you discard a card.
At the beginning of your draw step, you may have Razormane Masticore deal 3 damage to target creature.

While I haven't played the deck in a long time I'd recommend Pact of Negations if you opt to run the FoWless list. If your main concerns are people stopping you while going off and not wanting to pitch that blue card so the game isn't a draw then why not run the card, even if it's just a 3 of.

And has anyone thought of running one copy of clone? That way you don't loose to someone with one copy of STP in their hand or even stifle while going off. When clone comes into play you can copy worlddragon if you think they have an StP or bogardian to kill one cycle faster.

Well I fixed it now by unplugging the video card and taking the dust out and reconnected it. Probably a loose connection. However the monitor couldn't be the problem, the picture appeared like that in a print screen, if it was the monitor the print screen would be clean. But I have a new problem! When I scroll up and down on websites my compute does the wave, as in half the screen scrolls while the other lags behind. Any ideas?

That's what my screen looks like and for the life of me I can't figure it out. I have an ati 9800+ pro card and these are the things that I've tried doing to fix this problem.

1. Uninstall old drivers, get new ones.

2. Update monitor drivers.

3. Fix color output (in desktop settings)

4. Messed with res and refresh rate

5. Uninstall drivers and let windows update and fix them for me.

6. Run ad-aware to kill any type of trojan creating this problem.

I've done other things as well but I just can't remember what they were. When I first had this problem on Saturday the thing that fixed the problem was going from 32 bit color to 16 bit color in desktop settings. That fixed the problem... until today. Honestly, I'm stumped.

Great report as always, but real men play belcher!

I concur.

I'd agree, if you're worried about fish/zombie tokens just use EE/Powder Keg.Most of the time EE and PK will be set low so your guys will live.