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									 «  on: March 09, 2005, 07:24:03 pm »  | 
								
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							...you never know what will happen to them when your back is turned.
  I really had no idea where to put this, but watching these events unfold was hilarious and bears sharing.
  Up until yesterday, I'd been toying around with two different decks - Cerebral Assassin and TPS, even having both completely built and playable. Yesterday evening, I'm sitting in a house with my normal group, and I start assembling the Divining Top combo deck from Star City, which involved removing some of the cards from each of the two previously mentioned decks.
  This left two incomplete piles of former decks.  I get up to go check with a computer.  I come back to find one of the guys (Chris) playing Cerebral (what was left of it) in a three way game with a Workshop variant and someone playing a borrowed Intuition Slaver.
  Hilarity ensues as Chris, with the remains of my CA deck, tries to dig furiously with Bazaar for artifact mana to weld with, eventually relying on desperation moves like hardcasting Squee to eternally block a Sundering Titan someone else was sending his way ("Fucking Squee!  Play Duplicant." "DAMMIT")
  I look up later to see Chris looking over at me smirking as he shuffles up some more of my sleeves.  This time, the pile looks distinctly larger (as I can't find the remains of my TPS build anywhere), and he and the former Workshop player each draw seven off the top of the new "deck."  Hands are now comprised of visual treats such as Bazaar of Baghdad, Time Spiral, Cunning Wish, Mana Vault, Squee, Triskelion, and Gemstone Mine.
  This resulted in some of the weirdest plays I've ever seen (and a lot of mocking accentuation of the word Triskelion), but cutting to the end, this looked like an incredibly fun way of alternate play: Combine two decks, each player alternates drawing off the top until their hand is full, and commence play the normal way. 
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