AiriZel: Thoughts

Hey everyone. It’s been a pretty hectic week, with what coming back to school, meeting with friends, and just having fun in life while getting back into the groove of homework and classes.

Unfortunately, this meant almost no playtesting this entire week. I did however, spend the last 4 hours or so playtesting both affinity and zoo. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find someone playing Blue or Storm. That said, I gold fished against storm and lost every single game. I have pyrostatic pillars, but I think I’m going to just take a match loss against them. I’m not sure what else to do against that deck. Echoing truth and the fact that the pillars hurt me too and I don’t think that’ll be able to beat the storm deck.

Still taking two with me so I can board them in. Another concern for me is again Blue. I haven’t tested against it successfully in a really long time. Joshua Claytor assures me that’s just me having bad luck, but I’m not really quite sure what to think. Other than that, I feel pretty confident in my matchup against Affinity now, and that I’ll be fine against a field lacking Storm and Swans, easily my two worst matchups.

That said, again, I’m going to go early and check it out. See what sells out.

My Rock matchup is pretty damn good though. So hopefully, you’ll see a blog post around 24 hours from now with me talking about how I day 2ed haha.

Wish me luck everyone!

-Sebastian

Well I’m very lucky.
Thanks to the efforts of my friends and playtest mates Zac and Eric, as well as my editor at PureMTGO Joshua Claytor, I was able to pretty much secure the majority of the hard to find cards of my deck!

That’s a relief.

Now to find the rares…

So I failed at two things today.

First of all, I failed at finding cards. In leading up to the GPLA trial this saturday, I’ve been looking for Lava spikes.

That’s right. Lava Spikes.

That and 13 other cards (I need 3 spikes). So I’ve been looking all around and I have yet to find them, so I might be forced to drive out to City of Industry. That said, Eric Norton volunteered to lend me his services in our quest to the outskirts of Los Angeles. So hopefully I’ll get all the cards together.

In other news, I lost badly.

Really badly. I went 3-2 in a Premier Event before dropping out.

I lost round 1 to Faeries, and then proceeded to lose round 3 to Faeries as well.

Time to test that matchup again.

As part of my blogging, I’ll be going over my weekend in review. The weekend will encompass 3 days from Friday to Sunday.

So the weekend is over, and I’m now onto my last week of break.

So just a few general musings from the weekend in list form!

• Gundam 00 didn’t release a new anime. This is the first weekend I haven’t seen a Gundam 00 episode in months ( I even watched them when I was swamped with apps and finals!)
• Naruto the manga got really really good really really fast. Naruto became more epic very quickly. I have this weird sense that it’s ending though.
• Bleach on the otherhand seems to be going the other direction. How is it that Ichigo can go from losing to the same guy to having a chance at beating him within the span of maybe an hour… Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, since the storyline is set so that the events in which he seeks his revenge and to protect his friends occur at the same time as when the rest of the Gotei 13 fight people in the other place.
• I finished all my apps on the 30th, but didn’t finish my FAFSA until yesterday. Apparently I have to wait to receive my EFC until I can finish the rest of my FAFSA (IE sending it to more schools).
• The CSS profiles are getting done!
• I met up with Ryan Meyerhoff, Minh Dan, and Betty. That said, I saw Elliot and Jeffrey Koury randomly more times the weekend than anyone else.
• Greg Trigub likes Zero Punctuation. That earns him a point in my book.
• Rune’s Ramblings: The Pauper Burn Standard went up (although never occupied the top slot).
• I got a wireless headset (Logitech USB wireless) from Best Buy for about 85 dollars. I had a gift card so that covered about 60 dollars of it.
• I ate at CPK, specifically pepperoni and BBQ chicken pizzas with a Shirley Temple (which cost me about 20 dollars), had sweetened (well it was supposed to be) Black Tea Boba from Boba City, and a Passion Fruit Iced Tea Lemonade (Grande size, which is like a regular drink elsewhere) from Starbucks along with some coffee cake, and a slice of Pumkin Pie at the Kourys with Cool Whip.
• I finally saw someone play Gears of War 2. That game looks really cool.
• Ironically, post is in every category with the exception of General-Random
• I went to Collector’s Paradise for FNM for the first time in months. I finished 7th due to the lack of  a 3rd mountain needed in order to cast Violent Ultimatum. Other than that 1-2 loss, I went 6-0 over the next 3 matches.
• I playtested against Affinity (Eric) on Saturday. I went 3-7. So I added Shattering Spree to my board.
• Elliot, Jeffrey, Justin, and I tried to play basketball at 7AM @ Northridge Park. That failed, we packed it up and went home by 8AM.
• I fell asleep Sunday watching the Lakers play the Trailblazers. Slept around 8PM waking up around 5:15AM.
• I dreamt about racing with my father, and mused over the state of my life.

And that’s the weekend in review!