Hey all! Welcome back for the 2nd instalment! This week we had 8 people for our Thursday Night FOW. I tried to get them to try out drafting but apparently some of them really wanted to play constructed so oh well.

1st Match vs B/R Alexander Aggro

1st game I got 10/10 rekt by Susanowo The Ten-Fist Sword after I J-Activated Bahamut and took 3200 damage to the face and died. Nothing much else to say.

2nd Game I controlled the board with Thunders, Rapid decays and Crime and Punishments until I could throw some Dragon King’s Flames at his face and search for Gille De Rais for the win.

3rd game I was foiled by my sideboard plan as I had sided out Dragon Blazer for Clown Blazer and that cost me as I had him down to 1400 life with a Cthugha in hand and the only way I could’ve won was to search for dragon Blazer and incarnate Cthugha as he had lethal next turn but I forgot that I sided him out so when I went to search with Falltgold I went like “oh shit” after going through 3/4 of my deck. Was definitely quite a funny moment.

1 – 2

2nd Match vs G/R/W Puss in Boots Musketeers

I pretty much ran over him this whole match, by the time he could’ve gotten Athos and Ragnarok out on turn 3 he would be down to a low life total of about 1000 or so lifepoints and that meant that I could ignore the Athos and just go for his face with all my burn spells and flying J-Ruler. The match was uneventful and my deck just did what it does best, which is to throw fire at my opponent’s faces till they are crispier than a McNugget.

2 – 0

3rd Match vs B/R/g Alice Midrange

My opponent was playing a very interesting deck which featured Rasputins, Milests, Hasturs, Nyarlathoteps and a very strong removal suite. He used Magic stone of Moon Shade to be able to use every single of Alice’s effects should the situation call for it.

1st Game I found out the hard way how much removal his deck actually had as everything I put down got killed basically immediately. Only my resonators with swiftness got any damage through but that was enough as I had landed a hit with Loup-Garou and a few hunters and I was constantly bringing Blazer, Eater of Dimensions back from the removed from game zone and that proved enough to outlast all his removal spells and I topdecked a Flames of the Dragon King for the game.

2nd game was a hard fought game where I decided that I could ignore all his creatures and send all my burn spells to his face and just try to block with my weenies and force him to spend mana removing those if he wanted to get damage though so that he couldn’t use that mana on developing his board or throwing thunders at me. I forced him to spend a Thunder on a Beowulf, which I banished to give my Bahamut imperishable and this forced him to pay 6 mana to double awaken Little Dread, The Fake Red Moon and suicide it into my Bahamut by target attacking it as it would’ve flown over his Rasputins and taken out the rest of his 900 points of life had he not done that. He then attacked me with most of his creatures putting me down to 300 life. The next turn I used Falltgold to search for Gilles De Rais and he allowed it to resolve. I attacked him with my Dragon and he tapped 2 stones and tried to stone it to death but I banished 3 fire stones to revive it and still swung in for lethal.

2 – 0

Final Record : 2 Wins 1 Loss

Glad to see no Vlad decks today. Maybe everyone got cancer playing the Vlad mirror last Thursday and decided that they probably shouldn’t be doing that again.

I got 2 MPR packs with the treasury points that I earned and I pulled a Magic Stone of Moon Shade, Magic Stone of Moon Light as well as a Split Heaven and Earth which will definitely be going into my deck for next week!

Also please stay tuned for a Deck Tech Article of a deck that I have been brewing for about 2 weeks or so sometime next week as I have yet to finalise the numbers on some of the cards. Also it is going to be Grimm Cluster only as of course, my local LGS does not support New Frontiers at their weekly Thursday Night Force of Will event.

Thanks for all the support,

James