Gathering 2.0 – 15/08/12

Tonight it was just Pete and I.

This was of course not a hindrance and gave us some really good games, which were blow for blow – something I miss in multi-player games.

Over the past few weeks, Pete was becoming a bit “down” because he felt his deck was not working. This was not the case, more so the fact that his deck designs are better suited for one on one play. Perfect in this instance!

This was a good eye opener for him as he slaughtered me for the majority of the night. I only really won by playing “Graveborn” – this goes to show it’s a very good deck.

I just wish I’d made it myself...

Gathering 2.0 - 12/08/12

I realise I’m quite late in blogging about this, so you’ll have to bear with me as I can’t remember the events of the night exactly. The main thing to remember though is James’ utter take over in every game.

At this gathering, Pete introduced us to a new format; A Zombie horde deck. For the rules of this, visit: http://deckboxnoob.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/horde-rules.html

So we went ahead and gave it our best shot. During the first game we were taken out within the second turn. With 15 2/2 zombie tokens out on the hordes first go, and they have haste. Half of our life count was gone before we had laid any defence.

The second game looked like it was going to be better as we decided to increase our life count by 20, but that just took us to the third turn. Not a great improvement.

We thought we would give it one more shot, but we laid down all of the land that was in our opening hand before our first go; this gave us the advantage we needed to win.

So what have we learnt from this brief overview?

Well, as is the same with the Archenemy games, three players are simply not enough to overthrow this deck. As such the next time we play the horde, I’m going to use an Archenemy deck to try and even out the odds.

Gathering 2.0 – 25/7/2012

Our most recent Magic: The Gathering game took place in the garden, which made a nice change.

For the first game I thought I would go with my “God’s Galore” deck; it wasn’t a bad hand to start with but I still thought it was too slow to act as a big player, but I did take out the Planeswalker of James’ elf deck before it could pull his other elves into play.

I started the second game with my “Not on my Watch” deck; it is a mono black deck which focuses on destroying my opponents creatures, but this would not be a problem for James as he had a creature whom had protection from black...

Once he had attached some power-up equipment, I was easy pickings. Pete ended up being “mana screwed”, so James cleaned up easily.

We were joined by Richard for the third game. He has played “Duels of the Planeswalkers” on the Playstation and as such he knows the rules of the game and the turn structure. The only this he would have to get used to is the speed of the game play and the variety of cards, this is because “Duels of the Planeswalkers” provides you with set decks to use.

I decided to use my “Call for Reinforcements” deck, but it wasn’t long before it was recognised and targeted.

Richard, having no decks of his own, borrowed James’ “Suicidal Goblins”. I feel that it wasn’t the best deck for him to have used on account of the fact that a deck with more aggressive creatures would have been far better suited for the style of play he would be used to.

The game ended with a draw due to Pete and Richard hitting a long running stale mate.

For the last game of the night I had brought my archenemy deck “Bring about the Un-dead Apocalypse”. I think the winner of the game for me was “Avatar of Discord”

as this allowed me to put “Kaerverk the Merciless” into my graveyard 

then bring it into play with “Reanimate”.

With this I have a flyer dealing five damage a turn and “Kaerverk the Merciless” dealing damage with every spell and opponent cast I was set.

I think Pete and James enjoyed the Archenemy game as they were begging for another round but I had to call it a night, so they shall have to wait for next week...