Wall for trachy (page 20)

So after a few days from my playgroup's draft from a case, I ended up with a ton of goodies. Here's my haul for Battle for Zendikar, after trades.

Godless Shrine!
3 Dragonmaster Outcast (1 foil)
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4 Zada, Hedron Grinder
1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
1 Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper
2 Omnath, Locus of Rage
2 Kiora
1 Ob Nixilis
4 Quarantine Field
2 Foil Cup Island
4 RG Duals
1 WU Dual
2 WG Duals
1 UB Dual

Probably won't be buying into anymore BFZ products unless they're fat packs or drafting. Will buy singles if I need them.

Lots of other bulk cards.

Watching The Flash on Netflix. I'll write my full thoughts on it when I finish the season. Just have to say though, they did one thing that I am just giddy over. Mark Hamill is the actor playing Trickster. So they actually brought in the voice actor from the amazing Justice League animated series to reprise his role. And of course, Mark Hamill is an amazing villain. His role as Luke Skywalker is all well and good, but it doesn't come close in comparison to the talent he displayed voicing villains such as Joker and Trickster. The show gets a few things wrong. But when it gets them right, it gets them very right.

In all seriousness, whoever writes the UR for Nissa is just terrible. Glad we got a break from that and got a best walker Kiora story instead with quality writing.

If you are having issues with fat pack pricing, I'd honestly say to take the lesser of two evils and buy them at a superstore. They are required to sell them at MSRP.  LGS stores are still profiting with the $40 sale. By raising the price they're effectively telling you what they value more, meaning they're not much different than Target or Walmart in my eyes.

Drafting is definitely a different experience. I wasn't a big fan of drafting in the Tarkir block because the set wasn't so balanced imo. Abzan, Atarka, and Sultai were way too powerful in comparison to the rest of the clans. I'd point people towards RTR instead of those.
Magic Origins, being a core set, was great for new players. Not a lot of special drafting stuff since nothing was very new.
BFZ is really great for drafting. The Eldrazi / Ally alignments makes for easy deck building. I'm a huge fan. Since Kozilek will probably show up next set, I think OotGW will be a different experience for draft, at least much more different than Tarkir.

This set is different, for sure. I'm a big fan of the Ingest mechanic over Annihilator. Not a lot of eternal staples, but there's quite a few cards that will become staples in my EDH decks. Wizards did a pretty great job with the cards, though the vorthos for some characters are pretty sub-par.

The only downside for this set has really been the Fat Pack issues.

I had a stupidly good draft. I was going to try a 3 color converge deck, but I scrapped that.

I got 2 MYTHICS. So with that I went for a Sultai Eldrazi deck that would control until I had enough ramp to put out Ulamog. I got to put out Ulamog twice, too.

Pack 1 - From Beyond

Pack Two - Ulamog

Pack 3 - Sire of Stagnation

3-1. Lost my last game because I was a bit short on mana and had a critical counterspell. I got wrecked by the new legendary Merfolk that's awakening lands all the time.

Had a pretty great game night. One of my friends bought a pack of BfZ with the change in his car and pulled a Windswept Heath.

hay bestie, i miss u, where ya been

Went 4-0 tonight. My draft was insanely good. Even won a game despite accidentally shuffling my sideboard into my deck (oops). I got passed three Rolling Thunder and two Turn Against. So my deck was silly. Here's a link to it, it was a Red/Green Landfall deck.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/4-0-bfz-draft-rg-landfall/
Beat two Grixis Colorless decks, a Black/Blue Swarm deck, and a White/Black lifegain deck that I barely saw any of before I stomped all over it.

Sadly, no. My closest LGS is ~90 minutes away and I had to work this weekend. The closest thing I have is my own box and our playgroup will be drafting, so I'm not too sad.

Prerelease promo was Gideon. :D

Hey trachy, thanks for being a great guy and friend to me. It's been a good (arena) run, but I gotta go now. Best of luck with whatever game you're playing now and seriously, tartare is better than mayonnaise.