Gatecrash Pre-Release

On monday I played in a Mormir Vig swiss event b/c I needed to finally play magic again. I hope I can go inifinite once my deck stops giving me 0/0s for my 5 drop! Also DENIZEN OF THE DEEP IS THE WORST! Y'know what I love the most in Momir? The 4s.

Saturday I'm going to the gatecrash pre-release and I'm trying to figure the math I need for my deck. Which is hard since all the guilds have different mana needs in their concept. Orzhov should just run an extorters and, like, 28 lands. Tax your oponent to death! The thought of playing Orzhov makes me feel like Arms Akimbo selling "Oops" insurance. OMG YOU GUYS THAT IS THE BEST WAY TO PLAY!

PLaying that way, though, is not how my brain is wired. Orzhov may be The Kingpin, Simic may be conceptually X-Men, just average mutants that train to be the best. I hope to run into a Bald guy playing SImic so I can rattle his head calling him Professor or Charlie and stare him down to see if he has telepathic powers. Gruul are Hulks and I play by tellign the Dr. Banner part of my brain to go eat a BoD. At a pre-release in Texas I was taunted by a spectator to "Get your head in the game, Louisiana!" I was playing Rakdos. I'm going into auto pilot until I wake up in the middle of an empty hall with the blood of my enemies on my fists with no memoery of how I lost my shirt but kept my pants.

Playing in that PTQ in Texas was great, too. I was entirely defined by my birthplace. I WAS Louisiana. I was the avatar of my crap state and much like how Louisiana's relationship to Texas is defined, there was just too much Texas for me to overcome. Its so big and omnipresent. Texas is just the worst jerk asshole ever. All of it.

Anyway, I was talking to a friend over whether I should go for the cool sticker or play Magic to win at the pre-release. I realized that I'd just never be able to enjoy playing Orzhov or Dimir. I hate white and weenie aggro in limited so Boros is out. Simic just seems like it wants to durdle forever. I'm picking Gruul b/c SMASH.