Gathering 21/02/2012

The gathering happened at Carey’s this week as he has a bigger table. With our ever expanding army this is a wise move for us.

The gathering was down two players this night; Mark and Kevin. However, the numbers were made up by Carey’s Son, Christopher and partner Sadie. So with Bernard, Lee, Carey himself and me, we had six players for the first time.

We started with a 5 player “all vs. All” as Sadie was out. It was a slow starting game as in his second go Christopher had dealt 2 damage to every creature on the battlefield, meaning we were all without creatures at this point. Also, through this game both Lee and Christopher were safer with drawing either no land or nothing at all, but this inevitably made them small players in the game.

I was playing my Boggart feast deck; the last time I played with it I had two ‘Door of Destinies’ cards out,

one with eleven counters on it and the other with three counters on it. It’s an unpredictable deck to play but I thought I was quid’s in. In my opening hand I had two ‘Stenchskipper’ cards in my hand.

But one got destroyed then the other was enchanted with ‘pacifism’.

I was first taken out by Carey’s flying creatures, then a sorcery that deals 1 damage from Christopher. Bernard was next to follow, then Christopher and finally Lee.

Our first empire match was formed of Lee and Sadie having Christopher as there emperor. Carey and I had Bernard as our emperor. Lee was using his Golem deck, Christopher a red Deck and Sadie a Red and Black Vampire deck. I was using my ‘Mana Munchers’ Deck, Bernard his Blue deck and Carey a Spirit Deck.

The game started with Christopher having a card that activates for free, if in your opening hand it deals three damage to all opponents, and you consequently gain life from the damage dealt. So Carey, Bernard and I lost 3 each before doing anything and Christopher was sat with 29 life to start the game.

Carey and I didn’t waste any time in getting to work on our opponents. Carey more so as if left unchecked Lee’s deck can be sat on 6 or more 6/6’s. His spirit flyers made quick work on Lee’s life count.

I had a very good opening hand; ‘Wirewood Elf’, ‘Explosive Vegetation’ and three forests to get my mana up quickly.

With my third turn I had ‘Allosaurus Rider’ out and waiting to be cast on it ‘Shape of the Wiitigo’ and ‘Blanchwood Armor’; at the end of the day it was a 21/21.

Sadie was defenceless against me simply through bad draws, only making one move in which to use ‘Traitorous Blood’ on my ‘Wirewood Elf’ as that’s all I had out at that point.

If only she had waited. 

Christopher had also suffered the effect of a mana clump which made him draw a land every turn, with no useful cards. It didn’t take me and Carey long to deal with him.

The second game was not destined to go as well. I used my blue deck, which would prove to be too slow and Bernard was using a deck he had never used before, and because the deck was unknown to him he did not play it in the way it was intended. I was unable to stay alive long enough to pass him my 13/13 which would have bought him some time.

Carey had put up a good fight, but once your emperor is taken down your team loses. For our first empire match it all went well with the least amount of confusion as possible.

Weird Dream

I always have outrageous dreams when I do dream, but I feel the need to share this one as I had one of my most bizarre dreams to date the other night.

It started out that I was in a college situation with the radio station from my work being played; the radio plays songs which no one has heard of before, and we’ve had the songs looped 24/7 for over a year now, so when I heard The Calling’s “Wherever you will go” I gave the biggest cheer I could manage.

I went over to a bed – I’m not sure where it came from – and found a penguin egg which I had to look after until it hatched as it had no parents; well I hatched it, but it turned out to be a polar bear, which had such a tight grip around my hand. I had to talk to an expert because I couldn’t look after a polar bear, so it was decided it had to be put down. I cried my heart out.

I then find Luke Skywalker so badly beaten up that there was no hope for him... So I put an ice block on him so he would go easily.



I then entered a blocked-in showroom in which I learnt Skywalker was ok. I felt I needed to hide from him but some teenagers had broken in, compromising my cover. As the Skywalker part of the dream dissolved, I shouted and got rid of the teenagers. I then laughed rather hard about something and wet myself (but only in the dream!). After a while I met up with my old manager from work but I kept telling him I couldn’t stay long as I had wet myself.

I ended up at a Velvet Revolver gig; Slash ended up choosing a young lady and I to take part in a competition. We had to go to a bedroom and find clues, but before getting there I had a chat with my Dad about biting toe nails (I’d like to point out, I don’t bite nails).

So we went to the room and started following the clues which finished with me having my head out of the window...

I was woken up after that, but I think that’s a bloody random dream.

Gathering: 25/1/2012

Another week where I didn’t really document the game; I know this is getting rather lazy of me but with working through a promotion at work, things do have to take a side step unfortunately.

This week I got stuck in with a Planechase game, using the planner deck from Elemental Thunder, which proves popular if you’re playing with green and red. I was not, nor was Lee or Carey for that matter. SO we were quite played down on that game.

The next game we played was with the planner deck, Zombie Empire. This didn’t work in anyone’s favour and was quite hated. “Pools of Becoming” was the first Planner card to be set, which stopped any early strategy plans, and it was set to stay for so many turns.

Nobody could plan their next move - which when you’re playing a five player game you would like to really. The next card to be set into play was “The Fourth Sphere”,

which just stunted game play altogether as nobody was playing a black deck; this game was destined to be a long and dragging process. Also, this was only the second time Bernard was introduced to Planechase. With his inexperience, he was more set on rolling the die to change the planner card, then playing the cards in his deck. As the first two cards had been against the wishes of all the players he had the mindset that all the cards would do the same; this led him to try and get rid of the plane without working out that all of this was actually in his favour.

It wasn’t his fault, maybe we as a group forced it upon him too soon, but it did bring the whole game down and this made him lose interest in playing that night. The next game was a normal “all against all” format because Bernard had dropped out for the rest of the night.

Mark played his Sliver deck in the hope I was going to play mine; we could have then fed off of one and others powers. This would have been bad news for Lee and Carey. However, I did not do this which meant the three of us would make quick work to rid the game of Slivers. Carey was the next to go, but only just. Lee was the one to finish him off by taking advantage of my “Wound Reflection”. I had already taken much damage that game so it didn’t take long for my demise to come round to me.