Quest for the Force of Will

I've had my son since Sunday. I do not play magic while my son is here. That is why there have been no updates. Still at 4 points, it's okay though, have plenty of time to catch up.

Quest for the Force of Will: Day 2

Today was a train wreck. I played KCI again all day. Some days you draw hot, other days you draw the opposite of that. Today was that day. I played in 7 events. I went 2-8. I won 1 QP. I incinerated 42 tickets, and won 3 packs, so I'm down, but not as down as I could be. I'm down 20 on the day. I played against 8 decks today. I lost 4 really good matchups due to just not getting there. No play mistakes were made, and two of the matches I lost were to Twin. I beat affinity, which should have told me that today was going to be a weird day. I also beat merfolk, both of those decks are AWFUL Matchups. Gonna wake up and try again tomorrow!

Quest for the Force of Will: Day 1.

Sure, sure. I know that season 5 of the MOCS actually started yesterday, but I did not play after downtime came back up. (Well that's not true, I did two man a lot. I picked up a set of Lion's Eye Diamonds on the cheap thanks to the promo price! Played a lot of Legacy Belcher!) Today marked my first day of actually playing with the goal of getting QPs. I played from 1pm to 1030pm, which sounds like a lot of sitting in front of my computer, and that is true, but I managed to do the dishes, some laundry, and buy a little bit of groceries. So I was kinda active and not just sitting here. I played in 6 Modern events, Krark-Clan Ironworks combo was the only thing I played. On the day I played against 12 different modern decks. I only played against Zoo more than once, and to be fair, one of them was Counter Cat, and the other was Tribal Flames. So I could say that they were different! Overall I went 8-5 in the matches that I played. I went 0-1 in two 8 mans. I went 1-1 in another two 8 mans, and went 3-0 in one. The Daily event I played in saw me go 3-1. I earned 3 qps. I won 15 packs. After selling the packs I am up 13 tickets after paying the 24 ticket entry fees. I'll have an article up on Puremtgo.com or Legitmtg.com recapping my season.

Theros Block Constructed

3-1 with it in a daily event beat 2 mono reds, naya and lost to mono black aggro. 1-0 so far in another Beat mono black control 2 Abhorrent Overlord 2 Swamp 2 Drown in Sorrow 4 Ashen Rider 4 Temple of Plenty 4 Sylvan Caryatid 4 Temple of Silence 4 Elspeth, Sun's Champion 4 Courser of Kruphix 1 Swamp 2 Hero's Downfall 4 Satyr Wayfinder 3 Whip of Erebos 4 Commune with the Gods 4 Astral Cornucopia 10 Forest 2 Swamp Sideboard 3 Nylea's Disciple 3 Rescue from the Underworld 1 Hero's Downfall 1 Whip of Erebos 4 Dark Betrayal 3 Revoke Existence

Bug Control

This is what I am currently playing in Standard. Rough matchups seems to be Mono Red if I stumble on mana. I've not seen enough of the mono black devotion to judge it properly. Will be playing it some more

Bug Control

Standard

Creatures 4 Courser of Kruphix 2 Sylvan Primordial 1 Sepulchral Primordial 4 Sylvan Caryatid 11 cards Other Spells 1 Jace, Memory Adept 4 Kiora, the Crashing Wave 2 Vraska the Unseen 4 Dissolve 1 Gaze of Granite 2 Ultimate Price 1 Hero's Downfall 2 Read the Bones 1 Urban Evolution 2 Far/Away 2 Cyclonic Rift 2 Abrupt Decay 24 cards

Lands 4 Overgrown Tomb 1 Swamp 4 Forest 2 Swamp 4 Temple of Deceit 4 Temple of Mystery 2 Island 3 Breeding Pool 1 Watery Grave 25 cards Sideboard 3 Doom Blade 2 Gainsay 2 Drown in Sorrow 2 Duress 2 Golgari Charm 1 Unravel the Aether 1 Dark Betrayal 2 Mistcutter Hydra 15 cards

3-1 in standard.

Picked up Mono Blue Devotion last night.  I'm pretty sleep deprived, seeing that I have been awake since 3pm yesterday.  I figured if I had a deck on MTGO that served me better than having a bunch of cards, so I went with Mono Blue Devotion, Merfolk in Modern (not a surprise there) and UR control and Eye Candy in Pauper.  So I have decks that I am comfortable with ( Aether vial in mono blue devotion would be sick!) and can actually play instead of using a cobbled together pile of cards! 

I played mono blue in a Daily event, went 3-1, losing to Mono Black Devotion, but beating a mono red aggro deck and two red devotion decks.  Not bad for someone who had never picked up the deck before right?

Grinding Sunday

Played in two events, went 3-3 in the Pauper Premier with Affinity and then 0-2 with Burn in Legacy. 

Burn

Legacy

Creatures 4 Goblin Guide 3 Hellspark Elemental 3 Keldon Marauders 10 cards Other Spells 4 Rift Bolt 4 Skullcrack 2 Sulfuric Vortex 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Fireblast 2 Flames of the Blood Hand 3 Price of Progress 4 Chain Lightning 4 Lava Spike 31 cards

Lands 19 Mountain 19 cards Sideboard 3 Smash to Smithereens 1 Sulfuric Vortex 3 Searing Blaze 2 Pyrostatic Pillar 3 Relic of Progenitus 3 Ashen Rider 15 cards

I lost to Mono Blue Show and Tell, took him to three games, I got to Ashen Rider an Emrakul. I also lost to Miracles. The Affinity matches I beat were Eye Candy, Burn, and Something I do not remember. I lost to mono black in my win and in in round 6 (I may not have been in) and to Mono Blue Twice.

Affinity

Pauper

Creatures 4 Myr Enforcer 3 Disciple of the Vault 4 Carapace Forger 4 Frogmite 4 Atog 19 cards Other Spells 4 Galvanic Blast 1 Prophetic Prism 4 Thoughtcast 4 Springleaf Drum 4 Chromatic Star 2 Fling 2 Ichor Wellspring 3 Perilous Research 24 cards

Lands 1 Darksteel Citadel 4 Tree of Tales 4 Great Furnace 4 Vault of Whispers 4 Seat of the Synod 17 cards Sideboard 3 Ancient Grudge 1 Spell Pierce 3 Dispel 2 Electrickery 2 Evil Presence 2 Duress 2 Doom Blade 15 cards