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

Block decks for grinding

While researching the best way to get my constructed collection back up to snuff I decided I would start off on Theros Block decks.  These are the three decks I will more than likely pick up

8 Forest
5 Mountain
3 Plains
4 Temple of Abandon
4 Temple of Triumph
Creatures
4 Sylvan Caryatid
3 Voyaging Satyr
3 Polis Crusher
4 Polukranos, World Eater
2 Arbor Colossus
4 Stormbreath Dragon

Spells
2 Chained to the Rocks
1 Lightning Strike
4 Magma Jet
2 Nylea's Presence
3 Xenagos, the Reveler
4 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
Sideboard
3 Lightning Strike
2 Destructive Revelry
4 Hunt the Hunter
3 Mistcutter Hydra
3 Peak Eruption

This is just a stock naya build for block.  Has a lot of Standard playables in it. 

15  Forest
1  Mountain
4  Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4  Temple of Abandon

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4  Arbor Colossus
4  Boon Satyr
3  Nylea, God of the Hunt
4  Polukranos, World Eater
4  Reverent Hunter
4  Sedge Scorpion
4  Sylvan Caryatid
4  Voyaging Satyr

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3  Bow of Nylea
2  Xenagos, the Reveler

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Sideboard

4  Fade into Antiquity
4  Hunt the Hunter
4  Peak Eruption
3  Time to Feed

Stock Green Red List, Plays a ton of the same cards from the Naya build, should be easy enough to finish up
The final deck is the UW Heroic deck, if it's good enough for my buddy Andy Burden, it's gotta be good enough for me, even if he thinks Tim Tebow should be in the NFL!

8  Island
13  Plains

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21 lands

4  Battlewise Hoplite
4  Fabled Hero
4  Favored Hoplite
2  Hopeful Eidolon
2  Phalanx Leader
4  Soldier of the Pantheon

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20 creatures

4  Aqueous Form
4  Gods Willing
4  Ordeal of Heliod
3  Ordeal of Thassa
4  Triton Tactics

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19 other spells

Sideboard

2  Gainsay
4  Glare of Heresy
2  Last Breath
1  Ordeal of Thassa
3  Voyage's End
3  Wavecrash Triton

Next on my list for decks is Modern, I'm going to pick out 3 decks in total, one of which will be Merfolk, because let's fact it, I'm addicted to that deck! 

Mocs Season Two

I'm gonna start grinding again after the new year.  I've had a pretty good break from magic!