I Dream of Lizards with Illusionary Flair

Last night we had a stargate themed shadake-kind-of game at Lazar's. Dan wasn't there, so we ran a sort of 'dream sequence'... except that we spent most of the night rejiggering our characters to deal with losing all our equipment and 'syntax chains' and building new chains, and spending the ludicrous overdose of advancement crystals.

Then we had one fight, in which a terrible bug in the combat system was uncovered (slow people, like my and Snowwy's chars, NEVER got to act in large combats), and it was time to go home. Whoops.

Still, enough happened to have a ( game summary )

Not sure if we'll continue this next week, or what... it probably depends in part on whether Dan shows up.

The Dawn of a New Era...

Or at least, a new set of magic cards. I picked up a bunch today (all the preconstructed decks, plus a dozen or so packs) and after playing the precons against each other to get the feel for the set, I started in on updating my decks.

The one deck that needed the most help was my Myr deck, which lost skullclamp AND as it turns out was based on an illegal combo (Disciple of the Vault + Talon of Pain). So I went to redo it with 5th dawn cards to help cover the missing parts, and... discovered that it sucked. Royally.

So I went down to the card shop, planning to stop by and pick up a few cards, and then see Harry Potter. Harry Potter was sold out, but I did get a couple Clocks of Omens and Blasting Stations, which were the main things I was missing. Subbing in those for the things that really weren't ever remotely comparable made it at least not suck *totally* -- that is, it could beat my other decks most of the time, although not as much as it used to with the clamps.

( decklist, etc )

Now on to other decks, for now at least... I think I'm going to turn the arcbound deck into something chromatic, to use the tasty-looking Etched Oracles, and there were a few cards to go in the red/white do-not-tap-to-equipment deck.