Time to Re-Focus

As you know, I recently got back into Magic after a long time away. Not quite as long of a time away as my time away before this time away, but you know… Okay, time to stop talking about how much time I’ve spent away from the game and what I’ve learned since coming back.

I need to rebuild my collection before I get too excited and start chasing decks. I really don’t have much of a collection anymore as most of my cards are older and have lost significant value over time. I am also restarting with very little funding, because my budget is tight and I’m not rich, nor do I have parents subsidizing my play.  So I’ve decided to sell some of my more expensive Mythics to acquire some cheaper, but potentially more fun mythics & rares.

At this point all I’ve done is build a RDW deck for Standard and I’ll play Standard and Limited until I can build up my Constructed collection some more. Today’s the day I go back to work, so we’ll see how much time for Magic I have in the coming months.

Extended… Has Been Expelled

After going out and getting all the cards for the Green/White Summoning Trap deck and testing it in a Premier Event and some casual games, I have abandoned Extended for now. The deck wasn’t flowing very well for me and I ended up not being able to sign on in time for the PTQ due to other circumstances. So I got to skip the tournament and do some schoolwork, which is good.

I won’t be posting until later this week most likely because I have a huge workload for school over the next four days. I started recording some matches (as evidenced by my first YouTube upload), but haven’t found a good video editor yet and I just replaced my video card the other day. My old one simply went kerpoop. Whatever matches I play will most likely be 1-on-1 Standard matches with Valakut. I’ll definitely try to record them and get some sound/commentary in there as well (as soon as I get a decent video editor).

For now, here’s the revised Valakut list that I’ve been running:

1 Verdant Catacombs

5 Forest

12 Mountain

4 Valakut, Molten Pinnacle

4 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Raging Ravine

4 Primeval Titan

4 Overgrown Battlement

1 Avenger of Zendikar

1 Terastradon

4 Khalni Heart Expeidition

3 Cultivate

2 Harrow

3 Explore

4 Green Sun’s Zenith

4 Lightning Bolt

3 Slagstorm

SIDEBOARD

4 Tunnel Ignus

3 Pyroclasm

2 Obstinate Baloth

2 Thrun, the Last Troll

3 Nature’s Claim

1 Terastradon

I’m thinking of moving the Baloths out of the sideboard. They’ve been okay, but never amazing. Until next time…