Elder Dragon Highlander...

Today I went to school to get some information about the lessons, grading, timetable. And well I got the information needed. The funny thing is that... Monday, Thursday looks like 1 lesson starting at 8 am and other one starting at 7 pm! That's really cool. *irony*

After that I went to see my sister to pass her few episodes of Heroes, to give her some replacement parts for a RC model helicopter etc. We went together to Govinda, an Indian vegetarian restaurant. I like the food but well it's all vegetables and I get hungry too soon and that happened today as well.

Later, I went to Outpost hoping I would play a bit of Magic: The Gathering. Too bad for me no one was interested in standard or extended. So I decided to watch other people play their Highlander decks. I was too exhausted to go home ...

There was one really extraordinary match. Imagine a blue control against whatever (green aggro). In play there's Jushi Apprentice (flipped) and well loads of lands as you can imagine. The player of the control wanted Reliquary Tower in play and hoped to draw it. He decided to draw as many cards as he could (20...). Too bad the card wasn't there so he tried it once again...and no it wasn't there either. Last attempt...Tower no where to be find. Well, all this cards that would make him win where in the graveyard. Opponent decided to try to play Tormod's Crypt but it god countered (the player did not even realize that he actually countered that spell). He started thinking about how he could kill his opponent...Well, all he got was Capsize, bunch of counterspells and Jushi Apprentice. So he decided to mill opponent's library. (I forgot to mention a part of the game that was like: blue and red Honden shrines in play but this lead to drawing cards from a library which did not have THAT many cards so it ended up 'capsized'). He did not do it in the end. Instead he decided to have more fun. He made some of his lands alive and attacked with them. The last life was taken away with Spectral Searchlight - Mana Burn.

Later, I tried this deck as well (lovely). Then I borrowed a different deck. Green treefolk/elves deck. I drew 7 cards, looked at the new design of the cards. 'You don't play just the new cards don't you' was my question. The reply was: 'Not all of them are new...there are cards from Shadowmoor and up'. So I was like 'Cool, I'll have to read EACH card in my hand'. Opponents were playing mono blacks and crypt rats were cleaning the table of creatures and also made some serious damage to us as well. I did not really care about that as I added a lot of life and attacked few times with some 'big' treefolk guys.^_^. I won this game, hihi. But well I was lucky. (with 23 lives and my last opponent having 4 so...)

There were many interesting games that day (ok not so many as it was all highlender/highlander). For example Zombie Traillblazer got once to the table, died. But Infernal Caretaker returned this zombie back to the owners' hand(s). Later in the game when this card was quite forgotten, Phage the Untouchable ended up in play. Opponent having 5 swamps and two nice creatures (anyone wants -2/-2 or monocolor protection?). I have to say that the swamp was a problem. Phage got swampwalk and went through unblocked.

[b]Quotes of the day.[/b]
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Person1: 'What do you play?'
Person2: 'All common vs. all common'
Person3: 'Check [player2]'s hand' (the player had 5 rares and one uncommon card in his hand)
Person1: 'Hm, that looks more like All Rare deck'
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'You don't play just the new cards don't you'
'Not all of them are new...there are cards from Shadowmoor and up'.
'Cool, new cards thus'.
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'Sliver'
'Mana tithe'
'Sliver'
'Sliver attacks'
'Judge Unworthy'
'Sliver'
'Mana Tithe'
'Sliver'
'Sliver attacks'
'Judge Unworthy'
'What's going on?'
'I control the slivers'
[white 'control' deck player dead]
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First match
'Sprouting Thrinax'
'Sprouting Thrinax'
'Sprouting Thrinax'
'Loads of saprolings...'
Second match
'Sprouting Thrinax'
'Sprouting Thrinax'
'Sprouting Thrinax'
'Loads of saprolings...'
'WTF???? o_O These Thrinaxes always come'
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'nuf'
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'You want to kill me with that Llanowar elf?'
[that player lost the game because of that elf later in the game]
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