Arcade Service Travel Bug

By accident I checked the geocaching site and I found out that ACTB is located just few hundred meters away from the place I was standing at that time. I had to go and get it... (around 1am)
I will go take some photos of it with my arcade machine and will post the photos later.

Video - My Trip To Pilsen Micro Edit

For micro editing I decided to use footage from our way to Pilsen to play Pump it up. I shot the first videos not featuring me and Xsoft shot the videos while I was playing Pump It Up.

I appended the videos in AviSynth, edited the videos in AviSynth as well. Sound tracks are put together in Goldwave and everything is exported using Virtual Dub.

All this just because Adobe Premiere seems to be on strike.

Anti blightning deck

In our game store there is a tournament for beginners (the level varies, sometimes there are serious extended decks played, sometimes real beginners come to play in these tournaments - most of the time it used to be the mixture of both) each Sunday.

It is said to be of extended format but it usually comes down to some weird type 2 decks with Lorwyn/Shadowmoor cards + few Extended decks (like Thopter/Depths, Scapeshift, Zoo or Doran rock). 2/3 of the kids play some kind of blightning aggro or burn deck (they usually win over other deck types as no one can do much about Blightning). I participated in the tournament last time to fill up the last even slot with some 'Boros can't win deck'. Taking my Zoo would not be fair.

Most of the games looked like Blightning followed by Blightning. I was left with no cards in hand usually. After this usually it was 'the person who draws more burn spells wins'. My deck did not run that much burn and the games weren't fun at all^^ Unless you like top decking and being happy for anything that can instantly deal damage to your opponent. Once though I luckily drew Ranger of Eos, I played it along with the cards it found (Goblin Guide and Spark Elemental) and my opponent just burned two of those creatures and terminated the last one (and still he had 1 card in his hand left)..after that I just died to Staggershocks, Lightning Bolts and some unearth guys.

After the tournament I started thinking about a deck that would wake these guys up - showing them that way that Blightning aggro does not need to be the best deck ever.
At first I just thought about running some mono white deck with life gain and kitchen finks but Lukas remarked that the number one anti-blightning card is Wilt-leaf Liege^^.

I got this for them...and if they happen to be odd in numbers I will actually play this next time.

Oversoul (of dusk)

4x Wilt-Leaf Liege
4x Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers
4x Kitchen Finks
3x Oversoul of Dusk
2x Loxodon Hierarch
2x Loxodon Gatekeeper
4x Llanowar Elves
4x Steward of Valeron
4x Watchwolf
1x Path To Exile
3x Oblivion Ring
1x Condemn
4x Stirring Wildwood (I don't plan playing Temple Garden)
4x Wooded Bastion
Plains and Forests...

SB: hm...more protection from red? ^^
and some enchantment/artifact removal...(actually pridemage might do...might replace something in MD but well doing sideboard for completely random meta is quite difficult especially when the level can be between anywhere between beginning players' decks, casual decks to normally played extended decks).

Heh, if they ever ask me for a game I look forward to be targeted with Blightning^_^.

Extended for fun

On Saturday I found by an accident some Pillars of the Paruns. Luki seemed like he would want to build a deck based on multicolor split cards. The day later we went to a park and played few games of Magic there. Wind was blowing (it seemed that a storm would come sooner or later). Still we decided to play. I wasn't sure if I want to play with my Zoo (not a cheap deck really^_~) and Luki proclaimed something like "the best deck for this weather [windy one] is to play a multicolor deck with lot of planeswalkers, vivids and gemstone mines". It took me a while to realize what he meant with it. But well you know counters weight quite a bit and can hold a card down.

When we came back the idea of planeswalkers and 5c deck was still there in his mind so we decided to build some casual decks for extended. His proclamation made me laugh several more times so I wanted to go for some Persist deck. Luki kept to his 5c control.

At first I wanted to play it in Jund colors with Sprouting Thrinax and Soul's Fire but I was too lazy trying to figure out what the mana base should be. So I took Quillspikes, Devoted Druids and Rites of Consumptions and decided to add few cards that would come in handy.

Yum Yum -1/-1 Counters

Creatures: 22
4x Quillspike
4x Devoted Druid
3x Putrid Leech
3x Murderous Redcap
2x Nantuko Husk
2x Bloodthrone Vampire
4x Kitchen Finks

Other spells: 16
4x Inquisition of Kozilek
4x Maelstrom Pulse (Putrefy)
4x Vines of Vastwood
4x Rite of Consumption

Lands: 22
I added some lands...without really thinking about it
It worked though.

7x Forest
7x Swamp
2x Twilight Mire
2x Overgrown Tomb
4x Verdant Catacombs

Kitchen Finks gain a lot of life and they are quite good attackers and good blockers. Redcap can kill some creatures even though it won't kill Wild Nacatl nor Kird Ape etc. That's why I choose to play 3 of them.

I needed something to sacrifice my creatures. I wanted to play Nantuko Husk 4x but I realized that there's a creature for 1B having the same ability. Not sure which creature is better so I have 2 of each for the time being. I wanted this deck to be more aggro so I added Putrid Leech as well. It does not have persist but can pump itself which saves it against Bolt, Helix, Firespout etc.

I wasn't really sure about the rest...Vines of Vastwood is there for protecting Devoted druid or well that was the original idea as I need devoted druid to be able to produce mana. Inquisition of Kozilek seemed good idea as well. This will get me rid of all the cards I don't want to see. I was left with one more slot in the end. I was thinking about adding Safehold Elite but then decided to add some kind of removal. The only universal removal is Maelstrom Pulse but how good is that at extended? Putrefy should be good enough.

I'll have some Matrixes/Needles in sideboard. Most probably Firespout as well. We will see how this can fare against other Extended decks than the 5cc and Zoo I played against.

Battle Night no.15

This Saturday there was Battle Night no.15 held in Prague. The event took place in Abaton.

There were two stages where dance and rap battles were taking place + one chill out zone where you could relax and chat with the others.

I have to say that I was amazed by Abaton space and the people who came for the event.

Just writing this down as it was a good experience. Rather tiring and nothing for me but experience nonetheless.