Triple MBS MBS MBS, constantly.

Well not really MBSx3 constantly, but just the other day. I have work on the weekends now, so needed to organise someone to cover me for a GP Trial that was happening at Megagames in Penrith. When asked when it was, I looked it up and realised it was tomorrow. When I work.

I finished at 11 however, so I was able to head straight there and take over during round 1. I had a good mate of mine cover for me, LH, so that was good.

The Trial went for 4 rounds before cutting to top 4, then there was some lovely confusion when we got to top 2. "Winners get the Byes, the end."

"Oh I don't like that," said the store runner CS. "We'll find some boosters for them too."

So knowing there was Byes and boosters for the winner but not how many, before the top 2 started playing I said "OK we don't need to play this out: does one of you actually want the Byes and the other not?" They looked at each unsure. This wasn't really planned for, right? You just win all day long and then get goodies and go home with bragging rights and points!

TB said he had a party to drive people to, and why didn't they ID. His opponent said that he didn't mind either way, so TB offered the hand after some further consideration. This is the elimination part of the tournament, so I assumed he was joking when he said "Let's ID," and that he'd conceeded the match when he offered the handshake. Still, being a very good communicator I say out loud "So opponent X has won the whole thing with blah blah blah."

TB asks me what I mean, they just agreed to ID. I explained how IDs aren't possible in elimination and they instead played off. TB came second, while the winner won.

After that we usually have a draft, but unfortunately there isn't a large number of people interested in drafting these days. We'll get a 4/5ish easy, but the 6/7th we had have moved to England. One was a funny little girl who ALWAYS drafted white, so much so the other fellas were scared to draft it and this created such a vacuum of power that I just had to take advantage of it when I drafted. Now that she and her brother are gone, drafting is a concentrated effort, meaning any player really needs to bring along 3/4 other players to make numbers.

We used my packs seeing it wasn't for points, triple SOM. I knew there'd be plenty of Leonin Skyhunters so went straight in to WU skies. I got 4 of them so my deck looked good to me, only in round 1 it had a complex case of dislexia, throwing me blue cards but the mana for white ones.

By game 2 match 2 it had started working better, and I got a good mix to bash in the sky and steal anyone with Corrupted Conscience after that.

Round 3 I get the bye (only 5 players) and come second after we figure out resistance via who beat who. No one was on zero points, so that's atleast good to know, and the newest Magic player I know actually won the whole thing, Ammy. Double M, yes.

At uni right now, with a draft set waiting for me online at home.

Murdoch Monthly February went up, but it's very long as it's the second half of a set review, and a draft walkthrough. Truly, both are articles on their own!