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l33tminion) wrote2004-09-19 01:39 am
l33tminion) wrote2004-09-19 01:39 am
The Walk Was Definitely Longer in the Rain
This afternoon, I was going to go to Boston with my advising family and then go to the Champions of Kamigawa Prerelease Tournament, but the advising family outing was canceled due to the rain. So I walked to the commuter rail in the rain. About two miles, or a little more, and it was pouring and cold. I got totally soaked, despite having an umbrella and a jacket. The Boston commuter rail is awesome (it's sort of like intercity Amtrak within the greater Boston area), and the ride was pretty comfortable and quick. I got off at South Station, took the Red Line a few stops to JFK/UMass (by this time it had stopped raining), and walked half a block to the tournament.
The tournament was a lot of fun. As far as the set goes, I think insane is the operative word. In Limited play, this set made the game a little more luck based (because of some of the insane creatures in the set), which is both a good and a bad thing. I was pretty happy with the deck I made for the 32 Player Flight (a R/G (splash U) Spirit Deck), but I didn't manage to win anything. I dominated in my first match (against a W/G deck), but faced what was basically an Anti-My-Deck Deck (W/B anti-Spirit deck) in the second round. After two close games, (barely a win for me, then barely a win for my opponent), my opponent got all his anti-my-deck cards in his hand right away and I got ownzed. The third round I played against someone with a B/R spirit deck, and, after two close games, made a critical misplay in what was already a bad situation, losing the third game. I also played a Booster Draft. I made a deck I thought was good (a mono-green (one blue card splashed) mana acceleration / Spirit deck, but I still lost. Not all my fault, though. I got very strange draws (drawing far too many lands (far above the ratio in the deck)) both games, and faced all kinds of bad luck in the draft itself.
Despite this, it was, all in all, a very good day. And, since I was overdue to buy some new cards anyway, it was an okay value ($45 dollars worth of tournament included $28 worth of cards).
It wasn't until I got back to South Station that I realized that I had lost my umbrella. *facepalm* I have no idea where I left it... (although I know I had it until I got to the Needham train station... it's hard to loose an umbrella when you are actually in the rain). I probably put it down at the Needham train station, and someone took it...
The walk back to Olin was quiet, and dark, and definitely a lot shorter than the walk to the train station. I wonder if the theory of relativity has an equation for distance in terms of rain...
And I arrived back at Olin just in time to see it taken over by pirates (who were busily replacing the Olin flag with the Jolly Rodger). Because it's National Speak Like a Pirate day. Arr...
The tournament was a lot of fun. As far as the set goes, I think insane is the operative word. In Limited play, this set made the game a little more luck based (because of some of the insane creatures in the set), which is both a good and a bad thing. I was pretty happy with the deck I made for the 32 Player Flight (a R/G (splash U) Spirit Deck), but I didn't manage to win anything. I dominated in my first match (against a W/G deck), but faced what was basically an Anti-My-Deck Deck (W/B anti-Spirit deck) in the second round. After two close games, (barely a win for me, then barely a win for my opponent), my opponent got all his anti-my-deck cards in his hand right away and I got ownzed. The third round I played against someone with a B/R spirit deck, and, after two close games, made a critical misplay in what was already a bad situation, losing the third game. I also played a Booster Draft. I made a deck I thought was good (a mono-green (one blue card splashed) mana acceleration / Spirit deck, but I still lost. Not all my fault, though. I got very strange draws (drawing far too many lands (far above the ratio in the deck)) both games, and faced all kinds of bad luck in the draft itself.
Despite this, it was, all in all, a very good day. And, since I was overdue to buy some new cards anyway, it was an okay value ($45 dollars worth of tournament included $28 worth of cards).
It wasn't until I got back to South Station that I realized that I had lost my umbrella. *facepalm* I have no idea where I left it... (although I know I had it until I got to the Needham train station... it's hard to loose an umbrella when you are actually in the rain). I probably put it down at the Needham train station, and someone took it...
The walk back to Olin was quiet, and dark, and definitely a lot shorter than the walk to the train station. I wonder if the theory of relativity has an equation for distance in terms of rain...
And I arrived back at Olin just in time to see it taken over by pirates (who were busily replacing the Olin flag with the Jolly Rodger). Because it's National Speak Like a Pirate day. Arr...