I drafted for the first time last night and won! There were only 7 of us, so I played three games, each one best of three. I won 2/0 each of the three games! I was undefeated! I'm stoked about it because really I had no confidence in myself at all. We played with alara reborn and shards of alara, and I decided on red/black/blue (which are my favorite colors, it just happened that I was getting passed good cards from those). I had lightning reaver and deathbringer thoctar, and somehow got one or both of them each game I played, which helped me immensely. The one time I got totally mana screwed my opponent did as well, and I inched out ahead.




I got a lightning reaver when I played the sealed pack tournament too, so I might build a deck around these guys. I have a couple other decent cards with fear and/or haste, which was what I was generally trying to do with this deck, so we'll see if I can tighten it up and have some kind of decent beast/zombie deck or something. Should be fun!

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It's Tuesday and I still haven't recovered from the weekend.
I went to a party on Friday and went home early, puked 4 times, and finally fell asleep.

Then on Saturday I went to the Alara Reborn MTG pre-release tournament. It was awesome but soooo nervewracking! I'm not used to building decks, and this was a deck from 6 boosters in about 30 minutes! I did okay, my deck was decent and I won a couple games but no matches. I had fun though! And I got a ton of cool cards, including this:

A couple of my friends got the new meddling mage card. I'm bummed I didn't get it but I probably would have ripped it up anyway because the card should have Chris's face on it forever and always!

After the tournament I went to ABC No Rio and saw a ton of bands play, including Ism who had my friend Javi playing drums. I saw a lot of teenage skanking to punk, it made me happy.

THEN I met up with a friend who had an extra pass for the Tribeca film fest, and we saw two movies which were just ehhh. One was Midgets vs Mascots, and while funny, it wasn't really what I seek out usually. The other was Hysterical Psycho which had not one, not two, but THREE cameos from the director. It was a horror movie spoof I guess, but I found it pretty self involved and boring.

On Sunday I got up and went straight back to see another Tribeca film, this time it was Don McKay. I liked that one the best out of the three, but it still wasn't mind blowing or anything. At least this one was shot and acted well.

After that, I went to Europa and saw Bane play with Have Heart and a bunch of other sxe hardcore bands. Crime in Stereo was playing too, but I left during their first song. 5 bands was enough, 6 was way too much. I'd never been in a room with that many other straightedge kids, it was kind of crazy!

Yesterday I went to Magic Monday at Fat Cat and could barely play a game. I added a couple cards I got from the prerelease into my artifact and goblin decks, but didn't have enough brainpower to do anything much beyond that. Tonight I may finally go to SCA fight practice at McCarren park, and tomorrow is hopefully our first play of Freemarket!

I'm happy that I've got so much awesome stuff going on, but it's kind of crazy and hectic and I honestly can't wait until I have a little bit of time to myself!

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Here is a very roundabout story that I promise will have a cute punchline.

I recently bought a fake leather jacket and I feel very tough in it, and this weekend one of my friends commented on how awesome it was. We then got into a discussion about awesome metal jackets in general, and I told him about one of my high school ex boyfriends who had the raddest metal jean jacket I have ever seen because he had meticulously painted Castlevania on the entire back of it. Then, to illustrate how badass and metal he was, I said that he once gave me some dead roses and had them spraypainted black, and as a side note I mentioned that those are the only flowers I've ever been given by a guy.

My friends then got all up in arms and were like "oh my god, I can't believe no one has given you flowers!" I don't really think it's a big deal, because I date punk dudes, and punk dudes are not known to be very romantic. Anyway, I showed up to Magic Monday yesterday and lo and behold, my friends presented me with a bunch of flowers. And a bag of flour. They are really the best friends a girl could ever want.




Now my only-gotten-dead-black-roses story is ruined, BUT I get to add the except-from-my-friends-who-gave-me-pity-flowers/flour bit to the end, so I think it makes the story better.

Magic was really fun yesterday. I decided to go to Forbidden Planet and get some booster packs and then walk over from there. I'm getting really limited in what I can do with the cards I have, so I wanted a bunch of new random ones to maybe give me some ideas. I got a foil Apocalypse Hydra but I have no green cards to put with it really.



And one of my friends had an extra Kaervek the Merciless and gave it to me, so exciting!



I also got a couple good artifact cards and some other cool stuff that I am going to build decks around for sure.

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Here are the best pictures from Kaiju:



I also got a photo taken with the MC but I look terrible and demonic in it, so I deleted it!

The cats were being really funny and creepy this morning, so I took a picture:


I'm still sore from the gardening! I can't believe it affected me that much!

Tonight is magic monday. I didn't make any new decks this weekend and I still kind of hate/ am bored of all my decks. I think the 5-color sunburst deck has potential though. I want to get one of these:


My merfolk deck also has some potential but I think it's kind of annoying for the people I'm playing against because it's all about hijacking lands and that's a bit of a no-no. I think it needs bigger creatures as well.

I also found this article on rats! I want to build a rat/rodent deck so badly, I have a lot of those cards but only one of each.

I also want to try building decks that aren't theme decks. I feel like I've gotten pretty decent at building theme decks off the cuff, but they're never clever, just playable. I need to start looking at my rares and try to get some good combos and go from there...

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