A weekend dominated by magic…the gathering

Friday night, I went out to chill with Stevie and my friend Joe at the “Fox and the Hound”. I didn’t eat or drink anything due to my lack of cash for the weekend.

Saturday, After stocking up on food to last til my next paycheck, I was invited to a family party at my friend Mike’s(his family not mine) house. There were two other soirees going on that night but I never left Mike’s because MTG was being played pretty regularly all night. I didn’t win a whole lot but I did win a 3 on 3 match. I don’t remeber every detail but here’s the basic scenario.

Steve and Robert were my oppoenents. We were all playing the same color decks, Red and Black. Early on my deck had gotten creatures out the fastest and I pretty much hit both opponents evenly for damage. before I could deliver a critical blow though, Steve played Blightning against me. It’s a spell that does 3 damage to me and forces me to discard two cards from my hand. I only had two cards in my hand so that left me relying on my drawn card for each turn. so the last three turns were key. I had been knocked down to 6 health, Steve had 6 health but was the most fortified creature wise and Robert was down to 5 with two creatures out. Robert had a chance to take me out and instead choose to do some last minute damage to Steve hoping that Steve would take me out before him. Robert’s attack intended to destroy two of Steve’s creatures but Steve played an instant which boosted his two blocking creatures and added trample which causes damage equal to the unblocked damage from Steve’s creatures to go to robert. So now robert was out and I only had 6 life and Steve could easily do lethal damage to me even if I put a creature out to block. SO I drew a card. And lucky day. I got Mudbutton torchrunner. He’s a little creature that costs 3 mana but is only a 1/1. The extra cost is due to this ability, “Anytime Mudbutton torchrunner is put into the graveyard from play deal 3 damage to target creature or player”. So I paid the 3 mana and put him out and asked Steve if he is going to counter the torchrunner. He said he couldn’t. I said well then you lose. I sacrificed my creature and put him into the graveyard dealing 3 damage to steve and winning the game for me.

It’s moments like that that can make you addicted to MTG.

Sunday I played some more of the MTG 360 game and hung out with Anthony and Chris. We watched the Blu-ray of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. The movie has always been about eye candy, but for me the movie always suffered from serious pacing issues. The added meterial doesn’t help the pacing but it does give you a better picture of the plot story and charecters. It’s still a 3 star flick for me.