In #Magic last night, I debuted my new #Dune deck with an underwhelming performance - perhaps unsurprisingly for a desert-focused deck, I faced a real drought, starting the game with only 1 land in hand (even after a mulligan) and not pulling another land until turn 4(!). Because of our house starting mana, I wasn't totally sunk, but everything I got out was just luck. I did die last thanks to my big wurms (so I guess I was 2nd place?), but still... underwhelming.

For game 2, I wanted to bring the thunder (especially after my pitiful performance last week), so I dusted off my Night of 1000 Squirrels deck (headed by the infamous Chatterfang, Squirrel General). By turn 3, the #squirrel army was forming, and thanks to well-timed casts of Fog and Make a Stand, the squirrels managed to overrun everyone just a few turns later.

Another fun night overall. I won't be able to play for the next few weeks, so I'm glad this one ended with a win. 😁 #mtg

I took the day off to get some stuff done around the house, but I wound up spending most of the day making #Dune-themed proxies for #Magic.

I had hoped to print them out for tomorrow night's games, but I'm up to 20 cards and 20+ tokens, so... we'll have to wait and see what tomorrow brings.

Here's a couple to share and enjoy:

#NoRegrets #mtg

Went 0-for-3 tonight, first time in a while. I was doing well both of the first two games, but the 3rd game... Well, the less said the better.

For next week, I guess it's time for the return of Chatterfang and another Night of 1000 Squirrels.

Just remember, they brought it on themselves...

Just printed and sleeved some proxies for tomorrow night's #Magic games, including this one from my Guardians of the Multiverse deck:

https://itsericwoodward.com/images/408216dd.jpg

He's Spider-Man Supreme, from Clash of the Champions - a Spider-Man from a universe where Peter Parker is also the Sorcerer Supreme of his Earth. He's one of my favorite characters in the game, and I thought he'd be an appropriate proxy for Cosmic Spider-Man (the best card from the Spider-Man set, but only really useful for a tribal Spiders deck).

I'm still on a deckbuilding kick, so I was thrilled that we managed to get 3 games of Magic in last night.

In game 1, my Marvel Villains deck couldn't stand up to Doctor Who's Missy and her army of Cybermen (and Daleks). Since someone else was playing a dark lord Sauron deck, I guess that means she's even more "villainous" that anything Marvel or Tolkien could offer.

For game 2, I ran my Guardians of the Multiverse deck (formerly known as The B-Vengers or Marvel Heroes 2: Electric Bugaloo). It was working well, and I had quite an army going, but I was still one turn from a win when an opponent's tribal elf deck went off, killing everyone with 19 19/19 forest-walking elves. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Then in game 3, I ran my Avengers deck, and finally got the win thanks to a Heroes' Podium, a pair of Hawkeyes, and a flying, shield-wielding Captain America. Assemble, indeed.

Last night will likely be my final Marvel-only game night for a while. I still need to test the decks out some more, but they're basically complete (I don't currently plan on adding any more cards to them). Plus, while I'm on this kick, I'd like to finally finish my Sauron deck, and I've got some cards on order for both a Dune-themed deck and a couple of decks inspired by the old-school Beatdown Box.

Although I was initially concerned that adding modern Marvel superheroes to the high-fantasy worlds of "Magic: the Gathering"" would be too aesthetically dissonant, instead it's gotten me back into deck building in a big way.

Since the set was released last month, I've built: a 5-color Super Villains deck, two 5-color Superheroes decks, plus a 5-color tribal Mutant Ninja Turtles deck (built from the best cheap singles from the TMNT set from earlier this year, a set that was a bit more dissonant, but still weird enough to be fun).

And then there's the proxies...

https://itsericwoodward.com/images/903647a4.png

Perhaps unsurprisingly, last night's Magic games were dominated by the new Marvel set.

In game 1, I was running my new (unlisted) 5-color tribal Super Heroes deck (led by Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD) against a lightly-modified Avengers Assemble deck, a tribal Super Villains deck (fronted by Thanos, the Mad Titan), and 2 "classic" magic decks (Fractals and Artifacts). The heroes held their own quite well, but that game went way too long (thanks to Thanos snapping away half the board every other turn). It finally ended when everyone quit after yet another board wipe (giving the wiper her first win).

What a week!

It looks like I mostly missed the #twtxthashgeddon (so happy belated twtxthashgeddon day, to those who celebrate), although I'm glad that [twtxt-lib](https://twtxt-lib.itsericwoodward.com/#overview) appears to have come through it more-or-less unscathed.

Also, today is (was) July 4th, so happy US Independence Day (to those that celebrate). I didn't feel much like celebrating, myself, so instead I went and played Magic (results tomorrow).

Finally, today is (now) July 5th, so happy X-Day (to those that celebrate). I can't help but feel like this would be a great time for the saucers to come.... Just sayin'. 👽

BTW - welcome to twtxt @GabesArcade!

In Magic today, the Phyrexian Invasion failed in the first game, but the second game was EPIC!

I played my (unlisted) Dragons 2: Draconic Boogaloo deck, and...

Turn 1: Nothing special Turn 2: Miirym (when a dragon enters, copy it) Turn 3: Tiamat (choose 5 dragons from deck, put in hand) Turn 4: Klauth (when dragons attack, create mana equal to their total power) I attacked with all 5 dragons, which made 28 mana x2 = 56(!) mana. Then (still turn 4) I played Scourge of Valkas (when a dragon enters, deal damage to target equal to number of dragons) + 5 other dragons, dealing 6 + 2 x (7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17) = 270(!) direct damage (more than double enough to kill the other 3 players).

Damn fine win, if I do say so myself.

I went 1-for-2 again at Magic today, winning the first game with my (mostly standard) Fallout "Hail, Caesar" deck by creating a swarm of soldiers and slapping people across the face with them (LOL!), before quitting the 2nd game for lack of time after my board got wiped (I mean, I might have lucked into something eventually, but it was getting late, so I dropped out).

I hope to play more regularly going into the summer, but who knows.

My first game of Magic ended with a truly EPIC TURN yesterday...

It was a 5-player game, and I was running my (unpublished) Superfriends deck (mostly Planeswalkers and counter manipulators). After some ups and downs, I was able to pop the ultimate abilities on a handful of PWs all on a single turn, pumping my Bioessence Hydra to 110/110 (!) before tapping it twice to kill 2 opponents, and then following that by destroying all of the lands of a 3rd opponent and stealing all of the creatures from the 4th, at which point the survivors decided to quit. As I said, EPIC TURN!

Game 2 ran long, so I dropped out. But that first game...

I won our only game of Magic for this week with my (yet-to-be published) "Bolas Triumphant" deck: 5 players over 3 hours, including 4 board wipes (one of which came from my Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh), and I even got to cast Omniscience via a Fae of Wishes. I can't speak for everyone, but I know I had a good time. 😁

I went 1 for 2 at Magic this week... Temmet made a good showing the first game before being overwhelmed by an infinite number of Wylls (aka Fred Durst, on account of all his "rollin', rollin', rollin'!"). As a result, I unleashed Chatterfang on the group for the second game, and he lead his squirrel army to victory once again. Good times!

Went 2/3 at Magic today: Prosper dominated game 1, Ash and his Knights came within a single planar die roll of winning game 2, and then Atraxa came up with the win in a fairly tight game 3. All in all, not a bad afternoon of Magic.