Old Fart Magic Night

Well, I survived the big snow storm and made it all the way down to "the store" (Game Universe in Greenfield, WI) only to lose to a girl. Actually, her deck was quite good and my sealed pool is not. Over the next couple of weeks I'll document my experience at "Old Fart Magic Night."

For those of you who aren't familiar, I'll start from the beginning. It all goes back to Ravnica Block. At the time Fugie was working at "the store" and convinced the general manager (GM) that he could get more people into the store if there was a night set aside for more casual minded players that were reluctant to come in on the weekend due to many issues (schedules, crowds of younglings, & certain "pro tour" players that shall remain nameless). Throw in a 10% discount on product night of event with a 21 minimum age, and Old Fart Magic Night was born.

So for the past couple of years we’ve been playing sealed league every Tuesday night. It is a lot of fun. We don’t take ourselves very seriously and play for the fun of it. I guess it brings me back to a simpler time when I played because it was fun & winning was secondary. We have a pretty good core group of players: myself, Scoop Phase, Ed (not Fugie), Jake (not Captain 50%), & Bill (no known nick names). We also seem to have a few reoccurring characters, that move in & out from month to month (Too Sarcastic before he got hitched, Captain_Bondage_Goth before his wife’s schedule changed, and a few others whose names escape me right now).

So, back to this past Tuesday, I open my tournament pack and am amazed to see Garruk, Rings of Bright Earth, & Nath as my three rares, with Crib Swap & Weedstrangle as playable removal. Unfortunately the only fixing I had was a lone Fertile Ground. However, I did have quite a few playable blue merfolk & faeries in Lorwyn. When I opened the two Morningtide packs for this week, I found some more rogue/wizard type cards. So long story short, I ended up playing blue/black wizard/rogues (mostly merfolk & fairies with a few goblins for flavor).

I proceed to get crushed by Jake & Kirsten and racked up six straight losses before winning my first and only game of the night (Black green treefolk/elves got even better with the warrior enablers from Morningtide). I was planning on posting my deck list and sealed pool, but I am not sure if I left my cards at home or if they are somewhere in my car. Either way I’ll post the lists later this week. Until then may the mana gods hate you less than me.