Well!

By now you'll have seen the pile of uploads I shoved up by now from Fox in Scotland showing off all the arts that I got out of the share from Auto Assembly, all that Transformers art and sketches from folks, eeeee~

Well, while I couldn't be there myself, at least I've got all those arriving that I can see them in person soon, as well as a few other surprises I've not been told what they are, but know to expect something soon =B

While all that was happening, I've had my own adventures to enjoy, because even if I'd been able to journey to the UK, I'd have been tough driven to pick between Transformers and Magic cards, since Game Day for Magic 2015 took up the whole weekend!

Only one problem was, the fact I was working the whole weekend too =P So instead I went and flung in a whole pile of overtime and shaking about shifts until finally I managed to get both days off to take part in the event

There wasn't any side story for me this time after the XBox game pretty much filled the gaps on the Garruk story, but I still got to have some fun with folks playing against the Garruk cards we were all given in the original prerelease, or filled the time with other items we could come up with

As far as the main events though, I had not one, but two decks to use, deciding that I'd try each of them out and see how things would go

Sadly day one did not go well for my latest brew of "Blueprint for Success"

So basically it ran around:
Chief Engineer:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WN5nIHwk--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/785470751656997291.jpg

Who would employ all my creatures into work forces who would build my big massive Artifacts, say either...

Soul of New Phyrexia:
http://media-dominaria.cursecdn.com.....83388.full.jpg

Or...

Scuttling Doom Engine:
http://www.magicspoiler.com/wp-cont.....15-Spoiler.png

Basically, artificacts that are actually creatures, really big ones with awesome effects that hit hard and heavy

And then finally?
Shrapnel Blast:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=383380&type=card

To detonate my giant creatures and cause the finishing blow! Prime example being one match where I brought out Scuttling Doom Engine against a player who was hiding behind a set of 1/1 Soldiers, none of whom could block it from smacking their owner in the face for 6, then Shrapnel Blast exploded the doom engine, which caused 6 damage when it exploded along with the 5 from the shrapnel blast itself, 17 damage all in one turn!

Saaaaaadly it was very situational, and there was a case of too many giant creatures to work really, sadly landing me at 10th in rankings and not enough to make it into the top 8 finals, still, it was a nifty promo for taking part with the already awesome Reclamation Sage now in full art form: (whose wrath I'd already felt more than once in the day...)
http://media-dominaria.cursecdn.com.....2729461828.png

So, instead I concentrated on working on the next day and traded a buttload of stuff for a foil version of Thassa to wrap up my day, I may have came out the one trading for more overall, buuuuut I still felt damn happy with my very pretty God card, who joined the other water creatures in the artifact deck =B


Next day?

I went in with a Green/White/Black Superfriends deck, all based around Green Planeswalkers and splashing into the other colors needed to give me access to other creatures and have fun there, so all in all, I had access to six Planeswalkers to work around...

Nissa, Worldwaker:
http://roxiecards.com/wp-content/up.....worldwaker.png
Who helped me ramp up my mana points, as well as create some new critters in a pinch out of my own land

Ajani, Mentor of Heroes:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=380367&type=card
Who... just... just so versatile, find more Planeswalkers or creatures? Make creatures out EVEN stronger? GAIN 100 LIFE?!

Vraska the Unseen:
http://images.magicmadhouse.co.uk/i.....4-39625000.jpg
Scary lady, really she existed just to be a decoy who folks would attack to try and get rid of before her 'win the game' final effect could kick in, sadly she never did get to create those assassins of hers...

Garruk, Apex Predator:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oVmb39k71.....east+token.jpg
EVEN SCARIER big guy, who certainly was expensive to play, but when he did, he took down mirror matches against other people with Planeswalkers, created hard to deal with tokens, then finally would just be a giant control stick against opponents

But all this was just green, the white/black ALSO meant I got to splash out foooor...

Elspeth, Sun's Champion:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--6u95UMii.....blem+token.jpg
Elspeth. Enough said.

Ajani Steadfast:
http://37.media.tumblr.com/77acf8ec.....2dho2_1280.jpg
Second Ajani and chronologically the next card after the Mentor of Heroes appearance for Ajani, after Elspeth has been killed and all, which you can see him there wearing her cape, his green mentor clothes ragged and dulled... this Ajani really helped power up and protect other Planeswalkers and is just a cool card overall for story flavor purposes as having failed Elspeth, he tries to redeem himself

Liliana Vess:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mtggoldfish.....5BM15%255D.jpg
Final planeswalker and just capitalising on the Black, to annoy opponents either by getting rid of their cards before they can play them, or by letting me effectively choose whatever my next card will be to my advantage

All in all, these guys made a fairly damn solid team together to just take control of the board, especially when backed up with an artifact tailor made to enhance Planeswalkers, the Chain Veil:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=383412&type=card

This combination proved particularly effective, using the green as a backbone to the deck to get enough mana open to summon out the planeswalkers and then dominate from there, using a few small but bulky creatures to defend them while they did their thing, well enough to get me through to the final eight on Sunday's Game Day and land me with a fairly respectable third place =B

Not to mention, my top 8 prize card, the full art version of my Chief Engineer!!
http://wintargetgame.net/wp-content.....neer-promo.jpg


Sadly, none of my packs had found me anything really memorable to mention right now, but all in all, it was a good, if not exhausting weekend, before returning to the grindstone, yesterday was my first day off after all the excitement and I think I'm still recovering from that, lol

Maybe next Game Day I'll concentrate more on my deck before hand and just try one day with ONE deck instead of two days with two types!

In other news, two weeks time I'll be back at hospital and hopefully good news'll see my leg cast come off, it'd be nice to be castless again for a bit =B

I do admit I've been pretty wrapped up in things of late though because of this, between the event days and all the extra work, will feel better to get back into a groove and then get working again on my hopeful projects~

I still have some art to post up, but it requires writing from me to be added before it can get shown, so we'll see how long it takes me to do that now!

Until then, I'll look forward to the new Magic sets and bring on the Khans of Tarkir!