Well, at least I got my laptop back after mom needed to borrow it there for a day or so, but, now I'm feeling like I won't pass out from sweating at least, so, capitalise while I can

Only thing I'm more unhappy about feeling bleh is missing out on time with Leslie, what is this, not even one month and already having to skip doing things with her, although I did promise at least I'd help her with her homework and stuff over here, just means I need to get out of my PJs and shower for all

But yeah, everything up until I got sick last weekend was pretty damn fun, I went in on the whole Oath of the Gatewatch thing, I went in damn hard on this set

Sadly was not rewarded with any awesome cards personally, but the fun was definitely there as the collective might of our little store fought back against the eldrazi hordes and the newly arisen threat of Kozilek, the butcher of truth, distorter of worlds

http://i.imgur.com/ZcnBKhG.jpg

Yeah, this guy I've talked about plenty of times in prior journals about being my absolute jam when it comes to eldritch horror, I got a nice slice of it last week's Official Magic Fiction watching the effects left in his wake on a bunch of bystanders who think they've managed to avoided the titan

Sadly did not get to meet the big guy in person, either in my own cards, nor on the battlefield, but, I guess we've still got next month for Game Day to see if I can square off against the big bad =o

But I DID at least manage to score a card that does ominously call out for a meeting in future...
http://i.tcgplayer.com/110829.jpg

This card was a nice score considering it's one of the biggest in the set price-wise- actually, when I look at what I got, I didn't get anything 'flashy', but I think I got pretty good value, between this, two Thought-Knot and a promo Thought-Knot for a third, that's like nearly 90 bucks in four cards =o

The midnight through Saturday run was a grind, especially when it got to the Saturday tag team event, turned out my alotted partner did not accept any we'd had, so we went with his out of purely not wanting an argument over that, lol, so, for Saturday, I was a member of Team "Mana Screw You" =P

Aaaaaaand, well, it wasn't great, I went 2 wins, 2 losses, then had to end on the final game with a drop, due to agreed tiredness and ill success of our combinations =o Hell, one of our wins was the other team being nice to avoid us both losing our prize pack to a draw


At least? It let me get practise for the next day when I took  Tryst's suggestion and Leslie and me set up shop as Team "Dead Planeswalkers Society"

Luckily, with my cast and crutches, I got an allotted seat, so no need to worry about her having to move in a crowded comic book store filled with massive sweaty guys, they came to our table to play each round and all went well =D (Apart from like one guy who kicked my cast, but, less said better XP)

Speaking of? Leslie, well... geez >_>

...Is it wrong for me to be jealous of my Lil Sister, lol?

She got not one, but TWO Nissa Planeswalker cards in her pool, one as her promo card with the stamped date and everything, and another as one of the packs she had to build from =O

So, yeah, not only that? But in another pack, she pulled an EXPEDITION CARD


TLDR is that Expedition cards are really rare cards that Wizards stuffs into random packs, not quite Wonka golden ticket level, but near enough, as people scrabble for them

So, yeah, her packs were just gold <_<

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-conte...../Dust-Bowl.png

So she pulled a Dust Bowl that I used in my side of the pool, but afterwards, we talked about it and she had fun, we ended up going 2 wins, 2 draws and a loss, so, at least a lil better than the prior day and she had fun with me there to help her =B

I passed her my promo card Mina and Denn and she made a wicked lil landfall deck that went all out on swinging cards sideways and just being all aggro

http://mythicspoiler.com/ogw/cards/.....nwildborn.html

While I took all the black/white and Eldrazi cards and acted as the backup lady with all the control-y stuff

So yeah, we talked and she had fun, but she isn't going to full on get into Magic, maybe just play me every once in a while, lol, she'll keep the deck she built and work on that =D

So there was STILL the matter of the expensive card... and we decided the best thing to do was talk to one of the store guys who has a well-known cube, ended up selling it to him for shy a hundred bucks =B

WITH the agreement she puts half of it away in her bank for savings and the other half she's free to buy books or such as she wants, yay for adult responsibility?

All in all, I dunno if I'm a fan of the team format, it gets a bit too grindy, but it let me share the thing with Leslie, so for that pretty thankful =3

Now I just gotta get better in time to draft some of this new set on Friday~ And I'll see you all again shortly =3