Yep!

It's a Magic report alright! Thought I'd split up the journal once more to have what was going on in the world of Magic and what's been going on in the world of Jasmine, lol

This weekend has been the Pre-Release of the return to the gothic horror of Innistrad, and my giddy aunt was it fun~

Every new set of Magic reflects different worlds and themes and mechanics into the game, say for instance Zendikarwhich was sadly a little underwhelming in its scope, but the game makers had purposefully toned down the power level of the game to prevent power creep

Playing with decks made on Zendikar meant a slower, more synergistic build where pieces had to fit like a puzzle

Innistrad? Oh, this is much more intuitive so far, with the horror feeling creeping upon you with the fear your opponent could swing the board and sweep you away at any time

Not to mention the tribal themes, Green/White has humans, Green/Red Werewolves, Red/Black Vampires, Blue/Black Zombies and White/Blue Spirits, all classic Innistrad with plenty of wiggle room within to have some fun with

I'd signed up to multiple events over the weekend, so I won't bore with the full recount, but I stuck fairly heavily to my guns on a theme, lol, with Naya [Green/Red/White] werewolves being a thing, basically abusing the overlap of the human/werewolf tribal

See, since all the werewolves are humans when they start out, they get the bonuses off the other human cards, it doesn't matter that they lose some of that when they transform since really, they just go berserk off the rails awesome anyway

I mean, here's an example, right?

Meet Breakneck Rider and his, errrr, better half?
http://crystal-cdn4.crystalcommerce.....JCIHy8JsQP.png


Yeah, werewolves are fun~


Also discovered, both at the hands of and by my own virtues, the power of Triskadekaphobia (No need to google, LITERALLY the fear of the number '13')
https://i.imgur.com/sH18HwJ.jpg


Feel free to count the objects in the art there by the by, lol

So yeah, it's been super fun and there are some powerful cards and such here that I don't think anyone will get bored of this for a while

I had a blast with folks there, but it was also fun to invite Les, my little sister hasn't entirely thrown herself into the deep end of Magic, but she's a big time puzzle solver, so she's been enjoying playing it in little spurts here and there, so, we joined one of the Two Headed Giant events where we made a team to take on the other folks who'd tagged up together


Ha, ha! The Dead Planeswalker Society lives again! It seemed to fit together pretty nicely, she got a fairly nasty little blue/black zombie number that gummed up the board with death touch creatures and walls of the undead, along with a couple ways to force damage through, while I stuck to my werewolf shenanigans and was happy to say that Les pulling an Arlinn Kord in her packs was pretty integral to me being able to become fairly intimidating, I have to marvel at the kid pulling Planeswalkers two events in a row, lol

http://www.manaleak.com/magic-the-g....._innistrad.jpg


We went 2 wins, 2 draws and a loss, but, we had fun anyhow, and when it came to splitting up the prize pool afterwards, I had to give her one thing for her generosity, saying she was happy just to keep the cards she had, even when I pointed out how popular Arlinn was right now, she still decided to give me it since she hadn't got me anything for my birthday

Newly acquired treasure in hand and thinking up brewing, sadly she had to leave, but I had one last event at night squeezed in and sat down with folks to enjoy ripping wrappers one last time, and who do I see staring back at me with the promo date stamped on her? Yup, a second Arlinn Kord, lol,so, yeah, werewolves, I think me and Innistrad are going to get along just fine~

So excuse me now while I go howl at the moon =D