Week 2 of the Dominaria Magic League means the chance to buy a Dominaria booster to strengthen the deck. Expecting enough losses to buy a loser booster, I bought 3 Dominaria boosters for the bargain price of £10. Potentially buying 2 packs during the day, this was going to save me money! Naturally playing by the rules I only opened one of them as my allowed booster for the week.

Thanks to what I consider to be an over priced event the Birmingham GP had robbed my FLGS of the majority of its Magic players this weekend. So the Standard Showdown that was also taking place was 6 players. I hadn’t realised it was on, but then again I didn’t really have the time to play in it anyway. I’d come along in the hope to get some league games in. Which was looking remote when I saw the scarcity of participating league players.

My pulls in this weeks pack that go into the sideboard.

Creatures:8

1 Skirk Prospector
1 Rat Colony
1 Serra Disciple
1 Academy Drake
1 Aesthir Glider
1 Baloth Gorger
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
1 Urgoros, the Empty One

Spells:6

1 Healing Grace
1 Navigator’s Compass
1 Rescue
1 Grow from the Ashes
1 Chainer’s Torment
1 In Bolas’s Clutches

I did make some adjustments to the deck, but I’ll do a deck list after the final week.

Just for the shits and giggles I threw all of my red cards, plus some artifact creatures and artifacts together added a black creature to give me a big hitter to make a second deck from my league card pool.

Creatures:12

3 Skirk Prospector
1 Bloodstone Goblin
1 Keldon Warcaller
2 Howling Golem
1 Amaranthine Wall
1 Keldon Raider
1 Rampaging Cyclops
1 Warcry Phoenix
1 Demonlord Belzenlok

Spells:6

1 Navigator’s Compass
1 Warlord’s Fury
1 Blackblade Reforged
1 Jousting Lance
1 Fight with Fire
1 Radiating Lightning

Lands:12

8 Mountain
4 Swamp

How did I do this week? Well despite the lack of participating players this week I managed to play against 2 players and get in 6 games before I had to return back to the mundane world and a Strider who has an upset tummy and all that entails coming out of one end.

After deck building and adjustments I managed to get a game in against Kar-Fai, who readers will remember as an adversary from my Netrunner days, before he took part in the Standard Showdown. I was pleasantly taken aback that there was no attempt to lure me back into the world of Android and Netrunner. I love the Android universe, and love the game of Netrunner. But it seemed to me that FFG just loved targeting the factions I loved to play for banning cards. So with the revised core set, rotation etc, the game may be in a “better” place now. But I’m still smarting from the hurt of them knee capping my decks. I then played the remaining 5 games against a new player in the league Philip.

I played the first 3 games with the new deck and it won more than it lost 2-1. I then played the remaining 3 games with my first deck and that went 3-0. So in the end I was 5-1 overall.

I’m not sure what it says or how the other players feel that my red deck is just something I threw together with very little/no thought, and still won with it. I felt a little guilty, and also very lucky that it seemed to work.

Once I got home naturally I opened up the other 2 boosters and added the cards straight into my collection ready for deck building.

Anyway a great couple of hours playing MtG. Looking forward to week 3.