Yeah I know I’ve not posted for a couple of days. I hope you enjoyed the rest from my poorly written ramblings.

Having missed playing last weekend for whatever life reasons, I was back with a vengeance this week.

My plan was to play in Standard Showdown and try out my modifications to the super friends deck. Modifications I had made earlier in the morning, literally straight after I woke up. I was keen to see if they worked.

Ok what I was going to be playing in wasn’t exactly Standard Showdown. It was Not Standard Showdown, but like it. There were no Standard Showdown packs up for grabs they had all gone. Standard Showdown doesn’t exist anymore. A mistake by WotC in my opinion. But we will see.

But this wasn’t the only MtG event going on today at my FLGS. Starting off before Not Standard Showdown was a MtG European Modern Series Qualifier (Constructed).

So while waiting for my event to start I got to watch a game or two of the Modern tournament. Wow talk about fast. I was just watching and I was shell shocked when I witnessed Rob Win on turn 5 (his third turn). That’s blindingly fast. His second turn with a couple of mana was insane. How it felt to be on the receiving end I have no idea.

We had 12 players turn up for Not Standard Showdown. It was going to be cozy in the store today.

Sadly for this tournament I went mono red burn/aggro after being goaded into it by Kar-Fai after he said I never played mono red. So I went with it to surprise him!

Round 1 against Kerry both the games played saw my deck just run out of steam, and not able to get over the finish line, or deal with her drakes that just got bigger and bigger.

Round 2 was against Simon, Kerry’s partner. I did better in this match up. Game 1 saw me get kicked by Nico Bolas. My Rekindling Phoenix proved too hot to handle and got me back on level pegging. With the decider going against me.

Round 3 saw Kar-Fai and I fighting it out for the start of the battle for last place. His life gain token deck was a good match up with me. Apart from the hiccup of game 2, where I needed one more land to be able to do lethal with a banefire, and this allowed Kar-Fai a window to grab the win. I was more than able to control the game, and with the likes of Chainwhirler keep Kar-Fai from massing lots of tokens.

The final round saw me up against John. Who was back with Golgari, and an insect token spam. The game he won saw him getting 9 insect tokens out. The one time in our match up when I didn’t hit one of my cards that would have wiped them out. But otherwise the other two games went to plan.

Afterwards Kar-Fai and I played some casual games allowing me to test the superfriends deck out.

Had a great afternoon playing MtG. I think it’s Open House next weekend.

Ok here are just the raw stats for the afternoon.

Casual Game

Kar-fai : Loss 1-2

Not Standard Showdown Stats

Participants: 12

Rounds: 4

Round 1: Kerry Loss 0-2

Round 2: Simon Loss 1-2

Round 3: Kar-Fai Win 2-1

Round 4: John Win 2-1

Record: 2-2

Final Position: 7th

Prizes: 1 participation pack. Plus an old promo card.