Introduction

I don't expect a load of people to read this but many of my friends have started magical blogs recently so I figured I should give it a try if only to give me a place to vomit my ideas. I'm probably going to talk mostly about magic but I bet there will be a sprinkling of other subjects depending on what I want to talk about that day. My job at the bank gives me loads of free time. I expect this will become something I'll spend at least a decent amount of time on and I will probably update at least every other day.

So I am right at the begining of my Ext PTQ season. I played in the first last weekend in Omaha and will probably right up a tournament report later today or tomorrow. I have 6 more that I will be playing in this season. I really want to qualify for Honolulu and will be spending a lot of time over the next few months testing and preparing myself.

The PTQ in Omaha had a Top 8 that had 5 Fae decks, 2 BG Loam (Boss and I) and one Mono Red Burn. The GP in LA was mostly Fae also. The other "break out" decks were UR Storm and BG Loam. I've heard lots of talk about Michael Jacob's deck from the tournament. If you haven't seen it it is basically a Loam deck that cut the slower cards like Death Cloud, Sakura-Tribe Elder and Baloth in favor of faster cards like MD Darkblast, Bitterblossom, Jitte, and Tarmogoyf. It still has the part of the deck that I liked the most which is obviously the Loam engine and Raven's Crime. His deck just seems to solve most of the problems I had with the deck over the weekend because with Jitte and Goyf he isn't nearly as relient on his graveyard. I would like to have the 4th Thoughtseize in the main and a 27th land (probably a 3rd Tranquil Thicket) and will probably end up moving one of the Jittes to the board and maybe cutting a Darkblast to fit them in. If I were to PTQ tomorrow I would play MJs deck for sure.