TheThirdPlayer

Second match was against a team two of whom had only been playing for a fortnight. I don't know how TheThirdPlayer found time to build all three decks. My opponent was playing UG beatdown. She smashed my face in in the first game, using (unsure of name - uncommon artifact which taps to tap target artifact) to keep my mainly artifact creatures from blocking. In the second match I pulled out Terror-on-a-stick, and the MTG: Vulshok Beserker finished the job. In the decider, my opponent realised far too late that she should have countered my turn 2 Terror-on-a-stick with MTG: Condescend, and had to make up with MTG: Deconstruct on turn 5 (taking 3 mana burn for the privilege - not entirely bad, although somewhat irritating). My memory doesn't serve, but looking at the consecutive 4-point drops in her life total, I suspect the Beserker did the job again. Senji again went down, and Chris and his opponent only managed two games in the time, so we were 0-1-1; I ran downstairs, found that there were three places in a draft, ran up to tell the others to drop, ran down to fill in our names, had to be reminded by someone that I'd left my binder upstairs and to describe its contents accurately enough to convince a judge it was mine - good thing I rearranged a couple of the pages earlier in the week to group my money rares.

That's so cool! Fabulous! I love the way this kind of thing seems to happen :) I'm now off to get on a train - hopefully meet you in a few hours, Jwanders ^^ --AlexChurchill