{"id":2945,"date":"2011-12-18T02:03:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2011-12-18T02:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T08:03:34","slug":"remember-to-howl-each-time-you-flip-a-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2945","title":{"rendered":"Remember To Howl Each Time You Flip A Card."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I guess I&#8217;ll write a little about the Magic draft, then get some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, we drafted! Yay! About damn time! We gave Innistrad a try, with it&#8217;s stupid flip cards. From a victory perspective, the draft went very badly for me, as I lost a lot. Jonathan made a ridiculous 60 card rainbow mill himself deck that somehow worked fantastically. Essner drafted werewolves. Duh. But Spaeth&#8217;s fairly straightforward black deck ended up taking the whole draft.<\/p>\n<p>Drafting this set, there just seemed to be an overwhelming number of completely garbage instants in this set. Just really terrible ones! It also felt like there was a lack of solid low-casting-cost creatures, but maybe we just got unlucky with the packs we opened.<\/p>\n<p>I got a card I really liked. It was called <a href=\"http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Pages\/Card\/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247234\">Mikaeus, The Lunarch<\/a>. That is a fun and powerful card, and I often paired him with this equipment that gave Hexproof, but he really didn&#8217;t go off as much as I would have liked. He was a bit too slow to get going for the draft, I suppose, and it&#8217;s always hard to keep a large number of creatures on the board in a draft because, in general, you&#8217;re more likely to trade to get rid of threats because you don&#8217;t have any other options to deal with those threats. Thus, he wasn&#8217;t as useful as he could have been.<\/p>\n<p>Really, though, those stupid flip cards are the main thing here, and they just weren&#8217;t anywhere interesting enough to justify how fucking annoying they are to have in a deck. I mean, they were fine. I used some for <a href=\"http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Pages\/Card\/Details.aspx?multiverseid=222915\">easy beats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Pages\/Card\/Details.aspx?multiverseid=222016\">threats<\/a>. I also got <a href=\"http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Pages\/Card\/Details.aspx?multiverseid=245250\">this planeswalker<\/a>, and he was kind of a win button. But seriously, just&#8230; every time I shuffled the deck and saw those cards in there, it just frustrated me. I wanted to see all the card backs so I knew everything was okay. Bleh. It really was as stupid as I expected it to be. There were no surprises there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that was definitely a Magic set! It certainly isn&#8217;t going to get me back into playing Magic as much as I used to, but it was a fun diversion for an evening, to be sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I guess I&#8217;ll write a little about the Magic draft, then get some sleep. Last night, we drafted! Yay! About damn time! We gave Innistrad a try, with it&#8217;s stupid flip cards. From a victory perspective, the draft went very badly for me, as I lost a lot. Jonathan made a ridiculous 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}