May Events

Hi all,

Below is the list of events for May, please do take time to attend the Nationals Q.

Good luck and see you in Nationals!
http://www.sgcardgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=44260

Rise of Eldrazi Release FNM

Hi Cowies and friends,

For FNM this saturday, we are celebrating the release of Rise of Eldrazi set.
We are going to run more than 2 pods and....
the entry fee will be extremely special!

To find out more, pre-register by sms-ing me for details!

See all of you this weekend! 1pm at ZZ house!

Sharing Session after GPT @ Katong

Sup all cowies=)!
Mine 1st post here.
okie if you all dunnoe who i am, i am the youwei the musician lolx.



Despite losing out in the semis with much dissapointment, i'm satisfied with what i gt and hereby let me share with all my brothers the match-up i faced till semis.
Before i carry on, below is my decklist and sideboard:


BOROS Bushwhacker (R/W aggro)
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4x Steppe Lynx
4x Plated Geopede
4x Goblin Guide
4x Ranger of Eos
3x Hellspark Elemental
2x Goblin Bushwhacker
1x Elite Vanguard
1x Kor Skyfisher

4x Lightning Bolt
3x Burst Lightning
3x Path to Exile
2x Ajani Vengeant
1x Earthquake

4x Arid Messa
4x Scalding Tarn
4x Marsh Flats
1x Terramorphic Expanse
2x Teetering Peeks
5x Plains
4x Mountains


Sideboard (my sb not tt gd cos abit last min)
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1x Hell's Thunder
2x Elspeth Knight-Errant
2x Journey to Nowhere
2x Oblivion Ring
2x Celestial Purge
1x Refraction Trap
2x Day of Judgement
3x Manabarbs

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1st Match (Bant Allies)
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Won the roll and play first. I had a first turn goblin guide, and smack him for 2.
When he lay his Celestial Colonade, i though damn...dont tell me i'm fighting with U/W so fast in first game, gonna b tiring if i didnt end him fast. Manage to push the damage in the next 2turns, with his life to ard 7 and hadnt cast any spells on board. It was onli when my goblin guide flip over his talus paladin that i understand what deck i'm dealing with. Despite a casted 3/4 paladin in my way, i get away easily with a path and push the final dmge over and ended with a bolt.

1-0

He choose to play first. Land done...phew no first turn hada freeblade. My turn, steppe lynx done. he cast harabaz druid and was bolted by me on my next turn. His turn, casted a halimar evacuator milling away my burst lightning =.= so lihai.... With his allies coming out the next 2 turn, milling my path/bolt/burst/creatures away i managed to down till 5. With a bolt draw and ajani vengeant, i won the match.

2-0


2nd Match (Mono red/splash Black)
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It was a race to the finishing line. The critical moment was when i was down to 5 and his down to 8. It was my turn. Had goblin guide, kor skyfisher, ajani vengeant(5counters) in play. with no bolt in my hand, i attack with both of them dealing 4 damge, putting him down to 4, and flipping over a quenchable fire (shit!) With fear of putting myself in bolt range after his next turn quenchable fire, with no hesitation i used ajani's lightning helix and put in down to 1 and i'm up to 8. On his turn, he thought quite awhile on how to kill me in this turn. eventually he bolted my ajani and i know at tt point, I had the game in my hand. He casted quenchable fire and end his turn. I pulled a bolt and many options to kill. I was up 1-0.

2nd game, i boarded in my 2x celestial purge and refraction trap. The game was in my favour when he gt jammed at 2lands. I pushed the damage faster than he can take it and off i go. 2-0. After the match, he ask me whether i had sided in kor firewalker. He told me he was afraid of it and had sided in unstable footing. With no as my ans, he was dissapointed lol.

2-0


3rd Match (U/W Control)
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Won the first game with ease, burns and push him down with creatures after creatures despite a 4th turn doj.
2nd game made a mistake for sb ( i think)by taking out 2 path away, leaving 1 behind. Mistake again in putting the land strategy as spreading seas take over my mountain on his turn 3, leaving my manabarbs, ajani on hand uncastable. Acted rashly and o-ring the spreading seas. With a 4th turn bsa, i was eventually unable to handle and lost.
1-1

3rd game was about the same as 1st. He was down to 6 and i have a ranger of eos on board. I pulled a goblin guide and on my hand was elite vanguard,bushwhacker and elspeth. With 5 mana on board(2mountains 3plains), casted a goblin guide then follow by elspeth. With no resp to both of my casting. I pumped ranger of eos and alpha strike. He conceed and i won the 3rd game.

2-1


4th Match (U/W control)
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wow u/w again...sianz. Will be shacked if i didnt chiong him in early game. Won the roll and kept my hand. 1st turn goblin guide and hit him for 2. I managed to push him to 3 with my life at 12. He up his life to 6 (forget how he up) and i was getting out of steam soon. With a ajani lightning helix followed by a lightning bolt frm consecutive draws, i won the 1st.

1-0

Sided in 1xdoj, 3xmanabarbs, 2xo-ring, 2xelspeth. Second game was tough as i didnt kill him as fast as a boros shld. With him at 12 manas while i at 6, i was going for a topdeck mode. His life was down to 8 and mine was at 13. With doj in my hand, i hardly can do anything about the 2 celestial colonade. He did a mind spring for 6 and had a sian diao face, thinking he must have pulled alot of lands lol. i draw a burst lightning, kicked and dealt 4 to him, putting him to 4. On his turn, he tapped out for martial coup, 10 soldiers tokens on board. I cast doj on my next turn and he seems to be mini-stunned awhile before clearing his tokens. He tapped 10 for his 2 colonades and put me down to 5 and i eventually won on a lightning bolt draw.

*In between gt draws of ranger of eos here n there in the critical moment which i forget when izzit. Can ask alvin, think he rmb cos he cant believe i pulled creature/spell/creature/spell 1 by 1 lolx*

2-0

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With 4-0 up, the next 2 game end with mutual draws and off i'm to the top 8.

Top 8 decks are:
5x Junds
1x Boros
1x Mono-red (no splash)
1x U/W Control
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Qtr-Finals (Jund)
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Won the first round with ease and ended the game with lightning bolt in my hand.

1-0

2nd game, my opp kept a 2 land hand, and gt jammed. He put down forest on his first turn and like what ZZ alwys said "SIGN OF WEAKNESS". I follow up my first turn goblin guide. He then cast a mountain and done. Confirm sign of weakness!!!!!! veri few ppl play trace and i know he doesnt. Continuous hits with goblin till he found his savage lands and casted a sprouting thrinax which was then purged at his EOT. Casted ajani and tapped onto his savage lands. He was screwed with 2 irrelevant mana to cast anything. and eventually victory was mine.

2-0


Semi-Finals (Jund)
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1st game, i was jammed on 2 lands and was screwed quite badly with overwhelming board. Inevitably, i lost the 1st one.

0-1

2nd game, we are stuck on a overwhelming board position and neither of us are willing to attack. He was down to 5 and i was at 10. With much calculation, i kicked bushwhacker and alpha strike..hoping to push a 2 damge over (as i have 1 creature more than him) with a lightning bolt on hand. he blocks with everything and manage to cast a doomblade on my 4th creature and i noe at tt point, is going to be a gg for me. He had 2 sprouting on board, and a 4/4 raging ravine waiting to be tapped. He attacked with sprouting and raging ravine(5/5)....i was considering to bolt his sprouting so to keep me away frm bolt range. But doing so means i cant kill him with anything on the next turn. Damage was resolved and told him if he has a bolt he will win. He show me the lightning bolt and off i am, no fate with the 3round byes.

0-2


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Decks that made to finals were jund and u/w control. they shared the packs but still a winner has to be decided. Chose the 20-sided dice roll way.
Player A rolled 2 =.= he was like wtf?! sure gone case liao.
Player B rolled........2!!!!!!! WTF like tt also can =.=

Reroll......
Player A rolled 1 xD GGFIED

guess what player B rolled......
have u guessed it right..
he won with a dice roll of 3 =.=|||||||

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Thanks for the patience to read (very long!!!) and and hope to cya all on the fri Team Supper=)!



LOOKOUT FOR THE POST BELOW TOOOO!!!!!



CHEEERS=)!
YwEii

Team Supper cum Prerelease

Hi all,

Team supper is tentatively on Friday, eve of Prerelease.
Alvin is in charged of the supper, so if you got any special needs, please look for him.

Mad Cow Portraits are made by Kenneth and they can be found on his Facebook! Go check it out!

For the prerelease,
Please wear white cow tee! Hope to see everyone playing!

Cheers!

Reflections of Grand Prix Yokohama'10

Hi my dear cowies! :)

I feel this is kind of overdue. Let me share some experience about going to Japan for a Grand Prix.

It was a very 'uber' last minute decision that Chapman and I made to go for GP Yokohama, 20th - 21st March 2010. On Wednesday, Chapman called me and ask me this crazy question of going Japan, 3 days away from the GP itself. I did not know what got into me, but I also crazily say "Why not?! I would love too!". And here we go. We bought tickets for Tokyo on Thursday and off we go on Friday morning! Yokohama here we go! :)

After an arduous 7 hours flight, we arrived at Narita Airport, Tokyo. We took a train and headed straight for Yokohama, destination: Pacifico Yokohama.

The first thought that came to my mind when I reached the event ground was, "I got to be crazy." Haha. It was an event hall, similar to half a Expo Hall, which is very big. We signed up for the event and mingled around the players and managed to do some trading. Managed to catch a glimpse of the American team, Nakamura Shuhei, Saito Tomaharu, Kenji and many others. It was so cool! After which we headed for our hostel.

Day One of Grand Prix Yokohama'10.
Format: Extended.
All I had was a crash course on the deck I was playing, Hypergenesis. As usual, the results of the "goldfishing" was good. Well of course, it always was. Only normally when you are goldfishing. Haha.

First up was the Players' Meeting. 9am. Oh My God. Just slightly over 1000 players for the day. This is definitely my biggest GP ever! But what was kind of disappointing was that the organisation of the event was not very speedy. It was 9 rounds of Swiss and by the time it ended, it was nearly 11pm. :(

Some insights as to how the deck and I did for the GP:
1) Did not know the format well enough. But it got better after the first 2 rounds.
2) Combo decks are not really my kind of thing.
3) Japanese players are very courteous, most of them as least.
4) Got to have very good luck to be playing with Japanese players. (I bet nobody draws a hand with Simian Spirit Guide X 03, Forbidden Orchard X 03 and Reflecting Pool X 01)
5) Finally, it was great fun! I really had a good time and great learning experience.

After the GP, Chapman and I went for a short week of backpacking around Tokyo. :)

For those who are interested in pictures, please visit: My Flickr Account. :)

Team Supper and Prerelease

Hi fellow cowies and friends,

Just asking if any of you guys will be playing the prerelease at Suntec? I may insert additional prize as an internal team competition =)

Btw, Alvin is organizing the team supper. Look out here for more details!

Buddy System
- Your buddy is to help you in playing Magic. Please look for them to do whatever things you need to do with regards to Magic. No climbing and scratching of backs pls.

Buddy System as of now
1) The Raging Monster, ZZ - The Mini Raging Monster, Stan (Its so coincidence that both of them attacked the ribs and only ZZ survived....)

2) The Confined One, Kenneth - The Lousy Artist, Chao Lin

3) The Social Butterfly, Alvin - The Musician, You Wei

- Please approach your buddy if you need someone to mentor or oversee your playing. Any questions PLEASE do NOT forward it to me.

Apparently, 2 more years to 30 allows me to give the excuse of Mid Life Crisis and depression. So, do not, I repeat, do not pester me with un-necessary details of life.

Happy Mtg-ing!

New revised prize payout for FNM

Hi all,

Hope all of you enjoyed the April's Fool FNM prize payout!
Here is the revised prize payout starting next week

10th April 2010
Top 2: Foil Blood Braid Elf (First Position gets a free movie ticket for the 2 pods on 10th only)
3 -4 : Foil Ancient Ziggurat
5 - 6: Foil Ghostly Prison/Kor Firewalker/Leatherback Baloth
7 - 8: Rise from the Grave

See all of you!

April's Fool and Bloodbraid Elf

Hi Cowies,

Friday Night Magic Schedule

3rd April - Draft at Zhao Zhi's House
The usual $14 with 3 boosters
12pm start

10th April - Draft at Zhao Zhi's house
The usual $14 with 3 boosters
12pm start

17th April - Rise of the Eldrazi Prerelease
NO FNM

24th April - T2 Constructed
Usual - $2 entry fee

Prize Payout

Top 4 gets Bloodbraid Elf foil
5-6 gets Ancient Ziggurat foil
7-8 gets to choose from Vampire Nighthawk, Kor Duelist, Mind Control or Rise from the Grave

See all of you there!