I haven’t gotten around to posting at all in the last week, but today I have another pack to post. Today’s pack is the fifth duplicate rare pack in a row. I have 12 more packs left to open. Also, the website draw3cards.com. This is a website where you can ask and answer questions about Magic: The Gathering. You will usually get a response quickly, so I do recommend it. (Direct Link)

It is past midnight, so it this will be shown as 10/18. If I post day sixteen, it will have the same date as this. This was the best pack I’ve opened so far from this set. (Actually, I can only think of one pack with as much value inside as this pack. And not even a treasure card!)

And FOIL:

Hello. I didn’t have time to post my pack yesterday, so I’ll post it today.

Day Seven

Day Eight

Foil:

Hello. Still no foils, mythics, fetchlands, or treasures.

Day 4, pack 4, 32 to go. So far no mythics, no foils, no fetchlands, and no treasures…

Hello. Somehow day 2 got posted below day 1, and got labeled October 3. I posted day 2 yesterday, and today is October 5, whether the blog knows it or not. The server is working right now, so I’m opening the pack earlier than I would normally, again.

Hello. Today, I have the results of day one of the challenge. I have 36 packs to open. We’ve been having server problems, so if you can’t reach the website, wait a few hours and try again.

Hello. I’m taking a small break from my combos post to post about a new format that I’ve read about on MTG Salvation. In fact, their article can give you a better explanation than I can, so I’ll give you the link to the article and post about it here. (An abridged version) Here’s the article. MTG Salvation is running an online, text based tournament of 5CB. You can sign up by reading this topic and PMing Mogg. Actually, you don’t play in it. You just submit a decklist and it’s paired against everyone else, with the TO actually calculating the matches. The deadline for submitting a decklist is May 27, 8:00 PM EST.

Rules:
The basic rules of this format are simple: You make a 5-card deck, then play a normal Magic game. (with some changes, of course.)  You obviously don’t lose this format because of trying to draw from an empty library, although you do have a draw step. Also, you obviously start with your entire deck in your hand (Cards can end up in your library even though they didn’t start there.) While you could play a game with only those rules, it might be more fun if you read the rest of the rules. (Which will be numbered)

1. You can use almost any cards that aren’t banned in vintage. This means Black Lotus and other Power 9 are legal. It’s not a bad idea to proxy cards if you’re going to play this format if you want to play it across a table, although it was meant to be played online and by text.

2. The exceptions to number 1 is a banned list that would give an unfair advantage. I’ll post the full banned list at the end of this post.

3. Random effects produce the most harmful effect to the person who played it.

4. A player cannot win the game or force an opponent to discard more than one card until the opponent’s second turn. (This is slightly different than in the article. This rule was changed slightly since the article came out.)

The best way to win this format is by playing expensive spells usually unusable because of cost on the first turn through multiple Black Lotuses. You don’t even need to play any lands in this format, because the restricted lists of normal Magic are ignored.I have made a deck that (Hopefully) will win 95% of the games on the play. On the draw, it will win any game in which the opponent doesn’t have either 2 countermagic spells that can be played by discarding a card/sacrificing a land or cards that pick cards out of the hand and force me to discard them.

If you decide you like 5CB, then you can also play a variation of it, which is 4 Card Blind, or even 3 Card Blind. Knowing the rules of 5CB, you can easily translate them into 4CB or 3CB.

Banned Cards:

Barren Glory (Banned for obvious reasons)
Force of Will (Too powerful in this format)
Unmask (Also way too powerful, although Thoughtseize is legal)
Magus of the Moon (Nonbasics are the base for some decks)
Trinisphere (Again, way too powerful)
Show and Tell (You can imagine how broken that is)
Pact of Negation (I don’t see why. If you play this card, you’d better have some lotuses that you’re willing to sacrifice)
Ghost Quarter (No library to search)
Strip Mine (Exactly the same effect as Ghost Quarter in this format)
Wasteland (Also almost the same effect)

I its Zach agian (finally) my computor has been acting wierd latly and I have not been able to post it just gave me a white page whenever I trided to loggin and would sometimes give me a “Blue screen of death”. But I can post finally!

Well here it goes Calvin and I went to a booster draft last saterday and I opend up crap for my 3 boosters calvin opend up decent stuff. He always gets the great opens WHEN WERE AT A TORTEMENT I for one get crap… (also I have been trying to get a Nicol bolas and Elspeth knight errent for my plainswalker deck) So afterwords when we are going home his dad wants to buy a new comic book (I forgot name Its about after batman dies and what happens to him) I told calvin if they were selling packs here (comic book store) and they here less than $4 I would but one. Thinking that oh if it was like $3.50 or $2.50 and they ended up being $3.75 so I buy one because I might as well their were three packs left A left one a middle one and a right one. In a line of three like this :

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——– Calvin took the middle one (I wanted it) and I think he opened his 5th master transmuter which isnt that bad… If he ever used a deck with artifacts in them. I pick the one off to the right. I didnt open the pack untill we got out of the store and what do you know ITS A NICOL BOLAS! Im extreamlly happen and now all I need is Elspeth and I’ll have all of the plainswalkers!

Later calvin comes over to my house and we play 10 magic games give or take and every time one of us had 8 mana (enough to play nicol bolas) the other would quit…Ok calvin would quit because I always got the mana. So we quit like 9/10 of thoughs games becuse we wanted to be the first one to play nicol bolas. =)

Now skipping to tommorow (sunday) and my cusins come over .(compleatly buchered cusins…and buchered) The younger one plays magic with us we “teach him” and he just plays the cards If the mana cost can be played. We played a three way game and I got nicol bolas first!!!!!!!! Then after we messud up my cusin (he was using one of my best decks) Calvin desamated my nicol bolas and two other plainswalker I had I think they were Jace and guruuk the green one can never spell his name. Later calvin got out his nicol bolas and I deceded hes not going to win so I play my sharken vol and I destroy his Nicol Bolas by dealing it elevin damage by taking over his hellkite overlord and pumping it up =).

The end of the game was not so spectacular I was killed because my cusin when he played his stuffy doll (With an enchantment giving it flying) chose me so calvin attacked with his hellkite and killed me. Then they had a draw… My cusin got out what the deck was made for had only 4 cards (all were becon of tommorows) and took turn after turn but he couldn’t deal any damage because his creatures were too small and he couldn’t deck calvin so it ended up being a tie!

I was playing a casual game against Zach yesterday. I was using a Jund deck, except that it was only half Shards of Alara cards in it, and Zach was using a new black deck. We were both at 6 life, and Zach had out a Demigod of Revenge, and had just played another flying creature. He had 5 creatures out.

I had 5 creatures out, also. One was a Manaplasm, and it was enchanted with Elemental Mastery. I also had out a Drumhunter and 4 mana.

I had a Sangrite Surge in my hand.

Now, of course, if I was able to play this, and target Manaplasm, it would become a 10/10 with double strike, but more importantly, I could have created 10 tokens with haste to deal Zach 10 damage, but I only had 5 mana. The whole game would be decided by if the top card of my deck was a mana or not. If it wasn’t, Zach could attack me for 7 next turn, and I would lose, but if it was, I could attack him for 16 damage (I had 5 creatures, two that would be tapped, and 10 tokens.) He could only block 8 of it, and would lose. I drew a swamp, and won the game before he could! Too bad it wasn’t a tournament!