of course, today's 0-3 drop was brought to you by the letters RTFC and reds many variants of threaten

O_O

day two's side events go 2-2 and 3-0-1, however. and five mythics to give roytang to take home

in the super sunday sealed event, got passed a pool that didn't seem too impressive - until i flipped to the angel, then I knew I was playing white. Collective Blessing and Wayfaring Temple rounded out Selesnya

with a theme of critters and pump (2 GG, Common Bond, Chorus) Went win against a guy who Vraska'd away a Blessing, lost against a guy who Grisly Salvaged away a Vraska and Lotleth Troll in favor of a land...

but got to T2 Pack Rat me in both games, and finished me off with Necropolis Regent in game 2. after a loss and a win, I chose to drop to sign up for something that sounded fun: Standard Sealed - which is...

made up of one each of Innistrad, Dark Ascension, Avacyn Restored and Magic 2013 with 2 packs of Return to Ravnica. Admittedly, building the deck from such a disparate pool is not mean feat, but it often helps

to have rares to start with: my deck ended up playing five of the six, eschewing the playable (and actually splashable) Jarad's Orders for a tighter GW build featuring: from Innistrad: Divine Reckoning;...

from Dark Ascension, Sorin; from Avacyn Restored: Bruna; from Magic 2013, Thragtusk; from Return to Ravnica: Grove of the Guardian. Eventually I ended up with a creature-light green-white build with UB splashes

the removal suite was eclectic: Pacifism, Defang, Rebuke, Divine Verdict in addition to the Reckoning, some decent equip in Angelic Armaments and Mask of Avacyn, a top-end beater in Archangel, Serra Spider...

... which explains the three wins. The draw was against the other pool with two mythics, both X-spells: Entreat the Angels and Sphinx's Revelation. The four prize packs (RTR) yielded Death's Presence, Sphinx

of the Chimes, Necropolis Regent and Niv - so the day got me five mythics. Pretty tired when I got back home, but it was a high note

Nice.