Oh! I did not go for the guild meeting...

I went to one of my local shops 15 mins before the last prerelease flight but they no longer had any products left.
After arranging with a friend, we managed to go for another prerelease elsewhere else via cab.
Here, they had all the guilds left except for Golgari since everyone wanted Abrupt Decay. I heard that Selesnya and Azorious were good but I took Izzet instead (obviously my choice since they don't have Dimir).
At the table, I was told from the people sitting and playing the same guild that Izzet was a rather weak guild and had very bad chances although it could have very powerful pools.
My eventual pool was not fantastic but I tried to make the best of it.
I beat an Izzet deck (who took the Rakdos box) which had my guildmaster in it by playing draw-go in a full Izzet mage style. I next faced my friend who was playing a defender tribal deck with 3x the mill defender. With my burn spells not capable of clearing the 0/4 guys with any consistency, I easily lose in an inevitable way. I scoop to save time and information and side in black for the dumb rare enchantment that halves the player's life but I don't draw it and get double milled with ease again.
Third match was against Azorious who I dispatch easily on the back of my Izzet playstyle that attacks the larger bombs with countermagic while sneaking in small threats.
It was late and I split the last round with my opponent to go back.

We didn't have any incentives to fill the achievement card up. Hey! There was supposed to be a guild meeting held...

Church Camp

(Not at all mtg related but I don't have anywhere I can put this down)

For once in my life, I have come to appreciate the fact that people are far from what we see them to be. For that, I am comforted that I am rightfully human when I am not optimal with my decisions.

I am thankful to be blessed to have been given a sound mind that creates its own train of thoughts since the hive mind doesn't need to be correct and I am more than glad to know that I have someone of a great mind on my side by my side to let me see that I don't have to be confused when I am unable to comprehend the state of the situations I get into because what I think is not always wrong.

God always never fails to do things in His way that people cannot fathom and I aspire to draw this from Him. I do, however, really want to have a more forgiving heart for my own sake because I want to not let my grudges become ancient ones that hold me down.

Random: I want to play in a prerelease pod!

Standstill standstill

My reanimator / flash deck was a flop. It's quite difficult to make it work through crossover hate.

Now, I am back to the other end of the spectrum, standstill.
Last year, I had managed to post decent results with the UR standstill.
Now I am testing a UW version with moderate results as I am still trying out various technologies that would be useful in the format.
I wanted to play it in the DE this morning but I was too tired so I left the queue at 245am. Apparently the queue was at 14 people so it might have fired. Ack.

Classic Reanimator?

 

Hmm.. I wonder if this would work out...

 

This is a mesh of Flash and Reanimator.. I wonder why people don't really play reanimator in Classic other than splash over dredge hate. I would try and see how this goes. Would be cool if I can make some cool powerful hybrid decks that would be capable of taking down the Classic DE.. :)

I think I know the answer

From Lotus Cobra is Evil (yay! - link at the side):