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Thursday, 31 July 2014

August is so daunting!

It's a day before August and there is a whole bunch of things going on to make me busy.
There are WMCQs going on in real life (which I am qualified to enter), the is a Legacy big event on the 31st, there is the Legacy MOCS this month and the Vintage Masters Championships

To sort things out for myself, I looked at the schedule of things to come.

13 ~ 19 Aug - Vintage Masters Limited Qualifiers
17 Aug - WMCQ (PSB) - Standard
20 ~ 28 Aug - Vintage Masters Constructed Qualifiers
23 Aug - Vintage Masters Limited Championships
30 Aug - Vintage Masters Constructed Championships
31 Aug - WMCQ (SG Cards) - Standard / Legacy tourney (why would the same place organize two supposedly big events??)

3-5 Sep - MOCS qualifiers
6 Sep - MOCS Legacy
14 Sep - WMCQ (PSB) - Standard

That is quite a hectic month if I were to go into the various events.
Realistically, I can try to catch some events at night. Vintage is at 8.30pm if it fires and Legacy is usually 10pm from what I recall. I would not be able to do much Legacy given that it would usually last till around 2am and I wake up at 6.30am on a daily basis.

Starting today is the new MOCS season so I would need to clock 15 QPs if I want to qualify for the MOCS qualifier. 15 QPs means I have to clock 1 QP every 2 days. So far, my Vintage grinding is not going too well. With my recent re-emergence into Legacy, I suspect that the Legacy side is posting better results than my Vintage side.

In a recent Vintage DE, I tested out welder and have some screenshots.
It came down to fighting artifacts against spells.
I lost to the explosiveness of Gush but I have a strong game against fairer decks.
Welder has some strong interactions but it does not have as strong a comeback as Gush decks so I think I would want to go back to working on it rather than to move out and test.







In Legacy, I have been using my "4c control deck" (for the lack of a better name) and I am doing comfortably.
I am testing out sideboard options which includes Keranos, the M15 squid and most recently, Grave Titan.
I figured that Grave Titan would singlehandedly win the Jund matchup once resolved but it seems to only do that (if I do get to cast it). On the other hand, Keranos is wonderful in grindy matchups and squid has its fair share of being good and not so I am still on the fence.
I am losing to outlier decks more than to the established decks but I do not have a good way around that.
In any case, I should be trying to think of how to schedule my time to clock some games in.
I heard that fetchlands are expensive now so I will use my spares as warfunds. =)


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