Long-Awaited Updates

Hey guys, time for updates! First, I crafted Lord of Night! Woo!

Shortly after crafting it, I decided to do this:

'Cause why not? I can't think of anything. ANYWAY! I've been PvPing lately, and I've arrived at this gear:

With this deck:

 And this side deck:

No *boop*s given. I discard aggressively and often lose, but whatever. It's fun either way. The people I've been facing in the practice arena have mostly consisted of Fire and Storm. Aggressive Fire and Storm. This may not be a surprise to those of you keeping up with the current top-level practice 1v1 metagame. That may be a small niche, but whatever. The key to these matches is HEAVY discarding and fast tempo. To those of you who don't know what tempo is, allow me to explain. Tempo is the speed at which the match progresses. For example, an aggressive storm player will want to spam low-pip spells to keep the tempo in their favor. I keep the tempo in my favor by doing the same and also using Infection, Weakness, and Doom aggressively. I came across this setup somewhere on twitter. ANYWAYS......

I am still single (foevah aloan), but I remain hopeful (kinda). I've felt depressed lately because of this and my grades reflect this, which is another reason why I haven't been able to get on long enough to post any updates. I've been talking to some new people, which is good, but I can tell that I've already been shoved into the friendzone. So, that's (not) fun.

Anyways, it's getting late for me. Hopefully (probably not) have an FNM report for you guys next time. Until then,

~Ravenhunter

Death Finished Azteca! and RBP

As the title implies:

My death wizard finished Azteca! Woo! This is all thanks to Mercenaries for Hire over at W101 Central.
M4H Site: http://wizard.mercenaries101.com/
M4H Central Page: http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?149-Mercenaries101
These guys are the best people. My Xibalba run today took about 40 minutes. That was with me (90 death), and Scarlet (90 life and 90 storm). We just buffed up her storm and hit with Tempest. Very fast, very effective.

Red Bell Peppers

I mentioned RBPs in the title. This is the reason why:

Yes, I started a RBP garden where some KPs used to be. I will be updating this blog on the status of them when necessary.

I don't have time right now to discuss Theros spoilers, but I will be back later today with more updates! May the cards be ever in your favor!

~Ravenhunter

Wizard101 Birthday Celebration! and updates

Hello everyone! First and foremost...

Yes! It's Wizard101's 5th birthday! Also, if you couldn't tell, I have a buttload of King Parsley in the back and a new mount in the front. I'll get to the KP in a minute, but let's discuss the giveaways that are happening right now. The place where I got all this:

is here: https://www.wizard101.com/game/5th-birthday-celebration
The potential prizes to be gotten can be found here: https://www.wizard101.com/game/5th-birthday-items
Also, another giveaway is happening right now over at W101 Central: http://www.wizard101central.com/forums/showthread.php?369857-Wizard101-Central-5th-Birthday-Celebration-Everyone-is-a-Winner-Raffle!
I have not received any prizes for the Central raffle at the time I'm writing this. I can't think of anything else to say on the subject, so let's move on.

King Parsley

 Yes, it's that time of the post to do updates on my KP garden. Here's what it was:

And here's what it is now:

"He's forgetting something now, but what is it?" you're probably wondering. That would be what I got off these fine KPs. Here are the reagents:

So, 6 Amber. Not bad. Oh yeah, there's one more thing; the 100+ KP seeds that I got from them. So my banks (!) are now chock full of KP seeds. This glorious KP empire all started with 7.  Yes, you read right. 7.  Allow me to tell you the story of how this whole obsession with Amber began.

At the start of this year, as my New Year's resolution, I promised myself how I would have Deer Knight by the end of the year. As I was looking up sources of Amber, I found that King Parsley seeds have a chance to provide Amber at elder. I thought, 'Ooh, I have have had tons of KPs stored away for no reason at all, until now.' I logged on and looked in my shared bank for them, and found a grand total of 7. I was thinking, 'OK, this is a start. But I don't really want to start planting anything until I have at least 9.' So, I started farming random places in Dragonspyre for KPs. The results were less than helpful. I thought, 'Eh, heck to it, I'll just plant the 7 seeds and see what happens.' These seeds, after Elder, brought me to a total of about 20 or so seeds. This was a good place to stop and plant a bigger gardening plot. So I did,  which is the plot you see to your right in the pictures above. I planted those seeds, and ended up with about 70-ish seeds, but still no Amber from KPs (I'd already gotten about 3 Amber from Red Huckleberries). I was thinking, 'Wow, I need more room.' This is when I planted the stacked plots over to the left in the above pictures. It snowballed very effectively, as you can see.

Whew, that was long.

From this point, I don't really know what I will be doing in W101 for a while, after I finish Azteca on the death. I might pick back up on my life wizard and quest with him, or I might go for Lord of Night on death, or maybe both at the same time. Anyways, enough about W101, you probably are here for Magic anyways. Fine, here we go.

FNM Report(s)

I know I haven't posted about anything for a while, but let's catch up on FNM reports, shall we?

August 16, 2013

This was a Modern event, and, if you know me personally, I love to play burn in Modern, so, it shouldn't be that much of a Shock (I am so punny) to you that I played none other that this:
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/modern-burn-81613/
I ended up going 3 and 1 in the swiss rounds and from there getting to the finals to lose miserably to mana flooding. I had a good time nonetheless.

August 23, 2013

This was a 2-headed giant standard event. I teamed up with one of my best friends, Eric, and these were the decklists that we ran.
Mine: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/battle-of-wits-82313/
Eric's: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/extortionists-82313/
Yes, you can get onto me about running Battle of Wits again, I don't care about your negative feedback. We ended up going 3 and 1 in the swiss rounds and making it to  top 4 and losing from there. We still got prizes though.

August 30, 3013

This was a standard event and I didn't have a deck ready to go 2 hours before the event started, so I scrambled together a good old favorite of mine. Burn.
Decklist: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/burn-83013/
I went 2 and 1 in the swiss rounds and made it to the finals to be defeated and put in 2nd place. I know I made some misplays and made some wrong choices when constructing the deck and sideboard, but hey, to end up in 2nd place, it did pretty well.

On to the next segment.

Theros Spoilers

I like to use Mythic Spoiler for previewing activities (mainly because my school's filter allows it).
Mythic Spoiler:  http://mythicspoiler.com/
I'm really excited for Theros in general, but Magma Jet being a potential reprint is an awesome bonus.


This has been a long post so far, and I've been writing it for the past 4 hours, so I think that's enough for one day. I will hopefully be back tomorrow to discuss some Theros spoilers and what I'm doing next in Wizard101. Until then, may the cards be ever in your favor!

~Ravenhunter

'Useless' Amber! Woo! and FNM Report

My KP reached elder today! Woo!

From them, I got 3 'useless' Amber:

At any rate, now that I have crafted the almighty Deer Knight, I'll continue questing in Azteca and maybe craft Lord of Night along the way. I'm off to do that, right after this ext segment.

FNM Report

As you guys may or may not know, I have been working on a Battle of Wits list the past few weeks, and I'd like to share it with you.

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/battle-of-wins/

It's still a work in progress, obviously. I won the FNM that was on the 2nd, but got my butt handed to me on the 9th. I went 3 and 2, with my 2 losses being to Maze's End (another fringe deck) and a singleton Assemble the Legion in the second opponent's Naya Midrange build. Game Day was yesterday, and I used a neat little Aggressive Jund deck which can be found here:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/jund-aggromidrange-m14/

I went 2 and 2 with this deck yesterday (the 1oth).  I lost to Bant Hexproof and a very aggressive Boros deck. My dad still won the event, and therefore the mat (which looks sweet). I can't think of anything else to say on the matter.

School starts back soon (bleh), and I have to finish To Kill a Mockingbird. About 70 pages to go at the time that I'm writing this.

That's all the time I have for today, see (or write) you guys later!

-Ravenhunter

Deer Knight!

I finally crafted Deer Knight!

I finally got the Amber I needed to craft Deer Knight! Farming Gladiator Dimachaerus for days has finally paid off! Also like 6 Enchanted Armaments doesn't hurt either. I got to go for now, but see you guys later!

~Ravenhunter

Introduction

Hello everyone. You may call me Gorman. I am 14 years old and live somewhere where you will never find me. In this blog, I will discuss Wizard101, Pirate101, Magic the Gathering, and the rest of my life. Let's start by talking about these games.

Magic

Magic the gathering is a game I've been playing since about March of 2010. My local game store is Lenlock Hobbies in Lenlock, Alabama. I am considered to be one of the better players there, even though I'm also one of the youngest. I am trying to become a judge. Here are some sites I use, but not the only ones.

Daily MTG: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Default.aspx
TCG Player: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/
Channel Fireball: http://store.channelfireball.com/landing
TappedOut: http://tappedout.net/
MythicSpoiler: http://mythicspoiler.com/


Next, .....


Wizard101

I've been playing Wizard101 since around October 2008. I have 2 main characters at this time: level 90 ice, and a level 89 death. I MIGHT be willing to help you on a quest if you contact me. I'm unlikely to check my email often, but will check my central often. Speaking of .....

Wizard101 Main Site: https://www.wizard101.com/start
Wizard101 Central: http://www.wizard101central.com/

Next, .....


Pirate101

I've been playing Pirate101 since October 2012. My main character is a level 12 swashbuckler. Links:

Pirate101 Main Site: https://www.pirate101.com/free_game?context=login&reset=1
Pirate101 Central: http://pirate101.centralforums.com/

So, back to my personal life. I am single and interested in females. I am going into my freshman year of high school.

I think this is all I have time for today. Check back later for more.

May the odds ever be in your favor!