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