Games Played: Magic, Password, Apples to Apples
Gamers: Steven, Rob, Chip, Ryan, Motor, Erick, Rob H. Erin, Bobby
The play-for-keeps decks were quite popular (: Rob, Ryan, and Motor each won a deck. I'll have to make some more.
MAGIC (0:31) Chip: 2 Steven: 0
My only match victory came early. I played my blue deck against Steven's black discard deck. I got off to a quick start with my Vedalken Engineers, and beat him down with some early Spire Golems and later Quicksilver Behemoths. He played Megrim and various discard inducers (such as Ravenous Rats), but it wasn't enough to disrupt my deck.
MAGIC (0:43) Rob: 2 Chip: 0
Rob was next, with his Elf deck, including an infinite creature combination - Voice of the Woods + Intruder Alarm. I held him off as long as I could, bouncing his Elves occasionally with Echoing Truth. I was able to deal a lot of damage to him, as he did not have any flying defenses out, but his Well-wisher kept his life total at or above 20.
MAGIC (0:19) Ryan: 2 Chip: 0
In the quickest match of the night, I played my red deck against Ryan's black/red dragon deck. Ryan has two ways of getting Dragons into play cheaply and quickly - Patriarch's Bidding and Belbe's Portal. He played each of those cards during our quick two games, and I wasn't fast enough to win.
MAGIC (0:35) Motor: 2 Chip: 1
In the closest match of the night, I played against Motor's black pre-constructed Darksteel deck. I won the first match with a lot of quick damage, but he came back to win the second match. His deck had a lot of creature removal, and I had to struggle to keep a creature in play. In the last game, I Essence Drained him down to three life, which was enough for me to lose the game. He played Pulse of the Forge three times to defeat me. It was the comeback of the night!
MAGIC (0:15, 0:10) Rob: won, lost Chip: lost, won
I played two casual games against Rob. He won the first against my signature deck with his arcbound deck. In the second game, he played a red burn deck (with 40 cards), and I played a white/green deck. He kept me creatureless for a while with two seals of Fire on the board. He sacrificed them to deal the damage directly to me, and I followed the next turn with an Auriok Glaivemaster and put one of my Vulshok Morningstars on her. I played another Auriok Glaivemaster, added a second Morningstar to the other Glaivemaster, and then Rob brought me down to a single life point (he had 13 life remaining). On the following turn, I attacked with both Glaivemasters for a total of 7 points of damage. When Rob passed on playing creatures (he had none in play), I cast Echoing Courage to increase the damage to 11. Still not enough? I played a second Echoing Courage to finish the game. After the game, I pointed out to Rob that he could have won at any time if he had remembered the Firebolt in his graveyard.
PASSWORD (0:48) Erick + Motor: 106 Chip + Rob H: 51
We played through two cards of Password clues. Erick and Motor crushed us, getting about twice as many clues as Rob and myself. They gave some really clever clues like "eager" ("beaver") and "resident" ("evil"). It was a lot of fun, and I look forward to playing this game again sometime soon.
APPLES TO APPLES (1:01) Bobby: won Erin, Motor, Rob H, Chip: lost
I didn't keep track of exactly how many green apples each player had, as we were having too much fun to worry overmuch about the score. Bobby did win the first round, and I believe he also had the most cards when we finished the deck. This game is usually a "the more the merrier" type of game, but it even plays well with only five players. The key is having the right group of people, which we did.
PLUG: Next week, G.I. Joe demos!
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