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It's Friday - What are your plans for the week-end? (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'm playing in a Magic the Gathering tournament on Saturday with 32 players, the biggest i've ever been in

EDIT: Tournament results

After 5 rounds of Swiss with 27 players (a few cancelled last minute), I finished with 3 victories and 2 defeats, landing on place 9, which was unfortunately 1 too far to make it to the Top 8 single-elimination tournament. I went home with 2 Krark-Clan Shamans, a Bloomborrow booster, a pack of assorted tokens and a voucher from a partner to get proxies printed.

It was really fun! I will play the same deck in 2 weeks again at my local game store and in another tournament.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice! What are the prizes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pauper staples for the top 8: DCI Promo Counterspells, Dust to Dusts (the Dark), Mental Notes (Judgement), Snuff Out (Mercadian Masques), Krark Clan Shamans (Mirrodin), Lotus Petals (Promo 30th Anniversary), Boosters, and goodies like sleeves, deckboxes, playmats, sets of tokens, vouchers to print full proxy decks

(in German) https://mtg-ortenau.de/mtg-ortenau-pauperparty-2/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That seems like a good prize pool for a 20eur entry! Good luck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Best of luck! I'm pretty new to MtG but that sounds fun - what kind of deck are you running?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you! This is a Pauper tournament, so all cards in my deck are commons from throughout magic history. I play black-red-green called Jund Wildfire.

It tries to win through attacking with creatures from MH3 Writhing Chrysalis, Nyxborn Hydra, Refurbished Familiar, with spells to draw a lot of cards and get more lands into play.

And you, what decks and formats do you play?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh I've heard of Pauper! That deck looks great, Nyxborn Hydra definitely seems scary 👀

I only play EDH at the moment, but I'm interested in trying other formats for sure. I play a white/blue precon called First Flight which I've slightly upgraded and tweaked to focus more on life gain, as well as a red/blue deck I've put together with Magnus The Red as commander, focusing on token creatures and dealing damage to all players whenever I cast spells! I'm pretty new to the game 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

White-Blue flyers is sweet, I have fond memories of my Sephara, Sky's Blade standard deck. EDH is cool because you can really tweak slowly your decks. Other formats usually have their own fixed list and you need to invest a lot to make a complete deck. At least in Pauper the individual cards are pretty cheap, you can get a complete deck for the price of a single chase-mythic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh nice! Yeah I got lucky with Storm Herd once or twice and have sort of been gambling on hitting it every time I use First Flight 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

TYSM ☺️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Stay inside, not want to risk getting taken by ICE for "existing", probably continue my dedicated Minecraft server I been working on, modpack is techopolis right now. Or maybe some more Factorio. Got to keep the brain busy to distract my self from the facism that is happening, you know?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Traveled to Washington DC to attend protests against this fascist bullshit we got going on.

Open invitation if anyone wants to come.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for getting out there and making your voice heard!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Boardgames tonight at my sister's house. Mom's visiting my house tomorrow evening to see our newly finished kitchen. We're having Indian food. Excellent stuff happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sounds fun, what boardgames do you like to play?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Going to visit Ghent with a friend so she can charge her company for the hotel and restaurants

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Enjoy, Ghent is nice!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Get some rest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My birthday is tomorrow :-) So, planning to stuff my face with cake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Happy birthday!!! How's your day going?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Setting up a Pi Hole on my home network. I’ve never done it before so I have no idea if it will take long. Probably take the pug on a hike too. Oh, and playing monster hunter wilds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let me know how it goes, I have been thinking about it on and off for years. Since Chrome stopped ad blockers, I switched to Firefox but it is just missing a few things that I enjoyed about chrome.

Also, how much did it cost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I got it for free. (Last company I worked for went bankrupt). I think they were $200 when new? Well I got the case and fan installed….i need a micro hdmi to hdmi cable for display. I was unsuccessful in getting one. I don’t use Amazon anymore. Best Buy has it, cool. Drive over there, they don’t have it. They say they have it, but they can’t find it. Whatever they were gonna overcharge me anyways. Ended up ordering one online from B&H. So still waiting. Didn’t set up pi hole. lol sorry for the rant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Given the shitty weather forecasts i hope to be able to ride my road bicicle on sunday. Some 80km would be great, but i guess i will be luclky to go for 50km. As for saturday, maybe swimming pool and lots of stuff to fix at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I got sick and it’s also been raining near me. I’ll just be watching movies and doodling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Play some Traveller with friends tomorrow, tidy around the apartment so it looks nice when my wife gets back from her trip, probably take my dog for a walk or two if the weather allows. If I’m feeling inspired, I want to print some zines on local foraging and go around putting them in Little Free Libraries. Should be pretty chill, and I’m not mad about that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Driving an hour to get some free compost and worms for my garden!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately more work I need to catch up on for my research MA program. But it's just messing with some R code for analyses, which is much more preferable than doing any writing. Might bike to a cafe and work there for a change of scenery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Work.

I'm working about 2-3 jobs these days, and none of them play to my strengths. You'd think I'd be able to make ends meet by working 60+ hours and living with roommates.

I'm also working on a side-project startup so I won't have to work everyday and I can actually--you know--have a life...and friends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I work over the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Work, work and work. Sadly weekends are my busiest days