Oh Lord!

Once again, it's late and I'm blogging. However, this time around even though I am alone in this room, I am skyping with Mark. We just played a couple games over the computer by moving the video camera over to where we are placing our cards and talking through every move that we are making. Of course our magic extravaganza didn't start there. It actually started 10 hours ago when he invited himself over my house, then we went to his house after a couple hours, and then we skyped each other for the past hour. While at his house, I traded him 3x Eldrazi Monument, and he turned his elf deck into an Eldrazi Green deck. We then played a few games with me piloting random stuff and he played Eldrazi Green. One game in particular was absolutely epic, but you can read about it in Mark's post on his blog (Deckmaster Central). And yes, we are still connected on Skype while we are both updating our blogs at the same time. This game was Eldrazi Green vs Enchanting Angels. Basically, he used Nissa's ultimate ability, but i was able to hold off the army for a couple turns thanks to 3 Angelsongs. While he was trying to bash face, I was playing enchantments and getting angels from Sigil of the Empty Throne. After he went completely all out, I used my last angelsong and then swung in for lethal damage with my angels.

But that's not what I'm really focused on. I don't know what I am really focused on this time around, but I want to point out how crazy lords are. A lord is a creature that buffs up other creatures, usually of the same creature type. Whenever I play Mark, he always seems to get an abundance of lords. One game, I was playing him Vampires deck, and he got all 4 Vampire Nocturnuses into play. All vamps got +8/+4 and flying... I quickly lost. Joraga Warcaller is in the same boat. In that Eldrazi Green deck, he has 4, and in combination with the mana producing elves, he has kicked a Warcaller 4 times against me once.

In his merfolk deck, he has 11 lords currently, and potentially 15. At first i thought I was fighting all 1/1s, but I always get slapped by 4/4s and 5/5s that are all conveniently unblockable.

Going back to elves, I played my Big Green deck against his Elves deck (this was before it became Eldrazi Green). We played a best of 3, which he won 2-1, but I am going to post all 3 games. The longest one went only 6 turns!

Game 1:
I won the roll, and kept:

3x Forest
Elvish Visionary
Garruk Wildspeaker
Beastmaster Ascension
Thornling

Turn 1, I played a forest, and Mark played a forest into Llanowar Elves
Turn 2, [D - Forest] I played a forest, and then played Elvish Visionary [D - Harrow]. Mark played a forest and a visionary of his own.
Turn 3, [D - Forest] I played a forest and a harrow. Mark played a forest, and a Joraga Warcaller kicked once. He then attacked with the Llanowar elves and the Visionary
16 - 20
Turn 4, [D - Overrun] I played a forest, followed by garruk who untapped 2 lands, allowing me to play Beatmaster Ascension. Mark played a forest, a second Warcaller kicked once, and then attacked with the other 3 creatures. I blocked his Visionary with mine, and he pumped his Llanowar Elves with a Giant Growth.
7 - 20
Turn 5, [D - Arbor Elf] I played a forest, created a Beast token, cast Thornling, and then Arbor Elf. Mark Played a third Warcaller kicked once and attacked with everything. I had enough blockers to only let one guy through. However, Mark had a second Giant Growth to finish me off with.


Game 2:
I mulliganed to 6 and kept:

3x Forest
2x Arbor Elf
Thornling

Turn 1, I played a forest into an Arbor Elf. Mark responded in the exact same way.
Turn 2, [D - forest] I played a forest and another Arbor Elf. Mark played a forest and Elvish Archdruid.
Turn 3, [D - Overrun] I played a forest and a Thornling. Mark played a forest followed by Arbor Elf and Nissa's Chosen.
Turn 4, [D - Terra Stomper] I played a forest followed by the Terra Stomper. I then attacked with the Thornling. Mark blocked with the Arbor Elf and pumped it with a kicked Vines of the Vastwood. "You walked right into that one." Mark played a forest, Nissa's Chosen, and then attacked with two arbor elves and a Nissa's Chosen. I blocked the Chosen with the Terra Stomper and took 4.
16 - 20
Turn 5, [D - Khalni Heart Expedition] I played the Expedition and then attacked with the Stomper. Mark responded by playing a forest and then attacked with the 2 Arbor Elves and a Nissa's Chosen.
9 - 12
Turn 6, [D - Forest] I played overrun and attacked for lethal damage


Game 3:
I kept my opening hand consisting of:

2x Forest
2x Arbor Elf
2x Elvish Visionary
Rampaging Baloths

Turn 1, Mark went first this game and started with forest into Arbor Elf
Turn 2, [D - Wolfbriar Elemental] I played a forest into my own Arbor Elf. Mark played a forest and then an Elvish Archdruid.
Turn 3, [D - Arbor Elf] I played a forest, an Arbor elf, and then the Elvish Visionary [D - Momentus Fall]. Mark played a forest, a second Arbor elf, and then a Joraga Warcaller kicked twice. He attacked with a 4/4 Arbor elf, which I blocked with my Visionary.
Turn 4, [D - Oran Rief, the Vastwood] I played by Oran-Rief, followed by Arbor Elf and Elvish Visionary [D - Forest]. Mark ended things fast by playing a Joraga Warcaller kicked 3 times! He then attacked with his whole army. While I was struggling to pick my blocks, trying to balance board position with a healthy life total, Mark showed me the Overrun in his hand, and I acknowledged I had no hope for a comeback and conceded.

After playing those 3 lightning fast games (i guess elves are fast, but no one calls it elvish fast. Maybe I should start a new trend...), I decided that Elvish Archdruid is extremely overpowered, and he is rightfully an $8 card. He is your standard lord AND he produces an insane amount of mana! He is simply nuts! When this guy hits the field, you better O-ring or kill him fast.

Speaking of Lords, I am thinking about making another blog about our Lord Jesus Christ. I am a strong catholic and I am obviously a computer person, so I am going to draw them together in the form of a blog. I don't know exactly what I am going to do with it yet, but you should check it out. http://rlackfaith.blogspot.com/.

Until next time, may your lords never go on a journey to nowhere