After what feels like significantly more than the month or so that it's been since last I had cards to play and games to talk about, I finally made it out for Commander night once again.
And what's more, it was the Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander Party! ... Which would've meant a lot more if not for the fact that half of the rules for the Commander Party were MIA, preventing us from using them for most of the night. Still.
Tonight was an unusual night, on top of that. Almost all of my games wound up being 1v1, with only one game having a third player. I played my Valgavoth, Saheeli, Krenko, and Fourteenth Doctor/Rose Noble decks throughout the night, and my opponent for almost every game was running an Azlask deck, a moderately different Eldrazi deck than what I'm used to seeing and expecting.
And to be slightly impolite about it, I basically wiped the floor with them in almost every game. The only game I lost was the one in which I played Saheeli. Partially, but not entirely, that can be chalked up to the incredibly poor draws that I was having that game, though a potentially-ill-timed Blasphemous Act did few favors for me, as my opponent managed to recover relatively swiftly, building back an even more imposing board state than the one I had wiped away.
The one game with a third player, I ran my Krenko, and we were joined by a player I have gone up against in the past, who was running a monoblue deck with Brinelin the Moon Kraken and the Ghost of Ramirez de Pietro as Partner Commanders. Again, I ran away handily with the game, having gotten a turn 2 Impact Tremors, which later turned into almost all of my damage for the game with Krenko and Siege-Gang Commander fueling significant swings. On the game's final turn, I drew General Kreat, the Boltbringer and was able to throw a quick and hefty 24 damage into each opponent. With an active Quest for the Goblin Lord and a Goblin Wardriver in play, my massive board of Goblin Tokens overran their remaining life totals.
That said, despite primarily playing 1v1 games tonight - not how I like to play Commander, given the nature of the format - and my unrelated frustrations with traffic on my way home, tonight was an absolute blast, and provided some much-needed time slinging cardboard around. I'm looking forward to the rest of my week.
This Sunday, provided all goes as intended, I will be likely participating in a Local Qualifier event for the FFTCG, which will likely be a ton of fun. Monday may see my normal FFTCG locals night, though that remains to be seen. I'm hopeful, at the least.
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