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My brain is mashpotatoes over all, but I’ll try to recall this past weekend.

First off, I’m going to say how fun it was. Even though I really lost more games then won, almost every single one I was able to do something fun out of my deck.

First up was Saturday night’s event:

I sadly didn’t take a shot of the deck I built, but it was a fun orhzov deck with, as you can see, Lili and Oketra. And yes, my promo did pull it’s weight exactly once (and was the only time I actually main decked it).

I will tell you, anyone that says the gods are hard to get on line I will flat tell them they don’t know how to use them at all. Every single one was suprisingly easy to get on line (I watched Hazoret, Rhonas, and Kefnet against me swing in). Oketra (cardwise) is easy friends with Liliana for sure.

Now, I don’t know how good they will be in standard (tournament level), but they are very fun. As far as ease to get on line to hardest, I would rate them at: Oketra, Bontu, and Rhonas being the easiest and Hazoret and Kefnet being the hardest.. but that is by shades. And even then the three easiest have their drawbacks that can sometimes make them seem harder to get on line.

Also, for those having issues with the ‘flavor’ issue, I’m planning on a ‘flavor’ post soon about a bunch of cards/cycles, and what not, but here, their difference from the Theros gods is clear. Theros gods are felt (enchantments first), but Amonkhet’s gods stand among their people (always creatures). Like the gods of theros, they must be appeased to help, but one set of gods it’s in focus/pray/devotion, these gods are about action (amassing an army, gathering knowledge, willing to give up something to get the job done, growing in strength, and to rush in with total confidence)

Anyhoo, event 1 was a blast.

And I got an extra box that night:

neat addtions to my quickly growing collection. X3

Day two, events 2-4 where a whole lot of fun, though I did miss out on the first match on event 2 due to sleeping in, but still.

These were my rares, and this was my deck:

Tons of fun to play, It’s weakness? Tresspasser’s curse. Lost to that dang thing. Still, I had no trouble getting Bontu to swing when I needed him to.

And these are my spoils:

Tied and one a match. The tie was with a really nice woman that doesn’t play magic outside of prerelease for the most part, so not only did she give me the pack, but when I joked about wanting Hazoret (when I saw her hit the table against me), she was like ‘sure, after this, she is yours’. I was super shocked and even stated I was only joking, but I happily accepted. If you are here on tumblr, Demi, and you remember me form Comics FTW in santa rosa, Thank you so much.

Event 3:

These being my rares,  I forced myself to move away from B/W... but with extra time to build, I got 2.5 decks out of the pool. My main one was this Gruul deck:

It was very fun to play, it was mostly just a straight beat face deck. First match was against another gruul deck that was almost the same. The first game went almost half the time, cause we kept matching creature for creature where the first one to swing would loose. It was tense in the funnest way.

I also had those 1.5 other decks: My U and B where fairly potent, and so I made it that I could just move my white between them as a splash to fill out each, thus effectively maing 3 decks.

it worked out pretty one the one time I swtched from my main deck to the W/U. X3 (the painted bluffs moved between all versions)

The last even was simple:

I JUND’em out, with a sepcal appearance by Oketra to close things out. Funny enough, it was only getting mana screwed on red mana that caused me to loose as much as I did. But when this deck worked? Damn. I mean...

Damn. I often swung in with Oketra and at least 3 worms.

These were my rares for that last set:

Now between the two events, I dodn’t remember my actualy win/lose ratio, and my planeswalker points thing doesn’t seem accurate at all..., but these are the last winnings:

I also payed in for a friend that just wanted to play. She let me keep the box of cards and winnings. She just plays commander right now, and she already got the 3 cards she wanted from the set. Buuuut, I forgot to take pictures of that pool ^_^;