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Personal stuff. May or may not be related to other categories. Introductions, salutations, etc.

The New Woman

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5 months ago
by James F'n X in , ,

 

I don't have a Gavin Verhey-esque allegory to describe how I feel about Magic right now. (On a side note, if you haven't check out some of Gavin's allegories on Star City Games, you should do so right now.) In fact, I'm likely just on game tilt after my *stellar* performance at Nationals:

  • Lost the U/W Control mirror
  • Lost the U/W Control mirror again
  • Lost to Valakut
  • Lost to Valakut
  • Dropped to get draft sets
  • Was only given one draft set, even though there is no day 2 cut
  • Asked to speak to the TO about this situation, was refused
  • Refused my draft set and left the main TCG hall, never to return that weekend

Pretty sweet, huh? Of the 372 people that registered for Nationals, I finished...

364 Dykes, James 0 47.9167%

I'm not even bad enough to be worst! So I was done with Magic for the weekend (and probably for a while, until Innistrad sealed PTQs at the very earliest). Instead, I went over to hand with my roommate Dan Hanson over at the World of Warcraft TCG room. I had played the WoWTCG once before, at PAX last year, and I enjoyed the game. And GenCon weekend, they had one of their bigger open tournaments, Darkmoon Faire Indianapolis. Being sealed deck, I figured I'd give it a shot. It actually couldn't go any worse than Nationals, could it?
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Catching Up and Falling Behind

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8 months ago
by James F'n X in ,

It's time to play catch-up since I haven't posted in over a month. To the bullet points!
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Congratulations Dwayne St. Arnauld!

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1 year ago
by James F'n X in

We here at StillHadAllThese.com would like to congratulate Dwayne St. Arnauld on accepting a position at Wizards of the Coast.  Unfortunately that means he'll be leaving the family here, but this is a wonderful opportunity for him to work at his dream job.  We wish Dwayne the best in his future endeavors.

Welcome to StillHadAllThese.com!

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2 years ago
by James F'n X in ,
(Blatantly stolen from the Northwest Magic Community)

Turn one bolt you, go
I will kill you by turn four
I still had all these

Welcome to Still Had All These, where I'll document my theories on life, love, and loss, with some games of Magic thrown in for good measure.  Things are still in flux here, so please excuse the mess.

Things To Look For

  • Vampire Nighthawk - Pretty much every report I write on Zendikar limited is going to mention how much better things would have gone for me if I had the little bloodsucker that could.  Even if I have three of 'em, the fourth is just that much better.
  • Catch Phrase - I may not be a Pro Tour level Magic player, but even Osyp has respect for my Rainman-esque Catch Phrase skills.  If there's not Catch Phrase happening at a PTQ, something's very wrong.
  • Constructed - I need to fish or cut bait on sixty card decks.  My success playing magic has come bringing decks to the site as opposed to draft or sealed (Oh, Mana Tithe.), but I have a lot more fun playing limited.  If I want to get back to the Tour (and I'm pretty sure I do), I'll have to put more time into constructed.  Vampire Nighthawk might make cameos here as well.  He's that good.
  • MODO - See James.  See James draft.  See James draft badly.  Tell James how he could have done better.  It's no Drafting With Ruel, kids.

Stay tuned.

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