Lilian, the Last Nope @SliverQueen@wubrg.social

That moment when the list you thought you were putting together more or less as a silly thought experiment might just be Good

https://deckbox.org/sets/2120821?s=n&o=a

Two weeks out of the hospital after *major* surgery is enough recovery time to go to a prerelease ... right??

Oh hey, Nexus of Fate is now banned in best-of-one on Arena. Good riddance.

Snow week is putting a one-week delay into the Sealed league at work - which pushes the end past the point where I'll be on leave. Oops.

Ah yes, the matchmaking algorithm that matches a Pauper deck against a TurboFog deck

Getting the urge to build a Rats Commander deck. The missing part is how to keep it from running out of gas, or how to recover from a board wipe. Patriarch's Bidding is a start, for sure, but that's one out of the hundred.

This deck is now officially sweet af.

That's my three matches for the round, so I open a new pack which hands me Revival // Revenge and Fireblade Artist ... *wow*.

I don't understand how this deck is 3-0, what is happening (other than an extraordinarily unlikely pile of clutch rips)

https://deckbox.org/sets/2246432

Focus Breaker - 3

Enchantment

Whenever a player is dealt damage, counter target spell that player controls unless that player pays X, where X is half of the damage dealt rounded down.

Turns out that the "every Mythic card I own on Arena" deck is not only garbage, it gets paired against tier one decks and thus splattered even harder. Weird.

(Three losses in a row followed, which seems more correct.)

This deck is *complete and utter garbage* and I'm currently 4-0 with it.

It's running Junktroller, for crying out loud, and that card just won me a game against a Mill deck, as we fought over if I could get one card onto my library before my draw step. (Opponent would have won, but conceded instead ... oops.)

(Not pictured: Seven gates)

Which was the sequel to "I just Mass Manipulation'd your board, and you spent your 6-drop removal on your own creature?"

*wham*

"Oh, you've only got five power on the board? And are tapped out to activate your Twilight Panthers? Gosh, what a shame..."

*wham*

I'm gaining new respect for (came in like a) Wrecking Beast. It's been my finisher for two draft games in a row now, and I'm 5-2 with that deck.

Welp, my Rakdos sealed deck won a match despite itself ... was holding back Dagger Caster and topdecked a Blade Brand while I was staring down two Knight-Arbiters at 3 life, kinda the definition of the "lucky out". Game two I was also staring down an 8/10 Incubation Druid but I'd resolved Judith and already traded my Debtors' Transport, and it turns out 2 2/1 flyers were enough of a clock.

Should probably run a different deck in the next match though.

I'm also learning that my distaste for MTGO extends even as far as watching someone play it.