My Version of "Going Out" on a Friday Night: Friday Night Magic

So I've been playing in Friday Night Magic Standard constructed tournaments every Friday night for the past few months.  It's a lot of fun, and I'm getting better at the game.  I feel like updating you on my adventures for those of you who enjoy MTG.

Up until now, I've been doing pretty back, but I've slowly been getting a handle on both deck building and how to actually play this game with all its subtleties.

Two weeks ago, I had a 3-1-1 using a Grixis Dragon Control deck:

Creature (10)

• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 2x Icefall Regent
• 2x Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death
• 2x Thunderbreak Regent

Instant (15)

• 3x Dig Through Time
• 4x Foul-Tongue Invocation
• 4x Scatter to the Winds
• 4x Silumgar's Scorn

Land (27)

• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 6x Island
• 1x Mountain
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 3x Smoldering Marsh
• 4x Sunken Hollow
• 5x Swamp

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Crux of Fate
• 2x Languish
• 1x Radiant Flames

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Sideboard (15)

• 2x Disdainful Stroke
• 2x Dispel
• 2x Horribly Awry
• 2x Infinite Obliteration
• 2x Rending Volley
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 2x Self-Inflicted Wound
• 1x Transgress the Mind
• 1x Virulent Plague

It's pretty fun to play, though control  takes a while to get the hang of.  I like this deck because it gives me lots of decisions to make while I'm trying to survive until the late game when my dragons can take over.
I like dragons.  They are fun.  Fun with fire.  And sometimes ice.

This past week, I went 3-2, which I also am happy with (I'll take a winning record any day), with a mono-black aggro warrior deck.

Creature (28)

• 3x Blood-Chin Rager


• 4x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Despoiler of Souls
• 4x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 3x Erebos's Titan
• 2x Graveblade Marauder
• 2x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  Flip
• 4x Mardu Shadowspear
• 2x Mardu Strike Leader
• 2x Ruthless Ripper

Land (20)

• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Island
• 4x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 3x Sunken Hollow
• 7x Swamp

Instant (6)

• 1x Butcher's Glee
• 2x Coat with Venom
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 2x Negate

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Duress
• 2x Grave Strength
• 2x Ruinous Path

Sideboard (15)

• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Clutch of Currents
• 1x Coat with Venom
• 1x Despise
• 2x Disdainful Stroke
• 2x Dispel
• 1x Duress
• 2x Infinite Obliteration
• 2x Self-Inflicted Wound
• 2x Transgress the Mind

This deck is really fast and really fun.  And also pretty consistent and can do well with only a few mana.  Grave Strength is a card no one expects, and sometimes makes people angry.

FNM at my local store is $6 to play, and no matter your record at the end of the night you get a booster pack (a.k.a. a Pity Pack).  But 2 wins gets you 3 packs, 3 gets you 4, etc.  I've finally started winning packs with my winning records!

I even opened some decent cards this week.

Shiny!

Mythic!

Fortunately (or unfortunately?) for me, Jack in the Box is directly on my way home from the game store.  So 12:30 at night I stop by so I can enter a greasy food coma before bedtime.

I like tacos.  These are sort of like tacos.