Done with the first day's worth of sessions from the virtual conference I'm attending this week. Time to dig into some of the related material for a few hours.
🧙♂ So far I'm a big fan of the Ikoria draft format. Sitting at 4-2 in my second draft outing. Probably will try do one more later this week, but I doubt I'll be able to go blue black again so I may need to look into the other color pairs.
🏃Had a very successful Virtual Bloomsday 12K this morning and finished about a minute and a half faster than I expected with a time of 52:24!
🧙♂ Finished 7-1 with my Dimir mutation deck in to win my first draft! The last two games were a little bit anticlimactic actually as both my opponents didn't seem to have very good draws.
🧙♂ Just realized I have four copies of Gadwick, the Wizened. Might actually be able to put together a mono blue deck that can win once in a while rather than just fulfilling daily quests requirements.
🧙♂ I had two already, but I should really spend a couple wildcards and complete the playset tomorrow.
🧙♂ Faced a mono black control deck with my Izzet Prowess deck that was almost entirely creature removal. An obnoxious matchup, but I played it out and got them down to about 10 before conceding. Then I remembered Roil Eruption, the new 2 drop common solution that delivers 3 to any target (5 if kicked!), and updated my deck.
🧙♂ Picked up my first loss this morning in the Ikoria Quick Draft after 5 straight wins. Two more chances to pick up at least another win, but I'm going to save those for tomorrow.
🧙♂ It's interesting how Magic players respond to new sets and mechanics. Like some people hate the mutation mechanic in Ikoria, but personally I love it. That said, I didn't understand it at all during my first month of playing.
🏃Got in a short quick 6K run for the first time since Saturday. Great conditions and now I think I'm going to attempt to do my virtual Bloomsday 12K run on Thursday.