A couple days ago we reached a goal of mine with the podcast. We got over a hundred downloads in a single day! Thanks to you guys we’ve been downloaded more each month than the month previous and last month we almost hit 1,000. So far in February we’re on track to beat all of that. And if you have any friends or family in Arizona or Nevada, get them to listen to our show. That’ll get us althoughout the pacific southwest. Once we get downloads in all fifty states we’ll do something special. I don’t know what. Let’s burn that bridge when we get to it.
We played the new set for Magic the Gathering. Allegiance is the second set of the third block taking place in the plane of Ravnica. I had some friends come over for a small booster draft to explore the new creatures, characters, and keywords introduced in this set.
The first Ravnica block is to this day one of my most favorite eras of Magic the Gathering. I enjoyed the new concept of guilds. The pairing of colors and new keyword mechanics specific to each guild served well in gameplay but also filled out the storytelling just within the collecting of cards. I was in a lull at the time the second Ravnica block was on shelves so, I missed out on that at the time and haven’t had a chance to explore those sets.
Now, my friend Devon and I briefly reviewed Guilds of Ravnica on our twitch channel. And we enjoyed it much. I found that the new keyword mechanic I used. OST in our game was ‘Spectacle’ which is the new Rakdos mechanic. It was useful and worked well in my deck. Although, I think my favorite mechanic in this set is the Gruul keyword, ‘Riot’. When you caste a creature spell with ‘Riot’ you can give either a +1/+1 or haste. In seventeen years of playing Magic I can’t think of nor imagine any instance where you can’t find a use for one of those options. Beside that, I pulled Domri, Chaos Bringer and I’m super excited to build a deck for that one card.
So far Allegiance is shaping up to my favorite Ravnica set. It’ll take a little more for it to be my favorite set utterly but I’m not ruling it out.
So, I’ve been lounging about all day instead of getting things done, per usual. I was too lazy to turn the channel so I’ve been watching Forever Verse and other Geek & Sundry shows all day. It’s been fun but I was meaning to catch up on Grace and Frankie. I’ll do that later. I did watch season two of The Punisher. It was absolutely worth the wait! I haven’t read any announcements yet about The Punisher being cancelled so I imagine that news will drop this Friday or Saturday. And I can’t recall where Jessica Jones is in regard to the cancellation of that show, I don’t think it was cancelled yet but I don’t remember.
I did create a new character using the Marvel Super Heroes system that I love so much. That was a good way to avoid getting things done. And that character will be one of a handful that will be available on the Patreon page...as soon as I figure out how best to do that. My favorite part of these games is creating characters so, if you need a character for a game, contribute at least $1 to the Patreon page and tell me what game you want the character for and I‘ll put it together for you. I’m most familiar with the games we’ve played on the show but I books(.pdfs) for many other games.
Fantasy Football Update Week Sixteen(Semifinal)
The weeks have been hard for The Dragons. Their morale waning with each conflict. Seeming to have lost the will to continue many of the Dragons trudge forward more and more slowly. Few have any hope the Dragons shall taste victory again before year’s end.
As the battle begins our enemies move swiftly. Denying all but one direction for our forces to march. The Dragons carry on ever forward to no avail. The enemy outpaced our warriors all throughout. Unrelenting the Dragons fought with boundless courage nonetheless, there was no returning to a positive standing in this battle. The Dragons wiould fail one last time.
12 Reasons Why slayed The Level 20 Red Dragons 217.5-141.77.