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Evan the Canadian, Slivers win Again, GW Two Headed Giant SMACK DOWN
Another great morning of Magic for Jack and the South Lake crew. Tuesday’s is late start day & we live across the street from the Junior High so the kids come over for a little Tuesday Morning with Magic. And Lisa cooks muffins–this week it was pumpkin! we are in training for the Theros Game day, so…
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Penny Arcade/PvP Series 6: Ark of the Mad Mage
I listened to this podcast at work while typing. Chris Perkins is a Great DM. His relationship to other great DM’s–in fact, legendary DMs like Gygax & Cook is well documented, but his influence on every living DM cannot be stressed enough. When one listens to Perkins run a game, every DM I have ever…
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Removing a Planeswalker
Jack and I were playing Magic at the Pokemon X&Y release event. Jack cast Ajani, Caller of the Pride I had reacted at Instant speed with two Spark Jolts and a Magma Jet assigning all damage to the Player Ajani. Jacked rightfully questioned this play. We ruled that this was not legal since Ajani is…
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Pokemon X & Y Release
Jack was extremely excited for the release of the new Pokémon game. He installed the poster in his bedroom in anticipation of the release event at Game Stop. We picked up Alexander and headed to the shop around 10:00 PM for a Midnight release. This was Alexander’s first Pokémon release event.…
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Worst Play Ever
You know those times when you make a play and everyone watching just starts laughing. I mean really laughing…Bent over, cannot talk? And then they utter ‘do you know what you just did’…and you have no idea and just stare at your cards like a mental patient? I had one of those yesterday…
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Murder in Baldur’s Gate–D&D Encounters S15 S9
Rain in Southern California is amazing–we all know about STORM WATCH and the absurdity of a little rain being treated as a natural disaster in an age of rapidly expanding natural disasters. But what is not so intuitive is that in Southern California a little rain actually does turn a 20 minute drive into a…
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Matt joins the Crew, Slivers Dominate, Two Head Giant Blow out
Another great week of Tuesday Morning with Magic at Much. My brother-in-law gave us some home grown pumpkins which of course were required to play some Theros! Lisa made some amazing Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins. which were served with some fantastic Peet’s coffee. Seventh graders need a note from their moms to drink coffee…
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Sunday Morning Theros
Brian came over Sunday with his new deck to play some Theros. I am still running my great Minotaur Rakdos deck, which matched up nicely with his UW Control deck. Our first match was the longest game I have ever played–it went like 30 rounds. Neither of us could find a…
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Children’s Hospital Orange County
Jack had his infusion at CHOC today. He has uveitis & has to have infusions every 8 weeks. We set up cards in the room–one of the nurses had a brother who played and knew what we were up to. Jack was very excited. While Nurse Uma was setting up the initial medications and taking vitals…
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