Trades and Upcoming Events

So got a few things to post about tonight...

May is going to be a very busy month for me.  The last few weeks especially.  May 19th is a terrain building day being hosted in Vincinnes at Legends Family Games.  It's to stock up the store terrain pool and to make sure we've got enough stuff for a table or two more than we do now.  Currently, the Midwest Warfare group is up to nearly 40 people.  That's a personal point of pride.  The Indianapolis tournament scene (the seriously competitive part) is around 30 people that show up to the 'Ard Boyz events that Games Workshop sponsors.  I'm pretty proud of the fact we've got so many people in our group.  Also, our 6th tournament is being held on the 26th and the 27 at Legends as well.  Talking to the guys down there today helped really get some good work put together for next month.

Speaking of the guys in Vincinnes, I got to do a little trading and some playing today that was productive.  I met a guy named... Something I can't remember.  I really need to work on names.  But he's a cool guy and was very knowledgeable.  We did some trading, partially for value, partially for playability in our own interests.  I hope he got the stuff he was looking for and I'm very pleased with the stuff I got in return.  I have to attribute the smooth trading to the guys over at TCG for the articles about trading, particularly the recent one about transparency in trades.  Being able to establish what we were and were not willing to trade right away and with ease really helped get things along.  It also helped to know what each other were looking for and what kind of prices we went by.  Things went very well.  Then we sat down to play a few games.  I only had one playable deck on me, my Modern BW Tokens.  He played one game with a mono-white Humans for Standard.  His second deck was BG Pod.  He had a very interesting spin on it.  It piloted more like a control deck than the standard Birthing Pod fare.  It was innovated, and very effective.  I have to admit, I underestimated how effective massacre wurm.  That card really turned his game around when he dumped it out.  The deck he played really was very good at putting me on a tight clock.  The lesson learned was easy enough to sort out... Grafsdigger Cage is worth it's weight in gold and I need to find my few copies.  They shut down Undying, as well as the Birthing Pod itself.

So, in closing, I've learned a few things today and got a lot done.  Now just to start figuring into my Standard deck for the upcoming PTQ season.  And before that, I have to get a Warhammer tournament in order...  Sounds like May is going to be a very busy month.

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