Monday, 2:34 PM
Dear Journal…
Wow.
After three crazy days in DC, I am finally in San Juan. I am back on the Pro Tour again — and I hope this time I can stay on. I am only two hours in, and this already reminds me how awesome the Pro Tour is.
Ten other people and I rented a beach house for the week so we can test and work on the format before the Pro Tour. With such a talented group of people, I look forward to seeing what we come up with.
The house seems okay so far. It feels booby trapped, though. We walked in, and there was a metal statue balancing half-off of a bookshelf, and some creaky old benches that you can feel splintering when you sit on them. I hope we don’t lose our deposit.
As the first car to arrive, we got first choice of bedrooms. I immediately identified the room with two single beds as the best choice because I would always have a bed to myself. Kyle Boggemes took the other bed. I guess we’re going to be brothers for the next week.
San Juan is interesting. Vidi Wijaya aptly described it as “Hawaii under construction.” It’s a tropical paradise with bars over windows and streets that look like they came out of a national geographic biopic on Haiti. It seems like there is a fast food restaurant and a Church’s Chicken every block. And the drivers are terrible! I think we all almost died at least six times just driving here. We’ll see how things develop.
It’s raining outside now, and I’m alone while everyone else went out eating. We don’t have internet here yet and the TV doesn’t work either, so I guess this is all nature’s way to tell me to work on block decks. I have an idea for a GW deck featuring Nissa Revane. I’ll check back in later.
Monday, 7:12 PM
I just returned from my second attempt at buying groceries. The first time, we couldn’t find anywhere and Jason Terry became too fed up with the San Juan drivers. Fortunately, Brett Piazza had a little more luck and we found a place to buy groceries. I felt a little guilty. My cart was filled all the way up at this grocery store so I could buy food for the whole house. Several families cradling loaves of bread shot me dirty looks, and the person at the checkout stand asked to see my ID and Passport. At least we have groceries now. This is going to be way more economical than eating out.
While I was gone, Conley Wood, Ari Lax, and the others began testing decks. I don’t really think we’ve come up with anything yet. The testing is pretty disorganized. I look forward to trying some of the matchups out later.
Monday, 7:29 PM
Everyone is hungry. Conley took some of his crew out to eat at a Chinese place. I thought that was ridiculous considering we just spent hundreds of dollars on groceries. I’m going to make my favorite Thai dish, garden rama with rice and chicken, for everybody, minus the peanut sauce I couldn’t find at the grocery store. Hopefully it turns out good.
Monday, 7:32 PM
Whoops. Added too much pepper in. Hope it still turns okay.
Monday, 7:41 PM
Food was a little too spicy, but good. Everyone seemed appreciative. I can tell I’m going to be doing most of the cooking in the house, but that’s okay. I have always cooked a lot.
I think we’re going to draft as soon as Conley gets back from eating. They tried out my GW midrange Nissa Revane deck and didn’t like it, so I’m going to try out my Goblin Ruinblaster–Tectonic Edge–Grim Discovery deck while I wait.
Monday, 8:54 PM
The RB LD deck sucked. So did the GR LD one after that. So did the GRU LD one. Oh well.
We drafted, and I think my deck is a solid 3-1. It’s R/U control with triple Guard Gomazoa, Staggershock, double Flame Slash, Heat Ray, double Narcolepsy, and then some fliers with Kozilek on the top end. Conley’s deck is a ramp deck with double Emrakul. Mat Marr has an okay U/W deck and Kyle has the U/R Kiln Field deck. Time to go play!
Monday, 11:55 PM
I ended up going 2-2. Conley’s double Emrakuls carried our team with the full four match wins, though. What a master. Time to go to sleep… I’ll think about block more in the morning.
Tuesday, 12:14 AM
Goodness gracious! I just walked into my room and Kyle has been keeping it colder than a polar bear’s toenails! The air conditioning is all the way up. There’s a noticeable 30 or 40 degree difference between outside the door and inside out room. I tried turning it off, but Kyle woke up and turned it back on. I’m all the way under my blankets. If you don’t hear from me again, I froze to death.
Tuesday, 11:47 AM
I s-s-survived the n-night and am thawing outside my d-door. M-more to c-c-come when I shake t-t-this chill.
Tuesday, 12:21 PM
The shower has no hot water. This is unpleasant.
Tuesday, 12:29 PM
I’m feeling a lot better now that I’m warmed up. I walked downstairs and was greeted by people playtesting. Hurray for a Magic house. I think I’m going to make pancakes. They sound good, and everybody will like that.
Tuesday, 12:51 PM
These pancakes are being eaten faster than I can make them. I think this is a success.
Tuesday, 12:59 PM
“Gavin, I think there’s something wrong with me. I can’t get enough of your pancakes.”
Kyle Boggemes, after his third serving of pancakes.
Tuesday, 1:09 PM
Okay, I finally was able to eat some of these. Yep. I can confirm it. They’re good.
Tuesday, 1:41 PM
Watching Conley Woods draft. Our deck is a sick green ramp double Pelakka Wurm special.
Tuesday, 2:02 PM
Just lost game three to Bramblesnap, into Nest Invader, into Kozilek’s Predator, into Broodwarden, into Broodwarden, into Skittering Invasion. Okay dude.
Drafting again.
Tuesday, 2:49 PM
Lost to drawing 16 lands and 4 spells. Standard. I think I’m going to try and start playing some block games with this BW midrange deck with Kor Skyfishers, Gatekeeper of Malakirs, Stoneforge Mystics, and Abyssal Persecutors Conley made. If that fails, I’ll try the G/B version of that deck with Momentous Fall, Vengevine, Lotus Cobra and Nest Invader.
Tuesday, 3:12 PM
Jason Terry just wrote a full set of “Jeff” proxies instead of “Jace” proxies. From now on, I think we’re all calling Jace, Jeff.
Tuesday, 4:50 PM
Both decks were pretty bad. They kept losing to Summoning Trap, U/W, and Vampires. Everyone else wants to draft now, but we had eleven so I opted out. I have some Astronomy homework to do anyways. I’m lying on my bed upstairs, vigilantly working on this so I can get this homework done and not worry about it later.
Tuesday, 7:17 PM
I must have fallen asleep while doing my homework. Conley just woke me up in the best way possible.
“The internet got here, find me a sports bar so I can watch the game tonight.” He paused. “Oh, and by the way, I’m pretty sure I broke the format.”
More to come when I find out what this deck is.
Tuesday, 8:44 PM
Conley’s big deck is a variant on the Mono Green Eldrazi deck. It’s G/W with Overgrown Battlement, Wall of Omens, Perimeter Captain, and the normal parts of the mono green Eldrazi package. It smashes mono red and is favored against U/W. Still, I’m not impressed. It feels mashed together and has a lot of weak draws. I’ll try and get some more games in with the people who didn’t just leave to go watch basketball.
Tuesday, 8:46 PM
Oh, right. That Astronomy homework.
Tuesday, 9:10 PM
While doing my astronomy homework, I came across an interesting U/G deck played by vv1nc3ntt (who I googled and found out was Vincent Lovaglio) in a Magic Online DE.
4 Evolving Wilds
8 Forest
6 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Verdant Catacombs
3 Beastbreaker of Bala Ged
4 Joraga Treespeaker
4 Lotus Cobra
3 Oracle of Mul Daya
4 Sphinx of Lost Truths
4 Vengevine
4 Wolfbriar Elemental
2 Eldrazi Monument
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Unified Will
Sideboard:
3 Deprive
4 Narcolepsy
4 Spreading Seas
1 Unified Will
3 Vapor Snare
I’ll send it to the guys downstairs and see what they make of it.
Tuesday, 11:10 PM
Astronomy homework finished. I went downstairs and everyone laughed at the deck. “Unified Will? Are you real?” I think it looks good though. I’m going to give it a try.
Wednesday, 12:04 AM
I just played a lot with the U/G deck and like a lot of what it is doing. It was ahead against U/W and Eldrazi, while struggling a little with Mono Red. I think it can be made more aggressive and streamlined, but this is the first deck I’ve played and liked. Ari Lax also finds the deck enticing.
Anyway, I suggested running a mock tournament tomorrow. Everyone seemed to like the idea, so I think I’ll try this out there. Bedtime for now.
Wednesday, 12:16 AM
Late night musings: are people from Detroit really only comfortable at this temperature, or is Kyle just a penguin in disguise?
Wednesday, 1:11 PM
I woke up and was immediately assailed by people wanting to run a mock tournament. Conley left to visit some other friends until tomorrow, but we have his G/W decklist so we can put it in. Ari is coordinating who should be playing what decks to make it realistic s owe aren’t all just running homebrews. I’m downloading Wizards Event Reporter right now, and putting the finishing touches on the U/G deck. I want to cut the expensive spells, make it more of a fish deck, and try out in the Nissa package in here. This is what I’m going to play:
4 Evolving Wilds
8 Forest
6 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Verdant Catacombs
4 Joraga Treespeaker
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Nest Invader
4 Vengevine
3 Wolfbriar Elemental
3 Nissa’s Chosen
2 Eldrazi Monument
3 Nissa Revane
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Unified Will
Sideboard:
3 Deprive
4 Narcolepsy
3 Vapor Snare
2 Whiplash Trap
3 Leatherback Baloth
I lowered the curve with Nest Invaders, and hopefully the Nissa package will help against red while simultaneously having long game inevitability against control. The best sideboard plan for red I can think of right now equals containing their Dragonlords and Devastating Summons with Whiplash Trap while having the beef of Leatherback Baloth to hold back their three power creatures. We’ll see how it works.
Wednesday, 2:49 PM
The first round just ended. I got paired against Kenny Mayer with mono red. I managed to win the match 2-1, though his draws were kind of poor. When he went for Summons game three, I had the trap. Leatherback Baloth was rather unexciting as most of his dangerous creatures had ways to bust through it, plus his deck had Smoldering Spires.
Wednesday, 4:02 PM
Played against Justin LaRose with U/W this round. Game one I lost because I went for Eldrazi Monument to put him to four when if I just play Jeff and ask him for some help it’s going to be very hard for him to win there. Instead he followed up with a Jace on one of my creatures and a Journey on the other, forcing me to sacrifice the third and setting me behind. I won game two pretty handily with a turn three Nissa, then used good ‘ol Jeffery to find the exact combination of cards game three to deal exactly lethal with double Vengevine. Really liking the deck!
Wednesday, 5:19 PM
Just beat Vidi who was running Conley’s G/W Eldrazi deck. I lost game two because I drew all countermagic and Narcolepsys with no action. I boarded out too many creatures, and I didn’t think Narcolepsy did enough so I took them out for the third game. Both games one and two I had guys backed up by countermagic, which made the match fairly easy to take down. This feels pretty favorable as long as I draw a counterspell.
Wednesday, 6:41 PM
I finally picked up my first match loss in the last round. I played against Kyle Boggemes with Vampires. Game two I was mana screwed, and game three he drew his single Trusty Machete to deal exact lethal the turn before I had him dead. All things considered, this deck seems like a real contender. Ari and a couple others are interested in furthering this deck. I need to refine the sideboard as often it seemed I had to many cards to bring in but not enough to take out. I’m still not sold on the Nissas either. The manabase also needs some work. If you draw Treespeaker you need all of your lands to come into play untapped on turns one through three, so Evolving Wilds wasn’t great either. I’m going to try some different experiments and report back. For now, everybody is clamoring for rice. I’m going to go make some.
Wednesday, 9:39 PM
Craig Wescoe is interested in the deck, and he’s not sure on the Nissas either. He wants a third monument, as well as a few other small tweaks like more fetchlands. I want to try out River Boa. Here is the maindeck I think I’m going to try next.
9 Forest
6 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Joraga Treespeaker
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Nest Invader
4 Vengevine
3 Wolfbriar Elemental
3 River Boa
3 Eldrazi Monument
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Unified Will
2 Deprive
Thursday, 1:02 AM
I modified the sideboard, adding Tajuru Preservers to help make the numbers on my sideboarding better, because we just ran a quick three-round mock tournament. I ended up losing to Kyle in the finals again, when in game three I kept three spells and only saw two more in ten draw steps. Oh well. I beat mono red and U/W on the way there. I still feel like the red matchup could be better, and would like to work on that. U/W seemed incredibly favored with the addition of River Boa. Joshua Speranza Day of Judgmented me and started deploying his own guys, but could not deal with my 2/1 islandwalker. I’m still satisfied with my Vampires matchup, despite being 0-2 against it in mock tournaments. Craig wants to test the matchup some extensively in the morning.
Thursday, 3:26 AM
So much for “in the morning.” Well, actually, I guess it’s technically correct. Anyway, Craig and I ended up testing the Vampires matchup on my bedroom floor for the last two hours. It was about even. We’re pretty certain we want the full set of Wolfbriar Elementals. Whenever the deck casts him, it’s always a blowout. Plus, a 4/4 on turn three is perfectly fine if you draw two of them. I think I want to cut a Deprive for the fourth Elemental. Anyway, Kyle just walked in and turned on the air conditioning so I’m pretty sure I need to skedaddle under the covers or risk tropical frostbite. My plan for tomorrow is to test, test, go to the player party, eat free food, then come back and test. Hopefully we can get everything refined by Friday morning.
Thursday, 1:41 PM
Woke up. Alright. Crunch time.
Thursday, 3:10 PM
Spent the “morning” playing a bunch of games against Ari with Mono Red, both pre and post board. I won about a third of them. We need to hammer this matchup out to try and get it to be in our favor after sideboarding. Craig wants to try out Mul Daya Channelers as an additionally body, but I’m not convinced it’s great because of how random it is. I also don’t like this third Monument. Seeing one is usually fine, but drawing two is awful. I’m going back down to two.
We added Into the Roil. It’s a good utility card to have, and helps out the mono red matchup tremendously. The only games I was losing to decks like UW are where they started to cement an advantage with permanents, and Roil sets them back, too.
I also added Khalni Garden. While lands coming into play tapped is bad, it really helps out the red and vampires matchup. Considering those are the two matchups I want to shore up the most, they seem like good additions.
Anyway, we’re heading out to the tournament site so we can get all of the cards we need before any of the ones we want explode in price.
Thursday, 3:36 PM
Our GPS died. We’re lost.
Thursday, 4:01 PM
Still lost.
Thursday, 4:09 PM
Followed the signs and barely made it ,despite almost dying multiple times. Now, to see how much the cards we need are.
Thursday, 4:14 PM
Yaus! Wolfbriar Elementals are only one dollar each. Everything else is fairly cheap as well. The most expensive is Tajuru Preserver at three. This is probably the least I have ever had to ship at a dealer table.
Anyway, Conley just invited me to a table in the back. I asked about playtesting privacy, but he said it will be fine. I trust him on these things.
Thursday, 4:16 PM
Also, why is everyone at the tournament site yelling “Puerto Rico!” back and forth?
Thursday, 4:31 PM
Conley is still on his G/W deck. I want him to try out my U/G deck, and begin laying it out so he can play some games with it.
Thursday, 4:55 PM
Ben Hayes and Yoni Skolnik come walking up. They’re both grudgingly on U/W, and are looking for a deck. Considering my deck is spread all over the table, they are my friends and I think I would be a total jerk if I told them I didn’t have a good deck while I very clearly did. I told them not to tell anybody, and handed it over.
Thursday, 5:26 PM
Matt Costa comes over, asking for a deck. I can’t just let this keep happening. Matt is a friend, but then again, so are half of the people in the room. Conley steps in and tells him he can have the list if he ships $20 if he chooses not to play it. Matt agrees, and I hand it over to him, once again telling him to not tell anybody.
Since playing games in secret has worked out so well, we’re going to pack up and slowly head toward the players party.
Thursday, 5:48 PM
While moseying there, Conley came up with a sweet U/W Sejiri Merfolk, Coralhelm Commander, Unified Will, Journey to Nowhere deck that he thinks is just better than our G/U list. We’ll give it a try tonight.
Thursday, 6:05 PM
Just got through the line at the party and sat down with a bunch of people from the house. The food is great!
Thursday, 6:09 PM
The live band is getting ready to play. Man, I love the player parties. They’re such a great time, and have such great atmosphere.
Thursday, 6:11 PM
MY EARS MY EARS, TURN IT DOWN!!!
Thursday, 6:12 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Thursday, 6:15 PM
Okay, they stopped for now. Conley is yelling at them, telling them to sarcastically turn it up. I sure hope they don’t. I think I might have just gone deaf in one ear.
Thursday, 6:16 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Thursday, 6:29 PM
I think we escaped with most of our eardrums intact. At least the desserts were delicious. Anyway, back to the house to test.
Thursday, 7:58 PM
The U/W deck didn’t pan out. Now Conley has a U/R Explosive Revelation–Selective Memory-Emrakul deck he wants to try out.
Thursday, 8:31 PM
Conley really likes his U/R deck. I’m not so sold, though I want to try playing it from the U/R side to see how it feels. We’re going to run a final mock tournament tonight, and I think I’ll try it in that.
Thursday, 11:43 PM
0-3 with Conley’s deck. What a pile. Now he’s on some U/R Lavaball Trapping, Fissure Venting, Chandra Ablazing monstrosity. In other words, he’s off the deep end. I’m going back to U/G.
Ben Hayes contacted us to suggest Pelakka Wurm for the red matchup. I’m going to look through the spoiler one last time with Ari and Vidi to see if anything jumps out at us, then try to fix the mono red matchup after boarding.
Friday, 12:20 AM
We’ve looked through the spoiler twice so far and Lodestone Golem has been it that’s caught our eye. I like it a lot, but without time to test the card it’s hard to jump on that bandwagon.
Friday, 12:28 AM
I found it! I found it!!! On my last look through the visual spoiler, I found it!!! You won’t believe what card it is!
Friday, 12:32 AM
Sorry about the break there. I had to dance around the room and yell the card’s name out, much to Ari and Vidi’s amusement. Paralyzing Grasp!! It’s another removal spell, and, unlike Narcolepsy, deals with Boros’s Cunning Sparkmage. With this, we can fully transform into a control deck after sideboarding versus red as it gives us another answer to Dragonlord and Geopede. Excellent!
Friday, 3:11 AM
I just spent the last three or so hours gaming against myself to figure out the optimal sideboard configuration. I was ahead in sideboard games against mono red when I was boarding in three Grasps and a Pelakka Wurm, as I could just play the control deck. Anyway, I’m going to grab a few hours of sleep and then finish preparing in the morning.
Friday, 8:28 AM
I’m at the tournament site with Ari and Ben, next to me. We’re figuring out the last pieces of sideboarding while Yoni goes to hit up the dealers for Paralyzing Grasps.
Friday, 9:18 AM
We worked through each matchup’s sideboarding plans to make sure the numbers were perfect and we weren’t over or underboarding in any matchup. Here’s our final list. Five total people are playing this decklist: Me, Ari Lax, Ben Hayes, Yoni Skolnik, and Brian DeMars. Additionally, Craig Wescoe is playing pretty close to my list, only he opted to move down to 24 lands and fit in two Leatherback Baloth. He also didn’t buy into my Paralyzing grasp shenanigans. I’ll report back with how round one goes!
Isla Verde
1 Evolving Wilds
6 Forest
5 Island
3 Khalni Garden
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Joraga Treespeaker
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Nest Invader
3 River Boa
4 Vengevine
4 Wolfbriar Elemental
2 Eldrazi Monument
2 Into the Roil
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Unified Will
Sideboard:
3 Deprive
4 Narcolepsy
2 Paralyzing Grasp
1 Pelakka Wurm
2 Tajuru Preserver
3 Vapor Snare
Friday, 10:03 AM
Unfortunately, I kicked round one off with a loss. My opponent led with turn one Mountain, Goblin Guide followed by a Searing Blaze on my Lotus Cobra to put a halt to my plans. I smashed him in the second game. Then, in game three, I was starting to stabilize and recover when he ripped the other half of his Summons-Bushwhacker to send me to 0 about a turn or two before I would have been able to leave enough blockers to deal with them for a turn and then Narcolepsy and Paralyzing Grasp them. Sigh. Oh well, I’ll have to win the next round!
Friday, 10:56 AM
Took this one down in less than 20 minutes. My opponent was playing U/W control and neither game was even close. I played some cheap creatures, Vengevined him, then held counter backup with the two creatures in hand. Not close.
Friday, 12:21 AM
I played against Osyp this round. Unfortunately, he, too, led with a turn one Mountain, Goblin Guide. I thought I had the second game firmly in hand, but despite activating Jace upwards of ten times, I was unable to find any threats at all. My hand at the end was double Narcolepsy, Paralyzing Grasp, Vapor Snare and he had no threats in play at all. Literally every time I asked Jeff for help, it was land, land, land or land, land, removal — even after breaking fetchlands. Grr. All of my Vengevines, Wolfbriar Elementals, and even Nest Invaders and River Boas were in the bottom half of my deck! Oh well. I still feel confident I can pull into 6-2 from here.
Friday, 1:38 PM
I sat next to Paulo Vitor this round. It’s good to sometimes be reassured that even such phenomenal players can lose sometimes. Anyway, I played against a Japanese player playing Pyromancer’s Ascension this round. Game two he was on the play and turned on his Ascension turn four, so he naturally smashed me, but games one and three weren’t even close. Game three was even a turn five concession!
Friday, 2:36 PM
Sigh. Another Red player. Worse yet, it was Boros which is even worse than Mono Red. Even worse, it was Rich Hoaen, a player who wasn’t going to give up any margin. Game one I had a spell-light draw and I was ran over. Game two I managed to pull out despite his Collar-Sparkmage thanks to Eldrazi Monument and some Wolfbriar Elementals. Game three, his opening was triple Goblin Guide! How am I supposed to beat that?
Ben Hayes is 5-0 with the deck, and Yoni is 4-1. Ari mulliganed into oblivion in a nearly Eldrazi matchup, but still ended up 3-2.
I’m going to need to 3-0 this draft to make day two. My plan is to draft a high-risk high-reward deck to try and accomplish that goal. We’ll see how it goes.
Friday, 3:44 PM
Okay, I think I drafted a pretty spicy deck. I started with a first pick Eldrazi Conscription over Staggershock. Still, I knew I needed to draft a busted archetype so I second picked a Kiln Field then moved all in. Fortunately, it turned out pretty well. While I only saw two Fields in the entire draft — both in pack one – but I also nabbed a Surrakar Spellblade which is pretty nice. Cards like Skywatcher Adept and Distortion Strike kept looping the table, and so I think I was the only blue drafter. Here’s the deck:
5 Skywatcher Adept
2 Kiln Field
2 Grotag Siege Runner
1 Merfolk Skyscout
1 Venerated Teacher
1 Jiwari Scuttler
1 Brimstone Mage
1 Surrakar Spellblade
4 Distortion Strike
2 Regress
1 Spawning Breath
1 Eldrazi Conscription
Notable sideboard cards:
4 Reinforced Bulwark
2 Goblin Tunneler
1 Frostwind Invoker
1 Mnemonic Wall
I was worried about having enough cheap drops but, on Gaudenis’s advice, boarded in the Invoker over the Scuttler every round. The Tunneler’s aren’t maindeck here because 4 out of my 7 spells make my Fiends/Spellblades unblockable anyway.
Off to my first round! I have to play against David Sharfman, the man who was passing to me, so it should be interesting.
Friday, 4:50 PM
Well, journal, that’s it. I lost. I’m out. I needed to find one of my four Distortion Strikes in the last two turns in game three of my match against Sharfman. I didn’t, and that was that. He drafted a pretty sick deck with triple Pawn of Ulamog, Mortician Beetle, several Bloodthrone Vampires — the works. Sigh. It looks like I have a bye this round, which sucks because I wanted to at least nab some high k-value rating points off of this event. Maybe I’ll go drown my sorrows in an overpriced muffin instead.
Friday, 5:02 PM
The concession stand is out of muffins.
Friday, 6:46 PM
Easily won my round three match against a G/W deck in two short games. Maybe if I’m a little lucky I’ll make top 200, though probably not because I lost round one.
Friday, 7:13 PM
Yep. 211th.
Half of the people who played the U/G deck made day two.
Friday, 9:41 PM
After a lot of durdling, we have a dinner group together. Me, Bill Stark, Noah Swartz, Ben Swartz, Kyle Boggemes, Ari Lax, and Matej Zatlkai. We’re going to go into old San Juan and check out this place called Dragonfly everyone is talking about.
Friday, 10:02 PM
Dragonfly is packed and has a wait of an hour. Going to an Indian-Puerto Rican fusion restaurant instead.
Friday, 10:21 PM
Taking a journal break because the conversation has switched to international politics. So far the most interesting topic is how PT Amsterdam will be current extended with Magic 2011 and original Mirrodin but WITHOUT Scars of Mirrodin, complemented by Magic 2011 draft. I ordered a Mango Lassi in addition to my meal, and it’s still not here. Hopefully it gets here soon.
Friday, 10:32 PM
Mango Lassi arrived, but I think it has alcohol in it. Ew. I managed to pawn it off on Noah instead. Still waiting for our food and naan we ordered.
Friday, 10:48 PM
Still no food. Still very hungry.
Friday, 11:06 PM
I’m zoning out of the conversation. They’re back on politics and I can’t really focus without food.
Friday, 11:18 PM
Wizard about to die… Needs food badly.
Friday, 11:31 PM
Food!
Saturday, 12:02 AM
Well, the portions were kind of small for what we paid, and the service was poor, but at least I’m fed. Well, the pages of this section of the journal are starting to end, so I’ll have to put the adventures of a PTQ, the WPN Championship, my travel back and more from the next three days in another journal. To whomever is reading this, my adventures will be continued shortly. Until then, this is Gavin Verhey, signing off from San Juan.
Gavin Verhey
Team Unknown Stars
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