Last Pro Tour just paid out $40k to the winner. Does your hobby do that?

OMGZ0RZ £22K!!!!!!!! Are you serious? Players of CS get more than that for winning big competitions.

Frankly CS is a sad as Magic the Gathering... but wait...!

WE ALL PLAY A ROLEPLAYING INTERNET FANTASY-THEMED TEXT-BASED GAME

So we're all losers and no one gets to point the finger, especially Amaru.

And I'm in the semis of another draft with a great U/B/W featuring moroii, two sets of dragonauts, two convolutes, a petrahydrox, cry of contrition, schismotivate, some random stuff, and a rumbling slum I hated out first pick in the GP booster.

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Beer is more geeky than rugby?

If you're a geek and you want to feel ungeeky, it isn't hard to grab a pint and down it. Quite another matter for a geek to partake in a rugby match.

I won that draft with the moroii and dragonauts, by the way: faced off against Melanchthon and his GBW loxodon hierarch during the finals, winning 2-0 in every match. (he did pretty well, but had no answer to a moroii, whereas my torpid moloch had a strands on it to keep the hierarch from bashing my head in.)

Here's the list:
6 Island
5 Mountain
3 Swamp

1CC:
Gigadrowse
Torpid Moloch
Cry of Contrition

2CC:
Train of Thought
Fiery Conclusion
Fiery Conclusion
Lurking Informant (got one shot at Melanchthon's hierarch in game 1 before he blew a brainspoil on it instead of my moroii )

3CC:
Convolute
Convolute
Schismotivate
Thunderheads
Fencer's Magemark
Necromancer's Magemark
Goblin Flectomancer (kept not being able to cast him though, grr)
Terraformer
Wee Dragonauts
Wee Dragonauts

4CC:
Petrahydrox
Moroii
Mausoleum Turnkey
Strands of Undeath
Dimir House-guard

5CC:
Tattered Drake
Tidewater Minion

XCC:
Repeal

Sideboard:
Some random crap I never MD'd
Spectral Searchlight
War-Torch Goblin
Perplex
Drake Familiar
Stasis Cell
Rumbling Slum! (hated in pack 3 for the 8 tix )

So do you think Shiri would edit my post if I were to say EDIT: yes ~Shiri~

EDIT: Drat. Next time I'll just use the naughty words, if being eloquent about it doesn't help.

So who other than Clise, Eyod, Xenthos and I caught the webcast for the PT Prague there? I hadn't seen one before, confusion when they were showing the Budde vs. Comer match aside it was pretty good.

I guess I have to concede the usefulness of Simic Initiate to Sylphas there.

Finals still going on! 1-0 in Takuya's favour vs. Brackmann right now. Wish I'd seen De Rosa's match.

Been a while since I buy a new deck of cards right now in MTG, stopped playing about 5 years ago.

My old deck is compose of:

Lightning bolt (4x)
Kindle (4x)
Shock (4x)
Disintegrate (4x)
Fireball (2x)
Counterspell (4x)
Rebound (2x)
Mana Flare (2x)
Volcanic Islands (4x)
Mountains (4x)
Islands (4x)
Black Lotus (2x)

This deck allows me to cast damaging spells directly at the player with just one red mana (such as Lightning Bolt costs 1 red), then counterspell anything I deemed dangerous or rebound the spell (in case he uses similar spells of that like Disintegrate) back to its caster. To make my Disintegrate and Fireball spells deadlier, I'm gonna use the Mana Flare enchantments that adds 1 more value of the mana in your Mana cards. And to boost some of my spells, that's what the Black Lotus is for, gives 3 mana of your choice in that one turn.

So my strategy in this deck is: Hit fast and Hit hard

Well that's my deck and so far no one yet (in the Philippines) has defeated my deck, old it may be, it's still quite powerful

The webcast confused me, but watching the players body language was very intersting. much better then a poker game.

I have to admit the webcast wasn't particularly clear...they didn't focus on the board such that you could make out any of the individual cards unless you'd been listening to their commentary (although I have to note the quality of their reporting has gotten better from that Budde vs. Comer match they played...but maybe that's just because I'm more familiar with Ravnica) but that might also be because my family were noisily bothering me from the background.

What do you mean about their body language, though?