Can’t Sleep (Verdant Gleancrawler Force)

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I was planning on writing some nonsense about sarsaparilla yesterday afternoon, but it got bumped out of my schedule. Turns out, aside from the other stuff I’ll mention, it kept nagging me. So now, I’ll mention it: I tried a bottle of some healthy version of sarsaparillas (root beer) from a health store two days ago, and I liked it. I wanted to try it out ‘coz it was in a twist-cap glass bottle, and you don’t find much of that in the supermarket around here, but I was surprised when I read the labels that it was low on calories(which probably meant no sugar) and it had no caffeine! What kind of a softdrink is that?! Fortunately, it tasted pretty good. I’ll get a tad more of ‘em next time I pass by the store.

I decided to get myself some more stuff to enhance my existing deck at Magic: The Gathering Online. After doing some price-checking, I decided to get a set each of “Verdant Force” and “Gleancrawler”. Verdant Force in particular seems to be good fattie candidate for a Thallid deck. Gleancrawler, on the other hand, well, I just thought it was cool. :P I have been considering making a dredge or dredgish deck sometime, so this might be useful there.

For some reason, I woke up around around an hour and a half ago and I couldn’t stop thinking of how to make these work with my current cards at hand. The thought kept nagging me so I just gave in and tinkered around.

Some experts have mentioned that Thallid decks are bad, mainly because they are a bit slow, and I guess tournament play just doesn’t wait for the thallids to do their thing. Since I just play casually, I don’t mind as long as I have fun. Regardless, I have been trying to get myself out of my thallid rut, so I decided to try and come-up with something that would use these cards as a base. The deck I ended up with didn’t turn out to be thallid at all.

Upon testing on solitaire, it seemed that the deck it might work, but I have some risks of mana screw (mainly from a mana drought at the start). The synergies aren’t so clean yet, since mainly I’m scavenging from cards I already have, but after some games, I’ll probably know what I’ll need.

For now, I’ll try to settle down and get some sleep again. Later, I might take another peek and do some tweaking. Hopefully, I’ll come up with something decently playable.

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March 29, 2007 | Filed Under card games, random ramblings | Leave a Comment 

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