Why Enduring Ideal Is No Good

Several days ago, I decided to try out an Enduring Ideal deck. Since I have a lack of Sensei's Divining Tops, I had to rely on pure luck to draw Enduring Ideal - including the use of Honden of Seeing Winds. The deck is a five-colour deck: running at least one of each basic land, 4 Sakura-Tribe Elder, 4 Orochi Leafcaller and 4 Kodama's Reach to pull out the required lands. The deck list is as follows: 11 Forest 7 Plains 1 Island 1 Swamp 1 Mountain 3 Ghostly Prison 3 Final Judgment 3 Solar Tide 1 Seismic Assault 1 Reverence 1 Meishin, the Mind Cage 2 Honden of Cleansing Fire 2 Honden of Seeing Winds 2 Honden of Night's Reach 2 Honden of Infinite Rage 2 Honden of Life's Web 4 Orochi Leafcaller 4 Sakura-Tribe Elder 4 Kodama's Reach 3 Enduring Ideal 1 Sensei's Divining Top

Did this deck run well? Honden of Seeing Winds did dig up some pretty interesting cards and the Top proved to be indispensable. However, the deck itself proved to be quite a problem to run - it was always short on mana to play Hondens whenever I didn't draw an Enduring Ideal. I soon stumbled upon a solution taking a cue from Myojin Flare, I put in 4 Heartbeat of Spring to spruce up whatever little mana I had.

The deck now ran in complete madness - usually meaning I got to play a beautiful Solar Tide or Final Judgment followed by an Enduring Ideal. Sweet. Goldfishing showed that the deck was slow, but it had a stylish way of winning - loads of Shrines and enchantments locking down on your opponents and you finally run through with everything you have (1/1 spirit tokens).

Off to try it out against a real deck: a simple burn deck. Obviously, the matchup was horrendously bad, but it revealed that in actual play, you wouldn't win for way too long. Inconceivably bad for a deck with such synergy. The moral of the story? Play Myojins. :D And that ends the tale of my Honden deck. The mana base was actually fundamentally the same as Myojin Flare. All I had to do was remove the enchantments, some Solar Tides, put in a few Myojin, some Maga, Traitor to Mortals, Time of Needs and the deck was absolutely complete! As for the playtesting of this deck, let's just say it went pretty well and far more consistently than Enduring Ideal.

Enduring Ideal is still a good idea for casual though.

The Chewxy Case: Publicity Stunt?

Today, chewxy finally came out of 'hiding' and explained his few nice blog posts. While it would have been nice to say that he could orchestrate this entire thing by himself, as I have hinted, he probably had a least one accomplice to help in the orchestration of the plan - even in the hoax. Of course, let's just leave chewxy alone to be slaughtered, killed, hunted for petrol money, covered with tar and feathers. :D As far as most of us are concerned, we were either humouring him, or believed his post through and through. I will decline to comment, as such comment may lead one to a reveltion that oneself is a bloody idiot. Was this a publicity stunt for The Anthology? Probable. Was this stunt funny? No. Was this a prank? If it was a prank, it was a pretty short one at that. Of course, planning a far more elaborate prank would likely be in the flavour of reality that the Royal Police Force may deem it wise to hunt you down. :D

What's my next article? Probably more details on my approach to Hondens - with my terrible lack of Sensei's Divining Top. ><

The Chewxy Case: Backyard

Considering the conspiracy theories that have branched out far and wide about the post here: Click here to see it. (This post assumes that he did kill someone, and is really confessing to some murder, is on the run and makes many other assumptions.)

I've decided to check up on the reality of some of the facts he has claimed to be true on his blog. Since I know him personally and read his blog, I thought it would be fine to run a little check on him since he lives pretty nearby. I've received the e-mail on his 'departure' and his 'handing over' of filming to Eliar and some other parties involved in the project.

Firstly, I tried figure out where this backyard of his house was. The fact is, the 'backyard' of his house is likely on the backlane - which is usually solid cement. If there was a backyard, most people generally extend the house so that the backyard disappears as it is more often than not, a total waste of valuable space. If there was a backyard, then there would only be space for one body. Human body that is. This has led me to conclude that it is most definitely not in the backyard of his house. I went to confirm this, and his backyard is cemented - and the cement was definitely not several days old. :D

Then, I went to look at the front of his house - being completely tiled, any tampering would've been obvious: so I'd highly doubt there would be a body there either. Hence, it would be safe to conclude that his house does not house any portion of the body. If it did, the murder would have happened long before the house was there and long before chewxy had ever lived in that house (he had only moved there in recent years).

Since he has only starting running fugitive now, it would be wise to conclude that the murder was not anywhere that far back in time, considering the efficiency and proficiency of Malaysian forensics. I have proceeded to attempt to locate him, but his family has no current knowledge of his whereabouts.

And now, I would like to conclude that I have no idea who or what Jeffrey is. I would like to add that I have not heard of this Jeffrey. Of course, this Jeffrey could be anyone, but I believe that this name is merely a name to mislead you. The person's real name is likely not Jeffrey, knowing that chewxy is far more intelligent that he appears to be (no offense to you if you're reading this from some cyber cafe somewhere, don't kill me :D).

That is, of course, if Jeffrey is a person. Knowing him, it might just be a large animal. Of course, cats are out of the question, but a large dog might suffice as Jeffrey. His personification of Jeffrey, however, places my doubt elsewhere as I believe he would not describe the killing of an animal by stabbing. He would be far more subtle. After all, I don't see why he should let a super large dog into his living room.

From all of this, I would believe that this act was likely not committed in or anywhere remotely related to his house. Of course, he could be talking about his old house, and tricked some budding young actor with a annoying high-pitched voice and stabbed him with some kitchen knife. Obviously, I haven't got to visit his old house: not yet. In time.....

(Note: I have reason to believe he has some sort of accomplice in this matter, seeing as how cleaning an entire house and kitchen sink and kitchen knife and person is likely to be a Herculean task for one person. It is also probably he lied about photo taking - it would extremely difficult to stab someone and take pictures alone. I believe blood splatter would likely dirty the lens and he would have to stop in the middle of stabbing to clean it, which is not plausible. Be vigilant. ;) )