The Winter War – Mirran vs. Phyrexia, Invasion, part 2

(That’s one funny post name there.)

I seriously wanted my first post after long hiatus to be about rpgs but I think it really doesn’t matter that much. Both of my arms are still aching but at least I moved the keyboard to a more ergonomic location right?

mirran_vs_phyrexiaSo Aki wrote about our gaming groups start-of-summer event cleverly named “Winter War” (trust me, it’s is clever when you know how Finnish summers are). As he was kind enough to write down the lists for our side too I really cannot refuse writing something about the event.

At least it gives me an opportunity to blame him if my condition takes a turn on the worse…

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The Winter War – Mirran vs. Phyrexia, Invasion

A few weeks back we had our annual meeting of the Guild. That meant about twenty people gathering together for a weekend of gaming, imbiding, bonding, and randomly annoying the neighbours by being way too loud. I like to use this opportunity to do something different, so I copied an idea by PoroMagia, but went a step further and made this a team sealed event, with each side getting six Scars of Mirrodin packs and six Mirrodin Besieged prerelease faction packs of the proper faction.

I’ll be talking about this from our (mostly my) perspective as a member of the Phyrexian Invasion, whereas Lauri will hopefully get around to talk about this from the Mirran Resistance perspective, if he ever recovers from his carpal tunnel syndrome (send all masturbation jokes straight to him, I bet he hasn’t heard enough of them yet).

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