Interview

With the Lakeland AoP behind me, and the GCC less than a week away, I finally turned my attention on the block 2 format. My teammates for day 1 were going to be Alex Costa, and my friend Steve Jones playing Dimitri and Promo Adon respectively. That plan, however was based on the fact that up until the AoP, I was simply going to run a block 2 update of Evil Astaroth for the GCC.

"I'm switching decks," I told Alex over the phone. "I'm not playing Astaroth."
"What?!"
"Don't worry, I'll bring Astaroth along, but I'm building something else." 

The real question, would be: exactly what was that something else going to be? To be perfectly honest, I needed inspiration. I'd been playing that Astaroth deck for many months only to end up completely estranged with it. I looked to the top 8 of the Lakeland AoP for help, as well as some previous experience with a block 2 Necro deck I had played for GCC testing earlier.

You know, it's funny - my partner-in-writing ceejaybee lives not more than a few hours from me, has covered his locally meta and mine in pretty thorough detail, and yet I've never met him. Silly, eh? He missed the AoP in my wheelhouse and twice I've missed AoPs in his neck of the woods. I find it rather amazing that someone with whom I share a common hobby and who is so close remains an elusive mystery. I think he feels the same way too. Taking this feeling and extrapolating it over great distances, I started to wonder...and that's usually dangerous but thankfully no one was harmed this time.