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It’s pretty hard to believe it has been four years since I started this blog. I honestly didn’t even realize it had been until I started coincidentally updating my About Me page. Feel free to ask me any questions about it.

Production is taking a while to complete for this video, but I am nearing the end (a few more weeks to go). At that time, I’ll also be making some more announcements and looking for feedback about what you all want to see next. (I have a decently long list already.)

Hey, it’s been awhile since my last post, and I just wanted to reassure everyone that more content is on the way. I’ve been working on my top tier constructed video for awhile, and I just keep deciding to push it further and further because it just wasn’t good enough yet. (Started recording it with only an outline, but the language wasn’t tight enough, it was too repetitive, and I kept leaving out points I wanted to touch on, [similar to how I felt about my first video on my Priest of Gold Dragon deck] so I started working on a script.)

While starting Monday I’ll have less hours I can commit to it, the script is really tightening up which is giving me the energy to get my momentum rolling again. Looking forward to getting it out, but it probably won’t be done before the end of next week, if not later, hence this post.

When finished, I’ll post about it in the usual places, but if you want to make sure you see every post (including ones like these that I don’t cross post), you can subscribe for updates by email. (It only sends emails when I publish something new.)

I have finally booked my flight for Epic Worlds 2017 from Nov 18-Nov 20, getting in Thursday, 16th night. I’ve even begun testing decks, and I’ve discovered a new one that I love. We’ll see how it holds up when we find out what the formats and legal sets will be for Worlds though. Looking forward to seeing everyone who is going to be there. With only 2 more full weeks until the event, I might not get any more major posts up before then, since I’ll be practicing/testing, but I’ll have plenty to talk about when Worlds is over.

I’ve been forgetting to post these for awhile, but here are the few pictures I took at Gen Con. Everyone I interacted with was awesome, and I enjoyed being able to do some of my Random 60 breakdowns in person with both their decks and my own. Looking forward to next year and Worlds this year.

The first edited video of my Showmatch against John Tatian on the Epic Digital Alpha is now up.
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QS3ezkzeWY

I want to thank John again for agreeing to participate, and I want to give a big thanks to Phoenix Gravin for doing a great job editing the video.

Yesterday, World Champion John Tatian and I finished our Best of Seven First Encounter Showmatch. It was a lot of fun, and we had quite a few games that were Epic in every way: close, exciting, and long.

So far we have my raw stream footage uploaded to Youtube, John’s raw stream footage can be seen on his blog, and both streams can be watched simultaneously with commentary from cnoz + CJ Moynihan.

My Stream: Part 1, Part 2
John’s Stream
cnoz + CJ’s stream (audio starts at 47:00)

Edited videos are planned as well.

 

I have updated my Dark Draft, Core-Only, Tier Charts article to include my Wild tier charts, included below. Check out the main article for explanations on when and why I draft specific alignments.

Wild Commitment Pick 1 Chart

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Wild Commitment Pick 2/3 Chart

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I have updated my Dark Draft, Core-Only, Tier Charts article to include my Sage tier charts, included below. Check out the main article for explanations on when and why I draft specific alignments.

Sage Commitment Pick 1 Chart

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Sage Commitment Pick 2/3 Chart

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As a matter of transparency, I have updated my “Subscribe to Blog Via Email” text to read: “At least 1 post per week (frequently 2 or 3): Primarily Epic Card Game strategy articles. Game reviews and other game-related posts are possible as well.” As opposed to “Approximately 3 posts per week: strategy articles (frequently Epic Card Game), game reviews, and other game-related posts.”

At this point, new content will primarily focus on Epic related topics (at least for now), and these articles generally tend to take longer to write. By going down to “at minimum 1 post per week,” I should be able to more easily and consistently produce high-quality articles without the need to count short announcements like these to artificially reach the 3 posts per week goal. (This also frees up a bit more time to stream and work on learning video editing. On that point, expect a big announcement in the next few days.)