Twelve win mage deck

I had a great run as a mage recently. Here's the list: 

Great curve, good mass removal, only a few weak spots, namely Ice Lance, Mana Wraith, Tauren Warrior, Archmage and Frost Elemental.

Even those weak cards are pretty decent with the Mage abilitiy and unique class cards.

I lost to Druid and Warrior, while beating 3x Paladin, 3x Druid, 2x Rogue, 2x Mage, Warrior, and Warlock.

Mage with enrage cards (and Gurubashi Berserker) is pretty sweet. It is like an option that is always available to you if you need the extra punch or if you opponent can't deal with the original stats. I also played the 2/3 taunter as a 5/2 taunter for 5 one time, which was pretty sweet against a yeti or whatever other large nonsense was across the table.

How I play games

A little while back Brian Kilber ...

yes, that Brian Kibler.

Wrote a blog post about how he games. For those who don't know he is a pure spike. I previously railed against him for saying the hero powers in hearthstone made 1 toughness minions obsolete. I think Loot Horder begs to differ.

mind if i roll need?

Anyways this newest post just highlights why I will never have a good win percentage in magic. Check it out:

Perhaps the most unusual game that I became obsessed with was Baseball Stars. I wasn’t much of an athletic kid, nor did I care much for watching sports, so generally a baseball simulation game wasn’t something that would appeal to me. But Baseball Stars had a different element than just pitching and hitting and fielding. It had a career mode, in which you could manage a team through a season, hire and train new players, and try to make your team the best it could be.

It actually starts out ok. Seeing as I myself prefer the GM part of sports games over the actual playing of the game. But then it goes off the rails:

I also realized that the money that my team earned for a game ... didn’t change whether I played against the computer or against another player. ...  So I ... struck out all of the opposing team’s batters, then walked all of my batters until I had enough runs to win by the mercy rule.

Did you see what happened there. He likes the GM mode so he found a way to skip through the game part. But then if your team always wins who cares what players are on the team? I don't even know where to start. But maybe it's just because he was a kid and he's grown up since then.

I was nine years old. Not much has changed about the way I play games since then.

Never mind. Oh an then he also says:

I fell in love with Nobunaga’s Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms [ed: a super sweet game if I do say so myself] ... I quickly learned that Lu Bu was the most powerful general in the game, and had a low loyalty to his starting lord [ed: he wasn't the only one], so I began every game by offering him a large bribe to join my side. If my ploy failed, I’d just restart the game. 

Wow. Again I reiterate:

I was nine years old. Not much has changed about the way I play games since then.

If that's what it takes to get on a pro player card

yes, that Brian Kibler.

Then I don't want to. His thoughts on D&D are even worse. Nate Dawg you should check it out.

 blog post about how he games.