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Phil Writes About Pokemon: Wonder Trade Wednesday - #05

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Rules: Roll 2 6-sided dice to determine number of trades. Select a Pokemon in the Wonder Trade box and trade them that many times. Repeat with how many different Pokemon I want. See what happens. I don't know if there is an actual point or not, but I thought it would be fun to see which Pokemon I get through the process. Trade 1 Dice Roll: 9 Start: Thundurus -> Staryu -> Spinda -> Feebas -> Vulpix -> Scatterbug -> Cottonee -> Elekid -> Scyther -> Cacnea Trade 2 Dice Roll: 3 Start: Ferroseed -> Seedot -> Whismur -> Zigzagoon Trade 3 Dice Roll: 7 Start: Goomy -> Absol -> Hawlucha -> Torkoal -> Wurmple -> Kricketune -> Larvesta -> Kricketune Trade 4 Dice Roll: 5 Start: Kecleon -> Shieldon -> Golbat -> Furfrou -> Oddish -> Panpour Trade 5 Dice Roll: 2 Start: Fletchling -> Swirlix -> Cranidos Thank you, Philip Follow Us on Twitter! Like Us on Facebook!

Phil Writes the Saturday Morning Brew: Pauper White Weenie

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A local store is starting to run Pauper events on Sunday afternoons so I wanted to bring back my old favorite Pauper deck to play. I wanted to start from scratch and adjust my deck based on what I see during my first few weeks. I'm super excited for this deck so here is the list I came up with: White Weenie Creatures: 28 4x Doomed Traveler 4x Icatian Javelineers 2x Hopeful Eidolon 1x Gideon's Lawkeeper 4x Squadron Hawk 4x Kor Skyfisher 4x Loyal Cathar 3x Veteran Armorer 2x Guardian of the Guildpact Other Spells: 10 4x Bonesplitter 4x Journey to Nowhere 1x Oblivion Ring 1x Triplicate Spirits Lands: 22 20x Plains 2x Secluded Steppe Sideboard: 15 2x Dust to Dust 1x Oblivion Ring 3x Standard Bearer 2x Kor Santifiers 2x Lone Missionary 2x Holy Light 2x Leave No Trace 1x Celestial Flare I really like the guys that Doomed Traveler and Loyal Cathar leaves behind. The little combo of Icatian Javelineers and Kor Skyfisher. Kor Skyfisher also works wel...

Phil Writes About Pokemon: Wonder Trade Wednesday - #04

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Rules: Roll 2 6-sided dice to determine number of trades. Select a Pokemon in the Wonder Trade box and trade them that many times. Repeat with how many different Pokemon I want. See what happens. I don't know if there is an actual point or not, but I thought it would be fun to see which Pokemon I get through the process. Trade 1 Dice Roll: 10 Start: Elekid -> Lairon -> Lileep -> Sunkern -> Seviper -> Charmander -> Zubat -> Snivy -> Zigzagoon -> Axew -> Infernape Trade 2 Dice Roll: 7 Start: Froakie -> Vulpix -> Joltik -> Ralts -> Beldum -> Minun -> Zubat -> Fletchling Trade 3 Dice Roll: 12 Start: Zigzagoon -> Zigzagoon -> Zorua -> Karrablast -> Larvitar -> Sableye -> Machop -> Luvdisc -> Ralts -> Eevee -> Leafeon -> Meditite -> Claydol Trade 4 Dice Roll: 3 Start: Metapod -> Zigzagoon -> Shieldon -> Zigzagoon Trade 5 Dice Roll: 8 Start: Mudk...

Phil Writes About The Sims: Claws to Riches Part #01

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A year or so ago, I found the "The Claaaaaaaw" machine in The Sim 3 and thought it was a pretty cool item. Basically, it is like the claw machine games at arcades where you make the claw try to grab different prizes. The only differences with this machine on the game is that you almost always win, and the prizes it gives out can sometimes be worth thousands of dollars. Which leads me to my questions: How fast can you make a decent sized house with just using the claw machine to make money? To answer this question, I set up a game with some rules below: Rules: Move into empty lot Place only a "The Claaaaaaw" machine on lot. Use :familyfund x 0" to set money back to $0. Grab prizes from claw machine to build a house. Now that we know the rules I set, let's meet the sim. My sim: Name: Philip Blog Traits: Loner, Loves the Outdoors, Night Owl, Vehicle Enthusiast, and Lucky. I moved to an empty lot and put on a claw ...

Phil Writes About Commander 2015: Corpse Augur

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This fall Wizards of the Coast released the Commander 2015 set. Although, these cards are intended for Commander/EDH play, I have found a few cards I would like to include in my Peasant Cube ( Cube ). Right now, I want to write about just one of those cards,Corpse Augur! Corpse Augur cost one black and three generic for a 4/2 Zombie Wizard that when he dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard. I like this card as an alternative way to draw cards in black, since we all know drawing cards is fun. There is a fair amount of life gain in black so the life you lose should not be too bad. The only problem is if both players have more creatures in their graveyard than you do life, then this card is a death sentence. I am still on the fence about this card. I like the card draw, but the potential to kill yourself with him is probably enough to keep him about of the cube, but I still want to give him more th...

Phil Writes About Commander 2015: Warchief Giant

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This fall Wizards of the Coast released the Commander 2015 set. Although, these cards are intended for Commander/EDH play, I have found a few cards I would like to include in my Peasant Cube ( Cube ). Right now, I want to write about just one of those cards, Warchief Giant. This Giant Warrior is cost two red and three colorless. He's a 5/3 with haste that whenever he attacks, you put a token that is a copy for him into play attacking each opponent. Most of the time, I play one-on-one with my cube so that will not come up a lot. I do like him as a plain 5 cast 5/3 with haste. He fits well in the red aggro decks where you can curve up to him and finish off opponents on turn five, hopefully. He is not really that good on the defensive, however. But, if you are on defense with red, something is not going your way anyway. I am excited to see how this guy turns out in cube. If you have any comments, please put them below. Thank you, Philip Follow Us on Twitter! Like Us on...

Phil Writes About Pokemon: Wonder Trade Wednesday - #03

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Rules: Roll 2 6-sided dice to determine number of trades. Select a Pokemon in the Wonder Trade box and trade them that many times. Repeat with how many different Pokemon I want. See what happens. I don't know if there is an actual point or not, but I thought it would be fun to see which Pokemon I get through the process. Trade 1 Dice Roll: 7 Start: Hawlucha -> Poynyta -> Ninjask -> Zigzagoon -> Furfrou -> Froakie Trade 2 Dice Roll: 8 Start: Torchic -> Panour -> Eevee -> Bunnelby -> Kakuna -> Togepi -> Pikachu -> Zigzagoon -> Drifloon Trade 3 Dice Roll: 10 Start: Wurmple   -> Froakie  -> Magikarp -> Skarmory -> Slakoth -> Luvdisc -> Xantu -> Wingull -> Magrikarp -> Purugly -> Froakie Trade 4 Dice Roll: 4 Start: Golem -> Bagon -> Ralts -> Honedge -> Mudkip Trade 5 Dice Roll: 6 Start: Chinchou -> Skitty -> Unknown -> Rufflet -> Eevee -> Nincada -...

Syd's Super Easy Workout at Home

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I'm not a fan of the gym. Its money that is basically thrown in the trash (unfortunately learning from past experience). Also the atmosphere of a gym is one I'm not a fan of. "We see that you are overweight and trying to better yourself but we are going to snicker at you when your running on the treadmill."  So, I've come up with a workout plan that works for me and I can do it throughout the day and the best news is I can stay in my pjs! So everyday I make a list of small things I can do everyday that get my heart rate up and get me moving. Everyday I write down what I plan on doing. Its a lot easier to stick with it if you write it down and not just make a not on your phone. I for sure HATE my belly fat and am wondering why until now I've never decided to do anything about it. So I decided to do 100 sit ups in a day. I also am not a fan of my jiggly arms so I decided to work on the different parts of my arm. Here is my daily  workout plan.    I am cou...

Phil Does a Nuzlocke: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance #1 - Part #2

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 If you missed it, you find Part #1 here: Let's get started with FFTA! Here is the team from where we left off: P - human - Soldier - Lv 4 Montblanc - moogle - Black Mage - Lv 4 Georg - human - Soldier - Lv 4 Olivar - bangaa - White Monk - Lv 4 Cuthbert - nu mou - White Mage - Lv 3 Leo - human- Hunter - Lv 3 After some Dispatch missions, Ingg the bangaa Warrior wants to join the clan! In a battle against a random clan, Leo falls to a series of attacks in a row. Fortunately, Cassidy the bangaa White Monk joins the clan to replace him. The clan defeated the fowl thief and Benkman the nu mou Black Mage joins the clan to increase our numbers even more. With how the adventure was going before, I was seriously worried that it would be a lot shorter than I hoped. Now that the numbers are increasing faster than decreasing, we might have a chance. Soon after, we met up with our friend from the real world named Ritz and helped her with some not very nice bad guys. She was n...

Phil Writes the Saturday Morning Brew: Non-Powered Mono Red in Vintage

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Ever since M11, I have really liked Manic Vandal and try to put him into a lot of decks. Please don't ask me why. No one quite knows the reason. Perhaps, its that he's a two-for-one in red that takes out an artifact. Or maybe its that he is just swinging his bat thing through glass because, as the flavor text says, its fun, and he doesn't need any other reason. Most of the time, he might be a sideboard card in a Imperial Painter list, but I wanted to try to find a deck I could justify playing him main deck. The format that made that be able to happen is Vintage. The thing that I do not like about Vintage is the Moxen cards, I know that's what's alluring for most players. I decided that type of deck I would make would have to be unpowered and ready to beat the decks that did play with power. I threw together a list, but it is nowhere near complete. In the future, I would like to try to play Vintage and would like to have a fun deck to play. Non-Powered Mono Re...

Phil Writes About EDH: Tromokratis AKA Mono Blue Sea Monsters Update

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It has been a while since I did an update on my mono blue sea monsters deck in EDH. A lot has changed since the last time I posted about the deck here. Without further delay, here is the updated decklist. General: Tromokratis Creatures: 43 Hypnotic Siren Sigiled Starfish Walking Sponge Chasm Skulker Crystalline Nautilus Man-o'-War Guard Gomazoa Spiny Starfish Thassa, God of the Sea Coral Barrier Giant Oyster Thassa's Emissary Narwhal Reef Worm Sand Squid Breaching Hippocamp Chromeshell Crab Killer Whale Stormsurge Kraken Mulldrifter Sealock Monster Sandbar Serpent Sky-Eel School Shipbreaker Kraken Drowner of Hope Deep-Sea Terror Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor Keiga, the Tide Star Scourge of Fleets Colossal Whale Isleback Spawn Kraken of the Straits Pearl Lake Ancient Scrapdiver Serpent Kederekt Leviathan Stormtide Leviathan Lothos, the Tidemaker Trench Gorger Benthic Behemoth Breaching Leviathan Inkwell Leviathan Grozoth Deep-Sea K...

Phil Writes About Peasant Cube: Into to my Peasant Cube

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Once again, I have decided to build a cube. This time, however, I am going to make one that I have always wanted to make but never have, peasant. Only commons and uncommons are allowed in this cube. This list is going to be a work in progress for quite some time and all feedback is appreciated. List for reference:  My Peasant Cube I think the problem I have had in the past is that I make my cubes too close to what the main stream cubes look like that I get bored because I have already drafted them a lot. My aim is to have a lot of cards that are not normally seen in cubes, but I still want the experience to be nice and fun. I've not really looking for any certain size, either. There are a lot of cards I want to play with, though, so it might get up in the 720+ range. If it comes to it, I might even split the cube up into a main cube and a backup cube for if I want a smaller cube experience with a larger cube option. For some of the archetypes, I know I want Madness/Gr...