Regionals: Salt Lake City

I flew to Salt Lake City if you couldn't guess from the title. I went 4-3-0... Some might say this is good considering I won more then I lost but the first four rounds were 1-3-0 so I mean I only one the last 3 because I was playing against crappy players???? BAH anyway before I talk about the rest of salt lake city here goes the round by round fight.

Round 1 Ding... B/W Rack deck. First turn Plaque Rusalka, turn 2 cry of contrition rack. Turn 3 stupor turn 4 rack rack, sac plaque... Umm something like this anyway I am exagerating but not on the triple rack part!!! Holy crap I cannot do anything about that. Game 2 went similar because he had double rack pretty early and then persecute GOT OWNED

Round 2 Aggro deck with counterspells (go figure?) I think it was three colors I OWNED IT.

Round 3 Angelfire- I made HUGE play mistakes both games.. I lose

Round 4 This storm deck that pissed me off! GOT OWNED

Round 5 This woman who was to old for magic. Okay this is probably bad to say but I was nice... OWNED

Round 6 LD deck with a dumb pilot. I thought the deck was good though. OWNED

Round 7 WHY AM I PLAYING??? DRAGONSTORM- Supposedly the best deck in the format. It won game 1 but game 2 it didn't have the power. I own it.

Okay thats it I got 36ths like I said out of like 88 players though most dropped at this point, so that means I was pretty far down he list. 32nd and up got prizes.

Now for the rest of Salt Lake City... Apparently this is a HUGE mormon town and my friends Girl Friend is a huge religious buff going to Messiah (which is where one of my ex-girlfriends went). COME ON the name gives it away I am not saying anything else. Okay right... Mormons... that is apparently a nick name for the religion which they call the Church of Laterday saints... SO THATS WHAT THOSE COMMERCIALS ARE??!!! WOW... I feel dumb. Anyway we went on this tour that is the whole intro to god when I guess they wanted more of a historic background thing. What I did learn was this guy Joe Smith or something like that is their founder of the church in 1820s or something and how he found the Native Americans version of the bible... uuuuhhhhhhh... really?

So then they go on and on about how they believe this book of mormon (which is where they get their nickname from) is the word of god. Well to not get to religious smashing or anything I don't believe that anything written by Human beings are the word of god... not a bit... maybe they have talked with god if you can do that kind of thing and they thought they wrote what he wanted to say but I am sure they all botched up the message when they started a religion to convert people to follow such strict outlines and specifics. Uh so anyway, ya some interesting facts are that they always have a Prophet now! What? how are you sure there is going to be another prophet after the current one?... I think they should use a different name like the Pope! Thought that is almost as bad when you consider how confusing religion can get. Should religion be murky? I think things that are true and holistic should be umm simple and easy.. you know like not murdering people who easy is that! (Yet what is this about Murder is bad but killing people in the name of religion okay? I am confused again!) Well lets go with not killing people is a good thing.

I have gotten off topic, I think, after this tour of the mormons we walked around town got asked by a bunch of bums for money and I tell you what they are more blunt about it then the bums in Philly and they were to well dressed to play the part so I didn't give them any. They just want to take advantage of all the giving mormons. Well take that! Ask me to buy you food I might do it... ask me to give you money err no sorry. Will they ever ask you for food? I doubt it, they are not hungry and they can make enough in a day to eat for a bit I would think. So after fighting all the bums we went to the hotel, ate some food, played some magic. I traded my friend for a wrath of god and got some other things. Everything was fun though I don't think i will ever go to salt lake city again. Way to religious for me and besides the flights getting out are REALLY REALLY difficult. I had to get on the first one and S2 my way onto the Aircraft! Geeze!!!!!!! the first flight of the DAY! 6:00 am!!!!!!! Over all I think the weekend was a bit to expensive for me too! But it was fun and I got to see my friend again.