Pre-release

Played in the Magic: the Gathering pre-release yesterday. I actually did a lot better than I thought I would. My first opponent was a newb like me, so we went 1-1 and then he had to leave so I took the round. My second opponent was one of the guys from the place my roommate regulars, and he's also fairly good at the game. He handed me my ass both matches. Final round was against a kid that just had some bad luck, I think. First match goes to me because he can't get any red mana. I basically took him out with a 2/2 Bushido 1 in about 10 turns. Second match goes to him because he keeps removing all my creatures and returning his to his hand from his graveyard. Last match ends up mine because I draw my foil Tatsumasa the Dragon Fang. On my 6th turn, he Stone Rains one of my lands, so I have to wait until my next turn to drop the Fang. 8th turn I swap in the dragon. 3 turns later, it's over and I'm walking away with 4 extra boosters of ChoK. Not a bad haul (1 tournament pack, 6 boosters) for a $25 tournament.

The funniest part of the whole night? Roommate gets screwed in the ass by the people at work and has to drop from the tournament a round early. He coulda walked out with the same card count as me (his deck was way better than mine) but instead ends up waiting at the apartment for the people at work. He tells himself it works out because if they hadn't given him time off, he wouldn't have gone anyway... I say he's just sucking his thumb to feel better about it. Funny stuff if you ask me.

On the last bit of news, my shell is smashing some crucial data and causing malloc() to segfault. I'm very not happy about this because it's a very hard bug to catch. Into the debugger for the rest of the day I go.