Black/White Griffin deck list

Land:

x8 swamp

x8 plains

x2 Terramorphic Expanse

x2 Evolving Winds



White:

x2 Courier Griffin

x1 Fledgling Griffin

x4 Sunspire Griffin

x3 Griffin Sentinel

x2 Soltari Lancer

x1 Rest for the Weary

x1 Quickening Licid

x1 Vigil for the Lost



Black:

x2 Hired Torturer

x2 Servant of Tymaret

x1 Fetid Imp

x1 Disowned Ancestor

x1 Marshmist Titan

x1 Erebos, God of the Dead

x2 March of the Returned

x2 Hissing Miasma

x2 Cast into Darkness

x1 Sorin's Vengeance

x1 Font of Return



Gold:

x2 Orzhov Guildmage

x2 Mourning Thrull

x1 Sorin, Solemn Visitor

x1 Tithe Drinker

x1 Blind Hunter

x1 One Thousand Lashes

x1 Treasury Thrull

white/blue griffin deck ver. 3.0

Land:
x10 Plains
x10 Islands

White:
x4 Charging Griffin
x2 Griffin Dreamfinder
x2 Zuberi, Golden Feather
x2 Azorius First-Wing
x2 Assault Griffin
x2 Sunspire Griffin
x2 Ordeal of Heliod
x1 Planer Cleansing
x1 Echoing Calm
x1 Soltari Trooper

Blue:
x4 Ghostly Flicker
x2 Sage of Epityr
x2 Merfolk Mesmerist
x2 Annul
x2 Turn to Frog
x2 Elgaud Shieldmate
x1 Misthollow Griffin
x1 Deepwater Hypnotist
x1 Mizzium Skin
x1 Triton Tactics
x1 Wall of Frost
x1 Redirect
x1 Curse of the Swine

I made this deck in an attempt to cover the weaknesses that my old griffin decks had. namely opponent enchantments and sorcery manipulations on my creatures. Please keep in mind that I work with what I have. Below this, I've posted several side boards to swap out per situation.

side 1:
x2 Nyxborn Shieldmate
x2 Hold at Bay
x1 Spirit of the Labyrinth

side 2:
x2 Healing Salve
x2 Acolyte's Reward
x1 Soulfire Grand Master

side 3:
x2 Divine Favor
x2 Dauntless Onslaught
x1 Archetype of Courage

side 4:
x1 Celestial Flare
x1 Master of Diversion
x1 Kor Sanctifiers
x1 Daru Santifier
x1 Armored Ascension

side 5:
x2 Echoing Calm
x2 Holy Justicar
x1 Leave no Trace

Original green/white griffin deck

This is the deck list for my oldest Magic deck. It's been tweaked over the years.

Land:
x8 plains
x8 forests
x2 Krosan Verge
x1 Greypelt Refuge
x1 Arctic Flats

White:
x4 Wild Griffin
x4 Mistmoon Griffin
x3 Diving Griffin
x2 Zuberi, Golden Feather
x2 Mtenda Griffin
x2 Ekundu Griffin
x2 Teremko Griffin
x1 Intrepid Hero

Green:
x2 Voyaging Satyr
x2 Grizzly Bears
x2 Reverent Hunter
x2 Phantom Centaur
x2 Phantom Nantuko
x2 Sedge Scorpion
x1 Ivy Elemental
x2 Rampant Growth
x2 Folk Medicine

Gold:
x2 Mirari"s Wake
x1 Vitalizing Cascade

Let me know what you all think.

white/red/green decklist, Magic the gathering

Land:
x5 plains
x4 forests
x1 cavern of souls
x2 mountains
x2 wind-scarred crag
x1 forgotten cave
x4 griffin canyon
x1 blossoming sands

White:
x4 retaliator griffin
x2 screeching griffin
x2 unyaro griffin
x1 wild griffin
x1 daraja griffin
x1 griffin rider

Green:
x2 sheltering word
x2 bower passage
x1 quiet disrepair
x1 kelonian hydra
x1 blunt the assault
x1 joiner adept
x1 thrive
x1 terrifying presence

Red"
x2 battle-mad ronin
x2 stone rain
x1 searing blaze
x1 seething song
x1 desperate ritual
x1 thundersong trumpeter
x1 crushing pain
x1 brion stoutarm

Artifact:
x2 darksteel ingut
x2 pentad prism
x2 traveler's amulet
x1 dragon's claw
x1 door of destinies
x1 wall of tanglecord

I'm just a casual player so this deck probably won't fair that well in official tournaments but it works pretty well in my circle of friends.

I'm tired...

I have been unemployed since February.  The produce manager whom I worked for lodged a complaint against me then left knowing that it would result in my termination. At a later date after he returned, I went to the store manger to disquss his asbuse against me and he couldn't even respect me enough toshow up at a meeting that concerned him. While the store manager sympathized with me he told me there was nothing he could do. He and several other employees inthe store had noted his caustic behavior but uultimately nothing will be done.

I am tired of scraping by. I am tired of people like him abusing their position. This produce manager I worked under broke me! He nade me feel so worthless. So unworthy to be called a human being and he doesn't care. As long as his position is secure, he won't change. While I won't sink to his level, I feel that if he remains in a position of authority,  he will do this again to another person.

If he does, and he will, that person will either commit suicide. That person will become violent getting others hurt in the process. Or at the very least, that person will use legal action against him that will utterly destroy all he's buikt up.

If any who read this blog go to the Safeway store in Kenora, Ontario Canada. Find the produce manager by the name of "Donnie Wai" and tell him that he's a bad person.

He excuses his behaviour with righteous reasons, but in the end, no one is allowed to make another human being feel useless and worthless.

Sonic Boom, the cartoon SUCKS!!!!

I gotta say, after watching the cartoon from episodes 2-6, I call (to use a term from the Spoony One) BETRAYAL!!!!!!

Let me step back a moment. Yes, the character designs are really good and I generally like the animation production. The problem I have is the PLOT (or lack there of), and the crappy personality traits of ALL the characters. I'll sum up the characters personalities:

Sonic the Hedgehog: He has no personality. A blank slate defined as the hero by his friends around him. There's a hint of personality that only serves to drive the "plot" forward but he's otherwise uninteresting.

Amy: The girly girl slate. Much like Sonic in this series she really doesn't have much character either and relies on the audience to draw on their knowledge of her from other shows and games. I have, much to my unfortunate distaste, watched all the episodes thus far when this was posted and all I can remember about her is that she sometimes doles out some watered down dr. Phil-ish advice  about feelings centered around whatever the "plot" was about.

Tails: I like the redesign of Tails from the visual standpoint. He's now wearing goggles and a tool belt. A little obvious that he's the techie of the group, but it wasn't offensive at least to my mental view of Tails. However this is pretty much completely wasted as he's shoved to the background during the action scenes. Oh they'll give him a larger vocabulary to make him sound smarter but what we know of Tails since he was established as a gearhead is that he is useful. Yes, he makes gadgets, but he knows how to fight. He helped Sonic overthrow Eggman continuously. But in this cartoon, he's just there to look smart but he's not allowed to utilise it.

Knuckles: His character can be summed up in comparing him to Moose from the Archie comics. He's the muscle of the group and therefore stupid. Case in point, warning there's spoilers, in a subplot of one episode while he's supposed to be cooking chicken on the grill he instead uses them as hand puppets. Knuckles, the guardian of the floating island, tasked with keeping the master emerald that keeps the island floating is later in that same episode, eating a napkin.

Sticks: The original character introduced for the game and cartoon, probably to balance the boy/girl ratio. Her character is that she's a paranoid jungle girl. I honestly don't have much of a problem with Sticks. This however is probably because there's no backstory from previous games or cartoons. That is unfortunately her flaw. She's the outsider of the group and this must be pointed out by having her say something paranoid to which the others just shrug off in pity.

Eggman: I'll say this. Of all the characters visual redesigns, I like Eggman's the best. And there's the problem. Up till now, he's been an evil fat scientist who aside from the "Adventures of Sonic" cartoon way back in the 90's posed a threat to all life Sonic and his friends hold dear. But in this cartoon, he's an annoyance at best. Incredibly incompetent It would have been better to have created a whole new "villain".

It's understandable why each episode is only 11 minutes long. There is NO DEPTH to this series. There is so little entertainment in each episode that both "Adventures of Sonic" and "Sonic Underground" trump Sonic Boom on every front. This cartoon is comparable (or reused) to the Donky Kong cartoon or the more recent Viva Piñata. The entire "plot" is a bunch of people are on an island and one of them makes it a minor pain for the rest. There is no conflict here. I know that this was meant for kids but you can make an intelligent cartoon for kids AND entertain them. Sonic SatAM managed to hit the sweet spot in this regard, Sonic X even managed to not screw up the characters and had an interesting over-arcing plotlines (plural).

In conclusion, Sonic Boom, the cartoon, is a mess of absolute FAIL where everyone will get more enjoyment by jiggling keychain tags that have the same characters on each tag while spouting random catchphrases that you may have vaguely heard them say. Do this and you automatically made a better show than Sonic Boom.

ok, not exactly frequent...

But I've been busy a lot lately.  Spring is finally here but i actually don't like the weather that much. Winter is my season. I obviously can't speak for everyone but to me, it's easier to warm up from being cold rather than cooling down when your hot. Another think is in the winter after a hard snow when youconditioning , brush the snow off and take your jacket and boots off. You might still have a chill but your not wet. In summer, unless you have air conditioning, it takes forever to cool down. And after a hard rain you need to change out of all you sopping wet clothes, get a bath ironically, then change into dry clothes.

At the end of it, spring is a miserable time for me.