Army of the Dead

This here is my new Death Knight deck in the World of Warcraft TCG. they came out with a mini set of something like 40 cards to introduce the Death Knight class including 2 heros, 1 horde and 1 alliance.

despite that they didnt feature anything death knight related until 2 set releases later, in Scourgewar, so i had to really put my Death Knight deck on the back burner for lack of a clear focus.

now that Scourgewar is out theres alot more abilities and a few more heros to choose from so i think i can confidently put my first Unholy foot forward! lol.

Hero: Saeryn Dusksorrow

Abilities (18):

• 4x Deathcoil
• 2x Army of the Dead
• 2x Raise Dead
• 3x Icy Touch
• 3x Death Pact
• 2x Mind Freeze
• 2x Arcane Torrent

Equipment (7):

• 4x Runed Soulblade
• 3x Scourgeborne Battlegear

Allies (19):

• 2x Deathcharger
• 4x Drandus the Deathcaller
• 4x Vanessa Fairgraves
• 2x "Fungus Face" McGillicutty
• 2x "Acid Hands" McGillicutty
• 3x Boneshanks
• 1x Ethereal Plunderer
• 1x Conqueror Kagon Blackskull

Quests (16):

• 3x Betrayal
• 3x Chasing A-Me 01
• 2x Finkle Einhorn, At Your Service!
• 3x Hazardous Materials
• 3x Brothers in Death
• 2x Solanian's Belongings

So first what we have is basically Ghoul beatdown. you put some ghouls out, you attack, you untap em, attack again. so on and so forth. "how do you bring ghouls out?" you may ask. well the answer is simple. kill allies!

unfortunatly most of the time its your own allies you need to kill. so if thats the case, why not play allies that are happy for the grave anyway?

Thats why most of the allies in my deck have going into the graveyard effects. like Vanessa Fairgraves. for 3 you get a 3 Attack 3 Health ally that says "When vanessa is destroyed, put a ghoul ally token into play with 3 [melee] atk / 3 health." that and guys like Boneshanks and "Fungus Face" McGillicutty make destroying your own allies not so bad.

so once theyre dead you put out a Drandus the Deathcaller or two and attack away with your ghouls for great justice! (or lack thereof!)

and if anyone catches a beat on ya, just hit him with the Army of the Dead! Bwuahahahahahahahahahaha!

Here Wii Go!

Well, My birthday was pretty awesome.

you know, if any of you cared :p

first we went for sushi at my favorite sushi restaurant, Sakura Sushi (on Lee Trevino past Pebble Hills GO THERE!) with my dear wife and friends and then back to my place for cards, video games and desert!

My lovely wife got me New Super Mario Bros Wii which if you dont yet know is the 4 player old-school-style Mario game for Wii.

since its 4 players theres basically 2 modes, cooperative, where youre *supposed* to help each other and complete levels, and coin battle where you try to see which one of you can get the most coins from the group.

now i say "supposed to" because frankly its pretty damn hard not to knock your friends off ledges and into lava, off a platform floating above a cliff, or straight into the path of a hammer bro. and dont even get me started on the green and red shells!

now, although its hard as hell to not kill each other in coop mode, dont let that dissuade you. good times were had by all, no matter how many times you heard someone shout "damn you! that was my fire flower!". in fact i think people were so wrapped up in playing NSMBW that people forgot i even had Super Smash Bros Brawl.

after all that i watched funny people (actually a very good movie) and then played some WoW TCG against Mike and then went to sleep.

and that was the day BEFORE my birthday. lol

actually we celebrated sat so we didnt do much on my actual birthday, just applebees and playing Fallout 3. Rock!

Wish List

Well cause its getting close to christmas birthday i thought i'd make a list of stuff i want

you know.... cause i want it

Nintendo DS:
Pokemon Heartgold
Glory of Heracles
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Xbox 360:
Halo: Reach Collectors Edition
Fable III Collectors Edition
Fallout: New Vegas Collectors Edition
Green Day Rock Band
Dragon Age: Awakening
Final Fantasy XIII
Halo 3: ODST
Borderlands
Dragon Age: Origins
Mass Effect 2: Limited Edition
Microsoft Points

PSP:
Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker Collectors Edition
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
Final Fantasy Dissidia
Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny

Wii:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Nintendo Points

Cards:
Wrathgate booster packs (WoW TCG)
Scourgewar booster packs (WoW TCG)
Fields of Honor booster packs (WoW TCG)
Zendikar booster packs (Magic:tG)
Worldwake booster packs (Magic:tG)

Others:
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Collectors Edition (PC)
Halo Lengends (2 disc DVD or Blu-Ray)
Star Trek Online Collectors Edition (PC)
Speed Racer Manga Collector's Box Set
an iPhone (preferably 3G or 3GS)
Mass Effect Redemtion (Comic, Darkhorse)

My Xbox 360 is Inspector Gadget...

Remember that show? lol., well it does have everything to do with the point im trying to make so i'll run it down for you.

Inspector Gadget was a secret agent who's body was augmented with all sorts of gadgets to help him in his espionage. in actuality he was kind of a loser and his gadgets although cool, never helped him much. it always came down to his niece Penny and her dog to help him save the day and accomplish his missions

ok, what the hell does this have to do with my Xbox? well they just added 4 new distinct features to the Xbox 360 console a couple days ago, Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm, and the Zune Marketplace.

The Facebook and Twitter tabs are an Xbox 360 way to bring social networking to games. mostly its just a slightly watered version of the 2 current most popular social networking sites (cutting out the facebook aps, and facebook chat functions only). Its good for you if the computer is currently occupied (or dead if youre like me :/ ) but otherwise the web version will still be your best bet. Twitter is twitter so if youre all about the tweeting than its pretty much the same actually lol.

Last.fm is quite cool, ice never heard of it before but it builds radio stations around particular artists that stream songs by them and by bands of singers that are similar. if all you want are the popular singers, listen to your top 40 station back home, but this is a great tool for finding new or less popular bands. and thankfully if there is too much you dont like, there is a skip button or simply move to a new station. the absolute best part is after youve browsed other stations and told Last.fm what you like, it can build you a radio station with your favorite songs/genres. the only problem with this is it doesnt run behind anything else. you cant listen to this with custom soundtracks or anything. so if youre like me and when you actually DO get a chance to use your Xbox, you probably wont waste time by listening to Last.fm, no matter how cool it is.

and last but not least is the Zune marketplace. this isnt an add-on so much as its an update. they are now using the Zune marketplace for all Xbox Live marketplace media downloads. i'm not sure if game DLC is also through the Zune marketplace, but i think its just music, videos, and movies. the good news is theyve added a couple features like viewing parties where people on your Xbox Live friends list can come in and watch streaming videos with you in a mystery science theater 3000 kinda way. the good news is since all this is from the Zune marketplace theres more content now in the movie and tv categories, yay!

Now what does this have to do with Inspector Gadget? I feel about most of these exactly what i feel about Inspector gadget. Alot of cool features, but he still can't get the job done alone. Xbox has had a recent decline of 360 exclusives in the last year, and although alot of former Playstation exclusive developers are taking games to both consoles Microsoft needs to encourage developers to go Xbox onry! Thats what will sell consoles, not fancy features, not project natal, not Facebook and Twitter for Xbox Live. and while these things are great and add a wide range of things you can do with the console, none of them truly expand on what people buy the console in the first place: the games.

Like Christmas... in November....

Today is a good day.

No seriously, as far as days go there will probably be only 3 others this year that will that have been/will be better.

one is Christmas, what? i love presents.

another will be my birthday... once again... presents, awesome.

and of course, the most shining day this year will be my wedding day, (not that its why it will be awesome, but coincidently will be another present giving occasion...)

but today ranks firmly on the 4th most awesome day of the year award. why?

presents, of course!

Today marks the release of not one, not two, but THREE awesome things.

1. Left 4 Dead 2
2. Assassin's Creed II
3. Star Trek on DVD&Blu-Ray

What makes today so awesome is that i will have (sorta) all three today!

My lovely soon-to-be bride bought Left 4 Dead 2 and we decided to go at midnight to go pick it up. while there we saw all the lovely Assassin's Creed II boxes, and because she is quite literally the most awesome female in the world, she basically bought me Assassin's Creed II there to pick up at midnight. (see now why my wedding day is going to be so awesome, i get to MARRY her!)

so at midnight we picked 2 of the biggest game releases of the year!

and of course Star Trek will be waiting at home thanks to my wonderful mother!

and on a sort-of-completely unrelated note, c'mon people, stop decorating for Christmas, its not even thanksgiving. Pilgrims everywhere are calling bullshit on Jesus and Santa for encroaching on their only 15 minutes of fame

100 to go!

yup thats right, 393/493 obtained pokémon!

damn i have no life.... :(

Once your diggin'

Well the Pokédex is coming along rather nicely if you havent seen this recently. just for shits and giggles i checked Bulbapedia on some random things yesterday and came across the trainer stars article.

seems if you accomplish certain feats you get stars for your trainer case that also changes the backround color of your trainer card.

now this isnt a huge deal but if you complete the Pokédex with all the non event exclusive Pokémon you get a star.

since that is totally possible for me, and im heading in that direction anyway i decided to see what else i could do in the meantime to add some more stars to my trainer case.

one is in the Underground:

now, ive been here before. to get Spiritomb i had to talk to "myself" 30-something times.

i say myself because i was supposed to talk to another person, but instead i just talked to myself between my diamond and platinum games.

well its a return to the same formula this time around as i think ill be capturing my own flag over and over from one game to the other, hell i might just build my bases in each game right next to each other haha, hows that for a loop hole huh?

and while im down there i'll pick up a couple water stones, lord knows i need em to evolve my staryu and shellder :(