Out on a Weekday

On Tueday, I went to AMK. It was quite an unlikely choice of day to go there since Monday (being Youth Day) would've been better. But Amerell and Miyamoto both asked me out on that day so it was a great way to pass the time.

I arrived AMK rather late. Miyamoto was supposed to show me how Raw Deal is played, but I ended up playing VS with Amerell while Miya played with Darius. There was another guy there who was learning to play VS. He was a kid that I have seen a few times at the shop; he was usually quite noisy when I see him play DM, but at least he was okay while we played VS. He built a deck using the Fantastic Four/Doom starter and a Mutant Nation deck using the cards he got from boosters (surprisingly, he had a lot of usable rares which included Sabretooth). I tried my Fantastic Fun today and didn't know what the heck I was doing for most of my games. There were too many options to contemplate while I set up for my victory condition (or at least, I think I was doing it right). I'll try it a few more weeks and see it grows on me. Hope I just didn't blow my money on another '30-minute deck'.

Miyamoto had to go at dinner time and passed me 5 Raw Deal rule books before he left. I had a quick dinner at Sumo House with Amerell and Darius, and they left soon after, too. (Argh, weekday outings are so short.)

When I got home at night, I started downloading more comics to read since my anime download had been pathetically slow. I got Ultimate X-Men this time to pass the time, and between reading downloaded issues, I read through the Raw Deal rules and surfed the official site. It seems fairly easy to pick up, even though most cards seem to have like 8 lines of game text. It's an interesting little game that I will keep an eye on in the meantime. I might foresee myself drafting it.