Week of Warcraft: My Panax is Unstable!

That title came out of nowhere. But at least it sounds funny.

On Thursday, we went to Heartland Mall for the Onyxia raid demo. I thought it wouldn't arrive till next week but it looks like the UDE people got an exclusive set for themselves to demo. It was nice to see Javen and Danny from VS System performing the demo. It was comforting to know that the same UDE people who were in charge of VS System are also running WOW TCG. We can probably expect good things from them.

We played against Javen's Onyxia first. It was the four of us: me, Alvin, Jeremy and Michael. I felt something was amiss when all of us were pretty much in control most of the time and no one was in danger of getting eliminated. Onyxia was pretty much overrun by the four of us after an hour and I found myself dissatisfied. I wanted to experience the kind of insane difficulty that terrorized Gen Con participants (or at least, a fraction of it).

Which was why, after dinner at Yoshinoya, we were back to raid Onyxia again only this time with the standard 3 players. Danny was playing, and this time, we got thrashed due to a combination of really bad draws on our part and a seemingly endless swarm of Whelps from Onyxia. We lost but I was convinced that the Onyxia raid deck won't be just a cheap thrill that players can just effortlessly defeat without a strategy. I can't wait for its release to face it again. Even more so when I combine two Ony decks together.

The raid demo ended at 8 pm. It was early and we didn't want to go home. We ended up staying over at Michael's house with the partial reason to playtest for Saturday's WOW @ Serene Centre. I was still deciding whether to play Grennan or Senzir. I am more confident in using Senzir (since Hunters are sorta tried & true) but I like Grennan simply for the fact that he is a Tauren (favourite race <3) and his artwork (by Sam Wise, no less) is so cool, which was why I played him in the first place. haha.

Jeryl, Mog and I left Michael's house on Friday morning. After a nice breakfast at McDonald's, I was on my way home. I crashed on the bed and slept till evening when I returned to AMK for more WOW TCG.

The day finally game. I cabbed to Serene Centre (Someone please construct an MRT station next to that blasted place). I was quite amazed by the turnout. Despite this being a new game, there were 24 people who showed up. The whole thing lasted from 2 pm to 10 pm because the game itself was rather slow and the organizer did not call for time whenever the forty-five minutes was up. I managed to get into the finals and had a prize split with the other guy. It was an exciting day and I have never thought so hard since the last VS System PCQ a few months back. I was very very happy at my own performance with my Grennan deck. Though I have to say, I was lucky to not have met any Mage or Paladin decks as I perform pretty badly against those.

(*Note: My tourney report can be found in the blog entry below this one.)