Unhinged wackiness

Yesterday, we attended the Magic Unhinged release tournament at That’s Entertainment. Unhinged is a wacky and funny set. (“I attack you for three… and a half!” is just the beginning.) I did fairly evenly, as I tend to do, going 2-2-1. Jessi, on the other hand, did amazingly well, doing 4-0-1 in the swiss rounds, her draw being with me. She didn’t do so well in the elimination rounds, but she still ended up in 4th place out of the 32 players there.

There’s a promotional Unhinged life counter (that counts in half-points for you) that was only available at these events on this day, and they went to the top 3. I managed to trade with the 3th place person for his, though, so we have one. I think I probably got the better end of the deal, but it’s very hard to judge the value of something like that. (There were roughly a thousand of these tournaments around the world yesterday, each giving one of these to each of the top 3, so I’d guess that there are roughly 3000 in existence.)

So, I’m contemplating that since the set is relatively small, I may try collecting the entire set. There are only about 45 cards that we don’t have, and they should be relatively easy to acquire since the set isn’t tournament legal, so there won’t be any killer Standard decks driving up prices on the chase rares. I’ll probably be trying to trade for them after the event I’m running on Dec. 3rd at WPI, and/or opening packs I have leftover from running that event. (Anyone interested in casual Magic really ought to come to that event; it should be a lot of fun.)

In other news, I went to bed at 11:15pm, woke up at 12:45am, and couldn’t get back to sleep. I’m tired but not sleepy, or something. So, I get to go through today on an hour and a half of sleep. Whee!!!