The Evening.
"How much you going in with?" Zap asked, his hands clenching and unclenching to make sure the feedback relays synced with the haptics in his gloves. "Gotta be a mint. You were so far up the proctor's ass we thought you were trying to get an A level in proctology."
Jane jumped lightly up and down beside her neighboring pod, ignoring Zap for the moment. Her HUD was only showing an 83% registry on her feet, causing them to feel slightly numb and disconnected from the rest of her body. She wished she had the glitz to upgrade the suit, but that wasn't happening unless she landed a corp scholarship. She reached down, the skintight carbon black material of the suit stretching across her athletic legs. After a few tugs and smacks, the number nudged up to 96%. She wasn't going to do better than that. Not with v2. She was lucky enough to get that as it was.
Finally, she turned toward Zap. "You got your bank, I got mine. You keep your eyes on yours, I'll worry about mine." Jane didn't blame him for fishing, everyone wanted a peek at her balance. They knew enough to know she had built up an edge, though most didn't know how much.
More than they thought.
The Centurion was all that stood between her and a future worth living. She'd been prepping for four years, and now was her time to prove it had all been worth it.
Proctor Vertia came to stand in the rostrum in the center of the podroom. A hundred haptic pods encircled the raised platform, in three neat rows. The proctor cleared her throat, taking a moment to slowly turn around and survey the class she had overseen for the last four years. "As you know, today we begin the Centurion. You are the select few who have qualified for the honor of taking this test, and your performance will have dramatic effects on the course of your life."
The last three presidents had each been winners of their Centurion, and most of the Fortune 500 companies staffed their executive teams with top performers. Qualifying for the Centurion was a golden ticket, the only question was where it would take you.
Jane had plans.
"The contest is quite simple. Each of you will be transported into Ancient Rome. The year is 44 BC, and Dictator Julius Caesar lies dead on the Senate floor, slain by the hands of the senators, friend and foes alike." A small murmur spreads through the class. It had been some time since the Downfall Scenario had been selected, and more than a few found themselves flatfooted without the requisite preparation. Jane cou
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Can’t wait for season 2!
Hi Im Bad Dog and I like building with bad generals.
Cast an artifact or enchantment, make a faerie? What is this jank? Play Zur noob.
The premise for building this general comes from an argument (as per usual) with the most competitive of our dear Elder Dragon Highlanders. Casting a thing and making a token is not very exciting, but what are the low and high ends this can be taken to? At the infinite extreme, say with casting Lion's Eye Diamond recurred via Auriok Salvagers, Alela can make infinite fliers. But on the low end, just passively producing via mana rocks, could there be something more useful? How about poly-morph into Razaketh?
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If you sac a dork you can tutor a rock.
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If you play a rock you can make a dork.
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If you play all the rocks you'll have Alela and a dork left.
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That means you have two tutors and a bunch of mana to win the game with.
Put simply if Alela, a faerie, and Razaketh are on the board you can win from a position of no mana. And with a general that lets you chain dorks into skull clamp, produce an army for some coastal piracy, and run extra tutors like Diabolic Intent there's some real muscle in the 99 to backup the punch. But all this is just theory, how does it play in practice?
Well after 10 games in LFG practice it ended up with a four win, six loss record. It should be noted, however, that two of said losses were entirely due to player error. So you be the judge.
Overall Alela has proved to be an interesting, fun, and, of course, provocative deck. Comparing it to Zur is the memiest of memes (you can compare any general regardless of color to zur) but to engage it anyways, the plus is that you get to run more tutors and draw engines in the 99 while having less of a target on your head. The minus is that the general doesn't tutor and in this particular version there's no notion thief. It's threat diversification vs linearity. So cheers, happy holidays, merry Christmas and Hannucha, and have fun celebrating the day of the undying god, winter solstice, and lead up to the new year with some coastal piracy :)
Peace!
Special thanks to xAzurelx for helping to flesh out the Raz line and save this from being another bomberman deck, and the Finnish farm bois for ideas on naus frames.
Every vote counts, and if Death Stranding wins the player’s voice I think it will reinforce how great the disparity is between professional “reviewers” opinion and the opinions of the general audience. I want to see this game win in spite of the negativity, and if you do too then now is your last chance!
“Before I left for Europe I warned how the communists were using the civil rights movement to promote revolution and eventual takeover of this country. When are we going to wake up?... Now, Brethren, the Lord never promised there would not be traitors in the Church. We have the ignorant, the sleepy and the deceived who provide temptations and avenues of apostasy for the unwary and the unfaithful.”
Who is in the wrong? Me? Or my boss for refusing me breaks and water?
