Well I do not play Visions Skeins in my current list.
This list I would probably always board out Visions first. It really REALLY depends always on your opponents list. Especially decks like Affinity and Teachings can play very different decks. If you think you can spare some card draw and fog you can do something like -2 Dawn Charm -1 Words -1 Visions -1 See Beyond -1 Brainstorm and bring in as many counter as possible. But only if he is slow on the board otherwise you need the fog and draw (for more fogs). Some things you just need experience and try out different things.
I thought I was good at both sides of the Sicilian lines and then my chess app played "... 2. b4" And I was like...oh how stupidly funny. I won by accepting the gambit but it changed my view of the Sicilian for ever more.
You can totally turn your pod deck into an awesome GBx deck.
All you need is four tarmogoyfs, four dark confidants, four Liliana of the Veil, and you're set. I'm sure that the average player has those cards in their binder.
All sarcasm aside, yes, some of the cards will have some use.
Tnx Paul for the comment. as usual your insight is something that everyone can learn from. Though I am actually thinking long term to become fringe when all the set from Khans have come out and the new set is going through rotation.It's more of me thinking that the card has more potential than it is being use right now. Like when suddenly pack rats and desecration demon become standard staple and i hated selling them for cents.
As of writing this comment though I have lost three time in a row using the Wealth deck with tokens and heroic decks. Still I hope it can actually do well in actual competition.
Did not read your Kheru deck article though it is a good thing because I might copy some of what you have done with your deck if i have read that. And I thought I was original in picking Kheru.
Everything you say is absolutely correct. I play about 3 games of modern a week. It's another way to get my mind focused. It is a way to hone the decision tree skills. I always play better games of standard after a good session of modern. That's why this upsets me so much. I don't have time to mess around.
Some weeks just looking at my pod deck made me feel like a better player. Being good at Pod is like being able to navigate the Sicillian opening in Chess. The lines may not be applicable, but the level of focus required and the confidence of being able to play it is a psychological boost.
But I think your point is sinking in. Modern is now an emotional vortex of change and will take too much time to learn a new deck. I think modern and I are breaking up for now. I'm going to do one quick expose on it as it relates to preparation for gp providence and move on. Maybe forever.
Thank freaking scrod gp providence isn't Modern. I'd puke.
Our ideas of casual seem to differ greatly. I'd say Wealth is anything but competitive. (Hence no deck has come close to breaking out with wealth in it. Not even in the sideboard.)
Sure it gets explosive draws if you managed to play and untap with your untappers and mana producers intact. Of course in an environment where even casual players, play a ton of removal and sweepers too getting those guys to stick may not be so simple.
I see why you disliked being hit with wealth, since your deck didn't have an answer for it and you were playing a greedy deck with things that you wouldn't want to see across from you. Wealth doesn't work so well when you are looking at a bunch of budget creatures and auras that pretty much are terribad. The better your opponent's deck the better wealth becomes.
I wrote an article on this very subject (November 2014, 2 months ago or so)** and also featured a Kheru, lich lord deck in that article if I recall correctly. My Lich lord deck had very different selection of targets as I focused on the I don't want to exile my guys after I get them back factor. So I had Towershell and Nyx Weaver (since you can sac it after it attacks to get something important back even though your spider gets exiled it was going there anyway.) And I had 3 whips too which isn't terribly budget but in this instance, very casual.
The key thing to remember is casual does not mean "budget" and vice versa. I have seen some very cheap decks (goblins in any format really) take down expensive decks. The point being if someone is playing something you don't like in a casual setting you can always just not play them any more.
I have grown a bit weary of seeing people pick up the Villainous Wealth decks, because as ubiquitous builds aren't that fun to face constantly. But I never get tired of seeing that spell go off. Particularly if I am casting it. For me the fun has switched to "how can I include it [wealth] in a deck otherwise focused?" But everyone has different ideas of fun and casual. I recommend not getting too caught up in arguing for your view being the right one. Opinions being what they are.
One thing that does set aside casual from competitive play is the sideboard. MOST casual decks don't even star a sideboard because you aren't playing more than one game at a time. Whereas Competitive decks aren't competitive until you can define a working sideboard for them.
edit: **double checking, I see the greed is good (for me) article was the one from October. But the Towershell lich deck was from November.
I play a different list now but with this list I would board
-1 Visions Skeins
-1 See beyond
+1 Arcane Denial (for gary, corrupt, augur of bolas, wrench mind)
+1 Keep Watch (amazing top deck when your hand is near empty and he has 3+ creatures)
Against the affinity with hate:
It really depends on the opponents deck but there is always a good way to deal with them. If your opponent has too much hate and it's just impossible to get Jace's Erasure to stay on the abttlefield you have to change the way you play. One way that seems counter intuitive is to NOT play Jace's Erasure for a very long time. Wait until you have 10+ mana and your hand looks somewhat like this: 2 Jace, 1-2 counter, 2-3 good draw spells, 1 fog (maybe in GY). Then you play both Jace and as many draw spells as possible in response to his enchantment hate. This way you play around the enchantment hate by maximizing the mill you get in one turn. If the problem is not the ench hate but counterspell stopping your Jace you do something similiar. Wait for a hand full of jace and counter and flood your opponent.
Seems very accurate. Today i was playing against some friends. In the affy match up my opponent boarded pyroblast, dispel and leave no trace, making the game very difficult. He hade too many ways to deal with mi jace's backuped with counters... I didin't know how to board against that strategy...
Also, how do you board against monob, especially, against discard effects?
What I'm about to say might seem surprising, but I'm going to say it with the utmost sincerity.
Right NOW, you shouldn't be bothering with Modern.
You have that Standard GP in June and if you really want to do well in it, then you should continue to focus on Standard. Continuing to hone your Standard game AND working on your writing is already more than enough for somebody that has a full time life outside of Magic. Don't lose sight of that goal.
Modern is extremely volatile at the moment. Between the shifting prices and the emotions that are flying all over the place, it's a messy distraction if you aren't truly invested in it. Let things settle down a bit.
Need breaks from Standard? Use Modern as a place to play some different paced casual games. Use it as a place to brew for the sake of inventiveness. Don't worry about the meta-game or what is competing, that's what Standard is for you right now.
As for NH, Voice and Linvala: G/W Hatebears, Vial or non-Vial, flavor would probably be the most likely direction to head in. There's also a chance that with Pod gone, Bant could become a thing as well.
Keep your eyes on the upcoming prizes (GP, writing) and let your feeling on Modern settle a bit.
I'm taking a break from modern for the time being.
Some day, maybe I will have the desire, I still have my goyfs.
But today, i traded for a wasteland, and that's the direction my collection is going.
I gave up standard for modern, because I can't afford and don't want to keep up with the rotation.
Now, wotc is starting to use bannings as a forced rotation.
Even though I invested in blue red delver, a deck that many a salty opponent has told me is dead, I still have a good foot in the door. I've won enough games without treasure cruise that I feel my deck can adapt with some modifications.
I do like the legacy lists but yeah doing something with the voices, hierarch, the angels in modern might make me feel better lol. I'm just looking for ideas at this point.
I'm obviously keeping pod because I will eventually build Rhino Fit or similar. But for now I need something to make me feel like modern is even worth bothering with anymore.
Yeah, I'm not sure if jumping over to a Tier 2.5 Legacy deck is worth it just to keep playing Birthing Pod. I mean, hey, I loved the card too, but I'm not investing in a whole other format to use it "competitively". From everything I've read, it is a deck that can take a long time to really understand, play well and get wins with, so it will provide a rewarding experience if that is what you choose to do.
On the Modern front, which pricey cards are you looking to use? Hierarchs? Voices? Clearly there is tons of things to do with Thoughtseize, Abrupt Decay and Fetch lands, so which other cards are you looking to use?
I sold my pod deck and I'm mad about the whole mess. that should say something. pod was a great deck that was cheaper than running GBx Tarmogoyf decks.
bayou doesnt cost much. you could try playing legacy. there are melira pod lists on mtggoldfish. other than that, you need bob and goyf, plus lilly, which have all suddenly rebounded to their pre-cruise prices.
i'll try to find a legacy pod list. this i am posting is called rhino fit, which is a version of nic fit. many nic fit decks have run pod before, it's still very good, and will be good again without cruise in the format (I assume).
as long as you pack your 6/8 thoughtseize/cabal therapy, you'll be good against combo. you have deathrite for reanimator.
I'm more than upset about the banning of Birthing Pod. I have way too much $$ and time invested in Pod. I suppose they figure if the ban Cruise and Dig, Pod will dominate due to the improved lists created to fight Delver/Storm decks. I understand it. I don't like it.
Joe, what can I turn a typical Pod list (Melira-ish) into and still get use out of many of the pricey cards?
I don't know I may just sell them all out and sink the proceeds into Standard Dailies at this point...
My problem was not that I think Sylvan Caryatid is bad, but that I thought it was too good to remove. Ever. I would never suggest taking it out of the main in game 1, but in my experience and according to many of the pros I've watched and read, there's a ton of match ups it can and probably should be boarded out in Abzan Midrange.
In my RG Monsters deck, I never took it out because I always needed extra mana turn 3.
And of course, my knack for overstating card value is more to make a point than to evaluate a card. I may have said 'bad' (although I don't remember typing that it is bad, except in certain situations), I may have implied it's bad, but it's exactly because it's so good that I overstate the point.
It's no coincidence that my win % went way up once I learned when to sideboard it out. I had to let go of my stubborn streak and go with what gets results. And again this is just as it relates to Abzan Midrange especially as it gets closer to control.
Now, of course, the format is about to shift again and who knows, Caryatid might become as great as it was before Khans. And that's saying a lot because it's already great. You don't have to sell me on it! :)
And I do, but I don't record those sessions. Too much to manage and pay attention. I play at all levels I can as often as I can. Adding a financial aspect also helps prepare for the stress. Soon enough I'll be thick enough to 'waste' a few tickets playing a daily or 8 man and record it as well.
I'll be trying very hard to come up with the four wastelands I'm going to need to make a competitive deck now. It's not going to be easy at all.
Other than that, I can jam the four dig through times I bought monday into the hole left by the treasure cruise banning.
On a different note, my old, defunct mtgo account once had a classic format worldgorger dragon combo deck. too bad it's not good enough anymore (so I hear).
I feel like banning Birthing Pod was a mistake. Took them 3.5 years to figure out that the card was broken? I don't think so. As you said, wrong place, wrong time and wow do they like messing up players lives. It doesn't affect me. I am keeping my pods forever (or until I sell out of MTGO). If I was going to sell them I would have thrown them into the market when they first hit the 20 something mark. I committed to keeping them. (I still have vintage and TWL pod decks.) But it irks me nonetheless. I had some small idea of joining a Modern PRE sooner or later (particularly since people keep writing about them.) Now? Not so much. Pod would definitely be my favorite archetype to bring to any modern tourney.
Meh WOTC has made far worse decisions. I just feel like they are trying to create an artificial sandbox instead of letting it form on its own in modern. And that really really pisses me off.
Thanks man! I can't believe that my gut feeling about pod being banned was right!
It's hard to convince a new player to invest in a modern deck (or legacy) when a staple deck gets banned.
Sure, these people could totally buy play sets of lili, goyf, bob, etc and have a sweet deck. IF they can afford it!
I don't know what the answers are, but I don't feel like this round of bannings were good for modern. If pod was to be banned, i feel like it should have been before it had years to become entrenched in the metagame.
Joe glad to see you playing some legacy. It has always been my favorite format but sadly my legacy playing is restricted to burn on MTGO. I am however slowly working towards elves and will gladly play legacy anytime you want, or even just talk legacy. Keep up the good work I enjoy reading about your adventures diving into a format.
P.S great call on Splinter Twin wish I would have picked some up ha.
Well I do not play Visions Skeins in my current list.
This list I would probably always board out Visions first. It really REALLY depends always on your opponents list. Especially decks like Affinity and Teachings can play very different decks. If you think you can spare some card draw and fog you can do something like -2 Dawn Charm -1 Words -1 Visions -1 See Beyond -1 Brainstorm and bring in as many counter as possible. But only if he is slow on the board otherwise you need the fog and draw (for more fogs). Some things you just need experience and try out different things.
Wish you would've talked a bit about TC and DTT ban. Thanks for linking my VODs.
I thought I was good at both sides of the Sicilian lines and then my chess app played "... 2. b4" And I was like...oh how stupidly funny. I won by accepting the gambit but it changed my view of the Sicilian for ever more.
You can totally turn your pod deck into an awesome GBx deck.
All you need is four tarmogoyfs, four dark confidants, four Liliana of the Veil, and you're set. I'm sure that the average player has those cards in their binder.
All sarcasm aside, yes, some of the cards will have some use.
I liked your strategy against a over-hated sb, i could use the same strategy against a similar scenario.
In the affy case, you stuck to your boarding plan? - Vision Skeins + Arcane denial? Or maybe - 2 see beyond + 2 dispel?
BTW, i will play your list ;)
Tnx Paul for the comment. as usual your insight is something that everyone can learn from. Though I am actually thinking long term to become fringe when all the set from Khans have come out and the new set is going through rotation.It's more of me thinking that the card has more potential than it is being use right now. Like when suddenly pack rats and desecration demon become standard staple and i hated selling them for cents.
As of writing this comment though I have lost three time in a row using the Wealth deck with tokens and heroic decks. Still I hope it can actually do well in actual competition.
Did not read your Kheru deck article though it is a good thing because I might copy some of what you have done with your deck if i have read that. And I thought I was original in picking Kheru.
Everything you say is absolutely correct. I play about 3 games of modern a week. It's another way to get my mind focused. It is a way to hone the decision tree skills. I always play better games of standard after a good session of modern. That's why this upsets me so much. I don't have time to mess around.
Some weeks just looking at my pod deck made me feel like a better player. Being good at Pod is like being able to navigate the Sicillian opening in Chess. The lines may not be applicable, but the level of focus required and the confidence of being able to play it is a psychological boost.
But I think your point is sinking in. Modern is now an emotional vortex of change and will take too much time to learn a new deck. I think modern and I are breaking up for now. I'm going to do one quick expose on it as it relates to preparation for gp providence and move on. Maybe forever.
Thank freaking scrod gp providence isn't Modern. I'd puke.
Our ideas of casual seem to differ greatly. I'd say Wealth is anything but competitive. (Hence no deck has come close to breaking out with wealth in it. Not even in the sideboard.)
Sure it gets explosive draws if you managed to play and untap with your untappers and mana producers intact. Of course in an environment where even casual players, play a ton of removal and sweepers too getting those guys to stick may not be so simple.
I see why you disliked being hit with wealth, since your deck didn't have an answer for it and you were playing a greedy deck with things that you wouldn't want to see across from you. Wealth doesn't work so well when you are looking at a bunch of budget creatures and auras that pretty much are terribad. The better your opponent's deck the better wealth becomes.
I wrote an article on this very subject (November 2014, 2 months ago or so)** and also featured a Kheru, lich lord deck in that article if I recall correctly. My Lich lord deck had very different selection of targets as I focused on the I don't want to exile my guys after I get them back factor. So I had Towershell and Nyx Weaver (since you can sac it after it attacks to get something important back even though your spider gets exiled it was going there anyway.) And I had 3 whips too which isn't terribly budget but in this instance, very casual.
The key thing to remember is casual does not mean "budget" and vice versa. I have seen some very cheap decks (goblins in any format really) take down expensive decks. The point being if someone is playing something you don't like in a casual setting you can always just not play them any more.
I have grown a bit weary of seeing people pick up the Villainous Wealth decks, because as ubiquitous builds aren't that fun to face constantly. But I never get tired of seeing that spell go off. Particularly if I am casting it. For me the fun has switched to "how can I include it [wealth] in a deck otherwise focused?" But everyone has different ideas of fun and casual. I recommend not getting too caught up in arguing for your view being the right one. Opinions being what they are.
One thing that does set aside casual from competitive play is the sideboard. MOST casual decks don't even star a sideboard because you aren't playing more than one game at a time. Whereas Competitive decks aren't competitive until you can define a working sideboard for them.
edit: **double checking, I see the greed is good (for me) article was the one from October. But the Towershell lich deck was from November.
I play a different list now but with this list I would board
-1 Visions Skeins
-1 See beyond
+1 Arcane Denial (for gary, corrupt, augur of bolas, wrench mind)
+1 Keep Watch (amazing top deck when your hand is near empty and he has 3+ creatures)
Against the affinity with hate:
It really depends on the opponents deck but there is always a good way to deal with them. If your opponent has too much hate and it's just impossible to get Jace's Erasure to stay on the abttlefield you have to change the way you play. One way that seems counter intuitive is to NOT play Jace's Erasure for a very long time. Wait until you have 10+ mana and your hand looks somewhat like this: 2 Jace, 1-2 counter, 2-3 good draw spells, 1 fog (maybe in GY). Then you play both Jace and as many draw spells as possible in response to his enchantment hate. This way you play around the enchantment hate by maximizing the mill you get in one turn. If the problem is not the ench hate but counterspell stopping your Jace you do something similiar. Wait for a hand full of jace and counter and flood your opponent.
Seems very accurate. Today i was playing against some friends. In the affy match up my opponent boarded pyroblast, dispel and leave no trace, making the game very difficult. He hade too many ways to deal with mi jace's backuped with counters... I didin't know how to board against that strategy...
Also, how do you board against monob, especially, against discard effects?
Maybe -words of wisdom +negate?
See ya around
What I'm about to say might seem surprising, but I'm going to say it with the utmost sincerity.
Right NOW, you shouldn't be bothering with Modern.
You have that Standard GP in June and if you really want to do well in it, then you should continue to focus on Standard. Continuing to hone your Standard game AND working on your writing is already more than enough for somebody that has a full time life outside of Magic. Don't lose sight of that goal.
Modern is extremely volatile at the moment. Between the shifting prices and the emotions that are flying all over the place, it's a messy distraction if you aren't truly invested in it. Let things settle down a bit.
Need breaks from Standard? Use Modern as a place to play some different paced casual games. Use it as a place to brew for the sake of inventiveness. Don't worry about the meta-game or what is competing, that's what Standard is for you right now.
As for NH, Voice and Linvala: G/W Hatebears, Vial or non-Vial, flavor would probably be the most likely direction to head in. There's also a chance that with Pod gone, Bant could become a thing as well.
Keep your eyes on the upcoming prizes (GP, writing) and let your feeling on Modern settle a bit.
- Gio
I'm taking a break from modern for the time being.
Some day, maybe I will have the desire, I still have my goyfs.
But today, i traded for a wasteland, and that's the direction my collection is going.
I gave up standard for modern, because I can't afford and don't want to keep up with the rotation.
Now, wotc is starting to use bannings as a forced rotation.
Even though I invested in blue red delver, a deck that many a salty opponent has told me is dead, I still have a good foot in the door. I've won enough games without treasure cruise that I feel my deck can adapt with some modifications.
I do like the legacy lists but yeah doing something with the voices, hierarch, the angels in modern might make me feel better lol. I'm just looking for ideas at this point.
I'm obviously keeping pod because I will eventually build Rhino Fit or similar. But for now I need something to make me feel like modern is even worth bothering with anymore.
Yeah, I'm not sure if jumping over to a Tier 2.5 Legacy deck is worth it just to keep playing Birthing Pod. I mean, hey, I loved the card too, but I'm not investing in a whole other format to use it "competitively". From everything I've read, it is a deck that can take a long time to really understand, play well and get wins with, so it will provide a rewarding experience if that is what you choose to do.
On the Modern front, which pricey cards are you looking to use? Hierarchs? Voices? Clearly there is tons of things to do with Thoughtseize, Abrupt Decay and Fetch lands, so which other cards are you looking to use?
More to the point would be to find new decks in Modern since moving to Legacy is usually a bigger deal than simply getting duals.
I sold my pod deck and I'm mad about the whole mess. that should say something. pod was a great deck that was cheaper than running GBx Tarmogoyf decks.
here's a BUG Nic fit deck from a while back, did good at an scg.
4 Birthing Pod 4 Cabal Therapy 4 Brainstorm 2 Abrupt Decay 4 Deathrite Shaman 4 Veteran Explorer 1 Viscera Seer 3 Baleful Strix 1 Vendilion Clique 1 Scavenging Ooze 1 Qasali Pridemage 1 Ethersworn Canonist 1 Melira, Sylvoke Outkast 1 Kitchen Finks 1 Eternal Witness 1 Orhzov Pontiff 1 Bone Shredder 1 Glen Elendra Archmage 1 Murderous Redcap 1 Ranger of Eos 1 Reveillark 1 Scrubland 1 Underground Sea 2 Bayou 2 Tropical Island 2 Forest 2 Swamp 1 Island 1 Plains 4 Verdant Catacombs 4 Polluted Delta 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard: 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 1 Envelop 1 Swan Song 1 Grave Titan 1 Thragtusk 1 Harmonic Sliver 1 Abrupt Decay 1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Venser, Shaper Savant 1 Notion Thief 1 Garruk Relentless 1 Mindbreak Trap 1 Gilded Drake
bayou doesnt cost much. you could try playing legacy. there are melira pod lists on mtggoldfish. other than that, you need bob and goyf, plus lilly, which have all suddenly rebounded to their pre-cruise prices.
i'll try to find a legacy pod list. this i am posting is called rhino fit, which is a version of nic fit. many nic fit decks have run pod before, it's still very good, and will be good again without cruise in the format (I assume).
as long as you pack your 6/8 thoughtseize/cabal therapy, you'll be good against combo. you have deathrite for reanimator.
tell modern to, you know. http://www.mtggoldfish.com/archetype/legacy-rhino-fit#online
I'm more than upset about the banning of Birthing Pod. I have way too much $$ and time invested in Pod. I suppose they figure if the ban Cruise and Dig, Pod will dominate due to the improved lists created to fight Delver/Storm decks. I understand it. I don't like it.
Joe, what can I turn a typical Pod list (Melira-ish) into and still get use out of many of the pricey cards?
I don't know I may just sell them all out and sink the proceeds into Standard Dailies at this point...
DEpressed.
My problem was not that I think Sylvan Caryatid is bad, but that I thought it was too good to remove. Ever. I would never suggest taking it out of the main in game 1, but in my experience and according to many of the pros I've watched and read, there's a ton of match ups it can and probably should be boarded out in Abzan Midrange.
In my RG Monsters deck, I never took it out because I always needed extra mana turn 3.
And of course, my knack for overstating card value is more to make a point than to evaluate a card. I may have said 'bad' (although I don't remember typing that it is bad, except in certain situations), I may have implied it's bad, but it's exactly because it's so good that I overstate the point.
It's no coincidence that my win % went way up once I learned when to sideboard it out. I had to let go of my stubborn streak and go with what gets results. And again this is just as it relates to Abzan Midrange especially as it gets closer to control.
Now, of course, the format is about to shift again and who knows, Caryatid might become as great as it was before Khans. And that's saying a lot because it's already great. You don't have to sell me on it! :)
And I do, but I don't record those sessions. Too much to manage and pay attention. I play at all levels I can as often as I can. Adding a financial aspect also helps prepare for the stress. Soon enough I'll be thick enough to 'waste' a few tickets playing a daily or 8 man and record it as well.
I'll be trying very hard to come up with the four wastelands I'm going to need to make a competitive deck now. It's not going to be easy at all.
Other than that, I can jam the four dig through times I bought monday into the hole left by the treasure cruise banning.
On a different note, my old, defunct mtgo account once had a classic format worldgorger dragon combo deck. too bad it's not good enough anymore (so I hear).
I feel like banning Birthing Pod was a mistake. Took them 3.5 years to figure out that the card was broken? I don't think so. As you said, wrong place, wrong time and wow do they like messing up players lives. It doesn't affect me. I am keeping my pods forever (or until I sell out of MTGO). If I was going to sell them I would have thrown them into the market when they first hit the 20 something mark. I committed to keeping them. (I still have vintage and TWL pod decks.) But it irks me nonetheless. I had some small idea of joining a Modern PRE sooner or later (particularly since people keep writing about them.) Now? Not so much. Pod would definitely be my favorite archetype to bring to any modern tourney.
Meh WOTC has made far worse decisions. I just feel like they are trying to create an artificial sandbox instead of letting it form on its own in modern. And that really really pisses me off.
Thanks man! I can't believe that my gut feeling about pod being banned was right!
It's hard to convince a new player to invest in a modern deck (or legacy) when a staple deck gets banned.
Sure, these people could totally buy play sets of lili, goyf, bob, etc and have a sweet deck. IF they can afford it!
I don't know what the answers are, but I don't feel like this round of bannings were good for modern. If pod was to be banned, i feel like it should have been before it had years to become entrenched in the metagame.
Joe glad to see you playing some legacy. It has always been my favorite format but sadly my legacy playing is restricted to burn on MTGO. I am however slowly working towards elves and will gladly play legacy anytime you want, or even just talk legacy. Keep up the good work I enjoy reading about your adventures diving into a format.
P.S great call on Splinter Twin wish I would have picked some up ha.