“Magic is a young man’s game,” groaned Top8’s own MichaelJ. He started out the tournament with a loss and has been struggling back with Blightning Beatdown and now has a 5-1 record.

“How did I ever win a 10 round PTQ? I am beat.”

While we were chatting someone came up to him — I am sorry that I did not catch his name — and said that he bought a copy of Deckade two years ago and that it had significantly improved his game. He cited multiple PTQ Top 8’s in the Dream Wizards neck of the woods.

I asked what specifically had helped him and he said that it was mostly listening to the podcasts and getting a better sense of Limited card valuations.

“So basically nothing I did,” laughed Mike.

Hey, Jon Becker has not shown up yet. I need to taunt someone.