The Ultimate Fighter: Live – Episode 4 – Recap
- March 31st, 2012
- By Lord Faust
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Following up the last two weeks, where Team Cruz has managed to send home two of Team Faber’s top prospects, we have another week of The Ultimate Fighter culminating in a live fight. During the week, Cruz went on record stating that his plan is to go right for the throat, rather than implementing the standard tactic of picking off the other team’s weaker fighters. Thus far, this strategy has worked, with Team Cruz notching to two team victories thus far, after capitalising on some mistakes made by their opponents. (Notably Cruickshank getting too flashy and Marcello not keeping his @#$% chin down.)
This week’s installment in my ongoing series of re-posting my Twitter content. This volume’s subjects are random as always. As per usual, if you subscribe to my Twitter feed, then none of this will be new to you.
I didn’t actually think I would have to bothering writing this, but the events of recent weeks have instilled a need to get my whole 2¢ out there. So, somewhat unfortunately, I’ve written this article rather than leaving it be, with just a few cryptic sound-bytes uttered into the vast ‘Twitterverse’. While Twitter is an amazing tool and genuinely useful for certain types of communication, it fails miserably when a thought needs to be elaborated. (To be fair, that is intended functionality from what I understand.)
As with a lot of my decks, this list is inspired by long-running themes in the Magic landscape. Just as “white weenie” decks have seemingly always had their place in the game, the green decks built around fast mana (or or “ramping” as it is often called) and gigantic creatures have also been a mainstay of the game since time immemorial. I have many fond memories of tapping my 
Music
While I do a lot of reading on a daily basis, I would be the last person to consider myself an avid book reader. I tend to amass a number of books, about various things, and very slowly read my way through them; a process that can take months — and, in some cases, years. Given all of that, when I happened upon a rather convincing recommendation of The Gift of Fear, I cast off my usual laziness, quickly acquired a copy and read it within a work week.
I looked this band up on a blind recommendation from a friend of mine, and listening to a couple of tracks played off an iPod. As a credit to the band, however, that’s all it took for me to be instantly hooked. Given my usual proclivities for music on the heavier side of things, I was immediately taken in by the simplicity of the songs and the catchy, clever lyrics; you don’t need downtuned guitars and 200bpm drums to make for a great song.
Ever since the early days of Magic, mono-white decks have been the de facto configuration for assembling a critical mass of small creatures and trying to snag an early win. Although we are far removed from the days of trying to land a