It was great! I'll try to swing by again sometime but I rarely have Fridays free. I feel like my internet credibility might have taken at hit from the absolute shlocking I got. Maybe not. It was extremely funny to me that my explanation of Anzrag, the Quake-Mole got it slotted into your deck and thus I helped get myself killed. >.<
I had so much bad luck. For example, I didn't play Tivadar of Thorn against Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist. Degenerate Mono-R is like what he's designed for so that matchup is probably stellar for me since Tivadar can just chump block him basically forever. Instead I rolled into Ephara, God of the Polis which is like the hard opposite side of the matchup.
I also felt like there was basically no removal flying around at all most games. I'd have definitely not tried to play Tivadar in that pod had I been aware of the speed. I thought most games would last until turn 7 but I felt like I was getting killed turn 5-6 pretty consistently throughout the evening.
That all being said the amount of times they had to read Tivadar of Thorn to emotionally come to grips with the fact that it didn't have 8 lines of text that result in drawing a new hand every turn while cheating on mana extremely funny to me. They just kept reading it trying to figure it out. The Zask, Skittering Swarmlord player read it almost every turn. He's still just a 2/2 with first strike. Just like the last time you read him.
My read is that he was pretty on page with the powerlevel we were hoping for and not with the glass cannon guy. His Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist looked to be pretty battlecrusiery. With Orolo he was slow rolling slightly but also I think he was stumbling on mana more than we realized. I'd be excited to play against him again. The glass cannon player less so. He was pleasant but his decks were pretty bleh to play against.The other guy I had less of a read on; he had some very good decks and was a decent player. I could not tell if he was intentionally sandbagging much of the time, but he certainly was with Oloro and his discard choices with Hinata made me very curious. Like he literally discarded answers to the board state. So I was left a little unsure. Very nice guy, my best guess is he doesn't like confrontation and didn't want to get yelled at for comboing us out -- me, I'm always good to go to the next game :D