i played a similar list of tezz that got me to the finals in new jersey. the only difference was that i played a second fire/ice over ponder and echoing truth over hurkyls. I made it to top 8 in as the 5th seed so heres the list.
4 force of will
4 mana drain
1 mystical tutor
1 time walk
1 tinker
1 ancestral recall
1 brainstorm
1 thirst for knowledge
1 gifts ungiven
1 fact or fiction
1 tezz
1 repeal
1 echoing truth
1 rebuild
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 yawgmoths will
2 duress
1 thoughtseize
1 merchant scroll
2 fire/ice
3 dark confidant
1 mana vault
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
1 black lotus
5 moxen
3 sea
2 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
2 island
1 swamp
1 tolarian academy
2 volcanic island
1 sphinx the steel wind
1 voltaic key
1 time vault
1 sensei divining top
SB
2 tormods crypt
2 yixlid jailer
2 extirpate
2 pithing needle
1 ingot chewer
1 rack and ruin
2 pyroclasm
1 sower of temptation
1 pyroblast
1 red elemental blast
The 2 fire/ice main worked good most of the day the only thing i dont think i will keep is all that dredge hate on board probably cut down 1 and play another red elemental blast on board. Ok on to the report. Once again its all off memory so bare with me
Round 1 Nick Coss playing draw 7 key vault with drains
Game 1.... we both get out key and its draw go for awhile to see who can get vault first, well lucky for me i draw it first and take turns.
Game 2.... i keep my 7 and its sea, strand, demonic tutor, force of will, repeal, time vault and sol ring. He plays land and passes. I topdeck time walk and lead with sea sol ring into time vault and pass. He doesnt do much and i assemble key vault turn 3 with force back up. His hand is good but he has no counters.
Round 2 Jeff fonilus playing mirror
He crushes me in 2 games i stood no chance
Round 3 Eric M playing mirror with shaman
Game 1... He resolves a tinker early and i cant do much cause i mulled to 5. i eventually fact on his eot and there is a vamp in it so i eventually vamp for echoing truth to bounce his sphinx. He has shaman out all game so hes also beating for 1 a turn. Im at low life with a mana vault out tapped so i take a couple damage from it. I try to fire his shaman but he has drain so i loose.
Game 2 and 3 dont remember much but i know he darkblasts my bob in game 2 and i fire his bob in one of the games also. Tinker sphinx wins me both games.
Round 4 Matt Elias playing combo elves
Game 1....I have to mull to 6 and i keep a hand with 4 mana sources a force of will and a key. I play turn 1 key and pass. He plays turn 1 fastbond....AWESOME! bad news for me. So he drops 2 more lands and starts playing elves and skullclamp. I dont draw a way to get time vault so he smokes me like a philly blunt.
Game 2..... I fire a early xantid swarm and have force of will and a mana drain in hand. He tries to play glimpse of nature but i force it. Next turn he plays eternal witness and gets glimpse back and tries to replay it so i drain. I have alot of counters this game and i get tinker sphinx out and it goes all the way.
Game 3.... He plays turn 1 llanowar elve and passes turn. My opening hand is tolarian, mox pearl, mox emerald, force, drain, repeal and tinker. Yea i know, pretty good. So on my turn 1 i tinker out sphinx and pass. He plays alot of creatures and eventually throws a skullclamp out there which i force pitching repeal. I draw pyroclasm next turn but dont draw a red source. He eventually goes for a summoners pact with alot of creatures going for that regal force guy. He asks if i have a counter i show drain and he scoops.
Round 5 Mike Noble playing Noble fish
we draw into top 8 and me and joe go get food
Top 8 Mike Noble again
Game 1.....I duress him seeing 1 land 2 daze and the rest creauters so i take daze. He plays turn 1 noble and passes. I draw and pass turn having a force and drain in hand. I force his goyf and drain a null rod. He resolves mage naming tinker and passes turn. He plays some creature and passes. I try to eot repeal his mage so i can also eot vamp for tinker and proceed to win but his topdeck for the turn was force of will and i loose from there to a 4 damage a turn mage cause of 2 nobles out.
Game 2...I have force, recall and drain but his hand is real good forcing me to counter a pridemage a goyf and a null rod. He only has 2 mana out and plays pridemage which i have to force cause i have lots of mana and time vault out. He then plays mox pearl and a land and plays another null rod
. My topdeck for the turn was demonic tutor so that would have got me tinker to sac mana crypt for win. I lost a couple mana crypt rolls and his little guys take me down and i loose.
Overall i was happy with tezz again cuase its a broken deck and it has a good chance to beat anything.
slops: Me for not making top 4 so i can at least get a prize.
Playing to much dredge hate on board and not enough for other matchups. I didnt even play against it one time
Props: For making at least top 8
For allen making it to the finals, Josh for making top 4 and for steve for another job well done making it to top 8 agian
For my cheesesteak tasting so damn good
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u picked a good weekend. Thanks Shawn