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Against FCG , if you have FoW for a first turn lackey the game gets a lot easier from there especially if you are running deed. This is not my favourite match-up but if played correctly I wouldn't call it unfavorable.

So, all dramatics and vendettas aside, who is going to be here for this one, i would love to see a good turnout to support more new jersey tourneys. Besides i would love to meet alot of you in person.

I am coming for revenge on PTW, lol see u guys there

SCG will be posting all top 8 decklists, tourney statistics tomorrow.

Strip effects were one of the only reasons i was able to beat the combo decks. First i would take out the important lands and then i would deed away the artifact mana. And to your other quetions, this was my first type one tourney i didn't really miss any cards.
 I came in to the tourney fearing slavery, because everyone told be how hard of a math-up it was. So my plan was to first disrupt it's fragile mana base than go after its hand with duress and twist, i remember once in the tourney playing yawg will just to get back a stripmine. That sounds stupid but he died with a welder in hand and no way to cast it.

Ok, please excuse my poor writing skills but i just wanted to present my list for the tourney, i have a very bad memory so this isn't goint to be a report.
         This was my first type one tourney and i wasn't to sure what to expect. I have made several ptq top 8's in Block constructed and extended so I consider myself a pretty competant player. I figured being new to the format and not knowing how to play certain match-ups i would play a control deck so i took an old list for Hulk and changed it around a little. It looks like trash but it was good enough to win me a lotus.
         

1 lotus
4 blue sac lands
3 trops
2 volcanics
4 undergrounds
1 library
3 wasteland
1 stripmine
1 mox jet
1 mox emerald
1 mox sapphire
1 island
1 sol ring
3 psychatog(1 proxied, what a beat stick)
4 mana drain
4 force of will
1 misdirection
1 ancestral recall
4 accumulated knowledge
1 gush
1 intuition
4 brainstorm
3 cunning wish
1 time walk
1 fire/ice
3 duress
1 mind twist
1 yawgmoth's will
1 demonic tutor
2 pernicious deed

sideboard
1 berzerk
1 fact or fiction
1 vampiric tutor
1 naturlize
1 fire/ice
1 oxidize
1 hurkyl's recall
1 smother
1 echoing truth
1 blue elem blast
2 red elem blast
2 coffin purge
1 stifle


Most of my matches were won by killing lands and blowing up hands.

Congrats to PTW, you deserved it.

thanks to Bob for helping me with the deck all weekend.