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The thing a lot of people forget with OFM 2K5 is that it can be tailored to certain metagames very easily.

Bryan Finch "Evilkin" piloted it this weekend in Rochester to a 5-1-1 Swiss, defeating 2 UBA Stax decks.

In his final round of swiss he played a UBA player with a 4-0-2 record. This is what happened in the match using his exact words posted on our Ontario website.

"I snuck into top 8 after swiss sitting at 5-1-1. I almost never got there cause my opponent in the final round who was playing Uba Stax was playing very slow.

I scooped game 1 early while still at nearly 20 life. He only had a Gorilla Shaman, Uba Mask and Crucible in play but I conceded when he drew the Bazaar and I had no cards. The game was taking soo long I feared it was going to take him another 20 mins to finish me off and leave me with no time left to play other games.

His record was 4-0-2 and he wasn't too happy he drew a few rounds that I guess he thought he should have won. But if he played that slow in every match up I can see why he drew twice. Thanks for the excellent judging present during my match for warning him to make a play sooner rather then later.

Game 3 against this guy was retarded. He played a Chalice for zero on turn 1 against me. My hand had only 1 land, and a Mox Pearl. I think he must of had slight telekinetic powers. My very first draw was Mox Sapphire. So I had 1 land which was a plains for about 10 turns in a row before I drew my 2nd land and he couldn't capitalize on it. Mainly cause I ended up having 2 FoWs and 2 STPs for various threats. I then chose to drop a Pithing Needle naming Strip Mine in desperation, fearing to lose my only land. He then actually Bazaar'd up a Strip Mine a turn or 2 later which he discarded. Nothin worse then staring at 2cc critters and a Crucible in hand 10 turns later and still not being able to drop them. Well, I finally drew land 2 and immediatly began to capitalize on it. He resolved an Uba Mask and drew into a few Bazaars to make the game close. But I had a Crucible in play and was able to get rid of them. I pretty much had game 3 won with about 10 minutes left to play. He was still fairly high on life though cause I hadn't done any damage to him up to this point. With Crucible, Ninja and Factory out, I started beating him down and then he seemed to be playing a lot slower. It took him nearly the entire 10 minutes of time to decide on one turn whether or not to block my ninja with his only creature a Gorilla Shaman. I very much appreciate the fact there were a couple judges and many spectators present here or I might have just ended up getting a draw with this guy. "

Needless to say OFM is 4-1 against UBA in the last 2 major tourneys.

Old Dan