The Fact is Mike is that you did out draw joe games 2 and 3, but still got outplayed in the top 8.  Also you should of went into more detail about your match with him and show everyone on these forums how bad you are and how slow you play.  For as long as you been playing the deck and how well you've done, I have never seen a slower player, I bet if there was a real judge at the tournement and not just the judges on 0-2 Drop that play in the event, that during the swiss you'd have to be watched for how god damn slow you play.

Back to the detail you didn't write in the report (Btw terrible Report next time try to be a normal person or learn to Justify it correctly), in game two against joe.  You had the kill on the board, but since you thought that Joe tormod's crypt, could get rid of your lotus after you pop it, with out you responding by IDK maybe using Salavagers to get it back........ How bad are you, if you thought you couldn't respond to Tormods crypt, by getting back your Lotus.  Or maybe you thought that since you had an Explosives at 0, that you your lotus would go in the graveyard after you blow that up and him somehow still have his Crypt out ready to use.  If you didn't know by now that he would have to respond to you activating it, which you mean that your Lotus isn't in the graveyard yet, then again it looks like you don't know how to respond since of the first point i brought up before.  Instead of winning, you play at your snail like pace, and drag out the game like another hour, since Joe would never concede to a terrible player like yourself. And since joe knows this, he always has a chance of beating you no matter how far ahead you are of him.

I hope I've helped become a better player, since god only knows you needed it.  And I also hope i never have to play you since i might have to kill myself since you play so god damn slow.

~Parisdirt

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I don't see the point of Blood Moon when it shuts off your whole mana base aside from Moxen and Artifact mana.

As you said if you play it first turn, it's not how your opponent will deal with it, it is how are you going to deal with it with your deck depending on ya know blue mana too, with the  mana base you have now...

just doesn't make sense to me....

~matt

Hi guys.  I'm Matt the 5c Stax deck to make it to the finals.  The Grow player was the guy i Split with and he played Icorid in the semes.  Hope that helps.

~Matt P

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