Wow! I come out of retirement specifically for this event...i play virtually rust-free magic.....finish in the top 4 (i woulda won the darn thing if i didnt get matched up with mono U control !grrr),and i still get diss'd. Ah well...whatever.I earned my way into the top4,then lost to a hard-cast DSC in BOTH games! I'll die to that any day. He was scratching and clawing for any path to victory he could find...as was I (swinging with ESG's! lol.). I actually got a Xantid Swarm on the table ,and woulda owned if i could have drawn ANYTHING in those several critical turns! Attacking with a Xantid Swarm and running it into a freshly cast Morphling,then casting Balance (efectively an armageddon AND WOG,was fun though.He never saw that coming! Icould have made it a Mind Twist also by sacing my LED in response,but i had a Belcher AND Tendrils in my hand,so i chose not to. That bought me several key turns,but his COTV set @ 0 made it difficult for me to play anything. I never drew Hurkyl's OR the Edict i boarded in. So much for "mising".

Ummm...Brian? The name is "Dan Fountain".Remember? It was the name that was at the top of the standings sheet all day! haha.

Props to Pam and the judges for putting on a very nice event(s).