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Well I entered the day with exactly enough money for a tournament entry fee and ended up borrowing a few lands and played 4 color threshold splashing red in the sideboard for pyroclasm/rough-tumble and ancient grudge. It ended up a pretty poor turnout of around 24 people I think with about a fourth of the field if not more playing Hulk-Flash. So anyway here's my list:
Creatures: 14
2-Mystic Enforcer
4-Nimble Mongoose
4-Werebear
4-Meddling Mage
Other Spells: 28
4-FoW
4-Daze
4-Swords to Plowshares
4-Brainstorm
4-Mental Note
3-Portent
3-Serum Vision
2-Stifle
Lands: 18
4-Flooded Strand
3-Polluted Delta
1-Windswept Heath
4-Tropical Island
3-Tundra
3-Volcanic Island
Sideboard: 15
3-Disenchant
3-Jotun Grunt
3-Pyroclasm
2-Pithing Needle
2-Armageddon
1-Ancient Grudge
1-Rough/Tumble
Round 1 opponent: Belcher
Game 1: I keep my 7 card hand consisting of a fetch another dual, a stifle, a force of will, a daze, a brainstorm, and a werebear. He mulligans to 6. I win the roll and start off with fetch pass. He opens with chrome mox with imprint and a chrome mox without, an LED, a taiga off land grant, tinder wall, and burning wish and goes off for 18 gobbos while I misplay and don't stifle his empty the warrens for some reason because I felt like brainstorming in response to the LED I guess. I also didn't force the b wish again I dunno why.
So I board in 3x disenchant, and an ancient grudge for 4x Swords to Plowshares
Game 2: I start off by keeping and he does as well and I put him on the defensive against turn 3 threshold with 2x mongoose and a werebear he ended up falling to my double portent to make him draw irrelevant spells while I beat him down.
Game 3: I start off with a couple lands, ancient grudge, disenchant, a daze, serum visions, and a FoW. He keeps and starts off with a chrome mox. I drop land and pass. He drops taiga and passes. I eot disenchant the mox (didnt have red yet). I drop a goose and pass. He drops LED and I EOT grudge it. I grudge another LED when it hits. I commence the beats and sit back until something relevant hits. I cast portent and make him shuffle. Then he goes to 7 and attempts to go off, gets past my FoW and daze and casts a belcher. This part is amusing. He finishes shuffling and I cut his deck and put one card on top and say "There's your bayou" so he cuts his deck and reveals the card off belcher and right on top is the bayou. Man savage beats for him and I deal lethal the next turn.
Matches: 1-0-0
Games: 2-1
Round 2: Survival
This round is a bit of a blur.
Game 1: He gets out turn 3 survival and proceeds to break through my double werebear mongoose defenses and finishes me shortly after.
I board in 2x Needle, 3x Grunt, 3x Disenchant for 1x mystic enforcer, 2x stifle, 3x serum vision, a mage, and a portent.
Game 2: I get a decent start with needle on survival, mage on tin-street, and then he b wishes for tsunami I have tundra, volc, double trop out. I drop another mage on tsunami and he kills it with FTK then proceeds to wreck me with tsunami and I never came back from it in time.
Matches: 1-1-0
Games: 2-3-0
Fortunately for me here the guy playing this deck needed 1-2 wins in this tournament to lock up another bye to the GP so he dropped afterwards giving me a flawless opponent in tiebreakers. wewt!
Round 3: Solidarity
Game 1: He sits around while I goldfish and get him to lethal range without any mages he goes off I misplay by forgetting the original copy of brain freeze comes after the copies. I say continue with the original copy and a judge comes over and says that I can't respond any more because I said continue so storm resolves giving him flash of insight flashback and he wins that turn but not before I StPed my own creature to make him really confused.
I board in 2x armageddon and 3x jotun grunt for 1x mystic enforcer, 4x StP
Game 2: I start out with a similar game 1 with a couple counter backup and he remands my mage turn 3 on high tide. Mage hits the next turn and I rip another off the top to name chain of vapor. He proceeds to EOT c wish for echoing truth because apparently he was boarding truth, wipe away, and main decking vapor go figure. so he bounces them and then attempts to go off in response to me replaying the first one on high tide and runs out of gas (lucky me). I took it the next turn with werebear beats.
Game 3: I start out similarly to game 1 with an early mongoose and bear and turn 2 threshold and commence the beats. We enter a small counter battle over turn 5 mage on high tide and he wins that. So next turn I admit it was only bait and drop the armageddon bomb to seal my victory and he can't deal with it.
Matches: 2-1-0
Games: 4-4-0
Round 4: Satanic Sligh?
I get paired down to a 1-1-1 so I have to play it even though I was planning to anyway.
Game 1: Again I win the roll for the fourth straight match and drop fetch and a mongoose. He continues with turn 1 carnophage which meets a daze and I ride a single mongoose to victory while he can't draw another creature and just extirpates my strands and FoWs.
I board in 3x Pyroclasm and a Rough/Tumble for 2x Stifle, a Mystic Enforcer, and a mage.
Game 2: He starts with leyline of the void in play and I cringe in my seat and commence beating with some 1/1 bears and geese. He finally drops dark bob x2 and starts the life loss. I watch a bear fall to a lightning bolt and drop another in its place. He is then down to through as he drops negator on the table with 2x bob facing down a mongoose, a werebear and a mage on lightning bolt. So I drop another mongoose and pass to eat 5 from negator. At this point he is at 3 life and needs to do something or I win but I end up noticing that I'm only at 11 and if he swings with the team I die to the chain lightning bob revealed that turn. So he sends just negator allowing me to take it and champ him savagely. I pass and he reveals hymn and negator and I take the match.
Matches: 3-1-0
Round 5: Aluren
We ID it up and both draw into the t8.
So the top 8 ended up as follows
1 Hulk-Flash, 1 Goblins, 1 4c Thresh, 2 Belcher, 1 Aluren, 1 Sea Stompy, 1 43 lands
Aluren vs Goblins = Aluren
Belcher (my round 1 opponent) vs 43 Lands = Belcher
4c Thresh vs Hulk-Flash = ?????
Sea Stompy vs Belcher = Sea Stompy
Quarterfinals: Hulk-Flash
Game 1: I keep a 1 lander with a great hand against flash consisting of a daze, stifle, blue card, brainstorm, and FoW or something close to that and proceed to draw 2 lands in my next two turns. He starts off with some mana excell which I tried not to let him have. Then he worldly tutors to get the hulk and mysticals for the flash. He runs into a stifle on the hulk the next turn and I proceed to beatdown with a bear and goose.
I board in 3x Disenchant and an ancient grudge for 4x Swords to Plowshares.
Game 2: I keep another 1 lander with double daze, stifle, FoW, Brainstorm, and mongoose. I drop the fetch and pass. He goes for a brainstorm I respond with my own and a daze afterwards so I don't miss a land drop. Next turn ends up similar as I drop goose and pass only to pick up my land again for a tutor. I finally draw a land here and cantrip again via mental note and beat with the goose. Then EOT he attempts to go off the first time and runs into a daze on flash he responds by pitching an ESG. Here I FoW and he responds with misdirection throwing a FoW away and redirects it back at itself So I let it resolve and stifle the hulk. We both build up good size hands and I continue the beats with some guys while using a FoW in the process. I end up holding onto a hand of stifle FoW with lethal staring him down and he passes. I draw my 4th FoW here and declare attacks. He attempts to go off again and scoops to the FoW I have for the flash. I reveal the stifle and move on to the next match.
Semifinals: Sea Stompy
So I end up being paired against from what I have heard a fish deck not exactly sure what is in it or anything. It is always good to go in knowing nothing when ur opponent knows exactly what you are playing.
Game 1: I start off with a fetch and a cantrip and he goes land flying men. I drop another land and drop meddling mage on something random. He proceeds to drop empyrial plate which I daze and he forces it back and I stare at my FoW and blue card and don't do anything. I die to a plated flying men 3 turns later even though I stifled equip for a turn and ran into another counter.
I board in 3x disenchant, ancient grudge, 2x pithing needle for 3x serum vision, 2x stifle, and an enforcer.
Game 2: I start off with a needle on jitte and then daze his vial. He proceeds to drop a chalice at 1 and I flashback a grudge for it and slowly build up an army of guys with my 1 cost cantrips and overwhelm him when he runs out himself.
Game 3: He starts off with a land and I do a land. He cloud of faeries and I brainstorm in response and daze it. I drop mongoose and pass again. I daze his serendib and continue to play the same land and portent him. I drop a couple bears and a mental note to get threshold and I get him to 9 and then he trades with both bears for sea drakes and stabilizes with a phyrexian ironfoot. He sits around with an serendib in hand it being maged and draws another drake which he plays and I stare at a FoW and 5 mana open when I know I portented a disrupt into his hand the turn before. Ahh rough beats oh well so it resolves and ends up going the distance as I cannot find a swords or mystic enforcer while it brings me from 17 to 0 in 5 turns. My luck finally ran out as I drew 4 land in those turns. Oh well it was an eventful day.
So I finish in third place seeing as the belcher player that got 4th was behind me going into the top 8 and walked out with 12 packs for my troubles. Not the 3x byes I wanted but alas it doesn't always go my way. The sea stompy ended up taking down the win with a clutch trickbind in game 3 on the aluren players pernicious deed that probably would have swung the game around. He took it down 2-1 and took a box and 3 byes for his trouble. Anyway hope you enjoyed my report. I'll probably see a lot of you in Columbus.
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