What I played:
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
2 Frantic Search
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Spell Pierce
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Preordain
1 Regrowth
2 Thoughtseize
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Dragon Breath
4 Oath of Druids
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Forest
1 Island
Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Nature's Claim
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Perish
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Relic of Progenitus
The night before I was planning on playing a GAT list with some Lotus Cobra's in it. However I was testing it vs MUD and got body rocked like 100 to 1. I decided to put something similar to Elias's GG oath deck and just hope it was good enough to not require any play testing. I typically play decks with islands, key/vault, and/or storm cards so I hoped I could just lean on key vault all day. My notes aren't great so I might mess some stuff up.
ROUND 1
Rob
I know Rob pretty well from previous events and before we start and I put him on Tez or Gush.
G1 (0-1)
He wins the die roll. I pick up my first hand ever with this deck and it is like:
Emrakul, Dragons Breath, Dragons Breath, Yawgmoth's Will, Orchard, Jace, Mox Pearl.
We both decide to mull in about a half a second.
I end up mulling to 5 on the draw and he thoughtseizes me on turns one and two. After seeing my frantic search he puts me on storm and I think about trying to make it though the game without him knowing I am on oath. A turn or two later I draw brainstorm into oath, time walk, orchard and I think I may have a chance. I play orchard and oath and pass. Unfortunately, he plays an orchard on his turn. I am still fine as my hand is Time Walk and Frantic Search both of which can give him more guys than he can give me. I decide to Time Walk because it'll just end the game, but unfortunately he had spell pierce and then played another orchard on his turn. I draw another orchard like a boss, but he played top, turned it into a demonic tutor and then got will and did a bunch of stuff that made him win.
G2(0-2)
I didn't see any wastland/strip mine shenanigans so I boarded a land and 2 oaths out for 3 rebs.
He mulls to 6 and I lead with thoughtseize this time and see:
Brainstorm, Spell Pierce, Crypt, Key, Academy, Mana Drain
I take crypt hoping to lock him out of mana a few turns as I can hopefully get oath down before he can get both counters online. He gets some land draws, but I eventually get Oath/Orchard down on him and pass. He plays key and vault and wins
(0-1)
ROUND 2
Mike
He wins he roll and decides to play.
I know mike plays some different decks and I didn't know what to expect. I was thinking it was likely that he would be playing things that attack.
G1(1-0)
He led with a forest and passed. I didn't really think he was playing blue, my notes say I sat on spell pierce and I drew brainstorm and waited a turn to cast Oath so I could protect with pierce. At the end of his turn I brainstormed and put emrakul 2 down, drew for turn played orchard, oath, and he let it resolve. He played a land swung for 1 and passed. I Oathed into emrakul, played time vault and passed. He played a stasis. I swung and he had stasis and an island left after Emrakul eat all of his permanents. I skipped my turn to time vault to clear stasis out and then Emrakul eat the rest of his stuff.
G2(2-0)
He led with island, lotus, crack lotus for green, and played top and root maze. I had a tinker on turn 1, and he was at 3 cards so I decided to force the root maze and go for it. However he dazed my force and in the process accidentally flashed a 2nd daze in his hand. After a tapped fetch, and a mox for me, I pass back and he played forsaken city, and topped. I decide to wait on a possible blue card to protect my tinker and lay another land to get out of daze range. I draw a blue card and tinker which resolves and ends the game shortly in the hands of BSC.
(1-1)
ROUND 3
Andy (I think, my notes just say A)
I have no idea what he plays and I straight up luck my way thought this round.
G1(1-0)
He wins the die roll and then leads with a swamp after looking at this hand for a bit. He says something about giving away what he is playing. My opening hand has 1 land (fetch), Lotus and Oath, but no counters. I figure him saying that puts him on Dark Times or Ant. If its Dark Times I shouldn't let him draw a discard spell and slam down Oath Asap. However If he is playing ANT I probably lose. I crack fetch and get an island to protect from wasteland and play Oath.
This is about where Colby Evenpence enters the picture and decides to comment on all of Andy's plays. Andy plays Mana Vault, Mox Jet, Ritual, and gets storm pretty high. He vamps, puts a card on top and then pauses to think a bit. He then goes wow I just punted and picked up his cards for game 2.
I don't think i really have any board cards for this matchup.
G2
My mull to 6 is pretty Juicy for this matchup. Fetch, Thoughseize, Force, Preordain, Spell Pierce, Orchard
My notes say he leads with swamp, Go. I play thoughtseize and he reveals:
Swamp, Nature's Claim, Ritual, Jet, Chrome Mox, Ad Nauseum
I pick Ad Nauseum and pass back. He draws another Ad Nauseum in a turn or two and makes his move. I force it. On the next turn he casts Consultation and I can't stop it. He names Ad Nauseum and flips one in the first two or three, and keeps going. I guess he does run 4. Luckily for me the 4th one is like 12 cards from the bottom and most of his good cards are gone. I figure there is only 1 tendrils left and yawgwill and a lot of his mana is now binned. He lays a ton of mana and gets storm to about 5 after I pierce a ritual to keep him at 4 mana. He decides to mini tendrils me which is probably a mistake considering all his other copies are in the yard. He scoops a few minutes later.
(2-1)
ROUND 4
Roman
Again I don't really have a pre-game read on what he is playing, but I'm pretty sure he knows what I'm playing. He was part of a conversation I was having outside about the deck I was playing.
G1(1-0)
I win the die roll and mull to 6. (All the dead cards in this deck result in a lot of mulls.)
I play a land and sit on pierce. He leads with a workshop and passes. I try to imagine what his hand could look like if he kept a hand with no t1 play, but just feel lucky at this point. I lay a land and preordain into an oath and pass. He plays a second shop and says "Let's get a beater down" and slams down Duplicant and passes. At this point I am sure he doesn't know what I am playing. This game ends shortly after this with Emrakul eating lots of artifacts.
I board in 4 nature's claims for 2 thoughtseizes and I struggle with taking out either Jace or Frantic Search. The plan was to board out Jace's, but I feel like Jace is still good in this matchup and don't anticipate living the dream with some frantic search/tangle wire interaction. I think it'll just cost 5 mana and be terrible anyway.
G2(1-1)
This game is kind of a blow out. He leads with Leyline of Sanctitiy and chalice on two. I eventually have nature's claim and demonic tutor and try to head down the path of blowing up the chalice and tinkering. I get the dt off, but he plays lodestone, and then a sculpting steel on each of his next turns effectively leaving me 1 off tinker each turn until im dead.
G3(2-1)
Crypt, Land, Tinker, GG
ROUND 5
Vito
I drove down with Vito and know he is on Gush Tendrils.
G1(1-0)
So my hand is the stone cold nuts. Sol Ring, Mox, Dual, Tinker, Force, Jace, Island. I tinker out BSC and he doesn't have a force. It's also hard to win with Gush with only 1 land drop before you are dead.
G2(2-0)
I get down Orchard, Oath early. I have Dragon's Breath in Hand. He Lotus's into Jace, but has 2 tokens. He jacestorms into Necropotence and draws a bunch of cards. I hit BSC and attempt to hard card Dragon's Breath on him. He forces and bounces him. He then puts together a mini tendrils putting him at 23 life. Here is where it gets weird. He draws like 10 cards. He must know I'm going to hit Emrakul and Dragon's Breath him from the yard, why drop below 15? Anyway I start to think of answers he might have and can't think of one, even though my hand is a bunch crap and I can't do anything anyway. So I Oath into Emrakul and he eats all of his stuff. Maybe he forgot about the breath.
ROUND 6
Keith
I know Keith as he lives about 2 miles from my house. If we draw it puts us at 13 points and there is only 1 person at 10. I have the same exact breakers as the person at 10. We decide to risk it instead of one of us knocking the other out. I walk over and watch the match of the person at 10.
So this match is Ed Carey vs Shawn Griffiths. Griffiths is on Oath and I assume Ed is on some kind of shops.
G1 Shawn wins as Ed just gets locked out of games with poor draws.
G2 Ed sits on his Duplicants and makes some good plays to stop Shawn from ever getting ahead.
G3 Shawn eventually hard casts a Tyrant and it gets Duplicanted. Eventually Oath comes down and Shawn gets an activation, but mills to about 6 cards left. Eventually he pulls the games out, but after brain freezing Ed for a million decides to scoop to him.
Luckily my breakers were still good enough I guess it was just a good day. I feel like I got lucky breaks every round.
T8
So I punted game one pretty bad. You can read about it here
http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=41913.0 .
In come the nature's claims.
G2
I mulled to 5 and even that hand had a bsc in it. Anyway it had Island, Preordain and I decided to hope for the best. I was destroyed.
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