Tournament Report 28th July Sunday

My Deck as the following:

Turbo Dreams

Artifacts

3 Horn of Greed
R Memory Jar
1 Zuran Orb

Black Spells

3 Dark Ritual
R Demonic Tutor
4 Duress
R Mind Twist
3 Underworld Dreams
R Vampiric Tutor
R Yawgmoth’s WIll

Blue Spells

R Ancestral Recall
3 Gush
R Mystical Tutor
R Time Spiral
R Timetwister
R Time Walk
R Tinker
1 Trade Route
R Windfall

Green Spells

2 Exploration
R Fastbond
R Regrowth

Red Spells

1 Ghitu Fire
R Wheels of Fortune

Mana Producing

R Black Lotus
3 City of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
R Library of Alexandria
1 Mishra’s Workshop
R Mox Emerald
R Mox Jet
R Mox Ruby
R Mox Sapphire
R Sol Ring
R Strip Mine
R Tolarian Academy
4 Tropical Islands
4 Underground Seas
2 Volcanic Island

SB:

1 Balance
2 Chill
1 Misdirection
1 Moat
1 Orim’s Chant
3 Powder Keg
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 The Abyss
1 Urza’s Rage

There are total of 12 people in this tournament.

Round 1: against extended Gro deck

Game 1: I get the start and go with a Tropical Isle and he lays a land and is done. I An.Recall and get some good stuff. I put an exploration and additonal land and done. During the next few turn, he cast a few creatures like Nimble Mongoose, Werebear and I have no way to stop him. I duress him a few times during these few turns and got rid of his counter magic. I cast a Fastbond, Trade Route and Zuran Orb. I float my Mana, sac it for Zuran Orb and cast Yawgmoth’s Will to put all my land into play again. I finally Ghitu Fire him to death.

Game 2: I did not SB anything and he choose to play first. By turn 4, he had only 1 countermagic in his hand thanks to my duress and I lay a Fastbond which he counter it and I cast Yawgmoth’s Will and re-cast my Fastbond and he go wild. Next few turns, I get my Trade Route, Horn of Greed in play which he concedes after thinking a while.

Round 2: against deck Parfait

Game 1: I get the first turn and duress him to get rid of the Land Tax. These few turns, I got my exploration in play and tutor for my Fastbond. I cast my Underworld Dream using Dark Ritual. He got his Aura of Silence and Story Circle. Eventually, he destroyed my Underworld Dream and I manage to cast another one with Trade Route and a Wheel of Fortune. I manage to get more draw 7s cards thanks to my Trade Route and Fastbond which he dies under my Underworld Dreams.

Game 2: I did not SB again and he choose to play first. I manage to get my Fastbond and Trade Route out in playing during the 4th turn and he concedes since he got no way to stop me.

Round 3 : against an random Red-Green Deck

Game 1: She play first and cast a Kird Ape. I lay a land and did nothing. She lay forest and I manage to strip off the forest. I get my Exploration in play and lay an additional land and do nothing. Finally, I was down to 6 life and she was tapped out during the 6th turn. I cast a Lotus and sac it for my Underworld Dream which I cast Time Spiral, untapped those lands, I got a twister from the Spiral and cast it again, this time I got a windfall out of the twister and I cast it she was dead. 21 damage in this 6th turn.

I SB 2 Chill and a Moat

Game 2: She choose to play and lay a 1st turn Mox Monkey. I lay a land, a lotus, sac my lotus for 3 blacks, 2 dark ritual and Mind Twist. She was like oh my god. She kept using the Monkey to beat me finally I got my Moat out and cast it. But she manage to destroy it using Hull Breach and continue to whack me with the Monkey and burn me to death.

I took out the Moat and SB 2 Powder Keg inside.

Game 3: I go first, land, mox, powder keg. She lay a land and done. We did nothing during those few turn and she manage to cast a kird ape with rancor on it. I was like shit. I continue to cast exploration, horn of greed and with other stuff. Eventually I use my memory to get the stuff I need but I was low in life and I tinker for my zuran orb. I had a chill in play and she destroyed my chill but I manage to cast another one. The time is almost up and I manage to get my fastbond, my trade route in play. She burn me a few times which I had resorted to sac my land for my zuran orb. I had top deck an yawgmoth’s will and the time is up but we can have a 5 turns rule and I know I need to kill her this turn. I cast will and tutor for a dark ritual coz I have not enough black to cast Underworld Dream. I manage to cast Underworld Dream and I cast a memory jar in play and I wheel of fortune followed by jar and she was dead. 14 damage and she had took 7 damage from a ghitu fire earlier on. I was sweating like hell during this game coz it is too exciting.

Round 4 : against Keeper

Game 1: I know I am on the 2nd place even though I lost this match but nevertheless, I continue to play. I duress and took out a force of will. Whatever, I cast during these few turns, he seems to counter everything and eventually got Morphling out to kill me.

I SB 3 Red Elemental Blast

Game 2: I got my mana screw and really can’t get the game going so I concede.

My match stats:

Round 1: 2 – 0
Round 2: 2 – 0
Round 3: 2 – 1
Round 4: 0 – 2

I eventually got 2nd with my deck. If you have any comment on the deck, feel free to post it too. Thanks to those reading this report.