Well, I heard there was going to be a T1 prized on Magic-League (
http://www.magic-league.com/ , they hold free tournaments online with real prizes, and even have ratings)
This was the first prized tournament I had enough time to play in, so I loaded up my deck. Here it is:
//NAME: Sheepstealer Fish
SB: 1 Waterfront Bouncer
SB: 3 Energy Flux
SB: 2 Suq'Ata Firewalker
SB: 1 Null Rod
SB: 2 Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Chill
SB: 1 Misdirection
SB: 3 Maze of Ith
3 Null Rod
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Misdirection
4 Curiosity
4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Rootwater Thief
3 Waterfront Bouncer
3 Gilded Drake
4 Flying Men
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Faerie Conclave
4 Wasteland
9 Island
I won't go into an explaination of that right now.
First off, on Magic-League I am Jenneke, not Thissa... theres a fairly long story telling why that is, but I won't go into that now.
Anyway, I got on to my computer, waited a few minutes, and the pairings were up.
R1: Dragon.dec played by MTGMan, 2-0
Game 1:
Alright... this game starts off well. I lay down early beats and disrupt his mana base. Then I drop Waterfront Bouncer, nullifying his win condition.
Game 2:
Here I resolve a very early Waterfront Bouncer and then lay down several Standstills before I swing for the win.
R2: Parfait, played by Wyern, 2-1
Game 1:
I get him down to 5, but while this happens he baits my Force of Wills with Story Circle, etc. Then he drops Ischron Scepter imprinting an Orim's chant. I have a Misdirection and a Null Rod in hand, but he has an Aura of Silence and he proceeds to Charbelch me for the win after Land Taxing his deck out of everything but a few Plateaus.
Game 2:
This game is similar to the first except that he never gets the Isochron Scepter - Orim's Chant lock down.
Game 3:
Ah... this one was tough. On his second turn he drops the Isochron-Orim's chant lock, but I have a Null Rod. Then he drops Sacred Mesa. I Wasteland his Plateau, and attack. He is forced to tap his two plains to keep his Mesa alive. He plays another land and passes. I Strip Mine, and attack. He plays another land and passes. I attack for a few turns, with one more land than he has, and he doesn't draw into one. He draws into a Land Tax while he is still at 13 however, and he threatens to win with Pegasi. But, I play Wasteland and destroy my own Mishra's Factory. He never draws into another land.
R3: Mono-Black Void, played by iforget, 2-0
Game 1:
He draws into a LOT of disruption, but doesn't play any creatures. Despite all of his disruption I eventually beat him.
Game 2:
In this game he disrupts for a while but eventually drops a Necropotence, a Nantuko Shade, and a Hypnotic Spectre. Over the course of a few turns he Necro's himself down to one life. However, I just drop a few creatures and pass my turn. He taps out to cast Contagion, but it forces him to chump block my Mishra's Factory with his Nantuko Shade. I draw into two Faerie Conclaves and win.
R4: Stacker 3, played by mogg, 2-1
Game 1:
I go first, playing a Faerie Conclave. He knows what I'm running, so he drops a first turn Chalice for two. Then after I counter his Juggernaut he brings out Goblin Welder and Goblin Charbelcher. Mommy...?
Game 2:
He plays a bunch of artifacts including several moxen and a Charblecher over his first two turns, but I drop a Null Rod and Wasteland his Mishra's Workshop. He gets out a Su-Chi and beats me down to a dangerously low life total, but I get out two Mishra's Factories as blockers. I counter his Goblin Welders and beat down with fliers until he loses.
Game 3:
I drop both Null Rod and the Waterfront Bouncer - Gilded Drake combo, getting his Goblin Welders and his Juggernaut. I win shortly thereafter...
By this time I am in the top 3. One player will get a bye and the others will fight it out to enter the finals. I don't get the bye though
R5: Abyss, played by SNK, 1-2
Game 1:
I strip out all but one of his land sources and cast Null Rod to negate his moxen. Left with only a Gorilla Shaman, he cannot deal with my attackers.
Game 2:
He gets out The Abyss. Then he gets out Morphling.
Game 3:
This is possibly the closest match I've played in my life... He drops the Abyss fairly early, but I have a Mishra's Factory. He can't get rid of it, and I get him down to 7 with it before he finally tutors for a Wasteland. I may have made a play error here, as after getting into a large counterwar over the resolution of the Vampiric Tutor, I finally let it resolve even with another Force of Will in my hand. I knew he was going to get Wasteland, but since I had drawn another off a Standstill that turn I let it resolve. Still, I may have won the game if not for that. So He Wastelands my Factory. I draw into a Faerie Conclave and play the second Mishra's Factory, but after dropping to one life he Wastelands my active Factory and REB's my Faerie Conclave. I drop two creatures in hopes of defeating him next turn, but he Fact or Fiction's for a Morphling and defeats me.
Anyway, Props to all the magic-league judges for running a great site to play.
