[Report] Mississauga - 27 Mar 04 (Dreads & Juggs) - Top

[Moridar]

Here is the deck I used and took 3-0-1 in 4 rounds of swiss.  

Round 1 mono black played by a little kid.  he didn't have any duress against me and he did go first each game and should have nailed the Mask in my hand.  game 2 he didn't side in Null Rods or Maze of Ith.  

Round 2 mono black shadow deck.  Hasn't played under the new rules and had to explain the mulligan rule.  Game 1 get the dreads down after a few turns of drawing cards.  Game 2 I couldn't find the second piece of the combo but not before he put me to 1 life and I crush him with double Dreadnoughts.

Round 3 against Arend (SpecialK) UWR Control.  game 1 was a strong start with him slowing the deck and then stopping it.  game 2 was going to be a loss except he drew all his sideboard cards without getting mana...  Finish him with a triskelion.  He tried to stifle the last point for FoW said no.  Game 3 was go for broke.  I get a quick Dread out.  strip his 3rd mana for a possible Rack and Ruin and flip the dread for 12.   He doesn't draw a 3rd mana and I get the win.  

Round 4 intentional draw against Dragon.  Played for fun.  I win game 1 and 3.  it was more of testing the sideboard.  It is a close match up.

2nd over all.  1st was Control Slaver.

Top 8:
Against a concept deck.  Dunno if he wants to post the deck idea but I should have asked him...  Game 1 I get hosed...  StoP 2x Dreads and he never looks back.  Game 2 I get a first turn Wheel of Fortune with 2 cards in my hand left draw new 7 cards (Keep) he said he'd like to mulligan the new hand he got.  I play a Mask and a couple of Dreads for the win.  Game 3 I get a first turn Dread with Stripmine topdecked to destroy his Tundra and swing for 12.  He doesn't get anything and get the win.

Top 4 against Richard (Shockwave) playing Landstill.   Game 1 started ok.  then disk.  then steadly downhill...   Game 2 was the screw from step 1 I ancestral he Misdirects it I FoW and he Drains.  I loose.  It takes a while but it was inevitable and I never get a mask on the table.   Disk keeps the goodies away.

Rich and Shawn split in the finals.


//NAME: Dreads & Juggs
// Blue
        1 Ancestral Recall
        1 Time Walk
        1 Tinker
        2 Intuition
        4 Accumulated Knowledge
        4 Force of Will
// Black
        1 Demonic Tutor
        1 Yawgmoth's Will
// Red
        4 Goblin Welder
// Artifact
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Lotus Petal
        1 Mana Crypt
        1 Memory Jar
        1 Mox Emerald
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Ruby
        1 Mox Sapphire
        1 Mox Jet
        1 Platinum Angel
        1 Sol Ring
        1 Triskelion
        4 Illusionary Mask
        4 Juggernaut
        4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
// Land
        1 Island
        1 Strip Mine
        1 Swamp
        1 Tolarian Academy
        2 Wasteland
        4 Mishra's Workshop
        4 Underground Sea
        3 Volcanic Island
// Sideboard
SB:  3 Chain of Vapor
SB:  3 Duress
SB:  2 Overload
SB:  1 Shattering Pulse
SB:  1 Wheel of Fortune
SB:  1 Duplicant
SB:  3 Tormod's Crypt
SB:  1 Triskelion

Wayne

[Razvan]

Have you ever thought of maindecking the second Triskelion? Seems more useful than the Platinum Angel.

[Moridar]

I've made a move to add 2x draw-7 cards.  Twister & Wheel for testing. It helps with the dig for the combo.  Although adding the 2nd trike is worth testing.  it is more for another deck running Goblin Welders.

In some testing against Fish over the weekend I found that the deck almost an auto loss against a Null Rod.   But after adding the draw-7's it allowed me to get a mox or something in the yard for the Fish player and weld out the Null Rod.  If the Welder survives against the Grim Lavamancers...

Wayne

[Razvan]

I am seriously (VERY seriously) considering main-decking 2 Rack and Ruin. I can't see them being dead, at all.

Most decks run Moxen, so it's an outlet against that. Those that don't, run Null Rods or Damping Matrix.

Also good against other Workshop decks... Mask decks... etc...

I am seriously consindering doing that. I also need more Rack and Ruins .

[Moridar]

Nothing like a little R&R to ruin my deck...    I've thought about adding Memnarch to the sideboard to help with the control matchup but I figure it isn't going to work.

Wayne

[Razvan]

It's not necessarily just against your deck. I see them as being really versatile. I was thinking of putting in 2 Cunning Wish instead, and have more than just that in my SB... but meh.

Maybe Shattering Pulse would be good too? Hm.

Artifact destruction is so needed right now that Workshop decks have to maindeck it? How crazy is that?

[Moridar]

it has to be bad when your about to put main deck hate for your own style of deck.

Wayne