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Bob The Builder
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« on: June 28, 2004, 01:12:10 pm » |
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Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, like a week or so, the following conversation took place:
Me: "Here, Eddie, I've got you a beer."
Eddie: “Thanks!"
Me: "What's up with Richy?"
Eddie: "I had to kick his arse again for asking me a stupid question."
Both: HAR-HAR-HAR
Me: “So, when are you attending your next T1 Tournament?�
Eddie: “Don’t know, maybe next week, but it’s in THE NETHERLANDS, Eindhoven.�
Me: “In Holland? Why that far?�
Eddie: “Only choice I have ! So, you commin’?�
Me: “Count me in! I know I’m gonna lose again, so nothing to worry about!�
Eddie: “HéHé�
Me: “What will you play?�
Eddie: “Maybe WelderMUD, maybe Slaver, but I really want to go WelderMUD, even if the meta says I should really be going with Slaver or rebuild WelderMUD to MUD... You?�
Me: “I’ve been looking at Madness for a while now, but I don’t think I got the cards to make it fast enough for T1-play, yet, since I have no power at all, I just might give it a go.�
Eddie: “You can use my Timewalk and Ancestral Recall if you want.�
Me: “Thanks, think I’ll also need your Wooded Foothills…�
So we went testing after that and one thing led to another. Eddie just messed up every game for me. It really got on my nerve so I started thinking: ‘If I am to lose anyhow, I might just as well be the-bully-that-everybody-is-going-to-hate, and not just the-stupid-fuck-who’s-playing-some-dumb-arse-Madness-version.’ From that thought on, Black Suicide never left the brain. I was thinking to play a heavy hate towards the graveyard with planar void (but I only had 2). Yet I gave it a go, the testing with Eddie restarted and showed that whoever started the game had the best chances of winning.
Conclusion: Black Suicide is going to Eindhoven!
Sunday; 27/06/2004; 06:00; The annoying sound of my alarm is singing in my ear as if a cat is being strangled next to my very bed. I hit the clock, the sound stops, for at least 9 minutes…
The second time I manage to get up, freshen myself up and drag my sleepy head down the stairs. Still have to write my decklist, so turn on the PC, make some coffee and get to it.
At 06:47 I’m looking at my list, satisfied, knowing that I’ll be the subject of mockery and the lots, dangling somewhere at the bottom of the players list… Finally I find the time to put some breakfast down my throat.
At 07:00 Eddie is ringing the doorbell waking up my already pissed girlfriend, to get her blood boiling even more. I call him names for it, but let’s forget about all that and get in the car.
On the way to Eindhoven I just about ruin the whole Shrek 2 movie for Eddie, telling him the entire plot, just with a small break to sing along (getting on Eddie’s nerves even more) with CCR “Suzy Q�. Arriving in Antwerp, where we counted on having some serious traffic jam, traffic is going as smooth as it could. With a result of us being in Eindhoven at least one our to soon (09:00). No sweat, we both think, gives us more time to find the exact place to be. At 09:05 we found our destination and decide to go on a stroll. Eindhoven is dead, nothing is happening, not a soul is walking the face of the earth in Eindhoven at 09:10! We figure they must all be in bed with a hangover (The Dutch soccer team won last night)
With nothing much more to do, we decide to fill in the crossword puzzle in the paper Eddie brought. When we were just about the fill in the last blanks with the word “sperrndesmfnng� witch we figured nobody would spot as a fake, the gates to heaven open up. It’s magic time! (or at least it’s 10:00 and the game should start about 11:00)
Lucky for me I have some spare time, I go ask the shopkeeper if he has any planar void to sell. I buy two and go ask the judge, Mister MoreFling himself, if it’s possible to change my decklist. ‘Sure, no prob’ he says and so I add 2 planar void making it a total of 4, removing 2 Grimclaw Bats.
Check out my decklist:
Main Deck:
3 Slith Bloodletter
4 Flesh Reaver
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Dark Ritual
4 Planar Void
2 Null Rod
2 The Rack
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Sinkhole
2 Night’s Whisper
1 Funeral Charm
1 Cabal Therapy
2 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Wrench Mind
12 Swamp
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
Sideboard:
2 Relic Bane
1 Disciple of the Vault
2 Emissary of Despair
1 Lose Hope
1 Echoing Decay
1 No Mercy
4 Chainer’s Edict
1 Innocent Blood
2 Terror
I won’t discuss my choices (I know you all want me to, but I get the feeling that everybody “dislikes� Black Suicide, so why should I bother)
Eventually the games begin:
Round 1 Me vs. Bram Verhees (DRAW 7)
Game 1.
I manage to drop a Flesh Reaver at witch point he got pain from City of Brass that took him to 18 already (I think)
I nible away both our lives with the Reaver; 16 for me 14 for him and try to sink his land. He FOW’s takes the pain for it drops to 13. On his turn chastises himself again with Brass and Vampiric Tutor, gets his stuff going and tendrils me down for 24 damage.
Game 2 Sided out, crucible, sided in Disciple of the Vault
Bram takes some pain from Brass again I manage to give him some life loss with The Rack and attacks from disciple of the vault. I also manage to put planar void down and a little help from null rod shuts him down. In a weak attempt to get going he Hurkyl's Recall’s me and tries to draw some yummy stuff witch he doesn’t, not even with necro on the table witch he uses to go down to 5 life. I drop my rack and null again, attack with a Hypnotic Specter and Disciple of the vault and the rack kills him in his next turn.
Game 3
Starts just like Game 2, Bram takes pain from Brass, I can drop a Slith Bloodletter to do some damage and get lucky again to drop both Null rod and Planar Void. Again he’s trying to disrupt the game yet I get lucky with the draw’s he’s making me do and am able to strip his glimmer void which he really needed at that time to get his tendrils working again. To late!
A little exited for winning game 1 I start dreaming of T8 with Black suicide, hope brings life! (Yet I knew I probably just got lucky)
Round 2 Me vs. Rudy Bloemberg (4c Control, could be some Keeper-build)
Game 1.
I start the beatdown with specter and bring my life back to 17 with a fetch and whisper. Rudy drops my life to 15 with a morph creature witch turns out to be an exalted angel as he turns it face up. Rudy takes over the beatdown and wins thanx to the life-gaining ability of the angel. (Bloody White Angel motherfuckers, wait till I bring out my sideboard.)
Game 2. I side out almost all my disruption except for hymn’s and sided in all the creature hate I got.
Rudy is already smiling, his teeth are showing…Since he FOW’s my first Chainer’s Edict. He beats me down to 4 life, going to 42 himself. Allas, I find some creature hate and destroy his angel (with planar void out by the way…) Rudy starts Fetching, eating up his library real fast going down to 37 life. I throw a Specter on the board and start putting some damage on the stack, keeping his hand empty as well. Rudy is not smiling anymore as he looks at his library, witch is shrinking very fast. Every angel he plays is getting terror, innocent blood or chainer on it. Finnaly he get’s out a flametongue Kavu killing my specter and draws a few cards. I terror his kavu, Twice, since he counters, but not even the second one is resolving. A grin on my face reveals my third card: Echoing Decay. Bye bye Kavu. Am I lucky or what? Black suicide gets to kill every creature he has. Rudy gives up with three cards remaining in his library, I think a Flametongue Kavu on the bottom, with no chance to shuffle it up a position to be able to attack with it…
The game took a while, so we have little time left for game 3.
Game 3
I go down to 19 from fetching, and back up to 21 thanks to STP from rudy on my specter. I am able to disrupt Rudy’s hand removing the angels from play with void. Rudy gets down a Flametongue kavu with counters in hand, I forget to regenerate my only slith on the board (with mana enough to do so) because I was too much thinking about needing 4 mana to terror the kavu twice. (Hey you have your turn as well to do so !!). Maybe this is my loss, since when I put my second Slith out time is called, with 5 rounds to go I really could have used my second slith. Allas, Time’s up, it’s a DRAW darnit!!
Round 3 Me vs. Tom Van De Loght (Tog)
Game 1
I fetch twice and whisper once and end up at 16 with nothing good on the board, while Tom already did a deep anal a fetch, took damage from his vault bringing him down to 13. Alas, his Tog hits the board, he wishes for a Berserk and I don’t even bother to wait for him to declare attack. I lose.
Game 2 I side in some creature hate.
I was thinking of putting something down here like: “I got a hand to let me first turn drop a bloodstained mire, a dark ritual, and a null rod, I took care of his tog’s and won� But it didn’t turn out that way at all. My first hand was without lands, I mull to 6, so does Tom. I’m able to cast a planar void, but that’s all I do during the entire game. Tom slowly takes me down, first per one life, then per two. When he drops my life total to 10 he could kill me discarding his hand to his Tog, but doesn’t. He thought I had an instant creature kill in hands and waited for him to drop his hand. Finally he duressed me when I’m at 4 to see that I’m only holding a dark ritual and another planar void. Again I lose, well, You can’t expect to win them all with Black Sui now can you?!
Round 4 Me vs. Gussenhoven Stefan (Draw 7)
I’d say look at round 1. Since it pretty much turn’s out the same way.
Game 1
I lose without even getting a chance to cast a thing.
Game 2 I side in disciple of the vault
I get a first turn, fetch a swamp, dark ritual twice, duress, Hymn, slith bloodletter. GO!
Nothing happens on the other side of the board Stefan is looking sad.
Next turn I whisper and attack with slith for 2 damage. Stefan shakes my hand, you win!
Thanks!!
Game 3
See game 2, only with a slight change, I only kick in a few turns later since Stefan manages to FOW some good start. On the other hand he takes damage form City of Brass up to 15 life when I cast a Slith Bloodletter and start attacking him dropping him to 8 before he concedes… maybe this time he’s right, since planar was out again…
Round 5 Me vs. Willy Smulders (Stompy)
Not much to say here, Willy takes me down game 1 and Game 2. I really hoped not to see any creature heavy decks. It was like a nightmare come true.
Round 6 Me vs. Wouter Dhondt (My Friend Eddie with Weldermud)
My life is on the line, If things go well I could manage to get a place like 9 or 10, if things go really well I could end 8, but if things go bad…
Game 1
I lose, since Eddie start beating me up with a metalworker and I have no answer to his threats… Not even when He’s casting a Karn. So I stop thinking and clear my board for
Game 2.
Game 2
I go first, this should be easy as testing results showed, whoever goes first should win.
Exactly what happens
Game 3
Eddie goes first, Eddie mull’s to a 5 hand, I’m holding two wastelands, two fetches and I seem to remember casting a planar void.
Eddie drops a nonbasic land, and casts mana vault, and trinisphere. I have to waste something, no? Yes his non-basic land is bye bye.
Eddie does nothing, except take damage from his vault.
I drop a swamp and pass the turn.
Eddie tries another non-basic land, am I lucky or what?! I waste the land and pass the turn. Eddie is slow on mana and I get used to the name-calling he throws at me. Nothing much is happening, so I just take him down with the greatest of ease…
I end up: 3-2-1 with 10 points… hmm not good enough.
Props:
- Fast rounds. Never waited to long before starting a game at a fresh table.
- MoreFling, for allowing me to put in the 2 planar void I just bought in the shop.
- The shopkeeper, for having 11 planar void in stock and selling me 2.
- Eddie, ending behind me, witch will cost him 2 Duvel’s, CHEERIO.
Slops:
- Eddie made me read the whole munchkin-expansion set, card by card (and he bought 2 set’s) just to make him forget how bad he did.
- The shopkeeper, for selling Munchkin!!
- Black Suicide ending up 11th Shame will overcome you EINDHOVEN !!!
I wonder:
What the hell was Carl Devos playing at the last tables ???
Sorry for names that are wrongly spelled!
sorry for the messy decklist didn't push preview to check it out. So don't be using table's you guys or this is what you get...
Double post merged, decklist fixed. Next time, use the edit button.
-Jacob
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