T8 from Faraos Cigarer / Copenhagen / Denmark 29-10-04

[Lashkar]

Heyas

Since nobody else bothered to post this, I figured that I might as well

T8, pictures and lots of text in danish (scroll down a bit): http://www.faraos.dk/magic/index.phtml?page=10&sub=3&news=263&PHPSESSID=a05178f10d1649e6acee8b11896ae76d

It was a great tournament, dominated by the forces from Jutland (yay!, the 4 people in our car were no. 1, 2, 3 and 4 after the swiss  ).

Highlights from the day included:
Hardcasting Akroma against joblins
Casting land, mox, oath into the opponent's Hidden Guerillas
Casting blessing on my opponents mindslaver the turn before getting infi-slavered
Getting utterly owned by Noer

[Anders Noer]

Highlight from the day:
Lava Darting my opponent to death in the finals    (this is the second time I've darted someone to the dome for the win) Unfortunately I lost in the finals due to a broken start in game 1 and Stax being able to put on the pressure in game 3...
Threats > Answers in a topdecking war.

report:
Finals game 1:
Opponent: Mox, Mox, Workshop, Trinisphere, go
Me: "DARN it!", Polluted Delta, go (with 2x Annul + Recall in hand)
Opponent: Crucible Of Worlds, Strip Mine, go
Me: "Meh!"   *reaches for side board*

MD Annul R OWN!!!!1!eleven!!

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EDIT:
This was a sanctioned (no proxies allowed) tournament, which explains some lack of power in one or two decklists. There were 49 contestants. The meta was reasonably powered.

Also - this is how the top 8 played out:

quarters:
Stax beats Drain Slaver (AK version)
5/3 beats TPS
Drain Slaver beats Oath
Chains Keeper beats Stax

semis:
Stax beats Chains Keeper
Drain Slaver beats 5/3

finals:
Stax beats Drain Slaver for the Mox Pearl prize.

EDIT: If a mod reads this, feel free to add "[Results]" to the topic and move this to the tournament forum.