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That's right. A year ago I told you all I was retiring from Magic after winning a Lotus at Waterbury with FCG. Well I'm back. I always come back *sigh* I can never get away. (Oh yeah, I'm really hyped from today's victory and can't fall sleep so I'm writing this at 2 am). I've decided to put down FCG and chose to pick Cerebral Assassin. This deck is NUTS.
I believe the time is perfect for Cerebral. Crucible/Waste recently has gone down in the past months while basics and duals have come. That means Cerebral can take advantage of this change in metagame. Oh yeah, being a huge 7/10 is really good against almost anything.
Mad props to everyone I played (minus that kid who everyone hated). I love playing type one because it's such a relaxed atmosphere and everyone is so much more mature and cool. That kid with landstill needs to go back to type two where he belongs. More specifically, mad props to teammates for their contribution of cards to help me build my deck. Jay Buda, Pete Florkoski, Micah Herman (Team Dubya): I have to thank you guys because if it weren't for them I would have been playing WU Fish. Also props to Eastman/Steve and the other guys he mentioned for designing this deck. It's the shit.
Decklist and some Explanations:
Mana (19):
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Seat of Synod
1 Tolarian Academy
8 So Lo Moxen Crypt (who would think I would play a deck with solomoxencrypt)
Draw (14) :
4 Bazaar
4 Squee
4 Thirst For Knowledge
2 Intuition
Threats (16) :
3 Sundering Titan
1 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Shivan Hellkite
2 Triskelion
4 Animate Dead
4 Force of Will
1 Possessed Portal
After today, was worth trading the playset of sinkholes for (4) :
4 Signed Goblin Welders (everyone has signed goblin welders)
Restricted for a Reason (7) :
Ancestral Recall
Mytsical Tutor
Yawgmoth's Will
Vampiric Tutor
Demonic Tutor
Tinker
Time Walk
Sideboard:
2 Platinum Angel
1 Necromancy
3 Dragon
3 REB
3 Ray of Revelation
3 Chalice
Other Candidates:
Balance
Comments:
(1) I was amazed at how pitchable force of will was. I was able to pitch it everytime I needed to except for that one game in top 8. Pitching is really difficult though. So is discarding when you have no squees and bazaar. People thought I was crazy when I was pitching stuff like Yawg Will and Welders.
(2) Nineteen mana... yet I didn't feel mana screwed in a majority of my games. Bazaar really helped me dig out of mana screw.
(3) The second Trike over Duplicant or Platinum in the main was pure ownage. Welders are everywhere and he rapes them good. The Oath matchup doesn't require duplicant and Platinum is honestly, useless. I don't even know why I have two in the side.
(4) With the rampant amount of welders, BEB's are commonly found in many sideboards now. Siding in dragon is not cool.
(5) Maindeck WGD and hellkite is AWESOME. Steals me many a game.
(6) Intuition is hotness. If there's a card that needs to be restricted. It's either Intuition and/or TFK because they are RIDONKULOUS!
Ok you're bored and you want my report now. But first I have to mention this.
(7) Ben Kowal has the SEXIEST HEAD OF HAIR. Yeah I said that during the car ride home and everyone dared me to write it in the report (No ben, I'm not really like that
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As usual, I had people sign cards whether I won or loss (ironically, I didn't lose today at all, cuz CA is that damn sexy). The card of the day was Fill with Fright.
My friends are playing:
Henry Bender - 2-4-0 - (his two wins are people who didn't show). I told him to play R/G Hate but he caved in to Team Dubya peer pressure and went with FCG.
Pete Florkoski - 1-2-0 Drop - Planned to play Cerebral Assassin but last minuted went with Oath.
Jay Buda - 1-2-0 Drop - Forceless Cerebral Assassin. No disruption in their place.
Micah Herman - Top 8 Loss in first round - UB Vial Fish. Damn right. Negator is one real big fish.
OK REPORT TIME:
Round 1: Hale Simon, Mirror
I have little experience with the deck and he has 2 hours of sleep that day.
G1: I make some minor play mistakes which he lets me take back (because type 1 is the best friendliest relaxed environment, i'll never play type 2). I animate dragon with force backup and he scoops before he realizes that my only red producing land was a city of brass.
G2: Slow game with neither of us doing much. He has bazaar with no squees while I have nothing. At one point I can win by animating dragon but I'm worried because he has BEB'd my earlier welder (he tells me later he had nothing) so I grab Trike instead. Eventually he gets to intuition for 3 squees and the game takes longer but I win in the end somehow.
SB: -3 Titan, +1 necro, +2 platz (dunno why)
I probably should have kept in titan to block against his or sided in the dragon combo. He's not playing the dragon combo in his build. I think more necromancy's in the side would be good and platz really shouldn't belong there.
Round 2: Travis with Staff Domination
G1: My titan successfully races his juggernaught after he loses his staff because of welder. I'm at 1 while he's at 6. Titan swings for the win as I weld in another one to block just in case. The only other target in his yard is his own staff, and I don't want to give him that while he has Tolarian and alot of Moxen.
G2: I begin to go off with dragon when he BEB's. I scoop even with force in hand because I can't pitch it. After I die people tell me that I can play force for 3UU (i had 6U and 6R in my pool) and I had more options. Oh well, I'm a noob to dragon based decks lol.
G3: He goes swamp, vault, metalworker which I force. Titan and Trike soon join the game and Travis struggles with his mana.
SB: Was the 3 REB's. These are hot. I need 4 next time. They can counter everything that the other player will play to trop dragon, except Swords but no one plays that.
Round 3: Eastman with CA
Here he is. The designer of the deck himself. I entered this game shaking and nervous, heart pounding.
G1: Second turn titan starts pounding. He is joined by a second and third titan soon.
G2: He draws the game because I'm stupid and didn't weld in the portal.
G3: He wins with Dragon combo.
G4: Opening hand of something like Dragon, Bazaar, Red Mox, Wrong Mox, Animate. I drop the bazaar and moxes. Next card I draw is the right mox, the black one. Second turn I go off.
SB: I side out my dragons. Whenever both players are playing bazaars and dragons, I learned that it's best to keep dragon in your hand until you're ready to go off or they'll do it. At times I had to pitch good cards because I didn't want the dragon in my yard.
Round 4: Nate with Landstill
Now, I'm usually a good person. Mistakes or whatever I let people take it back, as type 1 players usually do. I praise Hale Simon and other people today who let little mistakes slip because type 1 should be about fun not rules lawyering. Anyway, last round when I was playing Eastman he counted Ben's deck and Ben got a game loss because he was short 3 cards. I would've just said whatever and let Ben fix his deck. Cmon. Why would he cheat? It's Ben! He's got sexy man hair! Anyway, the kid wants to count my deck (probably looking for another free win) so I count his. It turns out his deck has the wrong numbers in it too.
Me: How many cards you play in this?
Him: 61.
Me: I count 62.
Him: Oh yeah I added a library.
Judge comes over with regsitration sheets.
Judge: Says here 61.
Him: Oh yeah! Definately 61.
He also talks alot, ALOT, of trash.
Him: We should ID because my deck is going to totally rape you. I have a good matchup against you.
Yeah... he should go back to type 2 or learn the demeanor of a type 1 player.
G1: Stuff happens and I dragon.
G2: Long game with many mistakes from both sides. He get's an early chalice for 2 which is perfectly fine because my only 2cc spell is animate dead. He tries to Fire my man and I yell counter. Later on I timewalk but he doesn't stop me. Honestly, I completely forgot about the chalice. It was his job to stop me anyway. He tries to stall because he thinks that if we draw, we get a draw. Everyone informs him that if we draw this game I still get the win. He stops asking stupid questions like "So this proxy mox jet taps for black mana?" and begins to play faster. Earlier, he had crypted my yard but I managed to get trike on board. He drops a disk and I don't weld it out for his crypt because I had completely forgotten. After the disk goes, I drop a Titan and it's over. I have approximately 4 cards left in my library and had to pitch ancestral to force earlier.
SB: Pretending to side in the dragon combo is really funny. All I side in are 3 REB's, wish I had 4.
R5 - Micah Herman who is also 4-0 with UB Fish. We ID.
R6 - Steve - we ID and I play him first thing in the top 8
Top 8
Kyle with Gifts Unforgiven
G1: I had a near perfect hand. At the end of his turn I vamp tutor for bazaar. I'll have enough to dump dragon and animate it with force backup. I proceed to do so. I try to animate, he forces pitching time walk, I force back, and he forces again pitching ancestral recall. Ouch. We bot have nothing but I am a topdecking fiend, probably because of squee/bazaar.
G2: He Engineered Explosives for 1 and I play welder which is dumb but he chooses to drain it so on his turn he can drop trike. On my turn he is tapped out. I DT for yawgwill and it resolves. I hardcast Portal from the yard with 4 squees in the yard and titan on table. It's over.
SB: Again... REB's.
Steve
Guy who I played last year at waterbury for the lotus. He's out for vengeance, but I must admit, his calmness and serenity had me real nervous.
G1: The sickest opening I've ever gotten. Tolarian, Mox, Crypt, Recall into Tinker for Titan. A few turns later I DT and debate. Black lotus to hardcast Titan or time walk to swing with titan? He has a swarm to chump a turn. I choose time walk and also bazaar. I bazaar into animate to get a 2nd titan and I time walk. Not good for steve.
G2: I think I have the win when I animate Steve's Dragon because I weld out my crypt for my Trike. He stifles and I force. He stifles again and I show him a force but no blue spell. I thought I would at least have a 7/7 dragon to beat down with, but that's not how it works so he wins next turn.
G3: He has tropical and mox emerald when I get portal lock on him on just the second turn. He has 2 squees in hand, but I have 4 and a welder to beat with.
SB: This was was alot tougher and I ended up only siding in the necromancy.
Cory
This was also someone whom I played at the waterbury when I won a lotus. He was playing Tog and misplayed when I played goblins to bait his counter so I could drop Tormod's Crypt. We ended up drawing so he's also out for vengeance. Just great.
G1: Loooooooooooooong game. He can never get pentavus for the slaver lock but he's nuked my deck so badly with the few slavers that he activated. In the end he swings with 4 welders and lava darts me. He takes 15 damage all on his own.
G2: Portal Lock followed by Titan.
G3: Yawgmoth's Will NEEDS TO BE BANNED. This game was so intense. Let's just say I time walk two times in a row with huge fat one the table.
SB: REB's kill the draw engine and then Control Slaver cries while I Bazaar/Squee. The new Skel Scry is tech though. Who came up with that, The Atog Lord?
Conclusion Statements with random bursts of excitement:
OMG. Today was a BLAST. This was some of the most fun I've had in a LONG while. I'm definately coming back to magic haha. Everyone game was awesome, I love type 1 and the players that make up the community. Praise to people that I've played today.
I get to take home a beat up mox jet, but it's all good cuz now I can play in ten proxy tournaments without borrowing power now. I don't think I left anything out. I'll be sure to do some EDITing if I did. I'm real tired and sleepy.
So any comments/questions?
Edit: Added side boarding stuff.
