QND Tourney Report, this is pretty hazy, so if anyone wants to add details, feel free.
RD1 - Salvagers Slapjack 2K6, kind of like the Canuck kind (Austin)
Game 1: I go off turn 3 w/ Bargain and fuck up by going down to 1 life which turns off CoB. Sad face. I was too narrow minded in looking for Yawg's Will, I should've instead just tapped out and went down to 1 off city of brass and cast Mind's Desire for 8. Instead I pass the turn and die to trinket mage and guildmage beatings.
Game 2: Something somthing make homer cast will.
Game 3: Fighting through some counters and a Crypt on the other side, I stall out and just keep praying I hit something off Dark Confidant draws. He keeps looking for Salvagers to combo off. The turn before he would go off, I find Timetwister. Down comes TT, up comes Tutor into Tendrils. Kick to nuts FTW!
Round 2 - CS (Sean)
Game 1: I duress him and take his only relevant card. I combo out on turn 3 with tutors + Will.
Game 2: Down comes Tormod's Crypt backed by counters. Meanwhile I set-up a turn 3 Desire for 6-7 off a Imperial Seal -> Lotus and a few random moxen in hand. I end up hitting like 4 mana sources, grim tutor, bob and brainstorm. I'm one short of Tendrils mana (Storm already @ 10) for the game winner, so I just set-up a win next turn. He draws nothing relevant, I do a fun tutor chain, cast Hurkyll's to build up enough storm and cast Tendrils for 20.
Round 3 - Gifts (Eirik)
Game 1: He mulls to 6 and I play turn 1 Bob. He burning Wishes for a Duress and sees that my hand is basically all buisness and takes Bargain. I soon overwhelm his remaining counterwall (Like 1 FoW. Woo), Cast Timetwister and resolve Grim Tutor into Yawg's Will. Pain ensues.
Game 2: He mulls to 6 and passes the turn. Ouch. I play turn 1 Duress and Bob off ritual. He draws land and gets his own bob out. I keep beating down to press my temporary mana and card advantage. I drop a second bob a few turns later. I end up forcing through Will eventually and win the prize.
Round 4 - Gilded Claw (Jeff, Lotushead)
We I.D. - we play a few games for kicks. I win game 1 after getting capped for Tendrils and two of my bobs (I figurerd I lost, I was playing for fun) through a series of tutors for the final bob, Time walk, then drawing chain of vapor and H. Recall.
The last turn, which was sort of funny, went something like this.
Jeff: Yay, finally hit 4 mana! Juggernaut! Go.
Me: EOT, chain of vapor one of my two confidants (We're both at two life)
Me: Upkeep, Brainstorm, put land on top. Main phase cast H. Recall targeting you, swing for the win!
Games 2 & 3 he smashes me with Chalice + Wasteland + Trinisphere beatings. Some combination of the two anyway.
Round 5 I.D.
Top 8: Oath (Andy)
Game 1: Out comes turn 1 Bob and I then resolve a turn 2 Tinker into Memory Jar. Turn 3 comes and I cast dubs ritual, sac jar and that's all she wrote.
Game 2: I play two bobs within the first two turns and attempt to beatdown. After getting him to eight, he resolves Oath, Crypt and Bob damage is slowly killing me. I swing and knock him down to 8 and bounce his Oath w/ CoV. My hand is full of good stuff that'll let me combo out as soon as Andy replays Oath.
He instead plays Arcane Lab and passes the turn. I fall to 6 from more bob pain and knock Andy down to 4. I tutor for H. Recall in an attempt to bounce my own Crypt, since I have a bunch of high cost spells in hand so Brainstorm doesn't look as attractive. He counters H. Recall though. So on the last turn, I lose the Crypt roll, drop to 3 and reveal...
Lotus Petal
Duress
Neat. Swing for 4, win.
For note, I did beat Austin and Erirk in the swiss.
Though yeah, other than the demolishing game 1, I got fucking kolded in the rematch.
My Top 4 match went something like this.
Game 1: Pissed off that I couldn't get a 4 way split (heh, thx for nothing d00ds) and actually make it to work on time, I channel my frustration and anger into my deck. As a result.. .it gives me something retarded like Gemstone Mine, Ritual, Lotus, Mox, Bargain, Dark Confidant and Brainstorm. I ended up casting Dark Confidant and Time Walk. Next turn I end up casting Bargain, throw down like 10 cards, cast Yawg's Will and then Tendrils with like 15-16 storm (I could've gone up higher, but I wanted to end the game sometime this year).
Game 2 was ouch for me. I keep a questionable hand which really wasn't great other than Bobs. Then Austin was like, ;hi, i play chalice and meddling mage. your deck doesn't like those cards. kthxdie'.
Game 3 was actually intresting, I played turn 1 Xantid Swarm, turn 2 Tinker -> DSC, turn 3 swing for 11.
Sadly for me Austin played Trinket Mage off Island, Ancient Tomb and grabbed Aether Spellbomb. The turn I swung for 11, I was hoping I'd draw into any mana source to allow me to Grim Tutor for and cast Duress (I had a land and mox out w/ cabal ritual in hand), Duress or Time Walk also would've been winnars. Sadly I can't draw a mana source or one of said broken cards and DSC goes bye bye. There goes my gambit.I lose shortly after, since I can't set anything up with two near depleted Gemstone Mine.
So close and yet so far. I'll edit in a full QnD report later.
Props:
Austin, for being the only one to take a game from me the entire tourney and then winning the thing. Congrats!
Albert (Pyromasta) for loaning me literally the entire deck
Bob, he's soooo good in Grim decks.
Shane, for playing out his last 3 matches and ending up 3-2.
Pat Lam, for letting the Jeremy make it in.
Jeff, for being awesome and taking pics of everything.
Pro Stars for running a smooth tourney
Slops:
Me for making a terrible mistake in the first game of the damn tourney.
Not being able to make a T4 split. Whatever, way to make us lose cash. ;P
Salvagers, who runs Trinket Mage, Chalice AND Meddling Mage?!? (Ok so I'm still peeved by that. ;P )
