TMD Ringer Tournament III - Ringers vs. Community Top 4

[Prospero]

Pairings have been performed!

Here's the bracket:



If you are playing in the event, please reach out to your opponent via PM to schedule your round for this week.

Please use THIS THREAD to publish your decklists and announce the date/time of your match.

Thank you, and best of luck to all the participants!

[Stormanimagus]

Woah, I was unaware that my my finishing in the top 4 after the single-elim qualified me for the ringer part of things. Cool! So now that I am apparently back in the mix, what are the restrictions on deck choice? Are we supposed to use the same deck as we did in the single elim tourney or can we try something new?

-Storm

[Prospero]

Woah, I was unaware that my my finishing in the top 4 after the single-elim qualified me for the ringer part of things. Cool! So now that I am apparently back in the mix, what are the restrictions on deck choice? Are we supposed to use the same deck as we did in the single elim tourney or can we try something new?

-Storm

You're welcome to play a fresh build; you can play whatever you want, so long as it's legal.

Avacyn Restored, obviously, is not legal for this event.

After the first round you will be required to publish your decklist in this thread.

[Stormanimagus]

Woah, I was unaware that my my finishing in the top 4 after the single-elim qualified me for the ringer part of things. Cool! So now that I am apparently back in the mix, what are the restrictions on deck choice? Are we supposed to use the same deck as we did in the single elim tourney or can we try something new?

-Storm

You're welcome to play a fresh build; you can play whatever you want, so long as it's legal.

Avacyn Restored, obviously, is not legal for this event.

After the first round you will be required to publish your decklist in this thread.

Oki doke. Thanks!

[A.-1.]

I lost to Rich 2-0. Thanks for the games and advice!

5CC
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tinker
1 Myr Battlesphere
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Goblin Welder
1 Trygon Predator
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Mental Misstep
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Balance
1 Mana Drain
1 Brainstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Fire // Ice

1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
3 City of Brass
1 Tropical Island

SB: 1 Ray of Revelation
SB: 3 Ingot Chewer
SB: 2 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 4 Leyline of the Void
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 1 Nihil Spellbomb
SB: 1 Mindbreak Trap

[Shock Wave]

I got there in 2 games vs A-1. The matchup was UR Landstill vs 5c Keeper. Here is my list:

1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Factory
2 Faerie Conclave
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Island
4 Volcanic Island
2 Flooded Strand
1 Gorilla Shaman
3 Null Rod
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Spell Pierce
4 Mana Drain
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Brainstorm
4 Standstill
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Lava Dart
4 Force of Will
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Mental Misstep
2 Misdirection

SB: 2 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 4 Ingot Chewer
SB: 4 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 2 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 3 Lightning Bolt

This is an atypical Landstill list by my standards, but I've been testing it since these events are free. Brainstorm has been pretty awful, but I am running it until I feel I have given it a decent enough chance to prove its worth in this archetype. Mystical Tutor has been pretty awful as well, but with only 1 Chain and 1 Dart, I need a reliable way to find them.

G1: This was a great game. I have the following 7 on the draw: FoW, Misd, Drain, Spell Pierce, Lava Dart, Null Rod, Wasteland. I keep. He leads with a City of Brass and passes. I draw another Misd. I play Wasteland and pass. He plays Wasteland and casts Merchant Scroll. I let it resolve and anticipate my opponent to just lose the game outright on his next turn. I draw a Scalding Tarn, play it, and pass. To my surprise, my opponent does not cast his Ancestral on his next turn, and instead plays a land and passes. I draw another Rod and am forced to discard the Lava Dart. He taps out on his next turn for Crucible, which I Spell Pierce. He is still sitting on the Ancestral. I draw and Island, play it and pass. He plays land-go. Eventually, he casts Mystical at my EOT for Tinker, then goes for it on his turn. In the end, I have to spend all my permission to stop his Tinker, and he resolves his Ancestral afterwards, but can do nothing and passes the turn. I untap and cast Null Rod and Standstill with the Drain mana from Tinker. He builds up some resources but then breaks my Standstill with a Jace, and punches it through my Drain with a FoW. Unfortunately, through all his CoB, Misstep, fetch, and FoW damage, his life has gotten precariously low. After he passes, I cast Ancestral with Misstep backup, but he has Misstep and FoW, taking him down to 2 life. I play a Faerie Conclave and pass. He casts a Sower on his turn to survive the conclave, but his CoB takes him to 1 life, and I flashback my Lava Dart to kill him.

G2: I bring in REBs and board out Mystical and Lava Dart. This is a little anti-climactic. He mulls to 5, and I have a Waste/Waste/Strip/Null Rod/FoW type of hand. The game goes on many turns but there never really is a window of opportunity for my opponent to get back into the game.

Good match!

[brokenbacon]

Mark and I are playing tonight 10 PM EST. Watch me get destroyed playing a deck I don't understand!

[A.-1.]

G1: This was a great game. I have the following 7 on the draw: FoW, Misd, Drain, Spell Pierce, Lava Dart, Null Rod, Wasteland. I keep. He leads with a City of Brass and passes. I draw another Misd. I play Wasteland and pass. He plays Wasteland and casts Merchant Scroll. I let it resolve and anticipate my opponent to just lose the game outright on his next turn. I draw a Scalding Tarn, play it, and pass. To my surprise, my opponent does not cast his Ancestral on his next turn, and instead plays a land and passes. I draw another Rod and am forced to discard the Lava Dart. He taps out on his next turn for Crucible, which I Spell Pierce. He is still sitting on the Ancestral.

Aww come on. Give me a little credit  . I made the changes you recommended, adding a Gorilla Shaman and swapping out two CoB for two more fetches.

[Shock Wave]

Aww come on. Give me a little credit  . I made the changes you recommended, adding a Gorilla Shaman and swapping out two CoB for two more fetches.

I was giving you credit  . You played that sequence quite well. Most players would have played that Ancestral at the wrong time.

[Womba]

So I just beat brokenbacon 2-1




Below is the list I ran. All I wanted to do was just jam with four Jace, the Mind Sculptor in a fish to top the curve. I never really had a problem with lands or casting Jace. I also wanted to jam Oozes to help win against other Goyfs and because I felt it was just a great utility card against Snapcaster, Will, and obviously Dredge. Which is why I included the Cages to have some sort of game against Dredge and something for Tinker. Despite its merit I just never really liked Null Rod and Stony Silence so thats where I decided to just jam four Jace....

Geist got jammed in there because he is one of my favorite cards in Standard and I felt he could do some damage....

Deck Name:
So Jace, Ooze, and Geist walk into a bar......

4 Noble Hierarch
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Tarmogoyf
4 Trygon Predator
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
4 Force of Will
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Scavenging Ooze
3 Mental Misstep
1 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Path to Exile
SB: 1 Dismember
SB: 1 Tarmogoyf
SB: 1 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 2 Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Qasali Pridemage
SB: 4 Steel Sabotage
SB: 3 Ravenous Trap
 

Game One: Bacon was on the play and lead with a blue dual land into a preordain. I then proceeded to Wasteland into a Mox Emerald into a Grafdigger's Cage. The following turn I tried to jam an Ooze which was countered. This allowed Bacon to resolve his Goyf and begin the beats. I was able to resolve a Goyf of and then we began trading blows. Bacon set up with a Lightning Bolt on my Goyf and offered a Snapcaster to complete the trade to leave his loan Goyf on board serving a plate of kick ass.

I hit my fourth mana source and Jace comes down. I was able to out tempo his loan Goyf as I still had a few guys in hand to turn the heat up. 


Game Two: I get ran over pretty throughly here on the draw. My mulligan to six was meh with just some Wastelands, a Goyf, and Trygon essentially. He has turn two Clique off his Mox Sapphire and Sol Ring after I turn one Wasteland. He is then able to keep it in high gear with a Goyf as well as countering mine.


Game Three: Goes pretty lopsided as well.  He has to mulligan to six and my opener has Recall. He has a Misstep for my Hierarch the turn after I Recall. I slam down a turn three Jace and pretty much ride it to victory. Friends soon showed up to help finish him off as I continuously fatesealed him.


 

[brokenbacon]

As Mark stated, he beat me 2-1. Very good games all around, and it's always a pleasure playing a goddamned champion.
G3 was definitely a blowout, I mull to 6 and keep an iffy hand of double Snapcaster and 4 land - his turn one A Call puts him pretty far ahead, and I draw Misstep next turn because I'm that good. By the end of the game I had no chance whatsoever as he had a Goyf and a Jace in play with another Goyf, Force, another Jace, and a Path to Exile in hand.
Very well played Mark, and best of luck!!

4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Vendilion Clique
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Preordain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
2 Flusterstorm
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Echoing Truth
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Island
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
2 Mishra's Factory
1 Time Walk
SB: 4 Surgical Extraction
SB: 3 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 3 Nature's Claim
SB: 1 Forest
SB: 2 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Dismember

[The Atog Lord]

Guli defeated me in three good games.

I played the following:

Drain Tendrils

4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Thoughtseize
1 Flusterstorm
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Mind's Desire
2 Empty the Warrens
1 Tendrils of Agony
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Repeal
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Cabal Ritual
1 Dark Ritual
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
4 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Swamp
2 Island
2 Volcanic Island
4 Underground Sea
2 Mental Misstep
1 Pyroclasm

SB: 3 Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 2 Ingot Chewer
SB: 2 Dismember
SB: 1 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 4 Leyline of the Void
SB: 2 Pyroclasm


Vs Guli

Game 1: I mull a hand with counters but nothing to do, and keep Island, Swamp, 2 Force, Preordain, and Flusterstorm. I play Island and pass. Guli Strip Mines it. I draw and play Volcanic and play it and Preordain. Vamp and Sol Ring. I want both. Wastelanded. I play Swamp next turn, followed by Sol Ring, holding the Vamp in hand. I Force Bob next turn, and then play Delta. So, my board is Swamp, Sol Ring and Fechland; my hand is Force and Vampiric Tutor. Guli has lands and resolves his second Bob. What do I Vamp for here, if anything? I get Ancetral, since I can't cast anything else. Sure wish I had the second Blue for Jace. I draw into Tendrils, Jace, and Force. Unfortunate. Pass. Guli fetches up a Savannah, and gets a Kataki off Bob. I Force Guli's Ooze, and his Kataki arrives. I draw Green Mox and pass. Mr Teeg arrives and my hand looks even worse. I draw a fetchland. I pass, knowing that Pyroclasm is my only out now. Guli hits me down to 3 life. Pridemage arrives. I draw another uncastable Jace and that's game!

Game 2: Opening Hand: Bargain, Academy, Pyroclasm, Drain, Hurkyl's, Petal, Volcanic Island. Mull into Island, brainstorm, Preordain, Sol Ring, Academy, Demonic, Preordain. Preordain seeing Bargain and Walk. I decide to keep them both, thinking that a Black source lets me get Lotus into Bargain. Guli has a first-turn Teeg. Sol Ring and Time Walk for me, followed by Brainstorm which provides 2 Jace and a Jet. Jace and Bargain on top. Scroll up an Ancestral. Again, I need Red and Pyroclasm to be in this game. I Demonic for Lotus into Pyroclasm over the course of a couple of turns and resolves Jace. Brainstorm immediately. I Force his Ooze. Hierarch is his last card. Yawgmoth's Will arrives for me next.Desire for 8. I end it with Time Walk and 46 new Goblin friends.

Game 3: I keep Fetchland, Thoughtseize, Ritual, Drain, Volcanic, Force, and Preordain. Guli has first-turn Thalia, whom I Force pitching Drain. Basic Swamp into Thoughtseize, which is hit by Mental Misstep. Stony Silence arrives for Guli, a card that would have defeated me last game. Hierarch too. I draw Merchant Scroll, meaning I have Volcanic and Swamp, with Ritual, Preordain, Demonic, and Scroll in hand to Guli's one card. Scroll for Ancestral and pass. Guli has no more threats.Since Guli played nothing and has two cards, I'm thinking he has another Mental Misstep but run my Ancestral out anyway. It resolves. Ritual and Necro follow. I play Jet, putting myself at 17 life and 4 cards. I put aside five cards. However, I still hit no land in those five, and Ooze arrives. I Ponder, hoping to hit land. Land! I use the last of my mana to cast Demonic Tutor and find a Ritual. I Necro for two and pass. Guli, sadly, has Thalia, which is the last card I want to see from here. I can't counter her. I get attacked to six and have only a single turn left. My only play is to Repeal the Ooze to buy a turn. But Thalia is a nightmare, and I survive Guli's turn at one life. I didn't draw any Land off my last-turn's Necro'ing, so I can't play the Empty in my hand. My only out is to Brainstorm into the Academy, which I fail to do and die.

Nicely done, Guli! As for the deck I played, I am unlikely to play it again any time soon. At the end, Guli flashes me the Echoing Decay, so even if I'd gotten to cast Empty, it wouldn't have mattered.

[Guli]

Really nice games there. It is a shame Stormanimagus didn't record them. He wanted to but I could not give him an exact date and hour. Anyway, Rich pretty much explained what happened. I do think I had some luck in game 3 when I top decked Thalia. But yea, that is why we play all the hate! In my opinion it was Ooze who took it but Rich is right when he says Thalia sealed the game. Ooze though is an excellent card versus Pyroclasm and a late Y will setup. Also I did prevent him getting   out of Cabal Ritual thanks to Ooze in game 3!

In game 2, I could have kept Dark Confidant in my hand. I was pretty sure a board sweeper was coming. But I did NOT expect Pyroclasm. I thought Massacre, Ruin or Perish. I designed the deck to 'play around' those cards by having Bob in the deck, it is perfect versus the Perish, Ruin cards. And well Teeg shuts down Massacre by itself. So Pyroclasm was really good tech, though I have an out vs that too, see Ooze.

I am really satisfied with this deck. The sideboading needs more work though. I have an online friend that will take this to a big event, let's hope it gets a top 8 there and well I ll do my best to win this online tourney. I already spoiled my list, yea I am pretty confident about it, in the GWb Beatdown thread.

GWb Beats 2012

4 Gaddock Teeg
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Aven Mindcensor
4 Dark Confidant

4 Noble Hierarch
4 Qasali Pridemage

3 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Scavenging Ooze
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Life from the Loam
1 Vampiric Tutor

4 Mental Misstep
3 Swords to Plowshares

1 Forest
1 Plains
3 Savannah
4 Windswept Heath
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
2 Bayou
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Verdant Catacombs

SB: 4 Nature's Claim
SB: 1 Scavenging Ooze
SB: 3 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 3 Stony Silence
SB: 2 Thrun, the Last Troll
SB: 1 Extirpate
SB: 1 Echoing Decay

The list has 2 Cavern of Souls maindeck now instead of 1 Bayou and 1 Savannah. However, sadly, we can't play Cavern of Souls yet in this event.

[Guli]

Womba when can you play versus me? I think we are up! Storm would like to record/comment maybe, would be cool to get these matches on video.

[Prospero]

Thank you all for keeping this tournament moving.

One more match (Stormanimagus vs. Grand Inquisitor) and we're ready to move onto the semi-finals!

[Grand Inquisitor]

2-0 vs Storm on some good beats and some bad beats.

D3DC - Draw 3, Dream Crush

4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Echoing Truth
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Flusterstorm
1 Nihil Spellbomb

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will

4 Accumulated Knowledge
3 Intuition
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Preordain

1 Trygon Predator
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tendrils of Agony

2 Underground Sea
2 Island
1 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Flooded Strand
2 Tundra
2 Tropical Island
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring

SB: 4 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 2 Trygon Predator
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 1 Batterskull
SB: 3 Stoneforge Mystic
SB: 1 Plains

[Prospero]

Thanks for the report!

We're on to the top four of this event, and only one member of the Community still survives.  Can Guli take it home? 

Guys, please reach out to your opponents and schedule your matches! 

[Shock Wave]

... just got there in 3 epic games against GI. It was one of the better matches I can recall. Here is what I remember:

G1: I remember several big counter battles in this one. At some point in the match, I get LOA online and I become confident that I will pull ahead and win. I am probably an 80-20 favourite to win at this stage, but I obviously misplay and lose the game. I have several FoW and a Drain in hand, and he starts doing quirky things like bouncing his Snapcaster with Chain. I lost my focus here and assumed that he needed to recur an important spell, but instead he was just upping his Storm count. By the time I realize what is going on, it is too late. I have 3 counters to stop his 8 Tendrils on the stack, and I am at 12 life. Unfortunately, if I counter all 3, that brings my life total to 10, and then 5 copies will resolve to kill me. This was a very well engineered kill by GI, as he made his plays look as innocuous as possible, when in fact they were all very important. Well done.

G2: -Dart, CoV, Mystical, Factory. +REBs, 2xCage . I forget what happens in this game, except I remember my plan being to play around Flusterstorm as much as possible. I am not sure how he is going to board, so I play very conservatively. In the critical turns of the match, I am beating him down with a factory, and he goes for a Stoneforge Mystic with an Island up. I Ancestral in response, and he Flusterstorms my Ancestral, so I FoW his Stoneforge Mystic. FoW resolves and my Factory gets there.

G3: -2xCage,-Shaman, +3 Bolt. I have: Lotus, Rod, Brainstorm, Fetch, Drain, Factory, LoA. He snap keeps. I figure that if he opens with a Stoneforge, I am going to be in trouble since I will have to dump all my resources to keep it at bay, and won't be able to get LoA online. If he has Misstep for my Brainstorm, I may lose the game outright. Ultimately, I reason that this hand is too good to send back, even if he has a quick Stoneforge. He leads with Tundra->Jet->StoneForge   . I play Lotus, and luckily it resolves. I figure that I will Brainstorm first and hope to get a Bolt, but I don't get one. In fact, I drew 2 useless lands and a Standstill. I put the lands back, but unfortunately, I can't fetch them away because I desperately need to strip his Tundra. I resolve Rod, Strip the Tundra, and pass. He plays a Academy->Sol Ring and swings. I play LoA (not sure if this was correct) and pass. He plays AK for one and I am sure it is over, but he doesn't find a W source. He passes back and LoA is online. He goes for AK for 2 and I REB. He FOWs. I think about this and decide I have to FoW back, even if it means LoA is offline. I can't risk him drawing into that W source. He draws and passes. I have nothing in hand except a Standstill, a Conclave, and 2 lands. With a Factory and Rod on board, and a Conclave in hand, I reason that I can try to race, and if he finds his W source, I can trade and hopefully draw a Wasteland to keep the Batterskull from recurring. I play Standstill and Conclave and hope for the best. He draws and passes. I swing with Factory. He draws, and in a surprising play, casts Jace. I draw FoW/ancestral/Wasteland, but I don't want to FoW since my LoA is online now, and I need an answer to the Mystic. I let it resolves and he draws three, then goes down to 3 cards. At this point, I have to conclude that he found his W source. He ships back and I draw 2 cards on my turn, one of which is a Drain to protect my Ancestral. I go to 2ndMain and play AR, he FoWs and I Drain. AR gives me Jace/Bolt/Mox. I play the Mox and pass back. He Jacestorms on his turn and plays a fetchland, so Stoneforge is now online. He passed back. I crack a fetch on my turn, draw from LoA, and Bolt him. He taps out for FoW. Now, I FoW back, since he has no mana for Flusterstorm. His Jace dies, and he now has no mana to activate Mystic. I resolve Jace and bounce his Mystic. He replays it on his turn and grabs Batterskull. I bounce the Mystic on my turn and swing for 4, and play another Conclave. He replays the Mystic again. I Waste his Academy on my turn instead of his W source (this was an agonizing decision), he tries Intuition in response, which I Spell Pierce. I swing him down to 7, and then think about my Jace play. I choose to sacrifice the Jace and bounce the Mystic a last time. He replays it and I play another land, allowing me to swing for 6, bringing him to one. At this stage, the StoneForge activation is useless, since I can fly over for lethal damage. He Scrolls for Ancestral, which I have the Misstep for, and that's the game.


Great match Steve, one of the better ones I've had. Three really tense, interactive games!

[Guli]

I am waiting for Womba*. We suppose to play today.

[Guli]

I think Womba is too busy to play this event. Sad, I would have loved to play the match. But if you don't respond or come on-line or attempt to meet, then it becomes impossible to play.

[Guli]

After waiting 2 weeks Womba shows up and top decks like a champ (again).

Both games were won by Womba. But both games were mine to finish off.

Game 1: Turn 1 bob and wasteland. Bob makes a massive amount of card advantage. I see 2 stp. He has basically very limited chances left and it involves me seeing no lands with an active bob. And this somehow happens. I see only 1 fetchland and mox jet. I have a hand full of threats (teeg, thalia, pridemage ....) but can't cast them. Before I see my second land, he lays down a Jace with 2 lands and 2 Noble. All I have is the single Bob still with Savannah and Jet. He bounces my Bob and I recast it (still no land, if I draw land I cast noble alongside bob). He has no cards nothing. For some reason I still don't draw lands, he bounces again and lays down some threat (goyf or ooze don't remember) and then brainstorms and lays down tarm and geist. He has ZERO cards in hand. Talk about a land screw djeez. I keep my head cool and proceed to game 2...

Game 2: I have a hand of Bayou, Savannah, 3 Bob, Noble and Teeg. I keep and drop noble with savannah. He drops lotus, 2 noble, tarm with tundra. Nice opener. Then the same thing happens, I see no lands. But I do have noble and 2 nonbasics. So I should be ok? I cast Bob and pass the turn. He swings and strip the Bayou. (wrong play btw, but I guess he smelled my 2 other bob in my hand...) Fair enough, he cuts me off a mana source. I saw a noble and have to decide between noble and Gaddock. I choose for Noble and swing for 4. I want to build up some mana. I also have an Ooze in hand so I don't really fear the tarm and loss of life that much. Oh meanwhile, he dropped another tarm which got nailed by stp. So I am feeling pretty ok here. But what happens? He has 2 cards in hand, 4 mana untapped. I want to play Gaddock Teeg IN CASE he has Force. But I think it over and feel like it is not very likely he is holding FoW and a Blue card, I think he is bluffing at this point. Oh and I didn't draw a land (again wtf?) so I can't cast Teeg and Ooze in one go. I put Ooze on the stack and he fucking reveals a force and pitches some random blue card ... Then I pass the turn because it still is looking okey for me. He has ZERO cards (topdeck mode) I have a hand full of threats still and a bob. Life total above 10. It is not ideal but it is fine. He topdecks Ooze, like a champ, I know he has 2 Ooze in his list post board and he sees it. The Ooze and Tarm finish me off and send me back home.

Good games man!

Great tourney, thanks all.

Guli

[Womba]

I apologize for it taking so long to play our match. My work schedule paired with the time difference and some serious family and personal issues have made my life a bit complex at the moment.

He swings and strip the Bayou. (wrong play btw, but I guess he smelled my 2 other bob in my hand...)

How is that even close to the wrong play? If I take Savannah you still have Noble Hierarch for G and W so why wouldn't I just want to cut you off from black.

The reason I didn't feel like chatting during all match was because it felt like you were complaining the entire time. You did enough chatting for the both of us.  I felt a lot of your comments during the match were very condescending which made for an unpleasant experience.

Such as,


Guli: game should have been over by now
Womba taps Trygon Predator.
Guli: yet you are probably winning somehow



Guli: but never had this before
lol
I also playested this match for hours


I have been on both sides of the luck component of this game numerous times. I will continue to be on both sides of the luck component to as well as anyone who plays this game. I just feel better sportsmanship could have been displayed.  


I am sorry for your "luck" I guess. Best of luck in the future. I enjoyed your deck Guli, it has been really fun to playtest with and against when its firing on all cylinders.

[Prospero]

Thank you both for getting the match in.  It certainly seems like it was an intense match.  Let's please keep things civil though, as we're all grownups...

[Guli]

Womba, I stopped talking after I typed a few lines. Because you didn't respond. And don't quote me please, there is really no need for that. It is out of context and it does not reflect my emotional status at that time. I don't understand your remark on sportsmanship. I congratulated you and thanked you for the games and wished you good luck in the finals. I expressed myself but it was not an act against YOU, it had nothing to do with you basically.

The reality is that I was truly amazed by what happened in both games. But you just didn't say a word back. And then I stopped talking. Maybe you didn't feel like chatting, or maybe you were tired of a long day work, or maybe something else, I understand, but I would have appreciated some analysis or comments.

[brianpk80]

I haven't been to the site frequently for almost a year, so forgive the question but I must ask:  what is a Ringer?  Thanks.   

[Prospero]

I haven't been to the site frequently for almost a year, so forgive the question but I must ask:  what is a Ringer?  Thanks.   

A ringer is someone who is generally acknowledged to be one of the best pilots in Vintage.  With the four that we have, I have chosen some of the best players from the early/mid aughts to those that rose to that level recently.

[brianpk80]

I haven't been to the site frequently for almost a year, so forgive the question but I must ask:  what is a Ringer?  Thanks.   

A ringer is someone who is generally acknowledged to be one of the best pilots in Vintage.  With the four that we have, I have chosen some of the best players from the early/mid aughts to those that rose to that level recently.

Thank you. 

[Shax]

I haven't been to the site frequently for almost a year, so forgive the question but I must ask:  what is a Ringer?  Thanks.  

Well.. I could only think of..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCH-owsrC-A

I feel like this TMD Ringer Tournament had alot of intense action and enjoy these online tourneys alot! But they can't compare to playing with the paper cards and the intensity of a real life stage.

[Prospero]

And with a very, very close finals, Womba pulls it out, defeating Shock Wave in three.  Congratulations to Womba and Shock Wave (from the Ringer end), Guli (from the Community end) and my sincere thanks to all the competitors!

The next TMD Ringers vs. Community event will be up sometime in June.  Until then...