It's been a LONG time since I posted anything close to a report so...
When the Mol guys announced they would be having 1 last Eternal weekend we knew we (Zieby and me) had to show up and play. The only problem was, we had sold all our cards some years ago.
After E-mailing with Tom Hens (The TO) we got together Gifts for Zieby and Shops for me. List is below and a small writeup after. Since I didn't take notes and was playing on 4 hours of sleep total (yay for baby girls keeping you up during the night before, yes I'm THAT old) the writeup is going to be short. (sorry!
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Maindeck:
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mutavault
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Dismember
3 Chalice of the Void
3 Null Rod
2 Blinkmoth Nexus
1 Sculpting Steel
Sideboard:
1 Dismember
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Null Rod
1 Sculpting Steel
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Precursor Golem
First round: Bye.This guy must have the worst rating ever because he keeps losing.
1-0
Second Round: Guli - Humans.Game 1:
I can't outrace dudes bashing me to death, was kinda close but not really.
Game 2:
I get an early Precursor Golem combined with a Sculpting steel for 6 Golem beatdowns, when the Lodestone joins it's just too much
Game 3:
Tabernacle on my side and Kataki on his... Guess dudes win.
1-1
Third round ?? (Forgot the name, sorry!) on Blue Belcher Game 1:
He stalls the game with a ton of artifact mana in play and a Kandalabra. Since I have no clue what decks are being played I put him on something hightide or maybe even 12 post or some other legacy port. When he plays Belcher I get the idea and he wins.
Game 2:
Knowing he's playing Belcher makes it easy because turn 1 Revoker (Belcher) and Null Rod combine with spheres are an easy win.
Game 3:
See game 2 but with a wasteland on his Tolarian Academy (his only land)
2-1
Forth round: Tom - Doomsday.Game 1:
I win the die roll and get a turn 1 sphere followed by a turn 2 Lodestone. He doesn't really get back in after that.
Game 2:
I get multiple wastes and strips and have a Dismember for something scary (probably trygon don't remember)
3-1
Fifth Round: Ilja, OathOnce again, I get paired with Ilja (if you dig up my last 3 reports you'll find we do this every event). Great guy and always great games but I know it's going to be rough. Last time I knocked him out of Top 8 so he's down for some payback.
Game 1:
He gets an early Oath out I manage to stall but eventually Griselbrand gets me.
Game 2:
We fight back and forth and I manage to again stall out pretty good, get him on 3 life, when Griselbrand hits. I can't race with 2 mutavault and 2 Factory vs his Grisel and lose.
Guess he gets his revenge after all.
3-2
Sixth round: ?? (Forgot your name sorry!) on Sneak & Show.Game 1:
He gets a sneak attack + Emrakul out before I can stop him. Since I do know what he's playing now I think I have this game in the bag.
Game 2:
Turn 1 Revoker on Sneakattack + Sphere, turn 2, Null Rod cutting down his mana, soon lodestone and Mutavaults clean up.
Game 3:
I manage to lock him out of every single mana source with Revoker's, Wastes, strips and a crucible. With only a Mox Ruby on his side, Revoker, Crucible, Mutavault and Sphere on mine he scoops.
4-2.
With this score I think I'm not going to be doing anymore playing for the day and I turn in the deck I borrowed and head for something to eat. When the top 8 is announced I find out Ilja (being the good guy he is) actually drew his last match (he needed to lose or draw for me to make it in) so I get into the top 8 on 8th place.
I scramble to get my deck in back and sit down for my match against a shop mirror.
Top 8: Baptiste (I think the spelling might be off a bit but whatever) on shops.Game 1:
He gets me with Slashpanther and lodestone. He's also playing Coercive Portal (which i've never seen before...) which kind off gives him an edge because it draws him cards.
Game 2:
We fight back and forth using waste / strips and crucible (I copied his) and we kinda stall out with me having a board advantage. He lands the Coercive Portal giving him more cards which eventually nets him a Wurmcoil engine which I cannot stop for the win.
Overall I have a ton of fun and I saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in years. Made 75,- for the selling of the 3 duals I won (also good) and talked about old memories and made some new ones. Still feel a bit sad that these events are done for... Guess I'll see everybody the next time somebody does an event and wants to loan me a deck
- Marske
