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« on: March 28, 2004, 10:53:01 pm » |
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Home-School Expulsion takes 12th place out of 28 players.
N00b quote of the day:
“Is Counterspell legal?”
Overview:
5-proxy Type 1 tournament, $15 entry fee, first prize beat UL Twister, second $75 store credit, 3rd $25 credit. Game Universe. Standard rules, Swiss, etc.
Mostly good decks, as in fully powered Tier 1 or 2 decks. There were a couple Hulks, a couple Slavers, a couple Madnesses, a Stasis, a few random crap decks, Mask-Nought, TnT, White Weenie, LandStill/Fish, StaxNought (wtf?), Aluren, Dragon, and a few more. Pretty varied, and definitely competitive. I was expecting a lot more scrub decks, but I guess the $15 fee kept them away.
I was running my pet deck, Home-School Expulsion.
4 Brainstorm
3 Impulse
3 Mana Drain
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Vindicate
2 Disenchant
3 Hymn to Tourach
2 Stifle
4 Duress
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth's Will
3 Shadowmage Infiltrator
2 Exalted Angel
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
2 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Tundra
4 Scrubland
4 Underground Sea
SB: 3 Contagion
SB: 4 Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 3 Chains of Mephistopheles
SB: 3 Serenity
SB: 2 Stifle
Match 1: Nick, with Elves.
Game 1: He goes “Forest, Defiant Elf,” and I crack up. After several minutes of explanation, we continue. At least he didn’t drop a Crazed Goblin or Reanimate a Trained Orgg. He’s playing some random elf deck, and it’s pretty bad. Defiant isn’t half-bad with Timberwatch Elves, but Timberwatch gets Plowed and Exalted takes it all the way. He does get me down to 3 with Kaysa pumping all his dudes, but I bust out YawgWin and Walk into victory. Exalted is insane in this, keeping my life at a fairly steady level.
Game 2: I side out Disenchants and a Waste and put in Contagions. He gets Wellwisher set up, and manages to get me down to 12 and himself up to 37 before Contagion takes his guys out. Another Contagion (hardcast) later clears out two more elves, Hymn knocks out his 2 Kaysas while he’s stuck at 4 mana, and 2 Shadowmages take it all the way. Exalted finishes it up.
He seemed pretty cool, and was surprised that I wasn’t running any “real lands,” i.e. basics. He did get somewhat irritated at my penchant to play so much at end of turn, since in the second game I pulled pretty much all my Brainstorms and Impulses.
Match 2-0
Tourney 1-0
Things are starting off pretty well, though I know that most of the decks are serious.
Match 2: Manuel, with Hulk
Game 1: We go slowly. I almost make it, getting him down to 9 via Shadowmages, tons of manaburn from Drains, and fetch/FoW damage. I Disenchant his Deed, which he blows in response to clear my Moxen. He eventually busts out two Togs, both foil, and it’s over. A little bit of simple arithmetic and we head for game 2.
Game 2: I side in Contagions (over Vindicates) and Chains. This is an extremely close game. We go back and forth with Strips for a while, but both of us draw tons of lands. He ends up with maybe 5 cards left in his library, but his giant graveyard kills me. I plow his tog, and he counters it. I topdeck another plowshares, he counters it, then I Demonic for a third one and resolve it. Another tog at the last minute finishes it. Chains NEVER FUCKING SHOWED UP until the end, after he had drawn 12 cards off a single AK, by playing it, YawgWilling it, then Cunning Wishing for it.
Match 0-2
Tourney 1-1
Ouch. Well, not too bad, at least, and my brother is 4-0 with MaskNought.
Match 3: Rob, with Slaver (mostly artifacts, no counters)
Game 1: I get THE SETUP. He gets screwed, and I destroy every damn permanent he plays. Literally. I even Disenchanted a Mox somewhere in there. Stifling his first-turn Delta helps tremendously. Highlight was me Draining a Mox, just so he wouldn’t have anything. Exalted takes him from 18 to 0 with a quickness. He ends the game with a Sapphire in play.
Game 2: I SB in the Serenities, but it doesn’t matter, as I fuck up and tap out. Big mistake, as he proceeds to topdeck a Slaver, and gets it going. I then proceed to plow my Morphed Exalted and Waste my own land. Trading one card for 4 is some good, and I proceed to lose. Two Welders plus a Slaver is not good.
Game 3: We stall out. The usual things happen, what with discard, LD, etc. His Triskelion takes me to 13, but I kill it. Time is called, and we can’t finish in the 5 turns.
This could have gone either way, but I’m not used to playing Slaver, and it shows.
Match 1-1-1
Tourney 1-1-1
Match 4: Ryan, with Control Slaver, in toploaders
Game 1: I mulligan to 5. Yeah, double-mulligan. He keeps a bad hand, though, and I rip him up. He FoWs an SMI, but I take him down with a really fast Exalted. This was totally one-sided, though.
Game 2: I side in Serenities, and he sides in Blood Moon, which always wrecks my deck. He eventually gets the setup and kills me. Blood Moon hits, then Smemnarch shows up and starts stealing my lands, which give him more mana to steal more lands. Highlight was his response to my playing a Mox Pearl, which was something like “Thirst for Knowledge, Thirst, Brainstorm, Force of Will.” His two Gilded Lotuses negated the Blood Moon quite nicely for him.
Game 3: Similar to game 1, but without the mulligans. He can’t get much on the board, and I get close, but time is called. I totally would have won, but whatever. He had nothing and no hope, but it would’ve taken quite a few more turns.
Ryan’s a nice guy, and his deck, which was all in toploaders, was damn good. Most likely a card-for-card copy of whatever Smennen’s running.
Match 1-1-1
Tourney 1-1-2
Match 5: Brian, with Aluren
Game 1: I have no idea whatsoever what he’s playing for most of the game. I Drain some stuff, then YawgWill like a madman. A fast Shadowmage draws me a bunch of cards, and Exalted seals it.
Game 2: I try, but I didn’t really expect him to go so nuts so fast. Aluren, Cavern Harpy, Brain Freeze, game.
Game 3: Shadowmage smacks him around for a while, and another joins and starts drawing me 2 extra cards a turn. He goes off, and I Stifle the Brain Freeze. The 3 cards I get milled for contain YawgWill, but it doesn’t matter. Exalted kills.
Brian was a cool guy, and his deck was pretty nice, but I just kept Draining his Lim-dul’s Vaults.
Match 2-1
Tourney 2-1-2
The only part of this most people will bother reading:
Props to all the cool people, the people who enjoyed playing and didn’t mind playing with those evil WHITE-BORDERED cards, or against someone with WB duals. Oh, the horror! Props also to the brokenness inherent in Type 1, and to Defiant Elf, and a legal Counterspell. Extra-special props to the crimped foil Wasteland I picked up.
Slops to Wizards for all the ridiculous crap they print, and slops to Slaver, Intuition, Welder, and Shop, for being irritating as hell. Slops to all the net-decks out there, and slops to the “TMD Effect” that makes everyone copy whatever’s dominant. Slops also to the lack of Keeper. Why?
Possible future deck changes:
-2x Disenchant, +1x Mana Drain and 1x Exalted Angel
Disenchant wasn’t doing much for me, and Drain and Exalted were, and would be better as 4-3 than 3-2.
-3x Hymn to Tourach, +3x Sinkhole
Eh, Hymn isn’t pulling its weight, and going all-out on Sinks would be cool. Of course, I could also do this:
-3x Hymn to Tourach MD, -2x Stifle SB, +2x Stifle MD, +2x Disenchant SB, +1x (insert good card here) MD. Maybe Vamp Tutor again.
Mods:
-2x SB Stifle
+2x MD Stifle
-2x MD Disenchant
+2x SB Disenchant (temporary)
-3x MD Hymn to Tourach
+1x MD Vindicate
+1x MD Exalted Angel
+1x MD Mana Drain
-1x MD Scrubland
+1x MD Island
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