[REPORT] Top 4 split with GAGOMY

1.5 Report, 06-23-07

GAGOMY(Gators, Apes 'n 'Goyfs O My)

Decklist : 60

Lands : 21
4 Wasteland
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Taiga
2 Bayou
2 Badlands
1 Forest
1 Swamp
1 Mountain

Creatures : 20
4 Kird Ape
2 Tin-Street Hooligan
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Thornweald Archer
4 Dark Confidant
4 Phyrexian Negator

Control : 14
3 Duress
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Seal of Fire

Other : 5
3 Call of the Herd
2 Jitte

Sideboard : 15
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Engineered Plague
3 Pernicious Deed
4 Grosan Grip

So as some of you might have read the deck I've put together on the 1.5 development boards, I've been playing this deck for the past 2 weeks.
At our local 1.5 event this week I decided to play this over belcher/goblins to see how far it has come along, and hopefully sneak into the top 8.
So without further ado... here we go!

Round 1 GAGOMY VS Black Stax
Game 1 : Earlier on in the week we playtested this matchup and I got rocked 5-0 preboard... embarassing.. However, today I had my revenge. Game one he resolves some
early beats but Mr.Tin-Street comes into play and blows up one of his guys. The game gets close and he has a resolved chalice for 1 while I have double kird
ape, Double bolt, and a duress in hand. I have negator, thornweald and 3 lands while he has negator, chalice for 1,
and 2 lands in play swing and he ends up saccing everything while I do the same, but I float R and bolt his face for the win.

Side : in 4 Krosan Grip Out : 3 cabal therapy 1 kird ape

Game 2 : He plays an early juggernaut turn 2 and I bolt him. He plays Chalice for 1 (again...) while my hand is full of one drops but I resolve a thornweald.
He gets Negator on the board and I topdeck a krosan grip and hit chalice for one. I have 1 red source on the board so I play an ape. He can't really attack
or he'd lose his board so he plays draw, go for a couple turns. I put down seal of fires 2 turns in a row and hitting his negator which leaves his side of
board with 2 lands, mox diamond, negator, and a 4/4 artifact that I don't really remember. I end up just burning his gator until i resolve a goyf and win.

Round 2 : GAGOMY VS r/w goblins

Game 1 : I mull to five and loose to ringleader hitting piledriver, warchief and matron. He swings with 3 piledrivers, lacky, and warchief and I scoop.

Side : IN : 4 Plague, 3 Deed OUT : 4 Negator, 3 Duress

Game 2 : I have a deed on the board and a call token racing his 1 matron and 1 fanatic on the board. I get him to 4 life and I'm at 5. He plays a lacky
and I swing on my turn, he chumps and swings for 2, puts a ringleader in play putting 2 siege gangs in his hand. I deed for 4 and clear the board. He's
sitting on only 3 lands so I play tin-street. He plays matron on his turn tapping out for warchief. On my turn I should have flashed back cabal therapy
naming siege gang, instead I act like a bonehead and swing. He chumps, plays warchief and proceeds to kill me.

Round 3 : GAGOMY VS r/g goblins

Game 1 : I mull to five and get rapped again... ( I hate this against goblins)

I use the same sideboard plan.

Game 2 : I have an o/1 goyf on turn 2 after his turn 1 lacky. He makes a mistake in cycling his incinerator not realising that incinerator hits the gy
before dealing damage and my goyf is now a 1/2. I get a turn 3 plague on the board and proceed to start killing him with a 1/2 goyf.. lOl! I then resolve
jitte and he scoops.

Game 3 : I get a plague on turn 3 after taking 6 from his ringleader/fanatic. He grips it 2 turns later but gets stuck on 3 land. I therapy naming
ringleader, play goyf. Next turn I play ape flashing therapy back getting his siegegang, play and equip jitte and he scoops.

I make top 8 2-1.

Top 8 Round 1 : GAGOMY VS 4c thresh.

I know he's playing thresh and get excited. I have a great matchup vs threash because of the numerous threats I have. Thornweald owns their flyers,
we split goyfs, I have turn 1 kird apes and not to mention the card advantage Call of the Herd provides. I have disruption in duress, therapy, wasteland
and L.Bolt. THe only bad Card I have in here is Negator because of the red he's playing.

Game 1 : I play therapy on predict turn one, duress on his counterspell turn 2, and I play kirdape/flashback cabal on his brainstorm turn 3. All the while
he's stuck on one land because of the hand he kept (couldn't find land 2 off portent/serum visions 2 turns in a row.) I play Goyf and get a jitte to
resolve and win.

Sideboard : IN : 4 leyline OUT : 4 Negator

Game 2 : He plays turn 1 goose. I play turn one duress and hit his predict. He get's a volc out and I waste it, and pretty much resolve anything I want
because he can't find his cards.

So top 4 ends up splitting for $20 each and I pickup another badlands/bayou and buy a box of Future Sight (got nothing good other than another goyf).

So... Overall I really enjoyed the deck today with the only exception being me playing like an idiot and giving away game 2 in round 2 to goblins. If I
had played smart I may have been able to force a game 3 and who knows what could have happend.

As for the decklist itself I don't see any changes coming up anytime soon, I had plenty of disruption all day and confidant played a major roll in helping
me topdeck. And for everyone out there, thronweald is freakin tech. I can't tell you how many times in testing I've played him and just stopped my opponents
from attacking. He stops almost every great creature in the format for only 1G. Goyfs, threasholds flyers, goblins, faery stompy, stax... just about
everything..

Well I hope you enjoyed the report (I'm sorry if it got too boring) and I'll see you guys same bat time same bat channel with next weeks report!