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« on: August 28, 2007, 08:00:06 am » |
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Here's a brief report.
First, my list:
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
3 Faerie Conclave
1 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
2 Island
2 Steam Vents
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Stifle
3 Misdirection
4 Standstill
3 Fire // Ice
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Lava Dart
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Echoing Truth
3 Null Rod
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Crucible of Worlds
Sideboard:
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Energy Flux
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Flametounge Kavu
2 Pyroclasm
2 Spell Snare
This is basically Rich's (Shockwave) list from Gen Con, minus one Fire/Ice and one Null Rod for one Lava Dart and one REB. Lava Dart is amazing against Flash, and I may go for a 2/2 split between it and F/I in the future. It's one mana cheaper, and requires two counters to stop. If you kill the Heart sliver, you can generally untap and have 2 blockers. Crucible sucked all day and I would probably cut it for another permission/bounce spell.
Round 1: Andrey with Bomberman.
Game 1: Null Rod destroys him. I remember he got a turn 1 lotus this game, and I was worried he'd combo me out, but luckily he didn't have the Salvagers in his opening 7.
I don't know what I sided in. Most likely the Blasts and Kavus.
Game 2: Magus of the Moon! Urgh! I can't bounce it in time and I get beaten down.
Game 3: Null Rod to the rescue, again. I draw my first Standstill of the match in this game, and also counter an Ancestral he spent 2 turns on (with Merchant Scroll) for mad tempo.
Round 2: Chris with Stax. (I may have this and round 3 mixed up.)
Game 1: He drops 3 Spheres of Resistance, and can't cast any of his own good spells. Man lands for the win.
Side in Flux, Rack and Ruin, and Spell Snare.
Game 2: I lose to a huge play mistake, where I leave up U1 instead of UU for a mana drain after a loooong game with me at 3 life. He topdecks the artifact he needs for his Welder, and welds in Trike to kill me.
Game 3: We are super short on time, but he plays quickly, and I manage to pull out the win after Forcing a Timewalk that would steal one of my turns.
Round 3: Erik with Flash
He keeps two slow hands and I beat him relatively easily. This is a good matchup. He gets close in game 1 with hardcast slivers but I have F/I and Lava Dart to keep him down.
Rounds 4 and 5: Draw. We play for fun (Landstill vs. GAT) and I win in 3, though we were both playing pretty slopily. These were fun games, and the matchup is very interesting/dynamic.
Top 8
Quarterfinals: Arend Kraehling with some crazy Slaver list.
I get turn 1 Standstill both games, but he is incredibly patient and breaks them at the perfect time. Null Rod is key both games. In both games, he drops Magus of the Moon when he is at very very low life, and stabilizes for a long time, beating me down slowly. Both games I rip a bounce spell and win. This is probably an unfavorable matchup, but he didn't really draw any counters once he had the board locked up.
Semifinals: Erik with Flash (again.)
Game 1, I get the board locked down with 3 or 4 blockers, a handfull of cards, 2 Wastes and a Null Rod, but he refuses to concede. I slowly win.
Game 2: I have too many countes/damage dealing spells and win a long game.
Finals: James with Oath (ICBM style?)
I don't remember these games very well (John was taking notes, so maybe he'll psot a detailed analysis) but James mulls to 5 both games.
In game 2, he sided out Akroma and Razia, and kept only Platz. He gets Oath to activate, and I think I'm done, as I can't race a big angel. When he drops Platz with only 2 or 3 cards left in his deck (before Blessing activates), I breathe a sigh of relief, as I doubt he has another creature in there. Platz is too slow of a clock, and I eventually draw into a bounce spell and take it away. It was definitely a mistake to side out the other creatures.
Props: John for being the best TO ever.
Chris for playing at a reasonable pace in game 3, even though he easily could have gotten the draw if he had slow played a bit. It's great to see people not being assholes/cheaters in situations like this.
Arend for playing perfectly and giving me some intense games.
Rich for designing an amazing deck. The list I came up with was much different and a lot worse, so I'm glad I decided to use his instead.
Everyone at the tournament! I had a great time chatting, playing fun games, etc etc.
Slops: My friend for ditching out on me at the last minute even though I made GAT for him to play.
Magus of the Moon
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