Hey guys how is everything going?! So thanks to the DCI and undefined meta was upon us. for a while before this tournament i had been pondering shops, where-as everyone else opted for slaver and i didnt want to play in a field of mirrors! Then this idea came to me, why the hell would i play shops in a field of slaver? Not truely convinced about ichorid and not playing shops i decided there was only one option, and platinum angel had to be in that equation!
thus slavermaster 7.0 had been born.
1 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
3 volcanic island
3 underground sea
3 island
Guys
3 trinket mage
4 goblin welder
1 platinum angel
Spells
4 thirst for knowlage
4 mana drain
4 force of will
1 ancestral recall
1 yawgmoths will
2 duress
1 demonic tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 gifts ungiven
1 tinker
1 ponder
1 brainstorm
1 merchant scroll
1 time walk
Artifacts
1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 mana crypt
1 solring
1 mox ruby
1 mox emerald
1 mox pearl
1 mox sapphire
1 mox jet
1 senseis divining top
1 mindslaver
1 tormods crypt
1 engineered explosives
The sideboard for now is to remain hidden.
Now onto the tourney report
Round one Im no too sure i think the name was Erick playing Dark Illusions
game 1: he gets an early Naught out and i take 12 the next turn i E truth it he forces i mana drain then he lays out 2 more dreadnaughtz hidden under the mask of course. After a quick judge question the next turn i lay out 1 Engineered Explosives @ 1 and a platinum angel courtesy of mana drain. He scoops.
game 2: He mulls to lotus duress duress vamp for land, i keep a busted hand that stands up to 2x duresses, i control the game and eventually slaver him.
Round 2: Nick rodriguez playing Control Slaver
Game 1: we fight for a while and our hands get depleted i end up resolving a yawg will and stabalize @ 2 life for the win.
Game 2: i just dont have it and he controls the game with drains until he sundering titans me
Game 3: after counter battleing for a while i end up getting yawg will plus triskelion. time gets called and he drops a yawgwill Bouncing trisk,dropping his own and shooting my welder. We end up drawing the game here.
record 1-0-1
Round 3 Blaine playing Control Slaver
Game 1 he mulls to a subpar 6. I get early trinket mage and goblin welder, which , through the grace of countermagic end up going the distance.
Game 2 was very close i mulligan this time and end up duking it out until i get Triskelion Goblin welder into play. with him @ four life on his turn it turns out he is literally one mana shy of tinker mindslavering me to ruin my day. i get match!
Record 2-0-1
Round 4: Chester Li playing mono black tendrils
Game one is an interesting game. he Starts out turn 1 duress my force of will, turn 2 dark confidant. for a while he is drawing twice the amount of cards i am but i did not see too much gas, however with him having 2 wastelands and 2 swamps in play tapped out i manage to slave him. on his slave turn i see slaughter pact, well this is easy, i have him pact my welder and i waste his waste, slaughter pact kills him on his next upkeep.
Game 2: He kept a terrible lotus petal ritual duress nights wisper hand, thats all he has i resolve thirst after thirst and again another thirst at the end of his turns, eventually i gifts eot and well, that just speak for itself!
Record 3-0-1
Round 5: Rich shay playing control slaver
This one is simple we I.D.
So far so good now i am three rounds away from 3 benjamins in my bukkit.
Top 8: Blaine again.
Game one was not too pleasant for me. I win the roll and elect to play. My opener is a solid one being 3 land 2 mana drain 1 thirst and a welder. So naturally i have land go. His turn was was pretty impressive i am not gonna lie. it goes some thing like a bunch of excellerents welder mind shatter for 6 on my hand. woops game 2
Game two was very interesting i lay trinket mage and attempt to gain control of the board, my attempt fails when he casts mindslaver, goblin welder go! i peak under my top and find Vamp tutor, thinking for a while on what will win me the game here i vamp for engineered explosives play it @ one and then blow his welder up. He slaves me once finds nothing and i end up winning under trinket mage and senseis top.
Game 3: This one was intense and he keep strip mine cruicible under no colored mana, however with me only having 2 lands this could be dissasterous for me. end of his turn i vamp for tormods crypt, i attempt to play it which meets force of will, his force meets my mana drain and main phase 2 comes along i get 5 colorless in my pool , i then cast mox pearl trisk under mana drains gas. triskelion go the distance.
Phew! that one was close on to the semi finals
Semi finals meets Stefan(or tool) playing control slaver.
Game 1 we battle until for the most part neither of us have any resources. he finds gas under tinker triskelavus with welder in play i cant deal.
Game 2 i keep a sketchy one on the play: I open with turn zero leyline land go. the rest of my hand was land land 2x mana drain thirst. which seems solid. However this is how he opens up, Lotus recall sol ring tinker land welder titan. i scoop.
All in all i like how this deck played. It is not so much a slaver deck as a control deck with a quasi slaver shell. Platinum angel is huge!
Props:
Eli and Lloyd for making it out and helping me rep team street wraith
Platinum angel for having the best ability printed in magic
Blaine for being a good sport thats twice in a row i stole important matches from him
My mcdonalds sideboard for not sucking too much.
ELD and Batters up for hosting a great tournament, i encourage everyone to start going to these!
Slops:
My mcdonalds sideboard for being a Mcdonalds sideboard
Stefans gg's opening hand in the semis
rich for not top 4 splitting
