Tezzeret vs. Welder Stax

[brazil]

Okay, so I was playing one match this morning before having to go to work. I was playing my Tezzeret deck and my opponent was on Welder Stax. Here is the list I was running:

4x Underground Sea
3x Polluted Delta
2x Flooded Strand
2x Island
4x Wasteland
1x Strip Mine
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Academy Ruins
1x Seat of the Synod

2x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Inkwell Leviathan

3x Duress
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Vault
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Brainstorm
1x Ponder
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Sol Ring
1x Tinker
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
4x Force of Will
3x Mana Drain
1x Crucible of Worlds
1x Black Lotus
1x Time Walk
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Imperial Seal
4x Thirst for Knowledge
1x Hurkyl's Recall

Game 1 started out with me being mana screwed. We went about 20 rounds with him attacking me with a Goblin Welder to death. He had a strip lock, stax and double thorn on the table.

Game 2, we both got mana screwed. I eventually drew into some lands and pulled off a Tezzeret, searching for a Time Vault. He conceded the game after he drew.

Game 3 was much more exciting. He powers out a Sundering Titan with a Lotus, Sol Ring and Tinker. I thought for sure I had lost the match already. I drew into a land and pass the turn, he swings for 7 and wastes my land. I drew into a Mystical Tutor, played my land and tutored for a Tinker of my own after he swung for 7 again. My life is at 4 at this point and he's still at 19. On my turn I tinker out an Inkwell Leviathan and we go into stand-off mode. This continued for about 6 turns, him using a Bazaar the whole time, trying to shape his hand. Eventually he draws a Demonic Tutor and goes for a Crucible of Worlds. In response to his Crucible I play an Ancestral Recall and draw into a Hurkyl's Recall. He casts the Crucible but had already played a land for the turn so he passed the turn. On my turn I Hurkyl's Recall him and swing for 7, knocking him down to 11. He has at this point, a Bazaar in play along with two City of Brass. He passes the turn, and I swing for 7 two more times, taking the match and left at 2 life.

[MadManiac21]

I'm confused. Is this a game report? Might be in the wrong forum.

[brazil]

Yes, what forum does it belong in? This was not a tournament game.

[Duncan]

Yes, what forum does it belong in? This was not a tournament game.

What is the goal of your post?

[Matt]

It looks like he's excited about a swingy game he had, perhaps oblivious to the regularity with which these things happen in Vintage.

[Oath of Happy]

Thats a cool decklist.  I miss the days of playing Wasteland in Drain decks.  How do the Wastes work out for you?

[brazil]

It looks like he's excited about a swingy game he had, perhaps oblivious to the regularity with which these things happen in Vintage.

Precisely.

Thats a cool decklist.  I miss the days of playing Wasteland in Drain decks.  How do the Wastes work out for you?

The Wastelands are generally a help most of the time, or so it seems. With the maindeck Crucible it makes for even more fun.

[zeus-online]

If this thread is just for awesome games people have played lately, then i've got a few to share

Okay...This is game1 of Ad nauseam vs. ubastax (me).
I win the roll, and start out slow with:
Workshop, Chalice of the void ( ) Burn for 1.

He goes:
Land, lotus, timetwister, go.

So on my turn i unload just about everything from my twister hand:
I play 2 moxen, an ancient tomb, chalice on zero, thorn of amethyst and a smokestack....Keeping an ubamask in hand for next turn.....Unfortunetly he concedes before i can start my evil laugh of doom (I've been practising my laugh lately).


Another one:
This one's  Tezzeret vs. Thoughtcast painter...I'm playing Tez.
I mull to five, but manages to fire off an ancestral early. (He's got a Sensei's top in play, spends his only red mana to activate it, and i ancestral in response, resolving it)
Around turn 3 my board is:
3 Lands, Voltaic key, mana vault....I'm holding Negate, 2x Thirst and a tezzeret (i think i was holding a DSC aswell, but i might've drawn it later)...My plan is to draw out his counters with thirst, play my tezz, find time vault and just win....Unfortunetly he has a painter in play and opts to play a grindstone...Seeing as he has  open i figure he's got drain and a REB...So i go tap mana vault, untap mana vault with key, tap it again, now i've got  floating, i play thirst...he REB's, i thirst in response, he Drains...i negate the grindstone...He passes the turn doing nothing.

On my turn i go untap mana vault with key, play Tez, find time vault....I've got no way to gain mana or untap the vault, so i pass...He manages to kill the time vault with a reb...but he misplays a bit and forgets to kill my tez (he time walked with a painter on the board...and my tez only had 2 counters left). Anyway, on my turn i'm all out of gas...I count my mana including double untap on mana vault (Tez + Key) and i Hardcast my Darksteel colossus!

Unfortunetly i'm all out of luck, cards and anything else that can save me and he topdecks will and kills me on the spot. It was still quite a good game

My memory isn't all that good, might've forgotten a few details here and there.

/Zeus

[Grand Inquisitor]

Cool post.

There may be a more 'appropriate' way or place for this to go, but I'm glad you put it up here.  Thanks.