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Author Topic: 1st place at Xtreme Games 4/21 with LandStill  (Read 1223 times)
Tha Gunslinga
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« on: April 22, 2013, 09:54:16 am »

We had 13 people I think.  A couple Shops players, which was interesting because I haven't seen that in forever and I have cut pretty much all my Shops hate.  Apologies if I make any mistakes here.

Round 1:
Larry Griswold with BUG
Game 1: I bolt his first two Trygons and tear up his mana and get some ridiculous card advantage going and kill him.
Game 2: I just wreck him.  He never saw his Deathrites either game, and I had pretty nice draws.
1-0

Round 2:
Mith with Terra Nova Stax
Game 1: He steamrolls me with manlands and a Chalice at 1.  Cutting the maindeck Mountain was a bad idea, as this ensures that I can't safely fetch out a red source.  I die with a handfull of red cards that could have bought me many turns.
Game 2: Even worse.
1-1

Round 3:
Mike Solymossy with GushBond
Games 1 and 2:  I cut him off mana, steal his cards with Vendilion Clique, and counter everything he plays.  He almost sneaks out of it one game where he Snapcasters a Vamp for Will, but I have the upkeep Clique to steal it.
2-1

Round 4:
John Beste with straight Oath
Game 1: He concedes to an extremely abusive Library.
Game 2: My Grafdigger's Cage shuts down his Oath, not that he ever found an Orchard, and I go super-long, Jace him out, and kill him with Factories right before I would have decked him with a Standstill.
3-1

Top 4:
Jaco with Show and Tell/Rector
Game 1: I keep a slow Library hand and he Tinkers for lethal on turn 2 I think.
Game 2: He mulls to 5, I Force a Mox Sapphire, and tear him up.
Game 3: He mulls to 5, I counter his stuff and blow up lands.

Finals:
James?  with Terra Nova Stax (same 75 as earlier)
Game 1: He locks me out with an insane draw.  I die to triple Lodestone (1 Metamorphed), 2 or 3 Mishra's Factories, and Spheres.
Game 2: I keep a hand of 5 land and 2 Ingot Chewer, or something similar.  I draw the third Chewer but never need more than one.  I kill a few things, drop a Clique, and just keep him from killing me before I kill him.  My land-heavy hand means I can ignore his Spheres, and blowing up his lands stalls him enough to get the Clique through
Game 3: I get a bunch of Islands and my Sapphire, and kill his Revoker that names Sapphire.  He Ghost Quarters me and I fetch out my last Island.  The game is somewhat in my favor, but then he plays a Sculpting Steel and I Drain it, paying 2 extra.  I use the Drain mana to drop Jace, and Jace locks him out while I beat down with Clique.

I win $135 store credit, and spend that plus most of my accumulated credit and a bit of trade-in value on a minty Tabernacle.  Good times.  My deck was great, but obviously I wouldn't make the changes next time, since it was super-weak against Shops and I pretty much got lucky in the finals.
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2013, 06:46:42 pm »

I swear, of all the days to catch a respiratory virus...

Also, I believe Peter Tragos was the other finalist.
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