Tourney Report: Thursday Night Type 1

CrazyCarl

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« on: July 17, 2002, 02:15:13 pm »

Hi! I got really bored, and I figured some people would like a tournament report to read, so I figured, what the hell, i'll write one. This tournament was pretty interesting. Single elimination, first and 2nd get prizes. I played your average keeper deck(5C) With the only oddities being Cunning Wish and a lack of Black Lotus(I also ran Vampiric Tutor).

Cunning Wish took the spot of StoP in my deck because I was tired of drawing it vs control and wanted a more versatile card in that slot. In my sideboard I have(for wish targets)

1 Diabolic Edict
1 Misdirection
4 Red Elemental Blast
1 Allay
1 Shattering Pulse
2 Swords to Plowshares(I moved the one i took out of the MD to the sideboard because I wanted to have 2 plows after board at least vs suicide or stompy.)

I also removed Circle: Black from my board for Caltrops because I was expecting a D'AvanZoo, and the 'Trops seemed like a decent answer for them. This would come back to bite me in the ass later.....

Round 1: Josh O. Playing Keeper(modified)
He finished his set of Power off at Origins, so I was looking foward to a good match.

Game 1: He gets out an early Mishra's Factory and starts swinging. I draw a waste eventually for the Mishra. He attempts a YawgWill to get back some useful stuff, but nothing gamebreaking. Never-the-less, I force it because I have almost nothing and I want to win with the morphling I had gotten out the turn before(Now I remember, he had either an Edict or a Balance, either way, I didn't want those coming to play). I swing for the win.

An interesting thing: He got out Jayamdae Tome, and I could have just countered it, but he also has some artifact mana(only 3 untapped however). So EOT I wished for Shattering Pulse and blew up his side.

Game 2: I get out the Dynamic Duo early on(Shaman+Miner). And he is a bit mana light to begin with, so it's not much of a contest.

Round 2: James Wilhelm aka The Kaiser playing Keeper

Game 1: He gets out a turn 1 Mishra's Factory. At that point i'm getting annoyed; Since when does everyone run Factories . Anyhow, he beats me up for a while. I manage to resolve ancestral at some point, draining his drain. So i'm able to get out a Jayemdae Tome with 2 moxes, a sol ring, and a zuran orb out. I also have balance in hand. He has 3 cards, I have just the balance. He beats me up, then eats my moxes and says go with 2 untapped. So I untap, draw a misdirection, then cast balance, in response, saccing all my lands. he then kills my zuran orb. So the table after all this is him no lands, zuran orb, 1 card. Me, Jayamdae Tome, sol ring, and misdirection. He does nothing and passes the turn. I draw Tolarian Academy . I start out drawing him. After a few turns he goes for Ancestral which I misdirect which prompts him to scoop even though he really wasn't out of the game.

Game 2: My draw is really good with some land, a Shaman, a Miner and a Red Blast. However, I have no red sources. I keep anways because I have 9 red sources in my deck plus tutors if need be. I draw City of Brass . He does waste my city however, so I'm unable to blow up lands for a few turns. In those turns he only plays 1 or 2 however. I draw a Demonic and I go for Mox Ruby(He can't waste/strip it) which allows me to start blowing up his side of the board. He concedes rather than be eaten by a dwarf and a monkey.

Round 3: Sean playing SuiBlack with Zombies, Unholy Strengths, Rod/Orb, and Ichorid
He really enjoys beating up Powered players, so it's my job to stop his fun

Game 1: He gets a fairly quick draw. I get out an early Sylvan, followed by a Morphling which stops his attack. He has gotten me to low single digits. I have out a Zuran orb however(I forgot to use it once which may or may not have cost the game, I dont' think it mattered in the end though)and using the Sylvan, i'm able to fog the Shadow every turn. I was swinging for 5 with Morph every turn. However, the 3rd time I attacked, I should have only gone for 4 because he is able to attack with an Unholy Strengthed Zombie token and the shadow guy and I have to block with Morph, one mana short of saving it(Greedy greedy ) So he's able to win on his next attack.

Game 2: I get out an early Caltrops and Abyss, so everything in his deck is pretty much negated(even the Ichorid), so Im' able to win with Morphling early on.

Game 3: I keep a 2x Mox, Sol, 2x Land, Caltrops, Merchant Scroll hand. I lay turn 1 Caltrops, then Ancestral into Demonic Tutor. He wastes me down to only a City of brass. He plays turn 1 Sarcomancy, Turn 2 Double Sarcomancy :|. I'm in a rough spot already. I was a black or white mana short of Demonic tutoring for Balance and casting it. Before a chance to cast the tutor comes however, he Duresses it, basically ending the game for me, so I walk away in 3rd place with no prize ;(. Oh well, I had a good time anyways.

Thanks for reading, and if this report was any good(though it was short), I'll try to write another next week. Gotta support the communty somehow...

Carl


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