Ahhhhhhhhh lovely New Hampshire. After traveling through the shit hole that Vermont is, we(kl0wn, Leviat, my friend Rob and myself) arrive in New Hampshire. We are greeted with low humidity and high temperatures. Good times. We get VERY lost trying to find Steve's(Zherbus's) parents house. By a stroke of blind luck we end up at a gas station RIGHT as Steve's brother and friend pull in :laugh:. Since we know it's them, and they don't know it's us, Bryce(kl0wn) leans out the window, snaps a few pictures when they look towards us(while we have that song Limp Bizkit did for Mission:Impossible blaring), then as they pull out we zoom after them.
So after a thrilling "chase", we end up at Steve's house. We get inside, greet each other, and then play some Magic. Eventually Steve's brother and his friend go out to get us all food and apparently they get held up because it takes like, 3 weeks for them to get back. In the mean time we're playing magic after not having eaten for like, 14 hours, so we have NO clue what we're doing, and Steve's about to go nuts
. Just as we're all about to start eating our legs, the food arrives
. So we eat and play more Magic.
-Cut to Sunday-
I wake up feeling fine and dandy. 3 hours later, let's just say, I felt... like shit. So I thought I wouldn't be able to make it through the day. On the way to the card shop, I REALLY have to make a bathroom stop, and luckily we happen upon a diner which was actually closed, but the shop owner just happened to be inside. Mise! So then we go out for lunch(after I stock up on and consume massive quantites of drugs) and realize we are late and the crew gets some BK while I just kinda chill.
So we get to the tourney with about 20 minutes to spare, hang out, they eat, I feel sick, and then we begin.
My list
4 Mana Drain(English)
4 Force of Will(Mundane)
1 Misdirection(Chinese)
1 Cunning Wish(Foil)
2 Morphling(Korean, Signed by rk post)
1 Merchant Scroll(French THANK YOU STEVE ;DDDD)
1 Mystical Tutor(Mundane)
1 Ancestral Recall(Alpha)
1 Time Walk(UL Signed by Richard Garfield)
1 Fact or Fiction(Chinese)
1 Stroke of Genius(Korean)
1 Demonic Tutor(Alpha)
1 Vampiric Tutor(Chinese)
1 Diabolic Edict(Foil)
1 The Abyss(English)
1 Mind Twist(Alpha)
1 Yawgmoth's Will(Korean)
1 Balance(Signed Chinese BB)
1 Swords to Plowshares(German BB)
1 Dismantling Blow(Chinese)
1 Regrowth(Beta)
1 Sylvan Library(English Legends)
1 Fire/Ice(Foil)
1 Gorilla Shaman(Mundane)
1 Zuran Orb(Mundane)
1 Mox Sapphire(Alpha)
1 Mox Ruby(Alpha)
1 Mox Pearl(Alpha)
1 Mox Emerald(Alpha)
1 Mox Jet(Alpha)
1 Black Lotus(UL)
1 Sol Ring(Beta)
1 Tolarian Academy(Korean)
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Undiscovered Paradise(More played than any of my power
)
1 Strip Mine(AQ Tower Picture)
3 Wasteland(Foil)
4 Underground Sea(1 UL, 3 Revised)
3 Volcanic Island(Revised)
3 Tundra(Revised)
4 City of Brass(Colored in 5th Edition
)
Sideboard
3 Red Elemental Blast(Beta)
2 Dwarven Miner(Mundane)
1 Shattering Pulse(Mundane, soon to be Chinese)
2 Circle of Protection: Red(Alpha)
1 Circle of Protection: Black(Beta)
1 Swords to Plowshares(Portugese BB)
1 Aura Fracture(Foil)
1 Misdirection(Chinese)
1 Diabolic Edict(Mundane :<)
1 Scrying Glass(Foil)
1 Teferi's Response(Foil)
Round 1: Matt playing G/W/B Feat. Deeds, Calls, Regenerators, Discard, Land-D etc.
Game 1: Matt gets out a fast Spectral Lynx backed up by a Deed. I get out a Library before this and get to look at a few cards before he blows it up with some of my Moxes. He casts a River Boa after that, which I Plow. I then Cunning Wish for another Plow(after he has another Deed out) and I plow the Lynx, but he drops another. I cast Yagwmoth's Will to take out the Lynx, get back my Moxes, draw some cards, play my Sylvan and then Time Walk. I do this to bait him into using the Deed, which he does. I untap then drop Morphling with some counters to back it up. He in the mean time had dropped me to 2 with random creature beats. He gets out a Call before this, and then after my Morph a boa, but Morphling is just barely able to outrace it(I finish the game at 2) by topdecking Demonic Tutor to get Time Walk to finish him before the Boa got me. I would have lost this game if not for during my Will saccing some lands to my Zuran Orb to gain life to give me a bit of a buffer.
I board in a Plow and Edict taking out Sylvan and Fire/Ice(I think).
Game 2: I play Suicide Morphling with some Forces to back it up in case of Balance. I combo him out with Time Walk, Regrowth, DT for Will, Will, Time Walk after bashing him once already.
Round 2: Chris playing B/R Funker/Discard/Land-D and some Bolts/Incinerates/Chains
Game 1: He gets out a turn 2 Juggernaut, and turn 3 Su-Chi. When he attacks, I Plow. He gets in a hit with the Su-Chi and drops another. I Cunning Wish for Shattering Pulse and decimate his board, dealing 8 to him in the process. All the while, he's throwing random burn at me, getting me to low single digits. I eventually drop Morphling and do what Keeper does best, and ride it to win the game.
I side in the Shattering Pulse and Swords to Plowshares for Fire/Ice and something else(sorry, I was REALLY sick and i'm exhausted right now).
Game 2: He starts thowing some burn at me, but is only able to get me to 12. He drops some Su-Chi, but I have drawn my Shattering Pulse and use it to Fireblast him a few times. He's low enough that a few shots of Morphling Lovin kills him with the aid of Time Walk.
At this point i'm feeling REALLY sick, so I take some more drugs and drudge on.
Round 3: Bryce playing rOSE
We talk a bit about just drawing this round so we can get a bit of rest, but end up deciding to just play.
Game 1: He starts beating me up with Factories a bit(i'm able to kill them however). He doesn't have any other action however, and my hand is, for a few turns, Force of Will X
4, Yawgmoth's Will, Morphling, and X. X is normally a pretty good card, so once I stop drawing land, I have to get creative and I leave myself with Swords in my hand for a little while to stave off the vicious Mishra. We get into a counter war over something stupid(his Morphling probably) which I let him win because I don't feel like pitching my Morph to Force. I am "Forced"(Get it?) to use it a few moments later however to stop his Ancestral. I am unsure as to what I did next. I think I Balanced, or Yawgwilled for some stuff. I'm sure I end up with Morphling on the board. He however, has Chainer's Edict ready and without drawing Balance or Regrowth, he is able to take the game with another Morphling.
I side out Mystical, Vamp, Zuran Orb, The Abyss, Swords, and Dismantling Blow for 3x Red Blast, 2x Miner, and 1x Scrying Glass.
Game 2: I keep a really weak hand with a Red Blast and Library. He has the Waste for my Library, so my hand gets ALOT worse. I draw a Mana Drain, then land/artifact mana, for the next 8 turns I believe. Somewhere in here he resolves Scrying Glass and just goes nuts on me. I really stood no chance and I end up losing to drawing so little so early on while he's able to draw 2 a turn most of the time. I do however get to Red Elemental Blast his Morphling after he taps out to Time Walk to kill me. I was quite proud until he untapped and dropped another.
Bryce, your Kung Fu was quite mighty this match.
Round 4: Steve AKA Zherbus playing Keeper(1 card differance, Geyser where I have Cunning Wish).
Considering exactly HOW MUCH happens during a control mirror, i'll just kinda shorten this.
Steve resolves Sylvan both games.
. I mean, he does other stuff of course, but this was really key. I have really been underestimating Sylvan lately, ususally tutoring for Ancestral before Sylvan with Vamp, but I may need to rethink that. So, Steve schools me game 1, then mana burns to death game 2 off Mana Drain mana because he was just wanted to get me to 1 then concede. We didn't really have time for a third game, so Steve let me go on which I must thank him for now.
Thanks
(I <3 writing late at night). I'll have to get a rematch someday soon
Sooooooooooooooooo I'm in the Top 4(after a bit of confusion where the computer INSISTED on having Rob in the Top 4, even though he was 2-2 and others were 3-1 that weren't in lol.)
The top 4 was:
Me - Keeper
Bryce - rOSE
Steve(The shop owner, not Zherbus) - Mono Black Land-D/Haunting Echoes
Josh - ???
Semifinals Vs Bryce playing rOSE - Joy of Joys, I play the deck that defeated me in the swiss
(Don't worry fans, all turns out well... for me anyways:()
Game 1: I mana screw Bryce, drop a pretty quick Morph and win
Sideboarding is the same as before
Game 2: I mana screw Bryce, drop a pretty quick Morph and win(I'm not even kidding).
Really rotten luck, I know I apologized for it earlier, but still, sorry about it
.
Finals vs Steve playing Mono Black Land-D/Haunting Echoes
Interesting deck, but he lacked Duress and Hymn which really hurt him alot.
Game 1: I take some City damage while he attacks my lands with the whopping 2 land-d spells he draws. He does get in a hit or 2 with Shade, but i'm able to dispatch it. He gets out a Chimeric Idol, then another which I mana Drain. I drop a Mox Monkey and kill a Scroll I think with the mana.(I may have Stroked, and in fact, I think that's what I may have done). Regardless, I drop Monkey somewhere and during his upkeep, attempt to smash his Chimeric Idol. He doesn't turn it into a creature in response(probably because he didn't know about the non-creature restriction, which in his defence, many people don't know about). I had just planned to make him tap out for a turn, but with the idol gone, I get some breathing room. He gets out a scroll and starts hitting me. He gets me to where I need to start sacrificing lands to stay alive. HOWEVER, I
still have monkey on the board. It takes me until he tries to kill it to realize that i could just have killed the damn Scroll, rather than sac some lands. I also chew up a Sol Ring while i'm at it. I draw Morphling very soon after and he is unable to deal with it. During this game, I had Cunning Wished for Teferi's Response, to try to ward him off from destroying my lands, but he Wastelanded anyways, and after i Regrew it, he did it again. The extra cards helped me find my Morphling to kill him.
Sideboarding: I take out Zuran Orb for Teferi's Response, because I really can't think of anything else to take out(He had artifact creatures and some normal ones, so Abyss was still good, as were my spot removal. Fire/Ice could have come out possibly).
At this point, i'm running on empty. If I don't win this game, I'm quite sure I won't make it through another.
Game 2: He starts off VERY slowly, killing an Underground Sea, then doing nothing for a while. While he is doing nothing, I bust up my Lotus to bring Morphling to liven up the party. I dont' do much more than bring Morph over 4 times to win.
So hooray for me. Jason takes a picture of me with Bryce in the background flicking me off
. Some derogatory comments are made in regards to how shitty Vermont is, and we bounce off to eat while Steve returns home to Jes. So we all eat at this meat joint and chat for a while before leaving for home.
/rant Vermont is Garbage. Never, EVER, under any circumstances, VISIT VERMONT. It's easily the crappiest state in the Union and should be bulldozed to make parking lots. /endrant
On the way home, we devise ways of using Magic to kill Vermont. We end up with Living Plane, Unnatural Selection, then the kill card of choice. We got a nice laugh from Fireball, Flashfires(If we can make them Plains), Stone Rain and my favorite, Obliterate. Ahhhhhh, Obliterating Vermont.
Vermont is shit.
Annnnnnnnnnnyways, I had a great time and am looking foward to hanging out with Steve again(thanks alot for the hospitality). We all had a great time and feel the 10 hour total drive was worth it.
Carl
PS. Any Vermontian ManaDrainers: I am sorry for shitting on your state like that, but I really hate it :\\n\n
