ToC 6 Top Eight!

[Radagast]

I just played my semifinals match against Kirika, and I...





















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Won 2-1. But you probably guessed that, since otherwise I wouldn't be writing this.
Recap:

Game 1: He wins the roll, and chooses to go first. He mulligans a no-land hand, while I topdeck a Lotus turn 1, and Concentrate, then Misdirect his Ancestral. A few turns later I get my own, and ride the card advantage to victory.

Game 2: I mulligan a no-land hand.He goes turn 1 Land-Mox-Lotus-Scroll-Ancestral, and I have no counter. He then FoWs my Ancestral, and we play the waiting game for a while. At a critical point in the game I walk straight into his Teferi's Response, and he draws something like REB + Geyser (both of our hands were otherwise empty). I lose pretty quickly afterwards.

Game 3: This was pretty interesting. I get an early Library, but only get 1 card out of it before it meets a Strip Mine. A few turns later I Skeletal Scrying for 2 off the mana I float from my lone black source which he wastes, and a -large- counterwar ensues, which I win. I untap, and Concentrate off
Drain mana; I think he FoFs in response, which I Force. Over the next few turns I resolve some more card-draw, including an FoF of my own, but don't get very much -- 2 misdirections, a Duress, a counter or two, and a ton of mana, if I remember correctly. I debate Duressing proactively or waiting until I have something to force through with it, and choose the latter. He drops a Scrying Glass - damn. I have a Demonic Tutor though, and cast it... and I am about to take Ancestral, when I notice Back to Basics, which I had completely forgotten about. I play it (he is completely tapped out), counter an REB or two, and a few turns later topdeck Yawgmoth's Will for the win.

Sideboarding:
Game 2 --
In: 4 Phyrexian Negator, 3 Duress, 2 Back to Basics
Out: The Abyss, Capsize, Nevinyrral's Disk, Psionic Blast, Mystical Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Impulse, Stroke, and one other thing - Powder Keg?
I plan to mislead him with the Negators, and remove them for game 3 (if it comes to that), leaving him with dead cards.

Game 3 --
In: 3 Duress, 2 Back to Basics, 1 Phyrexian Negator (didn't find anything better)
Out: The Abyss, Capsize, Psionic Blast, Mystical Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Nevinyrral's Disk

[nargoT]

Radagast and I just finsihed playing, and I ended up winning.  In game 1, I get a quick phid and start drawing cards, and it gets a twin and I win from there.  Game 2 I get a quick thief and steal his morphlings, then attack him to about 11 with the thief.  He tries a scrying, I win the counterwar and drop a morphlings and win.  In the 2nd game he was missing the black mana for the negators in his hand.

[Matt The Great]

So was I your only loss?

[Redman]

So that means we have a winner? Somehow seems a little anticlimactic...

Well congrats nargoT, and thanks to everyone who was a good sport and actually did the things I asked for in the tourney (Who, for the most part, made into the Top 8. Coincidence? I think not.). It was fun for me, and hopefully the next ToC will be even better.

[Abra_Volta]

Redman, do you think you can get with Zherbus and create like a 1 page synopsis of the top 8 to make it easier for everyone to know what happened?

If not, i would be willing to try and write something up.

Let me just see if I can get this right:

Quarter-finals:

Matt the Great (PT Funk) vs. Redman (Clubber Lang)
Nargot (Urphidian) vs. Psyduck (ducktape.dec)
-CF- (Tainted Mask) vs. Radagast (U/B Keeper Redux)
Kirika (Keeper) vs. TnTdrew (Suicide)

Semi-finals:

Redman (Clubber Lang) vs. Nargot (Urphidian)
Radagast (U/B Keeper Redux) vs. Kirika (Keeper)

Finals:

Nargot (Urphidian) vs. Radagast (U/B Keeper Redux)

Winner of ToC6 is Nargot! Congrats!

[Redman]

I think you summed it up nicely enough right there. The reports are scattered  around here on this thread as well.