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nargoT
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« on: October 19, 2002, 10:37:13 pm » |
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Game 1 I started off with some artifact mana and scrolled up an ancestral, while he played out a Savannah Kitten. I then got a thief out after silencing the Kitten and when it hit I learned redman was holding 2 negators and I stole cards completly at random. I never really got lands in this game but had artifact mana keeping the thievery up. Redman manages to get a meddling mage (on mana drain) and 2 negators out (but with only 3 lands to sac to the negators if they are hurt) vs my 2 thieves and a phid. By this time I am holding a fire/ice and a scroll but do not have any red mana sources thanks to a vindicate. My 3 little guys die to the negators to take out redmans 3 lands and his mage, and I am unable to get the lands needed to fire/ice the pair of negators or to play the hill giant in my hand so I die.
I sided in 3 Flametongue kavu and 1 blood moon for the thieves. I am unsure how he sideboarded, but I saw a BEB in game 3. When we played in the swiss he sided in crystalline slivers, but I never saw him play one so he may not have sided them in this time.
Game 2 started of fast with a turn 1 phid from me and a turn 1 Savannah Kitten from him. When I attacked on turn 2, he chumped to prevent me from drawing. I had no lands to play so my turn was done. He busted out a meddling mage for flametongue kavu (I let this go because I had both the kavu and fire/ice in my hand), then he dropped a negator off a lotus. I laughed a bit, and kill the mage on his turn. Flametongued the negator killing all of his permanents, and drew a card off the phid. He didn't have a land so I stroked up 3 cards and showed him my hand (of something like 5 counters and a morphling) and he conceded.
Game 3 redman again started off with a turn 1 savannah puppy. I laid an island and was done. I ancestral'd when he tried to duress me then let it go and showed him mana drain, 2 fire/ice, LOA, a kavu, and some other things that he wouldn't bother take. He took the mana drain. I then played out the LOA and he played out a serendib I coulndl't counter. On my turn I cast Flametongue to kill the serendib, leaving only LOA untapped, and he took this free opportunity to cast a masticore. On my turn I began drawing a lot of cards looking for a morphling which is my only answer for a masticore if my opponent keeps mana untapped. When I was down to 9 life vs his masticore and savannah kitten, I played a stroke at the end of his turn for a bunch of cards, and on my turn dropped 2 phids (he had 6 mana at the time and 2 cards in hand). On his turn with 2 in hand 6 lands 2 creatures, vs my 2 creatures, 7 in hand, and a lot of lands (most tapped from phids) redman cast a balance which I countered with FoW. And then redman attempted to skeletal scrying for 3 which I also cast FoW to counter. Leaving him without a hand to keep his masticore around. From this point forward I had an LOA going and was holding 5 counters most of the time so eventually I won. Redman could have played it slower with the masticore shooting off the phids and attacking while keeping mana open to regenerate from a flametongue. If he had played it out this way, I would not have found my morphling in time to save me. With how many cards I was drawing during this game it it would probably be a good assumption I would have found a morphling in time, but they were both hiding near the bottom of my deck.
These were some fun games, if anyone wants the logs they should shoot themselves because they aren't really that much fun. This report is out of my memory so it could be completly untrue. I probably misspelled a lot of things and used a bunch of commas in random places, but it's late so too bad.
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