MoreFling - Ronald

[Rodosti]

Game 1 :

Roland wins the die roll and chooses to go first. MoreFling mulligans a no land hand, and goes down to 6 cards. Roland opens with land, Sleight of Hand. MoreFling plays Strip Mine targeting his Tropical Island, and passes turn. Roland plays another one, followed by another plains from MoreFling’s side. Roland goes land Quirion Dryad, followed by a Swords on MoreFling’s turn which gets Memory Lapsed. Roland then attacks for 3. MoreFling draws the Sword again, and plays it but it gets Lapsed again. Roland goes Tog, Gush, Fastbond. MoreFling on the brink of conceding plays balance, but it gets countered. MoreFling scoops.

1-0   Roland

Game 2 :

MoreFling sides in Blood Moons, which will be effective. MoreFling chooses to play, and both players keep their hands. MoreFling plays a Plains, followed by a Sea from Ronald. He plays Sleight of Hand. MoreFling plays a Scroll Rack which surprisingly gets past the counters. Roland plays land and Brainstorm. MoreFling activates scroll and plays Sol Ring and Mox Diamond. He can now cast his Blood Moon with a two Replenish on top of library two Orim’s Chant backup. Roland goes Time Walk, Demonic tutor, gush, Fastbond, Duress. Seeing two chants he takes one. MoreFling plays Chant, but it is Forced, he proceeds to play Blood Moon, Forced also. Roland plays Dryad and goes. MoreFling resolves Replenish getting Blood Moon into play. Roland goes draw, go, and MoreFling resolves Land Tax. Roland concedes soon.

1-1

Game 3 :

Roland decides to go first. MoreFling mulligans a 6 mana source hand. Roland goes Sea, Sleight of Hand. MoreFling plays Plains, and Roland follows with Duress. MoreFling reveals a Blood Moon with no red sources and a Replenish. Ronald takes the last. MoreFling plays plains and passes. Roland shows some action going Delta, Tropical, Gush floating UB, Demonic Tutor, Fastbond and Ancestral Recall. MoreFling sighs, and plays yet another Plains. Roland plays Dryad, and MoreFling follows with an end of turn Chant and Swords. On his turn he plays a Aura of Silence responded by Roland’s Brainstorm, drawing nothing his Fastbond is destroyed. Roland plays yet another Dryad, and Time Walk. MoreFling plays Scroll, but Roland answers with Foil, his Sol Ring is Lapsed. Roland bashes for 4 and passes turn. MoreFling attempts a Sol Ring which resolves, but his moat is Dazed. Roland plays Brainstorm, Lotus and to MoreFling’s dismay, Yawgmoth’s Win. MoreFling scoops.

2-1 for Ronald

[MoreFling]

Zespris (Rodosti) was looking over my shoulder during the match, we netmeetinged it up (I invented another word!) so I have little to add.

I'll just make a few amendaments:

Game 1:

I hate Lapse when I'm stalling on 2 lands!
I finally realised how good it was.

Something funny happened though, which was at least funny for me and Zespris. When Roland played his first sleight, I opened the T1 b/r list in appr (a known glitch to check out face down cards).
Zespris was unsure wether he would mention it, but I thought I would, since no harm was intended, it's a habit of playing in #magic-league tournament, and #apprentice stuff back in the day. Anyway, I didn't do it for the rest of the match, since well, I suddenly realised what I was doing heh...
habits habits....

Game 2:

About the siding:
I sided in 1 blood moon, Moat, and took out humilities.
I also took out digger and karmic justice in favour of replenish #3 and Story Circle #2.
I didn't realise untill AFTER game 3 that I should've taken out 3 aura's for 1 or 2 seals, and add abeyance or crypts.
In the end, roland conceded when Claws of Gix hit play, and he knew I would go into tax-rack mode and kill him.

Game 3:
The first hand was 1 Swords, 2 Wasteland, 1 Mountain, 1 Sol Ring and the rest plains.
It's an obvious hand to throw back, but I admit I had some doubt anyway, since wasteland is v. v. good against the mana-light growatog. Also, a swords and mountain-sol ring wouldn't have hurt either.
Guess we'll never know what Apprentice had in store for me.

I drew 2x Plains, Moat, Swords, Blood Moon and Plenish, and failed to draw some other land, untill plains nr3 in turn 4 and sol ring after that.
Also, here I realised my mistake with the aura's who were still in the deck. I didn't cost me the game or anything, but it's still an error.
Roland had a very good hand though, keeping a 1 land hand (or so he admitted afterwards when I asked him about it).
Ofcourse, a first turn sleight can smooth that out, and it did, since it didn't LOOK like he kept that kind of hand, since he drew into enough land.

I think we both played good games, and Roland's deck obviously has the edge over mine, although it was closer then I thought on beforehand.
I still think Smmenen's version of Growatog is better though, but Lapse did pay off for Roland against me, since he stalled me manascrewed game 1, and bought an important turn Game 3.

[dicemanX]

Quote The first hand was 1 Swords, 2 Wasteland, 1 Mountain, 1 Sol Ring and the rest plains.
It's an obvious hand to throw back, but I admit I had some doubt anyway, since wasteland is v. v. good against the mana-light growatog.

That looks like a fantastic hand vs growatog! You have the amazing Wastes in hand, a Swords to take care of the first creature, and the ability to cast a Blood Moon (if you happen to top-deck one in the next 3-4 turns) since you have acceleration and a Mountain in hand.

I would definitely keep it. I'm curious why you thought it was so bad?

[jpmeyer]

A fetchland makes that hand significantly weaker, and a fetchland with a Gush makes it worthless.

[Fishhead]

Quote A fetchland makes that hand significantly weaker, and a fetchland with a Gush makes it worthless.

But its all about the odds.  You cant mull to 6 because you are afraid of what your opponent might have.  Besides, if you make him Gush with your first Waste and then tag him with your second one, you've got huge tempo.  Nothing to do with it, but then Parfait never does anything.  

[MoreFling]

Like I said, I had doubts about throwing it back, but I might have just gotten more random crap.
Also, now that I think of it, I'm not 100% sure it was a swords, it could've been a Chant, but I just typed of swords since that would actually make me thing, while a chant and 6 mana sources would def. be thrown back... I'm just not sure what it was.
Still, JP is very right though.
Sure, I can draw into great things, but then again, I cannot.
And to be honest, I cannot build on a real tempo advantage, since I'm playing parfait, tempo advantage doesn't really exist heh.