Millford, CT Report **1st Place**

Woke up at about nine, Moobius (Chris K) picked me up, and we went over to Hulk3rulez(Brian's) house. Once we got there, we learn that a couple of our other team mates are having difficulty. Adam (Unreg. ill-dawg) was bit by the "didn't change his clock" attack. While Ben (Unreg. SummenSaugen) was supposed to be in Adam's car. In time, we picked up Ben, and got on the way down to CT.

Adam calls us one hour later.

We all make it to the tournament and start filling out the deck registration, I try to find some trading but no one wanted to trade at all, all these kids think that for some reason I wouldn't want to entertain looking over a book filled with T2 cards. (Because why would a T1 player go to regionals?) Anyway... so Adam got there on time, and the whole think startign at about 2:30. Whatever.

I registered Brought Sui obviously. That is what I do.

Round 1: Maria, playing black/red... deck?
Obviously a type2 player, at some point a soul scourge or something hit the table... I won both games without much effort, or sideboarding. I like it when people like this show up to tournaments, but I feel bad playing against them. Good Luck in the future.

2-0
1-0

Round 2: Random 10 year old playing.. ACADEMY!
I must start off by saying, this kid was awesome at magic. He was the smallest type 1 player I had ever seen, and he obviously had everything under control. I sure hope he sticks with the game long enough to be amazing- cause he flawlessly played Academy.

Game 1, I get off a duress right away and steal his only draw 7. Follow that with a hyppie and a threat. HE attempts to go off with 4 life remaining, and fails. He kills himself with some large amount of blue mana in his mana pool.

Game 2, He mulligans, and keeps a pretty bad hand. I play first turn shade/duress. He continues to draw nothing, until he is again at 4 life. Here he draws Academy, and tries to go off... we have a rules fight about the wording of "Urza's Bauble." If I win the fight, I win the match. If he wins the fight, he wins the game. I won the fight.

2-0
2-0

Round 3: Josh with Anti-Keeper
Another cool guy, he obviously plays alot of type one but I would assume his strategy is slightly out of date. I mean, his deck was a tight control deck that was built to stop Keeper, but Keeper isn't the deck to beat now-a-days.

Game 1, Lotus- Negator- Go. Attack. Attack. Attack. Attack.

Game 2, Read: Textbook game "How to beat Suicide using Keeper." Spell-manadrain-morphling 20-15-10-5-0. He top decked 5 counterspells in a row.

Game 3, Ritual-Ritual-Keg, Gator. I kill two moxen, and win in six turns. He draws Fire/Ice, without red mana... making me the luckiest man alive.

2-1
3-0

Round 4: Combo Aluren (yeah, in the 3-0 spot)
This guy was nice, he sat down and was like.. I am here by fluke, have a nice win.

Game 1, he dies to everything I have to offer. He never get's off the ground with anything, I saw an aluren in a duress, but took the worldy tutor anyway. Yes, worldly tutor.

Game 2, My phat gets in a fight with his lifeforce, but my shade and double hyppie are on the board facing down his 2 mazes already. He plays aluren and Concordent Crossroads and I drop everything in my hand, he plays Wizard Mentor, and Birds... and counters my life away. Anyway, I had a shade that dealt him a zillion damage in play. Er.. at least 20.

2-0
4-0

Round 5: OldSchool Sligh
(We could have drawn, but we were both 'retardedly in' (props to Moobius) but we played magic cause magic is fun.) Yeah this guy was talking smack earlier in the day to some other guys about being the 48rth best type1 player in the world by DCI ranking... (He was knocked out of top8 by my teamate playing FEB.)

Game 1, he kills em with burns and stuff. This match wasn't fun to play so I will keep it short.

Game 2, I kill him with kegs, and shades. He didn't top deck the win two turns in a row.

Game 3, tight game... he top decks the win on turn 2 of his search for 1 point of damage.

1-2
4-1

--TOP 8--
Quarterfinals: Not Quite EBA.
This kid was friends with Brian, and was playign a pretty cool deck. The first game an early negator and a Skirge took home the win, once he had a blocking land team the skirge showed up and totally walked away on top. Unearth on the skirge twice, and then it swung for the last 2 points.

Game 2: I cast a secodn turn duress as my first action.. and he reveals an oat of druids... after almost shitting myself, I violently throw it into his graveyard. Suicide just loses to that card... yuck! Without guys, he was left pretty vunerable, and a team of Hyppies won me this match, even though e took them out of hte skies with a pair of vindicates. Unearth.

Semifinals
Ben playing Suicide
Match went very well for me, because he was running Sinkhole(against my rock solid mana base) and I was running Powder Keg(Against his guys.) Lucky draws made it so that I didn't have the same casting cost guys out as him.

Game 1. The power of Keg, Unearth--Win.
Game 2. See Game 1.

Finals
Brian(Hulk3Rulez) playing U/Rphid
The day before this tournament, we met in the semifinals of the weekly Hadley Type1, and I beat him, so I was confident going into this match.

Game 1.
Brian took control of this game early. First turn land mox, Timewalk. Second turn Phid. He never lost control of the game.. but somehow, his deck shit on him. Outdrawing me 2 to 1.. my Shade resolved. I couldn't believe it. Then I swung four times and killed him. He flashes his hand of 7 land/mox.

Game 2.
He mulligans, and plays a land. I play land/mox and cast ritual. He counters ritual (sounds like a bad play... but it isn't he knew that I was going to cast multiple spells if he didn't.) Then.. I cast another ritual, and a Hymn to Tourach. He has one card in hand... and I burn for one. Next turn I play a shade, what a good creature. I win.

2-0
7-1
Pick up Mox Saphire. Thi makes me happy.

Props:
Millford for playing type1.
Brian for giving me ride/entry fee/ and dinner money.
Kid for playing Academy.
Me for winning a mox.

Slops:
Store Owner Assistant... for lying to me repeatedly.
CT Crew... for not making a showing.
The Clock... for Owning Adam.
Adam... for getting owned by the clock.