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Jesse Driggers
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« on: April 16, 2003, 02:47:07 pm » |
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Since this was a road trip tournament, I'm treating everybody to the experience of seven hours in a car...
It starts off in Summerville, South Carolina. After getting off work at 4 pm, I drive to Shawn's. We had decided to take his car because $80 in gas is less than $120-150 or so in my explorer. As a result only three of us came(sorry Dave+Gohan). We spent the next couple hours running wire through his car because he had not yet moved his system from his old car. Part way through Shawn's dad asks if we want some Cheeseburgers. Uh, Yeah?!? so we eat cheese burgers for a while, and watch basketball. We then go out to finish his system. After we get everything hooked up(around 8pm) we realize the fuse on the power cable was blown. so we don't have loud tunes. anyway, we go get billy now. after getting billy, we stop by shawn's again and I play around with Homestarrunner.com I <3 Trogdor!!. around 11 we decide to leave. So we get on I26 west listening to Evanescence. I95 to 295? was Linkin Park, and 295 was mainly Mega Man theme music beatings.
Also, many jokes were said about Billy's sister(Go lolita go. can't wait for her to turn 18!!!!!!!lol)
we get there around 8am or so and sleep for 2-3 hours.
they annonuce the prize changes and such, and I am happier now.
Heres my list
GAT
4 Quirion Dryad
4 Psychatog
4 Gush
4 Brainstorm
3 Sleight of Hand(better than opt. you get to see both cards before making a choice.)
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
2 Misdirection
2 Counterspell
2 Merchanmt Scroll
2 Cunning Wish
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Regrowth
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Fastbond
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
4 Tropical Island
1 island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
61 cards
side
3 Duress
2 Smother
2 Steely Resolve
2 Submerge(useless
1 Berserk
3 Naturalize
1 Ebony Charm(useless
1 Diabolic Edict
as for matches, if nothing relavent/or no massive tech plays occured I will say something like "i drop tog, counter stuff, go off soon after."
Round 1: Chris Parsons, Mask
I consider mask to be a hard match, although not an unfavorable one.
Game 1: he went first and Unmasked/Masked. 2 dreadnoughts later...
out
2 Misdirection(I only saw unmask to Misd)
2 Cunning Wish
1 Merchant Scroll
In
3 Naturalize
2 Smother
Game 2: he had 1st turn combo, I killed the PD he played another one and Willed one into play. I realized after the match that he couldn't of done that but its to late..I also had nothing to deal with just one and was at 6 life so it would not of mattered.
matches 0-1-0
games 0-2-0
round 2: Jay Parsons, Ankh Silgh.
game 1: i let him play creatures, and drop a dryad with a Misd 2x daze for backup. He can't handle it.
out
2 Cunning Wish
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Fast Bond
1 Yawgmoth's Will
In
2 Smother
2 Steely Resolve
1 Berserk.
Game 2: I drop 2 early dryads with a SR in play. he is at 12 life when I walk into 6/6 dryads and a smother for his blocker.
matches 1-1-0
games 2-2-0
Round 3: Jon Avila, Rector/Trix.
Game 1: He mulligans and is land light, and I have loads of counters. I kill with a dryad.
Out:
1 Regrowth
2 Cunning Wish
3 Daze
In
3 Duress
3 Naturalize
Game 2: He mulligans and I have a very good hand. I counter most of his spells and Dryad him. Dryad stayed a 1/1 for a while b/c I had 2 fow and a misd.
matches 2-1-0
games 4-2-0
round 4: ?, Mask.
Game 1: I counter his stuff, dryad cleans up.
out
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Regrowth
3 Daze
1 Fastbond
2 Cunning Wish
In
3 Naturalize
2 Smother
3 Duress
game 2: He goes Unmask, Swamp, Ruby, Sol Ring, Blood Moon. i scoop.
out
3 Duress
in
3 Daze
game 3: He consults for a Sea, and removes like 3 masks and 2 dreadnought. I win.
matches 3-1-0
games 6-3-0
Round 5, Schaffenacher?, GAT
I suck at playing any mirror that is not Void. I lose horribly. I do not wish to discuss my total suckitudity.
matches 3-2-0
games 6-5-0
round 6, ?, Void
great, my toughest match..
game 1: This was a very long game. I end up winning it with gush->tog.
i do not remember my siding. If you can't tell I like to side random out random stuff to see what happens.
game 2: 2nd turn void+factory. scoop
game 3: Time Walk + Dryads.
matches 4-2-0
games 8-6-0
T8 Darren(Azheri) Hulk.
game 1: It came down to him ancestraling into no land. he had a Drain, I had a dryad out(1/1) he only has 1 mana open. i drop a tog + timewalk. swing for 3, untap, gush win.
out
2 Daze
2 Wish
Vampiric
mystical
In
3 Duress
2 Smother
1 Edict
game 2: i scoop when he strips my 1 land.
game 3: I believe he mulls, i duress, he fow's, I misd. I see land, Ak, Intuition. bye-bye intuition. he really see's little from his deck while I draw like a god.
t4 Josh Reynolds(SliverKing), Keeper
Game 1: Isn't close. he owns me.
out
3 daze
1 mystical
1 Yawg will
1 vamp
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Fastbond
in
3 duress
2 Steely resolve
3 Naturalize
Game 2: I drop land, he drops a future sight without backup. it lands i topdeck Naturalize use it. I cast a dryad, he counters. Im done, he land gos i drop a dryad, it hits. i make it a 3/3 and have a fow+misd to back it. I ride it for the game.
game 3: I drop a turn 1 steely resolve(dryad.) two turns later I have a dryad. It winson my 8th turn.
t2 David(thorme), Ducktape
game 1: we stalemate for a while. I get beserk and swing for it.
out
some cards?
in
3 duress
3 naturalize
2 smother.
game 2. I throw this away. I manage to get him to 7 life, and I have a 3/3 dryad, and 1 mana open. he has 1 card in hand. I know my next 2 draws off brainstorm(gush and tog) he has a Sphere in play. He casts Tangle wire.I gush, tapping out instead of countering it...lack of sleep is bad. I lose this game b/c he gets out a stack and owns. oh well, at least I lose to good people.
game 3: he gets out a karn and a smokestack.
So I get a Moat, and had a hell of a time. I really envy the people who play there regularly. the metagame is extremely stron, and everyone there had a type 1 deck(here we see 1.x and t2 sometimes), and most everybody was a really good player.
Props
Shawn, for driving for 14 hours.
Thorme, for winning with Ducktape while hungover. NICE.
all my opponents, for being very sportsmanlike.
Steely Resolve, for handling a problem match.
slops,
Submerge. I have not used it yet after 3 tournaments.
ebony charm. see above.
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