Gay Fish is sent into the fray again

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« on: February 09, 2003, 02:26:29 am »

I took Gay Fish to another T1 tourney with the same build as last time, barring a couple of sb changes:

4 lord of atlantis
4 manta riders
4 rootwater theif
4 cloud of faeries

4 force of will
3 misdirection
3 null rod

4 curiosity
4 standstill
2 coastal piracy

4 faerie conclave
4 mishra's factory
4 wasteland
1 strip mine
11 island

sb:
2 maze of ith
2 magus of the unseen
1 powder keg
1 tormod's crypt
1 nevinyrral's disk
6 blue blasts
2 chill

I would have more kegs and more crypts in there if I owned them..

The tourney was just 6 rounds with no finals. This is all from memory so some of it could be wrong.
Round 1: TNT
Game 1 he busted out some fat very quickly, followed by a trike and a core to take care of the few critters I had. This was over very quickly.
Game 2 he got a turn 2 survival, spent turn 3 setting up, just in time to have me crypt his squee, anger, and a su-chi(maybe wonder too? cant remember). I dropped multiple null rods in short order, which cleared the way for me to safely drop the ever classy magus of the unseen. 2 maze of iths and the magus held his 3 fatties at bay, despite having 2 welders in play. I fow'ed some more fat while flying over with a few fish, who stole his genesis while they were over there. Eventually the fishy hordes emerged victorious, despite there being 4 or so large fatties in play over the other side of the table.
Game 3 I went through all 3 null rods as he had sided in naturalizes for this game. Mazes and a null rod once again stopped the brokeness, and he didnt get a survival until it was far too late. A hit from his own juggernaut finally sealed the deal.

matches 1-0, games 2-1.

Match 2: trix with a transformational sb to turn it into dragon. he just loves his combo decks.
Game 1: 2 wastelands, a strip mine and null rod combine to stop him from being able to cast anything. He died very quickly, unable to raise a finger to stop me.
Game 2: His first turn attempt at entomb showed me he had sb'ed into dragon. I forced the entomb, then tried a thief which got mana drained. Then began the manland beatdown. I forced a few attempts at getting a dragon into his graveyard, then he finally did and reanimated it. He had no way of breaking the loop though and was just trying to draw an obviously lost game, until I pointed out that I had a thief in my graveyard. I got my nevinyrral's disk into play and untapped though which ensured he was never going to combo. The lone thief he had in play was not enough to stop me from finishing the job.
Matches 2-0, games 4-1

Round 3: parfait
Game 1: His first turn tax was met by me refusing to play a second land. He went ahead with his second land, which allowed me to play some random manlands, and a standstill. He broke the standstill to play a moat, and plowed a few creatures, but I eventually got a single, then double, then single, then double, then single curiositied manta rider, which survived a few plows thanks to misdirection, and drew me massive quantities of cards. Shortly a coastal piracy helped my manta rider, manlands and faeries to draw so many cards that at one point I had 3 force of wills in hand.
Game 2: He once again first turn land taxed, and once again he couldnt use it because I wouldnt play land. He got a zuran orb in short order though so I started playing lands. I soon got several null rods in play, and a rootwater thief, which stole both his sacred mesa's, then his moat (I noticed he'd also sided in humility), then his life.

Matches 3-0, games 6-1.

Round 4: pox
Game 1 looked good as I came fast out of the blocks with many manlands, fish, and a standstill. This was short lived though as he cast pox 3 turns in a row. A steel golem and mishra's factory came along shortly to clean up the scraps.
Game 2 He first turn duressed me, seeing fow, misdirection and standstill. He took the force of will, then tried to second turn sinkhole my manland?!? After sinking his own land, then copping a wasted factory and a stripped swamp, he found he could not cast anything. Awwww. The fish didn't feel bad about kicking him when he was down though, as they continued to kick sand in his face, knee him in the groin and stand on his neck.
Game 3 He played 4 racks by turn 3 but had no hand kill to back it up. I thiefed 3 of his poxes, then forced the 4th, and from there it was a pretty easy win.

Matches 4-0 games 8-2

Round 5: dragon
Game 1 was horribly short as I lost my fow to his first turn duress, and never got a 3rd turn as for some reason my library wouldnt let me draw 1000 cards.
Game 2 was a lot better as I used many standstills to draw many many cards, and continually forced and misdirected his attempts at comboing. A null rod and a few wastes helped slow him down enough to beat him to death.
Game 3 was sweet as I forced twice in the first couple of turns, thiefed both his dragons and all of his sideboarded negators, which was followed shortly by a concession.

Matches 5-0 games 10-3

Round 6: pandeburst.. The tourney was effectively over for me at this point as I was 6 points ahead of anyone else and there was going to be no finals. Still, I had copped a lot of mockery from poor fools who were just jealous of my cool deck and my elite mazes and magus's in the board that I had to continue the undefeated run!
Game 1 He took a long time to set up, due to my wastes and null rods, which gave me time to thief his 3 replenishes. Unfortunately I knew he was playing 1 burning wish and a 4th replenish in his board, and he obviously had the wish in his hand. He intuitioned the combo into his yard and then forced the wished-for replenish through with a mana drain for my fow and fow for my mis-d.
Game 2 I once again slowed him down with null rods and wastes, fow'ed several intuitions and then thiefed both of his saproling bursts with my double curiositied fish. He shortly dropped an abyss which killed my thief before I could take the last victory condition in his library (morphling), but double then triple manland beatdown ended the game before he could find it.
Game 3 we had 1 minute left for. I got to about turn 5 before time was called, and I just put multiple null rods in play, and sat back on the 2 fow 1 mis-d hand I had. He tried to combo on turn 3 of extra time, but could not get through my wall of pitch counters.

Matches 5-0-1, games 11-4-1

I topped the field and proved that the fish may be gay but they are annoying as hell! I learned that I must acquire more tormod's crypts, as they would have been pure gold in this field, despite being quite bad with null rod.


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