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Abhorsen105
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2004, 11:05:21 pm » |
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Pittsfield Report
(If a mod could move this to the tournament forum that would be great) Done -DrS
Obligatory pertournament story:
Friday evening I was talking to caleb, trying to decide what deck to play. I knew there would be fish, keeper, and workshops as the high tier. I was gonna just ignore that and play the terrible False Beacon. I knew that the cards to kill those decks were back to basics, damping matrix/null rod, and REBs. Caleb reminded me that dryad hate (the deck I made second with at a hadley a while ago) can run all of those. I throw together dryad hate and go to one of my friends tournaments. I crush everyone and go undefeated in games, but everyone was playing monogreen elves/red dwarves. Big accomplishment.
Saturday: While, like they said, they were prepared for a high turnout, you can only fit so many people into a space, so while there were tables for everyone it was really crowded. Anyway, I fill out a deck reg sheet. I only have 14 cards in my sideboard, and 7 proxies, so I decide what the hell, I’ll throw in a welder. It ended up winning so many games.
Round 1: Jesse with madness
Game 1: Misdirection rapes him. An early deep analysis gives me the cards I need and a fiery temper kills his own wild mongrel. So began a long day of killing people with their own key cards...
Game 2: I get a damping matrix to answer his army of mongrels and rootwallas, but I can’t find a cunning wish–> firestorm and get beaten to death.
Game 3: First turn future sight. He put up a valiant effort, but he couldn’t handle that. Firestorm clears the way for dryad beats.
1-0 2-1
Round 2: Rob with Trinistax
Game 1: Early dryad beats him down before he can do much. I force a tangle wire and a smokestack, so I have an idea what he was playing.
Game 2: I get a gorilla shaman and a null rod, but it was the welder that sealed it, welding out his karn in response to his weld.
2-0 4-1
Round 3: Loren with craaaaaaaazy UG aggro
Game 1: I see trinket mages, SotF’s, and xantid swarms, so I’m waiting for him to combo out on me. I’m so busy trying to counter possible combo stuff that some trinket mages and rootwallas beat me down for the win. (Note: damping matrix helped a lot shutting down skullclamps)
Game 2: An incredibly close game, I get him down to 8 while he plays nothing. He resolves survival, then goes nuts. But he still can’t find enough creatures to stop the dryad FTK team beating him down.
Game 3: I can’t remember too much about this one, I think that I got out a future sight and went crazy.
3-0 6-2
They decided to do 6 rounds with 46 people ??? so I couldn’t ID yet.
Round 4: Dave with Landstill
Game 1: I think he got a little landscrewed, all I remember is berserk ending a very close game.
Game 2: He parises into an iffy hand, my hand is ridiculous. First turn LoA gets wasted, second turn mox island sol ring B2B. Game Over.
I look through his deck after and see that he didn’t run any basic lands. He asked me to give him advice about it. The deck had a weak manabase, I advised him to switch to 2 color.
4-0 8-2
Round 5: ID
Round 6: ID
during this time I play some stoner flux with some conneticut people. My mom calls and asks how much more time it will be, but right when I got the phone the person asked me “do you want some more weed?�. Luckily my mom knew I wasn’t smoking pot. Close one.
Top 8: Crossman (sorry if I spelled your name wrong) with Fish
Game 1: I can’t really remember too much about this one, I think firestorm killed some stuff.
Game 2: An incredibly close game. I pop a standstill end of turn (bad brainstorm 4L ) and then play a back to basics when he has one volcanic open. A huge counter war ensues which I win. He beats me down for a while with a fairie while I slap him with a dryad that I can’t get any more power then three. I get out another dryad, but they both get echoing truthed. I think that card deserves a spot in all fish decks. I play them both again, and grow them really big. Finally, I’m at 1 life, he has a cloud of fairies and a maze of ith. One of my dryads gets unsummoned, and I have one big dryad. He can just maze it and then beat me to death with the faerie. I draw my one card, not knowing anything that can save me. Strip mine. In my most ridiculous topdeck ever, I strip the maze and swing for the win.
Ray: “ Sam you’re the luckiest bastard alive.�
Top 4: Kent with Trinistax
Both 1st and 2nd get a mox, so this match was really the finals.
Game 1: I get locked down early with a trinisphere, and then crucible + strip wrecks me. Didn’t look good
Game 2: I established a lock and then beat him down with a goblin welder... WTF!
I get out a null rod, followed shortly by a back to basics. Then the only kill I can find after looking through half my deck was a welder, which beat him down for 20 straight turns for the kill.
Game 3: He mulls down to 5, I get a crazy hand; which is good because I couldn’t think at all. I play land sol ring null rod first turn. Back to Basics comes shortly after. He REBs the back to basics, but my deck loves me so very very much that I find another that turn. I think a gorilla shaman hit him for 20 straight turns. It might have been a welder.
Finals: Aaron with Trinistax
We already decided on the prizes, he took the ruby I took the emerald and traded it straight up for a signed jet. So the finals were pretty casual.
Game 1: Some kind of lock kills me.
Game 2: Back to Basics turn 2 = win
Game 3: This was just painful to watch. My deck just gave me literally EVERYTHING that I needed, back to basics huge dryads, welder shaman null rod. He didn’t really mind because he already had the mox.
Slops:
Caleb, for playing with juggies instead of good cards.
Crucible of Worlds, for being a whore (sooooooo many people played with it)
Props
mad props to caleb for convincing me to not play some terrible deck
whoever traded me the jet, I can’t remember
Terry for running a great tournament
everyone for being nice, I didn’t have a single cutthroat match all day
Dryad Hate strikes again!
Mana (23)
4 tropical island
3 volcanic island
4 polluted delta
5 island
1 forest
4 solomox
1 LoA
1 strip mine
Kill (5)
4 quirion dryad
1 FTK
Counter (10)
4 force of will
4 mana drain
2 misdirection
Draw/Search (17)
4 AK
4 brainstorm
1 gush
1 ancestral recall
2 cunning wish
1 merchant scroll
1 deep analysis
1 mystical tutor
2 future sight
Broken (5)
3 damping matrix
1 fastbond
1 time walk
Sideboard (15)
3 red elemental blast
1 pyroblast
2 back to basics
2 null rod
1 berserk
1 oxidize
1 naturalize
1 firestorm
1 capsize (just about the only card I didn't use)
1 gorilla shaman
1 goblin welder (so good)
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