(Tournament Report) Saturday June 26th Warp 9 Clawson MI

[everythingitouchdies]

Top 4 Decklists:

Food Chain Goblins (Gimbles) 1st Place

//The Fat
4 Goblin Piledriver
2 Siege-Gang Commander
4 Goblin Lackey
3 Warchief
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
3 Goblin Prospector
3 Gempalm Incinerator

//Assorted Flavors of Win
4 Goblin Recruiter
4 Goblin Ringleader
2 Goblin Matron
4 Food Chain
1 Wheel of Fortune

//Manabase
1 Mox Emerald
1 Elvish Spirit Guide
1 Chrome Mox
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
6 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Taiga
4 Wasteland
1 Stripmine

//SB
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Stripmine
3 Artifact Mutation
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Gorilla Shaman
2 Tormod's Crypt

B/G Dragon (Everythingitouchdies) 2nd Place

Artifacts:
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt

Land:
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Bayou
2 Swamps
1 Forest

Black:
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Entomb
3 Buried Alive
4 Duress
4 Necromancy
2 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
4 Dark Ritual

Red:
4 Worldgorger Dragon
4 Squee, Goblin Nabob

Blue:
1 Ambassador Laquatus

Green:
3 Xantid Swarm
1 Crop Rotation
1 Caller of the Claw

Gold:
2 Pernicious Deed

Sideboard:
2 Verdant Force
2 Sundering Titan
3 Naturalize
2 Pernicious Deed
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Coffin Purge

Suicide Black (SimpleHiker) 3rd Place

-Lands
16 Swamps
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

-Mana
4 Dark Ritual
1 Sol Ring

-Creatures
4 Phyrexian War Beast
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Nantuko Shade
1 Phyrexian Negatior

-Discard/Denial
4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
4 Null Rod

-Utility
3 Night Whisper
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will

-Sideboard
1 Black Lotus
4 Contagion
4 Powder Keg
4 Masticore
2 Planar Void

R/G Land Destruction (BauerKreig) 4th Place

Artifact:
1 Zuran Orb
1 Sol Ring
4 Tanglewire
2 Powder Keg
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Mox Ruby

Red:
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Stone Rain

Green:
2 Thermokarst
4 Ice Storm
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Terravore
2 Argothian Wurm

Land:
2 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
4 Forest
1 Strip Mine
4 Taiga
2 Mishra’s Factory
1 Treetop Village
4 Wasteland

Sideboard:
4 Artifact Mutation
2 Root Maze
2 Gaea’s Blessing
4 Red Elemental Blast
3 Null Rod



We only had a turnout of 16, but competing with origins is not an easy task. There were a mixture of decks, including GAT, 10 land stompy, multiple sui black, FCG, Dragon, fish, and some rogue stuff.

A Brief synpsis of my matchups with Dragon:

Round 1: 10 land stompy 2-1

I go first, play bazaar, pitch a dragon and play a jet, have a dark ritual in my hand. My opponent drops a rogue elephant and a ghazban Ogre. All I gotta do is find an animate spell in 4 turns. I fail to do so.

Games two and three I combo by turn 3. Good times

Round 2: GAT 2-0

I LOVE DURESS. It wins me game one on turn 3.

Game two I barely escape a vicious fate at the hands of two dryads, if my opponent would have drawn less land and I would have drawn one less animate spell I would have died the turn after I combo. Sorry Paul, that always happens to you.

Round 3: Fish 2-0

I LOVE DURESS EVEN MORE. Game one: My opponent brainstorms in response, hides his counterspells and shows me some creatures, so I combo.

Game two becomes a beatfest. Deed stumps his creatures and his lands get me to five before they have to worry about VERDANT FORCE and his little token buddies. The games ends when my opponent actually has no cards in his hand and I rip an animate spell off the top of my deck. He is at 4 and I am at 5, what a great time to combo.


Round 4: Strange Sui 2-0

I get concerned when game one I duress and in my opponent's hand is an animate dead. Fortunately he makes me discard a dragon off a specter and I necromancy during his endstep.

Game two I combo second turn. All is well.


Top 4: Sui 2-0

I was really concerned about this match. Fortunately I stole game one with a ritual and a buried alive after getting my bazaar stripped. Game two was a relief as I realized he has no sideboard hate and no maindeck edicts. Dragon wins.

Top 2: FCG 0-2

I mulligan for the first time of the day in game one. To 5. He combos second turn. I am one mana from comboing first.

Game two: Mulligan to 5 again. OUCH. Turn one: bazaar, pitch a dragon. His turn one, wasteland , my bazaar drop tormods cypt. I animate, he rips my graveyard. I have an entomb and an animate spell but one too few mana to play both, he deals lethal damage turn 4.


All in all I was dissapointed to see my opponent walk away with a berserk, volcanic and some packs and settle for a bayou and a pile o packs. I later offed the packs to some kids by my house, bought dinner and called it a day.

Thanks to everyone who showed, hope they do it again (I hear talk of a bazaar for the next one...)

EITD

[Moxlotus]

How many decks were there?  Because there is NO blue in the top 4

[xerxes]

Actually there is blue in the top four. Ambassador Laquatus in Dragon.

[Angel]

Well, I think the reason for a lack of blue in the Top 4 was that I was one of two there playing FoW, and I narrowly missed Top 4 on tiebreakers... grrr so close. I was playing the Gay/r fish deck mentioned in the list of decks present. My only loss was the the Dragon deck, and I actually beat the FCG, but my tiebreakers were horrible and I lost at least one game in every match I played =/ suxxors. It was a really fun tournament, and there should be another one around the end of July... we'll post it here when it's announced. It will be the awesomeness.

Peace

John

[Sam_haight]

Not wanting to be picky or anything, but is the FCG deck supposed to have 2 strips in the side aswell as one main.

[everythingitouchdies]

Not wanting to be picky or anything, but is the FCG deck supposed to have 2 strips in the side aswell as one main.

You know I didnt notice that when he sent me the list. I really dont know what all he had, I just know he sided in two crypts against me.

Of sixteen decks only two of them had FOW... the fish deck and GAT, and I beat them both with dragon. Good times.

Thanks again ANGEL for the awesome ancestral recall. It makes my dragons happy.

EITD

[Komatteru]

All the blue players were at Origins.  In my first tourney, I played against mono blue Control, and then 'tog the rest of the night.  On Saturday, I played 2 'togs and 2 Miracle Grows (and a Sui black thrown in for good measure).

[SpencerForHire]

Not wanting to be picky or anything, but is the FCG deck supposed to have 2 strips in the side aswell as one main.

Sorry about the stripmine attrocity in my sideboard, replace all instances of stripmine (in the SB) with [card]Null Rod[/card], thats what I had.
I was in a rush to send out the decklist because I was supposed to be somewhere soo, a bit rushed in all.  I'll try to double check it in the future.