[Report/Announcement] Weekly Don's @ Balboa Park, San Diego

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Here's the Announcement part. Everyone in So Cal, if you don't already know, we have a weekly tournament here in Balboa Park C_hess (DAM FILTERS) Club. We generally starts at 7 unless wenches like Pat comes down from LA and is late that we've to wait. Here's the detail:

Every Monday, 7:00 PM

Address:

2225 6th Ave.
San Diego, CA 92101

You would see a sign of "The Balboa Club/Balboa Park Horseshoe Club" right in front of it.

Here's the report part.

The usual Monday tournament at Don's didn't draw as much people as last week. We got a total of 11 players. I was playing a personally modified version of Eastman's suicide GAT. The main reason I switched from control GAT to suicide GAT is that the local meta starts to shift away from control and more to combo and aggro. I play tested with Brokennut against belcher before going to the tournament and I found the deck quite potent. Here is my list.

Mana (23)
4x Tropical Island
4x Underground Sea
3x Island
4x Fetches
6x Lomoxen
Rx Strip Mine
Rx Library of Alexandria

Creature (6)
4 Quirion Dryad
2 Psychatog

Disruption (10)
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
1 Daze

Draw/Cantrips (14)
4x Night's Whisper
4x Serum Visions
4x Brainstorm
Rx Ancestral Recall
Rx Gush

Tutors (4)
Rx Demonic Tutor
Rx Mystical Tutor
2x Cunning Wish

Baroken (3)
Rx Yawgmoth's Will
Rx Time Walk
1x Berserk

Sideboard (15)
2x Naturalize
1x Oxidize
1x Tranquil Domain (got a void player here)
2x Deep Analysis
2x BEB
2x Energy Flux
1x Smother
1x Diabolic Edict
Rx Fact of Fiction
1x Stifle
1x Berserk

1st Round: Nick Playing Belcher

I didn't expect 2 belchers to be present tonight (Brokennut's playing that too) but I'm not too scared because that deck is quite inconsistent in my opinion.

1st game he got belcher online 2nd turn.

I sided in Naturalizes Oxidize and stifle.

2nd game naturalize and oxidize played LD on him. He didn't draw into his land grant or land and I killed the mox and mana vault that he dropped, bought me enough time to kill with a 3/3 dryad.

3rd game came down to the line. I got him down to 3, w/ a dryad on board. He got a tapped welder and crypt on board. He tap for mana and put crypt trigger on stack and welded the crypt out for belcher and activate it. It misbelched into a ancient tomb (!!!) for only 5 damage. Coin flip killed him right afterwards.

2-1 1-0

2nd round SpikeMikey R/G Beatz

Mikey's presence is one of the reason I switch to a more aggroish GAT build

1st game he got me down to one life. I desperately needed to yawg will but I didn't have the black mana. I pulled it off the top and went off on him. Love 2 biljillion cantrips in grave and berserk in hand w/o wishing.

Sided in Smother and 1 BEB

2nd game he got me down to 4 but i stablized w/ tog and dryad. I DTed for Berserk and killed him.

2-0 2-0

3rd Round Nemo Rector Trix/Agony hybrid

3 combos in 11 players is one of the highest combo ratio ever for Don's

1st game I've the beats going on but he eventually wear thru my disruption and got a bargain down. He drew about 10 cards and got nothing.

2nd game He had a very slow start. I yawg willed into a huge dryad but somehow I got no forces or time walk w/ all the cantripping action. He casted illusions the turn after I yawg will. I attacked he's down to 13. He got a rector! and he therapy =( he went trigger happy and got bargain, another rector and therapy again and....he doesn't have another illusions(he sided it out for some reason)! he tried desperately for the tendrils but he couldn't find it.

2-0 3-0

4th round Chris w/ wMUD

Good thing its last round we split. We played for fun but obviously I've no chance first game. He stablized the turn before I can yawg will w/ a sphere of resistence and everything went downhill from that point. We didn't play 2nd game because team Food is Broken (aka my ride) wants to leave and go to TGI Fridays for food.

Other Notables: Jeff drew w/ Barbara and Nick drew w/ Brokennut all 2-1-1, JACO got faded finished 1-3 or 2-2

Props: Berserk, wins me games earlier.
          Nemo, for sucking against me
          Nick, for siding in the ancient tomb

Slops: Me, for any misplays I have

Now the explaination of unconventional choices.

2 Togs: I win 80% of the games w/ Dryad anyway. Tog is just a emergency button to me, true to the old GAT style.

3 Drains 1 Daze no Duress: Hard counters > Duress. Duress can be dead weight in certain matchups (aka anything that uses welder). Drain is just so much more versatile and at the worst can be pitched. Duress also uses mana that could've been used for Serum Visions.

Daze is pretty nice as a 1 of. Solid gold early game, late game it's nice and pitchable and won't draw excessive of them anyway.

No VT, No Fastbond: Fastbond is a win more card. Yes I said it it's a win more card. If you can actually abuse fastbond early game that means your hand doesn't have much juice. Late game you don't need it and it doesn't even grow dryad. Since fetching fastbond is not necessary the VT is not needed either.

Maindeck Berserk: Since the deck's Trying to go aggro, I personally think it's quite natural to put in that maindeck berserk and it is proven to be solid gold. It can easily put you in a position to win in situations where normally you would need more setup.

[JACO]

Other Notables: Jeff drew w/ Barbara and Nick drew w/ Brokennut all 2-1-1, JACO got faded finished 1-3 or 2-2

I actually finished 2-2, because I lost games (and matches, as a result) to mana screw/randomization against  both Barbara AND Jamison, which is quite a feat of embarrassment itself.

I've personally modify Eastman's suicide GAT.

Speaking of embarrassing, please refrain from talking any more shit until you have a more competent grip on the English language. I'm convinced that your continued debauchery of both the written and spoken varieties of our native language amazes even the immigrants who stumble into a new hemisphere for the first time.

Congratulations are indeed due though, because you managed to beat two poorly piloted combo decks and a bad aggro deck with your control deck. That does require a marvelous skill set that so few of us are privy to.

[TracerBullet]

Jaco's just upset cause it's been like 8,000,000 years since he won a tournement of any variety.  It's ok, Jaco, your secret will stay safe in SoCal, seeing as you're too womanly to actually go play elsewhere in the US.


On a different note, Don's is an excellently chill tourney.  If you're ever looking for something to randomly do on a Monday night, go check it out.  Don's got the best prices on cards on the planet, and the San Diego folks are cool, if a little misguided (no, Jeff's Morphling Kee per is not good.  At all.  Period).