[Report] Okemos Michigan for LOA on 9/26

[everythingitouchdies]

Type 1 Tournament in Okemos Michigan

Tournament Report By Everythingitouchdies of Team Gone Fishin’

Details:

1st Prize: Library of Alexandria (not a piece of power as advertised_
2nd through 12th (???): Packs of 5D (I got six for 3rd/4th)

Turnout: 24 players

Notes: While I did not win this tournament (rather landed in 3rd/4th spot) I had solid notes and a handful of players expressed interest in them. Some interesting games with my usual build plus some new cards in the SB that I never used. In my usual way, I hope this is at least moderately entertaining and it reflects some detailed Dragon hands and the capacity to do great things with this deck.


Preface: (Where I talk about stuff that happened prior to the tournament. If you just want match coverage, skip down. If you want good background and lead in that involves Serialjester, Windfall, and my younger brother who is often mistaken for a mailbox, read on.)

   On Saturday I got picked up by Serialjester at my house well after one to head out to the regular Saturday Vintage Tournament we play in. I picked up my Timetwister the previous weekend at the CoK prerelease (can I say that even?) from Angel (who attended this tournament, and who has traded me tons of awesome cards since I met him because he is awesome) and I decided to try my hand at Death Long. To be brief, I loved Death Long but a play error that cost me game three against Serialjester in Top 4, and I realized that I might not be well enough prepared to play it in a serious tournament yet.
   Saturday night I got home around ten after devouring a massive amount of food at an Oriental Buffet and feeling like a Fat Man who walks Alone. My nephew was over and I acquired a ton of junk cards for my Type 4 deck (including Skyshroud Behemoth, much to the dismay of Windfall, my team mate) and hung out for a while, arranging things for the following day when everyone would be meeting at my apartment and neglecting the part where I should go to bed so I am well rested.
   At three in the morning I am still awake, and I receive a PM from the Vintage World Champion Windfall about the ride situation for tomorrow, and I call him without delay. A late night conversation about how I possibly could think about playing Death Long when I do not own a pearl and about trades, alcohol, and my decision to play Dragon, my signature deck. All goes well and after Three Thirty we are off the phone and it is decided that I am to call him when we leave to pick him up on the way. I go to sleep about five and four hours later my cool but subtly evil wife wakes me so I can get ready.
   Somehow there was some miscommunication about Area Codes and my calls to Windfall at Nine Thirty are unanswered. At Ten minutes after Ten I have still failed to contact him and I PM him and we leave without heading to his house since I assume he crashed hard from a few really long days at work on no sleep.
   We head to the gas station to get some Pitch Black Mountain Dew and I do not pay attention and we get going the wrong way. I quickly correct it and about Ten Thirty we are on our way. From there the drive goes smooth, Serialjester speeding the whole way and yelling at old people on the freeway, and an hour or so later we are in Okemos.
   Walking about I bought a foil Death Wish for cheap, and we registered with a little bit of time to spare. We then head up the stairs to complete deck lists, which I feel was a clever scheme to steal my soul. Too bad for them I am a worldly monster and I never had one to begin with. The tournament is soon underway, and as the only member of Team Gone Fishin’ present I grow agitated as I discover six or seven Dragon decks are present out of twenty four people.

Match Coverage:

Let me begin by saying if I do not know how many of my opponents are regular users of the Mana Drain so I only plugged names where I knew them. If you want to send me info I will edit it in. Also, if you feel I am slandering you in any way, misrepresenting you, or any other general complaints, I challenge you to a fight, because I took match notes and you did not.

Round One: Jason with Food Chain Goblins (another popular choice of the day)

Jason was a pretty cool opponent. As I was shuffling and getting my assortment of oddities set up (which included my deck of Elvis playing cards, my Satan coin, my play mat, and a Mario Kart Bowser, King of the Koopas card) I heard the guy behind us explaining to some kid how the Dragon Combo works. I made a comment about the Type of jerks playing Dragon, finished shuffling, offered a cut, won the Die Roll, played a Bazaar of Baghdad and pitched an Ambassador and a Dragon. I got a laugh from my opponent, who took two turns but was then defeated by a mighty Animate Dead.

Game Two: I pitched and animated Sliver Queen turn two. I did not sideboard in any cards, but I was certain that my opponent added four tormod’s crypts to his deck. I kept drawing land after land this game, and I hit my opponent a few times with the Queen and eventually finished him off with 8 Elvis sliver tokens.

2-0 (1-0 for the day)

Round Two: Bob from Kalamazoo with FCG

Bob is a cool guy, and I was happy to get to play cards with him. That is, until he won the die roll, set up first turn, and Food Chained into victory turn two. I was coincidently going to win on my second turn, but we never got there. No hard feelings, but once again I did not sideboard. I am confident I can win against Food Chains and I have no sideboard answers for it anyway.

Game two: I lead with Bazaar pitching two Squees and Ambassador. Bob returns with Strip Mine and Tormod’s Crypt. His second turn he plays another Tormod’s crypt, which I Force, but it’s too late, Bob beats me down with goblins.

0-2 (1-1 for the day)

Round Three: Stephen with Red Green Beats? Madness?

   Just before we start this round, the Vintage World Champion enters the room. He greets some people and joins my side. The next three rounds he took notes for me, which pertain much more to the matches at hand than the taunting, banter and general comedic madness that encircled me.

Game One:

EITD: (going second) Hand: X swarm, Intuition, Dragon, LD vault, Lotus, compulsion, delta (non foil, which I get a comment about it being a proxy since its not foil from the VWC Windfall)

Stephen leads with… Lightning Bolt. Cool.

My turn: Draw Intuition, play Delta sac to find Underground Sea. Play Lotus, sac for UUU. Play LD vault off the Sea, Top 5 Are: Emerald, Animate Dead, Sol Ring, Squee, Tropical Island. Order: Emerald, Trop, Animate, Squee, Ring. UU: Compulsion and pass.

Stephen plays a second mountain and a very intimidating 1/1 Kird Ape.

Me: Draw Emerald, play, Compulse away Dragon draw Trop and play, drop X swarm and pass. EOT he bolts the X swarm.

Stephen Removes a spirit guide to play a river Boa. I get scared as I take one from the Ape. I comment at this point about it not being able to regenerate and how he better be careful.

Me: Draw Animate Dead, Animate the Dragon and off the Dragon loop cast Intuition for Queen, Laquatus and Vamp Tutor, confusing my opponent about what he wants where. We figure out that he wants Ambassador in my hand, so after I make a million slivers I cast Ambassador and mill some cards. I Animate Dragon again attempting to steal all his creatures from his deck slowly, so he concedes.

Game Two:

I pull some Jamie Wakefield SB trick and my deck remains the same after much ado. My opponent sides in some cards, and decides to go first as game two gets kicked off.

Hand: Swamp, X swarm, Jet, Underground Sea, LD vault, Necromancy, FOW

Stephen confuses me on the first turn. He plays a creature I have never seen before. I pick it up to examine it.

It appears in every way to be a basking rootwalla, but someone has scratched basking off with a pen (fortunately I could still read it, or I would have been doomed) and they took the time to write Homo Sexual near the funny little creature’s face. I make a ton of comments about his gay lizard, but I do not FOW it. Imagine that.
I keep talking about the lizard during my turn. I draw a delta, play and sac to find a Trop, at which time I tell my opponent that his gay lizard is not welcome on my island. He laughs but seems to have lost contact with the game. I play jet and pass.

He plays a mountain and beats for 1. EOT I LD vault, and he REBs it. Ouch.

My Turn: Draw Bazaar, play it, use it, draw swamp, dragon, and discard Dragon, swamp and X swarm.

Stephen plays a land, a mongrel, and I chain lightning. I am short on red mana so I do not shoot it back (imagine that.) The happy little lizard attacks me and it’s my turn again.

Draw: Bazaar. Play U Sea and cast Necromancy. My opponent scoops.

2-0 (2-1 for the day)

Round 4: Kirk with GB Dragon

Mark is unable to get near enough to take notes game one. Its too bad, because it was an amazing game that lasted over a half hour. I won the game by casting multiple animate spells in one turn after hard casting Ambassador.

Game Two: Again, for the 4th straight round, I do not SB. Who needs sideboards without Death Wishes to make them broken?

Mark squeezes in, and his detailed notes once again come in handy.

Hand: Bazaar, FOW, Dragon, Ruby, Delta, Delta, Animate Dead

Kirk plays snow covered swamp, lotus petal (sits in play a long time) and Duresses me. He hits RUBY.

Me: draw sol ring, sac delta for a swamp, play sol ring.

Kirk plays Wasteland (knows I have bazaar in hand, again this sits a long time) Passes

Me: Draw Delta, play delta and get Underground Sea. EOT Kirk casts Tainted Pact, stopping on… NATURALIZE. Ouch.
Kirk: Draw Pass

Me: Draw Dragon, delta for Underground Sea EOT Kirk casts Entomb for Coffin Purge. 8 minutes left in the round.

Kirk: Draw Pass

Me: Draw Squee, Pass

Kirk: Bayou

Me: Draw Laquatus, play Bazaar. EOT Kirk wastes it (leaving me 5 mana open) and I don’t tap it. EOT Kirk: Vampiric.

Kirk: Bazaar, draw discarding swamp dragon dance. Casts Dance of the Dead that meets hard cast FOW.

Me: Draw Necromancy (Windfall drew a demonic VWC smiley face in the notes) Animate dead the Dragon, he SACS LOTUS PETAL to coffin purge from the yard, and I Necromancy in response. No way to break the loop, we draw.

3 minutes left.

Game 3 never starts because they announce 5 turns before we have started. Kirk asks if we still get to play 5 and they tell him no. I was going to side in 4 chalices and out 4 dragons, but it didn’t matter.

1-0-1   (3-1 for the day)

Round 5: Don Ray with Ankh Sligh

The match notes here are uninteresting, though my opponent is a pretty cool guy who I played against in the finals of the Bazaar tournament at Warp Nine over the summer. I won 2nd turn game one, and game two he played a fanatic, I COTV for 1 then animated Verdant Force. I beat him down with the Force and Elvis Saprolings.

2-0 (4-1 for the day… I make top 8)

Top 8: Chris with TPS

I like Chris, and not just because he traded me an Asian Yawgmoth’s Will. I also Love TPS.

At this point Windfall has wandered off, talking to Serialjester (the Godfather of Rare and Amazing Cards) and is no longer taking notes.

Game One: He combos second turn, leaving me staring at a hand that can untap and win. Amazing.

Game two: This one goes on for an hour or so. Early on I resolve Null Rod and COTV for 1, locking in a triple squee bazaar draw engine for the perfect play and eventual win. Chris played well, but I managed to win this one with a lot of work.

Game Three: A lot like game two, Null Rod and COTV for 1 set up my board. It didn’t take nearly as long, but I won this one because of a turn 1 duress and the amazing board hate.

Top 4: Angel with Rector Trix

I feel certain doom lingering over me as this game goes wrong. I draw the game to keep him from winning, and we move to game two.

I lost game two to 2 tormod’s crypts, 2 seal of cleansing, an echoing truth, and 2 well-placed FOWs. I actually got beat down by Negator.

Game three was like game two replayed. I could not overcome the hate, and was devastated by the guy who commented on how I always crush him in tournaments.

Congratulations to both Angel and his opponent in the finals, who drew and worked something out for the LOA.


Thanks to everyone who played, traded me cool stuff, and to the Mongolian Barbeque for being awesome in general.

EITD

[Trollstorm]

1st Prize: Library of Alexandria (not a piece of power as advertised)

I consider Library to be part of the  power10. At least it wasn't for a twister.

[everythingitouchdies]

I intended no disrespect towards the Library, actually I really could have used it. I just wanted to note that the site for the Con said a piece of power and LOA is not Power 9. Also, Timetwister is amazing. But thats not the point either.

EITD

[JamesPr]

I didn't know they had type1 tournaments in Okemas.  I'll have to check that out.  Are you guys all from around that area?  Cause I live in Jackson, and that's not too far.  It would be nice to get some people to play actual type1 with.

[everythingitouchdies]

My group drove out from Waterford, Windfall from Howell, and alot of the guys there were from Kalamazoo. It was a convention thing, not a regular tournament.

[Chaos Blade]

Jeez I automatically knew Chris was going to top8 this before I even saw this report.. He hooks up EVERYONE. Congrads for our. Theres alot of tournies in Kalamazoo to. So were lot of the people from the Kalamazoo area or east michigan?

[Angel]

Tournament was a blast. I split playing Rector Trix, with only a pearl and emerald as my power... Go budget hehe. I won't clutter the thread with a list... Anyone who wants it, throw me a PM. All I'll say about it here was that I ran Tinker/Colossus as alternate kill for Fish, etc., and it was bloody amazing. Iron Giant ownz.

Anyways, a brief report on matches:

Round one: Russ with something red...

Game 1: I mull to six and go first turn Tinker for Colossus... He concedes before he gets a turn =(

I side in a couple BEB's as he dropped a mountain while shuffling...

Game 2: First turn Black Vise drops me to about 12 before I tutor up the Tinker and beat down his board of Mountains and Monkeys.

1-0 (yay)

Round two: Scott (Raptor) with budget BUG D4rgon

Scott is a close friend that I regret having to play, but them's the breaks.

Game one: I Duress and Therapy him a fair amount, leaving his hand emtpy and mine quite full of counters and tutors. Soon I grab Colossus and beat him down.

I side in usual D4rgon hate, bringing in Tornod's Crypts and Seals of Cleansing  

Game two: We toss Duresses back and forth for a while, but he draws nothing while I grab myself a Bargain. He concedes when I drop Crypt and a Seal and show multiple FoW

2-0

Round three: Bob with FCG

Bob is cool and his deck is mad foiled. I am scared.

Game one: I ward off his early Goblins and drop a Rector which gets Bargain. From there, I combo off without too much trouble.

In come the BEBs...

Game two: He overruns me, and though I get another Bargain, I don't draw enough and succumb to the beats.

Game three: He is color screwed and drops Wastelands and Artifact mana. Sensing an opening, I tutor up Tinker and grab Iron Giant, who swings for the win in two turns.

3-0

Round four: Jay with something like Iso-Keeper...

We ID

Round five: Sean with MAD foil Ankh Sligh

We ID

At 3-0-2, I am fourth seed after the Swiss. Awesome.

Top 8: Nick with metagamed R/G

Nick is cool and his deck is also incredibly pimp. He complains about having to face Rector with R/G... I'm actually worried about facing him, heh..

Game one: He drops some Kird Apes, I drop a Rector. I Force a Boa and try to go off. I find an Illusions and two life and Donate/Seal for the win.

In come the BEBs...

Game two: I get murdered. Two Root Mazes followed by Null Rod and FOUR strip/wastes send me packing to game three.

Game three: I have a much better hand for this match, and go Turn one Rector. I get Bargain next turn, and its over.

I breathe a sigh of relief and turn to watch EITD and Razer51 duke it out. It was intense and mad fun to watch. EITD wins and I have to play him. *gulp*

I've played him twice in previous tournaments, one with Gay/R and once with U/G Madness, and his D4rgon has stomped me both times. Oh well, here goes...

Semis: Ben (EITD) with D4rgon

Game one: We throw disruption back and forth for a while, he has a Swarm while I have a Bargain but am at low life and am not finding usefulness. Eventually, he pitches a Dragon and tries to draw. I draw a couple cards, realize I can't do anything, and say ok.

In comes the hate: 4 Negators, 2 Crypts, 1 Seal, 1 Echoing Truth... maybe I have a chance...

Game two: We disrupt eachother again but I drop my hate faster. I counter his threats and Negators go all the way.

I should note at this point that we were both playing very technically and carefully, announcing every phase and each priority pass. We were having a blast doing so, much to the dismay of the spectators (including my GF, who really wanted to leave). At some point during this game, Ben asked me if I had "any lurid acts to perform on his upkeep." At this point, play had to be delayed because I was laughing so hard. Greatest Game evar.

Game three: More of game two. My disruption and hate gets to him, and he draws nothing. In the end, Negator and Rector go for the win while I seal his last ditch animate on a Verdant Force.

Revenge    Ben was, as always, mad cool to play against and this match was the highlight of the tournament. Thanks for an awesome round.

Finals (yay): Sean with his Sligh

We split, he takes the LoA, and I take cash and the packs to cover my expenses for the weekend (Scrubbing out of a $20 entry T2 really hurts).

F Con was awesomely fun, and I'm definately going next year.

Props/Slops time!

Props:
Everyone I played. You all were awesome.
Foundation Games, for holding a decent Con
My GF, for not killing me after and 8+ hour tournament
Team Gone Fishin' and its entourage, you guys rocked.
the Okemos Burger King, for being awesome
Razer51, for being generally cool and for awesome Judgin'

Slops:
That little red haired kid who would not stop offering to buy cards even after being told several hundred times not to. I worked for a dealer, and we lost huge money setting up, and here's this kid, buying cards FOR MORE than what my boss was selling them for... Christ.

Oh, and the annoying Type 2 players... God I love Type One...

Well, thanks to all who came... There should be a Mox tournament in the Detroit area soon... I'll post info as to when/where...

Peace all

John

[Razer51]

Yeah I had a great time at this event too.  The games I played with EITD were some of the best games Ive played in a long time.  Challenging, fun, and exicting (as exciting as null rod and chalice for 1 can be).  Those games were ALLMOST as awesome as having to go get my laptop/printer from the car 10 minutes after start time, set up, register everyone, and teach the judge how to use DCI reporter (I had judged all the other MTG events that weekend so I was prepared for this).  Maybe all my hard work (and T8 at a major tourney!) will earn me access into the hallowed halls of the Mana Drainers.


It was great to see some familiar faces, and so many bazzars.  Bazzars > Workslops.  Fo sheezy.

Props:
EITD for being UBER in every way imaginable.
Angel for winning (somehow)
Bob for losing to Bauer even tho you have mo betta' foil goblins.
KirdApe for beating me exactly how I taught you.
Everyone who let me win (I couldnt have done it without you).
DSK for PWNING fish in round 5.
Mark B for hooking up the Asian Time Spiral.
My 3 packs of 5D for having 2 Bringers (Red and Green!  so good!!)

Slops
Bauer for playing SLIGH and taking home a LoA.
Workshop for sucking so bad.
Mark B for not trading me the Foil Chinese Minds Desire.
EITD for not rolling to me
Red for being UBERANNOYING.COM
WOTC for restricting Minds Desire

C

[Bauerkrieg]

All I can say is that the Sligh(goblin, not Ankh) was good to me on sunday. Hey C, don't hate the playa, hate the game. It was a great atmospere to play in except for the biannual annoyance of the red head kid in the foundation tourney.
A almost fully powered sligh is still quite fun to play with. PM me if you want the list....
Props:
- Angel, for spliting for the LOA
- Bob, for having more pimped goblins than I
- Total abscence of trinisphere on Sunday
- Kurk, who duressed me in round three, taking a fireblast over a BEB while he was playing dragon.
-Price of Progress and Mox Monkey: MVP's of the deck so far
-Finding a Lotus for under 500 in fine condition on ebay last week.
-Overall, a great play atmosphere.

Slops:
-Hmmm, last name came up as Bauerhead for some strange reason. CPU must of malfunctioned,  :lol:  
-12 people showed up for a cash (250$ first prize) type two tourney. What, type two players don't like cash?

[Chaos Blade]

Does anyone by chance have a deck breakdown for the tourney?

[Angel]

Here is deck breakdown as far as i know, maybe the rest can fill in some gaps...

2 FCG
1 U/G Oath
2 R/G Beats
1 Sligh
1 Ankh Sligh
3 Dragon Combo
1 Rector Trix
1 Iso-Keeper (i think)
1 U/G Oath
1 GAT
1 other random red deck (RDW?) I dunno, Russ played it...
1 Crushing Chamber
1 Parfait  
2+ U/R Fish
1 TPS
and there may have been another R/G and a U/G Fish, but my memory is kinda hazy... Anyone else have better stats? I know this wasn't it...

John

[everythingitouchdies]

Here is deck breakdown as far as i know, maybe the rest can fill in some gaps...

2 FCG
1 U/G Oath
2 R/G Beats
1 Sligh
1 Ankh Sligh
3 Dragon Combo
1 Rector Trix
1 Iso-Keeper (i think)
1 U/G Oath
1 GAT
1 other random red deck (RDW?) I dunno, Russ played it...
1 Crushing Chamber
1 Parfait  
2+ U/R Fish
1 TPS
and there may have been another R/G and a U/G Fish, but my memory is kinda hazy... Anyone else have better stats? I know this wasn't it...

John

There were five or six Dragon Decks for sure. I was playing it and I talked to four others who had it. I think there were 3 FCG as well.

EITD

[Tristal]

Who the heck played parfait?  I wasn't there. ;)

[serialjester]

Who the heck played parfait?  I wasn't there.

A random guy who plays in our area sometimes, it was half like yours and half like test of endurance what the hellness. I know it was two colours, w/g and it might have had a little blue as well. So it was more like axle grease than parfait. You should have came out, the tournament needed another voice of 'this game is dumb sometimes' in it. You'll also want to know that the oath deck was old school weaver/morphling style, no colossus. No ancient hydra either.

[everythingitouchdies]

Who the heck played parfait?  I wasn't there.

Yeah you definitely would have been a great addition to this tournament. Playing against Rector Trix that didnt win automatically when it got bargain down was messed up, it felt like playing against Parfait.

EITD

[Chaos Blade]

So what happened to all the workshops? Is Mishra Workshop not appearing in Michigan anymore?

[serialjester]

I've got them, and a couple other people do that I'm aware of, but there aren't alot of people who have a playset so you don't see them as often as other archetypes, like Dragon. There's definitely more Bazaars than Workshops running around. I might have an inside track into Workshops, so they might appear in bigger numbers soon, not too soon since I've already got too many bases to cover, but after things clear up a big we'll see.

[everythingitouchdies]

A member of Team Gone Fishin has two workshops, and is working on two more, and by the end of the year it is likely we will both have a playset. At least some of the Kzoo guys have them, but they just didnt make their way into decks for this one.

EITD

[Tristal]

I'd have gone if someone told me about it. x_x

Course, I wouldn't have played parfait, but I'm sure I could've taught them a thing or two about it. ;)

[everythingitouchdies]

I'd have gone if someone told me about it. x_x

Course, I wouldn't have played parfait, but I'm sure I could've taught them a thing or two about it.

Hey I posted it, and I sent out an email, but you werent on my email list just the PM. If anyone was going to school someone on Parfait, its you hands down.

Of course you wouldnt play parfait, but it still would have been cool to have some more good players there.

[Chaos Blade]

Yeah I heard that Kalamazoo tourneys are really high in Workshop decks so I got worried, I want to see what happens. I hope that didnt end up true. It seems alot of FCG aka red decks and control pop up.

[Mr. Channel-Fireball]

When is the Lotus Tourney in Kzoo? Next power tourney in Mich? I need to make some money.  

[Razer51]

There is a tourney on 11-13 at Fanfare for.....


.....


The original art for Compulsion.  Im not kidding.  Not a piece of power, but still worth about $500.  A must have if you play D4Rg0N.  Check it out in the tourney forum:

http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=320684#320684

[Chaos Blade]

Thats pretty sweet.. So seeing the michigan field has turned Dragon?!?!

[serialjester]

Thats pretty sweet.. So seeing the michigan field has turned Dragon?!?!

Dragon is all over the place, I know at least 6 people that have the cards for it, Myself included, and maybe another 10 or so that have a good portion of the deck. I wouldn't say it's turned Dragon, just that it's always been there.

I'm definitely making that Compulsion tournament, that's awesome.

[everythingitouchdies]

I am the DRAGON player in Michigan. I will dispute anyone who says otherwise, I have the track record to prove it.

I myself have supplied some people with bazaars and foil dragons, bb animates and other techy DRAGON stuff, and have been teaching and coaching a handful of up and coming DRAGON players. Its like a cult that is budding... the day will come...

Actually even before I started playing the deck 7 months ago there was always someone who had it. And though there were six present, I think only mine and one other was powered with bazaars and stuff.

EITD

[serialjester]

I am the DRAGON player in Michigan. I will dispute anyone who says otherwise, I have the track record to prove it.

I myself have supplied some people with bazaars and foil dragons, bb animates and other techy DRAGON stuff, and have been teaching and coaching a handful of up and coming DRAGON players. Its like a cult that is budding... the day will come...

Actually even before I started playing the deck 7 months ago there was always someone who had it. And though there were six present, I think only mine and one other was powered with bazaars and stuff.

EITD

Who supplied who?

[Chaos Blade]

Thats interesting, does anyone think they can figure out the field for the next oturney?

[Tristal]

Whatever, one Coffin Purge and you're done, Ben.  The only way you can beat me is if I consult for Badlands. ;)

[everythingitouchdies]

Whatever, one Coffin Purge and you're done, Ben.  The only way you can beat me is if I consult for Badlands.

You and you alone. I faced Coffin Purges all day saturday and it didnt do a thing. You really only run One? Ouch.

As for determining the next meta in michigan, its impossible. Most of the better players have multiple decks at their fingertips, and they dont tie up all their resources in a single place. While their were virtually no workshops this time, you may see 8 workshop decks next time and only 1-2 dragon decks. There might be 10 fish or 6 FCG, and there might not be either.

Unfortunately, Michigan players are fairly chaotic, and they dont make their choices based entirely on trying to predict what everyone else will play.

EITD