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this time I can add some reports to support more details about this event.
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Lorenzo Fedeli's Report - 1st Place
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Turn 1 - T1Tog
Game 1Lorenzo mulliganed once, but kept a good hand with some cheap drawers and discard effects. Intuition for 3 Deeps was the key winning move. After that spell, all the other resolved thanks through the massive card's advantage.
Game 2Lorenzo mulliganed once again. 2xDeeps went pitched to FoWs this time to stop an early Tinker-->DSC and he could not apply the commonly used Intuitions--Deeps plan to abuse of his deck. As for game 1, a bit more of experience from his own side, take the distance. A resolved Y.Will with a couple of counters in hand, forced the opponent's to conceding the entire game.
1-0-0
Turn 2 - T1Tog
Game 1
Lorenzo mulliganed again, but this time with DSC in hand too. The opponent had a quick start with a Tutor for Ancestral with counter backup. Lorenzo FoWilled his Ancestral but he FoWillled back too. After a couple of turn, he realized that he cannot recover anymore and he conceded without losing time for the two next games
Game 2Lorenzo mulliganed once again, but this time his opponent mulliganed too. They exchanged the roles used during the previous game and Lorenzo played a quick Ancestrall with Backup that was followed by a couple of Deeps. Winning the "draw-game" is equal to win the entire game
Game 3Lorenzo astonishingly enough to be true DIDN'T mulligan this time. He started with some accelerations holding a couple of strong draw spells into his hand. His opponent made a strategic crucial error depriving his board of the needed UU to Drain Lorenzo's spells only to fetch a dual before it was needed. Lorenzo responded to the fetch trigger with a FoF that went uncountered. After this mistake, the opponent played too aggressivel, trying to recover the gap that FoF produced to himy, even if with a nearly active LoA in play. When he was with 6 cards in hand and instead of waiting a couple of turns to start drawing free cards, he played an additional drawer that went countered and he didn't reach the "LoA's safe plateau" at all. In the end, Lorenzo won.
2-0-0
Turn 3 - David "InJ" Beduzzi - Welder MUD-with-hate-that-Top8ed
Game1David won the dice roll and Lorenzo mulliganed again. David played MW, Lotus, Metalworker and Sphere of Resistance. In the two following turns he resolved 2 Ankh of Mishra and a Tangle Wire. His advantage was too overhelming to continue playing. OTOH, he topdecked another quick threat and won with ease with it.
Game 2Lorenzo didn't remember this game so well. He remember about him playing only draw-go for a couple of turns, that is usually deadly against MW-based decks. In the end, InJ had Ankh x2, Pyllar, Defence Grid, Sphere of Resistance x2 on board and killed him with Sharpenel Blast x2.
2-0-1
Turn 4 - Giampiero "Jessica" Ronzo - Ur-Control-Slavery
Game 1Lorenzo resolved a first turn Intuition for 3 Deeps and the game went over briefly after that.
Game 2Jessica resolved a first turn Mindslaver without Welder backup. Lorenzo hide some key spells thank to Brainstorm and the Slaved turn ended without too many problems. Jessica, unluckily for him, topdecked zero threats after this first one and a quick recover of Atog translate a possible C-Slavery win in a beatiful Atog domination
3-0-1
Turn 5 - RG-Beatz-with-hate-spells
Game 1Lorenzo played a first turn Duress and saw the opponent with nothing more discardable than a single Rancor and a little man. Zoo topdecked cards after cards in this precise sequence: 1 turn Hidden Gibbons, 2 turn Null Rod, 3 turn Wasteland and Wild Mongrel. He won.
Game 2Zoo started again with land Gibbons, then land Rod, then Wasteland Mongrel, then Pyllar. OTOH, This time Lorenzo had more cheap answers to opponent's weenies and hate spells, so after a couple of well shooted bouncers and a Firestorm over the remaining creatures, he stabilized until turn 30 when he hardcarst DSC and Walked into game 3.
Game 3Zoo started again with land Gibbons, then land Rod, then Wasteland Pyllar, then creatures. While the Lorenzo's deck seemed mesmerized by the opponent's one, the Zoo player made a couple of crucial play errors, that let Lorenzo recover faster and better than he could have thought after a so strong start. Zoo lose.
4-0-1
Turn 6 - Gigi "DJ501" Bonaiuto
Game 1Lorenzo started with a first turn Duress that showed him an "medium" hand consisting of: MW, Mox, Smokestack, Trini, Wire, Ancient Tomb and CotV. He took out Trini and laid his own acceleration. The match took a bit to be decided but at some point in the middle of the game, Lorenzo reached to Wish for R&R killing the opponent Smokestack for 2. He played Walk and Tinker too in the subsequent turn. At that point, DJ501 had a Juggy on board that had to kill-himself against DSC and he is at 4 life points, while Lorenzo was at 2. DJ's last smokestack cleaned the entire board and while Lorenzo topdecked 2 lands in a row, DJ topdecked MW that let him resolve a Triskelion, with Lorenzo at 1 life point and with an useless FoW in hand.
Game 2Lorenzo mulliganed again to six but started with Ancestral Recall. DJ started with Trinisphere instead. That was followed by a second turn Metalworker. With 3 mana open during his 3 turn, Lorenzo resolved a R&R on those 2 threats and the game almost ended here. A quick Atog won the game.
Game 3DJ started with a first turn Metalworker which resolved and Lorenzo followed that move with a first turn LoA. Lorenzo let DJ resolve and activate a second turn Jester's Cap because he was holding an Atog in his hand. The game took a lot but at some time, Lorenzo started to recur Shattering Pulse on opponent's artifact and when he had the needed lethal damage with his last Atog, he Flinged it for the win.
5-0-1
Turn 7 - Oath with White
Game 1He started with Tundra and Jet, revealing a possible 3C-C matchup ( that Lorenzo considered largely favourable for Atog at now ). He was wrong. Lorenzo played LoA, draw a card and tried to resolve a Lotus. Opponent Dazed his Lotus. With a blue mana in his pool he Impulsed during his EoT and his second move was lying an Orchard and Oath.
Lorenzo both resolved a couple of artifact mana AND Draw cards from his LoA and AKs AND played two turns thanks to Walk. He Duressed the opponent's hand seeing nothing of consequence. The Oath's trigger revealed a DSC and with ease, Lorenzo bounced them back to the opponent's hand during his EoT, with an active LoA and an hand full of things...
Game 2Oath started with Volcanic Mox and Pyllar!
Lorenzo Duressed him twice and started drawing cards, using his life point's buffer aggressively, espcecially after seeing twice the opponent's hand and after he deprived him of his own bombs. During an EoT, Lorenzo Wished for Bouncer and Pyllar come back into the opponent's hand. Lorenzo was a 5 life points. Duress on opponent's Oath and double counter on Oath#2 and Pyllar sealed the game.
6-0-1
Quarterfinals - 4C-HulkSmash!
Game 1Lorenzo kept an hand consisting only of LoA and a lot of coloured spells. Opponent's had not denial plan and he didn't start with a Duress, that would have slowed Lorenzo more than any other thing. A slow start with LoA is usually >>>>>> than a slow start without LoA. So Lorenzo won.
Game 2Lorenzo had a large draw superiority both on a quality level ( more deeps ) and on a quantity level ( more deeps too ). His opponent saw only AKs and no Intuitions, so he was forced to start drawing with them. He played AK, Lorenzo responded with Intuition, he ReBed the Intuition and Lorenzo Mis-D the ReB on opponent's AK. Intuition resolved and Lorenzo resolved unstopped larger AKs that won the entire game for him.
7-0-1
Semifinals - MonoU
Game 1Lorenzo started with Land and Ancestral which meet a FoW but he FoWilled back too. MonoU tried to apply at his best a good denial plan on the opponent's dual lands and contemporarily tyring some of his own istant speed drawers. Lorenzo's discards effects slowly devaasted the opponent's hand and an Intuition for Lotus, Walk and Demonic sealed the entire game.
Game 2He started with Mox, Lotus, Ancestral, which Lorenzo tried to Mis-D on him and with a TFK in response, in order to find the needed FoW. FoW didn't show up, so Lorenzo draw 3 and the game went largely better. Lorenzo's Duresses selectively discarded opponent's counters and he let him resolve a Tinker for DSC which went bounced back during the following EoT. He resolved a large Y Will for the win as usual.
8-0-1
Final - T1Tog - Filippo "Twister" Grigatti
Game 1&2Twister conceded to his teammate the victory "this time"
9-0-1
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