[Report] Garden City, MI Legacy event May 20

[P_Bee]

So I decided to play goblins for the third time in a row. It landed me good finishes the past two events so I figure I can do well enough again this time. Wrong. I got some bad matchups, some bad luck and hate. This was especially painful because of a "discussion" I had with a teammate regarding how goblins compares to angel stompy.

R/W Goblins a.k.a. L. Ron Hubbard.dec (don't ask)

19 Land:
4 Wasteland
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wooded Foothills
2 Plateau (you happy KC?)
5 Mountain

10 Not Creatures:
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 AEther Vial
3 Gempalm Incinerator

29 Creatures:
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Ringleader
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
1 Goblin King
1 Goblin Goon
1 Seige-Gang Commander
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Sideboard:
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
3 Pyroblast
3 Leave No Trace
1 Seige-Gang Commander
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
1 Goblin Tinkerer
1 Blood Moon
1 Goblin Goon

The choices:

Pyrostatic Pillar - I utilize this card a lot against Threshold, Burn and Goblins. I was really happy with this choice when I found out about the 3 High Tide. Not as much as an MVP as expected though.

Pyroblast - Chill, Meddling Mage and Force of Will all bow before the awsome power of Pyroblast. Oh, and Red Elemental Blast. But who cares?

Leave No Trace - This card can wreck some days, like Engineered Plague, Worship, Chill, Lightning Rift etc. Basically there because of the white splash and I figure "why not?".

Blood Moon - Because I figure if I can acually draw into it against Threshold, I win.

Goblin Tinkerer - Enemy AEther vials are always a good target. Sometimes you just need to blow up artifacts (like Ensnaring Bridge).

Goblin Sharpshooter - Mirror match and anything else that might make 1/1 creatures for fun.

Seige-Gange Commander - Again, in the mirror match I like to access multiple guys.

Goblin Goon - He can be a dead card sometimes, but using 1 is a safe bet. But if you're not running creatures, he'll see play.

So enough with the intro and on to the matchups.

Round 1 - Enchantress

This was without a doubt the hardest matchup of the day for me. Game 1 goes really fast, a first turn Lackey brings in Goblin Goon and we shortly move into game two. If you've never played enchantress, let me explain. In the Urza block exist enchatments that cost 1 green mana that turn into 3/3 and 4/4 creatures when you play things like nonbasic land, artifacts and instants. Good news. Despite my best efforts, these guys eventually ran me over with enchantments giving them pro red and 2-3 Argothian Enchantress backing them up with huge card advantage. Oh, and that fatty Yavimaya Enchantress. She sassed me too.

Match Record 0-1

Round Two - Burn

This was another hard matchup. These races were pretty close, but I constantly flipped crap with the Ringleaders and couldn't win fast enough. Game two saw some hate like Flamebreak and Ensnaring Bridge, the latter acually prevented me from winning one game. I couldn't get enough damage through on either though, and I kept my bad record.

Match Record 0-2

Round Three - High Tide

I'm sure anyone who was at the event was sick of High Tide. For those of you who couldn't show up, three people played the deck in a feild of less than 20 people. Game 1 involved him going off just as I was about to win (not supprising) and game two he had the chance to go off before I could get enough guys through. No game won here either.

Match Record 0-3

Round 4 - Burn (Again...)

This time I'm playing a teammate. Oh boy. Game 1 I win the race. Games 2 and 3 cards like Flamebreak and Pyroclasm seal the deal for him. I didn't care at all at this point, because I just had my sights set on a foil Rod of Spanking. But as for my teammate, if he had won 2-0 he would have made top 8. Unfortuneatly, this was brought to my attention after we had signed the papers, so he was a little upset with me. But I didn't care.

Match Record 0-4
This landed me a foil Rod of Spanking which several of the players signed, but someone put the card in a penny sleeve before the ink on their sig dried so it smeared. I think it was Kyle and the other guy who played burn.

In conclusion: I think goblins had an overall bad list of matchups this time (High Tide, Burn, Stompy, Life) and I'm convinced I really had little chance of doing well, especially when you look at my sideboard. I'm comming to the conclusion that goblins, or red in general, is really getting hated out of our area. I'm still convinced that goblins is consistent enough (I mean look, I lost nearly every game. If that's not consistency I don't know what is!) to win. I'll just need to find some way to speed up the process. Perhaps R/w isn't the way to go? Maybe I need more removal? I'll most certainly play goblins again next month but it will be different. Well, here's to another month of testing! Bottoms up!

P Bee a.k.a. Pat Becens(Becenz) or Becerra, you choose.

[SpencerForHire]

The straight red approach seems pretty good.  You can run more land specific hate such as Flashfires and you have Anarchy as well (with both angel stompy and life running around.)  I'd reccomend adding Ports into your list because they seem to do a good job slowing down all the lists you played against enough for you to have a chance.

[P_Bee]

The straight red approach seems pretty good.  You can run more land specific hate such as Flashfires and you have Anarchy as well (with both angel stompy and life running around.)  I'd reccomend adding Ports into your list because they seem to do a good job slowing down all the lists you played against enough for you to have a chance.

This is true. However, I'm fairly confident that Life and Stompy won't be played around here any more, I have a feeling that people are going to be trying out control and combo more than aggro. I'm not 100% sure, but I think Flashfires and Anarchy won't be as good now as they would have been in the past 3 events. As for Rishadan Port, it's good but I'm not willing to spend 10 bucks on them. My guess is that the next person who wins will have guessed what everyone is going to play correctly, not nessecarly the best deck or the best player.

[Matt]

I'm fairly confident that Life and Stompy won't be played around here any more, I have a feeling that people are going to be trying out control and combo more than aggro.

Life is an aggro deck?

[Godder]

My guess is that the next person who wins will have guessed what everyone is going to play correctly, not necessarily the best deck or the best player.

Welcome to Metagaming 101.

[P_Bee]

I'm fairly confident that Life and Stompy won't be played around here any more, I have a feeling that people are going to be trying out control and combo more than aggro.

Life is an aggro deck?

Yes, Life is an aggro deck.

But if you take the time to think instead of just making stupid comments you might come to the conclusion that most people have been playing aggro decks in my area since I said "more people will be trying control and combo instead of aggro.". Or not...

My guess is that the next person who wins will have guessed what everyone is going to play correctly, not necessarily the best deck or the best player.

Welcome to Metagaming 101.

Yeah, and I really think the person who sets up a deck for the metagame the best will take home some duals. I can't even begin to predict what people are going to play, except that in Garden City, red is getting hated out.

[Matt]

Don't get snippy with me. YOU wrote the non sequiter, YOU live with the snark.