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« on: August 13, 2006, 12:37:25 am » |
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Well, we all heard the horrible news. When I heard I felt for Roland and Jacob because I myself had a lot of cards stolen right after Waterbury 8 (although not nearly as much). I assembled my team of loyal fat people for the last minute benefit event. We drove 100+ miles each way to make it there. We show up to find out the Beanie Exchange was recently robbed. Bastards. I donate something cool to the prize structure and sign up. 33 players show up, meaning 6 rounds of funderful swiss. Here is the pile I decided to run after almost making T8 with it on Waterbury day 2.
U/W Lionless Fish
Manabase (23)
4x Mishras Factory (MVP)
4x Wasteland
1x Strip Mine
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Pearl
1x Plains
2x Island
4x Tundra
4x Flooded Strand
Things that deal damage (13)
4x Meddling Mage
3x Jotun Grunt
3x Stormscape Apprentice
3x Ninja of the Deep Hours
Random Other Cards
4x Force of Will
4x Stifle (OMFG never will cut below 4)
4x Brainstorm
3x Daze
1x Time Walk
1x Ancestral Recall
3x Null Rod
4x Swords to Plowshares
Sideboard-
2x Rushing River (awesome all day)
2x Exalted Angel (never played even when sided in)
2x Kataki, War’s Wage
3x Orim’s Chant
3x Maze of Ith (never really used wasted slot)
3x Magus of the Unseen (INSANE ALL DAY)
In retrospect, I would cut the 3rd Ninja for a 4th Stormscape, as they were relevant all day long. I honestly HATE Isamaru, because I have seen multiple people get screwed by multiples of it (read Dave Feinstein’s tourney report from Waterbury for example). With Darkblast running around killing little guys, Savannah Lions is worse than ever. Stormscape improves Oath, Gifts, Workshop Aggro (very relevant as you will see), the mirror (tapping grunt is the tech) and apparently the Masknought matchup (also VERY relevant). I also prefer having a ton of blue cards for when I see a lot of drains and want to change the Dazes into Misdirections.
Ray starts everything promptly at 11:18ish/esque
(Warning, my notes Wang-Chung, so this is reconstructed from scraps of Paper and foggy, 230 mile soaked memory)
Round 1- Matt (forgot last name) Playing U/W Feinstein Fish
Really nice guy I have talked to in passing at a few different events, He winces when I lay out my Waterbury playmat. Doomhed- 1, Reality- 0
Game 1
I win the Coinflip and Choose to play.
He gets the turn 1 Isamaru and Savannah Lions, which trade with an STP and Stormscape respectively. He knocks me down to 4, but a Time Walk with a Mage and a Grunt swinging on the board gives me game 1. (Note- He did not see my Mishra’s Factories this game and I didn’t see any grunts on his side.)
Life totals
Me- 20-19-17-15-13-12-4
Him- 20-19-18-14-6-0
Sideboard- Out 3x Null rod, 3x Daze. In 2x Rushing River, 2x Kataki, 2x Exalted Angel.
Game 2
He plays Pearl, Plains, Isamaru. I drop Island, Stormscape. I am shorted on White and he is shorted on blue. By the time he draws blue, I have the Strip. I slow his assault and then stabilize with a Grunt and Factory. Those 2 take it home.
Life totals-
Me- 20-18-14-10-8-12
Him- 20-18-16-10-6-0
Matches- 1-0
Games- 2-0
Thrilled by my win, I look around to see Travis, Jigglypuff and Chocoshake have all won their first round matches. I then go and start entering match results into the computer. Next round starts and I find I am paired to Travis for the 2nd round 2 in as many events. I apparently flubbed up 1 match result and Travis loudly prays for a re-pairing.
Round 2 Travis “This is Fucking Bullshit” Laplante, Playing Masknought
Game 1
I lose the Die Roll and Travis chooses to play.
Travis goes Underground Sea, Go. I Play wasteland, go. I am holding 2x Null rod, Meddling Mage and 2xFactory hand after mulling to 6. I kept knowing he was playing Mask. Travis drops a turn 2 Necropotence and wins turn 3.
“ I would stand on a chair and yell, but I didn’t kill you on the first turn.”
Doomhed- 1, Reality- 1
Life totals-
Me-20- (-6)
Him- 20-19-12
Sideboard
Out- 3x Daze, 3x Ninja, 1x Stifle
In- 3x Orim’s Chant, 2x Exalted Angel, 2x Rushing River
Game 2-
I resolve Null rod, Trapping his dudes in hand. He plays 2 dark rituals to get 2 Phyrexian Negators on the board to stop his imminant death. I Rushing River the 2 Negators and wasteland his Underground Sea while he gets smacked by his Mana Crypt a few times. Mana Crypt to the face FTW.
“2 Fucking Flooded Strands and I have to draw both of them.”
Life Totals-
Me- 20
Travis- 20-15-11-8-7-3-0
Game 3
Travis loudly mulls to 4. Those 4 are Mana Crypt, Illusionary Mask, Sea, Vampiric Tutor. He Vamps for Confidant which was played face down next turn. I swords the Confidant, then a whole lot of nothing happens for awhile. We eventually end up with Travis at 1 due to Mana Vault and Mana Crypt, him with Negator and double dreadnought on board and me with a Stormscape Apprentice and double Factory. He cannot alpha strike because I am at 19 and can survive him swinging in. After winning like 6 die rolls in a row, Travis dies to his own Mana Crypt.
“I Shoulda boarded it out…. I was going to but changed my mind.”
Doomhed-2, Reality-1
Life Totals-
Me- 20-19
Him- 20-18-15-14-11-8-7-4-3-2-1-0
Games- 4-1-0
Matches- 2-0
After letting Travis vent a few expletive-laced sentences, I stumble over to a far corner of the room where I overhear talk of Brassman playing the Confidant workshop aggro deck he wrote about on Starcity and kicking some ass. Note to self….
Round 3 Andy “Teh Brass One” Probasco, Playing “Unnamed Confidant Aggro Workshop Deck”, Or, UCAW’D for short.
We discuss the merits of Xantid Swarm in Stax and a possible Natural Order decklist for either Legacy or Type 1, depending on where you popped into the conversation. My only hope is that someone terrible will overhear us one day and think we are in serious discussion (in that case, it would be an automatic point reduction for reality, making me the automatic winner in that matchup).
Game 1-
We trade a lot of blows back and forth. He Confidants into a Confidant 3 times while I keep trading away my guys to save my ass. He overruns me with fatness.
Life totals-
Me- 20-19-18-16-12-8-4-0
Him- 20-19-24-20-18-16-21-19-18
Sideboard- Out- 4x Stifle, 3x Daze. In- 2x Kataki, 2x Exalted Angel, 3x Magus of the Unseen.
Game 2-
Again we are smacking Each other around a lot, until I get an active Magus of the Unseen. I kill him with his Mana Crypt, Juggernaut and my Meddling Mage.
Life Totals
Me- 20-19-18-13-8-3
Him- 20-14-7-5-0
(Note to any reader, if the next sections are a little shabbier, that is due to the house next to mine burning down in the middle of writing this report. Completely serious.)
Game 3-
We both feel the pinch. It is an extremely tight game. I force trades between Juggernauts and Factories/Grunts. After we wipe the board multiple times through combat, and we both get hardcore mana screws, I finally get a Grunt to stick and ride him to victory.
Life Totals
Me- 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-9-4-3
Him-20-14-13-9-5-12-8-4-0
Games- 6-2-0
Matches 3-0
I’m getting all excited, and I just can’t hide it. My next match starts right away.
Round 4- Someone I forget from Team Perfect Scrubs, playing U/R Workshop aggro.
Game 1-
His Turn 1 Trinisphere fucks me up. I watch to see enough of what he was playing and then get into game 2.
Sideboard-Out-3x Ninja of the Deep Hours, 1x Swords to Plowshares (I think he had chalice), 3x Stormscape apprentice. In- 2x Kataki, War’s Wage, 2x Rushing River, 3x Magus of the Unseen.
Game 2-
Another Early Trnishere, but I kept a land with 3 fetchlands. I fetch all my basics and at the same time deny him of mana. I named Juggernaut with Meddling Mage to some avail.
Game 3- I beat the living and nonliving daylights out of him with multiple Grunts, Stifles and a Time walk.
Games- 8-3-0
Matches- 4-0-0
Well, I draw in over the course of the next 2 rounds, Eating a few subway pizzas, a few 6-inch Subs, and 4 or 5 donuts in the process. I am told by a little birdy that I was going to play a Control slaver player. This birdy song the wrong song. I played Kyle Leith Who beat me something unmerciful 2 games in a row.
Top 8- Kyle Leith, Oldschool TPS
Game 1 involved a storm count of roughly 38, him having memory jarred and time twistered twice in 1 turn, while I never draw 1 force of will off them.
Game 2 was tinker DSC with force backup and me not having swords.
Well, that’s it.
Props-
Ray, for running a great event
Kyle, for winning with his deck
Slops-
to whoever stole those cards. Bastards.
(PS to mods, I still have some changes, but I just fell asleep on top of my Laptop. I would rather get most of it on there”
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