[Report] IGGy-Pop - Top 8 Legacy World Championship 2006

[bomholmm]

I just got back from gencon so I'm going to throw up a quick and dirty tournament report.

Round one: Angel Stompy

This matchup is a complete and total bye.  Game one he goes turn two dude I go turn two win, game three is about the same.

1-0

Round two:  BW Deadguy

Game one he goes first drops a fetch and fetches out a scrubland.  I see this and decide he is playing deadguy so I play a fetch and drop the LED in my hand.  Over the next few turns he rips up my hand while I play all the permanents I draw and sit on uncracked fetch lands.  At the end of this game I have 3 land out and two LEDs Zero hand and he has leathal next turn, but I topdeck infernal and win.

Game two I don't really remember, he beats me after I fail to find a tutor for the win.

Game three I go with the play out LED and wait for infernal plan and it works long before he has a chance of killing me.

2-0

Round three: Landstill

Game one I pull first turn leyline + Igg he doesn't have force, and I seal the deal turn four or five.

Game two takes up most of the round time, but I never really get advantage especially since he boarded in mage, I lose this one.

Game three goes to turns and we end in a draw.

2-0-1

Round four: Green/Red Stompy

How lucky another bye matchup, this guy doesn't see more than three turns in the match. kird ape < tendrils.

3-0-1

Round five: Threshold

Game one I start with first turn leyline + IGG he forces, this game is a long hard battle that I end up resolving two tendrils leaving him at 4 life when he kills me.

Game two this is the best game I have ever played with this deck, It goes into turns and I end up resolving double tendrils having one of them stifled leaving him at two life . On turn 3 of extra turns I intuition for infernal so that if I draw a mana source on turn 5 I can tutor up the one remaining tendrils in my deck and kill him.  On turn five I topdeck ritual to go rit, infernal, tendrils and kill him with a stifle in his hand which would have shut out any fetch I could have drawn.

3-0-2 

at this point I have two unintentional draws and I have to win out.

Round six: Sligh

Game one I roll him on turn two.

Game two, my opening hand is a turn two kill but he drops turn two pyrostatic pillar.  If I go off turn two I would kill myself, so I pass the turn hoping he plays a few spells into his own pillar so I don't need as much storm to kill him.  He plays two spells on his turn, wich gives me just enough to kill him on my turn ending the game at one life.

4-0-2

Round seven: Goblins

I breath a sigh of relief when he opens game one with mountain lackey, unfourtunately he follows that with siege gang piledriver and kills me on his turn three.

Game two, his turn four he drops enough dudes to attack for leathal but I chain of vapor his warchief before he declares attackers so he can't swing with the team and I win on my turn.

Game three i win turn two unmolested.

5-0-2

Round eight: Tom with goblins

Tom and I are teamates and have a history of this matchup, I beat him in the top eight of a gp philly prelim last year, and he beat me the night before in the legacy worlds prelim.

Game one is almost identical to last round in that he races me with a first turn lackey.

Game two I win with both of us having slower hands but mine being just a bit faster.

Game three I have a ton of accel but no gas after he rebs my intuition.  I however manage to topdeck an IGG the turn before he goes lethal.

6-0-2 I make top 8 along with my buddy and teamate Roland Chang.


Round one of the top eight: Same Landstill I played against in swiss

This match didn't go so well for me, I got some less than awesome hands and he had already seen all my sideboard stuff and was prepared to deal with it.  The games go very long but, I manage to lose both with him having most of his life.

I collect my prize for top eight then sit down to happily watch Roland win the whole thing with a deck he hadn't touched since gp philly.


Man this was a fantastic weekend!


Oh and here is the list I played in worlds.


//Land
        1 Tropical Island
        2 Island
        2 Swamp
        4 Flooded Strand
        4 Polluted Delta
        2 Underground Sea
        1 Cabal Pit
//Fast mana
        4 Lotus Petal
        4 Cabal Ritual
        4 Dark Ritual
        4 Lion's Eye Diamond

//Combo
        4 Ill-Gotten Gains
        3 Tendrils of Agony

//Disruption
        4 Leyline of the Void
        1 Echoing Truth

//Search
        4 Mystical Tutor
        4 Brainstorm
        4 Intuition
        4 Infernal Tutor

//Sideboar
4 Xantid swarm
3 In the Eye of Chaos
3 Massacre (this thing was amazing, it was a free wrath in 5 of my 9 matches)
2 Gaea's Blessing
2 Chain of vapor
1 Echoing truth


Minor touch-ups. - Bardo

[bomholmm]

Not even one response to my little report

[ptbnl]

Congrats on the T8. I noticed some changes with Xantid Swarm, In the Eye of Chaos, and the single Cabal Pit. What is your opinion of those changes after playing GenCon? Also, what was your Threshold postboard plan?

[Bardo]

Not even one response to my little report

Hey, we repromoted your deck, what the heck else do you want?

[emidln]

Congrats on the finish and it was good to finally meet you and talk about your deck.

[Changster]

WAY TO GO MIKE

It was great to finally not be the one to deny you of either a Top8 or winning prizes.  Great job and I'm so happy for you now that you've broken into the winners circle 

GG Meandeck taking 25% of the Legacy Top 8!

-Roland

[Mr. Nightmare]

Great job Mike!

ITEoC.  How does it work in this deck?  I'm scratching my head as to how you would SB to make this good for you and bad for your opponent (I'm assuming it comes in vs. Solidarity?).  A little assistance with that particular SB strategy would help a lot, if you don't mind.

[Machinus]

Thanks for the report.

[bomholmm]

sideboard against solidarity:

-4 cabal ritual
-3 Intuition
-1 mystical
-1 Echoing truth
+3 In the Eye of Chaos
+2 Gae's Blessing
+4 Xantid swarm

In the eye works because it doesn't shut down the infernal + LED + LED combo at all, dark rit stays in because it still nets mana under in the eye and accels it out.  So your whole plan is to disrupt them with xantid, leyline, igg and ITEOC then win with infernal + LED.  The blessings are there to keep them from winning in response to a turn 4+ eye of chaos.

I never had cause to use this during the tournament.

[bomholmm]

Congrats on the T8. I noticed some changes with Xantid Swarm, In the Eye of Chaos, and the single Cabal Pit. What is your opinion of those changes after playing GenCon? Also, what was your Threshold postboard plan?

Cabal pit won me one match in the prelims on thursday, but that is about all it is supposed to do.  Its just there so that you don't lose to mage on tendrils game one.

My thresh sideboard plan was:

-3 igg
-4 LED

+4 xantid
+3 massacre

It worked rather well in my match against thresh.  I actually used xantid to allow me to resolve double massacre and whipe my opponents board of bear, mongoose, mystic enforcer(he did not have threshold because I started with leyline).  I also used the cabal pit to kill a mage this game.

I was happy with my board I just wish I hadn't dedicated so much of it to the solidarity match-up that I didn't even face.

[AnwarA101]

sideboard against solidarity:

-4 cabal ritual
-3 Intuition
-1 mystical
-1 Echoing truth
+3 In the Eye of Chaos
+2 Gae's Blessing
+4 Xantid swarm

In the eye works because it doesn't shut down the infernal + LED + LED combo at all, dark rit stays in because it still nets mana under in the eye and accels it out.  So your whole plan is to disrupt them with xantid, leyline, igg and ITEOC then win with infernal + LED.  The blessings are there to keep them from winning in response to a turn 4+ eye of chaos.

I never had cause to use this during the tournament.

Consider yourself lucky that you didn't play against Solidarity.  It isn't a pretty sight.  Did you test your board against Solidarity in testing?  I would be interested to see how the results came out. 

[bomholmm]

I played against herbig in the prelim.  I had this board minus the blessings.  Our matched convinced me that I needed the blessings too.

In our first game I started with leyline and cast turn two igg, he remands.  next turn I cast igg, he remands, I crack LED in response to remand and use the mana to cast IGG again.  he responds by killing me.  If I would have had the blessings in the deck he would not have been able to combo me out and he would have lost his whole hand to igg and I would have been able to win off his storm.

Game two I pulled into crap and when I went for eye of chaos turn four he went off in response, again blessings would have been key here.

[freakish777]

If High Tide attempts to go off in response to IGG and doesn't win because of blessing, doesn't blessing screw your IGG over when it resolves?  I realize they'll mill you more after the blessing, but then you're essentially counting on dumb luck to mill the right cards into the bin for the IGG and not blessing again.

[bomholmm]

Yeah that does mess up your graveyard recussion but you want to try and cast the igg with a hand left, so you can mindtwist them and go from there.

[Matt]

Also, if they fail they probably cast a few Meditates, so you have time to rebuild.

[freakish777]

Yeah that does mess up your graveyard recussion but you want to try and cast the igg with a hand left, so you can mindtwist them and go from there.

Right, so Infernal/Intuition/Tendrils still in hand (the mana should probably show up).

[TimDeluxeIt]

What about...They freeze you, blessing triggers, the freeze again in response...second blessing triggers, they respond with stroke of genius..you die immedeately.

[Anusien]

What about...They freeze you, blessing triggers, the freeze again in response...second blessing triggers, they respond with stroke of genius..you die immedeately.

Yes, we all know how High Tide gets around Gaea's Blessing.  The point is that it's difficult to go off around In the Eye of Chaos, especially with how ITEOC beats up on the Stroke plan.

[herbig]

Awesome job!  I'm very afraid of that board plan, it seems like way too much for Solidarity to deal with.  I'm not sure where your from but are you going to the Mana Leak Open?  If so perhaps we will have a rematch and you can thrash me with bees.  Great job and nice to meet you!

[bomholmm]

I'm from Cincinnati.  Unfortunately I won't be making it to the mana leak open, it falls too close to my wedding for Steph to let me run off to a card tournament.

It was cool meeting you too, I'm sure we will get a rematch eventually.

[rureddy31]

Congrats on the T8. I noticed some changes with Xantid Swarm, In the Eye of Chaos, and the single Cabal Pit. What is your opinion of those changes after playing GenCon? Also, what was your Threshold postboard plan?

Cabal pit won me one match in the prelims on thursday, but that is about all it is supposed to do.  Its just there so that you don't lose to mage on tendrils game one.

My thresh sideboard plan was:

-3 igg
-4 LED

+4 xantid
+3 massacre

It worked rather well in my match against thresh.  I actually used xantid to allow me to resolve double massacre and whipe my opponents board of bear, mongoose, mystic enforcer(he did not have threshold because I started with leyline).  I also used the cabal pit to kill a mage this game.

I was happy with my board I just wish I hadn't dedicated so much of it to the solidarity match-up that I didn't even face.

I'm not experienced with this deck, I'll admit it. How do you beat threshold siding out those 7 cards? Just rely on the tutors for the one of and go off slower?
It seems like you're relying on Leyline in play to start, do you mull agressively to it?

[LordHomerCat]

He doesn't use the IGG loop against threshold, he goes for multiple smaller tendrils (or a double tendrils turn if possible) with just rituals and stuff.