Flipping Cards to a Waterbury Top 8. A rookie's tale of playing in The Show

[Womba]

To begin the week before the tournament I am testing the dredge mirror (I know it sounds horrible, it is very horrible, but very useful.) in addition to a radical dredge list. The discussion about Ancestral Recall (loose) and brief mentioning of Vampiric Tutor (looser) led me to try this wackiness of a pile (loosest).

2 Petrified Field
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Bloodghast
4 Narcomoeba
1 Woodfall Primus
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Dakmor Salvage
2 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Golgari Thug
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Bridge from Below
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
2 Ichorid
4 Serum Powder
1 Sun Titan
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Vamp Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall          WTF
1 Black Lotus

SB
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Chain of Vapor
2 Nature's Claim
1 Ichorid
1 Darkblast
1 Contagion
2 City of Brass

The logic was if they don’t have any hate I can use Sun Titan games two and three to get back the combo pieces. Also, I have a tutor and can run the combo out if I draw it, while essentially avoiding traditional Dredge hate cards. After testing against the traditional powers of the format, the combo seemed too random for any consistency to even matter, and whenever I did cast Dread Return targeting Sun Titan I wanted to return a Bazaar anyway. I feel Sun Titan could make a home in dredge, but I feel I would need to test it a little more and without the Vault-Key combo junking up the main deck to have a better understanding how much I like Sun Titan as a target for Dread Return.

There was only one tournament in which I have actually had my list finalized and set in stone, some random NYSE I put up marginal numbers in, so needless to say I make the trip to Matt Elias’ house to head up to Waterbury without any solid idea what my list will be. On the way over to Ryan Glackin’s place to begin the official departure, I discuss with Elias where I want to be with Dredge, and he suggests that the Turtle Dredge builds I have been running seem fine. I make a mental note of this information while I am brewing a list in my head and survive the car ride to Waterbury, CT.

At the hotel I go over the lists I ran in Vintage Champs and the Vintage Camera event and decide to work with that as a base.

2 Petrified Field
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Bloodghast
4 Narcomoeba
1 Woodfall Primus
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Dakmor Salvage
2 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Golgari Thug
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Bridge from Below
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
2 Ichorid
4 Serum Powder
1 Darkblast

SB
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Chain of Vapor
2 Nature's Claim
1 Ichorid
1 Darkblast
1 Contagion
2 City of Brass

I then begin the debate with myself over having Leyline of the Void main decked against having Leyline of Sanctity main decked.  I came to the conclusion with Elias that there would be more Oath and Tendrils based decks than Dredge decks in a big tournament, so I settled on having main deck Leyline of Sanctity (foreshadowing for cool events later in the day). I head to out to eat with my main deck pretty much set, without any finalization for my sideboard. I always like to converse with the Dredge Council (Sam Berse and the Gans Clan) before I make choices on that. We head out to Club TGI Friday’s that night, where I plan on getting awesome. Entering this tournament, I have an 80% (4 out of 5) Top 8 conversion percentage when I get awesome the night before, that’s the play obviously.
  
After bitch-smacking my bedmate Lucas Siow during my drunken slumber in the middle of the night, we get some breakfast at Dunkin Donuts and head to the room to help Nick Coss set up and finalize my list. Jake Gans enters the hall working on his wrist motions for the infamous Jake Gans Lap Drop and I auto grab his deck box and comb through what he is running. Typical Jake Gans list, no powders, nothing exciting in the main deck but I notice Iona, which seems good for this tournament since I expect a lot of combo. Then I look at his sideboard and notice one random Firestorm, what a blowout against double Jailer. He tells me that he actually hasn’t tested it but it should be insane. I then decide to run it cold in my side board and hope for the best, in addition to some other main deck changes looking through Dave Gans’ list and listening to his reasoning. Dave Gans, who also is one of the nicest people I have ever met, has a really good understanding of dredge theory and card selection, despite not always getting the results. I register the following list for the tournament:

2 Petrified Field
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Bloodghast
4 Narcomoeba
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
4 Stinkweed Imp
2 Dakmor Salvage
2 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Golgari Thug
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Bridge from Below
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
2 Ichorid
4 Serum Powder
1 Darkblast

SB
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Chain of Vapor
2 Nature's Claim
1 Ichorid
1 Serenity
2 Firestorm
1 City of Brass

To kill sometime before the tournament, Jake and I draft players who we think are going to top 8/16 as per Lucas’ suggestion. After a quick Wescoe check we decided to make it a little more interesting; I had first picked Jake Gans (OBV loose), myself (Mark Hornung), Ashok, Nick Detwiler, and Joe Brown (still the loosest pick). Needless to say after having half the top 8 correct that was a blowout for me. Now it was time for me to actually bust Gans’ picks and win the tournament.

Round 1 – Against Purchased Bye who was playing Eminem’s new album in my iPod

I decided to get crazy glue to have Bazaar, City of Brass, Nature’s Claim, and Chain of Vapor glued together so I could win games 2 and/or 3. When I tried to fetch it, I failed to find……

1-0 (2-0)  

Round 2- Josh Jacobson playing Noble Fish
Game 1- I lose the die roll and he leads out with a turn one Tarmogoyf. I play Chalice for zero and I wait to activate Bazaar so I am not getting crushed too quickly by Goyf. He accidently runs a Black Lotus right into my Chalice, and then makes up for it by playing blue spells that are from Alpha, Beta, or Unlimited, the spells in question are Time Walk and Ancestral Recall. Once it is officially my turn again I am unable to get anything but Bloodghasts who wave hello to the 6/7 Goyf as it comes crashing into my face to put me at 6. My next Bazaar activation gets me actual blockers to get there.
Game 2- I don’t totally remember this game but I am pretty sure he keeps a hand with no hate or just one piece of hate. I then proceed to deal with the hate and run him over, or he played no hate and then ran him over.
2-0 (2-0)

Round 3- Ethan playing Dredge
Ethan is playing Jake Gans list and side board leaving me to know exactly what I am playing against. He has three Ichorids in the main, which is better than my two for the mirror. Also, right before the tournament I actually went over boarding strategy and mirror match strategy with him, as he is a newer dredge player. This is a bit of an advantage/disadvantage as he knows exactly what he should be doing in this matchup, but I know his list and his strategy for this matchup.
Game 1- I lose the die roll (not good) and hope that his inexperience with the deck will cause him to miss a trigger somewhere. With potential lethal on board, he puts his Ichorid triggers on the stack and activates Bazaar, discards, then moves to draw step and plays Dakmor Salvage to trigger Bloodghasts. He forgot about resolving his Ichorids and then I precede to alpha strike him for the win.
Game 2- No one opens with Leyline of the Void and play begins with Bazaar action from both sides. I have FOUR Bloodghasts into Dread Return targeting Iona before he gets any serious action on board on my turn two without any dredgers in yard. Iona shuts him down and coast to victory there.

3-0 (2-0)

Round 3.5  Chinese Food playing Beef and Broccoli
My Stomach wins in a blowout, no contest….

Round 4- Dave Gans playing Dredge
Literally I am playing the 68(70)/75 card mirror for the second time in a row. We discuss briefly about what an ID would do for us at this point in the tournament. After concluding it was probably a little early to try it, we play it out.
Game 1- I lose the die roll (STILL not good) again. Now I am hoping to just have better dredging than him because I highly doubt he will miss a trigger. I out dredge him and steal game 1.
Game 2- The law of statistical averages is not with me here and I can no longer rely on luck. No Leylines for either of us, and with just average dredging probabilities he is able to win by not punting it back to me at all.
Game 3- We both mulligan to four, his four are……Leyline of the Void, Bazaar, dredgers. Not getting there with my four I mull to three, and keep just a Leyline because I feel defeated. He finds the removal for it and then proceeds to crush me.
3-1 (1-2)

Round 5- Andy Bilarczyk playing Trygon Tezz
Game 1- “I am Dredge hear me roar!”
Game 2- I am able to get a hand with Bazaar, two Nature’s Claim, Chain of Vapor, and City of Brass. Andy opens up with Leyline and Duress taking a Nature’s Claim and then passes back the turn. I draw another Chain of Vapor (getting awkward) and then lead with Bazaar since there is no pressure right now. Andy plays a Time Vault and ships the turn back to me. I draw another Chain of Vapor, and then wait until the end of his turn to try to destroy Leyline because I may have to use it on Time Vault if he hits Key or Tezz. Andy then ships back the turn after playing Jace and brainstorming it up. The following just happened…..
“EOT Chain.” “Spell Pierce.”
My turn
“Nature’s Claim….” “Force of Will”
I activate my Bazaar in an attempt to get a land and play my other Chain of Vapor. Fail to Find.
Next turn
“Chain….” “Spell Pierce”
We both shrug at each other and go to game 3.
Game 3- I don’t totally remember this game but I am pretty sure he keeps a hand with no hate or just one piece of hate. I then proceed to deal with the hate and run him over, or he played no hate and then ran him over as per what I did in round 2.
4-1 (2-1)

Round 6- Oliver playing Oath
Foreshadowing becomes present
Game 1- I look at my first three cards and snap keep Leyline of Sanctity, Chalice, Bazaar, four irrelevant cards. I don’t know he is on Oath but I lead with turn zero Leyline and roll him. He then shows me his hand with turn one Oath and turn two Jace….BuyingGGs
Game 2- I have Leyline of Sanctity in the opener again and roll him, pretty uneventful round when you get the nuts.
5-1 (2-0)

Round 7- ID

Top 16- Bill? Copes playing Bob Tendrils
Solitaire pretty much…..
Game 1- I get the nuts
Game 2- I stare down double jailer and I am unable to find an out to even one.
Game 3- I actually don’t remember this game much either but I manage to win it.

Top 8 Ashok playing Ad Nauseum
James Hangley gets Ashok and myself later in game two some awesome sauce because we are in top 8 and he is James Hangley.
Game 1- Hitting double Cabal Therapy allows me to dodge his Ad Nauseums and take it from there.
Game 2- It is looking pretty bleak for our hero, as his board position is double Jailer, double Crypt. I have double Claim in hand; I am going to use one of them when I can play my City but then I rip the sexy card, Firestorm. I nuke the Jailers with Firestorm immediately while smiling gleefully, pitching some fuel to do. I keep a couple dredgers back in my hand, Ashok pops Crypt number one, and I then Claim Crypt number 2. However, Ashok casts EOT Vamp Tutor and debates whether or not he should Yawg Will to reapply the hate or go for the win with Ad Naus. He draws and plays Ad Naus, Frowntown (Population: Me), then wins the game while he is on three life.
Which makes me think I misplayed, if I had held the Firestorm till the EOT and not casted it so quick like a kid in a candy shop; I would have been able to put pressure on board on my turn then. Also, if he had naturally ripped Ad Naus, or did tutor for it and trying to immediately win instead of waiting it out with Jailer beats; I may have been able to Firestorm his face for the win.
Game 3- I mull to oblivion OBV…..BOOM!!!

Our hero takes the $110 in cash. Since this was my first Waterbury I really wanted a playmat as well, so I asked Ray but he informed me not they did not have enough to go around today. Paul Mastriano, being the gentlemen and scholar he is, ships me his playmat for some paper. I would like to thank Jake Gans for essentially being the provider of that paper as I dominated our player draft. The night ends with food, drink, cube drafting and Elias challenging all comers with Elves in vintage play. Marius obviously challenges me for a duel but decides that taking Elias’ money is better than losing to dredge…..

In conclusion I really liked the 75 I played and most likely would run it again if there were another tournament today. As for Firestorm, I don’t know yet if I want two or not. Against double Jailer it is obviously really good, but if they also have a Leyline of the Void, Contagion is better. I think as of today I would run both one Contagion and one Firestorm for now. Main deck Leyline of Sanctity was a great call for this tournament, but moving forward I think it could change; I always believe you should be shifting cards in and out with dredge per tournament and perceived metagame.

Props:
Joe Brown for picking him for Top 8 and him actually winning the whole tourney; still a pretty loose pick.
Ashok for beating me and making the finals, he is a really good player and guy.
James Hangley and Co. for having awesome sauce
Elias, Lucas, and Ryan for being awesome roommates and driving (thanks Glackin)
Me Top 8ing my first Waterbury and Obv picking myself to do it
P Mas for the playmat
Gans Clan for Tech
Nick D for top 8
Ray for running an amazing tourney and Nick Coss being a baller dealer
For NE girls being looser than my top 8 picks and the NE players……
Everyone making it an enjoyable experience
10-0 against the mirror match with dredge lifetime***......

Slops:
…..***0-2 against the mirror match with dredge against people who have the last name Gans
Me not winning it all
Being 0-2 in Top 8s against people named Ashok
Sloppy dredge players
Sloppy dredge play myself
The Bono Guy who needed to jump back into his DeLorean and take his style to the 80s
The hotel lobby traffic being really weird after 1:30am

It was an amazing experience and I can’t wait for the next one.

[Womba]

How to play Dredge.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7090233

[honestabe]

Lols at how Time Vault is the nuts in a deck that doesnt run off mana

[KingSquee]

I appreciate you not slopping me for supposedly cockblocking you and Elias at Friday's.

... even though I think you guys blocked yourselves for not letting me drink more. We were only a half-mile from the hotel for chrissakes! Hangley could make that drive just fine after twenty horsemen! Loose NE chicks don't dig that whole paternalistic attitude methinks.

Must be unreal, guy.

[sorcutt]

How to play Dredge.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7090233

Haha, that's great. 

What were your thoughts about running Leyline of Sanctity maindeck? 

[Rico Suave]

I like Firestorm.  I think that Firestorm's value, particularly in Legacy Dredge, is often to put Dredgers in the graveyard while simultaneously setting up Careful Study and Breakthrough.  But because Vintage Dredge relies so much on Bazaar, which is also the discard outlet, I think some of the "discard" aspect of Firestorm is not as necessary. 

Would you keep a hand with Firestorm but no Bazaar?  Maybe, but it would be a bit of a stretch I think.  And if that hand is worth keeping, it's likely going to be a keeper with Contagion too. 

How often are you worried about creatures with a toughness greater than 1? 

[Womba]

What were your thoughts about running Leyline of Sanctity maindeck? 

I was happy with it. It was very relevant in about four games all day, but those are the only times I also had it in my opener also. Like I said though depending what you expect the metagame to be, I feel either the white or black leyline could be main decked. A lot of times Oath and Tendrils decks can race you game 1 and steal it from you, and this prevented that a few times for me.

Would you keep a hand with Firestorm but no Bazaar?  Maybe, but it would be a bit of a stretch I think.  And if that hand is worth keeping, it's likely going to be a keeper with Contagion too. 

Game 3 against Ashok I actually kept my three with no Bazaar and one Firestorm. He played Duress and that was the end of that, but overall I feel at three already I felt that was keepable. I didn't see Leyline and figured at worst I could play around the crypt and would be able to beat Jailer.

How often are you worried about creatures with a toughness greater than 1? 

Not very often. Meddling Mage could be a bit of a problem but I feel everything that I would want/need to be killing is X/1

[voltron00x]

Grats on the top 8 Mark, and I enjoyed your report.  You're one of the most consistent players on the East Coast.  I'm also glad that I wasn't beaten in my sleep, like Lucas was.

If I recall accurately, I was the one that suggested, nay, insisted that you draft Joe Brown, recalling his impressive run leading into this tournament; you were the one nay saying and talking of Joe Brown as if he wasn't standing 2 feet to your right.

So in a way, I won you $20, and predicted the tournament winner, and told you to run the correct Leyline main.  Your tournament report has therefore made me feel better about myself.  Well done sir!

[Slayn001]

the margarita was well worth the effort of winning you 20 dollars !

-- Joseph Brown

[GU3ST]

I like Firestorm.  I think that Firestorm's value, particularly in Legacy Dredge, is often to put Dredgers in the graveyard while simultaneously setting up Careful Study and Breakthrough.  But because Vintage Dredge relies so much on Bazaar, which is also the discard outlet, I think some of the "discard" aspect of Firestorm is not as necessary. 

Would you keep a hand with Firestorm but no Bazaar?  Maybe, but it would be a bit of a stretch I think.  And if that hand is worth keeping, it's likely going to be a keeper with Contagion too. 

How often are you worried about creatures with a toughness greater than 1? 

The reason i told mark to play firestorm and why i like it over contagion is that when your opponents hate is 2 yixilid jailers you can pitch 2 cards of any color and i dont like contagion because sometimes you have to pitch your only dredger or you can just not have a black card and if you have to pitch a black creuture your ichorids get harder to return

[Womba]

Grats on the top 8 Mark, and I enjoyed your report.  You're one of the most consistent players on the East Coast.  I'm also glad that I wasn't beaten in my sleep, like Lucas was.

If I recall accurately, I was the one that suggested, nay, insisted that you draft Joe Brown, recalling his impressive run leading into this tournament; you were the one nay saying and talking of Joe Brown as if he wasn't standing 2 feet to your right.

So in a way, I won you $20, and predicted the tournament winner, and told you to run the correct Leyline main.  Your tournament report has therefore made me feel better about myself.  Well done sir!

the margarita was well worth the effort of winning you 20 dollars !

-- Joseph Brown

I accept I guess lol

[Adan]

How to play Dredge.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7090233

I'll take that and work it into my report for the hilarity. Priceless!

And your report's awesome, too.

[mr.grim]

I just want to drop some props to fellow Council member, the dredge machine himself Mark!..... So PROPS!
Its always a good bet this guy will dredging his way to a top 8 near you!

[Marske]

Mark, we'll get our match in sooner or later... I'm more then willing to take your money as well... since you didn't offer cash vintage but just a "bye" matchup I felt it rather foolish for me to not take Elias's money from him as he was so eager to get into battling.

Congrats on the finish and indeed NE women are as loose as the players

The Bono Guy who needed to jump back into his DeLorean and take his style to the 80s
The hotel lobby traffic being really weird after 1:30am

Weren't these props ?! As both where hilarious as hell !

[voltron00x]

Scene -   I’m standing facing Mark Hornung.  To Mark’s right, about two feet away, is Joe Brown.

Mark:  I have no idea who to pick to fill out my top 8 / top 16 prop bet.

Me:  How about Joe Brown?

Mark:  Who?

Me:  Joe Brown!

Mark:  Who the hell is Joe Brown?

Me:  He’s the MUD player that smashed me and Brad at the August Blue Bell…

Mark:  No, I have no idea who that is.

Me:  He’s friends with the NEPA guys?  He won Hadley?

Mark:  Seems like such a loose pick.  I have no idea who this Joe Brown is, that seems like a terrible waste of a pick.

Joe Brown: ….. I AM STANDING RIGHT HERE!

[Prospero]

Scene II - Me, sitting at a table, registering my deck, Jake Gans and Mark standing in front of me.

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Jake:  Nick, what are you playing today?

Me:  Workshops.

Jake:  Yeah, but are you playing U/R or 5C, or are you still playing MUD?

Me:  I'm not saying, you'll just have to see.

Jake:  No, you have to tell me.  If you're playing U/R or 5C I'm going to pick you to top 8, and if you're playing MUD then I'm not.

Mark:  You're not taking Detwiler?  Score!

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8 hours later.

Me:  Jake, what the hell were you thinking?  I told you I was going to top 8.

Jake:  My bracket is the worst thing ever.

Mark:  Thanks for leaving me Detwiler.

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[forcethewill]

Scene 3 "the Loosest store ever"
+wner: so what are you here for a party or wedding?
Me: umm... Not really
Br: We are from New York
Owner: you drove from NY to here to drink
Me: essentially
Random guy: Yo can I party with you guys. Br/Myself: nah thats pretty loose

Walking out of the store
Huge Lady : Yo let me get a beer
BR: No
Lady: I was jus playin

[GU3ST]

2 Petrified Field
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Bloodghast
4 Narcomoeba
1 Woodfall Primus
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Dakmor Salvage
2 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Golgari Thug
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Bridge from Below
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
2 Ichorid
4 Serum Powder
1 Sun Titan
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Vamp Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall          WTF
1 Black Lotus
SB
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Chain of Vapor
2 Nature's Claim
1 Ichorid
1 Darkblast
1 Contagion
2 city of brass

Mark i would like to congratulate you for winning the battle of the looseness by even testing this deck out

[Womba]

@ Marske, I guess the Bono Guy could have been, but the hotel lobby traffic was a failboat harbor....Also I play for Euros none of that fake money crap haha.....

@ Jake, Like a hot dog down a hallway......you have to test all alternatives just to make sure your not missing something, clearly you have yet to test Serum Powder....

@Jimmy, Obv best story.....

[GU3ST]

@ Marske, I guess the Bono Guy could have been, but the hotel lobby traffic was a failboat harbor....Also I play for Euros none of that fake money crap haha.....

@ Jake, Like a hot dog down a hallway......you have to test all alternatives just to make sure your not missing something, clearly you have yet to test Serum Powder....

@Jimmy, Obv best story.....

mark one day you will sit down for a match and game 2 will go like this all your hands you powder away will have like 3 pieces of hate and than you have no hate left when you hit bazaar and lose and you realize im sitting right next to you and i will fall off my chair laughing

[Womba]

@ Marske, I guess the Bono Guy could have been, but the hotel lobby traffic was a failboat harbor....Also I play for Euros none of that fake money crap haha.....

@ Jake, Like a hot dog down a hallway......you have to test all alternatives just to make sure your not missing something, clearly you have yet to test Serum Powder....

@Jimmy, Obv best story.....

mark one day you will sit down for a match and game 2 will go like this all your hands you powder away will have like 3 pieces of hate and than you have no hate left when you hit bazaar and lose and you realize im sitting right next to you and i will fall off my chair laughing

NOW I GET IT!!! I see why the "great" Jake Gans doesn't use Serum Powder, it is because he powders everything away....You OBV don't powder away all of your answers or bazaars despite you playing with nine Jake. We will have The Talk when your a little older so you understand how the birds and the bees as well as Serum Powder and mulliganing work.....

[GU3ST]

Mark your right cause you and those serum powders have really kicked my ass cause  my powderless version is 1-0 in our match and my list may get tighter by playing 62

[T00L]

rofl @ 80's hipster doofus

[Cruel Ultimatum]

@ Marske, I guess the Bono Guy could have been, but the hotel lobby traffic was a failboat harbor....Also I play for Euros none of that fake money crap haha.....

@ Jake, Like a hot dog down a hallway......you have to test all alternatives just to make sure your not missing something, clearly you have yet to test Serum Powder....

@Jimmy, Obv best story.....

mark one day you will sit down for a match and game 2 will go like this all your hands you powder away will have like 3 pieces of hate and than you have no hate left when you hit bazaar and lose and you realize im sitting right next to you and i will fall off my chair laughing

NOW I GET IT!!! I see why the "great" Jake Gans doesn't use Serum Powder, it is because he powders everything away....You OBV don't powder away all of your answers or bazaars despite you playing with nine Jake. We will have The Talk when your a little older so you understand how the birds and the bees as well as Serum Powder and mulliganing work.....

And thats ladies and gentlemen is the reason why he was the first pick of the waterbury t8 draft

[Therubecube]

@ Marske, I guess the Bono Guy could have been, but the hotel lobby traffic was a failboat harbor....Also I play for Euros none of that fake money crap haha.....

@ Jake, Like a hot dog down a hallway......you have to test all alternatives just to make sure your not missing something, clearly you have yet to test Serum Powder....

@Jimmy, Obv best story.....

mark one day you will sit down for a match and game 2 will go like this all your hands you powder away will have like 3 pieces of hate and than you have no hate left when you hit bazaar and lose and you realize im sitting right next to you and i will fall off my chair laughing

NOW I GET IT!!! I see why the "great" Jake Gans doesn't use Serum Powder, it is because he powders everything away....You OBV don't powder away all of your answers or bazaars despite you playing with nine Jake. We will have The Talk when your a little older so you understand how the birds and the bees as well as Serum Powder and mulliganing work.....

And thats ladies and gentlemen is the reason why he was the first pick of the waterbury t8 draft

Wait Serum Powder and mulliganing don't work like the birds and the bees?

[Marske]

@Hornung,
I'll play you for Euro's anyday good sir !

That 80's guy certainly was hilariously (drunk) when we ran into him. The hotel lobby was full of these horrible "magic" playing people and guys running Zombies I can see where you're heading... nah really, you Americans are pretty weird up in NE Marriot Hotel Lobbies around 2.30 at night