Frankfurt BoM Trial

Sers!

Last Sunday (27th March) has been a Trial at Frankfurt which was hold by Demonic Hordes Hessen.
We were 25 wizards fighting in a 5 Round Tournament for a Bazaar of Baghdad.

After a lon time of absence i played Ichorid since i have made good results with it in the past.

Her is what my list looked like:

// Lands
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Petrified Field
1 Dakmor Salvage

// Creatures
4 Stinkweed Imp
2 Golgari Thug
4 Bloodghast
3 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
1 Terastodon

// Spells
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
4 Serum Powder
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Unmask

// Sideboard
SB: 1 Darkblast
SB: 3 City of Brass
SB: 4 Nature's Claim
SB: 4 Chain of Vapor
SB: 1 Ingot Chewer
SB: 2 Contagion

So i began my first Game against Daniel playing the mirror.
He tried to trick me with showing a Oath-Decklist.
I throw a 1 he a 4

He started with mulligan after mulligan while i kept my starting 7 with bazaar.
I believe i made a mistake when i told him after his 3rd mulligan "Guess we have a mirror match".
Because he lead wit a 2-Card Hand playing Leyline of the Void and Petrified Field

I still had a good hand and played Creature after creature but when he came down to 10 life he finally drew Bazaar an won from there the game.
I beat him down to 4 and he killed me afterwards...

After Sideboarding i kept my starting 7 without Bazaar.
It was Leyline of the Void, Cabal Therapy, 2x Stinkweed Imp, City of Brass, Undiscovered Paradise and Chain of Vapor.
My thought was to therapy myself, going for the long dredge way, while my LotV keeps him busy and his hate would be answered with my Chain...

This happened instead:
I put LotV in play, played City, Therapy myself and say go.
He played Bazaar drew 2 cards adn gave me the turn.
I dredge and pop out Narcomoeba.
He played 2nd Bazaar drew 4 cards and gave me the turn.
I dredged for a second Narcomoeba attacked him with the first and let him go.
From there he drew again found chain for my Leyline and run me over this or the next turn...

After this Game i talked to him a little and come to the conclusion "ALLWAYS MULLIGAN FOR BAZAAR"

The 2nd Round was against Florian playing Oath
I threw a 1, he a 7.
I had a starting hand with no bazaar but Serum Powder.
the same was the second 7-Hand and the 3rd 7-Hand still no bazaar so i mull to 6 still seeing no bazaar. The muligan to 5 made me again believe but:
I had no Outlets and only one bridge left...
I bazaard 2 times but found no dredge
While he gave me 2nd turn Tinker to Sphinx eating my live and giving him HP.
With 32 lifes left i scooped...

The 2nd game i had a starting 5 with Bazaar and Golgari Grave-Troll but none of my SB cards.
I drew nothing relevant and had also no manaland while he played strip mine on my bazaar, Lotus for Demonic Tutor and Relic of Progenitus.
i dredged the Troll but found nothing.

He played Pithing needle and saced relic leaving me with a 5 Hand land and nothing else.

We both play draw-go for a while when i started dredging really slowly, i dredged a Nacromoeba and bring him down to 19.
In the meantime he played Lotus, moxen, mana and hardcasted Sphynx which won him the 2nd game too (He showed my Force of Will...)

Since i was 2-0 behind there was noc chance wor T8 but i played for Experience...

3rd Game was Martin playing Shop.
At this point i was really disapointed with the Deck and my mistakes after debating how boring Ichorid is we continue to play.
I have not much notices but i remember i won the die-roll and his first-turn was Workshop Metallworker, i got a solid 2nd Turn.
While he showed and played Steel Hellkite, Tanglewire and Sphere with help of the Ancient Tomb.
I managed to Dread Return Terastodon eating his mana base and in the next turn with flame-kin zealot, 3 Bridges and enough token i swing for lethal damage.

Why the *** does Ichorid shows his potential when its too late...

Since i was in a strange mod i deceided not to sideboard(!) but won the 2nd Game too
with casting dread return through a sculpting steal aka Loadstone Golemn number 2 on flame-kin
I had also to Mulligan twice, then using Serum Powder to get Bazaar, Bridge and dredgers...

The 4th pairing was against another Martin now with Painter.
1st game i didnt need to mulligan!
Instead i Leylined and Unmasked his painter.
He played land, mox bob but my Terastodon ate his land and mox and swing for the win...
Notice: I learned that when he attacks with the elephant token and i block them, my bridges are still removed, since Leyline says:
"If a card would...", but a token is not a card...

Nevertheless i won!

In the second game i couldnt handle his Leyline and 3rd turn Trinket Maged Pithing Needle

The 3rd game was rough!
I managed to win through double Leyline with Force of Will Backup + Engineered Explosive + Pithing Needle...
Well... he didnt drew business spells for a while but opted to saw about 15 cards through a Senseis Divining Top and Fetchlands...

2:2
Not that bad!

Last Round against Markus ( I believe he was the shop owner or the Organizer, sorry i dont remember)
He is a very gentle person and let me win while i made a terribel mistake in the last game.
I was going for the lethal attack but instead i told him that if i attack he would be dead. He said yes an i thought he gave up.
But i didnt asked him and shuffle my hand and board together while he was looking at me saying: "What are you doing?"
At this moment i understood: "He answered my Question but he didn't gave up..." If he would be in a bad shape i guess i would have had a game loss/match loss...
Thank you for this lesson...

But from the beginning:
I remeber i won the first game in the Ichorid way!
He won the 2nd game with a first turn Blightsteel Colossus.

In the 3rd game i became nervous and made a bad mistake.
I had a GY full of stuff, 3 Bloodghasts, Outlet, Dread Return and a Dakmor Salvage...
Somehow i didnt dredged the Land but the Grave-Troll again...

Until this Situation i started with Chalice for 0 while he played the Leyline.
He played Land and Solring
In the 2nd or turn i bounced his Leyline
He played Mystical Tutor for Tinker at the End of my turn where i responded with Nature's Claim for his Sol-Ring.
After a Cabal-Therapy for his Tinker i saw his Problem:
Lotus and 3 moxen
I cabal thearapied his Leyline and he drew the next turn a fetchland...

The Dread Returned Golgari-Grave Troll and the Zombiearmada was overwhelming but as i stated before.
Next time i will attack unless my opponent will give up...

Another Lession i learned was that when i dread return the Troll, he will be counted for the numbers of creatures in the GY too...

Thats it!
3-2 and place 15 i think...
But a lot of Fun and deeper knowledge with Dredge...

Props to:
Christian Schmitz for a sleepingplace in his appartement.
Arasch Abed for buying 3 Rishadan Ports and Cafe au Late
Demonic Hordes Hessen for the Tourney
Markus for let me win even if he could have opted for his own

Cons:
My Skill in the Mirrormatch
My Deck for beeing ugly when i demand it