Our trip started at 5 in the morning and we would arive at about 4 in the afternoon. As allways the trip was lots of fun. We went in 2 cars and took our wives/girlfriends with us. At first we were not going to play, but eventually I decided to play vintage.
Some pictures of the trip:The beautifull landscape:
About haldway we stopped to get something to eat. It was the worst meal of our lives, but we had lots of fun commenting on the food, because nobody could understand what we were saying anyway (at least we hope)
a quick stop in Luxemburg to buy cheap cigarettes. They actually sold buckets with tobacco in it.
In Annecy we got to our hotel (Balladins like most players because it is right next to the venue)
The rooms were okay. They had lower prices because of the tournament, but I must say: If we had paied the regular price, I would have felt seriously ripped off.
The first job was finding some food. We got to a little restaurant we remembered from last year. They had really good food en great wine. So afterwards: everybody was a little bit drunk:
the restaurant on the right:
We after dinner and wine:
Kris (He played Reanimator Oath, went 4-5 or 5-4, is not on any of these forums)
Robin and his girlfriend Sandra. They did not play, he's on these forums as Overseer I think and is most active in the Dark Depths thread and will play any deck as long as it's not tier 1. She collects and plays elves
Benjamin and me (BBG and Punki op this forum, we both played UBG gush)
my wife: She thought before this trip that all magic players are geeks and nerds. At least now she knows for sure.
Benjamin's girlfirend Vera:
Activities in Annecy:One day we went into town to take pictures of Sandra in het Cosplay outfit. Benjamins girlfriend Vera took the pictures.
We also made a little boat trip:
The evenings we spend at the hotel, trying to empty all the bottles of wine we bought during the day. Pictures of this are better left off the internet.
I would like to mention the guys from Germany and our friends from Gent we met in the Hotel. It was fun. Seriously fun. The last night I think about everybody in the hotel knew how much fun we were having downstairs. During the day Benjamin and Kris saw that our german friends were about to buy some dutch beer and quickly prevented a catastrophy by pointing them to the belgian beer.
So let's get to the magic partThe list I played:
Maindeck (60):
Spells (45):
1 Black Lotus
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 noxious revival
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
2 spell pierce
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Gush
1 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Preordain
1 Rebuild
3 Repeal
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Fastbond
1 engineered explosives
Lands (15):
1 Flooded Strand
3 Island
4 misty rainforest
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
Sideboard (15):
1 Praetor's grasp
2 dismember
2 nature's claim
2 trygon predator
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Leyline of the void
1 forest
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 pithing needle
Round 1 and 2 I had a bye so I took some more pictures:
In this last picture Kris has reanimated Iona and Gaethan just hardcasts his blightsteel and wins
I did not take notes, so I'll give a very brief report:
Round 3 against BUG fish I think. Game 1 I can go for a fast tendrills. Game 2 he starts with a black leyline, I counter some stuff, claim the leyline and go nuts for a fast win.
Round 4 against a guy playing tezeret control. Very nice guy. He wins game 1 on a confi and jace. Game 2 has me casting gifts and fact or fiction in his endstep followed by a few ancestralls (noxious revival) and he scoops to a praetor's grasp. Game 3 he has some confidants + jace again and a top. I have 5 lands and blightsteel in hand and nothing on board so he wins.
Round 5 against RGB aggro. I thinker the big dude twice and shake hands
Round 6 against MUD. Game 1 he opens trini + golem, g2 I get a fast predator, g3 he opens chalice on 0 and 1 and all I draw costs 1 or 0 mana.
Round 7 against a german. I win the first one off tendrills. The second one he has control but reveals blightsteel and fow to confidant.
Round 8 against ANT I only remember I won
Round 9 against another blue deck. He opens the 2 galmes we play with library of alexandria, I thank god it doesn't provide blue mana. game 1 I bait a fact or fiction EOT and twister for the win in my turn. second game I get tinker and timewalk and he is tapped out.
So I finish 7-2 and get 10 scars of mirrodin boosters for the 25th place.
Still had fun though.
When we got home monday evening, my enormously fat kitty was very happy that me and my wife were back home
