TrialByFire
11-03-2008, 04:45 PM
So down to the thick of it. After eventually scrubbing at Hadley after round 4 playing Canadian Thresh, I decided to enter the much awaited EDH Side Event. We only had 8 people, so we had two 4 man pods and then a final with the winner.
In Pod 1 was me playing Jhoira, Jeff playing Sharuum, Justin playing Lin Sivvi, and other guy (forgot name) playing Oona.
Pod 2 was Sunshine playing Lin Sivvi, cool guy playing Pheldagriff, Bryan playing Azami, and some other person.
Our pod was ridiculous, featuring no less than 3 combo decks and Justin. We start the game off developing mana, everyone has turn 1 Sol Ring except me, but I play turn 1 Voltaic Key. Justin drops Sivvi turn 3 and starts making men. Jeff has a nasty acceleration start with Sol Ring into Mana Vault into Gilded Lotus the next turn. He plays Memory Jar and passes and it promptly gets Needled. He tried to combo off on turn 4 ish, playing Gauntlet of Power on blue and something else then Brain Freezing me for 3 copies. They resolve, and I mill nothing of importance. He the casts Desire for 4. Uh oh. I Mana Drain the original copy ( I had transmuted for Drain earlier) and Justin has epic ninja cutting skills and he flips Ceph Coliseum, Mystical Teachings and Turnabout off Desire. Not good considering he has Gauntlet. He Turnabout to untap all his lands, Justin responds with Altar's Light on Gauntlet. W00t! He Teachings for Meditate and apparently draws nothing of value then plays Prosperity for 2 (I draw Sol Ring and Slaver) and passes. When it gets around to me I use my six mana from Drain to play Sol Ring and Slaver and sac it targeting Oona player. Jeff get skipped, Justin makes more dudes, then we get to Oona's turn. His hand has Gifts in it, so I play it targeting me and give him Yawg Will and Mana Crypt, putting Academy and Damnation in his yard. I then cast Will, play Academy, use his Top and Scroll Rack to try and find something that can help my position like a card draw spell, fail, then replay his Lim Dul's Vault and kill him. I then untap for my turn, rip Tezzeret off the top, and combo out with the Key in play after getting Time Vault. Everyone packs up, then Kevin comes over and informs me that top TWO people survive to next round, so I take Justin with me.
We get over to the next pod in time to see them on Turn like 36 (Bryan had 24 land in play) Bryan with Azami with Opposition teaming up with Pheldagriff (gives hippos) to advance from their pod.
We start the finals pod, me and Bryan make a secret alliance (we carpooled together) and we both play Time Vault combo. The game starts off boring, Justin plays turn 3 Sivvi again, and I have nothing of note except Coalition Relic and Transmute for Tolarian Academy. Justin says that he and Pheldagriff should team up, finally catching on to our secret alliance. This is bad news, because Sivvi can fetch Mirror Entity and with 8 mana he can make a bunch of 8/8s combined with Pheldagriff guys hippo tokens that he would donate to him, and kill me and Bryan in one swing. We have to figure out a way to get around this considering we both run limited removal. I remember our only out, and Mystical Tutor for Starstorm, then draw it for turn and Compulsive into Gifts Ungiven. Justin plays Nev's Disk to try and thwart our plans. But Bryan draws into a wizard that taps down permanants, and he taps down Disk on the end step before mine. Then I Gifts targeting him and he gives me Time Vault and Key. I end the game with Counterspell and Drain backup, and him with Forbid too.
I love me some EDH. We pretty much make our entry fees back with the 20 credit, trade for some LEDs, then get out of there. But literally playing EDH was way more fun than scrubbing the tournament, so everyone bring your decks next time so we can have the full 16 players. So. Much. Fun.
Props:
- Time Vault for being the cheats
- Tezzeret for also being the cheats
- Bryan for making a deck 5 mins before the event then splitting first with me.
- Kevin for holding an awesome tourney and letting me borrow his Drain for the finals.
- Slaver for being a broken ass card
Slops:
- Caleb for taking back the Mana Drain I borrowed from him after the first pod and leaving
- Pat for not letting me borrow Imperial Recruiter because he was leaving, then still being there when the EDH ended.
- Pizza for being cold
In Pod 1 was me playing Jhoira, Jeff playing Sharuum, Justin playing Lin Sivvi, and other guy (forgot name) playing Oona.
Pod 2 was Sunshine playing Lin Sivvi, cool guy playing Pheldagriff, Bryan playing Azami, and some other person.
Our pod was ridiculous, featuring no less than 3 combo decks and Justin. We start the game off developing mana, everyone has turn 1 Sol Ring except me, but I play turn 1 Voltaic Key. Justin drops Sivvi turn 3 and starts making men. Jeff has a nasty acceleration start with Sol Ring into Mana Vault into Gilded Lotus the next turn. He plays Memory Jar and passes and it promptly gets Needled. He tried to combo off on turn 4 ish, playing Gauntlet of Power on blue and something else then Brain Freezing me for 3 copies. They resolve, and I mill nothing of importance. He the casts Desire for 4. Uh oh. I Mana Drain the original copy ( I had transmuted for Drain earlier) and Justin has epic ninja cutting skills and he flips Ceph Coliseum, Mystical Teachings and Turnabout off Desire. Not good considering he has Gauntlet. He Turnabout to untap all his lands, Justin responds with Altar's Light on Gauntlet. W00t! He Teachings for Meditate and apparently draws nothing of value then plays Prosperity for 2 (I draw Sol Ring and Slaver) and passes. When it gets around to me I use my six mana from Drain to play Sol Ring and Slaver and sac it targeting Oona player. Jeff get skipped, Justin makes more dudes, then we get to Oona's turn. His hand has Gifts in it, so I play it targeting me and give him Yawg Will and Mana Crypt, putting Academy and Damnation in his yard. I then cast Will, play Academy, use his Top and Scroll Rack to try and find something that can help my position like a card draw spell, fail, then replay his Lim Dul's Vault and kill him. I then untap for my turn, rip Tezzeret off the top, and combo out with the Key in play after getting Time Vault. Everyone packs up, then Kevin comes over and informs me that top TWO people survive to next round, so I take Justin with me.
We get over to the next pod in time to see them on Turn like 36 (Bryan had 24 land in play) Bryan with Azami with Opposition teaming up with Pheldagriff (gives hippos) to advance from their pod.
We start the finals pod, me and Bryan make a secret alliance (we carpooled together) and we both play Time Vault combo. The game starts off boring, Justin plays turn 3 Sivvi again, and I have nothing of note except Coalition Relic and Transmute for Tolarian Academy. Justin says that he and Pheldagriff should team up, finally catching on to our secret alliance. This is bad news, because Sivvi can fetch Mirror Entity and with 8 mana he can make a bunch of 8/8s combined with Pheldagriff guys hippo tokens that he would donate to him, and kill me and Bryan in one swing. We have to figure out a way to get around this considering we both run limited removal. I remember our only out, and Mystical Tutor for Starstorm, then draw it for turn and Compulsive into Gifts Ungiven. Justin plays Nev's Disk to try and thwart our plans. But Bryan draws into a wizard that taps down permanants, and he taps down Disk on the end step before mine. Then I Gifts targeting him and he gives me Time Vault and Key. I end the game with Counterspell and Drain backup, and him with Forbid too.
I love me some EDH. We pretty much make our entry fees back with the 20 credit, trade for some LEDs, then get out of there. But literally playing EDH was way more fun than scrubbing the tournament, so everyone bring your decks next time so we can have the full 16 players. So. Much. Fun.
Props:
- Time Vault for being the cheats
- Tezzeret for also being the cheats
- Bryan for making a deck 5 mins before the event then splitting first with me.
- Kevin for holding an awesome tourney and letting me borrow his Drain for the finals.
- Slaver for being a broken ass card
Slops:
- Caleb for taking back the Mana Drain I borrowed from him after the first pod and leaving
- Pat for not letting me borrow Imperial Recruiter because he was leaving, then still being there when the EDH ended.
- Pizza for being cold