goobafish
01-04-2009, 09:16 PM
After testing numerous (and I mean numerous) new decks for this event, we decided to stick to what we always play with a few sideboard adjustments. Was a terrible day, couldn't get to sleep the night before, ended up with 3 hours of sleep, coughing all day. That kinda sucked, but I troopered through.
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Daze
4 Spell Snare
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle
4 Fire/Ice
4 Brainstorm
1 Wipe Away
1 Rushing River
4 Ponder
3 Polluted Delta
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
3 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Pyroclasm
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Krosan Grip
4 Submerge
4 Disrupt
Same maindeck as every other time.
Here are the matches: (hope I got some stuff right)
Round 1: Geoff Smelski: Konsultant (Man, I love playing this guy, no matter how it ends) Uwg Landstill
Game 1: I mulligan down to 6, keeping Goose, Fow, Rriver and 3 lands. Game wasn't too eventful, he kept factory on board to deal with my goose and cycles a Decree.
Game 2: Nimble mongoose goes the distance and counters do a good job stopping his Ajanis and wraths. Very tight game.
Game 3: He is severely mana screwed but I cannot draw a creature in the first 8-10 turns despite 3 brainstorms and a ponder. He vindicates 3 of my Trops, I hold the last one after a daze to eventually play a Goose. Nimble mongoose does a ton of damage. Plays a pair of Standstills that hit Reb, Spell Snare, his factory pump meets a stifle. His Ajanis meet my counters. He topdecks EE to deal with it, when he is at one. I play bolt with FOW backup. He has counterspell and fow with only 6 mana, so he can only use 1 counter.
Games: 2-1
Matches: 1-0
Round 2: Randy Belcher: Counterslivers
Game 1: He mulligans. He plays turn 1 vial I have no counter. He drops a couple slivers, but i burn them. Goose and Goyf get there, after he plows 1 Goyf.
Game 2: No mulligan this time, but same as game 1. Turn 1 Vial meets no counter. I burn off his individual slivers, and kill him with a Nimble Mongoose.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 2-0
Round 3: Gus Fellows: UGr Thresh (CB Top)
Game 1: I mulligan. He does not have a top, but he does have a CB. He misses on my creatures, and I kill him. I bolt his goyf.
Game 2: I mulligan to 5. I waste out his land, and he doesn't recover. I kill him with Goyf.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 3-0
Round 4: Joe: Survival with Vials
Game 1: I spell snare his survival, counter some goyfs, he has no more gas, I kill him with a Mongoose.
Game 2: I drop a Goyf, which he STPS. He drops a survival with 1 card in hand. He has a lot of lands, and he played 3 vials. I keep swinging with goyf. He topdecks Goyf and chooses to survival it away instead of playing it, so I stifle it. He topdecks another Goyf and does the same, and I respond accordingly. My goyf beats him down with the help of a submerge I believe.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 4-0
Round 5: Lam Phan - ID
Matches: 4-0-1
Round 6: Kyle Dorgan - ANT
Game 1: He mulligans, my deck does what it is supposed to and counters all his relevant spells and drop a Goyf to win.
Game 2: I keep a pretty bad hand, that in retrospect I should have mulliganed. I keep forgetting that I am not playing vintage. He duresses my force and drops a confidant, then comboes me out next turn.
Game 3: He plays all his stuff turn 1 including a brainstorm and duresses my force. He has no cards in hand. I draw and pass the turn. He cracks his LED during UPK floating it into draw step for an Ad Nauseam. I do not have another counter.
Games: 1-2
Matches: 4-1-1
Round 6: Bert: Affinity
Game 1: He drops double disciple, so every goyf swing into an ornithopter is 2 life loss for me, plus the attack back. He gets me down to 3, I rushing riving his Disciples after he blocks my goyf with a frogmite, I finally ponder into a fire//ice for the Disciples. I kill him with goyfs.
Game 2: I burn and REB all his relevant spells but every turn he draws another creature, eventually he draws too many and kills me with cranial plating. He made quite a few mistakes, he should have won the game much much earlier.
Game 3: 5 Minutes left in the round, I need the win for top 8. We shuffle up quickly. I keep a 2 goyf + countermagic hand. I draw into a 3rd goyf, play them and start swinging. They are pretty small. Time is called I am on turn 3 of time, and I swing in with my goyfs while he is at 12. He crypts me before i declare blockers so the goyfs become 2/3's with Artifact and Sorcery in his graveyard. He then declares no blockers, which is very startling when I have a wasteland on board and a hand with 4 cards in it. I waste his land and bolt him, killing him. On board he had 3-4 creatures including an enforcer.
The spectators could not believe it :P.
Games: 2-1
Matches: 4-1-1
I make it into top 8 in 4th seed with very high breakers. Lam is in 3rd seed meaning we are in different brackets.
Top 8:
James White: UWBG CounterTop
Game 1: Mulligans to 6. Keeps a hand that gets trumped by my wasteland. I kill him with a Mongoose because he doesn't have any lands. Stifle and waste keep him off lands. I end the game with 2 more wastelands in hand.
Game 2: He plays a counterbalance with 2 nonbasics, and I do not draw any wastes all game. He plays no more lands. He resolves a Goyf and starts the beats. I play my own goyf, and submerge his so that I can spell snare it. I kill him with the Goyf.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 5-1-1
Top 4:
Carl Dillahay: Team America
Game 1: I keep a land heavy draw, and allow his sinkhole to resolve despite having spell snare and daze in hand. He plays 2 more wastes and another sinkhole which I counter. I played a turn 1 mongoose, which dealt a great deal of damage. He resolves a Tombstalker, and swings with it, which i get back at him with a mongoose. He passes the turn without attacking with stalker, due to being at 7 life. I ice his stalker, and swing in, bringing him to 4. He keeps the stalker untapped and passes. I wipe away the stalker, and attack him down to 1, he can't replay the stalker without cracking fetchlands, so he looses.
Game 2: He plays a land, I waste it. I play land goose, He wastes it. We do draw Go for about 4 turns, neither drawing land. I get down a second of Goose that get him down to 10. He then resolves Tombstalker and 2 goyfs. The fetches and forces get him down to 7. He swings with tombstalker to take me down to 10, leaving 2 geese untapped. At this point, he has killed all my lands except a volcanic, which was tapped to play a ponder. He thoughtseizes me. My hand is Submerge, Submerge, Goyf, Goyf, Trop. I was under the impression at that moment (for some odd reason, I am going to blame it on tiredness) that Submerge required ME to have the forest. The reason I did not play tropical island on my turn instead of Volcanic was that I expected Daze hitting one of my submerges, invalidating my outs for this game. So I let his thoughtseize resolve, bringing him down to 5, he of course takes submerge. After the event Lam and I discussed if I would have played the submerge if I had read the card properly. I argued that I would not have, because if i played into a daze (which I expected) then I would have lost both submerges, and therefore my outs to this game. Either way, he passes the turn. I topdeck one of my outs, another submerge, which could have been a burn spell as well. Play the two submerges on his untapped goyfs and swing with the two geese for the win. He was quite upset with the topdeck, as I am sure I would have been, because he had a very strong board position. He made the mistake of playing thoughtseize after he attacked with the Tombstalker, which could have saved him the match.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 7-1-1
Top 2:
Lam Phan- Split
And that's all she wrote.
Props:
Canada for doing what we promised
Lam for knocking out Bryant to keep up our streak
Arnold Palmer, damn thats a good drink
Canada for taking the event 2 years running
Affinity, for not blocking
Awesome store, as usual, lots of space, even for big guys
Canadian Thrash, for still being awesome.
Geoff, every time we play it is epic.
Submerge MVP!!
Slops:
Americans disrespecting Canadians, we are a real country eh.
Tiredness/Asthma
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Daze
4 Spell Snare
4 Force of Will
4 Stifle
4 Fire/Ice
4 Brainstorm
1 Wipe Away
1 Rushing River
4 Ponder
3 Polluted Delta
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
3 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Pyroclasm
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Krosan Grip
4 Submerge
4 Disrupt
Same maindeck as every other time.
Here are the matches: (hope I got some stuff right)
Round 1: Geoff Smelski: Konsultant (Man, I love playing this guy, no matter how it ends) Uwg Landstill
Game 1: I mulligan down to 6, keeping Goose, Fow, Rriver and 3 lands. Game wasn't too eventful, he kept factory on board to deal with my goose and cycles a Decree.
Game 2: Nimble mongoose goes the distance and counters do a good job stopping his Ajanis and wraths. Very tight game.
Game 3: He is severely mana screwed but I cannot draw a creature in the first 8-10 turns despite 3 brainstorms and a ponder. He vindicates 3 of my Trops, I hold the last one after a daze to eventually play a Goose. Nimble mongoose does a ton of damage. Plays a pair of Standstills that hit Reb, Spell Snare, his factory pump meets a stifle. His Ajanis meet my counters. He topdecks EE to deal with it, when he is at one. I play bolt with FOW backup. He has counterspell and fow with only 6 mana, so he can only use 1 counter.
Games: 2-1
Matches: 1-0
Round 2: Randy Belcher: Counterslivers
Game 1: He mulligans. He plays turn 1 vial I have no counter. He drops a couple slivers, but i burn them. Goose and Goyf get there, after he plows 1 Goyf.
Game 2: No mulligan this time, but same as game 1. Turn 1 Vial meets no counter. I burn off his individual slivers, and kill him with a Nimble Mongoose.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 2-0
Round 3: Gus Fellows: UGr Thresh (CB Top)
Game 1: I mulligan. He does not have a top, but he does have a CB. He misses on my creatures, and I kill him. I bolt his goyf.
Game 2: I mulligan to 5. I waste out his land, and he doesn't recover. I kill him with Goyf.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 3-0
Round 4: Joe: Survival with Vials
Game 1: I spell snare his survival, counter some goyfs, he has no more gas, I kill him with a Mongoose.
Game 2: I drop a Goyf, which he STPS. He drops a survival with 1 card in hand. He has a lot of lands, and he played 3 vials. I keep swinging with goyf. He topdecks Goyf and chooses to survival it away instead of playing it, so I stifle it. He topdecks another Goyf and does the same, and I respond accordingly. My goyf beats him down with the help of a submerge I believe.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 4-0
Round 5: Lam Phan - ID
Matches: 4-0-1
Round 6: Kyle Dorgan - ANT
Game 1: He mulligans, my deck does what it is supposed to and counters all his relevant spells and drop a Goyf to win.
Game 2: I keep a pretty bad hand, that in retrospect I should have mulliganed. I keep forgetting that I am not playing vintage. He duresses my force and drops a confidant, then comboes me out next turn.
Game 3: He plays all his stuff turn 1 including a brainstorm and duresses my force. He has no cards in hand. I draw and pass the turn. He cracks his LED during UPK floating it into draw step for an Ad Nauseam. I do not have another counter.
Games: 1-2
Matches: 4-1-1
Round 6: Bert: Affinity
Game 1: He drops double disciple, so every goyf swing into an ornithopter is 2 life loss for me, plus the attack back. He gets me down to 3, I rushing riving his Disciples after he blocks my goyf with a frogmite, I finally ponder into a fire//ice for the Disciples. I kill him with goyfs.
Game 2: I burn and REB all his relevant spells but every turn he draws another creature, eventually he draws too many and kills me with cranial plating. He made quite a few mistakes, he should have won the game much much earlier.
Game 3: 5 Minutes left in the round, I need the win for top 8. We shuffle up quickly. I keep a 2 goyf + countermagic hand. I draw into a 3rd goyf, play them and start swinging. They are pretty small. Time is called I am on turn 3 of time, and I swing in with my goyfs while he is at 12. He crypts me before i declare blockers so the goyfs become 2/3's with Artifact and Sorcery in his graveyard. He then declares no blockers, which is very startling when I have a wasteland on board and a hand with 4 cards in it. I waste his land and bolt him, killing him. On board he had 3-4 creatures including an enforcer.
The spectators could not believe it :P.
Games: 2-1
Matches: 4-1-1
I make it into top 8 in 4th seed with very high breakers. Lam is in 3rd seed meaning we are in different brackets.
Top 8:
James White: UWBG CounterTop
Game 1: Mulligans to 6. Keeps a hand that gets trumped by my wasteland. I kill him with a Mongoose because he doesn't have any lands. Stifle and waste keep him off lands. I end the game with 2 more wastelands in hand.
Game 2: He plays a counterbalance with 2 nonbasics, and I do not draw any wastes all game. He plays no more lands. He resolves a Goyf and starts the beats. I play my own goyf, and submerge his so that I can spell snare it. I kill him with the Goyf.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 5-1-1
Top 4:
Carl Dillahay: Team America
Game 1: I keep a land heavy draw, and allow his sinkhole to resolve despite having spell snare and daze in hand. He plays 2 more wastes and another sinkhole which I counter. I played a turn 1 mongoose, which dealt a great deal of damage. He resolves a Tombstalker, and swings with it, which i get back at him with a mongoose. He passes the turn without attacking with stalker, due to being at 7 life. I ice his stalker, and swing in, bringing him to 4. He keeps the stalker untapped and passes. I wipe away the stalker, and attack him down to 1, he can't replay the stalker without cracking fetchlands, so he looses.
Game 2: He plays a land, I waste it. I play land goose, He wastes it. We do draw Go for about 4 turns, neither drawing land. I get down a second of Goose that get him down to 10. He then resolves Tombstalker and 2 goyfs. The fetches and forces get him down to 7. He swings with tombstalker to take me down to 10, leaving 2 geese untapped. At this point, he has killed all my lands except a volcanic, which was tapped to play a ponder. He thoughtseizes me. My hand is Submerge, Submerge, Goyf, Goyf, Trop. I was under the impression at that moment (for some odd reason, I am going to blame it on tiredness) that Submerge required ME to have the forest. The reason I did not play tropical island on my turn instead of Volcanic was that I expected Daze hitting one of my submerges, invalidating my outs for this game. So I let his thoughtseize resolve, bringing him down to 5, he of course takes submerge. After the event Lam and I discussed if I would have played the submerge if I had read the card properly. I argued that I would not have, because if i played into a daze (which I expected) then I would have lost both submerges, and therefore my outs to this game. Either way, he passes the turn. I topdeck one of my outs, another submerge, which could have been a burn spell as well. Play the two submerges on his untapped goyfs and swing with the two geese for the win. He was quite upset with the topdeck, as I am sure I would have been, because he had a very strong board position. He made the mistake of playing thoughtseize after he attacked with the Tombstalker, which could have saved him the match.
Games: 2-0
Matches: 7-1-1
Top 2:
Lam Phan- Split
And that's all she wrote.
Props:
Canada for doing what we promised
Lam for knocking out Bryant to keep up our streak
Arnold Palmer, damn thats a good drink
Canada for taking the event 2 years running
Affinity, for not blocking
Awesome store, as usual, lots of space, even for big guys
Canadian Thrash, for still being awesome.
Geoff, every time we play it is epic.
Submerge MVP!!
Slops:
Americans disrespecting Canadians, we are a real country eh.
Tiredness/Asthma