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08-17-2009, 10:58 PM
Well first I need to preface this with a little about the day before. So I didn’t get much sleep I had top 8ed vintage champs the night before and stayed out drafting and waiting for my friend to top 8 the standard event that started at 11pm. We got back to the hotel at 3 am and I began building a deck. After making a key decision to cut some dredge hate and triple checking my deck registration I finally got to sleep at 4am. So after a wonderful 5 hours of sleep and getting blown out by the hotels not having their continental breakfast or a working drink/coffee machine. We take what muffins and fruit we could find and head to gencon.
Here is my list
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
4 force of will
4 tarmogoyf
4 dark confidant
4 counterbalance
3 daze
3 spell snare
3 smother
3 thought seize
3 sensei’s diving top
2 trygon predator
1 engineered explosive
2 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
4 tropical island
3 underground sea
1 island
1 swamp
3 wasteland
SB:
3 krosan grip
2 sower of temptation
2 threads of disloyalty
3 extirpate
2 blue elemental blast
2 hydro blast
1 engineered explosives
I must apologize to my opponents. I don’t keep notes and my memory is poor so there are probably mistakes in here. I also don’t have anyone’s names, sorry about that.
Round 1 vs Eva green
G1 So round 1 my opponent is playing Eva green with lotus petals. I win the die roll lead with a thought seize and take his thought seize. Spell snare his goyfs and he scoops to the CB lock after he draws excessive amounts of land.
I boarded out 2 predator’s for 2 sowers
G2 He mulls to 5 keeps a hand of land and a goyf. I seize his goyf and he draws nothing but land the rest of the way.
I feel bad he drew so poorly in these matchups game 1 he ended with 7-8 land in play and almost all his fetches in the graveyard.
1-0
Round 2 vs golden graham’s
G1 I don’t see much of his deck besides a life from the loam and a hand full of LEDs. He tells me he shouldn’t have kept the hand.
I board out 3 smother for 3 extirpate
G2 He resolves a gamekeeper and I miss the fact that I can extirpate him when he hits the graveyard with the trigger on the stack and lose to progenitius.
G3 Turn one thought seize followed by a turn two extirpate on his gamekeepers with enough spell snares for his living wishes to let goyf get there.
He was a fun guy to play against and he gave me the pointer about gamekeeper actually having to go to the yard to trigger. So thanks for that.
2-0
Round 3 vs dredge
G1 Dredge does what it does
I board out 4 counterbalances and 2 trygons for 2 sower 3 extirpate 1 explosive
G2 I extirpate his bridges and have two goyfs. One to hold of the ichorid the other to swing for victory.
G3 Again I have an extirpate for his bridges followed up by some beats.
3-0
Round 4 vs mono white stax
G1 He is distraught to find out I run trygon main. After he finds an oblivion ring for my first one fetches and brainstorms reveal my second trygon and he quickly frees his banished brethren. They proceed to eat all his permanents.
I board out 4 counterbalance 3 spell snare for 3 krosan grip 1 explosive 2 sower 1 extirpate
G2 I don’t remember but I’m pretty sure I scooped to an armageddon with magus of the tabernacle in play.
G3 Is a drawn out game where I extirpate his armageddons and am able to thought seize and counter his dangerous spells. Winning on the back of bob’s awesome ability to generate card advantage.
There was a couple missed triggers in this matchup which I really should have been paying much more attention to. I let him keep his city of traitors in play for 2 extra land drops almost costing me the match. A spectator finally chimed in and let us know about it.
4-0
Round 5 vs train wreck
G1 He duresses me and takes spell snare leaving the counterbalance in my hand. My sleep addled mind doesn’t register this and play counterbalance next turn. Blind reveal doesn’t save me from the hymn which manages to dump all my relevant cards into the graveyard. A couple turns later a haunting echos blows me out. I keep playing trying to figure out what his deck does. He plays staff of domination, cabal coffers, and finally he plays a hell dozer and I figure it out. I board out 4 counterbalance for 3 grip 1 explosive
G2 he keeps a two lander with coffers and I waste it turn two. He never recovers.
G3 I don’t remember much of this game. I do remember him stumbling on land early and gripping a staff but not much else. Sleep addled memory.
We have some friendly chatter during the match which is always nice and I run into him later and he tells me he ends up in top 16 so congrats.
5-0
Round 6 vs bant thresh
G1 good game here I remember resolving a bob and a goyf and just keeping control from there but it was a slim margin for sure.
I have no recollection of how I boarded this matchup
G2 this game was an epic we struggle back and forth trading counters and him killing my CB with a resolved pridemage. Only to have me take back advantage with a goyf the next turn. He then breaks my back by resolving a sower and I die a few turns later unable to recover.
G3 This game hinges on the first two turns. I play bob and he thinks about it and ends up forcing it. He untaps plays a land and plays counterbalance which I daze. He about falls out of his chair. “You play daze in there!?” I play another bob and draw to many cards for him to come back from.
I overheard him saying that this was only his second actual tournament so very well played for that little experience. He made some comments and remarks during the match which gave me many clues to him not quite sure what I was playing and not knowing what cards where in my deck. Specifically daze which I was very surprised by him not knowing was in my list. The look on his face when I played daze was unforgettable.
6-0
Round 7 vs tempo thresh (goobafish)
ID
6-0-1
Round 8 vs dredge the guy who won
ID
6-0-2
Top 8 match vs dredge
G1 i keep a marginal hand and get blown out pretty quickly
I board in 3 extirpate 1 explosives 2 sower and take out 4 counter balance 2 spell snare
G2 he mulls to 4 and I force his turn one breakthrough. Then extirpate grave troll, brainstorm into another extirpate and get his bridges. He scoops.
G3 I mull to five looking for a force or an extirpate keep a sloppy hand with an explosive, goyf, 2 delta, force. I think he had a turn one led breakthrough hand and he played it safe not popping led but I'm not sure here. All I remember is not sacking explosives after his zombie triggers resolved but before his dread return resolved giving him the chance to empty my hand with sadistic hypnotist. I quickly lost after that. Good games and congrats on the win.
Well this was my first tournament report so I hope you enjoyed it.
Props my opponents for being cool players and good sports
gen con in general
my friends for feeding me fruit throughout the tournament, Jeff thanks letting me watch some of the bears game with you
Slops fire alarms
not enough dredge hate
60 min rounds
Here is my list
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
4 force of will
4 tarmogoyf
4 dark confidant
4 counterbalance
3 daze
3 spell snare
3 smother
3 thought seize
3 sensei’s diving top
2 trygon predator
1 engineered explosive
2 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
4 tropical island
3 underground sea
1 island
1 swamp
3 wasteland
SB:
3 krosan grip
2 sower of temptation
2 threads of disloyalty
3 extirpate
2 blue elemental blast
2 hydro blast
1 engineered explosives
I must apologize to my opponents. I don’t keep notes and my memory is poor so there are probably mistakes in here. I also don’t have anyone’s names, sorry about that.
Round 1 vs Eva green
G1 So round 1 my opponent is playing Eva green with lotus petals. I win the die roll lead with a thought seize and take his thought seize. Spell snare his goyfs and he scoops to the CB lock after he draws excessive amounts of land.
I boarded out 2 predator’s for 2 sowers
G2 He mulls to 5 keeps a hand of land and a goyf. I seize his goyf and he draws nothing but land the rest of the way.
I feel bad he drew so poorly in these matchups game 1 he ended with 7-8 land in play and almost all his fetches in the graveyard.
1-0
Round 2 vs golden graham’s
G1 I don’t see much of his deck besides a life from the loam and a hand full of LEDs. He tells me he shouldn’t have kept the hand.
I board out 3 smother for 3 extirpate
G2 He resolves a gamekeeper and I miss the fact that I can extirpate him when he hits the graveyard with the trigger on the stack and lose to progenitius.
G3 Turn one thought seize followed by a turn two extirpate on his gamekeepers with enough spell snares for his living wishes to let goyf get there.
He was a fun guy to play against and he gave me the pointer about gamekeeper actually having to go to the yard to trigger. So thanks for that.
2-0
Round 3 vs dredge
G1 Dredge does what it does
I board out 4 counterbalances and 2 trygons for 2 sower 3 extirpate 1 explosive
G2 I extirpate his bridges and have two goyfs. One to hold of the ichorid the other to swing for victory.
G3 Again I have an extirpate for his bridges followed up by some beats.
3-0
Round 4 vs mono white stax
G1 He is distraught to find out I run trygon main. After he finds an oblivion ring for my first one fetches and brainstorms reveal my second trygon and he quickly frees his banished brethren. They proceed to eat all his permanents.
I board out 4 counterbalance 3 spell snare for 3 krosan grip 1 explosive 2 sower 1 extirpate
G2 I don’t remember but I’m pretty sure I scooped to an armageddon with magus of the tabernacle in play.
G3 Is a drawn out game where I extirpate his armageddons and am able to thought seize and counter his dangerous spells. Winning on the back of bob’s awesome ability to generate card advantage.
There was a couple missed triggers in this matchup which I really should have been paying much more attention to. I let him keep his city of traitors in play for 2 extra land drops almost costing me the match. A spectator finally chimed in and let us know about it.
4-0
Round 5 vs train wreck
G1 He duresses me and takes spell snare leaving the counterbalance in my hand. My sleep addled mind doesn’t register this and play counterbalance next turn. Blind reveal doesn’t save me from the hymn which manages to dump all my relevant cards into the graveyard. A couple turns later a haunting echos blows me out. I keep playing trying to figure out what his deck does. He plays staff of domination, cabal coffers, and finally he plays a hell dozer and I figure it out. I board out 4 counterbalance for 3 grip 1 explosive
G2 he keeps a two lander with coffers and I waste it turn two. He never recovers.
G3 I don’t remember much of this game. I do remember him stumbling on land early and gripping a staff but not much else. Sleep addled memory.
We have some friendly chatter during the match which is always nice and I run into him later and he tells me he ends up in top 16 so congrats.
5-0
Round 6 vs bant thresh
G1 good game here I remember resolving a bob and a goyf and just keeping control from there but it was a slim margin for sure.
I have no recollection of how I boarded this matchup
G2 this game was an epic we struggle back and forth trading counters and him killing my CB with a resolved pridemage. Only to have me take back advantage with a goyf the next turn. He then breaks my back by resolving a sower and I die a few turns later unable to recover.
G3 This game hinges on the first two turns. I play bob and he thinks about it and ends up forcing it. He untaps plays a land and plays counterbalance which I daze. He about falls out of his chair. “You play daze in there!?” I play another bob and draw to many cards for him to come back from.
I overheard him saying that this was only his second actual tournament so very well played for that little experience. He made some comments and remarks during the match which gave me many clues to him not quite sure what I was playing and not knowing what cards where in my deck. Specifically daze which I was very surprised by him not knowing was in my list. The look on his face when I played daze was unforgettable.
6-0
Round 7 vs tempo thresh (goobafish)
ID
6-0-1
Round 8 vs dredge the guy who won
ID
6-0-2
Top 8 match vs dredge
G1 i keep a marginal hand and get blown out pretty quickly
I board in 3 extirpate 1 explosives 2 sower and take out 4 counter balance 2 spell snare
G2 he mulls to 4 and I force his turn one breakthrough. Then extirpate grave troll, brainstorm into another extirpate and get his bridges. He scoops.
G3 I mull to five looking for a force or an extirpate keep a sloppy hand with an explosive, goyf, 2 delta, force. I think he had a turn one led breakthrough hand and he played it safe not popping led but I'm not sure here. All I remember is not sacking explosives after his zombie triggers resolved but before his dread return resolved giving him the chance to empty my hand with sadistic hypnotist. I quickly lost after that. Good games and congrats on the win.
Well this was my first tournament report so I hope you enjoyed it.
Props my opponents for being cool players and good sports
gen con in general
my friends for feeding me fruit throughout the tournament, Jeff thanks letting me watch some of the bears game with you
Slops fire alarms
not enough dredge hate
60 min rounds