BackDr0p
10-11-2009, 11:49 AM
So yeah, I sleeved up TES for the Twister/ FTV: Exiled tournament @ l'Enjeux Jr. I arrived there about an hour earlier just to hang out and play test.
I was a bit disappointed at the turnout this time around. Only 20 people ended up coming as opposed to the 50-60 we got during the last tourneys held at the store. It probably had something to do with it being held during the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Anyhow, at least I knew what everyone was playing (more or less).
The Metagame that day was very Canadian and even more so in T8 (all 3 Cdn Thresh players made the cut):
3 Canadian Threshold
2 Merfolk
1 Suicide Black
1 Monu U Aggro
2 Kavu Predator (9-Land Stompy without Berserks)
1 UGR Dreadstill
1 TES
1 Entomb Hulk (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=28918)*
1 Lands.dec
1 Naya Zoo
1 UBG Fearies
1 Affinity
1 Dark Hex
1 Hive Mind
1 Reanimator
*Refered to in SCG Premium article
After taking the look around I realized that I shouldn't have too many problems.
The List
1 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Burning Wish
3 Infernal Tutor
2 Mystical Tutor
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of Flame
1 Silence
3 Orim's Chant
3 Duress
4 Chrome Mox
4 LED
4 Lotus Petal
1 Ad Nauseam
1 IGG
1 Tendrils of Agony
SB:
3 Pyroblast
1 Shattering Spree
1 Krosan Grip
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Echoing Truth
1 Deathmark
1 IGG
1 ETW
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Diminishing Returns
1 Duress
1 Infernal Tutor
1 Grapeshot
Round 1:
Salim
UGB Faeries
Game 1:
I'm on the play and from what I can remember, this game was ridiculously short. It pretty much involved a hand full of accel, Orim's Chant and Burning wish into 14 Goblin tokens.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> 3 Pyroblasts OUT-> 1 C. Mox, 1 IGG, 1 BS
Basically, Faeries did what they were supposed to do. I Duress, he shows me a hand full of Sprites (great). He proceeds to waste my lands and Clique away any relevant spells. With much effort, I manage a desperate Diminishing Returns backed with chant at 2 life points... Into... 4 lands. SSG, Duress, Petal. Fail.
Game 3:
Like G1, I keep a hand with a bunch O' ritual, LED's, B. Wish and Ponder. Even after shuffling away the crap on the top of my deck, I proceeded to draw 2 more LED's and a petal. On T4 at the end of my draw step he Cliques away my Wish. Luckily for me it netted me a Brainstorm which found me a Pyroblast and second Burning Wish. I proceed to go off. Rite of Flame, he hydroblasts. Dark Ritual? Resolves. Rite? again another blast. My Burning Wish encounters a Spell Snare which I blast in response whilst cracking my LED's. It gets me Infernal Tutor for Lethal Tendrils.
[1-0-0]
Round 2:
Pierre-Marc (Enigma)
Canadian Thresh
Game 1:
He's on the play. Knowing what he's playing I ended keeping a land heavy hand with Duress, Chant, Ponder, Mystical Tutor, U. Sea, City of Brass. He ponders. I draw a second Duress and proceed to pick his hand clean. On T4 a EOT Mystical Tutor finds me Ad Nauseam. I chant, Dark Ritual x2, Nauseam for the win.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> 3 Pyroblast, OUT-> 1 Ponder, 1 Brainstorm, 1 C. Mox
He gets the job done by blasting all of my cantrips and slowing me down by wasting my lands. Goose (3/3) and Goyf (4/5) bring me to 5 life points. I attempt to go off with chant protection he just shows me a hand of 2x Force, Daze, Spell Pierce, Stifle, F/I
Game 3:
I keep a hand of 2x Duress, 2x Gemstone mine, Dark ritual, Petal, Brainstorm. I duress him, taking away 1 of his 2 forces. He ponders during his turn. I draw a Mystical Tutor. Duress away the other force but leaving Spell Pierce and Stifle . He passes his turn. I draw a 3rd land. He drops Goose. EOT Mystical Tutor for AdN, followed by a BS which reveals Chant, Dark Ritual I draw Dark Rit. and proceed to Nauseam the following turn with enough mana to pay for Pierce targeting Chant.
[2-0-0]
Round 3:
Louis
Mono B Aggro
Game 1:
He gets the jump on my by Dark Ritual-ing into Hymn making me discard my only land (City of Brass) and Dark Ritual and Extirpates DR. I pass. T3 He get hippy into play. Random Discard FTL.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> E. Truth, OUT, C. Mox
I chant him during his upkeep. On my turn LED, LED, IT into AdN (I was fearing extirpate) FTW.
Game 3:
I keep a turn 1 kill (all accel and B. Wish). Obviously he opens with Dark Ritual, Seize, Hymn. I draw a land. He plays Hexmage and with the help of a lotus petal, Seizes again taking Dark Ritual. I top deck LED, which I play. He Hymns me. Leaving me with a single Rite of Flame. I top deck AdN and win from there.
[3-0-0]
Round 4:
Alexandre (elgoff)
Entomb-Hulk (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=28918)
As we both are 3-0, we are guarenteed a spot in T8. We ID, but still play it out for fun.
Game 1:
All I know about the deck he's piloting is that it is graveyard based and not Ichorid. I keep a hand with two ritual effects, IT, B. Wish, MT, C. Mox and a land. I get completely steam rolled. A deck packing over 14 pieces of protection in the form of Force of Will, Pact of Negation, Cabal Therapy, Thoughtseize and a ridiculously consistent goldfish (t3). He kills with an Entombed Protean Hulk revived and sacced with Necromancy, during end step. It fetches him Body Double and Carrion Feeder. Double copies hulk (which is sacced to Carrion Feeder) and fetches, Reveillark and Bile Urchin for the kill. The deck should die and roll over to Extipate, Stifle, Wasteland, Any targeted removal removal. Canadian Thresh is a particularly hard match up for the deck.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> Echoing Truth, OUT-> C. Mox
See game 1.
[3-0-1]
T8
The decks which made it to T8 were:
You can see the deck lists here (http://mtgquebec.com/viewtopic.php?t=4426).
Canadian Thresh (Yan Lampron)
Canadian Thresh (Etienne Ayot-Sauvé, aTn)
Canadian Thresh (Pierre-Marc Duguay, Enigma)
TES (Me)
Entomb-Hulk (Alexandre Le Goff, elgoff)
42land.dec (Adam Roy)
UGR Dreadstill (Sebastien Alarie)
Merfolk (Moise Brunnelle)
Adam
42land.dec
This resulted in a T1 kill game one and T2 kill game two respectively.
[4-0-1]
T4
Moise
Merfolk
Game 1:
I end up winning T2 with a Duress protected AdN.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> 3 Pyroblast, OUT-> 1 IGG, 1 Brainstorm, 1 C. Mox
He drops Chalice of the Void @ 0 (sigh). I waste time by have to go B. Wish into Shattering Spree. I Nauseam from 19 life and die. Just my luck.
Game 3:
SB: IN-> 2 Shattering Spree, 3 Pyroblast, OUT-> 1 IGG, 1 Brainstorm, 1 Ponder, 1 C. Mox
He goes T1 CoV followed by Cursecatcher. Wastes my only 2 lands, Vials in an angry Wakethrasher EOT.
I walk away with 2 Flooded Strands for my troubles.
[4-1-1]
I was a bit disappointed at the turnout this time around. Only 20 people ended up coming as opposed to the 50-60 we got during the last tourneys held at the store. It probably had something to do with it being held during the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Anyhow, at least I knew what everyone was playing (more or less).
The Metagame that day was very Canadian and even more so in T8 (all 3 Cdn Thresh players made the cut):
3 Canadian Threshold
2 Merfolk
1 Suicide Black
1 Monu U Aggro
2 Kavu Predator (9-Land Stompy without Berserks)
1 UGR Dreadstill
1 TES
1 Entomb Hulk (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=28918)*
1 Lands.dec
1 Naya Zoo
1 UBG Fearies
1 Affinity
1 Dark Hex
1 Hive Mind
1 Reanimator
*Refered to in SCG Premium article
After taking the look around I realized that I shouldn't have too many problems.
The List
1 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Burning Wish
3 Infernal Tutor
2 Mystical Tutor
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of Flame
1 Silence
3 Orim's Chant
3 Duress
4 Chrome Mox
4 LED
4 Lotus Petal
1 Ad Nauseam
1 IGG
1 Tendrils of Agony
SB:
3 Pyroblast
1 Shattering Spree
1 Krosan Grip
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Echoing Truth
1 Deathmark
1 IGG
1 ETW
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Diminishing Returns
1 Duress
1 Infernal Tutor
1 Grapeshot
Round 1:
Salim
UGB Faeries
Game 1:
I'm on the play and from what I can remember, this game was ridiculously short. It pretty much involved a hand full of accel, Orim's Chant and Burning wish into 14 Goblin tokens.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> 3 Pyroblasts OUT-> 1 C. Mox, 1 IGG, 1 BS
Basically, Faeries did what they were supposed to do. I Duress, he shows me a hand full of Sprites (great). He proceeds to waste my lands and Clique away any relevant spells. With much effort, I manage a desperate Diminishing Returns backed with chant at 2 life points... Into... 4 lands. SSG, Duress, Petal. Fail.
Game 3:
Like G1, I keep a hand with a bunch O' ritual, LED's, B. Wish and Ponder. Even after shuffling away the crap on the top of my deck, I proceeded to draw 2 more LED's and a petal. On T4 at the end of my draw step he Cliques away my Wish. Luckily for me it netted me a Brainstorm which found me a Pyroblast and second Burning Wish. I proceed to go off. Rite of Flame, he hydroblasts. Dark Ritual? Resolves. Rite? again another blast. My Burning Wish encounters a Spell Snare which I blast in response whilst cracking my LED's. It gets me Infernal Tutor for Lethal Tendrils.
[1-0-0]
Round 2:
Pierre-Marc (Enigma)
Canadian Thresh
Game 1:
He's on the play. Knowing what he's playing I ended keeping a land heavy hand with Duress, Chant, Ponder, Mystical Tutor, U. Sea, City of Brass. He ponders. I draw a second Duress and proceed to pick his hand clean. On T4 a EOT Mystical Tutor finds me Ad Nauseam. I chant, Dark Ritual x2, Nauseam for the win.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> 3 Pyroblast, OUT-> 1 Ponder, 1 Brainstorm, 1 C. Mox
He gets the job done by blasting all of my cantrips and slowing me down by wasting my lands. Goose (3/3) and Goyf (4/5) bring me to 5 life points. I attempt to go off with chant protection he just shows me a hand of 2x Force, Daze, Spell Pierce, Stifle, F/I
Game 3:
I keep a hand of 2x Duress, 2x Gemstone mine, Dark ritual, Petal, Brainstorm. I duress him, taking away 1 of his 2 forces. He ponders during his turn. I draw a Mystical Tutor. Duress away the other force but leaving Spell Pierce and Stifle . He passes his turn. I draw a 3rd land. He drops Goose. EOT Mystical Tutor for AdN, followed by a BS which reveals Chant, Dark Ritual I draw Dark Rit. and proceed to Nauseam the following turn with enough mana to pay for Pierce targeting Chant.
[2-0-0]
Round 3:
Louis
Mono B Aggro
Game 1:
He gets the jump on my by Dark Ritual-ing into Hymn making me discard my only land (City of Brass) and Dark Ritual and Extirpates DR. I pass. T3 He get hippy into play. Random Discard FTL.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> E. Truth, OUT, C. Mox
I chant him during his upkeep. On my turn LED, LED, IT into AdN (I was fearing extirpate) FTW.
Game 3:
I keep a turn 1 kill (all accel and B. Wish). Obviously he opens with Dark Ritual, Seize, Hymn. I draw a land. He plays Hexmage and with the help of a lotus petal, Seizes again taking Dark Ritual. I top deck LED, which I play. He Hymns me. Leaving me with a single Rite of Flame. I top deck AdN and win from there.
[3-0-0]
Round 4:
Alexandre (elgoff)
Entomb-Hulk (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=28918)
As we both are 3-0, we are guarenteed a spot in T8. We ID, but still play it out for fun.
Game 1:
All I know about the deck he's piloting is that it is graveyard based and not Ichorid. I keep a hand with two ritual effects, IT, B. Wish, MT, C. Mox and a land. I get completely steam rolled. A deck packing over 14 pieces of protection in the form of Force of Will, Pact of Negation, Cabal Therapy, Thoughtseize and a ridiculously consistent goldfish (t3). He kills with an Entombed Protean Hulk revived and sacced with Necromancy, during end step. It fetches him Body Double and Carrion Feeder. Double copies hulk (which is sacced to Carrion Feeder) and fetches, Reveillark and Bile Urchin for the kill. The deck should die and roll over to Extipate, Stifle, Wasteland, Any targeted removal removal. Canadian Thresh is a particularly hard match up for the deck.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> Echoing Truth, OUT-> C. Mox
See game 1.
[3-0-1]
T8
The decks which made it to T8 were:
You can see the deck lists here (http://mtgquebec.com/viewtopic.php?t=4426).
Canadian Thresh (Yan Lampron)
Canadian Thresh (Etienne Ayot-Sauvé, aTn)
Canadian Thresh (Pierre-Marc Duguay, Enigma)
TES (Me)
Entomb-Hulk (Alexandre Le Goff, elgoff)
42land.dec (Adam Roy)
UGR Dreadstill (Sebastien Alarie)
Merfolk (Moise Brunnelle)
Adam
42land.dec
This resulted in a T1 kill game one and T2 kill game two respectively.
[4-0-1]
T4
Moise
Merfolk
Game 1:
I end up winning T2 with a Duress protected AdN.
Game 2:
SB: IN-> 3 Pyroblast, OUT-> 1 IGG, 1 Brainstorm, 1 C. Mox
He drops Chalice of the Void @ 0 (sigh). I waste time by have to go B. Wish into Shattering Spree. I Nauseam from 19 life and die. Just my luck.
Game 3:
SB: IN-> 2 Shattering Spree, 3 Pyroblast, OUT-> 1 IGG, 1 Brainstorm, 1 Ponder, 1 C. Mox
He goes T1 CoV followed by Cursecatcher. Wastes my only 2 lands, Vials in an angry Wakethrasher EOT.
I walk away with 2 Flooded Strands for my troubles.
[4-1-1]