freakish777
11-15-2009, 04:53 PM
So, I drive to Syracuse, and pick up Arun (Source name Marit), he's a majoring in Civil Engineering at SU.
Anyways, on the way to Binghamton he says he's playing Rats, and has a couple spots to fill in his maindeck and is thinking about playing Recurring Nightmare. I tell him to play Volrath's Stronghold instead.
So we get to Jupiter games.
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Wasteland
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Fire/Ice
1 Rushing River
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Snare
4 Daze
4 Stifle
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Nimble Mongoose
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Pyroclasm
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
4 Submerge
1 Rushing River
Originally I had 4 Crypts, and 3 Blue Elemental Blasts, but after a little scouting and seeing there was easily more than 125 people (and we're in for 8 rounds) I switched the Red Elemental Blasts and took out a Crypt.
Round 1, Dillon with some form of GWB Rock.
Game 1 he makes a bunch of Kitchen Finks, and succeeds at getting rid of Goyfs. I lose.
Game 2, I beatdown with Goose, he must not have kept creatures in play for more than a turn because my life total goes to 16 all from my fetches.
Game 3, we go back and forth. This game is very similar to game 1 except I have the FoWs to keep Goyfs around.
Round 2, Bryant.
I don't draw Force of Will. This is the fastest match of the day.
Round 3, Matt playing Ichorid.
He mulls to 6, my opening hand is double Force of Will, fetch, Goyf, Ponder, blue card. Pretty nuts hand.
He opens with Careful Study off Cephalid Colesium, I FoW.
I ponder into land #2.
He plays Breakthrough (misses land drop), I FoW.
By the time he gets another land to play Putrid Imp (only a couple turns) I've top decked Force of Will #3.
Game 2 my opening hand is:
Fetchland
Tormod's Crypt
Tormod's Crypt
Goyf
Goyf
Goyf
Force of Will.
Thanks deck! He didn't open a hand with Pithing Needle, so he goes to hard casting some Narcomoebas, I eventually draw Fire/Ice to stop that and crash in with Goyfs.
Round 4, Eric, mirror match, almost
Game 1.
He ponders on turn 1.
I play Goose on turn 1, he Dazes, I Daze back.
I counter all his guys from then on, Goose takes it home.
Game 2, I mull to 6, my hand is Forest, Nimble Mongoose, bunch of stuff I can't cast. It's an incredibly weak hand, but it seems better hoping to draw a blue source than to mull to 5.
Game 3.
I play turn 1 Goose.
He plays turn 1 Goose. I Force of Will. He Force of Wills. I Force of Will back. My hand at this point is something like Wasteland and a blue card (I want to say Ponder).
He replays his Trop.
I wasteland.
He doesn't draw lands (and is pretty upset).
Goose wins.
Round 5, Ray Robillard playing Planeswalkers
This match is a blow out both games. Ray plays mana, removes my guys, and drops bombs. That simple.
Round 6, John playing Natural Order Elves!
Game 1, I get overrun by a million little guys who suddenly have +1/+1. I did have double Goyf and attempted to race getting him to 8.
Game 2, he doesn't keep guys on the board since my life total indicates all the life loss I experience is self inflicted from fetches and FoW. Pyroclasm and Fire/Ice are a beating for him.
Game 3, I manage to counter and kill the important creatures but cannot find Pyroclasm. I'm racing with Goyf, and he's cracking back with 3 mana elves. At some point I have to stop attacking with Goyf, my notes are really sloppy on this game without what sources of damage are. All I know is I wind up winning, in the position he's been drawing a 1/1 each turn to throw under the tarmo-bus while I have FoW, I finally draw a blue card (Spell Snare, I would have preferred Ponder to try and find Pyroclasm), his turn you plays another creature, I FoW. I rip Bolt, I crack in, he chumps (he has 4 mana Elves at this point I think). He swings for 2, leaving 1 back to block. I untap, Bolt his blocker, and swing putting him on 4 I believe. Basically I need to kill him or force him to block before he finds Natural Order. His deck finally wiffs giving him creatures. I swing, he goes to 1 mana elf. He wiffs again. I swing he blocks, from here I can't lose.
Round 7, Phil from Team Unicorn, playing Ug Merfolk
Game 1
We both get some Tarmogoyfs that stare at each other until he can find Lord of Atlantis and dudes. Frowntown. I can has Sideboard now?!
Game 2
I manage to keep his Goyfs off the board this time, and smash face.
Game 3, I end up mana screwing him pretty hard. Eventually I have something like 5 guys in play, he's on 13, crash in, he makes blocks, and I Bolt him out. Here my notes were much better, he had thought he would end up on 4, I pointed out that he missed either 1 of his 2 Fetches or his Force of Will
(the other 4 points of damage being Tarmogoyf).
Round 8, Will, the mirror (I don't have notes on this one, so it might be wrong)
Game 1.
Make Goose. Trade with Goose.
Keep him off Green.
Make Goose, and make sure he resolves.
Win from there.
Game 2.
Make Goose on turn 1.
He plays Goyf, it resolves.
I untap, play Wasteland, Submerge his Goyf (holding FoW back up, which I don't have to use which is good). Wasteland his Tropical.
Win from there with my 1/1 (who at some point becomes a 3/3).
I end up with 4 Judge Foil Bloodstained Mires.
Afterwards. Team Unicorn lets me crash at their hotel room. Arun rides back with Team Epic and the Birthday Boy. Beastman is bombed. We watch some awful straight to cable TV movie called Biker Boyz starring Laurence Fishburne as Ghost. It's hella tight and baller yo! You wanna slow yo roll? Alix and other unicorns who went to the bar return, Beastman proceeds to do David Gearheart Impersonations. Vodka and Tonic Water is involved somewhere in here, and it's disgusting. Then a bunch of candy gets thrown around. Someone wakes up Kreiger (a couple of times), which I'm sure he wasn't to happy about.
10AM.
I wake up, take a piss. As I'm washing my hands Mike Keller is knocking on the door. We're accompanied by Phil down to the Days Inn breakfast and grab some bagels (Zach, your people are awesome, but cheap bagels are not awesome, edible and get the job done without costing me any money, but not awesome).
I peace out around 11:10 AM, and tell Phil to thank the rest of the Unicorns for the invite to crash at their hotel.
I get 100% lost on the way back. Like, I don't get on 81 North to Syracuse. Fuck it. I take NY State roads and random County roads North and West based on the compass in my dashboard. I manage to get back by 3pm.
Apparently NY State is gorgeous. Who knew?
Anyways, on the way to Binghamton he says he's playing Rats, and has a couple spots to fill in his maindeck and is thinking about playing Recurring Nightmare. I tell him to play Volrath's Stronghold instead.
So we get to Jupiter games.
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Wasteland
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Fire/Ice
1 Rushing River
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Snare
4 Daze
4 Stifle
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Nimble Mongoose
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Pyroclasm
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
4 Submerge
1 Rushing River
Originally I had 4 Crypts, and 3 Blue Elemental Blasts, but after a little scouting and seeing there was easily more than 125 people (and we're in for 8 rounds) I switched the Red Elemental Blasts and took out a Crypt.
Round 1, Dillon with some form of GWB Rock.
Game 1 he makes a bunch of Kitchen Finks, and succeeds at getting rid of Goyfs. I lose.
Game 2, I beatdown with Goose, he must not have kept creatures in play for more than a turn because my life total goes to 16 all from my fetches.
Game 3, we go back and forth. This game is very similar to game 1 except I have the FoWs to keep Goyfs around.
Round 2, Bryant.
I don't draw Force of Will. This is the fastest match of the day.
Round 3, Matt playing Ichorid.
He mulls to 6, my opening hand is double Force of Will, fetch, Goyf, Ponder, blue card. Pretty nuts hand.
He opens with Careful Study off Cephalid Colesium, I FoW.
I ponder into land #2.
He plays Breakthrough (misses land drop), I FoW.
By the time he gets another land to play Putrid Imp (only a couple turns) I've top decked Force of Will #3.
Game 2 my opening hand is:
Fetchland
Tormod's Crypt
Tormod's Crypt
Goyf
Goyf
Goyf
Force of Will.
Thanks deck! He didn't open a hand with Pithing Needle, so he goes to hard casting some Narcomoebas, I eventually draw Fire/Ice to stop that and crash in with Goyfs.
Round 4, Eric, mirror match, almost
Game 1.
He ponders on turn 1.
I play Goose on turn 1, he Dazes, I Daze back.
I counter all his guys from then on, Goose takes it home.
Game 2, I mull to 6, my hand is Forest, Nimble Mongoose, bunch of stuff I can't cast. It's an incredibly weak hand, but it seems better hoping to draw a blue source than to mull to 5.
Game 3.
I play turn 1 Goose.
He plays turn 1 Goose. I Force of Will. He Force of Wills. I Force of Will back. My hand at this point is something like Wasteland and a blue card (I want to say Ponder).
He replays his Trop.
I wasteland.
He doesn't draw lands (and is pretty upset).
Goose wins.
Round 5, Ray Robillard playing Planeswalkers
This match is a blow out both games. Ray plays mana, removes my guys, and drops bombs. That simple.
Round 6, John playing Natural Order Elves!
Game 1, I get overrun by a million little guys who suddenly have +1/+1. I did have double Goyf and attempted to race getting him to 8.
Game 2, he doesn't keep guys on the board since my life total indicates all the life loss I experience is self inflicted from fetches and FoW. Pyroclasm and Fire/Ice are a beating for him.
Game 3, I manage to counter and kill the important creatures but cannot find Pyroclasm. I'm racing with Goyf, and he's cracking back with 3 mana elves. At some point I have to stop attacking with Goyf, my notes are really sloppy on this game without what sources of damage are. All I know is I wind up winning, in the position he's been drawing a 1/1 each turn to throw under the tarmo-bus while I have FoW, I finally draw a blue card (Spell Snare, I would have preferred Ponder to try and find Pyroclasm), his turn you plays another creature, I FoW. I rip Bolt, I crack in, he chumps (he has 4 mana Elves at this point I think). He swings for 2, leaving 1 back to block. I untap, Bolt his blocker, and swing putting him on 4 I believe. Basically I need to kill him or force him to block before he finds Natural Order. His deck finally wiffs giving him creatures. I swing, he goes to 1 mana elf. He wiffs again. I swing he blocks, from here I can't lose.
Round 7, Phil from Team Unicorn, playing Ug Merfolk
Game 1
We both get some Tarmogoyfs that stare at each other until he can find Lord of Atlantis and dudes. Frowntown. I can has Sideboard now?!
Game 2
I manage to keep his Goyfs off the board this time, and smash face.
Game 3, I end up mana screwing him pretty hard. Eventually I have something like 5 guys in play, he's on 13, crash in, he makes blocks, and I Bolt him out. Here my notes were much better, he had thought he would end up on 4, I pointed out that he missed either 1 of his 2 Fetches or his Force of Will
(the other 4 points of damage being Tarmogoyf).
Round 8, Will, the mirror (I don't have notes on this one, so it might be wrong)
Game 1.
Make Goose. Trade with Goose.
Keep him off Green.
Make Goose, and make sure he resolves.
Win from there.
Game 2.
Make Goose on turn 1.
He plays Goyf, it resolves.
I untap, play Wasteland, Submerge his Goyf (holding FoW back up, which I don't have to use which is good). Wasteland his Tropical.
Win from there with my 1/1 (who at some point becomes a 3/3).
I end up with 4 Judge Foil Bloodstained Mires.
Afterwards. Team Unicorn lets me crash at their hotel room. Arun rides back with Team Epic and the Birthday Boy. Beastman is bombed. We watch some awful straight to cable TV movie called Biker Boyz starring Laurence Fishburne as Ghost. It's hella tight and baller yo! You wanna slow yo roll? Alix and other unicorns who went to the bar return, Beastman proceeds to do David Gearheart Impersonations. Vodka and Tonic Water is involved somewhere in here, and it's disgusting. Then a bunch of candy gets thrown around. Someone wakes up Kreiger (a couple of times), which I'm sure he wasn't to happy about.
10AM.
I wake up, take a piss. As I'm washing my hands Mike Keller is knocking on the door. We're accompanied by Phil down to the Days Inn breakfast and grab some bagels (Zach, your people are awesome, but cheap bagels are not awesome, edible and get the job done without costing me any money, but not awesome).
I peace out around 11:10 AM, and tell Phil to thank the rest of the Unicorns for the invite to crash at their hotel.
I get 100% lost on the way back. Like, I don't get on 81 North to Syracuse. Fuck it. I take NY State roads and random County roads North and West based on the compass in my dashboard. I manage to get back by 3pm.
Apparently NY State is gorgeous. Who knew?