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01-03-2010, 01:59 AM
January 2nd 2009
The first big Legacy event in Tucson for the new year! Winner gets their choice of a set of any non blue dual or a box of any newer set. The team I'm on (Team G!) put together a nice variety of decks that we thought would be strong. We brought in BR Goblins, Geddon Stax, Trisomy 21, Mono Blue Merfolk and 2 Bant Survivals.
I was one of the Bant pilots. I played this:
__18 Land
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Island
4 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Savannah
__20
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Rhox War Monk
2 Qasali Pridemage
1 Trygon Predator
1 Eternal Witness
1 Genesis
1 Squee
1 Rafiq of Many
1 Wonder
1 Kira
1 Ethersworn Canonist
__22 Other Spells
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Snare
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Ponder
__SB
3 Krosan Grip
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Spell Pierce
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Pithing Needle
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Faerie Macabre
The other Bant Survival we brought was a mirror -1 Savannah for another basic (think he said Island?). I was trying to squeeze NOPro into the sideboard. Mostly because it helps the aggro match a little bit by cheating in a beastly 10/10 unstoppable Hydra. I ended up opting against it though. I was also considering dropping Spell Snare for Spellstutter Sprite and maybe Scryb Ranger or Vendillion Clique but I liked the one mana counter too much.
Match 1 vs Deadguy Ale
G1 - He drops a scrubland and Thoughtseizes. I don't remember what he took because I didn't remember to write notes until after the game. I remember him walking into two Spell Snares with a Sinkhole and I think a Confidant but sticks a Shade. I lay out a Goyf and a Noble, but by this time he's got 4 lands out and it's bigger than Goyf. He hits me for 6. I lay another Noble and hit him back, getting him to 13 as well. He swings again, but neglects to pump. I lay out a RWM and start going to town. The game ends with me at 33.
G2 - He leads with Ritual, Hymn, Thoughtseize taking a QP and a Heath, then selecting the Force out of me hand. I play a turn 2 Goyf, and he uses Perish on it. We go back and forth for a while. I wind up with a Survival, Noble, and Kira while he has a Hypnotic Specter keeping me in topdeck mode for a while. We trade blows until I'm at 11 and he's at 9. He then Vindicates Kira twice and pushes me to 4 before I answer Hypnotic Specter. I Genesis up Kira by now, and he puts down a Confidant with only 4 life. He got pretty lucky, revealing only lands for 3 turns and I kill him with one life left.
2-0 (1-0)
Match 2 vs Elf Aggro with NOPro
G1 - I mulligan a no land hand. He lays out a Llanowar Elf into a Priest and I counter a NO on turn 3. I land a Noble and RWM and hit him. I draw into a Survival, but there's no creature to pitch. I draw 2 more as he lays out 2 Lords. I end up scooping with 18 life as he sits with about 22 damage on the board Forestwalk.
G2 - I lay out Noble and Goyf or two and he gets stuck on 3 guys. Countered another NOPro in this match.
G3 - We both mulligan to 5. I keep a risky one land hand (Plains) with FoW, Pierce, STP, Canonist. He goes Llanowar Elf, pass. I lay the land and wait. He hits a Ranger and ramps a Priest in, which I Swords. He plays another the next turn as I draw into 2 Survivals. I Force his NO again, but by the time I get another land, it's too late.
1-2 (1-1)
Match 3 vs Mono Blue Merfolk
G1 - He was playing with Cosi and lays out 3 of them while I have a Goyf on the offensive. He ended up drawing nothing but lands.
G2 - He put out 2 early Lord of Atlantis and 2 Adepts. I put a little bit of pressure down, but not enough to hold back the Islandwalking Merfolk.
G3 - I keep an interesting hand of Trop, Island, Forest, Survival, Goyf. I draw into a couple of Exalted dudes and make Goyf retarded huge. Then I lay out Rafiq for the win.
2-1 (2-1)
Match 4 vs Mono Blue Merfolk (Josh, a teammate)
G1 - Really really close. He doesn't see much control, but he lays out threats everywhere. I answer the Lords, but take a beating to the little dudes. I manage to stick a Goyf and lock up the ground. I end up beating him by making my dudes go in the air via Wonder and end the game 11 life to 8.
G2 - We both play pretty sloppy, but we're having fun. I end up making a huge mistake of tapping out while he plays Back to Basics, making it impossible to recover.
G3 - With B2B in mind, I Survival up a Trygon Predator. He forgets, playing a B2B only to have it eaten. He didn't get a lot of threats, but managed to hit me for 8 with a Thrasher and a Mutavault with a Lord out. I remember the board being to the point where if he topdecked a Lord of Atlantis, he won regardless, so I sent in enough guys to go over the top and hold back a Noble and lay a Goyf to block. He topdecks a land and I win.
2-1 (3-1)
They post standings. Burn and the Elf deck I lost to are in 1st and 2nd. David is in 3rd with the Bant Survival. I'm in 7th and the rest of the team is 14th, 15th and lower. Match 6 and beyond were single elimination rounds.
Match 5 vs UG Stifle Nought (store owner excellent Magic player)
G1 - Very slow game. I'm digging for threats and swinging witha 1/2 Noble, but he lays a turn 2 Top and turn 3 CB. I bring him to 11 via Noble, but he gets out a Nought and ends the game pretty quickly.
G2 - I lay out double Noble and then a War Monk that takes him to 7, only interrupted twice by 2 Factories. I play a Goyf to help end the game quicker, and he matches mine. I send it farming and take him to 1. He mentioned something about not being able to cast his Threads without two Islands.
G3 - I keep a hand that is risky, but works out in my favor. It was something like Forest, Noble Hierarch, 2 Survival, 2 Goyf, Force. The first Survival gets countered, but the second one resolves. I end up countering his Counterbalance 3 times before he stalls out.
2-1 (4-1)
Match 6 vs Affinity *Quarterfinals*
G1 - Early Noble, early Goyf. Countering his Master of Etherium to make Goyf fat was nice too. He was pretty threat light. I take him to 14 with that fast Exalted Goyf, but have to block an angry angry creature. Luckily I played Rafiq and pushed him to 2 life pretty much ending the game.
G2 - Turn 1 Noble. Turn 2 Survival, get Kataki. Turn 3 Kataki. He played a lot of good stuff though, so it was actually a difficult match. The biggest mistake I made was not ditching a Goyf for a RWM when I was at 6 life and he was at 9. It didn't matter much though. I still got it.
Match 7 vs Next Level Dredge
G1 - He starts off pretty slow, as he doesn't have any discard outlets. I beat him down pretty quickly with RWM and STP some of his guys.
G2 - I counted my play mistakes in this match, because they were what led to my demise. Getting the Survival engine too late, getting Teeg out too late, countering the wrong spell. He ended up laying into me with a couple tokens, and then all of a sudden, there were 8 and 4 Bloodghast. I lived one turn though because of Lifelink.
G3 - My first turn consists of Crpyt and Brainstorm. He plays pretty cautiously by playing a Tribe and really slow rolling the dredgers. I play Survival and start rolling my engine. His graveyard starts looking big, so I STP the Tribe. He responds by discarding a couple of dredgers. On his draw step after he turns up 2 Bloodghast and a couple of other goods, so I pop the Crypt then, leaving him with about 3 cards in hand and a 3 Narcomoebas in play. I then put out Teeg. He tries to Breakthrough, but I point at Teeg. The game drags out for a while, as I give my guys flying and start blocking the angry Moebas. Towards the end of the game, I was at 12 and he was at 11, but he had 2 lands, no graveyard, 3 dead cards in hand, and I had a Survival,a bunch of land, Genesis recurring Macabre every turn, and a Witness, some exalted guys, RWM, and Wonder in the yard. I'm surprised he didn't scoop earlier.
Match 7 vs Elf Aggro w/NOPro
I want to go home and split. The kid wants to play. Fine.
G1 - He draws, says he forgot to unboard from the last match, so he lost.
G2 - He fixes his deck and we begin. We both play out turn 1 land, mana guy, go. he puts out a Ranger and then a Priest. He ends up with another Priest which I counter. He puts some light pressure down with the Elves he does have available to attack. He ends up with a bunch of smaller mana Elves and tries to cast Sylvan Messenger. I FoW it. At this point I lay out a RWM and stabilize. I just pray he doesn't draw a Natural Order and crush me. I draw into a Force, and play a Witness for a Ponder to dig for removal. He ends up trying to cast that 5/5 Champion an Elf nonsense, so I counter it instead. He chumped the Monk to avoid going to 5, but then I dump Wonder into the yard.
So I won 3 Revised Tundras and went home happy. Hoping to trade 2 of the Tundras for other useful cards, since one finished the set.
I like the deck a lot. It's better than the monstrousity I played in December for the lawls. Kira+Canonist was a nice combo against spot removal. I want more Monks somewhere int he 75. That card was better than Goyf in most scenarios. Exalted is incredibly powerful.
Props:
-The store (Amazing Discoveries) for putting up the event
-David for helping develop the build and convincing me not to add NOPro.
-Frank G and his epic team.
Slops:
-Being at the store for 8.5 hours.
-Kid wanting to play instead of splitting when I just wanted to go home.
-All of the play mistakes I made.
Sorry that I didn't put in my SB changes. Usually Snare came out for things. Or against aggro, Kira and Canonist came out. Even Trygon Predator came out against Elf Aggro in the first match I played against him. Also a lot of my notes were pretty shitty as I was worn out by match 5.
The first big Legacy event in Tucson for the new year! Winner gets their choice of a set of any non blue dual or a box of any newer set. The team I'm on (Team G!) put together a nice variety of decks that we thought would be strong. We brought in BR Goblins, Geddon Stax, Trisomy 21, Mono Blue Merfolk and 2 Bant Survivals.
I was one of the Bant pilots. I played this:
__18 Land
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Island
4 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Savannah
__20
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Rhox War Monk
2 Qasali Pridemage
1 Trygon Predator
1 Eternal Witness
1 Genesis
1 Squee
1 Rafiq of Many
1 Wonder
1 Kira
1 Ethersworn Canonist
__22 Other Spells
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Snare
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Ponder
__SB
3 Krosan Grip
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Spell Pierce
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Pithing Needle
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Faerie Macabre
The other Bant Survival we brought was a mirror -1 Savannah for another basic (think he said Island?). I was trying to squeeze NOPro into the sideboard. Mostly because it helps the aggro match a little bit by cheating in a beastly 10/10 unstoppable Hydra. I ended up opting against it though. I was also considering dropping Spell Snare for Spellstutter Sprite and maybe Scryb Ranger or Vendillion Clique but I liked the one mana counter too much.
Match 1 vs Deadguy Ale
G1 - He drops a scrubland and Thoughtseizes. I don't remember what he took because I didn't remember to write notes until after the game. I remember him walking into two Spell Snares with a Sinkhole and I think a Confidant but sticks a Shade. I lay out a Goyf and a Noble, but by this time he's got 4 lands out and it's bigger than Goyf. He hits me for 6. I lay another Noble and hit him back, getting him to 13 as well. He swings again, but neglects to pump. I lay out a RWM and start going to town. The game ends with me at 33.
G2 - He leads with Ritual, Hymn, Thoughtseize taking a QP and a Heath, then selecting the Force out of me hand. I play a turn 2 Goyf, and he uses Perish on it. We go back and forth for a while. I wind up with a Survival, Noble, and Kira while he has a Hypnotic Specter keeping me in topdeck mode for a while. We trade blows until I'm at 11 and he's at 9. He then Vindicates Kira twice and pushes me to 4 before I answer Hypnotic Specter. I Genesis up Kira by now, and he puts down a Confidant with only 4 life. He got pretty lucky, revealing only lands for 3 turns and I kill him with one life left.
2-0 (1-0)
Match 2 vs Elf Aggro with NOPro
G1 - I mulligan a no land hand. He lays out a Llanowar Elf into a Priest and I counter a NO on turn 3. I land a Noble and RWM and hit him. I draw into a Survival, but there's no creature to pitch. I draw 2 more as he lays out 2 Lords. I end up scooping with 18 life as he sits with about 22 damage on the board Forestwalk.
G2 - I lay out Noble and Goyf or two and he gets stuck on 3 guys. Countered another NOPro in this match.
G3 - We both mulligan to 5. I keep a risky one land hand (Plains) with FoW, Pierce, STP, Canonist. He goes Llanowar Elf, pass. I lay the land and wait. He hits a Ranger and ramps a Priest in, which I Swords. He plays another the next turn as I draw into 2 Survivals. I Force his NO again, but by the time I get another land, it's too late.
1-2 (1-1)
Match 3 vs Mono Blue Merfolk
G1 - He was playing with Cosi and lays out 3 of them while I have a Goyf on the offensive. He ended up drawing nothing but lands.
G2 - He put out 2 early Lord of Atlantis and 2 Adepts. I put a little bit of pressure down, but not enough to hold back the Islandwalking Merfolk.
G3 - I keep an interesting hand of Trop, Island, Forest, Survival, Goyf. I draw into a couple of Exalted dudes and make Goyf retarded huge. Then I lay out Rafiq for the win.
2-1 (2-1)
Match 4 vs Mono Blue Merfolk (Josh, a teammate)
G1 - Really really close. He doesn't see much control, but he lays out threats everywhere. I answer the Lords, but take a beating to the little dudes. I manage to stick a Goyf and lock up the ground. I end up beating him by making my dudes go in the air via Wonder and end the game 11 life to 8.
G2 - We both play pretty sloppy, but we're having fun. I end up making a huge mistake of tapping out while he plays Back to Basics, making it impossible to recover.
G3 - With B2B in mind, I Survival up a Trygon Predator. He forgets, playing a B2B only to have it eaten. He didn't get a lot of threats, but managed to hit me for 8 with a Thrasher and a Mutavault with a Lord out. I remember the board being to the point where if he topdecked a Lord of Atlantis, he won regardless, so I sent in enough guys to go over the top and hold back a Noble and lay a Goyf to block. He topdecks a land and I win.
2-1 (3-1)
They post standings. Burn and the Elf deck I lost to are in 1st and 2nd. David is in 3rd with the Bant Survival. I'm in 7th and the rest of the team is 14th, 15th and lower. Match 6 and beyond were single elimination rounds.
Match 5 vs UG Stifle Nought (store owner excellent Magic player)
G1 - Very slow game. I'm digging for threats and swinging witha 1/2 Noble, but he lays a turn 2 Top and turn 3 CB. I bring him to 11 via Noble, but he gets out a Nought and ends the game pretty quickly.
G2 - I lay out double Noble and then a War Monk that takes him to 7, only interrupted twice by 2 Factories. I play a Goyf to help end the game quicker, and he matches mine. I send it farming and take him to 1. He mentioned something about not being able to cast his Threads without two Islands.
G3 - I keep a hand that is risky, but works out in my favor. It was something like Forest, Noble Hierarch, 2 Survival, 2 Goyf, Force. The first Survival gets countered, but the second one resolves. I end up countering his Counterbalance 3 times before he stalls out.
2-1 (4-1)
Match 6 vs Affinity *Quarterfinals*
G1 - Early Noble, early Goyf. Countering his Master of Etherium to make Goyf fat was nice too. He was pretty threat light. I take him to 14 with that fast Exalted Goyf, but have to block an angry angry creature. Luckily I played Rafiq and pushed him to 2 life pretty much ending the game.
G2 - Turn 1 Noble. Turn 2 Survival, get Kataki. Turn 3 Kataki. He played a lot of good stuff though, so it was actually a difficult match. The biggest mistake I made was not ditching a Goyf for a RWM when I was at 6 life and he was at 9. It didn't matter much though. I still got it.
Match 7 vs Next Level Dredge
G1 - He starts off pretty slow, as he doesn't have any discard outlets. I beat him down pretty quickly with RWM and STP some of his guys.
G2 - I counted my play mistakes in this match, because they were what led to my demise. Getting the Survival engine too late, getting Teeg out too late, countering the wrong spell. He ended up laying into me with a couple tokens, and then all of a sudden, there were 8 and 4 Bloodghast. I lived one turn though because of Lifelink.
G3 - My first turn consists of Crpyt and Brainstorm. He plays pretty cautiously by playing a Tribe and really slow rolling the dredgers. I play Survival and start rolling my engine. His graveyard starts looking big, so I STP the Tribe. He responds by discarding a couple of dredgers. On his draw step after he turns up 2 Bloodghast and a couple of other goods, so I pop the Crypt then, leaving him with about 3 cards in hand and a 3 Narcomoebas in play. I then put out Teeg. He tries to Breakthrough, but I point at Teeg. The game drags out for a while, as I give my guys flying and start blocking the angry Moebas. Towards the end of the game, I was at 12 and he was at 11, but he had 2 lands, no graveyard, 3 dead cards in hand, and I had a Survival,a bunch of land, Genesis recurring Macabre every turn, and a Witness, some exalted guys, RWM, and Wonder in the yard. I'm surprised he didn't scoop earlier.
Match 7 vs Elf Aggro w/NOPro
I want to go home and split. The kid wants to play. Fine.
G1 - He draws, says he forgot to unboard from the last match, so he lost.
G2 - He fixes his deck and we begin. We both play out turn 1 land, mana guy, go. he puts out a Ranger and then a Priest. He ends up with another Priest which I counter. He puts some light pressure down with the Elves he does have available to attack. He ends up with a bunch of smaller mana Elves and tries to cast Sylvan Messenger. I FoW it. At this point I lay out a RWM and stabilize. I just pray he doesn't draw a Natural Order and crush me. I draw into a Force, and play a Witness for a Ponder to dig for removal. He ends up trying to cast that 5/5 Champion an Elf nonsense, so I counter it instead. He chumped the Monk to avoid going to 5, but then I dump Wonder into the yard.
So I won 3 Revised Tundras and went home happy. Hoping to trade 2 of the Tundras for other useful cards, since one finished the set.
I like the deck a lot. It's better than the monstrousity I played in December for the lawls. Kira+Canonist was a nice combo against spot removal. I want more Monks somewhere int he 75. That card was better than Goyf in most scenarios. Exalted is incredibly powerful.
Props:
-The store (Amazing Discoveries) for putting up the event
-David for helping develop the build and convincing me not to add NOPro.
-Frank G and his epic team.
Slops:
-Being at the store for 8.5 hours.
-Kid wanting to play instead of splitting when I just wanted to go home.
-All of the play mistakes I made.
Sorry that I didn't put in my SB changes. Usually Snare came out for things. Or against aggro, Kira and Canonist came out. Even Trygon Predator came out against Elf Aggro in the first match I played against him. Also a lot of my notes were pretty shitty as I was worn out by match 5.