MSC
01-23-2010, 02:27 PM
It's Time again for Team SPOD stories...
As usualy our story starts at Friday, where we meet at the Z10 (a Students-Bar) to drink beer and talk random Trashtalk. We leave at around 3 o'clock and have a short night of sleep.
The next morning no one is really fit, but we decide, when we allready got up this early we can drive to Mannheim, for the monthly Legacy Tournament. Harald, CZ and me drive there while listening to the Blutjungs, but even this cannot riase the mood. We arrive at the Location very early, so at least we have time to get breakfest before the first round. Teamate Adan also shows up...
Here's what we played:
Stefan "Spirit of the wretch" Czolk: Cats
Harald "Locutus" Herrlich: Dredge with Homarids!
Adan: TES
MSC: Bant Survival
Here's my list:
[SPOD] Bonding Survival
3 Tropical Island
2 Savannah
1 Island
4 Windswept Heath
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
4 Forest
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Jötun Grunt
1 Trygon Predator
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Meddling Mage
1 Rafiq of the Many
3 Qasali Pridemage
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
3 Rhox War Monk
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Survival of the Fittest
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Ponder
SB: 1 Genesis
SB: 1 Faerie Macabre
SB: 2 Krosan Grip
SB: 2 Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 Gaddock Teeg
SB: 4 Spell Pierce
SB: 2 Path to Exile
SB: 1 Malfegor
After some minutes of Trashtalk, the Legacy begins:
Round 1 I play against black Tempo Thresh. I can Force through a early Survival, but my Opponent has 3 Removal and some Counters, so I get nothing to stay on the Board, while I get beaten by double Mongoose. Loosing with an active Survival is hard.
Game 2 I survive the initial Land-Destruction and resolv another Survival. This time I gat an Iona online, which he can't handle.
I don't clearly remember game 3. There was some Explosives involved, which set my board back, but with Survival I could come back and kill him.
He doesn't seem to have boarded Grips against me...
Round 2 I have to play against Harald. Great, against Teammembers again. But it's to early to Draw the Game. I have to mulligan to 5 and he keeps a Hand of 6. While I go first, I have to keep a weak Hand of Forest, Plains, Ponder and 2 RWM. He has keept a Hand of Breakthrough, LED, City, Colosseum, Putrid Imp and something irrelevant. Whats missing here? A dredger? I go Land go, he Land Putrid Imp. I get Land and some Creature, but he has found his Dredger, discards it in my Turn, plays Colloseum in his and goes brekathrough + LED, find dredgers for 4 Dredges + Colosseum...
I scoop at this Point
Game 2 I mull again and have a Hand of Fearie Macabre, Ponder, 2 Lands, Force and RWM. I Ponder but find nothing of Relevance. He goes City, Putrid Imp. I draw a Pridemage and play it. He discards a Thug, which get's eaten by my Faerie. But he topdecks another dredger. I find a Survival, but have to Force his Carefull Study. I find no Creature for my Survival, while he plays a Breakthrough. I have to destroy my own Survival, cause his Dread Return whould heve given him 9 Tokens beside his Gravetroll. I topdeck the Path for the Troll, but get burried under Tokens and Icchorids...
Round 3 I have to play against Braids-Control (how do you call a Deck with Wasteland, Sinkhole, Vindicate, Tabernacle, Braids and stuff?)
First Game I resolv an early Survival and bring Noble Hierarch, while he brings Braids. We play the Game, I sac my Hierarch and get a new one and you sac your lands, till he finds a Karakas to bounce the Braids. I burry him under Creatures and a Trygon Predator wins in the End...
Game 2 I have an Aggro-Hand with 2 Goyfs, Hierarch, Spell Pierceand Lands. I play a lot of Creatures, but get slowed down by Maze of Ith, Ghostly Prison, him having Protection from Goyfs and LD. In the End, I'm able to get through on the back of Survival and Pridemages. If he had drawn any of his Tabernacle in this Game I would surely have lost.
Round 4 against Stefan Czolk. Great, the next Team-Member and again no way to draw. Knowing, that htis Match isn't in my Favor, As Stefan made detailed Notes, I leave this Match for his Report.
Round 5 I got paired against the only person, who won all games. He asks for a draw, but I decline, cause I'm not sure, if I come into prices Range, if I do. My failure is, that I havn't asked my Teammembers, what he is playing. Harald played against him before and would have been able to provide detailed Informatition. If I had asked, I would have known, that my first Hand of Forest, Hierarch, Ponder, Force, RWM, Survival and Goyf is a total keep. I don't know, so I mull down to 5 to keep a bad hand. My opponent plays Faeriestill, and I get to see a lot of Counters and have to break 2 Standstills, which get him even more counters. I die to Goyf-Beats.
Game 2 he has to Mull to five, but even so he has 2 Standstills again. But I'm able to resolv Survival and keep up with his Card-Advantage. And my Creatures are bigger than his...
Before Game 3 we joke, that it is my turn again for Mulligans and to loose because of this. I have to Mull to 6, but have a fair hand. He goes Island go and I decide, not to drop my Hierarch in a Daze. So I play Land, go. Now the **** beginns. He plays: Factory -> Cloud of Fairies -> Standstill. Thanks a lot, Sir! I have to Play my Hierarch and give him tons of Card Advantage. I try to fight him with creatures, but most get countered, while I get beaten by Flyers and Factorys. I resolv a Goyf, but my Teammates seeing my opponents hand just shrug. He has a Sower and I don't find a Removal. He plays another Standstill and I'm not able to resolv another spell. ****!
In the End I'm fifth and get a 10€ Store-Voucher, which I trade for some new Sleeves for the Deck.
Stefan is third and Harald get's the unlucky sixth place, where he get's nothing.
About the Deck:
I really like the List. The Manabase was really solid again and the Deck runs relly well, even with the not perfect plays I'm making more than once.
I'm in the last Steps for Finetuning the List for Madrid. If Worldwake doesn't bring something new, there will be minor upgrades at most. I still work on some Sideboard-Plans against certain Decks. For this I need to attend more Tournaments.
So stay tuned for more SPOD-Reports!
As usualy our story starts at Friday, where we meet at the Z10 (a Students-Bar) to drink beer and talk random Trashtalk. We leave at around 3 o'clock and have a short night of sleep.
The next morning no one is really fit, but we decide, when we allready got up this early we can drive to Mannheim, for the monthly Legacy Tournament. Harald, CZ and me drive there while listening to the Blutjungs, but even this cannot riase the mood. We arrive at the Location very early, so at least we have time to get breakfest before the first round. Teamate Adan also shows up...
Here's what we played:
Stefan "Spirit of the wretch" Czolk: Cats
Harald "Locutus" Herrlich: Dredge with Homarids!
Adan: TES
MSC: Bant Survival
Here's my list:
[SPOD] Bonding Survival
3 Tropical Island
2 Savannah
1 Island
4 Windswept Heath
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
4 Forest
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Jötun Grunt
1 Trygon Predator
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Meddling Mage
1 Rafiq of the Many
3 Qasali Pridemage
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
3 Rhox War Monk
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Survival of the Fittest
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Ponder
SB: 1 Genesis
SB: 1 Faerie Macabre
SB: 2 Krosan Grip
SB: 2 Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 Gaddock Teeg
SB: 4 Spell Pierce
SB: 2 Path to Exile
SB: 1 Malfegor
After some minutes of Trashtalk, the Legacy begins:
Round 1 I play against black Tempo Thresh. I can Force through a early Survival, but my Opponent has 3 Removal and some Counters, so I get nothing to stay on the Board, while I get beaten by double Mongoose. Loosing with an active Survival is hard.
Game 2 I survive the initial Land-Destruction and resolv another Survival. This time I gat an Iona online, which he can't handle.
I don't clearly remember game 3. There was some Explosives involved, which set my board back, but with Survival I could come back and kill him.
He doesn't seem to have boarded Grips against me...
Round 2 I have to play against Harald. Great, against Teammembers again. But it's to early to Draw the Game. I have to mulligan to 5 and he keeps a Hand of 6. While I go first, I have to keep a weak Hand of Forest, Plains, Ponder and 2 RWM. He has keept a Hand of Breakthrough, LED, City, Colosseum, Putrid Imp and something irrelevant. Whats missing here? A dredger? I go Land go, he Land Putrid Imp. I get Land and some Creature, but he has found his Dredger, discards it in my Turn, plays Colloseum in his and goes brekathrough + LED, find dredgers for 4 Dredges + Colosseum...
I scoop at this Point
Game 2 I mull again and have a Hand of Fearie Macabre, Ponder, 2 Lands, Force and RWM. I Ponder but find nothing of Relevance. He goes City, Putrid Imp. I draw a Pridemage and play it. He discards a Thug, which get's eaten by my Faerie. But he topdecks another dredger. I find a Survival, but have to Force his Carefull Study. I find no Creature for my Survival, while he plays a Breakthrough. I have to destroy my own Survival, cause his Dread Return whould heve given him 9 Tokens beside his Gravetroll. I topdeck the Path for the Troll, but get burried under Tokens and Icchorids...
Round 3 I have to play against Braids-Control (how do you call a Deck with Wasteland, Sinkhole, Vindicate, Tabernacle, Braids and stuff?)
First Game I resolv an early Survival and bring Noble Hierarch, while he brings Braids. We play the Game, I sac my Hierarch and get a new one and you sac your lands, till he finds a Karakas to bounce the Braids. I burry him under Creatures and a Trygon Predator wins in the End...
Game 2 I have an Aggro-Hand with 2 Goyfs, Hierarch, Spell Pierceand Lands. I play a lot of Creatures, but get slowed down by Maze of Ith, Ghostly Prison, him having Protection from Goyfs and LD. In the End, I'm able to get through on the back of Survival and Pridemages. If he had drawn any of his Tabernacle in this Game I would surely have lost.
Round 4 against Stefan Czolk. Great, the next Team-Member and again no way to draw. Knowing, that htis Match isn't in my Favor, As Stefan made detailed Notes, I leave this Match for his Report.
Round 5 I got paired against the only person, who won all games. He asks for a draw, but I decline, cause I'm not sure, if I come into prices Range, if I do. My failure is, that I havn't asked my Teammembers, what he is playing. Harald played against him before and would have been able to provide detailed Informatition. If I had asked, I would have known, that my first Hand of Forest, Hierarch, Ponder, Force, RWM, Survival and Goyf is a total keep. I don't know, so I mull down to 5 to keep a bad hand. My opponent plays Faeriestill, and I get to see a lot of Counters and have to break 2 Standstills, which get him even more counters. I die to Goyf-Beats.
Game 2 he has to Mull to five, but even so he has 2 Standstills again. But I'm able to resolv Survival and keep up with his Card-Advantage. And my Creatures are bigger than his...
Before Game 3 we joke, that it is my turn again for Mulligans and to loose because of this. I have to Mull to 6, but have a fair hand. He goes Island go and I decide, not to drop my Hierarch in a Daze. So I play Land, go. Now the **** beginns. He plays: Factory -> Cloud of Fairies -> Standstill. Thanks a lot, Sir! I have to Play my Hierarch and give him tons of Card Advantage. I try to fight him with creatures, but most get countered, while I get beaten by Flyers and Factorys. I resolv a Goyf, but my Teammates seeing my opponents hand just shrug. He has a Sower and I don't find a Removal. He plays another Standstill and I'm not able to resolv another spell. ****!
In the End I'm fifth and get a 10€ Store-Voucher, which I trade for some new Sleeves for the Deck.
Stefan is third and Harald get's the unlucky sixth place, where he get's nothing.
About the Deck:
I really like the List. The Manabase was really solid again and the Deck runs relly well, even with the not perfect plays I'm making more than once.
I'm in the last Steps for Finetuning the List for Madrid. If Worldwake doesn't bring something new, there will be minor upgrades at most. I still work on some Sideboard-Plans against certain Decks. For this I need to attend more Tournaments.
So stay tuned for more SPOD-Reports!