Joe_C
01-25-2010, 10:50 AM
Took 4th yesterday with this list. Took some notes but if asked I could prbably go into more details:
Here is the gist of it:
3 Rishadan Port
4 Wasteland
15 Mountain
4 Goblin Lackey
2 Warren Instigator
3 Goblin Chieftain
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Ringleader
3 Stingscourger
3 Gemplam Incinerator
3 Siege Gang Commander
4 Aether Vial
2 Goblin Piledriver
2 Mogg Fanatic
SB:
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Relic Of Progenitus
4 Pyrokinesis
2 Pithing Needle
2 Ravenous Trap(boarded them in once, and it won me the match)
1 Goblin Tinkerer
Round 1: Ben Lukas playing 43 land
G1: I know what he is playing so I keep an amazing hand against him(in a way) of 3x wasteland, moutainx3 and a lackey. I fail to draw any creatures to attempt to outnumber him, he plays loam over 10 times this game then drops mana bond so I scoop.
Board:-2 instigator,-2 SCG,-2 Fanatic, -1 Stingscourger +3 relic +2 Needle +2 Trap
G2: Turn 1 relic followed by lackey, warchief and another relic. Also trap him after he plays intuition and I pound him in a few turns even though he has tablernacle I had way too much mana at that point for it to matter.
G3: Starts sketchy with him playing a treetop village and me going conservative turn 1 relic, and then getting pounded with treetop a few times. I have no creatures aside from incinerator x2 in my hand and I am holding 2x trap. I play an incinerator from my hand and block treetop next turn and incinerate it to reset the creature count. I end up with matron/piledriver beating for 5. He intuitions for a burn spell with retrace(dont recall name) then he burns piledriver, I cant have that shit coming back so I trap him. I dont remember what creatures I played next, but I took him down by 6. The turn before he played loam and he dredges into good stuff, he goes to play loam and I use my 2nd trap and that ends it since I have lethal for next turn.
1-0,
Round 2:Alex: The mirror:
Game 1 takes 32 minutes. It ends up being pretty much me running 3 SCG and him only running 2, and also me running chieftain and him apparently not,that wins me this. Although he makes a play error late in the game that he tries to take back (playing piledriver and swinging with the team although driver doesnt have haste) I inform him of that fact and he goes to untap all his creatures, and I tell him I cant let him take it back, he is tapped out). In a few turns my extra SCG would have won it anyway so he scoops.
Board: -4 vial,-1 Stingscourger+4 Pyrokinesis, +1 Tinkerer{assuming he keeps vial}(really games 2/3 for the mirror depend on who draws pyrokinesis, it is backbreaking)
G2:He goes turn 1 lackey, I turn 1 fanatic and nail it. He plays a lackey on the next turn. I get stuck on 2 mana and scoop to driver/war marshall/warchief to go to g3 and have time.
G3: Pyrokinesis wins this matchup. I take him from 20 to 8 in one turn after I wipe his creatures with kinesis. Then finish it after he cant play anything big enough to matter
2-0,
Round 3:
Tom with UG Merfolk
G1: I get turn 1 lackey, which gets in there once but I dont really have any juice. He gets ahead with goyf and counters my good stuff. I lose this one.
Board: -2 Instigator, -1 SCG, -2 Fanatic, -2 Stingscourger, +4 Pyrokinesis, +3 Red Elemental Blast
G2: I stick a turn 1 lackey. This time I get a chieftain, then a SCG into play. I win this one quick.
G3: Fast goblins and I think I cast kinesis to nail some blockers, I get ahead quick and he cant catch up.
3-0
Round 4:Steve Playing BANT
G1: I thought I had this game lost, he ends up with hierarch x2, knight of the reliquery and pridemage. I resolve a matron for SCG to make me some blockers. He keeps swinging in at me with knight I block with a token and fling it at pridemage, then a hierarch. I stick a chieftain which gets me lethal, I was at 3, I took him from 13 in one turn.
Board:-2 Instigator, -2 Fanatic, -1 SCG, -1 Stingscourger +4 Pyrokinesis +2 Relic
G2: I start off with a great board wiping on him. I pyrokinesis knight, and a hierarch and put on pressure. He is able to come back with double goyf(after I relic once to get them down, he plays brainstorm after I remove the graves and they live) and I try to swing in to kill him (which leaves me open to die if he can stop a creature)he shows me hydroblast and I cry inside.
G3: They call time after my 2nd turn. We end up drawing since I dont stick a turn 3 win
3-0-1,
Round 5: Eric with Canadian Thresh
Yeah, this matchup is bad. Burn, and nimble mongoose make it a hard time for me. I lose in 2
I boarded in kinesis in this match, but it was a blowout regardless, I dont think unless I turn 3 win, they will beat goblins. Bolt, fire/ice, firespout are all amzing against my deck
3-1-1
Round 6:Josh with UGW Counterbalance with NO(paired down)
Need to win this bitch to get in.
Game 1. Turn 1 Vial. He plays turn 2 counterbalance. I stick turn 2 Instigator, instigator brings in chieftain after he swings and he scoops to much goblins on the board.
Board: -2 Fanatic, -2 Stingscourger(he aint gonna bounce proegnitus, but will bounce wall of roots so I can attack!)-2 Instigator, +4 Pyrokinesis +2 Relic
G2: I keep a poor hand, he ends up resolving turn 5 NO for Progenitus. This card is good I hear.
G3. I get some creatures on board and keep him at zero creatures desperately with incinerator/pyrokinises so he cant cast NO. I am able to beat him fast enough. I guess he had some poor draws.
TOPS 8!!!! YEAH
Top8:Corey Mono U Merfolk
If I could pray for a deck to face, this would have to be it.
G1:I play turn 1 vial. He plays mutavault, vial. I play turn 2 driver. Pass. He plays island go. I EOT vial in lackey. Untap. Swing. He animates vault, I incinerator it before the block. I get SCG off lackey, he scoops.
Board: -2 INstigator, -2 Fanatic -2 Stingscourger,-1 SCG +4 Pyrokinesis +3 Red Elemental Blast
G2: This one goes longer. Pryrokinesis does its job. And wipes reejery and kills some mutavaults after combat since I have 2x chieftain in play. I wasnt dealt damage in either of these games
Top 4
Kyle(fellow team awesome member) with Belcher
G1: I have to mull to 3 because I dont see a colored source for the first 2mulls, then no land on the 3rd. I keep wasteland, mountain, ringleader. I plays bayou, tinder wall. I waste the bayou and play mountain. He wins on his next turn
Board -4 Vial, -2 Fanatic, -2 Instigator +4 Pyrokinesis (to nail tinder wall)+2 Needle. This matchup is just praying they have a shit hand and you nail needle on belcher and that will win it for you.
G2: Turn 1 needle on belcher and some fast goblins wins it.
G3: I mull into turn 1 needle. Put that on belcher. He ends up turn 3 or 4 empty the warrens for 14 tokens. My 4 creatures cant keep up with that. I extend my hand and I take 4th place and take 4 Badlands as a prize.... Guess I will have to start playing duals again since I won some
Props:
Dave for running an awesome tournament as always. Glad you did well on Saturday too!
Team Awesome for being Awesome and putting 1 in first place with BELCHER and me in 4th
Ravenous Trap and Pyrokinesis- you do what you do so well
My Car, getting to Rhode Island and back and still having half a tank of gas makes me very happy
Slops:
Fog on the drive home
My driveway for apparently turning into a skating rink at night and me practically sliding to my doorstep
having to face a teammate in the top 4
Here is the gist of it:
3 Rishadan Port
4 Wasteland
15 Mountain
4 Goblin Lackey
2 Warren Instigator
3 Goblin Chieftain
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Ringleader
3 Stingscourger
3 Gemplam Incinerator
3 Siege Gang Commander
4 Aether Vial
2 Goblin Piledriver
2 Mogg Fanatic
SB:
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Relic Of Progenitus
4 Pyrokinesis
2 Pithing Needle
2 Ravenous Trap(boarded them in once, and it won me the match)
1 Goblin Tinkerer
Round 1: Ben Lukas playing 43 land
G1: I know what he is playing so I keep an amazing hand against him(in a way) of 3x wasteland, moutainx3 and a lackey. I fail to draw any creatures to attempt to outnumber him, he plays loam over 10 times this game then drops mana bond so I scoop.
Board:-2 instigator,-2 SCG,-2 Fanatic, -1 Stingscourger +3 relic +2 Needle +2 Trap
G2: Turn 1 relic followed by lackey, warchief and another relic. Also trap him after he plays intuition and I pound him in a few turns even though he has tablernacle I had way too much mana at that point for it to matter.
G3: Starts sketchy with him playing a treetop village and me going conservative turn 1 relic, and then getting pounded with treetop a few times. I have no creatures aside from incinerator x2 in my hand and I am holding 2x trap. I play an incinerator from my hand and block treetop next turn and incinerate it to reset the creature count. I end up with matron/piledriver beating for 5. He intuitions for a burn spell with retrace(dont recall name) then he burns piledriver, I cant have that shit coming back so I trap him. I dont remember what creatures I played next, but I took him down by 6. The turn before he played loam and he dredges into good stuff, he goes to play loam and I use my 2nd trap and that ends it since I have lethal for next turn.
1-0,
Round 2:Alex: The mirror:
Game 1 takes 32 minutes. It ends up being pretty much me running 3 SCG and him only running 2, and also me running chieftain and him apparently not,that wins me this. Although he makes a play error late in the game that he tries to take back (playing piledriver and swinging with the team although driver doesnt have haste) I inform him of that fact and he goes to untap all his creatures, and I tell him I cant let him take it back, he is tapped out). In a few turns my extra SCG would have won it anyway so he scoops.
Board: -4 vial,-1 Stingscourger+4 Pyrokinesis, +1 Tinkerer{assuming he keeps vial}(really games 2/3 for the mirror depend on who draws pyrokinesis, it is backbreaking)
G2:He goes turn 1 lackey, I turn 1 fanatic and nail it. He plays a lackey on the next turn. I get stuck on 2 mana and scoop to driver/war marshall/warchief to go to g3 and have time.
G3: Pyrokinesis wins this matchup. I take him from 20 to 8 in one turn after I wipe his creatures with kinesis. Then finish it after he cant play anything big enough to matter
2-0,
Round 3:
Tom with UG Merfolk
G1: I get turn 1 lackey, which gets in there once but I dont really have any juice. He gets ahead with goyf and counters my good stuff. I lose this one.
Board: -2 Instigator, -1 SCG, -2 Fanatic, -2 Stingscourger, +4 Pyrokinesis, +3 Red Elemental Blast
G2: I stick a turn 1 lackey. This time I get a chieftain, then a SCG into play. I win this one quick.
G3: Fast goblins and I think I cast kinesis to nail some blockers, I get ahead quick and he cant catch up.
3-0
Round 4:Steve Playing BANT
G1: I thought I had this game lost, he ends up with hierarch x2, knight of the reliquery and pridemage. I resolve a matron for SCG to make me some blockers. He keeps swinging in at me with knight I block with a token and fling it at pridemage, then a hierarch. I stick a chieftain which gets me lethal, I was at 3, I took him from 13 in one turn.
Board:-2 Instigator, -2 Fanatic, -1 SCG, -1 Stingscourger +4 Pyrokinesis +2 Relic
G2: I start off with a great board wiping on him. I pyrokinesis knight, and a hierarch and put on pressure. He is able to come back with double goyf(after I relic once to get them down, he plays brainstorm after I remove the graves and they live) and I try to swing in to kill him (which leaves me open to die if he can stop a creature)he shows me hydroblast and I cry inside.
G3: They call time after my 2nd turn. We end up drawing since I dont stick a turn 3 win
3-0-1,
Round 5: Eric with Canadian Thresh
Yeah, this matchup is bad. Burn, and nimble mongoose make it a hard time for me. I lose in 2
I boarded in kinesis in this match, but it was a blowout regardless, I dont think unless I turn 3 win, they will beat goblins. Bolt, fire/ice, firespout are all amzing against my deck
3-1-1
Round 6:Josh with UGW Counterbalance with NO(paired down)
Need to win this bitch to get in.
Game 1. Turn 1 Vial. He plays turn 2 counterbalance. I stick turn 2 Instigator, instigator brings in chieftain after he swings and he scoops to much goblins on the board.
Board: -2 Fanatic, -2 Stingscourger(he aint gonna bounce proegnitus, but will bounce wall of roots so I can attack!)-2 Instigator, +4 Pyrokinesis +2 Relic
G2: I keep a poor hand, he ends up resolving turn 5 NO for Progenitus. This card is good I hear.
G3. I get some creatures on board and keep him at zero creatures desperately with incinerator/pyrokinises so he cant cast NO. I am able to beat him fast enough. I guess he had some poor draws.
TOPS 8!!!! YEAH
Top8:Corey Mono U Merfolk
If I could pray for a deck to face, this would have to be it.
G1:I play turn 1 vial. He plays mutavault, vial. I play turn 2 driver. Pass. He plays island go. I EOT vial in lackey. Untap. Swing. He animates vault, I incinerator it before the block. I get SCG off lackey, he scoops.
Board: -2 INstigator, -2 Fanatic -2 Stingscourger,-1 SCG +4 Pyrokinesis +3 Red Elemental Blast
G2: This one goes longer. Pryrokinesis does its job. And wipes reejery and kills some mutavaults after combat since I have 2x chieftain in play. I wasnt dealt damage in either of these games
Top 4
Kyle(fellow team awesome member) with Belcher
G1: I have to mull to 3 because I dont see a colored source for the first 2mulls, then no land on the 3rd. I keep wasteland, mountain, ringleader. I plays bayou, tinder wall. I waste the bayou and play mountain. He wins on his next turn
Board -4 Vial, -2 Fanatic, -2 Instigator +4 Pyrokinesis (to nail tinder wall)+2 Needle. This matchup is just praying they have a shit hand and you nail needle on belcher and that will win it for you.
G2: Turn 1 needle on belcher and some fast goblins wins it.
G3: I mull into turn 1 needle. Put that on belcher. He ends up turn 3 or 4 empty the warrens for 14 tokens. My 4 creatures cant keep up with that. I extend my hand and I take 4th place and take 4 Badlands as a prize.... Guess I will have to start playing duals again since I won some
Props:
Dave for running an awesome tournament as always. Glad you did well on Saturday too!
Team Awesome for being Awesome and putting 1 in first place with BELCHER and me in 4th
Ravenous Trap and Pyrokinesis- you do what you do so well
My Car, getting to Rhode Island and back and still having half a tank of gas makes me very happy
Slops:
Fog on the drive home
My driveway for apparently turning into a skating rink at night and me practically sliding to my doorstep
having to face a teammate in the top 4