Jolfer
09-17-2006, 04:38 PM
I actually went a tourney today; it was the first time in about a year. I didn't know what to play because it was a totally unknown meta so I just decided to try out my zoo deck. Anyway, this the current version of the deck:
Beats [21]
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
2 Savanah Lions
2 Skyshroud Elite
4 Kird Ape
4 Watchwolf
2 Jotun Grunt
4 Troll Ascetic
Spells [15]
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
4 Rancor
3 Jitte
Mana [24]
4 Elvish Spirit Guides
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Windswept Heath
4 Savannah
3 Taiga
2 Plateau
1 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Plains
SB [15]
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Naturalize
3 Pithing Needle
However that is the version of the deck that I would play now, I played that deck but with these changes for the tournament:
MD:
+1 Skyrshoud Elite
+1 Swords to Plowshares
+2 Anruid Brushhopper
-2 Savannah Lions
-2 Jotun Grunt
SB:
+2 Jotun Grunt
-1 Swords to Plowshares
-1 Naturalize
I'll try to do a little tourney report but I didn't take any notes so it will probably be quite lacking.
Match 1: UWG - Random Aggro-Control
This guy definately made up this deck himself. It had some expected card choices like swords to plowshares, meddling mages, brainstorms ect... but was more revolved around gaining life from auriok champions, armadillo cloaks and Loxodon Hierarch.
Game 1 - I won the dice roll and started off with a kird ape. He brainstormed I think. I rancor my ape and swing for 4 and play another ape. He plays an auriok champion. At this point I could've ended the game but I made a huge play mistak and I play a Jitte, removed an ESG to equip it, but I put it on the non-rancored ape. When I attack I didn't gain counters on the Jitte because it did not deal damage to the pro-red champion. Because of this mistake he ends up with that 2/3 flyer that destroys artifacts/enchantments when it deals damage to me and I can't kill it in time. He ends up armadillo cloaking it and kills my Jitte. He stalls for like 4 or 5 turns from blocking with his cloaked guy and gaining life. I end up running him over with a doubled rancored troll, some apes and a brushhopper.
Game 2 - I make these SB changes:
-4 Magma Jet
-1 Brushopper
+3 Swords to Plowshares
+2 Jotun Grunt
He starts off playing a flooded strand. I start follow with the a skyshroud elite, he fetchs an island and brainstorms at my EOT. He then fetchs a plains and plays a meddling mage naming lightning bolt, I think. I swords his mage and rancor my elite, I swing for 3 and let him go. I think he played a champion and a nonbasic land. From here on I don't remember the rest the game, I think I played a watchwolf and swords a thing or two. I won the game with ease.
Games: 2-0, Matches: 1-0
Match 2: GWU - Confinement Loam
I actually watched the kid play his 1st match so I knew exactly what he was playing. He trys to get the confinement loam lock and win like full english breakfast with a shapershifter/phage via survival of the fittest.
Game 1: I won the dice roll and but have to mulligan down to 6 because I only drew one land. I keep my 6 card hand and start off with a Kird Ape or Iamaru, I don't remember which. In fact, I honestly don't remember much the game other than that I knew I had to outrace a confinement because I can't beat one pre-board. I think I got a 4th, maybe 5th, turn kill via some creatures with a rancor and some burn.
Game 2: I make these SB changes:
-3 Jitte
-1 Swords to Plowshares
-3 Magma Jet
-1 Brushopper
+3 Naturalize
+3 Pithing Needle
+2 Juton Grunt
I have mulligan again due to drawing 0 land but keep my 6 card hand. He plays a forest and lets me go. I start off with a kird ape and let him go, he cycles a land at the end of my turn. Then he wastelands my taiga, which i'm happy about, and lets me go. I fetch another taiga, remove an ESG to rancor my ape, swing for 4 and then cast another ape. I don't remember what he does after this but it wasn't that much. I think he casted an eternal witness as a chump blocker but I run over it and end up winning 2 turns later.
Games: 4-0, Matches: 2-0
Match 3: UGB - Aluren
Game 1: He wins the dice roll and plays a land to later brainstorm at the end of my turn. I play a skyshroud elite I think. He cabal therapied for lightning bolt, hitting one and let me go I think. I honestly don't really remember the rest of the game, I think I got him to 7, with enough stuff on the board and in my hand to get him next turn, but he combo-ed off on his 4th turn.
Game 2: I make these SB changes:
-3 Jitte
-1 Swords to Plowshares
-4 Magma Jet
-2 Anruid Brushopper
-2 Troll Asectic
+4 Pyrostatic Pillar
+3 Naturalize
+3 Pithing Needle
+2 Juton Grunt
I don't remember the game that well. I think I had a first turn isamru followed by a 2nd turn watchwolf. He intutioned 3rd turn for aluren and I rancored my wolf leaving 2 mana open. He casted aluren 4th turn but I naturalized it in response to his raven familiar and he couldn't find anything to keep it alive. I also dumped my hand to aluren before it was gone and swung for the win the next turn.
Game 3: I really thought I had this game. He first turn land grants showing my 2 brainstorm, 3 living wish and a raven familar, he grabbed a tropical island and brainstormed. I had a hand of all land but an ESG, Kird Ape and Pillar. I knew I basically won the game if he didn't draw a Force on his brainstorm so I casted my first turn pillar but he did indeed draw his force. I didn't draw into enough threats and he had comb-ed out on 5th turn I believe.
Games: 5-2, Matches: 2-1
Match 4: BRU - Totally Random Aggro-Control
I saw this deck earlier and I knew I had the game in the bag. It was basically just a poorly made aggro control deck with VERY little mana fixing for 3 colors.
Game 1: I have a hand of skyshroud elite, ismaru, rancor, 2 bolts and a savannah. I figure that the hand is fine that i'll definatly run into some mana and didn't really care because I knew I had a huge advantage on the deck. 7 turns later both creatures are dead and I never drew another land. He ends up beating me with a plague spitter and something else while I have an entire hand full of burn and kird apes and a rancor.
Game 2: Make these SB changes:
-3 Skyshroud Elite
+2 Juton Grunt
+1 Swords to Plowshares
I drew land this game and steamrolled him. I think I had him 4th turn and he never dealt me damage.
Game 3: The same thing as the 2nd game but I think it was a 5th turn kill rather than 4th.
Game 4 (just for fun): The same things as game 3 and 4. It was clear that the only reason I lost game 1 was stupidly keeping a 1 land hand and not drawing a single land afterwards.
Games: 7-3, Matches: 3-1
The guy with aluren ended up winning the tournament so I finished in 2nd place. I got a flooded strand, chain lightning and artifact mutation with my store credit. Overall I'm pleased with 2nd considering it's my fist time playing in about a year. I was really surprised to see such a scruby meta though, the only teir decks that I spotted were vial goblins, aluren and affinity (however I didn't see everyone's deck and I heard a few people say that there were going to bring threshold but didn't have time to put it together as well as some talk about BW Disruption and Solidarity). I was hoping to actually test it against some decks that I could expect to see again, but oh well, maybe next time.
Beats [21]
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
2 Savanah Lions
2 Skyshroud Elite
4 Kird Ape
4 Watchwolf
2 Jotun Grunt
4 Troll Ascetic
Spells [15]
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
4 Rancor
3 Jitte
Mana [24]
4 Elvish Spirit Guides
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Windswept Heath
4 Savannah
3 Taiga
2 Plateau
1 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Plains
SB [15]
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Naturalize
3 Pithing Needle
However that is the version of the deck that I would play now, I played that deck but with these changes for the tournament:
MD:
+1 Skyrshoud Elite
+1 Swords to Plowshares
+2 Anruid Brushhopper
-2 Savannah Lions
-2 Jotun Grunt
SB:
+2 Jotun Grunt
-1 Swords to Plowshares
-1 Naturalize
I'll try to do a little tourney report but I didn't take any notes so it will probably be quite lacking.
Match 1: UWG - Random Aggro-Control
This guy definately made up this deck himself. It had some expected card choices like swords to plowshares, meddling mages, brainstorms ect... but was more revolved around gaining life from auriok champions, armadillo cloaks and Loxodon Hierarch.
Game 1 - I won the dice roll and started off with a kird ape. He brainstormed I think. I rancor my ape and swing for 4 and play another ape. He plays an auriok champion. At this point I could've ended the game but I made a huge play mistak and I play a Jitte, removed an ESG to equip it, but I put it on the non-rancored ape. When I attack I didn't gain counters on the Jitte because it did not deal damage to the pro-red champion. Because of this mistake he ends up with that 2/3 flyer that destroys artifacts/enchantments when it deals damage to me and I can't kill it in time. He ends up armadillo cloaking it and kills my Jitte. He stalls for like 4 or 5 turns from blocking with his cloaked guy and gaining life. I end up running him over with a doubled rancored troll, some apes and a brushhopper.
Game 2 - I make these SB changes:
-4 Magma Jet
-1 Brushopper
+3 Swords to Plowshares
+2 Jotun Grunt
He starts off playing a flooded strand. I start follow with the a skyshroud elite, he fetchs an island and brainstorms at my EOT. He then fetchs a plains and plays a meddling mage naming lightning bolt, I think. I swords his mage and rancor my elite, I swing for 3 and let him go. I think he played a champion and a nonbasic land. From here on I don't remember the rest the game, I think I played a watchwolf and swords a thing or two. I won the game with ease.
Games: 2-0, Matches: 1-0
Match 2: GWU - Confinement Loam
I actually watched the kid play his 1st match so I knew exactly what he was playing. He trys to get the confinement loam lock and win like full english breakfast with a shapershifter/phage via survival of the fittest.
Game 1: I won the dice roll and but have to mulligan down to 6 because I only drew one land. I keep my 6 card hand and start off with a Kird Ape or Iamaru, I don't remember which. In fact, I honestly don't remember much the game other than that I knew I had to outrace a confinement because I can't beat one pre-board. I think I got a 4th, maybe 5th, turn kill via some creatures with a rancor and some burn.
Game 2: I make these SB changes:
-3 Jitte
-1 Swords to Plowshares
-3 Magma Jet
-1 Brushopper
+3 Naturalize
+3 Pithing Needle
+2 Juton Grunt
I have mulligan again due to drawing 0 land but keep my 6 card hand. He plays a forest and lets me go. I start off with a kird ape and let him go, he cycles a land at the end of my turn. Then he wastelands my taiga, which i'm happy about, and lets me go. I fetch another taiga, remove an ESG to rancor my ape, swing for 4 and then cast another ape. I don't remember what he does after this but it wasn't that much. I think he casted an eternal witness as a chump blocker but I run over it and end up winning 2 turns later.
Games: 4-0, Matches: 2-0
Match 3: UGB - Aluren
Game 1: He wins the dice roll and plays a land to later brainstorm at the end of my turn. I play a skyshroud elite I think. He cabal therapied for lightning bolt, hitting one and let me go I think. I honestly don't really remember the rest of the game, I think I got him to 7, with enough stuff on the board and in my hand to get him next turn, but he combo-ed off on his 4th turn.
Game 2: I make these SB changes:
-3 Jitte
-1 Swords to Plowshares
-4 Magma Jet
-2 Anruid Brushopper
-2 Troll Asectic
+4 Pyrostatic Pillar
+3 Naturalize
+3 Pithing Needle
+2 Juton Grunt
I don't remember the game that well. I think I had a first turn isamru followed by a 2nd turn watchwolf. He intutioned 3rd turn for aluren and I rancored my wolf leaving 2 mana open. He casted aluren 4th turn but I naturalized it in response to his raven familiar and he couldn't find anything to keep it alive. I also dumped my hand to aluren before it was gone and swung for the win the next turn.
Game 3: I really thought I had this game. He first turn land grants showing my 2 brainstorm, 3 living wish and a raven familar, he grabbed a tropical island and brainstormed. I had a hand of all land but an ESG, Kird Ape and Pillar. I knew I basically won the game if he didn't draw a Force on his brainstorm so I casted my first turn pillar but he did indeed draw his force. I didn't draw into enough threats and he had comb-ed out on 5th turn I believe.
Games: 5-2, Matches: 2-1
Match 4: BRU - Totally Random Aggro-Control
I saw this deck earlier and I knew I had the game in the bag. It was basically just a poorly made aggro control deck with VERY little mana fixing for 3 colors.
Game 1: I have a hand of skyshroud elite, ismaru, rancor, 2 bolts and a savannah. I figure that the hand is fine that i'll definatly run into some mana and didn't really care because I knew I had a huge advantage on the deck. 7 turns later both creatures are dead and I never drew another land. He ends up beating me with a plague spitter and something else while I have an entire hand full of burn and kird apes and a rancor.
Game 2: Make these SB changes:
-3 Skyshroud Elite
+2 Juton Grunt
+1 Swords to Plowshares
I drew land this game and steamrolled him. I think I had him 4th turn and he never dealt me damage.
Game 3: The same thing as the 2nd game but I think it was a 5th turn kill rather than 4th.
Game 4 (just for fun): The same things as game 3 and 4. It was clear that the only reason I lost game 1 was stupidly keeping a 1 land hand and not drawing a single land afterwards.
Games: 7-3, Matches: 3-1
The guy with aluren ended up winning the tournament so I finished in 2nd place. I got a flooded strand, chain lightning and artifact mutation with my store credit. Overall I'm pleased with 2nd considering it's my fist time playing in about a year. I was really surprised to see such a scruby meta though, the only teir decks that I spotted were vial goblins, aluren and affinity (however I didn't see everyone's deck and I heard a few people say that there were going to bring threshold but didn't have time to put it together as well as some talk about BW Disruption and Solidarity). I was hoping to actually test it against some decks that I could expect to see again, but oh well, maybe next time.