quicksilver
10-12-2006, 03:33 PM
Ok so here is my tournament report. It is raining in MD where I work, but I check out the weather and it looks good in southern Virginia. So I pick up the two Rochestarians from the airport (Nantuko_Shady and Ta Jugs). We have to wait like 6 hours till Krieger gets out of work, so we kill some time at the mall. We pick Krieger up at work and barely manage to get all of our stuff into my small car. We go down to the campsite we had for the weekend and the whole way there the rain just keeps getting worse. We finally arrive at 2am and it is pouring. So we set up the tent and cramp 5 people into a three person, soaking wet tent while we are all wet too. Needless to say it was not a fun night. Too make maters worse we find out the next day that the 8 person tent only had 3 people in it! We didn’t even have to get soaked setting up our tent, we could have gone into the big tent and had more room too. God damn I hate Dave Gearhart for being so arrogant that he forced me to make it rain on him. Well we go to the tournament the next day. I am playing survival here is my list, the same exact one I ran in Connecticut:
1 Anger
4 Birds Of Paradise
4 Eternal Witness
4 Flametongue Kavu
4 Werebear
1 Genesis
1 Indrik Stomphowler
2 Ravenous Baloth
1 Tin Street Hooligan
Enchantments
4 Survival Of The Fittest
Legendary Creatures
1 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
Sorceries
4 Burning Wish
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Duress
Basic Lands
6 Forest
1 Mountain
Lands
4 Bayou
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Taiga
4 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard:
1 Loaming Shaman
3 Mesmeric Fiend
4 Engineered Plague
1 Anarchy
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Hull Breach
1 Pyroclasm
1 Regrowth
1 Tsunami
So day one I am going in on little sleep since I slept terrible the night before. Here are my matches:
Round 1: Brand.dec
Game 1: He mulled to 5 I think but got triple brainstorm so that made his hand fairly good. Ok so he starts off by giving me tokens with forbidden orchard, which is nice since I can sack them to my therapy. He then mysticals for brand! He is in a bad position and then he top decks a gilded drake after the brand which puts him in a descent position, but not quite good enough to win.
Game 2: He gets that 7/7 that gives me 2 3/3 guys. And a bunch of other stuff, and orchard, a drake, another 7/7. But I get a survival online. He then is about to lose and even a perish topdeck won’t save him since he is at 1 and I got a drake. He rips brand and has like 10 creatures out and I have like 5 after. He swings with a drake. But I have survival and rofellos out and he is at one. I play triple FTK next turn and swing for the win.
1-0
Round 2: 43 land.dec
Game 1: Preboard I got no way to handle his life from the loam. He gets first turn manabond (more like manabomb), and then swings for seven on turn 2. But I dropped a survival and put out a baloth, which completely stops his double factory and treetop beats. I stomphowler his manabond next. He rips Life from the loam and dredges into wasteland to keep me low on mana, then gets all the lock pieces with glacial chasm. I scoop so I have time to beat him next two games.
Game 2: I start with turn 2 mesmeric fiend seeing only land. I say, now top deck you life from the loam (By the way I say stuff like that a lot and like 75% of the time it happens), and he of course rips it, a judge is watch and I yell “judge my opponent is cheating”, and the judge says “looking at his hand I don’t think so”, so good laughs all around. I get a survival out soon, and well I have answers to LftL, I think I loaming shaman him to get rid of his only blocker(nantuko monestary) and lay some beats, I think I also mesmeric fiended away his LFTL the next turn.
Game 3: The clock is running fairly low, I think I got 10 minutes and his deck is great at stalling. I get an early survival and have out rofellos and an unthreshed bear by like turn 3. I get out like 2 mesmeric fiend that are great at eating his life from the loams. By like turn 5 I get thresh while playing out 3 more werebears which all swing and he scoops.
2-0
Round 3: Fairie stompy
Game 1: I duress first turn seeing double FoW and no other blue cards, some nasty equipment but no creatures. I take a force, next turn I drop survival and he didn’t get a blue card that turn. He gets some equipment out but survival wrecks him. I think I deal 4 points of damage to him this game, his tombs and serendibs did the rest.
Game2: He won, he got out double SoFI and jitte, I handle each equipment, but I lose to beats since I had to spend so much time killing equipment.
Game 3: I get stuck at two lands for a while but he makes a mistake and lets me resolve a turn 2 rofellos. He does a bunch of damage of damage to him self. Then when he has 8 he plays out a sernedib to join his other serendib and his trinket mage. I have out just a baloth. That same turn he plays needle naming baloth, he swings with his serendib putting me at 7. I rip survival and play it, I end up tapping out for something, can’t remember what. He goes to 6 then rips pithing needle and plays it on survival while I am tapped out. He then swings for 6 putting me to 1. I play stomphowler destroying the needle on baloth and swing with baloth, he has to block with trinket mage. He then goes to 4 on his upkeep, he draws another pithing needle and plays it, in response I go to 9 by sacking my beasts (stomphowler being a beast literally FTW!). He still names baloth since he already has one on survival. He swings with just 1 serendib, cause he needs the other to block cause rofellos is lethal. I go to 6 with just rofellos on the board, and he has two serendibs in play. But I got B.Wish in hand. For my turn I play therapy to see if he has anything relevant in his hand (he doesn’t), then I burning wish. I can’t get edict because then he won’t die to his serendib. So I get regrowth and regrowth my birds of paradise and play it. He goes to 2 and swings in for 6, I block one going to 3. On his next upkeep he dies from serendib. I didn’t do a single point of damage to him all game.
3-0
So I’m looking pretty good.
Round 4: Goblins
He gets lackey out like every game, I don’t get great draws and I lose. I can’t remember much, after playing so many goblin decks that weekend they all kinda run together. I do know I lost 1-2, I never lost to goblins 0-2 that weekend.
3-1
Round 5:Belcher
Game 1: He goes turn one tinder wall. On my turn I play a blind therapy naming goblin charbelcher. He groans so I assumed I hit. I didn’t, but I guess he groaned knowing that I accurately guessed the obscure deck he was playing off of one card. I had a good hand, I played like another discard but he drew a belcher and killed me.
Game 2: He sided in duress, seems poor when he is on the draw. I go turn one blind therapy naming land grant, I hit two. He like lotus petals out duress and misses. I think I mesmeric feinded him. A couple turns later he has zero cards in hand and zero cards in play. I have a survival out and he gets crushed.
Game3: He goes turn one chromatic sphere. I got turn 1 duress seeing all mana and a belcher. I have to take the belcher otherwise he just wins cause he has so much mana. He draws for his turn and from the sphere, he shows me belcher he drew and that’s the match. I hate not having a second turn especially when I had my best disruption possible first turn and a good hand to back it up.
3-2
Since X-2 rarely make it in, I drop which I usually don’t cause I was really tired and I went and took a nap. Come to find out 1 x-2 did make it in. Oh well, I still would have had to win out and manage better tie breakers.
Well it starts raining again so we decide to get a hotel. We get some beers and calosso yells out to get him a 40. So we do. And you know what, when we get back I give it to him and he was like, I don’t want that I was just kidding. I tried to force it on him but he refuses the free bear, god what I little pussy that tries to act cool. So we have a nice night and onto day two. I ran the same list.
Round 1: Bye
Sweet, I got eat some breakfast and scout the field. One interesting thing I notice is that like 90% of the decks were blue or red based. Damn wizards for not balancing the power of the colors in 1.5.
1-0
Round 2: Goblins
Game 1: My hands that match were the worst imaginable, I mull to 4 I think keeping like duress, 2 lands, and survival. I go turn 1 duress, and turn 2 survival, I never even get a turn 3.
Game 2: Again more mulligans. My first play of the match was turn 4 anger, followed by turn 5 genesis. I won this game. That was my best hand of the match.
Game 3: Terrible hand again, I take some mulligans and get stomped.
1-1
Round 3: Goblins
Game1: Well my record against goblins hasn’t been so hot today. But he doesn’t have first turn lackey and my hand is decent so I win.
Game2: Again no first turn lackey, very rare. I have survival out. He draws a good amount of cards, but I am stuck at three lands (1 mountain, 1 taiga, 1 forest). At one point he has like 5 goblins out and from an earlier therapy and a ringleader I know his hand consists of exactly 2 warchiefs and 2 seigegangs. He seems confidant in his beats plus a strong hand. I have out survival, werebear, rofellos, forest, taiga, and mountain. At end of turn I think for a few minutes, despite his confidence I say I am going to have a very strong next turn. I bring back squee losing thresh. I rip a forest for my turn, not necessay but allows me to swing with werebear later. I play it tap rofellos for three. I sac rofellos to the therapy in the yard naming warchief. I tap the mountain for red and play burning wish for pyroclasm leaving 2 green floating. I discard squee to get Bop, I get thresh back and have 1 green floating. I tap taiga and play pyroclasm wiping his board and my bear lives. I tap the forest and play the BoP which gets tapped for therapy naming siege gang. I swing with the bear. I wipe 5 of his creatures that turn and take 4 cards out of his hand leaving him with no hand and no creatures in play, oh and I swing with my bear too. Seems good.
2-1
Round 4: Kudzu gro (Parcher)
Game1: We get deck checked. The judge comes back and gives my opponent a game loss for having daze listed twice in place of serum visions. I told the judge that he just told me what my opponent is playing. Knowing that your opponent is playing daze before hand is strong. Plus I was pretty sure he was playing thresh. Turns out he was playing thresh but instead of the threshold creatures he had kudzus and Waterspout djinn. I kept a hand that would have been week against some decks like goblins, but I knew was strong against thresh. It was 4 lands, duress, therapy and tin street. I do turn one duress taking out counterspell. Turn two cabal therapy taking out two kudzus (I was on the play). He played needle on survival. I played turn duress taking out his engineered explosives. Then tin street taking out needle, then flashed back taking out waterspout djinn. We both had only land in our hand at this point. I top deck stomphowler but don’t play it foolishly thinking I should wait for an artifact. He draws djinn and plays it. I play the stomphowler next but he is one turn a head in the race cause of my mistake. I draw double survival while we race but he rips double counterspell. We both get down to 4 when I rip a baloth and play it. He swings I sac stomphowler staying at 4. He swords’s the baloth, I got to 8. I rip werebear next turn and plays it. He has to stay back to block cause he’s at 4 I am at 8. He plays needle on survival. I swing with the bear and they trade. I play the witness I ripped and got survival, he drew a few swords in a row and kills my witness. Next turn I B.Wish to kill the needle and go nuts with survival, he swords’s for a few turns but it was far from enough at that point. I won this match from one game, how lame. The judges really dicked him over that match.
3-1
Round 5: Angel Stompy
Game1: Ok after this match I’ll probably be able to draw in if I win. Game one I start with first turn duress taking out jitte. Since he pretty much needs jitte or angel out to kill me I win this game cause he doesn’t have angel.
Game2: I go first turn duress taking out jitte again, but he has angel this time. He goes first tune mother of runes, second turn morph, third turn unmorph. By the time he plays the morph I realize my only out this match is B.Wish for anarchy, but I don’t have it. The game goes on for a while, I am stuck at one red though. I draw a birds, not too much help, then I draw a witness, I wtiness back a fetch land despite the fact that I had plenty of mana, I knew my only out this game was B.Wish so if I got it I wanted to be damn sure I had triple red up. He swings in and I am about to chump with birds but I remember my only out and sac stomphowler. I fetch EoT, the top card of my library was a taiga so I put it into play. I shuffle up and say cut me, he says it’s fine but I insist, oh how sweet would it be if I made my opponent cut me to the B.Wish. I draw for my turn and FUCKING WINDMILL SLAM THE WISH ON THE TABLE. I was dead next turn if he swung with the team, but instead I one sided wrath him and swing with baloth, he can’t recover since he over extended into the anarachy.
4-1
Round5: Iggy Pop
I am sixth in the standings so we draw in, thank god
4-1-1
Top 8: Goblins
Round1: I get paired against machanis. I barely got in at 8th place and he got in at first. Game 1 he keeps a vial double port double wasteland hand with no mountains. He keeps me off of mana and finaly top decks a mountain. He kills me before I can recover form the land destruction.
Round2: Again he keeps me at very low mana with ports, wastes, fanatics, incinerators, plus draw and tutors for more mana destruction. I get a plague out and a survival, but I’m down to three mana, against goblins I get less mana as the game goes on instead of more since he runs nearly as many mana destruction spells as I have mana. I have just baloth survival and plague out, he goes warchief and triple piledriver, I block a piledriver with baloth. I then rip a land next turn for B.Wish to pyroclasm. He crypts away my squee and I don’t have the mana for genesis, so I stay alive with some FTK’s (I don’t get above 4 mana this game). I rip plague number 2 way into the game, play it removing his blockers and swing for lethal.
Round3: He starts off with double waste, double port, fanatic for my werebear, and incinerator for by birds. I get up to two mana for one or two turns but never get to three. He beats me with matron for like 10 turns until he gets a second mountain and plays out piledriver and fanatic. I die with only two lands and he has double port, despite the descent amount of mana I drew that game. He asks to see my hand at the end and I lay down a hand of baloth, stomphowler, survival, burning wish, and triple plague. God I wish I could get to three mana against a deck that only destroys land as a side plan, despite me drawing plenty of mana.
Well so I won one of each off color dual, not bad.
The second day the clouds were all gone and the sun was out. My car stayed for camping but every other car pussied out. Too bad since camping was quite fun that night with a big fire, beer, somores, and of course magic.
Props:
Me for wining some duals.
SCG for running a good tournament and having a great store.
Scrapple, I never had any but damn it sounded good, what’s not to love about a food that contains meat that’s too poor for hotdog quality.
Team unicorn for being very entertaining and turning Friday night not completely bad.
Anyone who actually read my whole tournament report.
Mice, for having such an awesome mass to surface area ratio that they can survive a fall from any height, they are like their own parachute.
Gearhart for getting some duals.
Mad zur for getting more duals than gearhart.
Mr. Nipples for getting more duals than gearhart.
Mr. Nipples and Mad Zur for that classy top 2 split.
Machanis for getting first day 2 so some scrub didn’t (Cough:Calosso:Cough)
Rochester for being the first people to cross the mason dixon line southward for a tournament.
Props to nitewolf9's belt buckle that doubles as a bottle opener, nothing better for a unicorn than getting your beer opened near some guy's crotch.
Anyone else I forgot to give a prop to.
Slops:
The rain.
Krieger and My Name is scott for using the same toilet at the same time, wow, way too unicorn.
Calosso for talking big but then being a little pussy when it came to drinking.
Goblins, for having way to much land destruction for such a fast agro deck.
Gearhart, for being so full of himself that he forced me to make it rain on his ass (and everyone elses)
People who didn’t camp Sunday night, it was fun!
The Hatfield’s tent for getting itself lost.
Team unicorn for finally forcing me to join them despite my objections.
Sleeping 5 people in a three person tent while the 8 person then had 3 people in it.
That judge who told me what my opponent is playing.
Team unicorn for being way, way too gay in my tent.
Calosso for making top 2 split despite massive play mistakes.
Goblins for allowing players to win despite making massive play mistakes cause that deck just has so much raw power.
Anyone else I forgot to give a slop to.
1 Anger
4 Birds Of Paradise
4 Eternal Witness
4 Flametongue Kavu
4 Werebear
1 Genesis
1 Indrik Stomphowler
2 Ravenous Baloth
1 Tin Street Hooligan
Enchantments
4 Survival Of The Fittest
Legendary Creatures
1 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
Sorceries
4 Burning Wish
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Duress
Basic Lands
6 Forest
1 Mountain
Lands
4 Bayou
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Taiga
4 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard:
1 Loaming Shaman
3 Mesmeric Fiend
4 Engineered Plague
1 Anarchy
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Hull Breach
1 Pyroclasm
1 Regrowth
1 Tsunami
So day one I am going in on little sleep since I slept terrible the night before. Here are my matches:
Round 1: Brand.dec
Game 1: He mulled to 5 I think but got triple brainstorm so that made his hand fairly good. Ok so he starts off by giving me tokens with forbidden orchard, which is nice since I can sack them to my therapy. He then mysticals for brand! He is in a bad position and then he top decks a gilded drake after the brand which puts him in a descent position, but not quite good enough to win.
Game 2: He gets that 7/7 that gives me 2 3/3 guys. And a bunch of other stuff, and orchard, a drake, another 7/7. But I get a survival online. He then is about to lose and even a perish topdeck won’t save him since he is at 1 and I got a drake. He rips brand and has like 10 creatures out and I have like 5 after. He swings with a drake. But I have survival and rofellos out and he is at one. I play triple FTK next turn and swing for the win.
1-0
Round 2: 43 land.dec
Game 1: Preboard I got no way to handle his life from the loam. He gets first turn manabond (more like manabomb), and then swings for seven on turn 2. But I dropped a survival and put out a baloth, which completely stops his double factory and treetop beats. I stomphowler his manabond next. He rips Life from the loam and dredges into wasteland to keep me low on mana, then gets all the lock pieces with glacial chasm. I scoop so I have time to beat him next two games.
Game 2: I start with turn 2 mesmeric fiend seeing only land. I say, now top deck you life from the loam (By the way I say stuff like that a lot and like 75% of the time it happens), and he of course rips it, a judge is watch and I yell “judge my opponent is cheating”, and the judge says “looking at his hand I don’t think so”, so good laughs all around. I get a survival out soon, and well I have answers to LftL, I think I loaming shaman him to get rid of his only blocker(nantuko monestary) and lay some beats, I think I also mesmeric fiended away his LFTL the next turn.
Game 3: The clock is running fairly low, I think I got 10 minutes and his deck is great at stalling. I get an early survival and have out rofellos and an unthreshed bear by like turn 3. I get out like 2 mesmeric fiend that are great at eating his life from the loams. By like turn 5 I get thresh while playing out 3 more werebears which all swing and he scoops.
2-0
Round 3: Fairie stompy
Game 1: I duress first turn seeing double FoW and no other blue cards, some nasty equipment but no creatures. I take a force, next turn I drop survival and he didn’t get a blue card that turn. He gets some equipment out but survival wrecks him. I think I deal 4 points of damage to him this game, his tombs and serendibs did the rest.
Game2: He won, he got out double SoFI and jitte, I handle each equipment, but I lose to beats since I had to spend so much time killing equipment.
Game 3: I get stuck at two lands for a while but he makes a mistake and lets me resolve a turn 2 rofellos. He does a bunch of damage of damage to him self. Then when he has 8 he plays out a sernedib to join his other serendib and his trinket mage. I have out just a baloth. That same turn he plays needle naming baloth, he swings with his serendib putting me at 7. I rip survival and play it, I end up tapping out for something, can’t remember what. He goes to 6 then rips pithing needle and plays it on survival while I am tapped out. He then swings for 6 putting me to 1. I play stomphowler destroying the needle on baloth and swing with baloth, he has to block with trinket mage. He then goes to 4 on his upkeep, he draws another pithing needle and plays it, in response I go to 9 by sacking my beasts (stomphowler being a beast literally FTW!). He still names baloth since he already has one on survival. He swings with just 1 serendib, cause he needs the other to block cause rofellos is lethal. I go to 6 with just rofellos on the board, and he has two serendibs in play. But I got B.Wish in hand. For my turn I play therapy to see if he has anything relevant in his hand (he doesn’t), then I burning wish. I can’t get edict because then he won’t die to his serendib. So I get regrowth and regrowth my birds of paradise and play it. He goes to 2 and swings in for 6, I block one going to 3. On his next upkeep he dies from serendib. I didn’t do a single point of damage to him all game.
3-0
So I’m looking pretty good.
Round 4: Goblins
He gets lackey out like every game, I don’t get great draws and I lose. I can’t remember much, after playing so many goblin decks that weekend they all kinda run together. I do know I lost 1-2, I never lost to goblins 0-2 that weekend.
3-1
Round 5:Belcher
Game 1: He goes turn one tinder wall. On my turn I play a blind therapy naming goblin charbelcher. He groans so I assumed I hit. I didn’t, but I guess he groaned knowing that I accurately guessed the obscure deck he was playing off of one card. I had a good hand, I played like another discard but he drew a belcher and killed me.
Game 2: He sided in duress, seems poor when he is on the draw. I go turn one blind therapy naming land grant, I hit two. He like lotus petals out duress and misses. I think I mesmeric feinded him. A couple turns later he has zero cards in hand and zero cards in play. I have a survival out and he gets crushed.
Game3: He goes turn one chromatic sphere. I got turn 1 duress seeing all mana and a belcher. I have to take the belcher otherwise he just wins cause he has so much mana. He draws for his turn and from the sphere, he shows me belcher he drew and that’s the match. I hate not having a second turn especially when I had my best disruption possible first turn and a good hand to back it up.
3-2
Since X-2 rarely make it in, I drop which I usually don’t cause I was really tired and I went and took a nap. Come to find out 1 x-2 did make it in. Oh well, I still would have had to win out and manage better tie breakers.
Well it starts raining again so we decide to get a hotel. We get some beers and calosso yells out to get him a 40. So we do. And you know what, when we get back I give it to him and he was like, I don’t want that I was just kidding. I tried to force it on him but he refuses the free bear, god what I little pussy that tries to act cool. So we have a nice night and onto day two. I ran the same list.
Round 1: Bye
Sweet, I got eat some breakfast and scout the field. One interesting thing I notice is that like 90% of the decks were blue or red based. Damn wizards for not balancing the power of the colors in 1.5.
1-0
Round 2: Goblins
Game 1: My hands that match were the worst imaginable, I mull to 4 I think keeping like duress, 2 lands, and survival. I go turn 1 duress, and turn 2 survival, I never even get a turn 3.
Game 2: Again more mulligans. My first play of the match was turn 4 anger, followed by turn 5 genesis. I won this game. That was my best hand of the match.
Game 3: Terrible hand again, I take some mulligans and get stomped.
1-1
Round 3: Goblins
Game1: Well my record against goblins hasn’t been so hot today. But he doesn’t have first turn lackey and my hand is decent so I win.
Game2: Again no first turn lackey, very rare. I have survival out. He draws a good amount of cards, but I am stuck at three lands (1 mountain, 1 taiga, 1 forest). At one point he has like 5 goblins out and from an earlier therapy and a ringleader I know his hand consists of exactly 2 warchiefs and 2 seigegangs. He seems confidant in his beats plus a strong hand. I have out survival, werebear, rofellos, forest, taiga, and mountain. At end of turn I think for a few minutes, despite his confidence I say I am going to have a very strong next turn. I bring back squee losing thresh. I rip a forest for my turn, not necessay but allows me to swing with werebear later. I play it tap rofellos for three. I sac rofellos to the therapy in the yard naming warchief. I tap the mountain for red and play burning wish for pyroclasm leaving 2 green floating. I discard squee to get Bop, I get thresh back and have 1 green floating. I tap taiga and play pyroclasm wiping his board and my bear lives. I tap the forest and play the BoP which gets tapped for therapy naming siege gang. I swing with the bear. I wipe 5 of his creatures that turn and take 4 cards out of his hand leaving him with no hand and no creatures in play, oh and I swing with my bear too. Seems good.
2-1
Round 4: Kudzu gro (Parcher)
Game1: We get deck checked. The judge comes back and gives my opponent a game loss for having daze listed twice in place of serum visions. I told the judge that he just told me what my opponent is playing. Knowing that your opponent is playing daze before hand is strong. Plus I was pretty sure he was playing thresh. Turns out he was playing thresh but instead of the threshold creatures he had kudzus and Waterspout djinn. I kept a hand that would have been week against some decks like goblins, but I knew was strong against thresh. It was 4 lands, duress, therapy and tin street. I do turn one duress taking out counterspell. Turn two cabal therapy taking out two kudzus (I was on the play). He played needle on survival. I played turn duress taking out his engineered explosives. Then tin street taking out needle, then flashed back taking out waterspout djinn. We both had only land in our hand at this point. I top deck stomphowler but don’t play it foolishly thinking I should wait for an artifact. He draws djinn and plays it. I play the stomphowler next but he is one turn a head in the race cause of my mistake. I draw double survival while we race but he rips double counterspell. We both get down to 4 when I rip a baloth and play it. He swings I sac stomphowler staying at 4. He swords’s the baloth, I got to 8. I rip werebear next turn and plays it. He has to stay back to block cause he’s at 4 I am at 8. He plays needle on survival. I swing with the bear and they trade. I play the witness I ripped and got survival, he drew a few swords in a row and kills my witness. Next turn I B.Wish to kill the needle and go nuts with survival, he swords’s for a few turns but it was far from enough at that point. I won this match from one game, how lame. The judges really dicked him over that match.
3-1
Round 5: Angel Stompy
Game1: Ok after this match I’ll probably be able to draw in if I win. Game one I start with first turn duress taking out jitte. Since he pretty much needs jitte or angel out to kill me I win this game cause he doesn’t have angel.
Game2: I go first turn duress taking out jitte again, but he has angel this time. He goes first tune mother of runes, second turn morph, third turn unmorph. By the time he plays the morph I realize my only out this match is B.Wish for anarchy, but I don’t have it. The game goes on for a while, I am stuck at one red though. I draw a birds, not too much help, then I draw a witness, I wtiness back a fetch land despite the fact that I had plenty of mana, I knew my only out this game was B.Wish so if I got it I wanted to be damn sure I had triple red up. He swings in and I am about to chump with birds but I remember my only out and sac stomphowler. I fetch EoT, the top card of my library was a taiga so I put it into play. I shuffle up and say cut me, he says it’s fine but I insist, oh how sweet would it be if I made my opponent cut me to the B.Wish. I draw for my turn and FUCKING WINDMILL SLAM THE WISH ON THE TABLE. I was dead next turn if he swung with the team, but instead I one sided wrath him and swing with baloth, he can’t recover since he over extended into the anarachy.
4-1
Round5: Iggy Pop
I am sixth in the standings so we draw in, thank god
4-1-1
Top 8: Goblins
Round1: I get paired against machanis. I barely got in at 8th place and he got in at first. Game 1 he keeps a vial double port double wasteland hand with no mountains. He keeps me off of mana and finaly top decks a mountain. He kills me before I can recover form the land destruction.
Round2: Again he keeps me at very low mana with ports, wastes, fanatics, incinerators, plus draw and tutors for more mana destruction. I get a plague out and a survival, but I’m down to three mana, against goblins I get less mana as the game goes on instead of more since he runs nearly as many mana destruction spells as I have mana. I have just baloth survival and plague out, he goes warchief and triple piledriver, I block a piledriver with baloth. I then rip a land next turn for B.Wish to pyroclasm. He crypts away my squee and I don’t have the mana for genesis, so I stay alive with some FTK’s (I don’t get above 4 mana this game). I rip plague number 2 way into the game, play it removing his blockers and swing for lethal.
Round3: He starts off with double waste, double port, fanatic for my werebear, and incinerator for by birds. I get up to two mana for one or two turns but never get to three. He beats me with matron for like 10 turns until he gets a second mountain and plays out piledriver and fanatic. I die with only two lands and he has double port, despite the descent amount of mana I drew that game. He asks to see my hand at the end and I lay down a hand of baloth, stomphowler, survival, burning wish, and triple plague. God I wish I could get to three mana against a deck that only destroys land as a side plan, despite me drawing plenty of mana.
Well so I won one of each off color dual, not bad.
The second day the clouds were all gone and the sun was out. My car stayed for camping but every other car pussied out. Too bad since camping was quite fun that night with a big fire, beer, somores, and of course magic.
Props:
Me for wining some duals.
SCG for running a good tournament and having a great store.
Scrapple, I never had any but damn it sounded good, what’s not to love about a food that contains meat that’s too poor for hotdog quality.
Team unicorn for being very entertaining and turning Friday night not completely bad.
Anyone who actually read my whole tournament report.
Mice, for having such an awesome mass to surface area ratio that they can survive a fall from any height, they are like their own parachute.
Gearhart for getting some duals.
Mad zur for getting more duals than gearhart.
Mr. Nipples for getting more duals than gearhart.
Mr. Nipples and Mad Zur for that classy top 2 split.
Machanis for getting first day 2 so some scrub didn’t (Cough:Calosso:Cough)
Rochester for being the first people to cross the mason dixon line southward for a tournament.
Props to nitewolf9's belt buckle that doubles as a bottle opener, nothing better for a unicorn than getting your beer opened near some guy's crotch.
Anyone else I forgot to give a prop to.
Slops:
The rain.
Krieger and My Name is scott for using the same toilet at the same time, wow, way too unicorn.
Calosso for talking big but then being a little pussy when it came to drinking.
Goblins, for having way to much land destruction for such a fast agro deck.
Gearhart, for being so full of himself that he forced me to make it rain on his ass (and everyone elses)
People who didn’t camp Sunday night, it was fun!
The Hatfield’s tent for getting itself lost.
Team unicorn for finally forcing me to join them despite my objections.
Sleeping 5 people in a three person tent while the 8 person then had 3 people in it.
That judge who told me what my opponent is playing.
Team unicorn for being way, way too gay in my tent.
Calosso for making top 2 split despite massive play mistakes.
Goblins for allowing players to win despite making massive play mistakes cause that deck just has so much raw power.
Anyone else I forgot to give a slop to.