Meister_Kai
05-20-2007, 11:05 PM
Some slight pre-magic bullshit:
My friend and I (who ended up driving to and from Columbus with me) didn't have Mapquest directions printed out to get to the event, so we tried printing them out at about 2 am. The printer was screwed up due to my sister trying something stupid, and my friend left while I was messing with the computer in frustration. I restarted the computer only to see that a password had been installed by my sister. I hid the keyboard (if I can't access the computer, i'll be damned if she will) and left a note to have my mom force her to tell her the password once she woke up.
That didn't work.
I wake up an hour late (about 10:30 am) and quickly yank my printer and throw it in my car. I rush to my friends house and we print off the directions. 3 hours later and a lot of fast driving and we get to columbus for the GPT.
I scope out the people preparing decklists for the GPT. As expected, I am the only person Playing Enchantress (at least of what I saw). I came into this knowing I wouldn't win, but I can care less because I mainly came here to haggle with dealers (I work in sales, and I scored some badass deals from non-starcitygames people, including getting 2 free chome mox with my purchase of a $70 English Moat).
I finish my decklist and turn it in in time for flight 2 (the idea being that flight 1 would be full to the brim with Flash, moreso than other flights).
Here is what I ran:
//G/W/U Enchantress
// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)
// Lands
2 [R] Tropical Island
4 [R] Savannah
2 Serra's Sanctum
4 [ON] Windswept Heath
2 [4E] Plains (1)
6 [IA] Forest (2)
// Creatures
4 [US] Argothian Enchantress
// Spells
4 [ON] Enchantress's Presence
2 [5E] Sylvan Library
4 [JU] Solitary Confinement
4 [US] Exploration
1 [ON] Words of Wind
4 [IN] Sterling Grove
4 [DIS] Utopia Sprawl
1 [PLC] Seal of Primordium
3 [VI] Elephant Grass
1 [OD] Holistic Wisdom
1 [LE] Moat
1 [WL] Aura of Silence
1 [ON] Words of Wilding
1 [MI] Sacred Mesa
1 [CHK] Ghostly Prison
2 [NE] Seal of Removal
1 [NE] Parallax Wave
// Sideboard
SB: 1 [VI] Elephant Grass
SB: 1 [OD] Karmic Justice
SB: 1 [WL] Seal of Primordium
SB: 1 [MI] Null Chamber
SB: 4 [US] Spreading Algae
SB: 1 [SH] Sacred Ground
SB: 2 [MR] Rule of Law
SB: 4 [GP] Leyline of the Void
Round 1- Tyler Wollenkopf (sp?) with G/W/U Thresh
Game one we both mull to 6, after which he opens with what I believe is tropical - Goose. I return fire with Forest, Utopia Sprawl (for W). He plays Tundra, Top, then hits for one. I play Windswept, crack for I think Savanna, then Argothian Enchantress. In response, he tops, but finds nothing. His next turn, he plays some cantrips, then swings for 3. Next turn I play Moat. My opponent seems sort of surprised and annoyed at the same time. After this he never attacks again. He plays Mages naming Sacred and Presence, but Parallax Wave (absolute bomb) takes care of them. I kill him with Pegisi.
Game 2 he gets more aggresive (eventually plays 2 mages naming Karmic Justice and Presence) and plays a Engineered Explosives (which is Seal'ed before he can activiate it). He also has the Top/Counterbalance thing going, but only manages to counter 1 Argothian. At one point Parallax Wave comes into play again, and removes his Mages, allowing me to play Presence and my Confinement. After awhile I get Words of Wind going, and he is forced to scoop up his board-BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM. With all of the Enchantments on the board, we forget that Wave ran out at the beginning of my turn. The judge (who was standing behind me the whole time) tells us to iriterate the gamestate and ends up giving us both warnings for what happend (I asked my opponent if he wanted me to conceed or not, as it really was my fault for the sloppy play-more on that later). Time is running out in the round and since my opponent has no board, he does the wise thing and conceeds. After this he gives me the limpest handshake ever, and I am partially scarred for life. Good guy though.
Round 2 - Andrew (sorry, couldn't get last name) with U/W/B Big Fish
Game one - I open up with Forest - Utopia Sprawl, he with Plains - Mother. Since I know no one is stupid enough to play WW at this event, I am somewhat relieved, as in my head I have a good match-up against fish. I play an Argothian, which is then forced. Next turn he plays a Underground Sea, which Duresses a Sterling Grove in my hand. I rip another one off the top, and then proceed to play it, along with another land. He plays Serra Avenger the next turn, after which I play Enchantress's Presence and A Solitary Confinement the next turn. He scoops.
Game two - I open with Forest-Utopia Sprawl (i'm lovin' it) and he with plains-mother. I don't have alot of notes for this one, but I deffinintly remember this dude playing 3 Meddling Mages in a row. Since I can't play Argothian Enchantress, Solitary Confinement, or Moat, I loose in short order.
Game three - not many notes on this one either, but the dude Engineered Explosives'd away my Argothian, Sterling Grove, and Sylvan Library, then played a Jotun Grunt with mom Back-up. Next turn I played Elephant Grass (my opponent Literally chuckled when I played it, I guess grass is scrt tek) but couldn't play its upkeep long enough. I died when a topdecked Moat would of probably given me the win.
Notes of Interest: I was probably the only person there playing Enchantress. Whenver I played, a large group of people formed around me to watch, all thinking why the hell would I travel just to play a deck like mine. After every round, I asked my opponent if they tested against this deck, something neither of them did (my second opponent literally forgot about it, and my first opponent took forever to name Sacred Mesa with Meddling Mage because he forgot how Enchantress won games). It is my thought that with proper tweaking, this deck still wouldn't of stood a chance in hell at winning the GPT.
I tried finding Sourcers at this Event, asking my opponents if they had ever been to the site (they all had, but didn't register), and talked to some dude playing Meathooks who "drove up" with Hanni. I also witnessed what is probably the most frustrating game of magic ever:
Finals of flight 1: some dude playing Hulk Flash with MD Bobs against B/W. Its game 3 and its tied 1-1. Hulk Flash guy is sitting on one Underground Sea, with all the pieces in his hand+ disruption. The BW player has two Dark Rits in his hand, draws and plays Masticore. The Flash player NEVER draws another land and is killed by the 'core.
Anyway, time for props/slops
Props:
Enchantress, for actually winning a round
Dude who gave me free Chrome Mox, I think it was Pandemonium Games
Round 2 Opponent for being a pretty cool guy
Me, for being a dealing god and getting much more $ out of my stuff than I should have.
Slops:
Round one opponent's handshake. Seriously.
Mom, for setting my graduation party on the 19th and thus not allowing me to scrub out of both a GPT and a GP.
[U]ME. Seriously, my playing was the sloppiest it has ever been ever. I don't have the means to travel like I used to (my job pays shit and I am scared of paying for gas) and the only gaming store around me isn't competitive minded (a grand total of 2 people play somewhat competitively). I knocked over cards, forgot to sylvan, forgot about wave, didn't do that cool card-draw bit where you draw, place the card on the table, then take it into your hand, forgot to sideboard again game 2-3 round 2 (after I took out all my artifact/creature bounce for stuff like Spreading Algae, only to find out he had 2 Undergound Seas and 6 black spells total), and mostly came off as a complete dipshit novice who looked like he actually thought this was 1-2 years ago and thought Enchantress was actually viable.
All and all though, I had alot of fun, there and the way back (we accidently took US 50 East all the way to Hillsborough before realizing we were going the wrong direction). I wished I could of met Sources, but i'm sure I saw some in addition to them seeing me (I wore a blue dress shirt, with a white IU hat).
My friend and I (who ended up driving to and from Columbus with me) didn't have Mapquest directions printed out to get to the event, so we tried printing them out at about 2 am. The printer was screwed up due to my sister trying something stupid, and my friend left while I was messing with the computer in frustration. I restarted the computer only to see that a password had been installed by my sister. I hid the keyboard (if I can't access the computer, i'll be damned if she will) and left a note to have my mom force her to tell her the password once she woke up.
That didn't work.
I wake up an hour late (about 10:30 am) and quickly yank my printer and throw it in my car. I rush to my friends house and we print off the directions. 3 hours later and a lot of fast driving and we get to columbus for the GPT.
I scope out the people preparing decklists for the GPT. As expected, I am the only person Playing Enchantress (at least of what I saw). I came into this knowing I wouldn't win, but I can care less because I mainly came here to haggle with dealers (I work in sales, and I scored some badass deals from non-starcitygames people, including getting 2 free chome mox with my purchase of a $70 English Moat).
I finish my decklist and turn it in in time for flight 2 (the idea being that flight 1 would be full to the brim with Flash, moreso than other flights).
Here is what I ran:
//G/W/U Enchantress
// Deck file for Magic Workstation (http://www.magicworkstation.com)
// Lands
2 [R] Tropical Island
4 [R] Savannah
2 Serra's Sanctum
4 [ON] Windswept Heath
2 [4E] Plains (1)
6 [IA] Forest (2)
// Creatures
4 [US] Argothian Enchantress
// Spells
4 [ON] Enchantress's Presence
2 [5E] Sylvan Library
4 [JU] Solitary Confinement
4 [US] Exploration
1 [ON] Words of Wind
4 [IN] Sterling Grove
4 [DIS] Utopia Sprawl
1 [PLC] Seal of Primordium
3 [VI] Elephant Grass
1 [OD] Holistic Wisdom
1 [LE] Moat
1 [WL] Aura of Silence
1 [ON] Words of Wilding
1 [MI] Sacred Mesa
1 [CHK] Ghostly Prison
2 [NE] Seal of Removal
1 [NE] Parallax Wave
// Sideboard
SB: 1 [VI] Elephant Grass
SB: 1 [OD] Karmic Justice
SB: 1 [WL] Seal of Primordium
SB: 1 [MI] Null Chamber
SB: 4 [US] Spreading Algae
SB: 1 [SH] Sacred Ground
SB: 2 [MR] Rule of Law
SB: 4 [GP] Leyline of the Void
Round 1- Tyler Wollenkopf (sp?) with G/W/U Thresh
Game one we both mull to 6, after which he opens with what I believe is tropical - Goose. I return fire with Forest, Utopia Sprawl (for W). He plays Tundra, Top, then hits for one. I play Windswept, crack for I think Savanna, then Argothian Enchantress. In response, he tops, but finds nothing. His next turn, he plays some cantrips, then swings for 3. Next turn I play Moat. My opponent seems sort of surprised and annoyed at the same time. After this he never attacks again. He plays Mages naming Sacred and Presence, but Parallax Wave (absolute bomb) takes care of them. I kill him with Pegisi.
Game 2 he gets more aggresive (eventually plays 2 mages naming Karmic Justice and Presence) and plays a Engineered Explosives (which is Seal'ed before he can activiate it). He also has the Top/Counterbalance thing going, but only manages to counter 1 Argothian. At one point Parallax Wave comes into play again, and removes his Mages, allowing me to play Presence and my Confinement. After awhile I get Words of Wind going, and he is forced to scoop up his board-BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM. With all of the Enchantments on the board, we forget that Wave ran out at the beginning of my turn. The judge (who was standing behind me the whole time) tells us to iriterate the gamestate and ends up giving us both warnings for what happend (I asked my opponent if he wanted me to conceed or not, as it really was my fault for the sloppy play-more on that later). Time is running out in the round and since my opponent has no board, he does the wise thing and conceeds. After this he gives me the limpest handshake ever, and I am partially scarred for life. Good guy though.
Round 2 - Andrew (sorry, couldn't get last name) with U/W/B Big Fish
Game one - I open up with Forest - Utopia Sprawl, he with Plains - Mother. Since I know no one is stupid enough to play WW at this event, I am somewhat relieved, as in my head I have a good match-up against fish. I play an Argothian, which is then forced. Next turn he plays a Underground Sea, which Duresses a Sterling Grove in my hand. I rip another one off the top, and then proceed to play it, along with another land. He plays Serra Avenger the next turn, after which I play Enchantress's Presence and A Solitary Confinement the next turn. He scoops.
Game two - I open with Forest-Utopia Sprawl (i'm lovin' it) and he with plains-mother. I don't have alot of notes for this one, but I deffinintly remember this dude playing 3 Meddling Mages in a row. Since I can't play Argothian Enchantress, Solitary Confinement, or Moat, I loose in short order.
Game three - not many notes on this one either, but the dude Engineered Explosives'd away my Argothian, Sterling Grove, and Sylvan Library, then played a Jotun Grunt with mom Back-up. Next turn I played Elephant Grass (my opponent Literally chuckled when I played it, I guess grass is scrt tek) but couldn't play its upkeep long enough. I died when a topdecked Moat would of probably given me the win.
Notes of Interest: I was probably the only person there playing Enchantress. Whenver I played, a large group of people formed around me to watch, all thinking why the hell would I travel just to play a deck like mine. After every round, I asked my opponent if they tested against this deck, something neither of them did (my second opponent literally forgot about it, and my first opponent took forever to name Sacred Mesa with Meddling Mage because he forgot how Enchantress won games). It is my thought that with proper tweaking, this deck still wouldn't of stood a chance in hell at winning the GPT.
I tried finding Sourcers at this Event, asking my opponents if they had ever been to the site (they all had, but didn't register), and talked to some dude playing Meathooks who "drove up" with Hanni. I also witnessed what is probably the most frustrating game of magic ever:
Finals of flight 1: some dude playing Hulk Flash with MD Bobs against B/W. Its game 3 and its tied 1-1. Hulk Flash guy is sitting on one Underground Sea, with all the pieces in his hand+ disruption. The BW player has two Dark Rits in his hand, draws and plays Masticore. The Flash player NEVER draws another land and is killed by the 'core.
Anyway, time for props/slops
Props:
Enchantress, for actually winning a round
Dude who gave me free Chrome Mox, I think it was Pandemonium Games
Round 2 Opponent for being a pretty cool guy
Me, for being a dealing god and getting much more $ out of my stuff than I should have.
Slops:
Round one opponent's handshake. Seriously.
Mom, for setting my graduation party on the 19th and thus not allowing me to scrub out of both a GPT and a GP.
[U]ME. Seriously, my playing was the sloppiest it has ever been ever. I don't have the means to travel like I used to (my job pays shit and I am scared of paying for gas) and the only gaming store around me isn't competitive minded (a grand total of 2 people play somewhat competitively). I knocked over cards, forgot to sylvan, forgot about wave, didn't do that cool card-draw bit where you draw, place the card on the table, then take it into your hand, forgot to sideboard again game 2-3 round 2 (after I took out all my artifact/creature bounce for stuff like Spreading Algae, only to find out he had 2 Undergound Seas and 6 black spells total), and mostly came off as a complete dipshit novice who looked like he actually thought this was 1-2 years ago and thought Enchantress was actually viable.
All and all though, I had alot of fun, there and the way back (we accidently took US 50 East all the way to Hillsborough before realizing we were going the wrong direction). I wished I could of met Sources, but i'm sure I saw some in addition to them seeing me (I wore a blue dress shirt, with a white IU hat).