umbowta
06-09-2008, 03:28 PM
KC: Are you seriously going to play that deck?
Me: Yeah.
KC: Play Threshold.
Me: I just can’t wait to drop a turn one Beta Scryb Sprite just to see the look on my opponents face. Seriously. They’ll be like, “Noob”, and I’ll go turn 2 Might, Invigorate, Invigorate, Berserk, swing for 26.
KC: (laughing) Whatever. You’re not really playing that deck are you?…
Yeah, I could have played, Eva Green, Thresh, Painter’s Stone Combo, TES, or any number of actually “good” decks. However, I was in the mood to have fun, end matches quickly, and try to have time to log on to The Source with some updates. Berserk Stompy gets the call.
The List:
18 Land
11 Forest
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
24 Creatures
2 Scryb Sprites!
4 Jungle Lion
4 Skarrgan Pit Skulk
4 Skyshroud Elite
4 Kavu Predator
4 Silhana Ledgewalker
2 Tarmogoyf
18 Pump spells
4 Berserk
4 Invigorate
4 Might of Old Krosa
4 Rancor
2 Seal of Strength
Utility/Removal
Fuck that.
SB
4 Rushwood Legate
4 Seeds of Innocence
3 Viridian Zealot
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Gaea's Blessing
I got lots of laughs and friends giving me shit when I handed in that registration sheet. Who cares. Umbowta have a lot of fun and I don’t care what happens anyway. One way or the other, matches will be over quickly and I’ll be able to go outside to enjoy the contents of the cooler.
Round 1: Vs Joel playing Landstill
Game 1: I come out fast and his life total goes 20, 18, 9, 5, 1, scoop.
Sideboard –2 Jungle Lions, -2 Seal, +4 Rushwood Legate.
Game 2: He’s on the play and starts out with a fetch. I go fetch, crack for a forest, Scryb Sprite. He responds by cracking his fetch getting Tundra, Brainstorm, and then FoW’s the damned Sprite. Best Hymn ever. Legate comes down…gets Rancored…his life total goes 20,16, 8, scoop.
1-0
Round 2: Vs Dan O. playing Affinity
Game 1: He wins the roll and proceeds to vomit his hand onto the table, form of land, thopter, thopter, frogmite, frogmite. I go fetch-a-forest, Jungle lion, (sniffle). The tears really began to flow when he Cranial Plated the damn thopter and stuffed a whole bunch of metal up my ass.
-2 Lions, -2 Seal, -3 Ledgewalker, +4 Seeds of Innocence, +3 Viridian Zealot
Game 2: I keep a two land grip with Elite, Kavu, Seeds, Sprite, Rancor, and lead off with the Elite. He is a lot slower this time with just a land and a Worker so I’m feeling real good. Turn 2 I drop Rancor on the Elite and Swing in for 4. Post combat, the Sprite comes out to play and I pass the turn. He gets a Frogmite and a Cranial plate out before I manage to find my third land and wipe his entire friggin board with Seeds. Kavu gets big and it only takes a couple of turns to end it.
Game 3: He comes out fast again but this time I don’t have to wait for the third Forest. My opening grip had 2 fetches and a Forest, Kavu, Invigorate and I luck sacked into Seeds on my turn 2 rip. So I go turn 2 Kavu only to watch him go nutty on turn 3 chaining into a Myr Enforcer while muttering something about being fearful of what I might do on my turn. Needless to say, he was a little disappointed when he watched the third forest hit, followed by Seeds and Invigorate. Yep he just gained 15 life…and then I swung with my 21/21 Trampler and beat him back down to 14. The game was over on my next turn.
2-0
Round 3 Vs Chris Walton playing Enchantress
I’ve known Chris since the first Legacy event I promoted at Pandemonium. Realizing at this point that 3-1-1 is probably going to get it…duh, we decide to ID and proceed to Draft Lorwyn/Shadowmoor/Shadowmoor for fun.
2-0-1
Round 4 Vs Caleb playing BWG Something
Game 1: He does some shit, while I get myself down to 17 with fetchlands. He Vindicates one of my doods but can’t do anything about a double Rancored Ledgewalker.
Game 2: I have really no idea what he’s playing at this point aside from some BWG board control deck. Either way I’m in no mood to get 2 for 1’ed so I happy to see another Ledgewalker come up early. It lands on turn 2 and I go nuts on turn 3 for 30 trample. After losing, Caleb shows me the 3 Pernicious Deeds in his hand. I say something like, “I figured that’s what you boarded in”. To which he replies, “No. Deeds are maindeck.” Lucky me.
After the match, someone asks, “What was he playin?” I told him honestly, “I have no idea. I killed him too quick.”
3-0-1
Round 5 Vs Paul Nicolo playing Affinity
Before we begin the match, Paul and I briefly discuss taking a draw, however, Paul wants to play for the points so off we go. I figure I’ve got a pretty even shot at him anyway, and no matter what happens I’m in top 8.
Game 1: I lose to Ravager and two Disciples
Game 2: I lose to Ravager and two Disciples…yep twice in a row. I hate Affinity sometimes.
3-1-1
Top 8 Vs Phil Cape playing Rb Goblins
This is just great. Another team RIW member. For those of you who may not know, Phil is definitely one of the better players in the area. Catching this guy making play errors in like seeing Bigfoot; it just doesn’t happen. I start thinking about how I should have tested against Goblins more…and by that I mean some, because I didn’t.
Game 1: He wins the roll and gets a turn 1 vial. I get turn one Jungle Lion. He untaps, drops Rishadan Port, and passes. On my upkeep he taps down my Forest. I swing in and he vials in Fanatic to kill me Lion and sends one to my dome. Post combat I play my second Forest and bring out the Elite. The next few turns blur together as he gets Warchief, another Warchief, Ringleader, and Boggart Mob. He’s at 14 and swings in with Mob, knocking me down to 9. On my turn, I turn all 4 of my guys sideways. He does the math and says “no blocks” (I think he had 2 tokens to chump with). I go off with the pump spells and Phil just says, “Am I dead? Is that enough?” “It’s 15”, I say.
Game 2: He’s on the play and leads out with a Vial again. This time I lead out with the all mighty Scryb Sprite. He gets Warcheif and Boggart Mob on the table and is Porting me down again but I kept a 3 land hand and drew into a fourth so I’m all good. I managed to get a bloodthirsty Pit Skulk thanks to the Sprite getting in there and I’ve also got a Lion and a Kavu out. At 11 life he passes the turn. During my upkeep, one of my forests gets ported but he leaves his other port and a mountain untapped so I figure Incinerator for sure. Before combat, I target the Pit Skulk with Might of old Krosa. He responds with the Incinerator. I respond with yet another Might. I then coolly turn the unblockable duo of death, Skulk and Sprite, sideways for 11 and the win.
Top 4 Vs Josh Bettens playing Dragon Stompy
Holy crap this is a nightmare for me. Maindeck Chalice and Trinisucks. I choose to ignore that fact while point out how awesome his moon effects are going to be against basic Forests.
Game 1: I’m on the play and go 1st turn Pit Skulk. He proceeds to drop turn one Chalice at one. Great. Of course my hand is full of one drops. Anyway, I get a Kavu Predator down on turn 2 and get in there with the little Skulk. I do my best to beat him down to 7 but I can’t get any more through a Jitte wearing Magnus and yet another Chalice set at two.
-some shit, + 4Seeds, + 3 Viridian Zealot
Game 2: I keep a solid hand with a Zealot and a couple Berserks while he mulls down to 5. I go turn one Elite and he follows with turn one Chalice for one. Cheat Sack! I drop a Kavu Preadator on turn 2 and I’m now holding the Seeds I jut topdecked and my third land. Luck Sack! He does some shit I don’t care about on his turn (Trinisphere) and I proceed to rip another Berserk off the top. Of course I cast Seeds, he gains some life, and my Kavu gets big. I swing in and knock him down to 14. His turn passes uneventfully and now I get to have some fun. I Invigorate the Kavu Predator up to 15/15, turn him sideways, tap 3 Forests and lay down my three of a kind. Berserk, Berserk, Berserk. Oh yeah! Swing for 120 on turn 4.
Game 3: I don’t remember much about this game because I was still geekin out over Berserk trips. I know he got another friggin Chalice and Trinisphere out which I had to blow up with Seeds of Innocence. I think that card actually says ‘target lucksack wins the game’ because I managed to pull out the win.
Finals VS Caleb playing BWG Rock
Well I got lucky the first time around, having not seen a Deed hit the table. The deck gods would continue to smile upon me in the Final match.
Game 1: I win the roll and keep a hand full of gas missing only the Berserk. He keeps too and off we go. I lead off with a Windswept into Forest and drop Skyshroud Elite making sure to point out that its only a 1/1. Caleb drops a Scrubland and casts Cabal Therapy naming Berserk. Ooops. On turn 2 I crack a Foothills for another Forest and land a Kavu Predator with Invigorate in hand. He drops another land on his turn and passes. I know damn well he’s got to be holding Swords to Plowshares. I untap, draw, drop a land a proceed directly to attack step. I turn both guys sideways and target the Elite with an Invigorate for ‘free’. With the Kavu’s trigger on the stack…he StPs the friggin Elite. Ooops! I beat him down with a 5/5 Kavu for 2 turns before he hits his fourth land and casts none other than Loxodon Hierarch. OOOPS!! Kavu is happy today. My 9/9 wins out. NO DEED FOR YOU>>>MUHAHAHA
Game 2: He mulls down to 6 and elects to keep a one land hand. I’m thinking this is over quickly. His life total goes 20-19-15-10-1.
At the beginning of this debacle, KC was poking fun at me for paying $25 just to show up with a pile of jank. Now, after 8 matches, he was handing me the Mox Ruby. What can I say? Luck of the Irish comes out a little bit more when playing a mono green deck I guess. I had so much fun just seeing the other players standing around the table when doods got Berserked. That card just has a really high Holy Shit factor that excites Timmies, Johhnies, and Spikes alike.
Obligatory Props and Slops
Props:
-KC for putting on a great tournament with killer prize support.
-Pate for loaning me some Jungle Lions
-Caleb for taking out Aluren and Paul Nicolo for me.
-The Great Harvest Bread Co. for hooking everybody up with free cake. Your store is now entered in to the annals of awesomeness.
Slops:
-Everyone who laughed at my deck choice.
-The douche bag who stole my Polluted Deltas.
-Cheat Sack for making me play through Chalice in all three games of the top 4. Cheat sack.
-Wallace for bitching about Legacy the whole tournament. I promise I’ll never make you come to another event, Jon.
-Isamaru for coming in 9th. Should have had more Scryb Sprites. Lolz
Me: Yeah.
KC: Play Threshold.
Me: I just can’t wait to drop a turn one Beta Scryb Sprite just to see the look on my opponents face. Seriously. They’ll be like, “Noob”, and I’ll go turn 2 Might, Invigorate, Invigorate, Berserk, swing for 26.
KC: (laughing) Whatever. You’re not really playing that deck are you?…
Yeah, I could have played, Eva Green, Thresh, Painter’s Stone Combo, TES, or any number of actually “good” decks. However, I was in the mood to have fun, end matches quickly, and try to have time to log on to The Source with some updates. Berserk Stompy gets the call.
The List:
18 Land
11 Forest
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
24 Creatures
2 Scryb Sprites!
4 Jungle Lion
4 Skarrgan Pit Skulk
4 Skyshroud Elite
4 Kavu Predator
4 Silhana Ledgewalker
2 Tarmogoyf
18 Pump spells
4 Berserk
4 Invigorate
4 Might of Old Krosa
4 Rancor
2 Seal of Strength
Utility/Removal
Fuck that.
SB
4 Rushwood Legate
4 Seeds of Innocence
3 Viridian Zealot
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Gaea's Blessing
I got lots of laughs and friends giving me shit when I handed in that registration sheet. Who cares. Umbowta have a lot of fun and I don’t care what happens anyway. One way or the other, matches will be over quickly and I’ll be able to go outside to enjoy the contents of the cooler.
Round 1: Vs Joel playing Landstill
Game 1: I come out fast and his life total goes 20, 18, 9, 5, 1, scoop.
Sideboard –2 Jungle Lions, -2 Seal, +4 Rushwood Legate.
Game 2: He’s on the play and starts out with a fetch. I go fetch, crack for a forest, Scryb Sprite. He responds by cracking his fetch getting Tundra, Brainstorm, and then FoW’s the damned Sprite. Best Hymn ever. Legate comes down…gets Rancored…his life total goes 20,16, 8, scoop.
1-0
Round 2: Vs Dan O. playing Affinity
Game 1: He wins the roll and proceeds to vomit his hand onto the table, form of land, thopter, thopter, frogmite, frogmite. I go fetch-a-forest, Jungle lion, (sniffle). The tears really began to flow when he Cranial Plated the damn thopter and stuffed a whole bunch of metal up my ass.
-2 Lions, -2 Seal, -3 Ledgewalker, +4 Seeds of Innocence, +3 Viridian Zealot
Game 2: I keep a two land grip with Elite, Kavu, Seeds, Sprite, Rancor, and lead off with the Elite. He is a lot slower this time with just a land and a Worker so I’m feeling real good. Turn 2 I drop Rancor on the Elite and Swing in for 4. Post combat, the Sprite comes out to play and I pass the turn. He gets a Frogmite and a Cranial plate out before I manage to find my third land and wipe his entire friggin board with Seeds. Kavu gets big and it only takes a couple of turns to end it.
Game 3: He comes out fast again but this time I don’t have to wait for the third Forest. My opening grip had 2 fetches and a Forest, Kavu, Invigorate and I luck sacked into Seeds on my turn 2 rip. So I go turn 2 Kavu only to watch him go nutty on turn 3 chaining into a Myr Enforcer while muttering something about being fearful of what I might do on my turn. Needless to say, he was a little disappointed when he watched the third forest hit, followed by Seeds and Invigorate. Yep he just gained 15 life…and then I swung with my 21/21 Trampler and beat him back down to 14. The game was over on my next turn.
2-0
Round 3 Vs Chris Walton playing Enchantress
I’ve known Chris since the first Legacy event I promoted at Pandemonium. Realizing at this point that 3-1-1 is probably going to get it…duh, we decide to ID and proceed to Draft Lorwyn/Shadowmoor/Shadowmoor for fun.
2-0-1
Round 4 Vs Caleb playing BWG Something
Game 1: He does some shit, while I get myself down to 17 with fetchlands. He Vindicates one of my doods but can’t do anything about a double Rancored Ledgewalker.
Game 2: I have really no idea what he’s playing at this point aside from some BWG board control deck. Either way I’m in no mood to get 2 for 1’ed so I happy to see another Ledgewalker come up early. It lands on turn 2 and I go nuts on turn 3 for 30 trample. After losing, Caleb shows me the 3 Pernicious Deeds in his hand. I say something like, “I figured that’s what you boarded in”. To which he replies, “No. Deeds are maindeck.” Lucky me.
After the match, someone asks, “What was he playin?” I told him honestly, “I have no idea. I killed him too quick.”
3-0-1
Round 5 Vs Paul Nicolo playing Affinity
Before we begin the match, Paul and I briefly discuss taking a draw, however, Paul wants to play for the points so off we go. I figure I’ve got a pretty even shot at him anyway, and no matter what happens I’m in top 8.
Game 1: I lose to Ravager and two Disciples
Game 2: I lose to Ravager and two Disciples…yep twice in a row. I hate Affinity sometimes.
3-1-1
Top 8 Vs Phil Cape playing Rb Goblins
This is just great. Another team RIW member. For those of you who may not know, Phil is definitely one of the better players in the area. Catching this guy making play errors in like seeing Bigfoot; it just doesn’t happen. I start thinking about how I should have tested against Goblins more…and by that I mean some, because I didn’t.
Game 1: He wins the roll and gets a turn 1 vial. I get turn one Jungle Lion. He untaps, drops Rishadan Port, and passes. On my upkeep he taps down my Forest. I swing in and he vials in Fanatic to kill me Lion and sends one to my dome. Post combat I play my second Forest and bring out the Elite. The next few turns blur together as he gets Warchief, another Warchief, Ringleader, and Boggart Mob. He’s at 14 and swings in with Mob, knocking me down to 9. On my turn, I turn all 4 of my guys sideways. He does the math and says “no blocks” (I think he had 2 tokens to chump with). I go off with the pump spells and Phil just says, “Am I dead? Is that enough?” “It’s 15”, I say.
Game 2: He’s on the play and leads out with a Vial again. This time I lead out with the all mighty Scryb Sprite. He gets Warcheif and Boggart Mob on the table and is Porting me down again but I kept a 3 land hand and drew into a fourth so I’m all good. I managed to get a bloodthirsty Pit Skulk thanks to the Sprite getting in there and I’ve also got a Lion and a Kavu out. At 11 life he passes the turn. During my upkeep, one of my forests gets ported but he leaves his other port and a mountain untapped so I figure Incinerator for sure. Before combat, I target the Pit Skulk with Might of old Krosa. He responds with the Incinerator. I respond with yet another Might. I then coolly turn the unblockable duo of death, Skulk and Sprite, sideways for 11 and the win.
Top 4 Vs Josh Bettens playing Dragon Stompy
Holy crap this is a nightmare for me. Maindeck Chalice and Trinisucks. I choose to ignore that fact while point out how awesome his moon effects are going to be against basic Forests.
Game 1: I’m on the play and go 1st turn Pit Skulk. He proceeds to drop turn one Chalice at one. Great. Of course my hand is full of one drops. Anyway, I get a Kavu Predator down on turn 2 and get in there with the little Skulk. I do my best to beat him down to 7 but I can’t get any more through a Jitte wearing Magnus and yet another Chalice set at two.
-some shit, + 4Seeds, + 3 Viridian Zealot
Game 2: I keep a solid hand with a Zealot and a couple Berserks while he mulls down to 5. I go turn one Elite and he follows with turn one Chalice for one. Cheat Sack! I drop a Kavu Preadator on turn 2 and I’m now holding the Seeds I jut topdecked and my third land. Luck Sack! He does some shit I don’t care about on his turn (Trinisphere) and I proceed to rip another Berserk off the top. Of course I cast Seeds, he gains some life, and my Kavu gets big. I swing in and knock him down to 14. His turn passes uneventfully and now I get to have some fun. I Invigorate the Kavu Predator up to 15/15, turn him sideways, tap 3 Forests and lay down my three of a kind. Berserk, Berserk, Berserk. Oh yeah! Swing for 120 on turn 4.
Game 3: I don’t remember much about this game because I was still geekin out over Berserk trips. I know he got another friggin Chalice and Trinisphere out which I had to blow up with Seeds of Innocence. I think that card actually says ‘target lucksack wins the game’ because I managed to pull out the win.
Finals VS Caleb playing BWG Rock
Well I got lucky the first time around, having not seen a Deed hit the table. The deck gods would continue to smile upon me in the Final match.
Game 1: I win the roll and keep a hand full of gas missing only the Berserk. He keeps too and off we go. I lead off with a Windswept into Forest and drop Skyshroud Elite making sure to point out that its only a 1/1. Caleb drops a Scrubland and casts Cabal Therapy naming Berserk. Ooops. On turn 2 I crack a Foothills for another Forest and land a Kavu Predator with Invigorate in hand. He drops another land on his turn and passes. I know damn well he’s got to be holding Swords to Plowshares. I untap, draw, drop a land a proceed directly to attack step. I turn both guys sideways and target the Elite with an Invigorate for ‘free’. With the Kavu’s trigger on the stack…he StPs the friggin Elite. Ooops! I beat him down with a 5/5 Kavu for 2 turns before he hits his fourth land and casts none other than Loxodon Hierarch. OOOPS!! Kavu is happy today. My 9/9 wins out. NO DEED FOR YOU>>>MUHAHAHA
Game 2: He mulls down to 6 and elects to keep a one land hand. I’m thinking this is over quickly. His life total goes 20-19-15-10-1.
At the beginning of this debacle, KC was poking fun at me for paying $25 just to show up with a pile of jank. Now, after 8 matches, he was handing me the Mox Ruby. What can I say? Luck of the Irish comes out a little bit more when playing a mono green deck I guess. I had so much fun just seeing the other players standing around the table when doods got Berserked. That card just has a really high Holy Shit factor that excites Timmies, Johhnies, and Spikes alike.
Obligatory Props and Slops
Props:
-KC for putting on a great tournament with killer prize support.
-Pate for loaning me some Jungle Lions
-Caleb for taking out Aluren and Paul Nicolo for me.
-The Great Harvest Bread Co. for hooking everybody up with free cake. Your store is now entered in to the annals of awesomeness.
Slops:
-Everyone who laughed at my deck choice.
-The douche bag who stole my Polluted Deltas.
-Cheat Sack for making me play through Chalice in all three games of the top 4. Cheat sack.
-Wallace for bitching about Legacy the whole tournament. I promise I’ll never make you come to another event, Jon.
-Isamaru for coming in 9th. Should have had more Scryb Sprites. Lolz