Originally Posted by
phazonmuant
Played the same list as last time in this week's local legacy tournament and split top4. This tournament was a bit smaller, only 16ish people. I didn't have time to make the changes I had mentioned above.
Round 1 - played against fellow Sourcer nedleeds. He usually is an apt metagamer with prison-style decks in our combo-infested meta, but this week he was on Naya stuff. I had a slow start game 1 while I tried to find an Entomb, but he kept a land-heavy 6 and only found Mother of Runes and Noble Hierarch for the first 4 turns. One of his lands happened to be a Karakas, though. I eventually put a Griselbrand in my grave, reanimated it, swung, got it bounced, drew 7 and couldn't find the Tendrils, so I discarded the Griselbrand and some other junk, keeping a duo of reanimation spells and an Entomb and mana. On his turn, he swung with Mother for 2 (with me at 5), I Dark Ritual'd, Entombed, and reanimated, and he bounced my man with Karakas, which cleared the way for me to reanimate and swing in for 7 on my turn, then find the kill. Boarded in a couple S&T, an Emrakul, a bounce, for a Chrome Mox, a Careful Study, a Goryo's Vengeance, and a Cabal Ritual. Next game he started with a Relic on turn 1 but couldn't find lands. I set up for a S&T on turn 3ish and won from there. I feel bad that he got so unlucky with his draws, but not playing Brainstorm is a huge handicap.
1-0
Round 2 - I played against a friend I lent the GP Ghent winning storm list to for his first legacy tournament. Game 1 I reanimated and drew 21 on turn 1, but couldn't find Tendrils. I did it again next turn, still couldn't find Tendrils. Killed him next turn. Duressing helped prevent him from going off. Game 2 he was able to Duress away my Entomb from my stacked t1 hand, then went off the next turn. Game 3 we had a grindy Duress-fest with him going down to like 15 from fetches and Thoughtseizes. I thought that I could kill him with a natural Tendrils, but miscounted and wasted a bunch of cards. He was able to go off a few turns later while I was Brainstorm-locked. He ended up chopping t4 as well :)
1-1
Round 3 - basically a bye. He was playing unsleeved cat tribal, and I crushed him 2-0.
2-1
Round 4 - ID
Quarters - Dredge. Unlike most Dredgers, this guy actually knew how to play the deck, so there were some interesting games.
Game 1 I attempted to find an Entomb for a t1 with a Brainstorm, missed, but played a Petal and Duress to take his Faithless Looting, leaving him LED, some lands, and some dredgers. He ripped a faithless looting and got his dredge going, but his Cabal Therapy whiffed (for some reason, Dredge players always name Dark Ritual, so I had hidden one on top). I Pondered into an Entomb and killed him from there. Boarded in 2 Extirpate and an Echoing Truth for Duresses. He had some bad dredges and I was able to Extirpate his Narcs and saw he boarded out his Ichorids. I wasn't doing a whole lot though, so he dredged and played Thug and was able to strip my hand and win. Game 3 I played a fetch, took it back, played Petal, Brainstorm in an attempt to shuffle away the 2 extra lands I had and try to speed up (I didn't need the Petal since I couldn't go off that turn). Found the business, but didn't have the Dark Rit to go off that turn, so I was on the EOT Entomb plan. He made the interesting play of land, ship. I reanimated, battled, and started to go off, but he was definitely playing like he had something. I decided he was bluffing and just went for it. After the match, he explained that he thought my hand was pretty bad because of the Lotus Petal play, so he had time to represent a bluff, despite having plenty of dredge action in hand. We decided that that he should have just tried to further his gameplan, especially since I usually don't respect bluffs (and most times, they don't have it!).
We chopped top 4. Again, I played against no Force of Wills and had fairly reasonable luck, but this deck is definitely one that crushes non-U decks into the ground. Even fast combo like Dredge is favorable because you're just as fast and have sideboard disruption.