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    [Report] LOL Elf Survival Top8s

    I wanted to write this so there is a written account proving green is a better color than blue.

    Here is the list I played:

    4 Survival of the Fittest
    1 Anger

    4 Llanowar Elves
    3 Fyndhorn Elves
    4 Priest of Titania
    3 Elvish Spirit Guide
    2 Quirion Ranger
    4 Elvish Champion
    4 Imperious Perfect
    2 Mirror Entity
    3 Wirewood Symbiote
    4 Sylvan Messenger
    2 Wren's Run Vanquisher
    1 Wren's Run Packmaster
    1 Wood Elves
    1 Viridian Zealot

    5 Forest
    3 Windswept Heath
    3 Wooded Foothills
    3 Taiga
    3 Savannah

    Sideboard
    4 Orim's Chant
    4 Krosan Grip
    3 Thorn of Amethyst
    2 Choke
    1 Gaddock Teeg
    1 Magus of the Moon

    I noticed there was a TON of combo before the tournament, so I threw in more hate. Birdman and I ended up adding in ESG before the event as well so we could potentially get the Thorn or Teeg turn 1.


    I didn't end up taking down names, so I apologize to those who I didn't know.


    Round 1: Jander78 with Dreadstill

    Game 1: I'm on the play, and open with a mana elf. My turn 2 Priest resolves, and he plays a Standstill. Turn 3 I play a Perfect and that resolves, then resolve a Quirion Ranger and Mirror Entity. Turn 4 I swing for 50 something.

    Game 2: This game involves him having 3 Mishra's Factory, and sticking a Dreadnought while I get land flooded and don't find a Krosan Grip. He also played a Clasm on my team.

    Game 3: He gets Counter/Top around turn 4-5, but I resolve a Choke and lock down 4 lands, and he can't find a Pyroclasm to stop my army.

    1-0


    Round 2: Some guy playing the Rock

    Game 1: He mulls, and I open with Savannah and a mana elf. He plays a Mishra and passes, so I think I'm playing against Dreadstill again. I play a land and cast Survival and it resolves. He Wastelands my Savannah and says go. I eot grab Priest of Titania, and on my turn I play a land and cast Priest and Wirewood Symbiote. He plays Forest, Tarmogoyf, go. Not Dreadstill. I untap, search for Mirror Entity, and combo infinate turn 4 damage on his face.

    Game 2: He opens with land go, and I have a turn 1 mana elf. He has turn 2 Goyf, and I respond with a turn 2 Perfect. He is land light, and Crop Rotates a Wasteland for a Bayou, then Living Wish for Shriekmaw and attacks for 2. I play a Ranger and another mana elf and say go. He untaps and taps out to play a Pernicious Deed and attacks, and I make a token and block. I rip Zealot and kill the Deed. He Shriekmaws my Perfect and plays another Goyf. I rip Survival and search up Magus of the Moon and lock out all his lands except a basic Forest. He attacks and I shrug it off, untap and search for Elvish Champion and attack for 8. He attacks me again, I untap and grab another Champion and smash.

    2-0

    Round 3: Some guy playing 4c Counterbalance (he made top8)

    Game 1: I play the Elves hand and open with turn 1 Elf, turn 2 Priest, Ranger, turn 3 Lord, Entity. All that on one land.

    Game 2: He sticks Counterbalance and I'm landscrewed on two lands with 5 lords and a Grip in hand and never drew a mana guy. He has Goyfs and kills me.

    Game 3: I play a turn 1 Ranger, turn 2 Survival. He dazes. I remove ESG. He FoWs pitching Counterbalance. Sweeeet. He play an attrition war for a while as I'm stuck on lands with a Symbiote and Vanquisher beating down. He sticks a Goyf and a Jitte and is containing me, but has to gain life to stay alive. I eventually get another Vanquisher and more creatures and he can't contain them as he couldn't find a Swords.

    3-0


    Round 4: Some guy with Dreadstill.

    Game 1: I stick a Survival, but he's got the maindeck Grip for it. I then revert to elf mode and stick an Elvish Champion and beat with Forestwalk. Then savagly attack with the Champion into a Trinket Mage, but thankfully then play a Sylvan Messenger to find another one and go nuts.

    Game 2: Turn 2 Dreadnought with FoW backup for my Vanquisher. That was lame.

    Game 3: He has a FoW for my opening Survival, a couple Fire/Ice for my guys, a Firespout to wipe out my team, and another FoW for my last ditch effort and beats me with a Goyf. He had a nutty hand here.

    3-1


    Round 5: Daze Elrod (Freakish777) with 4c Threshold

    Game 1: I have a ridiculous hand, and he has a turn 2 Counterbalance. He has a lot of Ponders and Brainstorms for CB and a lot of FoWs and Stp and I can't stick anything and die miserably.

    Game 2: He gets CounterTop down after I get a Symbiote and Ranger down. I stick a Champion and beat him down low. I eventually get a Messenger too which gives me another Champion. He counters one and trys to get rid of the other which I continuously return with Symbiote. He gets double Goyf down but can't find another Swords to get rid of my guys and forestwalk takes it. According to Dave, there was a Mirror Entity in here somewhere.

    Game 3: I honestly don't remember this game. It was close, but I pull it out somehow. Mirror Entity may have been involved.

    4-1

    Round 6: Irish Mafia (?) with Dreadstill

    Game 1: He has a Spell Snare for my opening Priest, a FoW on a Perfect, and a turn 4 Dreadnought.

    Game 2: It involves me playing lots of Elves and doing a big rush.

    Game 3: My Survival gets countered, but I stick a Choke to lock him down. He Pyroclasms my board and has 2 Factory, but I topdeck Perfect and start making guys. He eventually gets a Needle on Perfect, but I eventually get too many guys and widdle away his life.

    5-1

    ID into top8

    5-1-1


    Top8: Bryant with TES

    Game 1: I open with a Symbiote. He plays LED, LED, go. He has the Mystical Tutor hand, but no other mana source to go nuts with. I play Survival. He doesn't find a mana Source. I get Priest and say go. He doesn't get the mana source, so I untap and get Mirror Entity and combo him.

    Game 2: He kills me turn 1 on the play.

    Game 3: We both mull, and my hand is garbage of 3 land, Chant, Anger, Perfect. I draw another Chant, but he Duresses me. Then Chants me and I chant in response. I get him down to 7 with triple Perfect in play, but he is able to combo and kill me.

    5-2-1

    Thoughts:


    - This deck has incredible game against blue decks.
    - It is very difficult to play. This was my first tournament with it and I made a handful of play mistakes, but it's also very forgiving.
    - Green > Blue, but Combo > Green.


    Kudos:
    - Me.
    - Birdman and rsaunders dad who also rocked the deck.
    - Green decks.
    - Bryant for top8ing.
    - Everyone who helped me put the deck together.

    Fail:
    - Virginia's lack of appearance.
    - Dreadstill. Nice dead cards you got there.
    - Pyroclasm
    Last edited by Di; 01-04-2009 at 08:04 PM.

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    Re: [Report] LOL Elf Survival Top8s

    Gratz on the Finish Colin, the deck is a lot of fun, I'm thinking about rocking it at the next Hadley.
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    Re: [Report] LOL Elf Survival Top8s

    Green > Blue ?

    LOL

    On the other hand, your deck is very creative and congratz on the finish... perhaps a few discard spells would help a little bit, as you have a quick clock anyways.

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    Re: [Report] LOL Elf Survival Top8s

    Game 3 was actually game 2. Game 3 I had double Counterbalance and no Top, and you resolved Mirror Entity on turn 5 or so (with a lot of other dudes in play and a Priest of Titania), which I couldn't find Swords for.

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    It turns out I grabbed up 2 of Mr. Saunders's duals after we played the mirror. Too bad I couldnt get past bryant to make it in for the double elves beatdown of the t8. Congrats on the finish, this is the 2nd t8 in a row for this deck.

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    Re: [Report] LOL Elf Survival Top8s

    Very nice result.

    Any thoughts about this list? I've seen your non-ESG lists before, have you finally decided on playing ESG, of was it just a test?
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    Re: [Report] LOL Elf Survival Top8s

    Quote Originally Posted by Atwa View Post
    Very nice result.

    Any thoughts about this list? I've seen your non-ESG lists before, have you finally decided on playing ESG, of was it just a test?
    I tested it out for about a week leading up to the event, but wasn't sold on it, so I went back to the normal list. As mentioned in the report, we added it very last second to speed the deck up a little bit and for the likelyhood of turn 1 Thorn of Amethyst post-board against combo decks. I liked it all day, so it might stay. I'm not sure yet.

    There were a few other things I didn't like about the list (like only 2 Vanquisher, we cut the other deathtouchers to make room for ESG) and some other things I'll just discuss in the actual thread.

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    Sexy. Rock those Elves!

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    elves FTW!!
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    But... no Tarmogoyfs?!? How can this be!!!

    Nice writeup, very informative. Thanks for posting it!

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