I did not take notes, and this is all from memory.

The first tournament was in Costa Mesa, I was originally not going to go to this, but Tony and I decided to make the trip out there. 19 people showed up, 1st gets Jace, 2nd Sea, 3rd Trop, 4th Volcanic.

4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of Flame
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
4 Lotus Petal
4 Chrome Mox
4 Burning Wish
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Duress
3 Orim’s Chant
1 Silence
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Tendrils of Agony

4 Gemstone Mine
2 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Scalding Tarn
2 City of Brass
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island


1 Diminishing Returns
1 Ill-Gotten Gains
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Grapeshot
1 Thoughtsieze
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Wipeaway
1 Echoing Truth
1 Shattering Spree
2 Pyroblast
3 Xantid Swarm


Round 1

I played against BUG Landstill player, Alex. Nice guy.

I lost the roll, then went Silence, kill you on my first turn. Nice game.

Game 2 I went Duress t1, see nothing, Turn 2 kill. Nut draws against my best match up.


Round 2

Merfolk

I just went for Empty twice and killed him 2-0. In the second game, he Forced a Burning Wish, and then lost to the second one for Empty. Nothing very interesting.


Round 3

Survival

Two easy kills with Ad Nauseam and Iggy respectively. Nothing to see here.

Round 4 I.D.

Round 5 I.D.


Top 8

Dredge

Game 1 I have to go for Diminishing Returns into Ad Nauseam, and barely kill him.

Game 2 He reanimates an Iona and beats me across the face with it.

Game 3 I get a turn 2 kill with Iggy.


Top 4

GWu Survival

Game 1, he gets down Aven Mindcensor, then kills me.

Game 2, turn 1 Ad Nauseam. He dies.

Game 3, he mulls to 3. I barely beat him. It was a very sad game of magic.


Finals

Belcher

Game 1 I get insanely lucky with an Iggy loop where I have to find a tutor off of Brainstorm. Of course, I do, and kill him.

Game 2 He makes a bunch of Empty the Warren Tokens. I make more, and kill him.




The second tournament was at Knight Ware in Studio City. Great store, great prizes.


Round 1

Enchantress

I've beaten Enchantress game 1. I lost.

Game 2 I got an easy Ad Nauseam kill.

Game 3 was pretty insane, his board position ended up being Leyline, Double Runed Halo (Tendrils and Grapeshot), Double Sterling Grove. My hand was Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Rite of Flame, Rite of Flame, Rite of Flame, Lotus Petal, with 4 lands and a Lotus Petal. I draw Ad Nauseam and play out my hand into an Empty the Warrens, Silence him on his upkeep, and kill him with 22 tokens. This was pure luck.


Round 2

Dragon Stompy

Game 1 I won the roll, Duress, see nothing, kill him the next turn.

Game 2 He mulled to 5, did nothing for 3 turns, and I killed him on turn 3 with Iggy.


Round 3

Merfolk

Game 1 I Duressed taking Force on the play, seeing 3 Spell Snare. I then go Dark Ritual into Ad Nauseam on the next turn and have to dig for a Silence, get there and kill him with Grapeshot.

Game 2 I got a quick Empty and killed him, nothing too interesting.


Round 4

Vial Knights

Game 1 I killed myself with a turn 2 Ad Nauseam at 18.

Game 2 I killed him with Empty the Warren tokens.

Game 3 I also killed him with Empty the Warren tokens.


Round 5 I.D.

Round 6 I.D.


Top 8

Played against Merfolk from round 3.

Game 1 I got an easy kill with Ad Nauseam.

Game 2 I punted by going for a mini Tendrils. It was dumb.

Game 3 I killed him with Empty the Warrens tokens.


Top 4

Aggro Loam

Two easy Iggys for the win.


Finals

Split with Goblins, he wanted Seas, I wanted Jaces and to go home.




Sorry for the shitty report, I didn't take notes, this was all from memory about 4 days after the fact. If I got anything wrong, please correct it.

This deck is unfair.