Results 1 to 4 of 4

Thread: 10-5 with Dead guy Ale (or according to SCG, Abzan Stoneblade) SCG Worcester

  1. #1

    10-5 with Dead guy Ale (or according to SCG, Abzan Stoneblade) SCG Worcester

    Decklist, I did lol at the commentary. Didn't they have my decklist in front of them? No blue cards at all. And I clearly wrote Dead Guy Ale.

    4 Dark Confidant
    4 Deathrite Shaman
    3 Stoneforge Mystic
    2 Shriekmaw
    1 Hero of Bladehold

    3 Thoughtseize
    1 Cabal Therapy
    1 Inquisition of Kozilek
    2 Hymn to Tourach
    3 Liliana of the Veil
    2 Vindicate
    1 Abrupt Decay
    4 Swords to Plowshares
    1 Umezawa's Jitte
    1 Sword of Fire and Ice
    1 Batterskull
    3 Lingering Souls
    2 CHrome MOx

    4 Scrubland
    1 Bayou
    2 Swamp
    1 Plains
    1 Karakas
    4 Wasteland
    4 Marsh Flats
    2 Verdant Catacombs
    2 Polluted Delta

    Side. 1 Leyline of the Void, 1 Rest in Peace, 1 Surgical Extraction, 1 Engineered Explosives, 1 Toxic Deluge, 1 zealous Persecution, 1 Sanctum Prelate, 2 Gaddock Teeg, 2 Abrupt Decay, 1 Gideon Ally of Zendikar, 1 Humility, 1 Ensnaring Bridge, 1 Pithing Needle.


    Round 1. 2-0 Czech Pile? Jacob Ryan
    Game 1. 6 Lingering Souls are too much for him to deal with
    Game 2. Sofi + Batterskull = gg

    Round 2. 2-1. Bant. with Gideon, Jace, Knight of the Reliquary etc. Raphael Mark
    Game 1. My Bob is very nice to me which is good since I'm under a lot of pressure from a Goyf. I'm able to bring my Jitte online
    game 2. He has a Jitte and a Gideon. Yeah I'm dead.
    Game 3. He kept a 1 lander with Brainstorm and locks himself. I eventually land a Liliana and Gideon in play.

    Round 3. 2-0. Doomsday Storm. Leland Curtis.
    Game 1. I hardly see anything game 1. I see Brainstorm, Ponder, fetchland, underground sea (which I wasted). I have a bob in play and he scoops in response to a Thoughtseize. Turns out he was just off (one mana source or something) from just killing me.
    Game 2. I only board in a Sanctum Prelate as I didn't see enough. Off a thoughtseize I see Ideas Unbound and then realize what he is playing. I'm able to knock him off of all permanents and kill him with 8 Lingering Soul tokens.

    Round 4. 2-1. Miracles. Anderson Boone
    Game 1. I lose game 1 to Counterbalance and Jace fun times
    game 2. I surgical his Swords to Plowshares in response to his Snapcaster trying to target it. He was a bit surprised I boarded that in.....I look at his deck and see he boarded in From the Ashes. Now I'm surprised
    Game 3. I have 4 Lingering Souls on the beatdown plan. He's not able to deal with them (and no top in play). He casts From the Ashes vs me but I still end up with 2 swamps and a PLains as my lands in the end. So I can still cast a lot of my deck and doesn't affect the board.

    Round 5. 1-2. Elves. Andrew Jessup.
    I watched a bit of this on camera. A bit annoyed that they think my deck has been called Abzan Stoneblade for a while. Uh.....no. I did notice a few posters on chat knew what deck and also that it's me. I did lol at someone saying I don't care about bad matchups.
    game 1. My hand is a bit slow. I do know of Andrew Jessup but didn't know what he plays. Oops. I lose game 1 like I usually do.
    Game 2. I know some people don't like Humility vs Elves but I love it. Sure the base Power and Toughness doesn't change much from what it was before but now those creatures don't...
    1. draw cards.
    2. protect each other
    3. Make mana
    4. kill my artifacts and enchantments
    5. don't gain and power toughness and trample.
    6. Screw with my graveyard (namely eating Souls) and drain my life

    Sure, it's possible to get the motley crue beatdown of 1/1's but I do have Lingering Souls, Batterskull and mass removal to combat that. I'd rather take my chances with Humility.

    I did make a double error with Mystic and Jitte. I figured he had the Abrupt Decay so I didn't bother equipping Stoneforge and wasting 2 mana, so I felt casting 2 Shamans was a better use of my mana. But I attacked anyway,..... 1. forgetting the untap ability of Sentinel 2. the 1 damage even if it went through is largely irrelevant 3. I played around Decay at first (by not using mana on equip) and then I didn't play around Decay because of forgetting about Sentinel interaction.

    Game 3. I didn't cast Gaddock Teeg since I wanted to land Humilty. I probably should have cast it anyway. and hopefully he attacks with a Nettle Sentinel so I can block with Gaddock Teeg, so Teeg would have bought me a turn to topdeck a mana source for Humility. I felt humility was my only out and for some reasoning I thought Andrew would see that Teeg was more of a hindrance to me rather than to him (also he had draw engine of Visionary and Symbiote to still drown my in card advantage so he still had a ton of plays even without being to cast a couple of spells if Teeg was out).


    Round 6.0-2 Burn. Daniel Setzer
    Ugh. From losing to on camera to losing to burn. Pretty tilting. The funny play...... So I have a Santcum prelate out (naming 1 but that not relevant). He has an Eidolon. I'm at 6. I cast a Jitte, knocking me down to 4 (which he remembers). I go to attacks with an equipped Prelate (no counters on jitte obviously).....and he fireblasts......the Prelate. I through that prelate in the bin so quick. lol. I still died to the eidolon attack and random burn spell but I did ask why he didn't Fireblast me. He realizes and laughs.

    Round 7. 2-1. Mono Red Sneak Attack. Henry.
    Game 1. He's on the play. I kept a mediocre hand with a lot of one mana spells. He does Chalice on 1 turn 1. Chandra, Torch of Defiance on turn 2. GG. All he say from me is a Polluted Delta. So he puts me on Storm. LOL. I love big tournaments, people not knowing what I play. Refreshing.
    Game 2. I see he has Trinisphere for me thinking I'm Storm. Nope. I'm able to disrupt his deck and slow beatdown with Bob.
    Game 3. Much the same although he know knows what I'm on and doesn't have sphere post board.

    Round 8. 2-0 Tezzeret Painter. Louis Gentile.
    I have too much removal for him to deal with. He makes a mistake in game 2, he has an ensnaring bridge in his top 3 cards (he knows because of Top). For whatever reason he cracks a fetch, losing his bridge. That would have gone a long way in stabilizing the game. I'm not sure how much black he was running, I think it was only a splash for Tezzeret.

    Round 9. 2-1. BUG Delver. Dairusz
    Game 1. His Deathrite and True Name are too much for me.
    Game 2 and 3. I'm able to out attrition him, through countermagic. So in one game he has a Delver, Shaman and a True Name Nemesis. I know he has a Force (reveal from delver). He casts the Nemesis and then attacks with Delver. I zealous Persecution and he tanks...and counters it with Force. I then Cast an explosives for 1 killing the Deathrite and Delver. And the turn after I use Liliana to kill TNN.

    Round 10. 0-2 Czech Pile. Noah Walker.
    At least with this Starcity player that I know, I do remember what kind of decks he plays unlike Andrew Jessop. Really nice guy. And I get stomped with Card advantage. I don't have many notes. Lol, actually hardly any.

    Round 11. 2-1 BUG I think it had Delver. Adam Snook.
    Attrition matchup. Whoever had Deathrites live and had more wastelands won. In game 1 I had a Deathrite that lived and like 3 wastelands in a row. He's mana screwed game 3, 3 wastelands in a row to him trying to ponder for lands. His hand at end of game 3 was 2 decay, 2 goyf and 2 daze but just wasteland as mana.

    Round 12. 2-0 Mono-REd Sneak Attack. Timothy.
    Game 1. I go land go. He goes Mountain go. I'm a bit confused, for some reason I think he may be burn so instead of casting Dark Confidant I cast Hymn to Tourach. He has 7 cards. I get Seething Song and Ancient Tomb. Nope, not burn. LOL. I dodged a huge bullet. Since I cast and uptick with Liliana next turn I see Emrakul, Worldspine Wurm and Through the Breach over the next few turns. I was dead except my Hymn To Tourach saved me. Big Time.

    Game 2. Variance happens and his deck draws blanks to my disruption.

    Round 13. 0-2 Czech Pile. Edgar Magalhes.
    A local player where I'm at. Luckily he's not on his usual deck Sneak Show. He beat me recently with that deck but is very gun shy of casting Show and Tell since I have killed many an Emrakul with good old Shriekmaw.
    He's able to out attrition me pretty badly both games. I didn't see Lingering Souls which is my best card in the matchup according to Edgar. I agree since it did great vs the last Czech Pile player I faced in Swiss.

    Round 14. 0-2. Aluren. Kyle Dorgan.
    I don't draw enough Disruption in either game. I really like the BUG version over the other Aluren Versions as it can out grind fair decks better. Well, at least I think so from experience facing those decks. I did LOL. So he faced the other Dead Guy Ale player in the previous round. I'm like....what? Another Dead Guy Ale player is here? I'm not the only one apparently. I did see the day 2 meta game breakdown......2 Abzan Stoneblade. Well, I guess at least they didn't lump me in with the other Stoneblade variants.

    Round 15. 2-1. Czech Pile. Ted Felicetti
    Game 1. From what I remember. I Inquisition of Kozilek or Thoughtseize (with a Therapy in the bin) and take a card leaving him with 2 Strix in hand. I then cast a Stoneforge...get an equipment and then sacrifice the Mystic to get the 2 Strix.
    Game 2. I lose TNN and Deathrites I think.]
    Game 3. Things are looking bad as there are 2 TNN and 1 Deathrite on his board and 2 Deathrite and some Lingering Souls on my side. I topdeck Engineered Explosives to kill both TNN and win the game.

    So I end up at 10-5 which is good for 37th. Good for $100. And I got on Camera. Which is nice. And yes, despite what people think, I've played vs the Elves Matchup ALOT (playing Dead Guy for 6 years or so) and it's actually favored for me. Just like I think Mono REd Sneak Attack is a matchup I think isn't that good for me and definitely one I don't want to see, yet I somehow beat it twice at Worcester.

  2. #2

    Re: 10-5 with Dead guy Ale (or according to SCG, Abzan Stoneblade) SCG Worcester

    Thanks for the writeup! I enjoyed watching your match on camera, it was a great break from all the Czech Pile matches...

  3. #3
    Etherium is limited. Innovation is not.
    Hanni's Avatar
    Join Date

    Aug 2006
    Location

    Columbus, OH
    Posts

    2,818

    Re: 10-5 with Dead guy Ale (or according to SCG, Abzan Stoneblade) SCG Worcester

    In game 3 against Elves, you mainphased a Zealous Persecution. Was there any reason you didn't wait until the opponent's turn to cast it, after they committed more into it?
    Sligh
    Echo Stompy
    /r Miracle Intuition
    Yorion's Intuition
    5c Hollow Vine

    Quote Originally Posted by MMogg View Post
    In porn terms, Zoo has a 11" shlong and an impressive money shot, but it's over in 4 minutes, whereas Landstill is a good 8" and can go for 30 minutes.

  4. #4

    Re: 10-5 with Dead guy Ale (or according to SCG, Abzan Stoneblade) SCG Worcester

    I probably should have waited to maybe get more value out of Persecution. But at the same time I was worried it could have gone really bad if I gave him a chance on his turn to use all those Elves.

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)