Hi this is my tournament report on 8 april 2007 granprix Columbus trial.
I woke up at 5:30 packing my stuff and at 7:00 I got to the station and my friend was waiting there and we got on the train,Then it was a pretty hard job finding it.And when we arrived there were some shops and I bought 3 tropical island so one more to go and 4 mishra’s factories.The tournament started at 11:15 And they introduced first the head judge jaap(he is a level 5 judge)and we started with 135 people.
I play solidarity.
First round
Red threshold
Game 1
Eventually I wish for twincast and I go off on 6 lands I play high tide he counter it I remand high tide drawing high tide play high tide he taps with fire/ice a island ok then he forces my high tide I force back then he forces again I say ok I take my turn drawing impulse having a hand of high tide twincast meditate impulse and I pass the turn then I go off in his turn him without counters.
Then he gives up because he has no sideboard.
Second round
Against Yaran somebody I know with white weenie.
First game
I play island go he plays hound of konda and the judges are coming this way that he forgot a sideboard card and it was a jotun grunt he gets a game loss.
Second game
There is not much happing he plays some creatures and eventually I go off.
Third round
Against goblins
Game 1
He plays lackey I force of will his lackey and well much did not happen further I got my combo and I combo off.
Game 2
Again I force a lackey he plays some weak goblins further eventually chalice of the void on 2 I impulse into remand I counter it next the he plays chalice of the voind on 2 again and I go off.
Fourth round
Against aluren
Game 1
He plays wall of blossoms a cabal therapy wall of roots and with the cabal therapy he guesses wrong i like brainstorm and mindtricking.
Game 2
This time he plays 2 cabal therapy and only plays them not flashback them and some walls and raven familiar and I combo off on turn 6.
Fifth round
Against charbelcher
Game 1
He spoils himself to death.
Game 2
he was faster and played xantids and duressess like a madman.
Game 3
I remand a lot of stuff and force some stuff over and over and I combo off while he activated a charbelcher then eventually he activates welder and I respond to it and I win with my lethal freeze.
Sixth round
A draw.
Seventh round
A draw.
And I got 6th at the prizes and I could choose out of 3 cards call of the herd asian darksteel colossus asian or a beta black knight psa 9 graded and I took the knight.
Top 8 elimination.
Round 1
Against hannifish.
Game 1
he plays meddling mage I remand he forces my remand ok then I wish then I keep sudden shock in hand for a while and I combo off I play tide ok then reset making all a ruckus about it I win the counter war and he plays stifle on my brain freeze and I force.
Game 2
He has no mage only a army of a lot of guys and I am on 4 something like that when I combo off.
Round 2
Against tes
Game 1
He plays gemstone mine I play island he plays gemstone mine I play island he plays eot plunge into darkness and he takes his turn and while he is comboing I combo off in response with 3 land he completely did not expect it.
Game 2
Well I am with 3 land he plays a lot of mana and ill gotten gains I am ok and then I take back tide remand brainstorm and he plays burning wish leaving 5 mana I think and the level 5 judge gives me a warning for slow play perhaps he was not seeing something or he wanted to go home fast and I remand the burning wish knowing that he has only 4 mana spells while he has 3 mana and I am like weeee and he scoops.
Finals!!!!
Against goblins
It was there that you could see each others decklist and the judge just layed it somewhere on the table while I was going to the bathroom and I never saw it and he said I laid in on the table and with all the other games he said heres the decklist of the opponent.
Well against a goblins player who was 15th all goblins were hated out but some dropped before the top 8
Game 1
Not knowing he plays goblins I keep a hand with 2 volcanics and I lose.
Game 2
I got a really bad hand.
So goblins mostly only need luck and some playskill mostly luck though to win.
He wins the trip to Columbus and I got second.
This was my first really big tournament And I am happy on the results!
Props
For me making soo few mistakes.
For the other guys who wished me good luck.
Slops
The level 5 judge for being a bit irritated and giving me a slow play warning and for not showing me the decklist.
And for goblins having luck again.
Didier
Last edited by solidarity!; 04-09-2007 at 07:30 AM.
good job, where can we see the top8 decklists of this event?
i only know my decklist but ill try to find the others
hm, maybe you know the decktypes that made Top8 after swiss rounds?
Well, real top 8 was different from the top 8 playing for the trip to Columbus. I do know the T8 playing for the trip, but I'm not too sure about the real T8
Top 8 for Columbus:
Gobs
Gobs
2-Land Belcher
Counterbalance(U/W)
UGR ********
Solidarity
Terrageddon
(Not in the right order)
The real top 4 was:
1) Tom vd Logt - Some weird deck with counterbalance (This guy wins every tournament he comes to....)
2) Nick Kruithof - Belcher
3) Roelke - GWB Terrageddon
4) Daniël Camps - 4C *****
UW Counterbalance/Top control with Sensei Sensei (Helm of Awakening+Tops+Freeze) kill? If so, I helped him test the deck and show how horribly it loses to Faerie Stompy (the fellow was Dutch and said he was testing for a tournament, so might just be he's the same guy) :DOriginally Posted by Bahamuth
On another note, gj Top 2ing, too bad you didn't win :(
We can construct the Top 8 for Columbus at least to this degree:
Gobs
Solidarity
TES
Terrageddon/Balance/Thresh/Belcher
Hanni Fish (it's the 8th deck, I presume, since it was in the report and isn't in that list and that list only has 7 decks)
Terrageddon/Balance/Thresh/Belcher
Terrageddon/Balance/Thresh/Belcher
Terrageddon/Balance/Thresh/Belcher
Can you post the report (in English is ok) on benelegacy.nl? :) Tnx, Didier.
I went 3-4 with Spanish Inquisition. Got some bad luck, but it was a nice day overall.
Do they actually give you a "trip" to Columbus? Like, a plane ticket? That's the way it sounded in your report.
Anyways, no offense, but I'm glad one less Solidarity deck will be absent from the GP. Even though Thresh has better game against Solidarity than Goblins, I am hoping for Solidarity to die out. So the less representation at the GP, the better.
Congrats on your success at such a large tournament, though.
Well done with Solidarity! T2 was a shame though, you opponent had a substancial advantage over you knowing what you were playing. Good Job regardless.
Could you post your list when you get a chance?
Team Unicorn is too hetero for me.While this is close it's still wrong. Every one knows it's an orgy of unicorns.******s?
TeaM NOVA for life.
yeah, flight and hotel for Columbus.
I'm actually pretty happy a Solidarity deck came on such a high place in such a large tournament. There were actually only 2 Solidarity-players there, me and solidarity!. I went a poor 3-4 tough....
The winner of the tournament was Mark Lambrechts. His nickname at the source is Reagens.
Unfortunately, we can only construct the top 8 for Columbus.
From reading a German tournament report I learned that players were asked to drop from the top 8 if they weren't interested in actually using the flight to Columbus. So 6 players from the top 8 after final standings dropped and other players according to their ranking in the final standings got a chance to play in the top 8 for Columbus. The final winner with Goblins finished the Swiss rounds at 15th place with 5-2.
Were you running the build with Blue Elemental Blast in the board?
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Actually I finished 12th in the swiss. I'll write a full report later.
The reason I won against Didier was because I twice had a lackey in my opening hand which he couldn't force and I always kept control with my wastelands in the first match (he had 2 volcanics in his opening hand) and rishadan port in the second.
Another advantage for me was that I probably know Solidarity at least as good as he does since I have been playing the deck for over a year.
This was my first tournament playing goblins and I was quite happy with my choice. In the swiss I only lost to Tom van der Logt because I didn't find a second land for my engineered explosives in the second game. My other loss was against a red burn deck. I didn't mull in those games when I should have, but his sideboard hate was too much (playing flamebreak and pyroclasm).
For those who would be interested, I played a red-green-black version.
And I still have to decide if I'll be playing solidarity or goblins in Columbus.
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Congratulations! I watched your first round of the T8, because your opponent was one of my friends. He made a few mistakes (like fetching for Tundra instead of Underground Sea game 1 when he had a basic plains already, which prevented him from plaing Dark Confidant)... but you had some small misplays as well (why the fuck did you let him put all your blue cards and the Flash of insight on the bottom of your library when you could have killed the Grut instead?). But it was a good game... you seem to have practiced a lot... it was quite nice to watch. :)
Yeah... that judge was irritating as hell. I actually didn't like him... He had absolutely no idea what he was talking about... telling you guys that the resolved High Tides were still on the stack, etc.
Sometimes you have to read between the minds.
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Maindeck
3 cunning wish
3 meditate
4 reset
4 high tide
4 impulse
4 brainstorm
2 opt
2 brain freeze
2 flash of insight
4 force of will
4 remand
3 turnabout
3 think twice
4 flooded strand
2 polluted delta
2 volcanic island
10 island
Sideboard
3 hydroblast
1 sudden shock
1 chain of vapor
1 echoing truth
1 rebuild
1 turnabout
3 twincast
1 meditate
1 urza's rage
1 starstorm
1 stroke of genius
The reason i lost to goblins,I had some bad luck and some play mistakes and i was exhausted and i boarded wrong now i think of it.
And it was not a misplay, using mana in the upkeep is bad since if he plays a mage i need to counter it and i did not got much time since he had some creatures, then to wish for something takes some time.
And i enjoyed the hannifish match!
How did you find the Think Twices and the Starstorm?
It doesn't seem that you used the Starstorm at all during the tournament.
I haven't found it to be usefull really at all.
Where the Think Twices effective in the aggro control matches as they are intended? Did they clog up your hand against straight Aggro?
I can imagine that at some point in the game it is useful against fish only that point did not come at all,I think when hannifish has confidant out and meddling mage it is useful/mostly needed to get them both off the field and fish often has that so we have no choice or another cool card will be invented with only one red involving.
And think twice i really like it against control aggro/control matchups ill go as far to say it is sometimes insane good,to recover from comboing or from a force of will or just for drawing multiple cards with 1 card so you can combo out with 7 cards that is really important!
@Reagens: Congratulations for getting the trip to Colombus. Its no secret that you had much luck on sunday.
I'm the guy you played against in the 7th round. I still was on 41 and with a win maybe in T8.
First game you`d win with a better hand. Your 1st turn lackey was stronger, than my 1st turn Vial. In Second game, I hold a hand with Plateau, 2 Pyrocinesis, 2 Swords to Plowshares, 1 Gempalm Incinerator and 1 Piledriver...with one more land, knowing you'll never get a Gobbo in play. Nasty, that you had the first turn waste :(
But remeber: If you think about playing Goblins in America, test the mirror. You'll never play cards like Lackey after boarding. In mirror, they are to bad.
One question? Why had I to explain the Goblin Pyromancer? Did you not play it? It's one of the Gobins, who kill imidietly...
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