Wining in Madrid with Doomsday Tendrills with laboratory Maniac.

[Togores]

Yesterday I won another tournament here in Madrid with doomsday storm and now that I remember most of the games (what is not usual). So I made a little report.

This is the deck I played:

4 Brainstorm
4 Gitaxian Probe
2 ponder
4 Sensei's Divining Top

3 Silence
4 Orim's Chant
1 Chain of vapor

4 Burning Wish
3 Doomsday
1 Ad nauseam
1 Ideas Unbound

4 Dark Ritual
4 Lotus Petal
4 Lion's Eye Diamond

1 Badland
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tundra
1 Scrubland

//Sideboard:
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Shelldock Isle
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Echoing Truth
1 whipe away
1 Laboratory maniac
1 Grapeshot
1 Helm of Awakening
1 Oust
1 Doomsday
1 Duress
1 Emtpy the Warrens
1 Piroclasm
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Time Spiral


1st round vs. Team America:

1st game start with top and now all is more easy, I see Ad Nauseam an ritual with top and 3 turns later I chant him in his upkeep and ad nauseam him EoT so he loses in my next turn.

2nd game he start with thoughseize then hymn then tarmo then snapcaster into hymn I try to brainstorm the only card in my hand that is doomsday but he forces so I lose.

3rd game I have 2 tops so I play top go, he didn’t play thoughseize and I play the second one, few turns later I chant him then doomsday and kill him with maniac because I had not a lot of hand and was not able to storm him because I had the burning s extirpated.


2nd round vs. counterbalance thopter:

1st game I combo him of with doomsday and tendrils he has top but he is playing the balances in side so he loses pretty easy.

2nd game he start with island and top then looks in his upkeep and didn’t make a land drop so I deduce he has counterbalance in hand and I will lose when he finds and island. In my turn I calculate risks vs. reward and go: brainstorm let a card and doomsday on top then I play led and gitaxian probe sacrificing the led in response for bbb but he has force on my probe. I wanted to resolve the doomsday and let the shelldock island combo ready for next turn but he has force, next turn he finds an island and I have counter balance combo on table, few turns later I didn’t draw good and he has combo a clock that kills me and I scoop with 12 min on clock to have time to win last game but unable for him to beat me, so at least I would make a draw.

3rd game I start with top he starts with top too, he has counterbalance and top but my hand is 2 chants whipe away doomsday shelldock led brainstorm with 6 lands in play. So he is at 14 and I Eot make brainstorm he counterbalances it revealing pithing needle, then I whipe away the balance. On my turn I double chant him because on gets countered and doomsday him. I pass turn, he replays the counterbalance and a pithing on shelldock, but I had make a pile of emrakul, maniac, 2 random cards, and whipe away so my next draw after the shelldock would be whipe away. I draw cast something he counterbalances it and I whipe away the pithing, then emrakul comes gives me a time walk and attacks for game. Being this the last turn of timeout.


3rd round vs. maverick with black.

1st game I combo easy and he loses, magic is easy.

2nd game he starts with Caracas and I think he can have a chant so I play little more slow and try to fix my hand, then i still manipulate a litl. And he gets a vial on board. Next turn with another plains still having the Caracas untapped (at the end he was always bluffing the chant). I play doomsday with 2 lands and make pile of top, top, grapeshot, chain of vapor and maniac. He makes a tutor on canonist and plays it. I draw and play the top. Then pass, he draws thoughseize and I have in hand 2 led helm of awakening and brainstorm, he takes the brainstorm so next turn I play the other top and pass, he eot krossan grips one top, so my plan changed to maniac being able to kill some creature with grapeshot. I draw and play the helm. Pass turn, he attacks and plays boby. Now he didn’t chant me in my upkeep because next turn he would win if he attacks, so I have to go for it. I draw the chain play led led grapeshot, kill canonist and boby. so he didn’t have mindbreak. Then I tap the top respond with chin of vapor and sac both leds for blue. I draw my last card in hand, the maniac. Play the top, then the maniac, tap top and win.


4th round vs. bant:

1st game I mull to 5 but my hand is really good. Tundra, delta, ad nauseam, ritual, silence. I play delta and pass. He draws and plays a fetch. In my turn I rip another ritual from top so I play the tundra and in his unkeep I silence him. He wastelands my tundra and Eot y play underground, ritual ritual and ad nauseam, so that on my turn he is dead.

2nd game he starts with mana go, I play top. he plays meddling mage on tendrils (what I don’t care) and then he passes I play another top, he plays another meddling mage on ad nauseam (I don´t care this another time). I play and pass. He attacks in my turn I draw and look with top seeing as the 3rd card the doomsday, so I brainstorm to get it and he responds with vendilion (WTF?) he lets my hand with double ritual and double chant and some other good cards. I chant him and make doomsday pile with maniac but only for fum because I could make a pile killing him with tendrils putting a chain of vapor in there. Because I had enough mana and a probe in hand. I could have make ideas unbound, led led chain of vapor burning. Play the probe, sac led for uuu play the ideas play both leds then with the remaing U tap top respond with chain of vapor, and then led for red and black. Then put top to my hand and sacrifice a land to put meddling, I draw burning with and I win. Magic is easy ^^.


So I win the tournament beating some hard matchups, every day I play the deck I fell more in love with it it remembers me too much to the old Ad nauseam deck I played before the mystical tutor banning so it feels great and make my mind work and puzzle to win. What I realy enjoy. And it so great because I didn’t think there is a really bad pairing, only counterbalance and that’s not played but even if you play at a normal pace if you win 1st game you can win 1-0 or draw because they usually don’t get to kill you on time and with the shelldock island combo it’s an easy game.

Thanks for reading and I would like some feedback^^

[Philipp2293]

Congratz on your nice finish, must be feeling great winning with Lab Maniac. Could you share your SB plans?

Thanks!

[Togores]

Vs counterbalance
- ponder
- plains
- ad nauseam
- chain of vapor
+ emrakul
+ shelldock
+ whipe away
+ maniac

If he runs cards like canonist or medling mage i would take out the other ponder and 2 other cards to put in the bounce spells


Vs maveric/gw zenit*
-3 silence
-2 ponder
+ chain
+ echoing
+ grapeshot
+ helm
+ maniac

Vs control without anoying permanents but wastelands
Uw stoneforge. Team america. Canadian etc
- chain
+ maniac

Vs Bant*
-2 ponder
- another random card. Probe, silence, petal, depends on feeling
+ chain
+ echoing
+ maniac

Vs reanimator
-2 silence
-2 ponder
- ad nauseam
- plains
+ chain
+ echoing
+ whipe away
+ maniac
+ shelldock
+ emarakul

Thats more or less my sideboard idea. If you have opinion to improve it or questions about other matchups feel free to ask.*

[Namida]

Why did you side in the Laboratory Maniac every single round?

[Togores]

is an extra winn option, i like the card a lot and it gives realy stupid doomsday piles battling hate or dificult situations.

[TiMeWaLk]

Thank you for your nice report and congratulations!

I have some feedback / questions for you:

1) Don't you think that having Lab Maniac + the Helm // Grapeshot combo in your SB is redundant? These are alternative win conditions to the usual BW into Tendrils. Considering that you have also SI + Emrakul, a third of your SB is dedicated to alternative win conditions which is a lot! My first try would be to cut the Helm // Grapeshot combo. What do you think?

2) How was Time Spiral? I think the card is not as good as in TES and just take a SB spot for nothing. Maybe I am a bit hard on it. Thoughts?

3) With 7 chants effects MD, do you play BW to fetch Duress?

Thanks again for the report,

TW

[Togores]

I realybonly use the shellock and emrakul combo vs counterbalance and combo decks. Its a combo i hate but vs this parings its necesary. The grapeshot helm is vs canonist and tegg. But i still board maniac in because they could have tegg and qasali or crossan to kill my helm or top so an extra out.

The spiral is god damn good if you have like 4 lands and led and ritual you can chant you oponent and wish for spiral. Everytime i resolved a spiral with at least 3 lands i won.

Dures is sometimes needed for beating combo or it gives you a disruption effect when you dont draw into chant.

[HokusSchmokus]

So basicly, almost every round you won with LabMan , you could have just won over Tendrils. Nice card.

Grats on the finish though.