6-2-1 @ GP Gent with Rector Nic-Fit

[Viridia]

Hello everyone, i went 6-2-1 in GP Ghent last weekend playing GBW Rector Nic-FIt.
My exact list:

Lands (22):
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Marsh Flats
1 Windswept Heath
2 Bayou
1 Savannah
1 Scrubland
3 Forest
3 Plains
2 Swamp
2 Phyrexian Tower

Creatures (16):
4 Veteran Explorer
3 Academy Rector
2 Baneslayer Angel
2 Eternal Witness
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Thragtusk
1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
1 Fierce Empath
1 Fleshbag Marauder

Spells (22):
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
3 Green Sun’s Zenith
3 Pernicious Deed
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Moat
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Recurring Nightmare
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Faith’s Fetters

Sideboard (15):
4 Carpet of Flowers
3 Thoughtseize
3 Surgical Extraction
1 Humility
1 Curse of Death’s Hold
1 Memoricide
1 Choke
1 Leyline of Sanctity


We left with 3 people in my car at friday afternoon around 12pm towards Ghent, for a relatively short 2 hour drive.
As soon as we got to the hotel, we checked in and went to the GP site right after.
Originally we planned to do some last minute trials, but after seeing the enormous amount of people standing in line we figured it wasn’t worth it anyway, so we went around looking at trade binders for the rest of the day.

Saturday morning we get up at 7, do our stuff, eat breakfast and arrive at the GP site at 9:00 ready for the Player Meeting that starts at 9:30.

Eventually the first round starts:

Round 1 - Deadguy Ale (WB Confidant Blade)

Game 1: He just Hymns into Hymn into Vindicate into Lingering Souls and there’s not much i could do, as both my Explorer and Rector got hit by the 2nd Hymn.

Sideboard: +1 Leyline of Sanctity, +1 Curse of Death’s Hold -1 Moat -1 Phyrexian Arena (i think)

Game 2: I do what the deck is upposed to do, drop a Curse of Death’s Hold somewhere along the road and eventually kill him with Baneslayer

Game 3: I once again manage to drop a Curse of Death’s Hold, but he gets down a Batterskull and has about 12 mana which makes it impossible to try and kill, i could only slow him down enough to pull out a Draw.

0-0-1

Round 2 - GBw Nic-Fit

Game 1: He starts, drops a T1 Explorer, i do the same, he drops a T2 Explorer and we trade off abit getting about 8 lands in T3.
I manage to Cabal Therapy his Liliana of the Veil x2, but he lands Kitchen Finks + Thrun with sooooooo much regenerate mana that i can’t get rid of it.

Sideboard: +1 Leyline of Sanctity -1 Swords to Plowshares

Game 2: I open with a T1 Cabal Therapy and see Surgical, Extirpate, Memoricide and some randoms, he extirpates my Therapy, Surgicals somewhere along the road and i never manage to get a threat online.

0-1-1

Round 3 - Esper Blade

Game 1: We trade resources back and forth, discarding and countering/destroying stuff, but eventually i win the atrittion war with Deeds and Baneslayers.

Sideboard: +1 Curse of Death’s Hold +4 Carpet of Flowers +1 Choke -1 Fierce Empath -1 Kokusho -1 Moat (I thought about boarding in Humility but i figured he would anyway, which he did)

Game 2: He starts off with a land, go and i Therapy. Brainstorm in response revealing 1 StP and 5 lands. He does the land, go trick again and i drop a carpet of flowers.
I keep ramping in some stuff, Baneslayer + Thragtusk to be exact, when he drops Humility on turn 4. I shrug and find a Cure of Death’s Hold, Deed for 4, therapy to make sure he has nothing (he had 2x Revoker, 2x Lingering Souls, 1x Snapcaster Mage in hand at that point) and beat him to death with my 2 5-drops.

1-1-1

Round 4 - RUG Delver

Game 1: He goed T1 Ponder, T2 Delver, Spell Snare my Zenith for 1, T3 Delver, Daze my Maelstrom Pulse, T4 FoW my Deed and bolts me to death with 2 Delvers swinging for 6 each turn.

Sideboard: +4 Carpet of Flowers +1 Choke -1 Fierce Empath -1 Kokusho -1 Recurring Nightmare -1 Phyrexian Arena -1 Moat

Game 2: I Therapy T1 on Brainstorm and hit, resolve a T2 Carpet and go on to resolve 5-drops, he Bolts + Fires my Baneslayer but never really has a chance to win.

Game 3: I don’t quite remember this, but i know i outramped all his taxing counters and just beat him to death at some point.

2-1-1

Round 5 - Merfolk

Game 1: She has a decent start with Island -> Vial and 2 Silvergill Adepts + Jitte after that, but i Deed the board and win on Baneslayer.

Sideboard: +4 Carpet of Flowers +1 Choke -4 Veteran Explorer -1 something?

Game 2: She starts off slowly with a turn 2 Coralhelm Commander. I resolve a Carpet of Flowers and a Moat. I get beaten to 16-12-8 and drop a Phyrexian Arena. Next turn go to 4, lose 1 for Arena, which has a Kokusho in it! I drop it and pass. Next turn i drop to 2 and draw a Zenith, use to get Thragtusk and gain 5. She copies my Kokusho with Phantasmal Image and they both die and swings in for 5 (she had an extra lord at this point). Arena drops me to 1 and i find a Recurring Nightmare. (she had allready used a Relic to get my Kokusho exiled now) I get a Fierce Empath on the field, sacrifice it to Phryexian Tower and start doing Recurring Nightmare tricks with Thragtusk, gaining 5 life for every 6 mana, eventually find a Baneslayer, blow up deed for 4 and swing for 10 a turn.

3-1-1

Round 6 - Goblins

Game 1: He starts off with Lackey. I Therapy for Goblin Warchief and miss, he connects for a Krenko (holding Tarfire, Port and a 2nd Lackey) Plays port and taps down my land on my upkeep. He doesn’t get alot of threats online and i resolve a Explorer -> Therapy -> Moat.
He’s trying to find and answer and Ringleaders into Matron 2 turns later.
Next turn he drops Matron with 3 lands untapped, finds Siege-Gang Commander, which i therapy away and he scoops it up.

Sideboard: I think i didn’t board at all here.

Game 2: He goes aggresive and swings for exactly lethal on his turn 4 after an insane Ringleader revealing Piledriver, Scrapper, Sharpshooter and Prospecter, all while having Warchief on the field.

Game 3: I once again get a quick Moat online @ 14 life. He makes about 60 tokens with Krenko before he scoops to my Baneslayer.

4-1-1

Round 7 - High Tide

Game 1: He mulligans to 6, keeps a 1-lander without Brainstorm or Ponder and never finds a 2nd land or cantrip and i just therapy his counters and win on Baneslayer.

Sideboard: +4 Carpet of Flowers +1 Choke +3 Thoughtseize +3 Surgical Extraction +1 Leyline of Sanctity +1 Memoricide -4 Veteran Explorer -2 Pernicious Deed -2 Maelstrom Pulse -1 Swords to Plowshares -1 Fleshbag Marauder -1 Fierce Empath -1 Kokusho -1 Moat

Game 2: I have lethal damage on the board when he goes off on 3 lands with High Tide -> Cloud of Faeries (Surgical on High Tide - resolves) Snap, Cloud of Faeries, Time Spiral -> Something - Something - Time Spiral, i Surgical something in his graveyard, he Surgicals my Surgical and i’ve got nothing to interact anymore before he Brain Freezes me for 50ish

Game 3: I make some good Therapy action, at some point he FoW’s pitching Time Spiral, left with 3 cards in hand. I Therapy, debating with myself if i should call High Tide or Time Spiral. I got for High TIde and he has both in hand + Cloud of Faeries, which would have made it possible to combo off in his next turn. I drop something and pass, he draws and passes back and i Memoricide his Time Spirals, revealing that he had a Cunning WIsh -> High Tide for his EOT, but he scoops when the Memoricide resolves.

5-1-1

Round 8 - Zoo

Game 1. He starts off with Savannah -> WIld Nacatl. I therapy something and miss, revealing Pridemage, Knight x2, PtEx2 and Lavamancer. He doesnt find a land for 2 turns and just beats for 2. I keep dropping lands and Top, at some point he finds a Maze of Ith (?) and drops it, has a 2nd Nacatly by now and PtE’s one of his own Nacatl’s EoT. He tries to find a Taiga, and presents the deck to me, so i call a Judge, it gets rewinded and he ends up with a Warning: GRV and finds a Plains. Then he finds another land, drops Pridemage and Lavamancer and hits for 4.
Next turn i chumpblock with Veteran Explorer and he drops 2 Knights, right into my Deed, leaving him with nothing on the board and no hand. I find a Baneslayer soon after and seal the deal.

Sideboard:I think i didn’t sideboard at all.

Game 2: He goes Nacatl into Pridemage into Knight into Lavamancer + Goyf and loses to my Pernicious Deed + Baneslayer.
He told me afterwards he tried to race the Deed (???)

6-1-1

Round 9 - Miracle Control

Game 1:I start off pretty well with some stuff, manage to get a therapy counterspelled (on purpose) and the turn before he gets his 4th land online, i drop Explorer -> Therapy and he topdecked 2x FoW as his only cards i didn’t know (rest of his hand was Land, Jace, Entreat)
He resolves Jace, Entreats for 3 or 4 and i never find an answer

Sideboard: +4 Carpet of Flowers +1 Choke +3 Thoughtseize -4 Veteran Explorer -1 Moat -1 Kokusho -1 Fierce Empath -1 Something

Game 2: I mulligan to 6 which has Thoughtseize x2 Cabal Therapy, Top, Bayou and Phyrexian Tower. Thoughtseize T1 taking his Top (out of Clique, FoW, O-Ring, 3 land)
T2 Therapy the Clique and drop Top, Upkeep Top and see Pulse, Witness, Deed but no 3rd land. I thoughtseize again to take his FoW and again find no land with top. After 3 or 4 turns i find my 3rd land, with 3 3-drops in my hand by now, but he has allready resolved a Jace and found Snapcaster Mage, Disenchant, Terminus and Swords to Plowshares by now. I manage to Resolve a Pernicious Deed with 2 mana open, which he Disenchants, i blow up his Snapcaster Mage. He finds a Top and keeps JaceStorming. I try to Maelstrom Pulse with Jace, he tops and his 3rd card was a Counterspell :( Game over for me, ending at a very happy

6-2-1

In the end i’m really happy with my results, but decided to make some changes to the deck for next tournaments.
I never had much use for the Kokoshu/Recurring Nightmare, they both saved me once in the Merfolk matchup, but any other flyer or lifegain card would’ve done the same, so i ended up going -1 Kokusho -1 Fierce Empath -1 Recurring Nightmare for +! Swords to Plowshares +1 Qasali Pridemage +1 Kitchen Finks, but haven’t played in a Side Event the day after to test it yet.

On Sunday i just traded some stuff to get myself a Foil Japanese Phyrexian Arena (old layout) upgraded my Graveborn Cabal Therapies to FNM and my regular Surgicals to Chinese BaB Foils. So i’m really happy with the GP in general and i’ll definately keep playing the deck :)

[feline]

grats >^,^<

[XdeckX]

congrats on your performance. I failed miserably with a similar list ;)