Rock Lee is 2 seed going into top 8, Cant wait to see the list he ended up running.
Jeremiah has hit the Top 8, and is on the feature match...now!
His list is here: http://sales.starcitygames.com//deck...p?DeckID=67724
Gratz to Rock Lee :)
Let's play a drinking game. Every time the commentators mention Blood Moon, take a shot.
I am going to be interested to see when Rudolph has to take on Imperial Painter. I know how he has to fight G1 with basic Islands but I'm interested to see what happens. The Shardless in the quarter finals that we're not seeing should be a shoe in.
"Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void, empty, and become wind."
too bad we have to watch the RW painter guy instead for semis. i wouldn't mind watching rocklee play vs bug...
My 12 Post Videos - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Q65OWRL5my7utn
Well, Blood Moon doesn't make it to the finals, which is relevant. Now we're on g2 with Post vs bugOriginally Posted by sauce
"Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void, empty, and become wind."
Yep, we're live and best of luck to our representative.
Sadly Jeremiah lost by the skin of his teeth in the quarter-finals. He definitely pulled the game out a lot longer than likely any other player could possibly do.
I was intrigued that his list went back to UG (No Punishing Fire) and Pithing Needle in masse in the main. I'm curious to see his report.
Congratulations on the Top 4 Finish Rock Lee, and for that, God is in his Heaven, all is right in the world. (or worst case, 3 places off.)
Last edited by Mockingbird; 05-26-2014 at 10:05 AM.
"Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void, empty, and become wind."
I was so hoping that he had the version with a khalni garden to save the titan from liliana.
Took 3 liliana to take him out though. Just showing how resilient that deck is.
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It looks like the performing UG decks look a lot like what they used to look 1,5 years ago. Only the means of crowd control seem to be changing, this time it's Momen't Peace.
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Why Rock Lee only plays the Cloudpost foil?
I have several foils outside of cloudpost. tops, repeals, crop rotates. So things aren't shady. I'll give a report later, probably from work tonight. I'm too exhausted to think now though.Why Rock Lee only plays the Cloudpost foil?
Also out of curiosity, which cards are alters? Is it just Glimmerpost and Primeval Titan?
"Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void, empty, and become wind."
Island, primeval Titan, Glimmerposts, emrakul, kozilek, eye of ugin.
Have trinket mages also but don't play them atm. I think my next job will be crop rotation
My Somerset event was similar to all other major events from a preparation stance. I had fitfully poor sleep the night before. I obsessed over my attire that included attempting to find my Ice Imports T-shirt for over 3 hours and contacting 10+ people in desperation. I attended to various forms of juju/superstition that others laughed at but I was zealously persistent about. Additionally, I tested extensively a build that I ultimately scrapped 10 hours before the event in lieu of car-ride banter.
Eric Meadow was kind enough to arrange a Scoobie Doo van worth of magic players so this was the cheapest mtg transport out of state to date I have attended. And thusly we are delayed by invariable post-inebriated shenanigans of a certain John Orzell, who we shall refer to for the rest of this report as Fred Jones the yuppie.
Here is the list!
// Lands
2 [TSP] Vesuva
4 [SOM] Glimmerpost
4 [MR] Cloudpost
1 [WWK] Eye of Ugin
1 [LG] Karakas
2 [LRW] Island (1)
4 [R] Tropical Island
4 [ZEN] Misty Rainforest
1 [ZEN] Forest (4)
1 [WWK] Bojuka Bog
1 [RLM] Glacial Chasm
// Creatures
4 [M12] Primeval Titan
1 [ROE] Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 [ROE] Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
// Spells
4 [UL] Crop Rotation
4 [5E] Brainstorm
3 [ZEN] Expedition Map
4 [GP] Repeal
4 [CHK] Sensei's Divining Top
3 [US] Show and Tell
3 [M10] Pithing Needle
2 [AQ] Candelabra of Tawnos
2 [OD] Moment's Peace
// Sideboard
SB: 3 [THS] Swan Song
SB: 4 [MBS] Phyrexian Revoker
SB: 2 [SH] Ensnaring Bridge
SB: 3 [ZEN] Mindbreak Trap
SB: 2 [NPH] Karn Liberated
SB: 1 [MMA] Krosan Grip
I scrap my love for red for the consistency of more basics, needles, and the regularity to run moment's peace main. All these decisions were huge for my day's success. I additionally threw in Ensnaring Bridge in the sideboard. This was ultimately immensely important for many victories, but the imfamiliarity with the card led to my mis-siding that ultimately led to my 3rd place placing over 1st that would have been avoided had I parsed out the card's interactions and synergies via extensive testing iterations. My report, I can use runons if I want!
To the meat!
Round 1.
Table 194.
Opponent: Mike Giaimo.
Deck: Nic Fit
Immediate Reaction: Overwhelming Relief
Game 1: He goes Turn 1 Veteran Explorer - go, and I breath a sigh of satisfaction. Apparently I am only playing 9 rounds today while everyone else is playing 10. I cast a turn 4 Primeval titan into turn 4 Kozilek and he scoops.
Game 2: He attempts an aggro plan with Veteran explorers and Sakura-tribe elder accompanied with cabal therapies that strip my hand away. Thankfully the deck loves me and I draw into Cloudposts and Kozilek which make the match never go to 3 games.
2-0-0
Round 2.
Table 48
Opponent: Justin Miller
Deck: Bug Delver
Immediate Reaction: Missing you Punishing Fire
Game 1: He beats me down with Delverx1, then joined by Delverx2, happily forcing and hymning my hand to ribbons. I make land drops and crop in resp to a wasteland, ultimately getting emrakul on the penultimate turn. He scoops with 8 permanents and me at 3 life when I cast Emrakul while he is at 17. I was probably fine, as a glimmerpost or Karakas was gg in 2 turns that would include a Kozilek, but still I was thankful of the scoop.
Game 2: This was far less close than game 1. Miller mulligans and then presented no delver pressure but rather attempted to control me via discard and liliana. I hide things with top, repeal Liliana several times, land an Ensnaring bridge that is awkward for him, and then go Titan bonanza and he sees the writing on the wall and scoops.
4-0-0
Round 3
Table 28
Opponent: Mike Tyree
Deck: Bug Delver
Immediate Reaction: Sample size 1 Overconfidence of Ensnaring Bridgevs BUG.
Game 1: I've seen Mike around the PA/NY tourny scene. He's a nice guy who often totes junk/rock type decks so I assume he's on Bug Delver. Not disappointed! He leads with Turn 1 Deathrite Shaman that I turn 1 Pithing Needle and he deflates, which is saying something since Mike is a muscular guy. He plays turn 2 double DRS for a count of 3. and the game becomes 1/2 elf aggro as he kept on that as mana and accelerant. I get down to 12 before I stabilize with Emrakul.
Game 2: He counters x2 SDT, which is both intelligent and rude! This shreds his hand, but thankfully I rip into Candelabra + Primeval Titan on turn 4 while Liliana of the Veil is Pithing Needle'd and that is the game.
6-0-0
Round 4
Table 7
Opponent: Chris Cogliati
Deck: U/W Painter
Immediate Reaction: Thank the Cthulhu overlords that I am running 3 basics.
Game 1: He aggro's me with an Imperial Recruiter and then a Painter, which means on turn 5 at 16 life I win with Emrakul.
Game 2: He has turn 1 Blood Moon and I have turn 1 Island-> Top. I show & Tell Titan and he prepares the great Jaya murder trains. This however is ended with my 7 1-mana-producing lands Karn Liberated, which scoops up Jaya and all important permanents thereafter. Despite the Karn doing all the lifting and beating him, he is overjoyed because apparently Karn is his favorite card ever and is exuberant to see it being played.
8-0-0
Round 5
Table 2
Opponent: Elliott Dicker
Deck: Sneaky Show
Immediate Reaction: Happy to not be on Punishing Fire.
Delayed Reaction: Punch all the babies for opponents who can't read boardstates.
Game 1: He gives me all the time in the universe to find Pithing Needles, which my deck is scoffing at. He Jaces into Jace into Jace. I find no needles and he Sneak-Emrakul's me.
Game 2: Is a 40 minute slog fest of him having blood moon and me having Ensnaring Bridge while countering all his removal. I know I can win in time, he thinks he can draw out the game so doesn't scoop when his one removal spell is countered. I win the game in time after attacking with Primeval Titan after Emrakul'ing from 15 mountains, then Kozilek'ing off of 10 mountains, to have 6 cards in hand under bridge, then repealing blood moon after a through the breech-blocker Griselbrand, to Karakas it. Yeah. It was one of those games.
We draw the round. bleah.
8-1-1
Round 6
Table 7
Opponent: Bob Huang
Deck: Miracles
Immediate Reaction: Poor Bob
Feature Match not on video
I test with Bob Huang regularly on Magic Workstation, so he knows what I'm on, I know he plays Bug Delver and Miracles.
Game 1: He plays untelling mana early, with an island, top, volc. I don't want a repeat of the last round, and have a top of my own, so I pithing needle name Sneak Attack. Turns out he's rope-a-doping me, and is on Miracles. He gets me to 13 with Clique beats before the game ends not in his favor via Emrakul.
Game 2: He gets some savage Clique beats in while countering what he can. I stabilize with glimmerpost bonanza into shown-titan though, and the match ends.
10-1-1
Round 7
Table 4
Opponent: Thomas Evaristo
Deck: URW Delver
Immediate Reaction: Just 2 more wins! Who do I have to smash now?!
Game 1: He flips a Delver off a daze, showing me some URW colors and I know why he is devastated, my best matchup of delver colors. I take 7 dmg but gain 23 off of a generously Shown-Primeval Titan. He scoops when I'm at 31.
Game 2: He goes massive aggro plan. Delver 1 turn 1 auto flips and Delver 2 turn 2 auto flips, then SFM joins the fray of x2 wastelands for overkill with me having no crops/needles/show & Tells.
Game 3: Repeat of game 1. He Force of Will's a SDT that would've surely sped the game up for me. I go to 30 life off of Primeval Titan that is Shown in, and he scoops.
12-2-1
Round 8
Table 2
Opponent: Matt Szabo
Deck: URW Delver
Immediate Reaction: More URW Delver to devour. DELICIOUS
Feature Match on Video --> Coverage Here
Game 1: He SFM's for Sword of Fire and Ice, which I mock openly behind my veil of cards. He then plants a True-Name nemesis and next turn equip's Sword of Feast and Famine, whollaps me, then casts Jace. Ok. Less mocking now. Thankfully Glimmerposts are delightful via Shown-Titans, and I gain 18 life via loci and swords to plowshares. He took 15 dmg in the air and attempted a return-swing with true-name equipped with Sofi, Soff, but more glimmerposts made 19 life too large a mountain to surpass.
Game 2: I go down to a delightful 1 life under a Glacial Chasm with Pithing needle on wasteland, and cannot find an out so we go to
Game 3: I never go under 16 life and Titan starts aggro'ing him thanks to a turn 3 Show & tell. He sadly concedes to 6/6 aggro without a stp.
14-3-1
Round 9
Table 1
Opponent: Zachary Sigman
Deck: R/W painter/Helm bonanza
Immediate Reaction: Hurray for no Punishing Fire and needles galore!
Game 1: I have a turn 3 Emrakul thanks to Crops and Candelabras. Thanks deck! he mulligan'd into Leyline of Sanctity and then kept on land-top, and missed a land drop. Not much in regards of permission.
Game 2: I have x2 Pithing Needle, Top, x2 Phyrexian Revoker versus his Blood Moon, Helm, Rest In Peacex2, Grindstone as a board. My aggression was halted by a Simian Spirit Guide blocker. When I pull the 3rd Revoker to commence beats he Shattering Pulse's with buyback a revoker. I call a judge to confirm that when countered upon resolution a spell with buyback goes to the grave, and then repeal my own revoker into an effective win. Repeal ultimately bounces the Blood Moon for a faster victory, but the ultimatum was there with the Shattering Pulse, that could have enabled a helm murdering.
16-3-1 Top 8 Unlocked!
Top 8
Table: Jace
Opponent: Eli Kassis
Immediate Reaction: Eli is a tight player, but piloting a wasteland-less deck that I defeat the same way as elves, with moment's peace and Glacial Chasm. I am enthused about the matchup.
Video Coverage Here!
I will post the coverage soon, that does a better job of portraying the two games, but the matches were interactive, but not even. I often or always had crop rotation up for Glacial Chasm, or a moment's peace.
Top 4
Table: Jace
Opponent: James Rynkiewicz
Immediate Reaction: Shardless can get lucky and I'm uncertain how good Bridge is against them. This is shown in my mis-siding game two and three that would have won me the match. Good games though. Linking the exact coverage.
http://www.starcitygames.com/events/...ewicz_vs_.html
Video Here!
The Top 4 ended up splitting for 1200$ apiece, so I was content. A Trophy would've been nice, but not splitting would've been far worse. Had a great time and walked away with a bundle of dollars! Good day!
Last edited by Rock Lee; 05-28-2014 at 01:22 PM.
why u decided to play the ub instead of rug? appart form "1" more basic and pithing?
How was the krosan grip?
How was karn? I know from the game u won. But appart of that?
@Rock Lee
Would you mind terrible going over a little bit of your sideboard/game plan for some matchups? Obviously, you can answer some, none, all, or all the questions in the universe. I'm specifically interested in your list that you piloted in the tournament as its very similar to mine. We have about 5 cards different in the main (basic for cavern, extra expidition map, etc) and my sideboard is more or less the same.
Specifically Jund(or other heavy discard), Delver (you mentioned UWR being a better matchup compared to other delver variants), and what to do with Karn.
Jund/Discard: (Maybe Shardless would by what I mean by discard)
I have 0 clue how to deal with liliana. Pithing needle early on helps but I have no idea what to do besides hope I combo off or get early show/tell. Also, I'm interested in the sideboard plan for this.
Delver: How do you play this matchup? I know that its a bit complicated as being on the play/draw could make a big difference, but do you in general play around daze/spell pierce or soft permission or just jam away? I generally just jam away if I don't currently have a survival plan in hand. Otherwise, if I can stop wasteland early, I go for the glacial chasm and try to stabilize. Also, how much do you play around wasteland? Hope they don't have it and fetch trop or always fetch basic?
Karn: I want to play this guy, had him main, then side, then took him out as I have 0 clue what to do with him. I never bring him in since I don't know if I can survive to 7 mana or would rather Prime Time. Now, obviously if I want prime time, I probably want that extra threat to draw into, but I just can't figure out any arguments for him over reactive spells.
Thanks from a newer (very new compared to you) 12 post player.
Outside of needle, Moment's Peace is a great discard, use eldrazi's to neuter goyf sizes, repeal on lilly is good, and Ensnaring bridge in vs Lilly.
Totally depends on their build.Delver: How do you play this matchup? I know that its a bit complicated as being on the play/draw could make a big difference, but do you in general play around daze/spell pierce or soft permission or just jam away? I generally just jam away if I don't currently have a survival plan in hand. Otherwise, if I can stop wasteland early, I go for the glacial chasm and try to stabilize. Also, how much do you play around wasteland? Hope they don't have it and fetch trop or always fetch basic?
Karn: I want to play this guy, had him main, then side, then took him out as I have 0 clue what to do with him. I never bring him in since I don't know if I can survive to 7 mana or would rather Prime Time. Now, obviously if I want prime time, I probably want that extra threat to draw into, but I just can't figure out any arguments for him over reactive spells.
Vs RUG you snapkeep on 7 lands, only care about producing mana, and the rest will sort itself out if you're playing your shuffles at high efficiency. Don't walk into stifle.
Vs BUG you keep on consistency, and filter. Never assume you're going 3 turns unmolested. Bridge & karn are clutch.
Vs URW you can cast Show & Tell easily and just win, just like vs RuG, so plan for this. Repeal on Germ tokens, Chasm is often a hard lock vs them because no deathrite.
Vs Pyromancer/Edric/brew/4cc you play similarly to rug. Don't walk into stifle, repeal for value and you wind up on top. Your major plan is to Show & Tell /w titan, get it countered, then cast the titan next turn.[/QUOTE]
Stabler mana allowed me to maindeck moment's peace.
Grip was ok. I used it on a Chalice @ 1, a Blood Moon, and my own Ensnaring Bridge. But it wasn't necessary. I did bring it in often though, so likely just didn't see it. I dislike heavy Grip because it is oft terrible in multiples.
Karn was amazing, and I should have sided it in more. Just because I put it back several times with brainstorm didn't mean it was bad. It has a time and gamestate is all.
First of all: congrats to the king! ;-)
I watched most of the coverage (I'm from Europe, that's why work on monday morning was horrible.....!) and really enjoyed J.R. piloting the UG build again. Tried the fire build last week, but it felt like "great fun, less consistency".
@Rock Lee : The current list looks really solid and balanced to me, concerning the main deck. Bridge SB seems to be a great idea, karn as well. But no need for force of will at all? Never missed it?
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