MARK YOUR CALENDARS! MEANDECK OPEN, AUG 30th, 2009!

[firstshot]

My list is 74/75 I played at gencon. I played 2 pyroclasm and 1 tormod's crypt

[Jedi Knight]

Nice gaming BEN....Only lost to you all day...TWICE!!!Oh well can't win them all...But mono red GOBO'S...WOW!! BEATDOWN 2-0

[firstshot]

Hard to 16-0 in games.
But g1 in the finals both of our draws in the final seemed meh, but I failed to draw a red spell and eventually he had enough guys to overrun me.
and g2 aether vials+relic and no pyroclasm off of brainstorm/fetch and ponder got me.

r1 Goblins 2-0
r2 Ben Steiner w/o Natural order UGWr(spouts in board) 2-0
g1 fire/ice got a dryad arbor and noble and he died
g2 keep his mana low and my duders get there
r3 Doomsday
g1/2 Vendillion clique takes nothing and my creatures get there. He did cast doomsday once and than he died to a lightning bolt.
r4 Harrison w/ Enchantress
g1 he mulls to 5 he plays sterling grove and an enchantress I counter them both and my goyf/goose get there.
g2 he sprawls I goose I think he plays enchantress. Than I untap upkeep Ice his sprawl he misses his land drop and I untap and grip his sprawl. He proceeds to miss land drops as I counter his enchantments and stifle his draw triggers. Eventually his enchantress has to chump and I get a trygon predator down the turn after moat resolves. Couple of turns later he has an enchantress but I pryoclasm it away and he scoops showing me confinement but no draw abilities.
r5 Dewitt w/ UBG tempo thresh
g1/2 I stifle/waste some lands and my creatures get there. We both assumed the other had tops/balances and had dead grips in our hands at the end of g2.
r6 Bob aka Jediknight w/ BGW discard (this rd and t4 might be confused)
Don't remember much about this round expect one of the games was a blowout and the other was close.

Quarters
Ben Steiner from rd 2.
Double wasteland wins g1 versus the 1 lander brainstorm hand.
g2 a big goose gets there versus a hand of 2 swords.

Semi's versus Bob from rd 6
g1 I get there versus his monoblack hand holding white cards
g2 Theres a point where my goose attacks into his 2 dark confidants, 1 mes fiend and a tapped goyf and I have 6 cards in grave. He takes I submerge his fiend to give me threshold and play the goyf that had been taken. I play it and he reveals perish and fiend to bob puttin him on 4. He perishs the green creatures away attacks me down to 7ish. I untap draw submerge I had seen from a previous brainstorm say go and he flips a 2 and I submerge a bob in response to the 2nd bob trigger he reveals it and dies. He could have fetched going to 1 to try and reveal a land but the odds are against him and my brainstorm next turn would have revealed a burn spell.

Finals versus goblins lost my only 2 games of the tournament :(

[Jedi Knight]

Hard to 18-0 in games.
But g1 in the finals both of our draws in the final seemed meh, but I failed to draw a red spell and eventually he had enough guys to overrun me.
and g2 aether vials+relic and no pyroclasm off of brainstorm/fetch and ponder got me.

r1 Goblins 2-0
r2 Ben Steiner w/o Natural order UGWr(spouts in board) 2-0
g1 fire/ice got a dryad arbor and noble and he died
g2 keep his mana low and my duders get there
r3 Doomsday
g1/2 Vendillion clique takes nothing and my creatures get there. He did cast doomsday once and than he died to a lightning bolt.
r4 Harrison w/ Enchantress
g1 he mulls to 5 he plays sterling grove and an enchantress I counter them both and my goyf/goose get there.
g2 he sprawls I goose I think he plays enchantress. Than I untap upkeep Ice his sprawl he misses his land drop and I untap and grip his sprawl. He proceeds to miss land drops as I counter his enchantments and stifle his draw triggers. Eventually his enchantress has to chump and I get a trygon predator down the turn after moat resolves. Couple of turns later he has an enchantress but I pryoclasm it away and he scoops showing me confinement but no draw abilities.
r5 Dewitt w/ UBG tempo thresh
g1/2 I stifle/waste some lands and my creatures get there. We both assumed the other had tops/balances and had dead grips in our hands at the end of g2.
r6 Bob aka Jediknight w/ BGW discard (this rd and t4 might be confused)
Don't remember much about this round expect one of the games was a blowout and the other was close.

Quarters
Ben Steiner from rd 2.
Double wasteland wins g1 versus the 1 lander brainstorm hand.
g2 a big goose gets there versus a hand of 2 swords.

Semi's versus Bob from rd 6
g1 I get there versus his monoblack hand holding white cards
g2 Theres a point where my goose attacks into his 2 dark confidants, 1 mes fiend and a tapped goyf and I have 6 cards in grave. He takes I submerge his fiend to give me threshold and play the goyf that had been taken. I play it and he reveals perish and fiend to bob puttin him on 4. He perishs the green creatures away attacks me down to 7ish. I untap draw submerge I had seen from a previous brainstorm say go and he flips a 2 and I submerge a bob in response to the 2nd bob trigger he reveals it and dies. He could have fetched going to 1 to try and reveal a land but the odds are against him and my brainstorm next turn would have revealed a burn spell.

Finals versus goblins lost my only 2 games of the tournament :(

Nice report Ben,and congrats on the finish! But, to be fair if I were to fetch in response,I would be at 1 point of life...and only delaying the inevitable...a GOYF/BURN beatdown....assuming I hit a land off BOB.
Also..You top deck like a BENSON!!!!...that's a good thing,and 18-0 in games is quite impressive...

[Mr. Fix it]

I can't believe I beat Faerie Stompy, and then proceeded to lose to Tempo/Canadian Thresh.
Doomsday usually ROLLS non-counterbalance thresh builds :(

i was on a rebound so to speak but the game i needed ended with a loss to some coatl grow. i don't know the proper name for coatl grow but you would think it easily locked down by F. stompy.

[Smmenen]

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