That kid you all hate
09-28-2008, 04:51 PM
My deck;
2 Delta
2 strand
2 foothills
3 trop
3 volcanic
2 sea
1 Island
1 Forest
4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 nimble mongoose
4 lightning bolt
3 spell snare
4 tarmogoyf
4 bob
4 Fire//ice
4 magus of the moon
1 trygon
4 daze
4 FoW
Sideboard
4 thoughtseize
3 threads
1 trygon
3 grip
4 leyline
I decided to call the deck Reefer Madness because I thought that I had to have been high when I built it and decided to play it, because it looked like a pile.
My match by match report
Round 1 against Joe-Playing a rock type deck
Game 1 he just does nothing. My life went 19-18-20-19. He swords'd a bob and played a spectral lynx. He had 2 nantuko monasteries, but he never was able to use them. as soon as he tapped his black sources, I fire'd it, and he never got another dude on the board thanks to my dazes, and a mongoose and a tarmogoyf beat his face in.
Sideboard-
-1 trygon, -3 spell snare, +4 leyline. I was worried about the monasteries going crazy and owning me.
Game 2 he plays a turn 3 spectral lynx that I daze, which delays my magus plan by a turn, but allows me to swing in with a mongoose. On turn 4, he plays another lynx, with a heath left open. I drop magus, while holding another daze against his board of all non-basics, and he responds by fetching a savannah(!) and floating W. He allows magus to resolve, and attempts a swords that I daze. This shuts him out of the game, as he cannot play any spells. Now, I saw a basic plains game one, so why he fetched a savannah instead of the plains is beyond me. Had he fetched a plains, he would've had a chance to rip a swords to remove magus, or a lynx to block, so I was confused by his play.
All through the round, I was literally shaking because I thought "Oh crap, I just through 25$ in the trash and there won't be any shards sealed". I had no faith in my deck throughout the whole event, because a number of wins were due to my opponents misplaying, and getting bad draws.
Round 2 against Chris-Playing a U/R control deck, that I don't believe ran landstill.
Game 1 he casts some draw spells, and plays factories, but I keep him on the defensive with a goyf and a mongoose, combined with correctly timed burn on his factories. I put him on landstill, thinking he just hadn't drawn any, but I think he was just playing a control deck.
Sideboard-
-3 spell snare, +3 krosan grip
Game 2 it turns out he's running white and decree. He decrees twice, first for a 4/4, then for 4 1/1s. The 4/4 keeps my mongoose from attacking, and the second decree came in response to my magus. He swords'd a bob and a magus, but I used burn with my dudes to remove his angel and tokens, but he got in once with an angel. After I remove his creatures, we end up in a top deck mode while I slowly eat away with magus. He FoF's twice, but doesn't find a blocker for my magus, and he goes the distance.
Round 3 against Adam-playing affinity
On the draw seeing a turn one artifact land and worker, I thought that I was screwed. I stall him out with burn and dudes, and I swing with a bob and magus. He drops a ravager, and swings me down to 11. A force on his plating, then a fetch on my turn after revealing the fetch to bob leaves me at 9. I do the math, and he has no cards in hand, and only enough to swing for 7. I attack with my 2 2-power creatures, magus and bob, putting him to 1. I think that this was a misplay, as it may have been better to have held back the confidant so that I wouldn't lose to a reveal. I had counterspells, so I wasn't worried about a shrapnel blast or plating. He rips an artifact land, does the math again, and concedes. I look at the top of my deck, and it was a goyf. Had he swung and passed the turn, he would have won the game, but he conceded instead of winning. I win another game thanks to my opponents shutting themselves out.
Sideboard-
-4 bob (losing extra life against affinity isn't worth the cards imo) +3 grip +1 trygon
Game 2 he gets a thopter and a plating. I burn it out with a bolt, and he drops another. I race with a goyf and a goose, and he swings me to ten, then three. I untap, swing him to 3, and ponder, needing to rip a burn spell to either kill him or the thopter. I see no burn and shuffle for about a minute, needing to draw that burn. He shuffles, and I rip...a fire//ice. I slam it at the thopter. He untaps, and scoops.
Round 4 against Matt with painter
Game one he attempts a bob which runs into a spell snare. I swing with dudes, and he lands a painter when he's at 6. I bolt it, swing him to 2, then fire him ftdubs.
Sideboard-
-1 trygon -2 fire//ice -4 bob. Weird stuff to board out, I know, but I felt that I needed the 4 thoughtseize and 3 grips that I board in.
Game 2 I go to 11 from fetches and 3 thoughtseize, spaced out through the game, that kept him from doing anything important. I do my thing, and beat through his goyfs that he presumably boarded in by combining burn with my goyfs. I swing through and stomp down. I made a stupid and horrible misplay, because I thought my mongoose was 3/3, when it wasn't, and I attacked, then bolted his 5/6 goyf thinking I killed it. I didn't.
Interestingly, this guy ended up in 1st place. I was his only loss, and he won the next 2 rounds, going 5-1, thereby beating me and the other 4-0-2s.
I get paired against one of the other 2 4-0s, so we draw.
I got paired down (had a 50% chance) against a 4-1. He worked out that he would top 8 if he drew with me, so I got another draw going 4-0-2. Unfortunately, this guy ended up in 9th place. The top 8 all decided that we didn't want to play, because a split gave everyone 125 in credit, and you need to make it to the finals to get more (albeit 175 credit more). So we all got to go home early.
2 Delta
2 strand
2 foothills
3 trop
3 volcanic
2 sea
1 Island
1 Forest
4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 nimble mongoose
4 lightning bolt
3 spell snare
4 tarmogoyf
4 bob
4 Fire//ice
4 magus of the moon
1 trygon
4 daze
4 FoW
Sideboard
4 thoughtseize
3 threads
1 trygon
3 grip
4 leyline
I decided to call the deck Reefer Madness because I thought that I had to have been high when I built it and decided to play it, because it looked like a pile.
My match by match report
Round 1 against Joe-Playing a rock type deck
Game 1 he just does nothing. My life went 19-18-20-19. He swords'd a bob and played a spectral lynx. He had 2 nantuko monasteries, but he never was able to use them. as soon as he tapped his black sources, I fire'd it, and he never got another dude on the board thanks to my dazes, and a mongoose and a tarmogoyf beat his face in.
Sideboard-
-1 trygon, -3 spell snare, +4 leyline. I was worried about the monasteries going crazy and owning me.
Game 2 he plays a turn 3 spectral lynx that I daze, which delays my magus plan by a turn, but allows me to swing in with a mongoose. On turn 4, he plays another lynx, with a heath left open. I drop magus, while holding another daze against his board of all non-basics, and he responds by fetching a savannah(!) and floating W. He allows magus to resolve, and attempts a swords that I daze. This shuts him out of the game, as he cannot play any spells. Now, I saw a basic plains game one, so why he fetched a savannah instead of the plains is beyond me. Had he fetched a plains, he would've had a chance to rip a swords to remove magus, or a lynx to block, so I was confused by his play.
All through the round, I was literally shaking because I thought "Oh crap, I just through 25$ in the trash and there won't be any shards sealed". I had no faith in my deck throughout the whole event, because a number of wins were due to my opponents misplaying, and getting bad draws.
Round 2 against Chris-Playing a U/R control deck, that I don't believe ran landstill.
Game 1 he casts some draw spells, and plays factories, but I keep him on the defensive with a goyf and a mongoose, combined with correctly timed burn on his factories. I put him on landstill, thinking he just hadn't drawn any, but I think he was just playing a control deck.
Sideboard-
-3 spell snare, +3 krosan grip
Game 2 it turns out he's running white and decree. He decrees twice, first for a 4/4, then for 4 1/1s. The 4/4 keeps my mongoose from attacking, and the second decree came in response to my magus. He swords'd a bob and a magus, but I used burn with my dudes to remove his angel and tokens, but he got in once with an angel. After I remove his creatures, we end up in a top deck mode while I slowly eat away with magus. He FoF's twice, but doesn't find a blocker for my magus, and he goes the distance.
Round 3 against Adam-playing affinity
On the draw seeing a turn one artifact land and worker, I thought that I was screwed. I stall him out with burn and dudes, and I swing with a bob and magus. He drops a ravager, and swings me down to 11. A force on his plating, then a fetch on my turn after revealing the fetch to bob leaves me at 9. I do the math, and he has no cards in hand, and only enough to swing for 7. I attack with my 2 2-power creatures, magus and bob, putting him to 1. I think that this was a misplay, as it may have been better to have held back the confidant so that I wouldn't lose to a reveal. I had counterspells, so I wasn't worried about a shrapnel blast or plating. He rips an artifact land, does the math again, and concedes. I look at the top of my deck, and it was a goyf. Had he swung and passed the turn, he would have won the game, but he conceded instead of winning. I win another game thanks to my opponents shutting themselves out.
Sideboard-
-4 bob (losing extra life against affinity isn't worth the cards imo) +3 grip +1 trygon
Game 2 he gets a thopter and a plating. I burn it out with a bolt, and he drops another. I race with a goyf and a goose, and he swings me to ten, then three. I untap, swing him to 3, and ponder, needing to rip a burn spell to either kill him or the thopter. I see no burn and shuffle for about a minute, needing to draw that burn. He shuffles, and I rip...a fire//ice. I slam it at the thopter. He untaps, and scoops.
Round 4 against Matt with painter
Game one he attempts a bob which runs into a spell snare. I swing with dudes, and he lands a painter when he's at 6. I bolt it, swing him to 2, then fire him ftdubs.
Sideboard-
-1 trygon -2 fire//ice -4 bob. Weird stuff to board out, I know, but I felt that I needed the 4 thoughtseize and 3 grips that I board in.
Game 2 I go to 11 from fetches and 3 thoughtseize, spaced out through the game, that kept him from doing anything important. I do my thing, and beat through his goyfs that he presumably boarded in by combining burn with my goyfs. I swing through and stomp down. I made a stupid and horrible misplay, because I thought my mongoose was 3/3, when it wasn't, and I attacked, then bolted his 5/6 goyf thinking I killed it. I didn't.
Interestingly, this guy ended up in 1st place. I was his only loss, and he won the next 2 rounds, going 5-1, thereby beating me and the other 4-0-2s.
I get paired against one of the other 2 4-0s, so we draw.
I got paired down (had a 50% chance) against a 4-1. He worked out that he would top 8 if he drew with me, so I got another draw going 4-0-2. Unfortunately, this guy ended up in 9th place. The top 8 all decided that we didn't want to play, because a split gave everyone 125 in credit, and you need to make it to the finals to get more (albeit 175 credit more). So we all got to go home early.