Enigma
11-15-2009, 08:06 PM
Hello guys!
Just went back from a great week-end at Vestal! We were 6 from Montreal that finally had the possibility to come. TES, DDFT, Tempo Faeries, Survival Elves and me playing the Supreme blue japanese's list with a couple of changes both MD and sideboard to fight the mirror match. Here's a report of my 6-1-1 + Top8 result.
List (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=401190&postcount=362)
We were 170 players getting there for 8 rounds + Top8.
1st Round:
Against Zac Tartle playing T.E.S.
1st Game I win die roll: I open 5 Lands + Firespout and CB. Ouch, not really good but I decide to keep as I have a feeling he might be playing some sort of combo deck and CB just could do it on the play. Land go. He goes for land duress, taking my CB. I draw something irrelevant and go. He ponder, go. I draw CB and play it. He land go, I draw into another CB and play it because I kept my fetches so it might go there. He continues to land as I don't have any pressure and drawing badly. He ends up by resolving a Ad nauseam when I had 3 on top without BS nor Top, Daze, Force... and tendrils for exactly the good amount of damage.
2nd game I side in 2x REB, 2x BEB for -2x Elspeth, -2x Swords: I have CB again in my opening + Snare and shits. I hit CB on turn 2 and he pyro it on his turn, which resolves. Next turn I play top, go. He duress me seeing shit and go off with LED LED IT. I fetch and find Snare ftw.
3rd game: I have the crazy hand of CB, Top, Force, Blue card, RWM, Land, Land. I assemble the shit and land RWM that makes my life total goes to 35.
1-0 (2-1)
2nd Round:
Against Evan playing UG Merfolk
1st game he has a game loss for a card missing in his deck and we goes for 2nd game.
2nd game: He goes 1st turn vial, 3rd turn Goyf, 4th Lord, 5th Goyf, 6th Goyf and I lost horribly.
3rd game: He mulligans to 4 into no lander and I had a good hand with firespout, RWM, Pyro, Top... I play RWM before he gets his first land and he scoops. I feel soo bad for him as I really feel that I doesn't deserve this win at all... well luck is looking good for me today.
2-0 (4-2)
3rd Round:
Against Drew playing Eva Green. He lands his deck face up when seating and I see swamp and wasteland, so I figure he's playing some sort of Suicide.
1st game I win the die roll and keep a land with Misty, Tundra, Swords, Swords, Top, Firespout, Trygon. I go for Misty into forest to avoid possible waste and land top, go. Swamp, Thoughtseize removing Trygon. Mmh, weird choice so I guess he doesn't have any pressure and not a lot of land so he's taking my only threat. I top into Land, Goyf, daze and land goyf on turn 3 while he's stuck on 2 land. I daze his sinkhole, swords both of his threat while goyf is beating and it goes there.
2nd game I don't side anything. I assemble CB while I put Goyf last turn on top with BS to hit his two drop (Hymn) and then land top, win.
3-0 (6-2)
4th Round:
Against Alix Hatfield playing zoo
1st game he wins the die roll. He has a slow hand. He lands Grim and Qasali and I force Thoctar and Firespout his board. I eventually land Elspeth and win from there.
2nd game I side in 2 Hydro, 2 Ajani, 1 Grip (for Choke) for -2 Elspeth, -3 Daze. I open a triple CB hand with RWM but he manages to goes around CB and destroying them while I'm kinda slowing the game with double RWM. He eventually has the edge when he Witness back his Pridemage to kill my last CB just after he gone for double Summoner's trap. I don't find Firespout in time and lose when we had 6 minutes remaining.
3rd game: I'm trying to control the game with Ajani and it's pretty funny has he told me after first game that it would be better than Eslpeth against him... ahahah. Anyway his goyf is big and it puts pressure but Ajani is that good that he can't take my life lower than 10.
3-0-1 (7-3)
5th Round:
Against Louis playing Pro BANT
1st game he wins the die roll. I have a really controlling hand and he's just able to put pressure with his Dryad arbor. He eventually drops a Rafiq and looks really confidant about his win at that time even against my lonely goyf. He doesn't look that much sure when I Firespout away his board, land CB top and force his next Natural Order.
2nd game I side in more 4cc spells and pyroblast (pretty sure he wasnt playing CB) and cut RWM. He goes 3rd turn Progenitus when I didn't have FOW.
3rd game. I take control and beats him early. He goes for NO on turn 5 I think and I FOW it. He forces back, I look at top 3, bad. I fetch, look at top 3... into pyroblast, nice! Continue to beat face and 2 turns later he finds another creature + NO...
Wow i hate this card.
3-1-1 (8-5)
6th Round:
Against Dan playing Aggro Bant
1st game I win the die roll. He beats my face a lot with RWM and eventually goyf. I'm down to 6 and he's at 30 and his board is: Hierarch, RWM, Goyf, CB TOP. Mine is: RWM, Goyf and Top. He fetches and I stp his goyf in response. He puts top on top but stp in response, killing his goyf and sending his top back to its library. At my turn I land Elspeth, put a token, go. He's drawing shit I think and I block with the tokens. I eventually goes for Elspeth's ultimate when I have 9 counters. At some time he stp my goyf but I have 2 indestructibles tokens for block and a flying Rhino that makes this: My life total curve: 19-18-15-10-6-5-4-8-7-13-19-22-28-27-33-39 and his: 30-29-23-17-11..., scoop. Wow, how can 1 card change the game that much?!
2nd game he mulligans. He takes me to 12 and I eventually establish control with CB top and creatures FTW.
4-1-1 (10-5)
7th Round:
Against Seb (team mate) playing the Tempo faerie list that played Spirit of the wretch for a month or so. Not really good facing each other as we cutting one from top8.
1st game he wins the die roll. We get a Deckcheck. We receive back our deck, shuffle and he opens no lander until mulliganing to 4. I win this one quite easily with CB and goyfs.
2nd game. LONGEST GAME I EVER MADE and probably the weirdest too. I know a couple of guys were watching this, it was so damn funny. We go back and forth on sweeper. Him: Perish my threats, EE and Counter my CB, Terminate my threats. Me: Grip his Bitter, Swords his Tombstalkers, Firespout his faeries. Blasting his spells. I finally sticks a Trygon when all his removal spells are already in the graveyard (ya really, 8 of them). Unfortunatly, he's still at 18 and I only have 8 cards left in my library. I deck myself when he's at 2............
3rd game. 3rd turn it goes to time (deck check + longest game ever) and he concedes to me. Thanks to him, I will give him Misty rainforest + Bayou for his friendly move.
5-1-1 (12-6)
8th Round:
Against Matt playing the same Tempo Faeries deck
1st game he wins the die roll. He mull to 6 and goes for the mana denial plan when I kept the wisely hand of: Land, Land, Land, Land, Land, Top, Stp. Yeah right, by chance I had test the MU before and knew lands were good against him. I eventually land tarmo, RWM and Elspeth FTW when he passed all his ressources on mana denial and counters on my Tops.
2nd game I side in 2 REB, 3 Grip for -2 Elspeth, -3 Daze. He mulligans again and never have the control of the game because of CB and early goyf going on. At some time I fetch and Blind flip to counter his Stp, finding a Stp myself ftw against his lonely creature. Wow.
6-1-1 (14-6)
I'm 6th before top8 and face Matt, playing Aggo BANT.
1st game I win the die roll. I counter his CB, put mine after I brainstormed away a 3cc for his eventual Clique/Predator. He lands Jitte at his turn and I must say ok... and then He confidently plays Clique but the audience scream at loud when I show him the RWM I was hiding for him. He slowly starts to lose from there as I counter 4 spells in 2 turns with a lonely but well calculated CB. I eventually land goyf and start beating.
2nd game I enter 4cc spell, Pyro and Grip for -4x RWM, -3x Daze. I have top early again but here comes my error: I really think he's playing Natural Order and I keep playing around it (sweeping his board with FS without any real pressure just to keep him of from creatures, Keeping my FOW for eventual NO...) but he just goes for the aggro route and it works for him.
3rd game. My CB never stick and my STP's are hiding. I slow the game down like 10 turns or more with back to back Ajani and still doesn't find a single spot removal for his fucking 7/8 goyf and him has infinite swords for mine.
That is how I end my day of 11 hours of magic and I'm pretty happy with the result.
Props:
+ for the greaaat tournament Eli's preparing for us.
+ Meeting the guy from the source, all of them being really kind with me except Ben Lukas when I ask him if he's J.V. (always mess up those 2 guys).
+ Seb, letting 1 of us top8
+ Murray and Seb for driving
+ David Gearhart, Zac and Adam for being nice guys!
+ Mox pearl for 6th place, that is fucking alright.
+ The tweaked CB List!
+ My-stupid-luck.
+ The Source, for being the best thing that never happened to a magic format.
Slops:
- Having to eat shits all day long at the bad restaurant there. (still better than nothing though, so I can't complain)
- Drawing poorly on top8 when I played extremely well on the first game.
- CB/Top isn't dead yet! It is so boring to play after 8 rounds of magic, but still doing crazy things.
- Meeting a team mate on round 7.
- Me, not able to do short reports
- My english and my "PUNDER-NOT-UNDERSTANDABLE-ACCENT-FOR-GUYS-LIKE-CHRIS CAPPOLA" I think there is been like 5 people telling me this story on the all day. hahaha!
Thanks again for the tournament, it was greaaat!
P-M
Just went back from a great week-end at Vestal! We were 6 from Montreal that finally had the possibility to come. TES, DDFT, Tempo Faeries, Survival Elves and me playing the Supreme blue japanese's list with a couple of changes both MD and sideboard to fight the mirror match. Here's a report of my 6-1-1 + Top8 result.
List (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=401190&postcount=362)
We were 170 players getting there for 8 rounds + Top8.
1st Round:
Against Zac Tartle playing T.E.S.
1st Game I win die roll: I open 5 Lands + Firespout and CB. Ouch, not really good but I decide to keep as I have a feeling he might be playing some sort of combo deck and CB just could do it on the play. Land go. He goes for land duress, taking my CB. I draw something irrelevant and go. He ponder, go. I draw CB and play it. He land go, I draw into another CB and play it because I kept my fetches so it might go there. He continues to land as I don't have any pressure and drawing badly. He ends up by resolving a Ad nauseam when I had 3 on top without BS nor Top, Daze, Force... and tendrils for exactly the good amount of damage.
2nd game I side in 2x REB, 2x BEB for -2x Elspeth, -2x Swords: I have CB again in my opening + Snare and shits. I hit CB on turn 2 and he pyro it on his turn, which resolves. Next turn I play top, go. He duress me seeing shit and go off with LED LED IT. I fetch and find Snare ftw.
3rd game: I have the crazy hand of CB, Top, Force, Blue card, RWM, Land, Land. I assemble the shit and land RWM that makes my life total goes to 35.
1-0 (2-1)
2nd Round:
Against Evan playing UG Merfolk
1st game he has a game loss for a card missing in his deck and we goes for 2nd game.
2nd game: He goes 1st turn vial, 3rd turn Goyf, 4th Lord, 5th Goyf, 6th Goyf and I lost horribly.
3rd game: He mulligans to 4 into no lander and I had a good hand with firespout, RWM, Pyro, Top... I play RWM before he gets his first land and he scoops. I feel soo bad for him as I really feel that I doesn't deserve this win at all... well luck is looking good for me today.
2-0 (4-2)
3rd Round:
Against Drew playing Eva Green. He lands his deck face up when seating and I see swamp and wasteland, so I figure he's playing some sort of Suicide.
1st game I win the die roll and keep a land with Misty, Tundra, Swords, Swords, Top, Firespout, Trygon. I go for Misty into forest to avoid possible waste and land top, go. Swamp, Thoughtseize removing Trygon. Mmh, weird choice so I guess he doesn't have any pressure and not a lot of land so he's taking my only threat. I top into Land, Goyf, daze and land goyf on turn 3 while he's stuck on 2 land. I daze his sinkhole, swords both of his threat while goyf is beating and it goes there.
2nd game I don't side anything. I assemble CB while I put Goyf last turn on top with BS to hit his two drop (Hymn) and then land top, win.
3-0 (6-2)
4th Round:
Against Alix Hatfield playing zoo
1st game he wins the die roll. He has a slow hand. He lands Grim and Qasali and I force Thoctar and Firespout his board. I eventually land Elspeth and win from there.
2nd game I side in 2 Hydro, 2 Ajani, 1 Grip (for Choke) for -2 Elspeth, -3 Daze. I open a triple CB hand with RWM but he manages to goes around CB and destroying them while I'm kinda slowing the game with double RWM. He eventually has the edge when he Witness back his Pridemage to kill my last CB just after he gone for double Summoner's trap. I don't find Firespout in time and lose when we had 6 minutes remaining.
3rd game: I'm trying to control the game with Ajani and it's pretty funny has he told me after first game that it would be better than Eslpeth against him... ahahah. Anyway his goyf is big and it puts pressure but Ajani is that good that he can't take my life lower than 10.
3-0-1 (7-3)
5th Round:
Against Louis playing Pro BANT
1st game he wins the die roll. I have a really controlling hand and he's just able to put pressure with his Dryad arbor. He eventually drops a Rafiq and looks really confidant about his win at that time even against my lonely goyf. He doesn't look that much sure when I Firespout away his board, land CB top and force his next Natural Order.
2nd game I side in more 4cc spells and pyroblast (pretty sure he wasnt playing CB) and cut RWM. He goes 3rd turn Progenitus when I didn't have FOW.
3rd game. I take control and beats him early. He goes for NO on turn 5 I think and I FOW it. He forces back, I look at top 3, bad. I fetch, look at top 3... into pyroblast, nice! Continue to beat face and 2 turns later he finds another creature + NO...
Wow i hate this card.
3-1-1 (8-5)
6th Round:
Against Dan playing Aggro Bant
1st game I win the die roll. He beats my face a lot with RWM and eventually goyf. I'm down to 6 and he's at 30 and his board is: Hierarch, RWM, Goyf, CB TOP. Mine is: RWM, Goyf and Top. He fetches and I stp his goyf in response. He puts top on top but stp in response, killing his goyf and sending his top back to its library. At my turn I land Elspeth, put a token, go. He's drawing shit I think and I block with the tokens. I eventually goes for Elspeth's ultimate when I have 9 counters. At some time he stp my goyf but I have 2 indestructibles tokens for block and a flying Rhino that makes this: My life total curve: 19-18-15-10-6-5-4-8-7-13-19-22-28-27-33-39 and his: 30-29-23-17-11..., scoop. Wow, how can 1 card change the game that much?!
2nd game he mulligans. He takes me to 12 and I eventually establish control with CB top and creatures FTW.
4-1-1 (10-5)
7th Round:
Against Seb (team mate) playing the Tempo faerie list that played Spirit of the wretch for a month or so. Not really good facing each other as we cutting one from top8.
1st game he wins the die roll. We get a Deckcheck. We receive back our deck, shuffle and he opens no lander until mulliganing to 4. I win this one quite easily with CB and goyfs.
2nd game. LONGEST GAME I EVER MADE and probably the weirdest too. I know a couple of guys were watching this, it was so damn funny. We go back and forth on sweeper. Him: Perish my threats, EE and Counter my CB, Terminate my threats. Me: Grip his Bitter, Swords his Tombstalkers, Firespout his faeries. Blasting his spells. I finally sticks a Trygon when all his removal spells are already in the graveyard (ya really, 8 of them). Unfortunatly, he's still at 18 and I only have 8 cards left in my library. I deck myself when he's at 2............
3rd game. 3rd turn it goes to time (deck check + longest game ever) and he concedes to me. Thanks to him, I will give him Misty rainforest + Bayou for his friendly move.
5-1-1 (12-6)
8th Round:
Against Matt playing the same Tempo Faeries deck
1st game he wins the die roll. He mull to 6 and goes for the mana denial plan when I kept the wisely hand of: Land, Land, Land, Land, Land, Top, Stp. Yeah right, by chance I had test the MU before and knew lands were good against him. I eventually land tarmo, RWM and Elspeth FTW when he passed all his ressources on mana denial and counters on my Tops.
2nd game I side in 2 REB, 3 Grip for -2 Elspeth, -3 Daze. He mulligans again and never have the control of the game because of CB and early goyf going on. At some time I fetch and Blind flip to counter his Stp, finding a Stp myself ftw against his lonely creature. Wow.
6-1-1 (14-6)
I'm 6th before top8 and face Matt, playing Aggo BANT.
1st game I win the die roll. I counter his CB, put mine after I brainstormed away a 3cc for his eventual Clique/Predator. He lands Jitte at his turn and I must say ok... and then He confidently plays Clique but the audience scream at loud when I show him the RWM I was hiding for him. He slowly starts to lose from there as I counter 4 spells in 2 turns with a lonely but well calculated CB. I eventually land goyf and start beating.
2nd game I enter 4cc spell, Pyro and Grip for -4x RWM, -3x Daze. I have top early again but here comes my error: I really think he's playing Natural Order and I keep playing around it (sweeping his board with FS without any real pressure just to keep him of from creatures, Keeping my FOW for eventual NO...) but he just goes for the aggro route and it works for him.
3rd game. My CB never stick and my STP's are hiding. I slow the game down like 10 turns or more with back to back Ajani and still doesn't find a single spot removal for his fucking 7/8 goyf and him has infinite swords for mine.
That is how I end my day of 11 hours of magic and I'm pretty happy with the result.
Props:
+ for the greaaat tournament Eli's preparing for us.
+ Meeting the guy from the source, all of them being really kind with me except Ben Lukas when I ask him if he's J.V. (always mess up those 2 guys).
+ Seb, letting 1 of us top8
+ Murray and Seb for driving
+ David Gearhart, Zac and Adam for being nice guys!
+ Mox pearl for 6th place, that is fucking alright.
+ The tweaked CB List!
+ My-stupid-luck.
+ The Source, for being the best thing that never happened to a magic format.
Slops:
- Having to eat shits all day long at the bad restaurant there. (still better than nothing though, so I can't complain)
- Drawing poorly on top8 when I played extremely well on the first game.
- CB/Top isn't dead yet! It is so boring to play after 8 rounds of magic, but still doing crazy things.
- Meeting a team mate on round 7.
- Me, not able to do short reports
- My english and my "PUNDER-NOT-UNDERSTANDABLE-ACCENT-FOR-GUYS-LIKE-CHRIS CAPPOLA" I think there is been like 5 people telling me this story on the all day. hahaha!
Thanks again for the tournament, it was greaaat!
P-M