TheBirdMan
11-16-2010, 11:50 PM
I can’t think of any cool witty banter to begin this report so I’ll just dive in and talk about my matchups.
Here is the list I ran for reference.
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Natural Order
1 Anger
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Viridian Zealot
1 Progenitus
1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Fauna Shaman
4 Priest of Titania
3 Quirion Ranger
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Imperious Perfect
2 Elvish Champion
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
3 Taiga
9 Forest
Sideboard:
4 Krosan Grip
4 Mindbreak Trap
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Emrukal, Aeons Torn
Also sidenote: I don’t recall what I boarded out as its usually whatever I am feeling at the time so unless it was 1-2 cards Ill just mention what went in.
Round 1: Ryan Mckinney UGW Vengevine
Game1: He leads off with hierarch which tells me vengevine which makes me glad to start out this event on a positive matchup. I drop llanowar and follow it up with archdruid then perfect and ranger. I try to drop Champion for the win and he force of will’s and gets his vengevines online and wonders my face in.
SB: +2 Faerie Macabre, +1 Emrakul, +4 Krosan Grip
Game 2: Similar start to the first game llanowar, a lord or two and then he drops peacekeeper. I’m like welllll shit, great there goes round 1. After the 10 seconds of lets pack it in I decided to play it since you never know what will happen. We get into about 4-6 turns of creature pass etc and I keep talking about how I got price of progress (He’s at 8 or 10) and how I totally got outs. I don’t know if this actually did anything but I sat there with a Macabre I drew and waited for him to try and win with wonder. He got progenitus on board then 2 turns later didn’t pay for peace keeper. I got a pretty big erection from that needless to say. So he goes 4 vines in yard and wonder and tries to go nuts. I macabre wonder and peacekeeper and proceed to try and triple overrun with ezuri and regen to which he swords my ezuri and then I win the following turn so hard. After that game he said he had a second peacekeeper but didn’t have the white mana to cast it due to the swords.
Game3:
He gets stuck on 2 lands and a hierarch and I landed a survival on turn 3 with a turn 2 priest and ranger. He has turn 3 survival. His turn 4 he survivals for hierarch and to my delight passes with no peacekeeper. I untap survival for my second ranger + anger and drop the first angry (:mad:) emrakul of the day on turn 4. Feels good man.
1-0 (2-1)
Round 2: BGW Rock
Game 1: I see basic swamp and worry about combo which he follows up with a bayou and a top. After a few hymn to tourachs I establish a survival and just drop mass dudes.
SB: +4 K Grip +1 Emrakul -4 Natural Order -1 Progenitus. (Note: I felt that with the hand destruction and likely e plague coming I couldn’t get there with order. Emrakul wasn’t a great choice but was better than progenitus since orders were coming out and he can’t be perished if by some miracle I get him out there.
Game 2/3: These games where the same me with 2-3 early dudes e plague then by the time that got k gripped I was only able to drop 1 guy a turn which got swords or vindicated and got beat down by a 8/8 knight of the reliquary and 4/5 goyf.
1-1 (3-3)
Round 3: GW U? Vengevine
Game 1: This was a textbook turn 5 for elves. Turn 1 mana elf, Turn 2 Archdruid, turn 3 Perfect, Turn 4 Archdruid, Mana elf, Turn 5 We have forestwalk.
Standard Vines board (+2 Macabre, +1 Emrakul, + 4 Krosan Grip.
Game 2: I honestly don’t recall I think I k gripped his survival and out aggro’d him.
2-1 (5-3)
Round 4: Survival Elves semi Mirror
My opponent ran the G/W list without natural order and with mirror entity/sylvan messenger.
Game 1: This was a silly match and the mirror for this deck is super fun as you can have 6-7 guys on board and if I establish a priest with or without haste my hand is dropped too its nuts. He goes turn 1 Llanowar elf. I am like…k and go ranger he goes ranger pass. I follow up with priest which he drops 2-3 guys and I cast 2 guys and natural order into ezuri which you can see where this went :tongue:.
Sideboard: -1 Progenitus +1 Emrakul (The reasoning here is you are going to order for ezuri he’s insane and with priest emrakul is a easy to cast flying machine.
Game 2: This starts out similar to game one but he gets the turn 2 priest which is bad so I establish turn 2 survival instead of the archdruid to stop his mana acceleration. I get my turn 3 priest and pass turn 4 as I am just going to activate survival and want to see what he plays. He casts some guys and swings in for 12-13 and I immediately take it going to 7. I show Alex Bertoncini who’s sitting next to me and watching, my hand and he’s like “that’s nuts, does priest tap for every elf in play?” Yup. “That’s insane” So I end step double survival for 2 rangers ask my opponent to cut me to a taiga it will be nuts. He cuts and I draw a wooded foothills! Drop the rangers and cast Angry (:mad:) Emrakul number 2 ftw.
After the game he showed me his tech of Unyaro Bees for peacekeeper which I thought was sweet.
3-1 (7-3)
Round 5: Evan with R/U Grindstone.
Game 1: He hits a pretty nuts draw with a turn 1 grindstone and a turn 2 painter’s servant. He thinks I main board Emrakul and waits to activate till turn 4 for some reason after he turn 3 fow my survival. I see no need to show him my Progenitus and scoop it up.
Sideboard +4 K grip +1 Emrakul
Game 2: he gets the same start, turn 1 Grindstone, turn 2 painters servant. I turn 2 k grip the servant. He drops another turn 3. I Krosan grip during my upkeep to show how cool I was having 2 to start and draw a 3rd Krosan grip for the turn! He played imperial painter and then another k gripped servant which the game went my way after that.
Game 3: My feelings of being a big man were shot as I drew my Emrakul on my second turn. Sad days. I had the mana to cast him on turn 4 or 5 but he pithing needled my 2 rangers which super sucked and then fow’d my survival that was going to get zealot and still cast Emrakul and I got grinded out shortly after.
3-2 (8-5)
Round 6: Parcher with Enchantress:
Game 1: He does his enchantress thing and ends up with sterling grove, solitary confinement and 3 enchantress effects by turn 5. I only have zealot mb so I scoop it up.
Sideboard: -4 Natural Order, -1 Progenitus +4 Krosan Grip +1 Emrakul (Annihilator > Solitary Confinement)
Game 2: I get some fast guys, he gets a semi clunky start off his mull to 6 and I Krosan griped his elephant grass ftw.
Game 3: I established early mana elves he o ringed my turn 2 archdruid and played some enchantments and I resolved survival turn 3. On turn 5 I pass and he casts like 3 enchantments including the angel maker for each enchantment you play, tapping out and passing. I go eot k grip archdruid. Survival for ranger untap return squee cast ranger create exactly 16 mana and survival squee for Angry (:mad:) Emrakul #3.
4-2 (10-6)
Round 7: Mark (Morbid-) with GW Vengevine:
We had talked earlier since he was the teammate of the other survival elf player and we knew what we were playing. Having tested the matchup he knew it wasn’t a favorable one for him. This round was certainly a sigh of relief since I was either going to win and play for duals or lose and hope to probably win more zendikar fetches that I have the play set of.
Game 1: This was a turn 4 kill with a pretty nuts hand. Triple lord with one of them champion and a turn 2 priest
.
Sideboard: +4 Krosan Grip +2 Macabre +1 Emrakul
Game 2: Went just as smoothly as game one I don’t think I even saw a sb card just out aggro’d him again.
5-2 (12-6)(3-0 Against vengevine)
Round 8: Harry (Hungrylikealion): Zoo
This round was sketchy for me as I knew what he was playing and zoo isn’t exactly the easiest matchup for me. Its not awful but not great maybe 60/40 his favor.
Game 1: I resolve the turn 3 on the draw progenitus that gets there while racing goyf and nacatl. He had played a turn 3 sylvan library but when he looked at the top 3 on turn 4 he said what every progenitus player wants to hear..”Fuck!” I don’t know what he saw on top but he said it was close which doesn’t surprise me.
Sideboard: +4 Chalice of the void - 2 or 3 one mana drops and a fauna shaman I think
Game 2: He got the turn one lavamancer which controlled the game and my turn 3 chalice at one didn’t do much but get pridemaged.
Game 3: I got the absolute nut draw ever for this matchup and obviously got there. Turn 1 Fyndhorn, Turn 2 Chalice at One Turn 3: Natural Order. Harry got nacatl then jitte but that only bought him a turn and he showed me his hand of 6, 1cc card namely burn and path to exiles. Absurd.
6-2 (14-7)
I ended up 13th and won a set of bayou. I wasn’t too surprised with how the deck ran since its all I have played the last 2 years and I went 5-2 last event with the same list. I plan to certainly add something to take on peacekeeper as I got lucky but also played to my outs which everyone should do in those situations. I would also like to note that within the last 2 events I have played against vengevine survival 5 times and I am 5-0. :cool:
Props:
Eli for hosting this awesome event
My friend kyle morin for continuously lending me 3 taigas, 4 chalices and 4 traps to play the deck, maybe someday I’ll pick them up.
Emrakul for being super dirty and apparently rather easy to hardcast.
Slops:
People who play peacekeeper
People who play perish/ still run eplague
The Guy who got 12th and picked taigas before me :frown:
Here is the list I ran for reference.
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Natural Order
1 Anger
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Viridian Zealot
1 Progenitus
1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Fauna Shaman
4 Priest of Titania
3 Quirion Ranger
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Imperious Perfect
2 Elvish Champion
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
3 Taiga
9 Forest
Sideboard:
4 Krosan Grip
4 Mindbreak Trap
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Emrukal, Aeons Torn
Also sidenote: I don’t recall what I boarded out as its usually whatever I am feeling at the time so unless it was 1-2 cards Ill just mention what went in.
Round 1: Ryan Mckinney UGW Vengevine
Game1: He leads off with hierarch which tells me vengevine which makes me glad to start out this event on a positive matchup. I drop llanowar and follow it up with archdruid then perfect and ranger. I try to drop Champion for the win and he force of will’s and gets his vengevines online and wonders my face in.
SB: +2 Faerie Macabre, +1 Emrakul, +4 Krosan Grip
Game 2: Similar start to the first game llanowar, a lord or two and then he drops peacekeeper. I’m like welllll shit, great there goes round 1. After the 10 seconds of lets pack it in I decided to play it since you never know what will happen. We get into about 4-6 turns of creature pass etc and I keep talking about how I got price of progress (He’s at 8 or 10) and how I totally got outs. I don’t know if this actually did anything but I sat there with a Macabre I drew and waited for him to try and win with wonder. He got progenitus on board then 2 turns later didn’t pay for peace keeper. I got a pretty big erection from that needless to say. So he goes 4 vines in yard and wonder and tries to go nuts. I macabre wonder and peacekeeper and proceed to try and triple overrun with ezuri and regen to which he swords my ezuri and then I win the following turn so hard. After that game he said he had a second peacekeeper but didn’t have the white mana to cast it due to the swords.
Game3:
He gets stuck on 2 lands and a hierarch and I landed a survival on turn 3 with a turn 2 priest and ranger. He has turn 3 survival. His turn 4 he survivals for hierarch and to my delight passes with no peacekeeper. I untap survival for my second ranger + anger and drop the first angry (:mad:) emrakul of the day on turn 4. Feels good man.
1-0 (2-1)
Round 2: BGW Rock
Game 1: I see basic swamp and worry about combo which he follows up with a bayou and a top. After a few hymn to tourachs I establish a survival and just drop mass dudes.
SB: +4 K Grip +1 Emrakul -4 Natural Order -1 Progenitus. (Note: I felt that with the hand destruction and likely e plague coming I couldn’t get there with order. Emrakul wasn’t a great choice but was better than progenitus since orders were coming out and he can’t be perished if by some miracle I get him out there.
Game 2/3: These games where the same me with 2-3 early dudes e plague then by the time that got k gripped I was only able to drop 1 guy a turn which got swords or vindicated and got beat down by a 8/8 knight of the reliquary and 4/5 goyf.
1-1 (3-3)
Round 3: GW U? Vengevine
Game 1: This was a textbook turn 5 for elves. Turn 1 mana elf, Turn 2 Archdruid, turn 3 Perfect, Turn 4 Archdruid, Mana elf, Turn 5 We have forestwalk.
Standard Vines board (+2 Macabre, +1 Emrakul, + 4 Krosan Grip.
Game 2: I honestly don’t recall I think I k gripped his survival and out aggro’d him.
2-1 (5-3)
Round 4: Survival Elves semi Mirror
My opponent ran the G/W list without natural order and with mirror entity/sylvan messenger.
Game 1: This was a silly match and the mirror for this deck is super fun as you can have 6-7 guys on board and if I establish a priest with or without haste my hand is dropped too its nuts. He goes turn 1 Llanowar elf. I am like…k and go ranger he goes ranger pass. I follow up with priest which he drops 2-3 guys and I cast 2 guys and natural order into ezuri which you can see where this went :tongue:.
Sideboard: -1 Progenitus +1 Emrakul (The reasoning here is you are going to order for ezuri he’s insane and with priest emrakul is a easy to cast flying machine.
Game 2: This starts out similar to game one but he gets the turn 2 priest which is bad so I establish turn 2 survival instead of the archdruid to stop his mana acceleration. I get my turn 3 priest and pass turn 4 as I am just going to activate survival and want to see what he plays. He casts some guys and swings in for 12-13 and I immediately take it going to 7. I show Alex Bertoncini who’s sitting next to me and watching, my hand and he’s like “that’s nuts, does priest tap for every elf in play?” Yup. “That’s insane” So I end step double survival for 2 rangers ask my opponent to cut me to a taiga it will be nuts. He cuts and I draw a wooded foothills! Drop the rangers and cast Angry (:mad:) Emrakul number 2 ftw.
After the game he showed me his tech of Unyaro Bees for peacekeeper which I thought was sweet.
3-1 (7-3)
Round 5: Evan with R/U Grindstone.
Game 1: He hits a pretty nuts draw with a turn 1 grindstone and a turn 2 painter’s servant. He thinks I main board Emrakul and waits to activate till turn 4 for some reason after he turn 3 fow my survival. I see no need to show him my Progenitus and scoop it up.
Sideboard +4 K grip +1 Emrakul
Game 2: he gets the same start, turn 1 Grindstone, turn 2 painters servant. I turn 2 k grip the servant. He drops another turn 3. I Krosan grip during my upkeep to show how cool I was having 2 to start and draw a 3rd Krosan grip for the turn! He played imperial painter and then another k gripped servant which the game went my way after that.
Game 3: My feelings of being a big man were shot as I drew my Emrakul on my second turn. Sad days. I had the mana to cast him on turn 4 or 5 but he pithing needled my 2 rangers which super sucked and then fow’d my survival that was going to get zealot and still cast Emrakul and I got grinded out shortly after.
3-2 (8-5)
Round 6: Parcher with Enchantress:
Game 1: He does his enchantress thing and ends up with sterling grove, solitary confinement and 3 enchantress effects by turn 5. I only have zealot mb so I scoop it up.
Sideboard: -4 Natural Order, -1 Progenitus +4 Krosan Grip +1 Emrakul (Annihilator > Solitary Confinement)
Game 2: I get some fast guys, he gets a semi clunky start off his mull to 6 and I Krosan griped his elephant grass ftw.
Game 3: I established early mana elves he o ringed my turn 2 archdruid and played some enchantments and I resolved survival turn 3. On turn 5 I pass and he casts like 3 enchantments including the angel maker for each enchantment you play, tapping out and passing. I go eot k grip archdruid. Survival for ranger untap return squee cast ranger create exactly 16 mana and survival squee for Angry (:mad:) Emrakul #3.
4-2 (10-6)
Round 7: Mark (Morbid-) with GW Vengevine:
We had talked earlier since he was the teammate of the other survival elf player and we knew what we were playing. Having tested the matchup he knew it wasn’t a favorable one for him. This round was certainly a sigh of relief since I was either going to win and play for duals or lose and hope to probably win more zendikar fetches that I have the play set of.
Game 1: This was a turn 4 kill with a pretty nuts hand. Triple lord with one of them champion and a turn 2 priest
.
Sideboard: +4 Krosan Grip +2 Macabre +1 Emrakul
Game 2: Went just as smoothly as game one I don’t think I even saw a sb card just out aggro’d him again.
5-2 (12-6)(3-0 Against vengevine)
Round 8: Harry (Hungrylikealion): Zoo
This round was sketchy for me as I knew what he was playing and zoo isn’t exactly the easiest matchup for me. Its not awful but not great maybe 60/40 his favor.
Game 1: I resolve the turn 3 on the draw progenitus that gets there while racing goyf and nacatl. He had played a turn 3 sylvan library but when he looked at the top 3 on turn 4 he said what every progenitus player wants to hear..”Fuck!” I don’t know what he saw on top but he said it was close which doesn’t surprise me.
Sideboard: +4 Chalice of the void - 2 or 3 one mana drops and a fauna shaman I think
Game 2: He got the turn one lavamancer which controlled the game and my turn 3 chalice at one didn’t do much but get pridemaged.
Game 3: I got the absolute nut draw ever for this matchup and obviously got there. Turn 1 Fyndhorn, Turn 2 Chalice at One Turn 3: Natural Order. Harry got nacatl then jitte but that only bought him a turn and he showed me his hand of 6, 1cc card namely burn and path to exiles. Absurd.
6-2 (14-7)
I ended up 13th and won a set of bayou. I wasn’t too surprised with how the deck ran since its all I have played the last 2 years and I went 5-2 last event with the same list. I plan to certainly add something to take on peacekeeper as I got lucky but also played to my outs which everyone should do in those situations. I would also like to note that within the last 2 events I have played against vengevine survival 5 times and I am 5-0. :cool:
Props:
Eli for hosting this awesome event
My friend kyle morin for continuously lending me 3 taigas, 4 chalices and 4 traps to play the deck, maybe someday I’ll pick them up.
Emrakul for being super dirty and apparently rather easy to hardcast.
Slops:
People who play peacekeeper
People who play perish/ still run eplague
The Guy who got 12th and picked taigas before me :frown: