nedleeds
02-04-2013, 10:48 PM
So I played the Starcity SCG legacy this weekend in Atlanta. I was 50/50 about playing or doing superbowl stuff ... but I figure I'd play something with high risk, high reward and have fun with it. It's not often you get to play $1,200 worth of the same white enchantment.
I start the day off by heading over to diversify my Armageddons with 2 x Ravages of War. SCG has only japanese ones and wants $200 for them. Even though the case says, $150, 180, 200. $200 being a fair price for english ones. So that kind of pisses me off and only makes me want to bath in the misery and tears of my opponents even more.
Now. I don't consider myself to be very practiced at MTG anymore. I played quite a bit when I was younger, but I basically play once maybe twice a week now and don't take the game too seriously anymore. I still like to win though and I prefer to win with something I've made and not what some unbathed douche wrote about on the internet on a card store site to sell more Show and Tells.
Here's what I played:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rM-2MoxcNh8/URBuht6vugI/AAAAAAAAA34/Nl1cYdVPPQc/s800/IMAG0010%2520%25282%2529.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-arLAjBujlfM/URBuj0nTFhI/AAAAAAAAA4M/n_ln5UKN9lc/s800/IMAG0012%2520%25282%2529.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-pK4zrqisj8A/URBujZ18LcI/AAAAAAAAA4E/w6bG_gVVeok/s800/IMAG0011%2520%25282%2529.jpg
Moat stompy. It's a chalice deck with 4 moats, a bunch of white fliers, and taxings effects. Most notably this card:
http://magiccards.info/scans/en/rav/31.jpg
Again, I'm not terribly good at magic. But I understand what a fucking activated ability is. I can tell you from Sunday that 6 out of 8 legacy players don't.
Also, yes that's a misers Baneslayer ... I couldn't decide between 4 Mincensors or 4 O-rings and I ended up splitting when I saw a good bit of internet show and tell and tucked the other 2 rings in the board.
Round 1: Guy on whatever won the last GP. So this match was pretty close all along, I was able to resolve most of my spells including Chalice 1, and (multiple) suppression field(s) in all three games. I believe he got the first, though he got a warning for trying to activate a fetch without paying 2. Game 2 I get all my lock pieces out and 2 fields and win with multiple angels. Game 3 we are a little tight on time having so many judge calls, getting the text for the same card multiple times etc.. I have pretty good board position, a moat, windborn, resoration angel and I'm sandbagging a couple of angels in case he supreme verdicts. But he twice doesn't pay Windborn Muse mana when he attacks (making the same error twice, on the same card, in the same game). So that's his 3rd GRV and he gets a game loss. Needless to say his vagina was pretty salty. I pointed out that its an eternal format, and knowledge of the card pool and how cards work is part of winning and losing. He mocks my chinese cards, throws a dip in and goes on his way.
1-0 (edit: I'm a Phantom Tiger)
Round 2: Nice Junk Guy who top decked 3 lands and cast KotR. First game I remember getting my threat STPed but being able to geddon with chrome mox and a flagstones and him on 4 lands with no threat and me with Trinisphere out. Pretty much a win. Not so much, he goes land, land, land KOTR punch your groin. I draw 2 more trinispheres and an ancient tomb. He also got a warning for fetching with Suppression Field out and not paying. Game two I get early chalice to stop discard, a moat and double angel. By the time he digs out it's too late and abrupt decay doesn't kill 4 mana ghostly prisons, or 6 mana 4/5 lifelinkers. Game three I thought I had him behind but couldn't draw Cataclysm or Geddon to lock him. He kept playing out his lands and I was wondering why in the world he'd do that vs. an Armageddon deck. But he had also run a GSZ for 0 into a chalice on 1 and an IoK into a chalice on 1 (building storm maybe?). Turns out he was going to GSZ a fucking Sigarda out and beat the unholy shit out of me with her. Which he did. Pretty humiliating to die to another decks angel. :rolleyes:
1-1 (I'm a Raging Goblin)
Round 3: Round 3 - Goblin Guy. Game one went like this
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-mXO9zGJOmBo/URBuhAlJYDI/AAAAAAAAA3s/IFRd8cO2bcs/s800/IMAG0009%2520%25282%2529.jpg
Game two I didn't slam one of my four moats but did slam a turn one morph, turn two exalted angel, turn 3 windborn muse, turn 4 armageddon. He also got a warning for fetching with Suppression Field out. Despite me saying, 'If you have any questions about how this card interacts with your lands you should call a judge'. I would repeat this constantly ... and people would still fucking run into it like a Kardashian on a rapper.
2-1 (I'm a Lynx)
Round 4: Guy who occasionally plays at SG on RU Delver - Game one is super tight, he wins the roll, gets a guide and a natural flipped delver. Eventually I'm able to lock him up with armageddon and he is only drawing fetch lands (I have fields out). Of course ... he got a warning for fetching without paying as well. He gets me all the way down to one life ...but I have chalice one out. A blocker. A Trinisphere. A Field. After I geddon I consider playing land but I think his only out is like land, land, land price you. So I just wait and play plains o-ring his delver and beat him from 20 down to zero with angels. Game 2 he gets the play again and burns me out pretty quick, dazing anything I play that matters. Game 3 I get chalice 1 and he just can't deal. Turns out he had no artifact removal at all. Baneslayer beheads him.
3-1 (6 opponent GRVs) (I'm a Porcelain Legionnaire)
Round 5: MUD Welder - Game one he's on the play and has the nut draw. Turn one trinisphere. Only problem is ... I'm playing a deck that also wants a fast 3ball. 2 turns later I have an angel and suppression fields and a chalice on 1 for any welders he might draw, his lodestone comes way too late. He also reads suppression fields oracle text and then puts his mox opal off to the side like it has herpes. :eyebrow: Game two he gets a decent start and eventually I get muse to hold off his stuff. Suppression field is out and he has tomb, tomb and tapped monolith. He looks at his monolith and the 2 tombs and I immediately think 7. Spine. SPINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!
http://www.healthcentral.com/common/images/1/1116_6192_5.jpg
I love me some fucking Spine of Ish-Shah. So he passes the turn and I swing in with Mindcensor and Resto. Putting him to 8. He taps both ancient tombs. And I say, 'I have you at 4?' he agrees. He then grabs his tapped grim monolith and I kind of give him the 'you done fucked up' look. He realizes monolith costs 6 to untap under
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/4/23/7ed46576-8484-40db-ba87-0dd846beb9be.jpg
Turns out he had spine for my ass but indeed made an error.
4-1 (6 opponent GRVs) (I'm a Keldon Vandal)
I'm feeling pretty decent right now and I've played a couple of bad match ups.
Round 6: Merfolk guy who actually knew how magic cards worked. He wins the die roll and wins game one on the play. I win game 2 on the play, He wins game 3 on the play. Whoever was on the play was going to win these games. Though I will say in three games I put neither a Moat or a Cataclysm on the stack. It turned out he actually had no flyers or bounce and was stone fucking cold dead as Micheal Jackson to Moat. It was refreshing to play against somebody who knew what
4-2 (I'm a Fallen Cleric)
Round 7: BUG Socially awkward penguin. This round starts with a bizarre scene. We're at the end of a table and I sit down and the pair to my left is sitting down. My opponent shows up and begins a strange incoherent rant about how he's friends with the guy sitting to my left and doesn't want to reveal to this friends any cards that said friends opponent might have in his hand to him. Which I read as, 'I'm going to cheat in conjunction with my friend if I sit on this side of the table'. So I happen to know the 4th player in this bizarre situation and he points out, 'I'm friends with your opponent as well' at which point BSAP yells 'Judge!'. So now I'm like WTF is this fucking fruitball up to. In the end the judges are as confused as I am and I finally volunteer to switch seats to thus not tempt BSAP to cheat (I guess? I have no fucking idea). The actual match was much less exciting than the attempted psyche out. Game one I resolve chalice on 1 and crush with threats he can't deal with. Game 2 he gets a couple of delvers, I'm unable to land a chalice or find a suppression field. White leyline kept my hand safe, but I was short threats. Game three I'm back on the play so out goes white leyline. I'm able to land Chalice 1 (and eventually a second in case of decay), he dies to resto angel with like 7 1 mana spells in hand when I O-ring a tombstalker.
5-2 (I'm Eron the Relentless!)
Tired. No top 8. Oh well. I think I'll head home ... what's this ... feature match, sweet! I'm in.
Round 8: Guy with sweet beta volcanics and internet RUG delver. I actually win the roll and land chalice one off an ancient tomb. Which should win like 96% of all RUG delver matches. But he gets double wasteland, double tarmogoyf and I draw like no mana. He finally starts Mind Rotting himself to grow goyf and kills me after I find no mana in 7 turns. Game two again I open on an early trinisphere. Which should also crush delver. I eventually pass turn with him having land, land fetch and (i think) me with field. He goes to eot fetch and I flash mindcensor in. So of course of the SIX remaining lands in his whole deck he finds a volcanic in the top 4 ... he then goes infinite with loam / wasteland. Grudges my mox, etc. I could have played an unimpeded Rest in peace or a morphed Angel. I choose to deploy the threat. Maybe the rest in peace would have been better since it turned out he couldn't remove it. Anyway he also got a warning for running a mongoose out for 1 with a trinisphere out.
5-3 (7 opponent GRVs) (I'm a Juggernaut)
I dropped to rest and drink water and pop ibuprofen rather then slog through another round for $50.
Props:
- Judges for siding with me on every single ruling
- Suppression Field for shitting in everyones cereal
- phazmanout for putting the kinder von korlis to better use than anti-storm sideboard cards for cavern of humans
- georgia tech for once again dominating these atlanta opens
Slops:
- Round 1 opponent, for being mad at me because he didn't know how magic cards worked
- Round 7 guy, for whatever he was trying to do at the start of the match
- Moat, for not being there when I needed you
- Gwinician Center, for banning food and drink but not selling fucking coffee
- To the bead convention going on next door, for not having anal beads (I asked?)
I start the day off by heading over to diversify my Armageddons with 2 x Ravages of War. SCG has only japanese ones and wants $200 for them. Even though the case says, $150, 180, 200. $200 being a fair price for english ones. So that kind of pisses me off and only makes me want to bath in the misery and tears of my opponents even more.
Now. I don't consider myself to be very practiced at MTG anymore. I played quite a bit when I was younger, but I basically play once maybe twice a week now and don't take the game too seriously anymore. I still like to win though and I prefer to win with something I've made and not what some unbathed douche wrote about on the internet on a card store site to sell more Show and Tells.
Here's what I played:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rM-2MoxcNh8/URBuht6vugI/AAAAAAAAA34/Nl1cYdVPPQc/s800/IMAG0010%2520%25282%2529.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-arLAjBujlfM/URBuj0nTFhI/AAAAAAAAA4M/n_ln5UKN9lc/s800/IMAG0012%2520%25282%2529.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-pK4zrqisj8A/URBujZ18LcI/AAAAAAAAA4E/w6bG_gVVeok/s800/IMAG0011%2520%25282%2529.jpg
Moat stompy. It's a chalice deck with 4 moats, a bunch of white fliers, and taxings effects. Most notably this card:
http://magiccards.info/scans/en/rav/31.jpg
Again, I'm not terribly good at magic. But I understand what a fucking activated ability is. I can tell you from Sunday that 6 out of 8 legacy players don't.
Also, yes that's a misers Baneslayer ... I couldn't decide between 4 Mincensors or 4 O-rings and I ended up splitting when I saw a good bit of internet show and tell and tucked the other 2 rings in the board.
Round 1: Guy on whatever won the last GP. So this match was pretty close all along, I was able to resolve most of my spells including Chalice 1, and (multiple) suppression field(s) in all three games. I believe he got the first, though he got a warning for trying to activate a fetch without paying 2. Game 2 I get all my lock pieces out and 2 fields and win with multiple angels. Game 3 we are a little tight on time having so many judge calls, getting the text for the same card multiple times etc.. I have pretty good board position, a moat, windborn, resoration angel and I'm sandbagging a couple of angels in case he supreme verdicts. But he twice doesn't pay Windborn Muse mana when he attacks (making the same error twice, on the same card, in the same game). So that's his 3rd GRV and he gets a game loss. Needless to say his vagina was pretty salty. I pointed out that its an eternal format, and knowledge of the card pool and how cards work is part of winning and losing. He mocks my chinese cards, throws a dip in and goes on his way.
1-0 (edit: I'm a Phantom Tiger)
Round 2: Nice Junk Guy who top decked 3 lands and cast KotR. First game I remember getting my threat STPed but being able to geddon with chrome mox and a flagstones and him on 4 lands with no threat and me with Trinisphere out. Pretty much a win. Not so much, he goes land, land, land KOTR punch your groin. I draw 2 more trinispheres and an ancient tomb. He also got a warning for fetching with Suppression Field out and not paying. Game two I get early chalice to stop discard, a moat and double angel. By the time he digs out it's too late and abrupt decay doesn't kill 4 mana ghostly prisons, or 6 mana 4/5 lifelinkers. Game three I thought I had him behind but couldn't draw Cataclysm or Geddon to lock him. He kept playing out his lands and I was wondering why in the world he'd do that vs. an Armageddon deck. But he had also run a GSZ for 0 into a chalice on 1 and an IoK into a chalice on 1 (building storm maybe?). Turns out he was going to GSZ a fucking Sigarda out and beat the unholy shit out of me with her. Which he did. Pretty humiliating to die to another decks angel. :rolleyes:
1-1 (I'm a Raging Goblin)
Round 3: Round 3 - Goblin Guy. Game one went like this
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-mXO9zGJOmBo/URBuhAlJYDI/AAAAAAAAA3s/IFRd8cO2bcs/s800/IMAG0009%2520%25282%2529.jpg
Game two I didn't slam one of my four moats but did slam a turn one morph, turn two exalted angel, turn 3 windborn muse, turn 4 armageddon. He also got a warning for fetching with Suppression Field out. Despite me saying, 'If you have any questions about how this card interacts with your lands you should call a judge'. I would repeat this constantly ... and people would still fucking run into it like a Kardashian on a rapper.
2-1 (I'm a Lynx)
Round 4: Guy who occasionally plays at SG on RU Delver - Game one is super tight, he wins the roll, gets a guide and a natural flipped delver. Eventually I'm able to lock him up with armageddon and he is only drawing fetch lands (I have fields out). Of course ... he got a warning for fetching without paying as well. He gets me all the way down to one life ...but I have chalice one out. A blocker. A Trinisphere. A Field. After I geddon I consider playing land but I think his only out is like land, land, land price you. So I just wait and play plains o-ring his delver and beat him from 20 down to zero with angels. Game 2 he gets the play again and burns me out pretty quick, dazing anything I play that matters. Game 3 I get chalice 1 and he just can't deal. Turns out he had no artifact removal at all. Baneslayer beheads him.
3-1 (6 opponent GRVs) (I'm a Porcelain Legionnaire)
Round 5: MUD Welder - Game one he's on the play and has the nut draw. Turn one trinisphere. Only problem is ... I'm playing a deck that also wants a fast 3ball. 2 turns later I have an angel and suppression fields and a chalice on 1 for any welders he might draw, his lodestone comes way too late. He also reads suppression fields oracle text and then puts his mox opal off to the side like it has herpes. :eyebrow: Game two he gets a decent start and eventually I get muse to hold off his stuff. Suppression field is out and he has tomb, tomb and tapped monolith. He looks at his monolith and the 2 tombs and I immediately think 7. Spine. SPINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!
http://www.healthcentral.com/common/images/1/1116_6192_5.jpg
I love me some fucking Spine of Ish-Shah. So he passes the turn and I swing in with Mindcensor and Resto. Putting him to 8. He taps both ancient tombs. And I say, 'I have you at 4?' he agrees. He then grabs his tapped grim monolith and I kind of give him the 'you done fucked up' look. He realizes monolith costs 6 to untap under
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/4/23/7ed46576-8484-40db-ba87-0dd846beb9be.jpg
Turns out he had spine for my ass but indeed made an error.
4-1 (6 opponent GRVs) (I'm a Keldon Vandal)
I'm feeling pretty decent right now and I've played a couple of bad match ups.
Round 6: Merfolk guy who actually knew how magic cards worked. He wins the die roll and wins game one on the play. I win game 2 on the play, He wins game 3 on the play. Whoever was on the play was going to win these games. Though I will say in three games I put neither a Moat or a Cataclysm on the stack. It turned out he actually had no flyers or bounce and was stone fucking cold dead as Micheal Jackson to Moat. It was refreshing to play against somebody who knew what
4-2 (I'm a Fallen Cleric)
Round 7: BUG Socially awkward penguin. This round starts with a bizarre scene. We're at the end of a table and I sit down and the pair to my left is sitting down. My opponent shows up and begins a strange incoherent rant about how he's friends with the guy sitting to my left and doesn't want to reveal to this friends any cards that said friends opponent might have in his hand to him. Which I read as, 'I'm going to cheat in conjunction with my friend if I sit on this side of the table'. So I happen to know the 4th player in this bizarre situation and he points out, 'I'm friends with your opponent as well' at which point BSAP yells 'Judge!'. So now I'm like WTF is this fucking fruitball up to. In the end the judges are as confused as I am and I finally volunteer to switch seats to thus not tempt BSAP to cheat (I guess? I have no fucking idea). The actual match was much less exciting than the attempted psyche out. Game one I resolve chalice on 1 and crush with threats he can't deal with. Game 2 he gets a couple of delvers, I'm unable to land a chalice or find a suppression field. White leyline kept my hand safe, but I was short threats. Game three I'm back on the play so out goes white leyline. I'm able to land Chalice 1 (and eventually a second in case of decay), he dies to resto angel with like 7 1 mana spells in hand when I O-ring a tombstalker.
5-2 (I'm Eron the Relentless!)
Tired. No top 8. Oh well. I think I'll head home ... what's this ... feature match, sweet! I'm in.
Round 8: Guy with sweet beta volcanics and internet RUG delver. I actually win the roll and land chalice one off an ancient tomb. Which should win like 96% of all RUG delver matches. But he gets double wasteland, double tarmogoyf and I draw like no mana. He finally starts Mind Rotting himself to grow goyf and kills me after I find no mana in 7 turns. Game two again I open on an early trinisphere. Which should also crush delver. I eventually pass turn with him having land, land fetch and (i think) me with field. He goes to eot fetch and I flash mindcensor in. So of course of the SIX remaining lands in his whole deck he finds a volcanic in the top 4 ... he then goes infinite with loam / wasteland. Grudges my mox, etc. I could have played an unimpeded Rest in peace or a morphed Angel. I choose to deploy the threat. Maybe the rest in peace would have been better since it turned out he couldn't remove it. Anyway he also got a warning for running a mongoose out for 1 with a trinisphere out.
5-3 (7 opponent GRVs) (I'm a Juggernaut)
I dropped to rest and drink water and pop ibuprofen rather then slog through another round for $50.
Props:
- Judges for siding with me on every single ruling
- Suppression Field for shitting in everyones cereal
- phazmanout for putting the kinder von korlis to better use than anti-storm sideboard cards for cavern of humans
- georgia tech for once again dominating these atlanta opens
Slops:
- Round 1 opponent, for being mad at me because he didn't know how magic cards worked
- Round 7 guy, for whatever he was trying to do at the start of the match
- Moat, for not being there when I needed you
- Gwinician Center, for banning food and drink but not selling fucking coffee
- To the bead convention going on next door, for not having anal beads (I asked?)