Corrosion
03-25-2013, 09:53 PM
Hello, I'm writing this report for a couple friends who want to see what kinds of matches I played and how they played out. I've never done anything like this before, in fact this is my first post here. I took some basic notes so I'm going off those as well as my memory from yesterday. Here is my deck list I played if you haven't seen it: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1109372. Hope you enjoy.
Round 1: Jund
Game 1: He starts on the play with a turn one DRS off a duel land. My opening hand didn't have a way to interact with the Deathrite so I just tried to slow him down. I went mox diamond to cast exploration then play wasteland on his duel and tabernacle. My opponent missed the play to eat my land to keep his Deathrite and it went down hill quick after that. A couple loams and wastelands later he conceded.
Game 2: No deathrite and no graveyard hate were played against me this game. My deck just did what it does to jund which is punish their manabase. He conceded after an uneventful 10 or so turns.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 karakas, -1 glacial chasm, +4 dark confidant, +3 abrupt decay
Won 2-0
Round 2: Punishing Jund
Game 1: Doesn't happen. My opponent registered his deck at fifty nine cards and got a game one loss. He got the play for game two without sideboard.
Game 2: Plays a bob on turn two which I can't punishing fire until a couple turns later. He played an abrupt decay on exploration to slow me down a bit. He dropps a 6/7 goyf. I took one hit and he played another. I played EE on 2 and killed both his goyf's. He got a bit flooded and tried to punish me out the game, but I just transmuted zuran orb and that was the game.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 karakas, -1 glacial chasm, +4 dark confidant, +3 abrupt decay
Won 2-0
Round 3: Combo Elves
Game 1: I keep a slower hand which I pay for against the elf deck. I manage a four for one with EE on one but I die to a craterhoof a couple turns later.
Game 2: I turn two chalice for one after playing exploration. Play a few more lands and drop ensnaring bridge with zero cards in hand. After seeing a bit more of my hate he concedes to re-sideboard.
Game 3: He fetched bayou to cast DRS. I play taiga and diamond and cast abrupt decay on the dethrite. He plays a couple nettle sentinels but no more land. I cast EE on one to slow him down but don't actually blow it the whole game. Eventually I draw into wasteland and tabernacle and he concedes after only drawing a cradle he didn't want to play because of my wasteland.
Sideboard: -4 maze of ith, -1 karakas, -2 manabond, -3 intuition, +4 chalice of the void, +3 abrupt decay, +3 sphere of resistance
Won 2-1
Round 4: High Tide (Side table feature match)
Game 1: I knew he was on tide because he went ten minutes over just the last round. He keeps his opening seven and I concede...not kidding.
Game 2: He doesn't board because he doesn't know what I'm on. I mull to a six and he counters a couple hate cards I try and cast and then proceeds to kill me after a few hits from my bob. Blown out (what a surprise).
Sideboard: -4 maze of ith, -1 tabernacle, -1 glacial chasm, -1 ensnaring bridge, -2 punishing fire, -2 manabond, -1 zuran orb, +4 chalice of the void, +4 dark confidant, +3 sphere of resistance, +1 tormod's crypt
Loss 0-2
Round 5: Tins Fins
Game 1: On the play turn one he goes probe, ritual, entomb, shallow grave, draw 21, petal, child, I lose.
Game 2: I play and exploration and more importantly tormod's crypt. I got down a chalice on one as well as a couple sphere of resistance before he conceded to have a re-board for my artifact hate.
Game 3: He plays brainstorm. I ask "Am I dead?" It turns out he had a turn two kill but I had a turn one chalice for one which ruined his day. A chalice on two locked up the game for me.
Sideboard: -1 tabernacle, -1 glacial chasm, -2 manabond, -1 grove, -3 punishing fire, -3 intuition, -1 engineered explosives, +4 chalice of the void, +3 sphere of resistance, +1 tormod's crypt, +4 dark confidant
Win 2-1
Round 6: RUG Delver (Feature camera match)
*My opponent did make some misplays this match but I will mention one I don't believe was the case*
Game 1: I mull to five with an exploration and some mediocre lands. Most people criticize him for fetching a second trop instead of volcanic island. I don't see this as a misplay because I was going to keep him off green which means he couldn't cast goyf. I didn't have a maze at the time, so he went for recurring damage instead of a one time ding. I don't see why people hate on him for this. Later in the match he could have dazed my loam after transmuting glacial chasm. He probably should have, but that wouldn't have effected the outcome of the game either way.
Game 2: I mull again and see some chalice of the void's so I keep. I stick a chalice on one but a delver, goyf beat me down. I think I couldn't have stabilized but a vortex stopped my chasm orb plans cold.
Game 3: I get turn one chalice for one to resolve as well as turn three chalice for two. He wasted my port instead of my tarpit which meant I got to beat him down, but again even without that misplay he couldn't actually win that game.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 punishing fire, -1 karakas, +4 chalice of the void, +3 abrupt decay
Won 2-1
Round 7: MUD (no welder)
Game 1: My opponent opens with turn one forgemaster with artifacts to sac. I go manabond dump double loam, intuition, and some lands. He draws and passes. I manage to dredge into a maze to stop the blightsteel kill he had on board. He ends up going for myr battleshpere to get around the maze a bit. I waste his ancient tomb and city of traitors and drop a tabernacle I get a couple turns later. Without anything in play he concedes the game.
Game 2: He combos with metalworker to gain infinite life. I see if I can just academy ruins to mill him but a couple pithing needles stop that plan.
Game 3: The only time in the tournament I went into turns. My turn zero took about three minutes and was my longest turn by a significant margin the whole tournament. I ended up abrupting a needle on tarpit then hitting with tarpit and a bob I had in play. He trades with a phrexian metamorph which was a copy of a metalworker. I played a glacial chasm to not die to his forgemaster in his hand and lightning greaves in play and another bob to give myself two lethal angels of attack and passed the turn. I wastelanded his ancient tomb and ported his darksteel citadel. He couldn't get enough mana with metalworker to go infinite with his staff and ended up dead to my tarpit on the second turn of time.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 karakas, -1 tabernacle, +3 abrupt decay, +4 dark confidant
Won 2-1
Round 8: Esper Stoneblade (Secondary camera match that we finished before the main match)
*I was the seven and he was the eight and neither could draw to be in so we played*
Game 1: He mulls to six and thoughtseizes me. I have double fire and loam with tabernacle and some other lands. He draws some cards, casts brainstorm but doesn't find a fetch. He had double swords and locked himself so he concedes to a slow draw from my deck.
Game 2: I got triple surgical extracted. Once on loam, once on punishing fire and once on wasteland. I just stalled all day with tabernacle and double port after I wasted a couple of his lands. I had double exploration, crucible, zuran orb and a single maze of ith to net life every turn despite a geist on his side of the field. After getting up to about fourty life he lets his geist die to tabernacle to try another route but didn't get enough mana together before tarpit kills him.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 ensnaring brigde, -1 glacial chasm, -1 karakas, +4 dark confidant, +4 chalice of the void
Won 2-0
Top 8 Quarterfinals: ANT
*So I got my worst matchup in the top eight despite being the two seed. I listened to commentary and they drastically underestimate the deck if they think it's a "blood bath". My local combo players can attest to this.*
Game 1: I have as good as I can hope for. Double rishadan port, zuran orb, exploration and crucible. I get the orb and exploration out, but crucible gets duressed out. I play land go without seeing another engine. He eventually storms for about fourty to kill me through all my lands with the help of past in flames.
Game 2: I lead with zuran orb and chalice for zero. He ponders and passes. I play a bob the next turn before a sphere because I didn't have a third land and didn't want to get locked under my own sphere. He keeps sculpting but nothing else on his turn. I play out a sphere the next turn and wasteland him and start the beats. I get life from the loam and recur wasteland the continue attacking his manabase. He concedes a few turns later after locking himself under a brainstorm and mentions the chalice on zero stopped his lotus petal to abrupt the sphere.
Game 3: I keep a pretty good hand assuming he goes off on his usual turn three. He preordains then two lion's eye diamonds to play around chalice and passes the turn. My hand pre draw was zuran orb, exploration, sphere of resistence, bob, and the mana to cast it including a port. I play orb, exploration, and pass. He then proceeds to ponder keep and go off. He has exactly enough storm and mana to get me for twenty four damage.
Sideboard: -4 maze of ith, -1 tabernacle, -1 glacial chasm, -1 engineered explosives, -1 ensnaring bridge, -2 manabond, -2 punishing fire, +4 dark confidant, +4 chalice of the void, +3 shpere of resistance, +1 tormod's crypt
Loss 1-2
I think it would have been a very interesting game if I managed to get a second turn in the final game. I find it funny how I was the only one who managed to beat him even one game but the commentators waved me off like I was nothing. I had no hard feeling though and wished him luck in the rest. He ended up wining the tournament if you didn't know or couldn't tell from my earlier sentence. I enjoyed myself immensely throughout the tournament and had fun with my friends and local players who made the trip with me. I've been playing this deck for quite some time which is why I'm foiled and have FBB duels. I used to play blue control decks, but if your a lands player your a lands player for life let them print all the hate I'll still play this deck. If you decide to take the deck to a tournament you really want to know your build. Going to time is very common if you can't see plays with the deck and play too slowly. Anyway hope you enjoyed my semi descriptive match results. I'll be posting a link to this in the 43 lands forum here as well as Salvation. I'll be checking for comments and questions a couple times a day, but I do have a full time job so it give me a little time.
Round 1: Jund
Game 1: He starts on the play with a turn one DRS off a duel land. My opening hand didn't have a way to interact with the Deathrite so I just tried to slow him down. I went mox diamond to cast exploration then play wasteland on his duel and tabernacle. My opponent missed the play to eat my land to keep his Deathrite and it went down hill quick after that. A couple loams and wastelands later he conceded.
Game 2: No deathrite and no graveyard hate were played against me this game. My deck just did what it does to jund which is punish their manabase. He conceded after an uneventful 10 or so turns.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 karakas, -1 glacial chasm, +4 dark confidant, +3 abrupt decay
Won 2-0
Round 2: Punishing Jund
Game 1: Doesn't happen. My opponent registered his deck at fifty nine cards and got a game one loss. He got the play for game two without sideboard.
Game 2: Plays a bob on turn two which I can't punishing fire until a couple turns later. He played an abrupt decay on exploration to slow me down a bit. He dropps a 6/7 goyf. I took one hit and he played another. I played EE on 2 and killed both his goyf's. He got a bit flooded and tried to punish me out the game, but I just transmuted zuran orb and that was the game.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 karakas, -1 glacial chasm, +4 dark confidant, +3 abrupt decay
Won 2-0
Round 3: Combo Elves
Game 1: I keep a slower hand which I pay for against the elf deck. I manage a four for one with EE on one but I die to a craterhoof a couple turns later.
Game 2: I turn two chalice for one after playing exploration. Play a few more lands and drop ensnaring bridge with zero cards in hand. After seeing a bit more of my hate he concedes to re-sideboard.
Game 3: He fetched bayou to cast DRS. I play taiga and diamond and cast abrupt decay on the dethrite. He plays a couple nettle sentinels but no more land. I cast EE on one to slow him down but don't actually blow it the whole game. Eventually I draw into wasteland and tabernacle and he concedes after only drawing a cradle he didn't want to play because of my wasteland.
Sideboard: -4 maze of ith, -1 karakas, -2 manabond, -3 intuition, +4 chalice of the void, +3 abrupt decay, +3 sphere of resistance
Won 2-1
Round 4: High Tide (Side table feature match)
Game 1: I knew he was on tide because he went ten minutes over just the last round. He keeps his opening seven and I concede...not kidding.
Game 2: He doesn't board because he doesn't know what I'm on. I mull to a six and he counters a couple hate cards I try and cast and then proceeds to kill me after a few hits from my bob. Blown out (what a surprise).
Sideboard: -4 maze of ith, -1 tabernacle, -1 glacial chasm, -1 ensnaring bridge, -2 punishing fire, -2 manabond, -1 zuran orb, +4 chalice of the void, +4 dark confidant, +3 sphere of resistance, +1 tormod's crypt
Loss 0-2
Round 5: Tins Fins
Game 1: On the play turn one he goes probe, ritual, entomb, shallow grave, draw 21, petal, child, I lose.
Game 2: I play and exploration and more importantly tormod's crypt. I got down a chalice on one as well as a couple sphere of resistance before he conceded to have a re-board for my artifact hate.
Game 3: He plays brainstorm. I ask "Am I dead?" It turns out he had a turn two kill but I had a turn one chalice for one which ruined his day. A chalice on two locked up the game for me.
Sideboard: -1 tabernacle, -1 glacial chasm, -2 manabond, -1 grove, -3 punishing fire, -3 intuition, -1 engineered explosives, +4 chalice of the void, +3 sphere of resistance, +1 tormod's crypt, +4 dark confidant
Win 2-1
Round 6: RUG Delver (Feature camera match)
*My opponent did make some misplays this match but I will mention one I don't believe was the case*
Game 1: I mull to five with an exploration and some mediocre lands. Most people criticize him for fetching a second trop instead of volcanic island. I don't see this as a misplay because I was going to keep him off green which means he couldn't cast goyf. I didn't have a maze at the time, so he went for recurring damage instead of a one time ding. I don't see why people hate on him for this. Later in the match he could have dazed my loam after transmuting glacial chasm. He probably should have, but that wouldn't have effected the outcome of the game either way.
Game 2: I mull again and see some chalice of the void's so I keep. I stick a chalice on one but a delver, goyf beat me down. I think I couldn't have stabilized but a vortex stopped my chasm orb plans cold.
Game 3: I get turn one chalice for one to resolve as well as turn three chalice for two. He wasted my port instead of my tarpit which meant I got to beat him down, but again even without that misplay he couldn't actually win that game.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 punishing fire, -1 karakas, +4 chalice of the void, +3 abrupt decay
Won 2-1
Round 7: MUD (no welder)
Game 1: My opponent opens with turn one forgemaster with artifacts to sac. I go manabond dump double loam, intuition, and some lands. He draws and passes. I manage to dredge into a maze to stop the blightsteel kill he had on board. He ends up going for myr battleshpere to get around the maze a bit. I waste his ancient tomb and city of traitors and drop a tabernacle I get a couple turns later. Without anything in play he concedes the game.
Game 2: He combos with metalworker to gain infinite life. I see if I can just academy ruins to mill him but a couple pithing needles stop that plan.
Game 3: The only time in the tournament I went into turns. My turn zero took about three minutes and was my longest turn by a significant margin the whole tournament. I ended up abrupting a needle on tarpit then hitting with tarpit and a bob I had in play. He trades with a phrexian metamorph which was a copy of a metalworker. I played a glacial chasm to not die to his forgemaster in his hand and lightning greaves in play and another bob to give myself two lethal angels of attack and passed the turn. I wastelanded his ancient tomb and ported his darksteel citadel. He couldn't get enough mana with metalworker to go infinite with his staff and ended up dead to my tarpit on the second turn of time.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 karakas, -1 tabernacle, +3 abrupt decay, +4 dark confidant
Won 2-1
Round 8: Esper Stoneblade (Secondary camera match that we finished before the main match)
*I was the seven and he was the eight and neither could draw to be in so we played*
Game 1: He mulls to six and thoughtseizes me. I have double fire and loam with tabernacle and some other lands. He draws some cards, casts brainstorm but doesn't find a fetch. He had double swords and locked himself so he concedes to a slow draw from my deck.
Game 2: I got triple surgical extracted. Once on loam, once on punishing fire and once on wasteland. I just stalled all day with tabernacle and double port after I wasted a couple of his lands. I had double exploration, crucible, zuran orb and a single maze of ith to net life every turn despite a geist on his side of the field. After getting up to about fourty life he lets his geist die to tabernacle to try another route but didn't get enough mana together before tarpit kills him.
Sideboard: -3 intuition, -2 manabond, -1 ensnaring brigde, -1 glacial chasm, -1 karakas, +4 dark confidant, +4 chalice of the void
Won 2-0
Top 8 Quarterfinals: ANT
*So I got my worst matchup in the top eight despite being the two seed. I listened to commentary and they drastically underestimate the deck if they think it's a "blood bath". My local combo players can attest to this.*
Game 1: I have as good as I can hope for. Double rishadan port, zuran orb, exploration and crucible. I get the orb and exploration out, but crucible gets duressed out. I play land go without seeing another engine. He eventually storms for about fourty to kill me through all my lands with the help of past in flames.
Game 2: I lead with zuran orb and chalice for zero. He ponders and passes. I play a bob the next turn before a sphere because I didn't have a third land and didn't want to get locked under my own sphere. He keeps sculpting but nothing else on his turn. I play out a sphere the next turn and wasteland him and start the beats. I get life from the loam and recur wasteland the continue attacking his manabase. He concedes a few turns later after locking himself under a brainstorm and mentions the chalice on zero stopped his lotus petal to abrupt the sphere.
Game 3: I keep a pretty good hand assuming he goes off on his usual turn three. He preordains then two lion's eye diamonds to play around chalice and passes the turn. My hand pre draw was zuran orb, exploration, sphere of resistence, bob, and the mana to cast it including a port. I play orb, exploration, and pass. He then proceeds to ponder keep and go off. He has exactly enough storm and mana to get me for twenty four damage.
Sideboard: -4 maze of ith, -1 tabernacle, -1 glacial chasm, -1 engineered explosives, -1 ensnaring bridge, -2 manabond, -2 punishing fire, +4 dark confidant, +4 chalice of the void, +3 shpere of resistance, +1 tormod's crypt
Loss 1-2
I think it would have been a very interesting game if I managed to get a second turn in the final game. I find it funny how I was the only one who managed to beat him even one game but the commentators waved me off like I was nothing. I had no hard feeling though and wished him luck in the rest. He ended up wining the tournament if you didn't know or couldn't tell from my earlier sentence. I enjoyed myself immensely throughout the tournament and had fun with my friends and local players who made the trip with me. I've been playing this deck for quite some time which is why I'm foiled and have FBB duels. I used to play blue control decks, but if your a lands player your a lands player for life let them print all the hate I'll still play this deck. If you decide to take the deck to a tournament you really want to know your build. Going to time is very common if you can't see plays with the deck and play too slowly. Anyway hope you enjoyed my semi descriptive match results. I'll be posting a link to this in the 43 lands forum here as well as Salvation. I'll be checking for comments and questions a couple times a day, but I do have a full time job so it give me a little time.