SCG attempt #7, St Louis, June-9th-2013, just 1 perspective out of 280! (30th)

[feline]

SCG attempt #7, St Louis, June-9th-2013, just 1 perspective out of 280! (30th):
http://blog.mtgdeals.com/article-contest/playing-high-tide-scg-attempt-7-just-1-perspective-of-280/

I will probably be posting all the work I do here at this point, thank you again mtgdeals.com! As far as the report goes, enjoy the read, & I'll cya at the next SCG in Minneapolis.

[trevaftw]

Kind of random question, but are you from MN?

[feline]

Nope, I'm west coast Legacy, but there's nothing on the west coast for like 6 months, so I've extended out to St Louis & Minneapolis in my schedule over the summer.

[trevaftw]

Fair enough. I'm from MN and go to school in Missouri so I was curious as to where you fit in the picture. I was there Sunday morning with Casey outside the doors and was the one playing BW Tokens.

[feline]

Oh I remember that, I thought it was cool that someone as actually pushing a token deck, I love the fringe/rogue strategies of the format! So that stuff always stands out to me! I suppose I'll cya again in Minneapolis then?

[trevaftw]

Yup! Work standard as a SCG sales associate to pay for Sunday Legacy and gas/food.

[Tammit67]

I love reading your reports! I wish I had the experience with tide to consider running it in a large event

[Mackan]

I understand the reasoning behind boarding a win-con in for postboard games but I would like to hear your reasoning to why you bring BSZ over BF all the time. In some cases (deathrite, bolts, lavamancer etc) and in some other (shuffle from Progenitus / Emrakul) and the rare case (where you play it just to draw some cards at opp EOT) you rather go BSZ than BF. Versus reanimate and Ant? BF requires less cards invested for the kill since you don't need an untap-effect (Turnabout/candelabra) and rarely rely on more than 1-2 high tides.

thanks for the report :-)

[Fade]

Hey, it's Bill from the last round. Nice report and glad you had as much fun as I did in St. Louis. It was my first time traveling that far for an open too and the weekend was a blast for me.

[feline]

Hey, it's Bill from the last round. Nice report and glad you had as much fun as I did in St. Louis. It was my first time traveling that far for an open too and the weekend was a blast for me.

Alright you're on The Source, awesome! I suppose for me, that's the furthest I've traveled out to a tournament too, as before the furthest was just along the west coast. That was the most fun open yet, I thought going to one where I knew noone would make it a bit dull, but by the end of the day I was talking to so many people it was just awesome!

As far as bringing in 1 Blue Sun most of the time, I can counter extraction, but sometimes people bring in Extirpate. As to why I don't bring in Brain Freeze, it's because I go for Blue Sun 95% of the time. The main thing however is just making sure that if discard or a counter hits my Cunning Wish & then they extract, or extirpate them from my deck, I still have access to a win con in the deck after those sideboard games.

[phazonmutant]

Congrats on the top 32, nice report!
For a while you had been advocating cutting the Brainfreeze in the sideboard, but I see that your current list has it again. What changed?

[feline]

Michael Bernat talked me into why I should look over running it again back in December at the Vegas Open there, & at the point of sometimes running into an Extraction from the opponent, it takes so much longer to hit a Lethal Blue Sun's Zenith when your Islands only tap for 2 or 3 per, especially 2, so I've started running it again.

At this point, I would probably say it was just luck that I went for so long without ever having to need Brain Freeze as a secondary, but in my time since playing it, I did have a game I won because it was in my sideboard, though I forgot to side out a High Tide, someone extracted mine from the deck game 2, I had only resolved 1 High Tide, and I was like "oh crap, Islands only tapping for 2, or wait, I'm running Brain Freeze now, that just means 17 spells."