Einherjer
09-30-2013, 04:01 AM
So, I am back from this years Ovino. I went there with friends of mine, 5 people on the way down, 6 on the way back, all in one car. As one can imagine the car drive was quite... interesting. Nontheless we had a good time driving because our GPS was misleading us serveral times which was amusing at least. I won't go into detail too much in any way. Most of us were playing at Modern where about 200 people were showing up. I top32ed at my first ever Modernevent with UWR Geist. The format was fun but you know, it's not Legacy.
What would I be playing in Legacy? Well, easy choice, Miracles as always. Normally I prefer the RIP-Version but in Italy Miracles is a very popular deck, most likely the most popular. You just can't look forward to playing mirrormatches when you have so many dead cards in your deck. So I decided to play Snapcaster/Clique-Miracles at the event:
http://i44.tinypic.com/258uo9c.jpg
The others were bringing: RUG, BURG, ANT, ANT, ANT, so I was the only one playing Control, just as always. Why does nobody like Miracle? :D
400 people showed up, and we were all ready to go!
Round 1 vs Jund
I: He starts out with creatures, I sweep them all, then he starts to P.Fire me. I find a Counterbalance which gets Decayed with me being at 7. 2 dmg per turn, time to find Angels. With him being at 19 and me at 3 (virtually 1) I entreat and of his turn with Counterspell backup to hit his Lightning Bolt.
II: He lacks creatures but has Sylvan Library and Liliana of the Veil. Then he plays Choke. No problem, I just EE for 3, land Jace and win from there.
1-0
Round 2 vs Reanimator
I: He brings strange creatures like Sphinx of the Steel Wind and other useless stuff I just don't remember, I just swords them all and Entreat for the win.
II: T1 Top, T2 RIP, T3 Balance.
2-0
Round 3 vs Sneak Attack
I: He mulls to 5 and starts with: Ancient Tomb, Lotus Petal, Show and Tell bring Emrakul. I bring Tundra, and brainstorm to find either Karakas or Terminus. I find neither nor so I scoop.
II: I open a hand with with Top, 2 Lands, 4 Counterspells being Force of Will, Flusterstorm, Spell Pierce and Red Elemental Blast. Despite me not finding Counterbalance he did not resolve any spell that cost more than 1 this game.
III: He gets through a fast Blood Moon but lacks follow up buisness. I just Wear//Tear his Moon and continue countering everything he has. Somewhen I entreat with 2 mana up, either for Counterspelling his Force of paying for Pierce. He pierces, I pay, he concedes.
3-0
Round 4 vs Junk
I: He starts with discard, then drops Goyf which I kill, then he drops Knight, which I kill. After that he plays Elspeth, followed by Sorin, which I scoop against.
II: He again manages to get Elspeth into play, but I got Jace at that point with Clique and Snapcaster in play. He has Gaddock Teeg + Karakas aswell. So we play about 20 minutes to break the others stealmantle, I tempo him serveral times with my bunchload of removal, and in the end I am able to force him to bounce his Gaddock Teeg. On the way down it get's countered. I then Entreat for 5. We both check on how much he is = 20 and he concedes. It's 2 minutes on the clock and we draw. (this is my second non-ID)
3-0-1
Round 5 vs Miracles
I: I know I am probably going to have to play the Mirror, so I keep Balance, Clique, Jace and lands. I die to T1 Top T2 Balance.
II: Here I open with the following: Tundra, Volcanic, Strand, Top, Balance, Clique, Red Elemental Blast. Easy to bring this one home.
III: Here we both have Counterbalance, he blows it up with EE to bring his Top, I then bring my Top and my second Balance. He plays Academy Ruins and kills my Balance. So I just play my third to keep him busy while I set up double-protected Jace. Before playing Jace I try to make him believe I have Angles on top so he wastes yet another turn to play EE again. Jace fateseales him into death.
4-0-1
Round 6 vs Elves
I: I open with removal and Counterbalance, Jace seals the deal later.
II: I flip 2 lucky blind balances on 1 and 4 and win from there.
5-0-1
Round 7 vs RUG Pyromancer
I: Easy Matchup, I get through the Top-Balance-lock and kill his Mongoose and his Pyromancer. He has one Token left, I am at 9 life. Shouldn't be problem as I have a bunchload of Outs. Well, I died to the 1/1 token while I draw yet more Balances, Tops and lands.
II: I lock him out once again and find the removal in time.
III: This is where my concentration starts to fade. I have the line of play in my head, sadly though it only worked when the top card of my library as in my hand. I realize this when I presented my deck for the Shuffle.
5-1-1
Round 8 vs RUG Control
I: I know his deck and he is obv. very weak to a Balance-lock. He scoops fast as I start to counter everything with 2 and 3 on top and 2 Tops in play.
II: I board in RIPs against his Goyfs+P.Fires. He seemed to have them in the Sideboard so I die with bad cards MB.
III: Here I fake-resideboard boaring out 2 Brainstorm, 1 Island, 1 Jace for 2 Pyroclasm and 2 sideboarded Terminus. I take back the Brainstorms, Island and Jace and he resideboards too, bringing back in the P.Fires. He dominates the early game but I then play a Balance, he Swan Songs, I REB, he let's it resolve and Swan Songs again. I Pierce, he pays. I Fluster, he let's it resolves and Forces. I Fluster it. After I have the Balance I start countering everything he does and lock him out. I get Jace and start fatesealing, he get's EE through and starts burning me down... on his last extraturn he ponders, shuffles, tops, brainstorms, plays jace, brainstorms and finds a BloodBraidElf... I die.
5-2-1
Round 9 vs 4-color-Cascade
I: He mulls to 5, it isn't really a game.
II: I answer all his stuff, including BBE-->Shardless-->Mystic but struggle to find a win-con in time. I get all my Entreats countered so I just cast Snapcaster on Entreat and win from there.
6-2-1 worth Top32. It was a fun event, Miracles didn't disappoint me once again. It's just hard to take that I lost to two very easy Match-Ups... RUG isn't really hard to beat. Well that's how it goes. I improved quite a bit from last year where I punted with Esperblade. I'll be there next year too, was a pleasure meeting all the people, once again :)
Greetings
What would I be playing in Legacy? Well, easy choice, Miracles as always. Normally I prefer the RIP-Version but in Italy Miracles is a very popular deck, most likely the most popular. You just can't look forward to playing mirrormatches when you have so many dead cards in your deck. So I decided to play Snapcaster/Clique-Miracles at the event:
http://i44.tinypic.com/258uo9c.jpg
The others were bringing: RUG, BURG, ANT, ANT, ANT, so I was the only one playing Control, just as always. Why does nobody like Miracle? :D
400 people showed up, and we were all ready to go!
Round 1 vs Jund
I: He starts out with creatures, I sweep them all, then he starts to P.Fire me. I find a Counterbalance which gets Decayed with me being at 7. 2 dmg per turn, time to find Angels. With him being at 19 and me at 3 (virtually 1) I entreat and of his turn with Counterspell backup to hit his Lightning Bolt.
II: He lacks creatures but has Sylvan Library and Liliana of the Veil. Then he plays Choke. No problem, I just EE for 3, land Jace and win from there.
1-0
Round 2 vs Reanimator
I: He brings strange creatures like Sphinx of the Steel Wind and other useless stuff I just don't remember, I just swords them all and Entreat for the win.
II: T1 Top, T2 RIP, T3 Balance.
2-0
Round 3 vs Sneak Attack
I: He mulls to 5 and starts with: Ancient Tomb, Lotus Petal, Show and Tell bring Emrakul. I bring Tundra, and brainstorm to find either Karakas or Terminus. I find neither nor so I scoop.
II: I open a hand with with Top, 2 Lands, 4 Counterspells being Force of Will, Flusterstorm, Spell Pierce and Red Elemental Blast. Despite me not finding Counterbalance he did not resolve any spell that cost more than 1 this game.
III: He gets through a fast Blood Moon but lacks follow up buisness. I just Wear//Tear his Moon and continue countering everything he has. Somewhen I entreat with 2 mana up, either for Counterspelling his Force of paying for Pierce. He pierces, I pay, he concedes.
3-0
Round 4 vs Junk
I: He starts with discard, then drops Goyf which I kill, then he drops Knight, which I kill. After that he plays Elspeth, followed by Sorin, which I scoop against.
II: He again manages to get Elspeth into play, but I got Jace at that point with Clique and Snapcaster in play. He has Gaddock Teeg + Karakas aswell. So we play about 20 minutes to break the others stealmantle, I tempo him serveral times with my bunchload of removal, and in the end I am able to force him to bounce his Gaddock Teeg. On the way down it get's countered. I then Entreat for 5. We both check on how much he is = 20 and he concedes. It's 2 minutes on the clock and we draw. (this is my second non-ID)
3-0-1
Round 5 vs Miracles
I: I know I am probably going to have to play the Mirror, so I keep Balance, Clique, Jace and lands. I die to T1 Top T2 Balance.
II: Here I open with the following: Tundra, Volcanic, Strand, Top, Balance, Clique, Red Elemental Blast. Easy to bring this one home.
III: Here we both have Counterbalance, he blows it up with EE to bring his Top, I then bring my Top and my second Balance. He plays Academy Ruins and kills my Balance. So I just play my third to keep him busy while I set up double-protected Jace. Before playing Jace I try to make him believe I have Angles on top so he wastes yet another turn to play EE again. Jace fateseales him into death.
4-0-1
Round 6 vs Elves
I: I open with removal and Counterbalance, Jace seals the deal later.
II: I flip 2 lucky blind balances on 1 and 4 and win from there.
5-0-1
Round 7 vs RUG Pyromancer
I: Easy Matchup, I get through the Top-Balance-lock and kill his Mongoose and his Pyromancer. He has one Token left, I am at 9 life. Shouldn't be problem as I have a bunchload of Outs. Well, I died to the 1/1 token while I draw yet more Balances, Tops and lands.
II: I lock him out once again and find the removal in time.
III: This is where my concentration starts to fade. I have the line of play in my head, sadly though it only worked when the top card of my library as in my hand. I realize this when I presented my deck for the Shuffle.
5-1-1
Round 8 vs RUG Control
I: I know his deck and he is obv. very weak to a Balance-lock. He scoops fast as I start to counter everything with 2 and 3 on top and 2 Tops in play.
II: I board in RIPs against his Goyfs+P.Fires. He seemed to have them in the Sideboard so I die with bad cards MB.
III: Here I fake-resideboard boaring out 2 Brainstorm, 1 Island, 1 Jace for 2 Pyroclasm and 2 sideboarded Terminus. I take back the Brainstorms, Island and Jace and he resideboards too, bringing back in the P.Fires. He dominates the early game but I then play a Balance, he Swan Songs, I REB, he let's it resolve and Swan Songs again. I Pierce, he pays. I Fluster, he let's it resolves and Forces. I Fluster it. After I have the Balance I start countering everything he does and lock him out. I get Jace and start fatesealing, he get's EE through and starts burning me down... on his last extraturn he ponders, shuffles, tops, brainstorms, plays jace, brainstorms and finds a BloodBraidElf... I die.
5-2-1
Round 9 vs 4-color-Cascade
I: He mulls to 5, it isn't really a game.
II: I answer all his stuff, including BBE-->Shardless-->Mystic but struggle to find a win-con in time. I get all my Entreats countered so I just cast Snapcaster on Entreat and win from there.
6-2-1 worth Top32. It was a fun event, Miracles didn't disappoint me once again. It's just hard to take that I lost to two very easy Match-Ups... RUG isn't really hard to beat. Well that's how it goes. I improved quite a bit from last year where I punted with Esperblade. I'll be there next year too, was a pleasure meeting all the people, once again :)
Greetings