biglongjohns
02-11-2014, 01:57 AM
Just placed 16th in the Nashville SCG Legacy Open playing MUD. I wrote this report because I enjoy reading them and I also wanted to display that you can be successful in Legacy without playing one of the top decks of the format. Here it goes.
List:
4 Metalworker
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
3 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Grim Monolith
4 Trinisphere
1 Staff of Nin
1 Staff of Domination
2 Lightning Greaves
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Karn Liberated
3 Cavern of Souls
3 Wasteland
2 Vesuva
4 Cloudpost
4 Glimmerpost
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
Sideboard:
2 All Is Dust
3 Ratchet Bomb
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Spine of Ish Sah
3 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Spellskite
1 Sundering Titan
Round 1: Death & Taxes (1-2)
Game one I was facing an early Batterskull off a Stoneforge and a Revoker on my Metalworker. I was able to get out a Forgemaster and a few other artifacts. He attacks in with the Germ and I Forgemaster for Blightsteel Colossus (leaving in play my chalice on one) and block. In my turn I serve him 10 poison. Games two and three were not very good for me. This is actually a tough matchup for my deck if they get the right forms of disruption. Game two he crushed me. Game three pretty much the same story. Early Batterskull. He then got a pair of Flickerwisps, one of which flicked my Chalice on one to remove the counters. I was able to get a Ratchet Bomb out but he had so much pressure that I had to crack it to destroy his Jitte with counters and unfortunately my Greaves too. His two Wisps knocked me down to 2 life. I draw Wurmcoil and could've scooped there but played it anyways and hoped he'd Plow it so I'd have one more turn to try and draw All is Dust. Sure enough he plows it and I get one more draw after attacks. I draw dead and he kills me. My next draw would've been Staff of Nin. Too little too late.
(0-1)
Round 2: Bant w/ TNN (2-0)
My opponent told me he was a newer player and that I was probably gonna crush him. I felt pretty good about his lack of confidence. Game one I cast Greaves on turn one off a Tomb. Turn two City into Lodestone equip and attack. Despite what my opponent may have thought, Lodestone does actually have text as he attempts to cast GSZ for two, which I told him was actually gonna be for one. He gets Hierarch. I play another Golem and attack with both. He scoops. Game two involved him getting a pretty comfortable board state with SFM, TNN, Goyf, Batterskull and Jitte. At one point I Forged out my Lodestone (leaving only Ratchet Bomb) so I could cast All is Dust as I only had access to seven mana. He had been holding one card for a while and I figured he probably sided out his Dazes. Sure enough he didn't and he Dazed the shit out of my All is Dust. Woof! I was able to resolve Forgemaster and two or three irrelevant artifacts. I also had been ticking up the Ratchet Bomb. He was hellbent after attacks so I fetched Blightsteel in his end step ad ticked Bomb to two. In my turn I blow the bomb leaving him with TNN and Germ token. I attack and he blocks only with TNN and dies to ten poison. Turns out TNN doesn't prevent trample damage…haha.
(1-1)
Round 3: U/B Tezzeret (2-1)
Game one he lands turn two Ensnaring Bridge and I'm kinda taken back. I land an early Golem and in his turn he Casts Toxic Deluge (sweet card!) for three off of two lands and Mox Diamond. I remind him it will cost one more mana and he takes two damage from his Tomb. At one point he lands Tezzeret and I have Forgemaster with no other artifacts. I believe I wasteland his lands and he gets stuck with three cards in hand as I go one the beatdown plan with Forgemaster killing off Tezz and then his life total. Game two he had a Baleful Strix and Tezzeret. He turned Strix into a 5/5 and went on the attack. I drop Karn Liberated and liberate his Strix. He turned another artifact into a 5/5 and killed Karn and continued the beatdown. I lost that game. Game three's ending life totals were him at 0 and me at 6. I remember he had an early Mox Diamond and a sol land. I played Ratchet Bomb and destroyed for 0 and then Wastelanded him. Revoker on Tezzeret was pecking away after that. I eventually got a Greaves and then a Golem putting him to 1. He scoops in his next turn. One more draw would have once again provided the lethal Staff of Nin ping.
(2-1)
Round 4: Jund (2-0 *sort of)
This round I played a nice local from the Nashville area. Game one I draw useless artifacts like multiple Trinispheres and he crushes me. Game two I mull to five due to piss poor draws and then he Junds me. Goyf, Goyf, BBE into Liliana. Yep! We shake hands and I tell him good games and he signs the slip and hands it back to me and told me had was conceding to me. I couldn't believe it. He said he had to leave to tend to some family stuff and that he was giving me the win. I thanked him very much and he wished me the best. Little did he know that I would go on a tear after that and it was solely due to his concession that I was even able to keep playing and winning. Thanks again!
(3-1)
Round 5: BGw Dark Depths (2-0)
My opponent was a nice dude from Switzerland who had come over just for this tournament and a Nashville Predators game. Sweet! He ended up making top 16 as well. We got to playing and I realized he was on an all-in Dark Depths deck. I have recently put together a similar deck so I know most of the tricks. Turn one he lays land and passes. Then in my end step Enlightened Tutors for Sprit of the Labrynth (also a sweet card) but I do not care as it barely affects me here. I go up to 24 off of post lands and he makes Marit Lage in my end step. He swings in for 20 and I go to 4. In his end step I sac my Forgemaster for Staff of Domination. I had an active Metalworker and three artifacts in my hand. I proceeded to go infinite and went to 8 million life. He quickly assessed that he would not be able to beat that and he scoops on spot. Game two was not as strong for him. He had two Sprits out and was attacking me. I can't remember this game too much but I remember he was hellbent at one point and I killed off his whole board except Knight of the Reliquary. I then cast Revoker on his Reliquary and beatdown with Wurmcoil for the win.
(4-1)
Round 6: Deadguy Ale w/ green splash (0-2)
I recognized my opponent from having seen him around the Atlanta area card shops. I had no clue what he was on though. I don't remember the details too much but I saw the following cards: DRS, Thoughtseize, Hymn, Liliana, Dark Confidant, and much later a SFM package. His first three land drops were two fetches for two basic swamps and a Bayou. At one point in the game he had a tapped out board state with an active DRS and a Dark Confidant. I have Forgemaster, Greaves, and one other artifact. After much deliberation I decide to go for it in his end step fetching Blightsteel. He taps DRS for white and Plows my Colossus. I didn't even see it coming! What a blowout. I never suspected STP as I had never seen a white card or Scrubland. I went from having what I would've considered a favorable board state to losing in a few short turns. I was then left with one useless card as he killed me with card advantage and DRS activations. Damn. In hindsight I either could've waited to activate or fetched up Staff of Nin to kill Bob but I like to be the aggressor and sometimes it backfires. Game two I didn't really have much of a shot. He Thoughseized away my first play, Hymned me, Liliana got rolling, Vindicated anything relevant and then Lingering Souls (which I bombed away) and then lost. Maybe I need some Witchbane Orbs in the board. Or perhaps that's too slow? Dodecapods? I'm not sure. He unfortunately went on to miss his win and in, but still placed in the top 16 somewhere. Congrats dude.
(4-2)
Round 7: Affinity (2-1)
Game one he was on the play and played a few Affinity cards but had no creatures so it was a slow start for him. I dropped a Chalice on 0 to blank some of his creatures and attacked in with Wurmcoil until he was at 0. Game two he had an explosive start with an early Inkmoth Nexus into Cranial Plating. I had a sol land and a Revoker but for some reason played something else instead of Revoking his Plating. That came back to haunt me because he hooked up his Inkmoth with the plating and poisoned me for 6. I then revoked it but it was too late as he then cast Arcbound Ravager, sac'd some artifacts, moved the counters to Inkmoth for the kill. Now I know see how much it sucks to die to poison counters haha. Game three I was on the play and my opponent was staring at me while I looked at my opener so I downplayed my incredible hand in my facial expressions. I told him I'd keep and he kept as well. I lay City of Traitors, Grim Monolith, and Trinisphere. Game over! I eventually got Greaves, hooked up Metalworker, activated for a lot of mana, cast Forgemaster, hooked him up, activated him for Blightsteel and then equipped him up for the infect kill.
(5-2)
Round 8: Bant w/ TNN (2-1)
My notes aren't that good for this match but I remember resolving Karn Liberated and exiling some things, and then Steel Hellkite wiped his board of anything else. Game two he landed a Humility and a Jace. He was able to keep matching my 1/1's so I was never able to kill Jace. He didn't have a quick kill here but I looked at the clock and we didn't have much time left so I scooped so we could start the next game. Game three my opponent fetches and cast GSV for 0 for Arbor. I play a sol land and cast Greaves. He lays a land and GSZ for Gaddock Teeg. Wtf? That card might as well have no text at that point cuz I was about to go off. I lay Cavern naming Construct and lay a Metalworker, equip, activate for a lot of mana, cast Forgemaster and other artifacts, equip, fetch for Blightsteel and realize for some strange reason that I mistakenly sided him out. Instead, I grab a Sundering Titan and nuke all three of his lands. I equipped the Titan and started attacking. He was never able to recover from that one-sided Armageddon.
(6-2)
Round 9: Sneak & Show (2-1)
I knew at this point that I was gonna get some amount of cash but I wanted to play my match to see if I could beat my personal record of 20th at one of these tournaments. Game one I had an early Golem that knocked him down to 3 life. He was eventually able to cast Show & Tell and I was ready with my miser's maindeck Spine. He reveals Sneak Attack and with the Spine trigger on the stack activates bringing in Emrakul. I count my permanents at 6 and life at 14 and lose on spot. Games two and three were much better for me. Game two I get a second turn Metalworker off Cavern naming Construct. I powered out a Karn Liberated and exiled cards from his hand. Karn exiled an Emrakul and Griselbrand which took him to 14 loyalty. I then cast Chalice on 3 and play a Revoker on Sneak Attack. He scooped before I could restart the game. Hah. Game three I played kinda sloppy but it was the ninth round so that's expected. I remember landing a turn one Chalice for 1, eventually casting two Revokers naming Sneak Attack and Griselbrand. On my opponent's turn before I was going to attack for lethal he casts brainstorm and I say it's countered, he responds with brainstorm, which was countered as well. Then a ponder followed by Spell Piece, which were both countered as well. Haha. He must have kept an opener with many cantrips and was hoping to draw in to the combo. He was a good sport about it. I still hate his deck and wish it would go away forever.
(7-2) Final Record
Shoutouts: Team Tusk, RHBM, Team Nest, Nedleeds for driving and letting us turn his car into a fart factory, Bill Clinton and Waffle House. Thanks for reading.
List:
4 Metalworker
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
3 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Grim Monolith
4 Trinisphere
1 Staff of Nin
1 Staff of Domination
2 Lightning Greaves
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Karn Liberated
3 Cavern of Souls
3 Wasteland
2 Vesuva
4 Cloudpost
4 Glimmerpost
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
Sideboard:
2 All Is Dust
3 Ratchet Bomb
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Spine of Ish Sah
3 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Spellskite
1 Sundering Titan
Round 1: Death & Taxes (1-2)
Game one I was facing an early Batterskull off a Stoneforge and a Revoker on my Metalworker. I was able to get out a Forgemaster and a few other artifacts. He attacks in with the Germ and I Forgemaster for Blightsteel Colossus (leaving in play my chalice on one) and block. In my turn I serve him 10 poison. Games two and three were not very good for me. This is actually a tough matchup for my deck if they get the right forms of disruption. Game two he crushed me. Game three pretty much the same story. Early Batterskull. He then got a pair of Flickerwisps, one of which flicked my Chalice on one to remove the counters. I was able to get a Ratchet Bomb out but he had so much pressure that I had to crack it to destroy his Jitte with counters and unfortunately my Greaves too. His two Wisps knocked me down to 2 life. I draw Wurmcoil and could've scooped there but played it anyways and hoped he'd Plow it so I'd have one more turn to try and draw All is Dust. Sure enough he plows it and I get one more draw after attacks. I draw dead and he kills me. My next draw would've been Staff of Nin. Too little too late.
(0-1)
Round 2: Bant w/ TNN (2-0)
My opponent told me he was a newer player and that I was probably gonna crush him. I felt pretty good about his lack of confidence. Game one I cast Greaves on turn one off a Tomb. Turn two City into Lodestone equip and attack. Despite what my opponent may have thought, Lodestone does actually have text as he attempts to cast GSZ for two, which I told him was actually gonna be for one. He gets Hierarch. I play another Golem and attack with both. He scoops. Game two involved him getting a pretty comfortable board state with SFM, TNN, Goyf, Batterskull and Jitte. At one point I Forged out my Lodestone (leaving only Ratchet Bomb) so I could cast All is Dust as I only had access to seven mana. He had been holding one card for a while and I figured he probably sided out his Dazes. Sure enough he didn't and he Dazed the shit out of my All is Dust. Woof! I was able to resolve Forgemaster and two or three irrelevant artifacts. I also had been ticking up the Ratchet Bomb. He was hellbent after attacks so I fetched Blightsteel in his end step ad ticked Bomb to two. In my turn I blow the bomb leaving him with TNN and Germ token. I attack and he blocks only with TNN and dies to ten poison. Turns out TNN doesn't prevent trample damage…haha.
(1-1)
Round 3: U/B Tezzeret (2-1)
Game one he lands turn two Ensnaring Bridge and I'm kinda taken back. I land an early Golem and in his turn he Casts Toxic Deluge (sweet card!) for three off of two lands and Mox Diamond. I remind him it will cost one more mana and he takes two damage from his Tomb. At one point he lands Tezzeret and I have Forgemaster with no other artifacts. I believe I wasteland his lands and he gets stuck with three cards in hand as I go one the beatdown plan with Forgemaster killing off Tezz and then his life total. Game two he had a Baleful Strix and Tezzeret. He turned Strix into a 5/5 and went on the attack. I drop Karn Liberated and liberate his Strix. He turned another artifact into a 5/5 and killed Karn and continued the beatdown. I lost that game. Game three's ending life totals were him at 0 and me at 6. I remember he had an early Mox Diamond and a sol land. I played Ratchet Bomb and destroyed for 0 and then Wastelanded him. Revoker on Tezzeret was pecking away after that. I eventually got a Greaves and then a Golem putting him to 1. He scoops in his next turn. One more draw would have once again provided the lethal Staff of Nin ping.
(2-1)
Round 4: Jund (2-0 *sort of)
This round I played a nice local from the Nashville area. Game one I draw useless artifacts like multiple Trinispheres and he crushes me. Game two I mull to five due to piss poor draws and then he Junds me. Goyf, Goyf, BBE into Liliana. Yep! We shake hands and I tell him good games and he signs the slip and hands it back to me and told me had was conceding to me. I couldn't believe it. He said he had to leave to tend to some family stuff and that he was giving me the win. I thanked him very much and he wished me the best. Little did he know that I would go on a tear after that and it was solely due to his concession that I was even able to keep playing and winning. Thanks again!
(3-1)
Round 5: BGw Dark Depths (2-0)
My opponent was a nice dude from Switzerland who had come over just for this tournament and a Nashville Predators game. Sweet! He ended up making top 16 as well. We got to playing and I realized he was on an all-in Dark Depths deck. I have recently put together a similar deck so I know most of the tricks. Turn one he lays land and passes. Then in my end step Enlightened Tutors for Sprit of the Labrynth (also a sweet card) but I do not care as it barely affects me here. I go up to 24 off of post lands and he makes Marit Lage in my end step. He swings in for 20 and I go to 4. In his end step I sac my Forgemaster for Staff of Domination. I had an active Metalworker and three artifacts in my hand. I proceeded to go infinite and went to 8 million life. He quickly assessed that he would not be able to beat that and he scoops on spot. Game two was not as strong for him. He had two Sprits out and was attacking me. I can't remember this game too much but I remember he was hellbent at one point and I killed off his whole board except Knight of the Reliquary. I then cast Revoker on his Reliquary and beatdown with Wurmcoil for the win.
(4-1)
Round 6: Deadguy Ale w/ green splash (0-2)
I recognized my opponent from having seen him around the Atlanta area card shops. I had no clue what he was on though. I don't remember the details too much but I saw the following cards: DRS, Thoughtseize, Hymn, Liliana, Dark Confidant, and much later a SFM package. His first three land drops were two fetches for two basic swamps and a Bayou. At one point in the game he had a tapped out board state with an active DRS and a Dark Confidant. I have Forgemaster, Greaves, and one other artifact. After much deliberation I decide to go for it in his end step fetching Blightsteel. He taps DRS for white and Plows my Colossus. I didn't even see it coming! What a blowout. I never suspected STP as I had never seen a white card or Scrubland. I went from having what I would've considered a favorable board state to losing in a few short turns. I was then left with one useless card as he killed me with card advantage and DRS activations. Damn. In hindsight I either could've waited to activate or fetched up Staff of Nin to kill Bob but I like to be the aggressor and sometimes it backfires. Game two I didn't really have much of a shot. He Thoughseized away my first play, Hymned me, Liliana got rolling, Vindicated anything relevant and then Lingering Souls (which I bombed away) and then lost. Maybe I need some Witchbane Orbs in the board. Or perhaps that's too slow? Dodecapods? I'm not sure. He unfortunately went on to miss his win and in, but still placed in the top 16 somewhere. Congrats dude.
(4-2)
Round 7: Affinity (2-1)
Game one he was on the play and played a few Affinity cards but had no creatures so it was a slow start for him. I dropped a Chalice on 0 to blank some of his creatures and attacked in with Wurmcoil until he was at 0. Game two he had an explosive start with an early Inkmoth Nexus into Cranial Plating. I had a sol land and a Revoker but for some reason played something else instead of Revoking his Plating. That came back to haunt me because he hooked up his Inkmoth with the plating and poisoned me for 6. I then revoked it but it was too late as he then cast Arcbound Ravager, sac'd some artifacts, moved the counters to Inkmoth for the kill. Now I know see how much it sucks to die to poison counters haha. Game three I was on the play and my opponent was staring at me while I looked at my opener so I downplayed my incredible hand in my facial expressions. I told him I'd keep and he kept as well. I lay City of Traitors, Grim Monolith, and Trinisphere. Game over! I eventually got Greaves, hooked up Metalworker, activated for a lot of mana, cast Forgemaster, hooked him up, activated him for Blightsteel and then equipped him up for the infect kill.
(5-2)
Round 8: Bant w/ TNN (2-1)
My notes aren't that good for this match but I remember resolving Karn Liberated and exiling some things, and then Steel Hellkite wiped his board of anything else. Game two he landed a Humility and a Jace. He was able to keep matching my 1/1's so I was never able to kill Jace. He didn't have a quick kill here but I looked at the clock and we didn't have much time left so I scooped so we could start the next game. Game three my opponent fetches and cast GSV for 0 for Arbor. I play a sol land and cast Greaves. He lays a land and GSZ for Gaddock Teeg. Wtf? That card might as well have no text at that point cuz I was about to go off. I lay Cavern naming Construct and lay a Metalworker, equip, activate for a lot of mana, cast Forgemaster and other artifacts, equip, fetch for Blightsteel and realize for some strange reason that I mistakenly sided him out. Instead, I grab a Sundering Titan and nuke all three of his lands. I equipped the Titan and started attacking. He was never able to recover from that one-sided Armageddon.
(6-2)
Round 9: Sneak & Show (2-1)
I knew at this point that I was gonna get some amount of cash but I wanted to play my match to see if I could beat my personal record of 20th at one of these tournaments. Game one I had an early Golem that knocked him down to 3 life. He was eventually able to cast Show & Tell and I was ready with my miser's maindeck Spine. He reveals Sneak Attack and with the Spine trigger on the stack activates bringing in Emrakul. I count my permanents at 6 and life at 14 and lose on spot. Games two and three were much better for me. Game two I get a second turn Metalworker off Cavern naming Construct. I powered out a Karn Liberated and exiled cards from his hand. Karn exiled an Emrakul and Griselbrand which took him to 14 loyalty. I then cast Chalice on 3 and play a Revoker on Sneak Attack. He scooped before I could restart the game. Hah. Game three I played kinda sloppy but it was the ninth round so that's expected. I remember landing a turn one Chalice for 1, eventually casting two Revokers naming Sneak Attack and Griselbrand. On my opponent's turn before I was going to attack for lethal he casts brainstorm and I say it's countered, he responds with brainstorm, which was countered as well. Then a ponder followed by Spell Piece, which were both countered as well. Haha. He must have kept an opener with many cantrips and was hoping to draw in to the combo. He was a good sport about it. I still hate his deck and wish it would go away forever.
(7-2) Final Record
Shoutouts: Team Tusk, RHBM, Team Nest, Nedleeds for driving and letting us turn his car into a fart factory, Bill Clinton and Waffle House. Thanks for reading.