Xargoth
06-11-2014, 08:30 PM
Mornin', I split the finals of Mythic Games' monthly legacy tournament for June and thought I'd write a report.
First off, decklist;
Main
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Gravecrawler
4 carrion Feeder
4 Bloodghast
3 Vengevine
(19 creatures)
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Thoughtseize
4 Faithless Looting
4 Grisly Salvage
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Goblin Bombardment
(21 Spells)
3 Badlands
3 Bayou
4 Marsh Flats
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Swamp
(20 Land)
Sideboard
4 Abrupt Decay
2 Contamination
2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Ground Seal
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Golgari Charm
1 Ancient Grudge
And now for the matches!
(all from memory a lot of things probably aren't going to be quite right)
Round 1 vs Mark Matthews with Jund
Game 1: I win the die roll, and don't remember my opening hand or if I mulled. I play Gravecrawler turn 1 and pass. He plays Deathrite Shaman and passes. I cast some number of Cabal Therapy and take 2 cards out of his hand, pass. He casts Hymn to Tourach and hits grisly salvage and a land I think. I attack him for 2 for a few turns while he doesn't do much aside from casting Thoughtseizes and such. I eventually find lightning bolt for his deathrite and go crazy with my gravecrawler I cast turn 1. Win
Sideboard: +2 Ground Seal, +3 Abrupt Decay, -1 Deathrite Shaman, -2 Thoughtseize, -2 Grisly Salvage
Game 2: He starts out with a shock land tapped and passes (I know right?) I play a deathrite then pass. He bolts my deathrite, surgicals it and passes. I therapy him, miss, but see he kept a land heavy hand. All that was in his hand was Sylvan Library and Bloodbraid Elf with a bunch of lands. I cast carrion feeder and flashback therapy since he's my only guy to hit his library. He draws and passes. I cast faithless looting, discard bloodghast, play land, flashback another therapy I discarded to looting to hit his BBE. I then fetch and play Ground Seal. He draws and plays Deathrite Shaman. I bolt it on my turn and play Grisly Salvage. I don't remember the rest of this game, but I'm pretty sure I just attack him to death with a bloodghast and gravecrawler. Win
2-0, 1-0
Round 2 vs Steve Thompson with Punishing Jund
Game 1: I lose the dice roll, we both keep kind of bad hands. I had to mull to 6, he did not. we both don't do much. he plays two Bobs pretty early. On the turn he would kill me he loses 6 life from his Bobs and I am able to kill him from 3 with a bolt. Win
Sideboard: +2 Ground Seal, +4 Abrupt Decay, -2 Thoughtseize, -4 Grisly Salvage
Game 2 : I don't remember much of this game, all I remember is I get him down relatively low then can't draw anything relevant while he draws all gas and I die. Lose
Game 3: Similar to game 2 aside from the whole getting him low part. Lose
1-2, 1-1
Round 3 vs James Balyszack with BUG Delver
Game 1: I lose the Dice roll, and keep a reasonably strong hand. He casts deathrite and passes. I bolt it and pass. He plays ponder, shuffles then casts Delver and passes. I cast faithless looting, discard bloodghast and a land I think. I play a land and cast gravecrawler. He whiffs on 2 Delver triggers and Casts Bob at some point in these 2 turns. I cast bombardment the turn after he casts bob and machine gun his team. Afterward he doesn't do a whole lot and I kill him with bombardment. Win
Sideboard: +2 Ground Seal,+4 Abrupt Decay, -2 Thoughtseize, -4 Grisly Salvage
Game 2: He starts with a mull to 6, then plays a land and passes. I blind therapy away a goyf and see he has a very land heavy hand aside from 1 Bob. He plays bob and passes. I cast faithless looting on my turn discarding a bloodghast and Vengevine, I then bolt his Bob. He fails to draw gas as I bring back double Vengevine and he dies shortly after. Win
2-0, 2-1
Round 4 vs Evan Flynn with Miracles.
Game 1: I lose the dice roll I keep a hand with turn 2 bombardment. He plays a land and passes. I play gravecrawler and pass. He plays another land and passes. I attempt to cast goblin bombardment. He debates for a while whether to counter it or not, eventually deciding to counter it as he questions his decision to do so, I pass. He continues to play lands and pass. I don't remember much more of this game aside from his countering of my bombardment to be VERY relevant with Bloodghasts and crawlers everywhere and no sac outlet to save them from terminus. I get a couple hits in with Vengevine and eventually kill him with vines and hasty Bloodghasts.
Sideboard: +4 Abrupt Decay, +2 Contamination, +2 Golgari Charm, +2 Phyrexian Revoker, +1 Surgical Extraction, -4 Grisly Salvage, -4 Lightning Bolt, -1 Goblin Bombardment, -2 Thoughtseize.
Game 2: I don't remember the beginning of this game, but the end was incredibly close. He was very low and I had a team of guys. He casts entreat for 5, but I'm at 21 from Swords to Plowshares a few times so he can't quite kill me. If he swings he dies so he has to sit on 5 angels for like 6-7 turns. I do the same, but eventually draw a couple Deathrites and a revoker. He ends up swinging as a last ditch effort on his last turn bringing me to 1 as I block a Snapcaster Mage with a deathrite shaman (don't want him to find something with his top by blocking with revoker.) I swing back on my turn and kill him Win.
2-0, 3-1
Round 5 Vs Chad Vanemon with Miracles
We ID... Yay top 8!
Top 8 Round 1 vs Eli Kassis with Elves
Game 1: He mulls to 5 and I keep a double bolt, double therapy, faithless looting hand. He casts a symbiote on turn 1. I blind therapy away a Visionary and pass. He plays a Heritage Druid and Nettle Sentinel. I bolt the symbiote and the sentinel. He plays a land and passes. I cast looting get a Bloodghast and therapy seeing only Gaea's Cradle. a few more turns pass while I draw gas and he draws lands and I win. Win
Sideboard: +4 abrupt Decay, +2 Goglari Charm, +2 Ground Seal, -4 Grisly Salvage, - 4 Deathrite Shaman.
Game 2: He mulls to 6, keeps a sub par hand. I keep the best hand I've seen all day only missing a faithless looting. He plays a mana elf on turn 1 and passes. I blind therapy a glimpse. He plays a Heritage Druid and passes. I draw faithless looting, cast it, discard double bloodghast play land, flashback therapy hit Natural Order, and Bolt his mana elf. He draws and passes. I cast bombardment and it's GG. Win
2-0, 4-1, 1-0
Top 8 Round 2 vs Evan Flynn with Miracles again
Game 1: I don't remember the exact plays but I get a bunch of advantage with double grisly salvage, and he eventually dies to the card advantage. Win
Sideboard: same as before
Game 2: Same as the game 2 earlier, except I was at 18 and he Entreated for 4. He can't swing because if he does he dies. I don't remember exactly how I killed him, but I think I drew a bombardment and just gravecrawler chained him. Win.
2-0, 5-1, 2-0
Top 8 round 3 Finals vs Chad Vanemon with Miracles again.
We draw the finals because he had a wedding to go to and I don't really want to play against Miracles again.
I was paired against Chad twice and didn't play him either time. He mentioned this fact after we drew the finals and since he's playing miracles he didn't have time to watch any of my games. We were chatting and he said "I was supposed to play you twice and I still have no idea what you're playing" so I showed him my decklist.
WOO! $250 credit! With the credit I got earlier for trading in the stuff I don't care about I picked myself up a Bayou, an Underground sea, and a few small cards. Overall a good Day.
First off, decklist;
Main
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Gravecrawler
4 carrion Feeder
4 Bloodghast
3 Vengevine
(19 creatures)
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Thoughtseize
4 Faithless Looting
4 Grisly Salvage
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Goblin Bombardment
(21 Spells)
3 Badlands
3 Bayou
4 Marsh Flats
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Swamp
(20 Land)
Sideboard
4 Abrupt Decay
2 Contamination
2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Ground Seal
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Golgari Charm
1 Ancient Grudge
And now for the matches!
(all from memory a lot of things probably aren't going to be quite right)
Round 1 vs Mark Matthews with Jund
Game 1: I win the die roll, and don't remember my opening hand or if I mulled. I play Gravecrawler turn 1 and pass. He plays Deathrite Shaman and passes. I cast some number of Cabal Therapy and take 2 cards out of his hand, pass. He casts Hymn to Tourach and hits grisly salvage and a land I think. I attack him for 2 for a few turns while he doesn't do much aside from casting Thoughtseizes and such. I eventually find lightning bolt for his deathrite and go crazy with my gravecrawler I cast turn 1. Win
Sideboard: +2 Ground Seal, +3 Abrupt Decay, -1 Deathrite Shaman, -2 Thoughtseize, -2 Grisly Salvage
Game 2: He starts out with a shock land tapped and passes (I know right?) I play a deathrite then pass. He bolts my deathrite, surgicals it and passes. I therapy him, miss, but see he kept a land heavy hand. All that was in his hand was Sylvan Library and Bloodbraid Elf with a bunch of lands. I cast carrion feeder and flashback therapy since he's my only guy to hit his library. He draws and passes. I cast faithless looting, discard bloodghast, play land, flashback another therapy I discarded to looting to hit his BBE. I then fetch and play Ground Seal. He draws and plays Deathrite Shaman. I bolt it on my turn and play Grisly Salvage. I don't remember the rest of this game, but I'm pretty sure I just attack him to death with a bloodghast and gravecrawler. Win
2-0, 1-0
Round 2 vs Steve Thompson with Punishing Jund
Game 1: I lose the dice roll, we both keep kind of bad hands. I had to mull to 6, he did not. we both don't do much. he plays two Bobs pretty early. On the turn he would kill me he loses 6 life from his Bobs and I am able to kill him from 3 with a bolt. Win
Sideboard: +2 Ground Seal, +4 Abrupt Decay, -2 Thoughtseize, -4 Grisly Salvage
Game 2 : I don't remember much of this game, all I remember is I get him down relatively low then can't draw anything relevant while he draws all gas and I die. Lose
Game 3: Similar to game 2 aside from the whole getting him low part. Lose
1-2, 1-1
Round 3 vs James Balyszack with BUG Delver
Game 1: I lose the Dice roll, and keep a reasonably strong hand. He casts deathrite and passes. I bolt it and pass. He plays ponder, shuffles then casts Delver and passes. I cast faithless looting, discard bloodghast and a land I think. I play a land and cast gravecrawler. He whiffs on 2 Delver triggers and Casts Bob at some point in these 2 turns. I cast bombardment the turn after he casts bob and machine gun his team. Afterward he doesn't do a whole lot and I kill him with bombardment. Win
Sideboard: +2 Ground Seal,+4 Abrupt Decay, -2 Thoughtseize, -4 Grisly Salvage
Game 2: He starts with a mull to 6, then plays a land and passes. I blind therapy away a goyf and see he has a very land heavy hand aside from 1 Bob. He plays bob and passes. I cast faithless looting on my turn discarding a bloodghast and Vengevine, I then bolt his Bob. He fails to draw gas as I bring back double Vengevine and he dies shortly after. Win
2-0, 2-1
Round 4 vs Evan Flynn with Miracles.
Game 1: I lose the dice roll I keep a hand with turn 2 bombardment. He plays a land and passes. I play gravecrawler and pass. He plays another land and passes. I attempt to cast goblin bombardment. He debates for a while whether to counter it or not, eventually deciding to counter it as he questions his decision to do so, I pass. He continues to play lands and pass. I don't remember much more of this game aside from his countering of my bombardment to be VERY relevant with Bloodghasts and crawlers everywhere and no sac outlet to save them from terminus. I get a couple hits in with Vengevine and eventually kill him with vines and hasty Bloodghasts.
Sideboard: +4 Abrupt Decay, +2 Contamination, +2 Golgari Charm, +2 Phyrexian Revoker, +1 Surgical Extraction, -4 Grisly Salvage, -4 Lightning Bolt, -1 Goblin Bombardment, -2 Thoughtseize.
Game 2: I don't remember the beginning of this game, but the end was incredibly close. He was very low and I had a team of guys. He casts entreat for 5, but I'm at 21 from Swords to Plowshares a few times so he can't quite kill me. If he swings he dies so he has to sit on 5 angels for like 6-7 turns. I do the same, but eventually draw a couple Deathrites and a revoker. He ends up swinging as a last ditch effort on his last turn bringing me to 1 as I block a Snapcaster Mage with a deathrite shaman (don't want him to find something with his top by blocking with revoker.) I swing back on my turn and kill him Win.
2-0, 3-1
Round 5 Vs Chad Vanemon with Miracles
We ID... Yay top 8!
Top 8 Round 1 vs Eli Kassis with Elves
Game 1: He mulls to 5 and I keep a double bolt, double therapy, faithless looting hand. He casts a symbiote on turn 1. I blind therapy away a Visionary and pass. He plays a Heritage Druid and Nettle Sentinel. I bolt the symbiote and the sentinel. He plays a land and passes. I cast looting get a Bloodghast and therapy seeing only Gaea's Cradle. a few more turns pass while I draw gas and he draws lands and I win. Win
Sideboard: +4 abrupt Decay, +2 Goglari Charm, +2 Ground Seal, -4 Grisly Salvage, - 4 Deathrite Shaman.
Game 2: He mulls to 6, keeps a sub par hand. I keep the best hand I've seen all day only missing a faithless looting. He plays a mana elf on turn 1 and passes. I blind therapy a glimpse. He plays a Heritage Druid and passes. I draw faithless looting, cast it, discard double bloodghast play land, flashback therapy hit Natural Order, and Bolt his mana elf. He draws and passes. I cast bombardment and it's GG. Win
2-0, 4-1, 1-0
Top 8 Round 2 vs Evan Flynn with Miracles again
Game 1: I don't remember the exact plays but I get a bunch of advantage with double grisly salvage, and he eventually dies to the card advantage. Win
Sideboard: same as before
Game 2: Same as the game 2 earlier, except I was at 18 and he Entreated for 4. He can't swing because if he does he dies. I don't remember exactly how I killed him, but I think I drew a bombardment and just gravecrawler chained him. Win.
2-0, 5-1, 2-0
Top 8 round 3 Finals vs Chad Vanemon with Miracles again.
We draw the finals because he had a wedding to go to and I don't really want to play against Miracles again.
I was paired against Chad twice and didn't play him either time. He mentioned this fact after we drew the finals and since he's playing miracles he didn't have time to watch any of my games. We were chatting and he said "I was supposed to play you twice and I still have no idea what you're playing" so I showed him my decklist.
WOO! $250 credit! With the credit I got earlier for trading in the stuff I don't care about I picked myself up a Bayou, an Underground sea, and a few small cards. Overall a good Day.