thefreakaccident
09-16-2007, 12:09 PM
I had other plans last Friday, but they all crapped out on me. I ended up going to a tourney with my good old faithful (URW landstill).
There were 27 people, I was one of many. The tourney was only 6 hours (5 rounds, and no top 8 face off). The first round was called and I was just finished reconstructing my deck.
I was tired and grumpy, going almost straight to the tourney from school after a day of tests and stuff like that. My day finished off pretty good though :).
the list I used was:
4 tundra
4 volcanic island
4 flooded strand
1 plains
1 island
4 faerie conclave
4 mishra's factory
4 wasteland
3 nevinyrral's disk
2 crucible of worlds
4 standstill
3 fact or fiction
2 teferi's response
4 force of will
4 counterspell
3 fire/ice
3 swords to plowshares
3 lightning bolt
1 disenchant
2 stifle
sideboard//
3 engineered explosives
3 disenchant
3 blue elemental blast
2 red elemental blast
2 wrath of god
2 stifle
I had to make it quick, so it was a little sloppy.
Round 1: Raffinity w/ fling and shrapenel blast
Game 1: he starts off strong with a couple of critters and a plating, I stalled out until I got my disk online to sweep his board. I then continued to land lock him out with crucible wasteland... onto game 2.
Game 2: he boarded in pithing needles and red elemental blasts.
I boarded in disenchants and engineered explosives to screw with him. Needless to say It went quite similar to game 1 except in this game I had to disenchant a huge ravenger (12/12).
Record: 1-0-0
Round 2: Against Faerie Stompy (never seen this at the tourney before).
Game 1: I personally didn't know what the MU is like, so I didn't know what to think. He starts off with a challice for 1, and passes. I start with volcanic and pass, he goes land sea drake. My turn I disenchant his challice and pass. He attacks and passes I play a land, and pass. He plays a land and plays an equipment and tries to equip, in response I bolt the drake. We pass go for a while before I gain control of the board with standstills and disks. I killed him with factories.
He boards in winter orb and I board in wrath of god.
Game 2: He gets out an early winter orb, and kills me with a serendib w/ swords of fire/ice. I not only got mana screwed, but he had some really good opening during this game.
Game 3: I get disk online and blow almost his entire board, then beat him down with conclaves and factories.
Record: 2-0-0
Round 3: against UGB threshold
Game 1: Shawna is playing something out of the ordinary, and she won the dice roll. She starts with a mongoose and passes, I start with some early wastelock that eventually wins me the game (creature control and manlands helped out here).
I board in engineered explosives and she boards in extripate
Game 2: I have all my forces and disks extripated, but my manlands and watselands were still too much for her. I never had a man and in the yard (I had most of them on the board), so she didn't exripate. I also kept at least 1 wasteland on the field so that wouldn't get pated either.
Record: 3-0-0
Round 4: TES, nuff said
Game 1: I kept an optimal hand of lands counters and stifles. I start out by wasteing his lands and forcing a fizzle into 2 goblin tokens. I played out a disk and blew up the board. I then killed him softly with mishra beats.. he ran MD duress and he boarded in confidant.
I boarded out my swords for explosives and my teferi's responses for blue elemental blasts.
Game 2:, I made a ply mistake and tapped out for a crucible into a wastelock the next turn (not exactly a lock against combo, but it hurt mana production at least), he then procedes to kill me with a leathal tendrils after double duress taking my fows away for his tutor.
Game 3: I keep a hand with an explosives and a stifle, I play the explosives for zero and my first turn land to pass it over to him. He started off strong, and gets rid of my explosives with a shattering pulse on my explosives and making 10 guys. I draw into some stall and draw into the explosives to sweep his board completely. I killed him shortly after.
Record: 4-0-0
Round 5: against a teammate, playing UGW sleigh control.
Micheal wanted to draw and do it that way, so I agreed and got first (I got paired down last round, because I was the last undefeated person).
I played against a good variety of decks that do a good job of representing the meta as a whole. I got $40.oo and some extra ego, I knew the deck couldn't not get first.
Landstill has to fight and overcome, I still think it is strong (although like ancient). It may take a lot of time and skill to pilot, but I think that it would be good for the meta if people started to play this deck more.
Until next week my fellow sourcers!
There were 27 people, I was one of many. The tourney was only 6 hours (5 rounds, and no top 8 face off). The first round was called and I was just finished reconstructing my deck.
I was tired and grumpy, going almost straight to the tourney from school after a day of tests and stuff like that. My day finished off pretty good though :).
the list I used was:
4 tundra
4 volcanic island
4 flooded strand
1 plains
1 island
4 faerie conclave
4 mishra's factory
4 wasteland
3 nevinyrral's disk
2 crucible of worlds
4 standstill
3 fact or fiction
2 teferi's response
4 force of will
4 counterspell
3 fire/ice
3 swords to plowshares
3 lightning bolt
1 disenchant
2 stifle
sideboard//
3 engineered explosives
3 disenchant
3 blue elemental blast
2 red elemental blast
2 wrath of god
2 stifle
I had to make it quick, so it was a little sloppy.
Round 1: Raffinity w/ fling and shrapenel blast
Game 1: he starts off strong with a couple of critters and a plating, I stalled out until I got my disk online to sweep his board. I then continued to land lock him out with crucible wasteland... onto game 2.
Game 2: he boarded in pithing needles and red elemental blasts.
I boarded in disenchants and engineered explosives to screw with him. Needless to say It went quite similar to game 1 except in this game I had to disenchant a huge ravenger (12/12).
Record: 1-0-0
Round 2: Against Faerie Stompy (never seen this at the tourney before).
Game 1: I personally didn't know what the MU is like, so I didn't know what to think. He starts off with a challice for 1, and passes. I start with volcanic and pass, he goes land sea drake. My turn I disenchant his challice and pass. He attacks and passes I play a land, and pass. He plays a land and plays an equipment and tries to equip, in response I bolt the drake. We pass go for a while before I gain control of the board with standstills and disks. I killed him with factories.
He boards in winter orb and I board in wrath of god.
Game 2: He gets out an early winter orb, and kills me with a serendib w/ swords of fire/ice. I not only got mana screwed, but he had some really good opening during this game.
Game 3: I get disk online and blow almost his entire board, then beat him down with conclaves and factories.
Record: 2-0-0
Round 3: against UGB threshold
Game 1: Shawna is playing something out of the ordinary, and she won the dice roll. She starts with a mongoose and passes, I start with some early wastelock that eventually wins me the game (creature control and manlands helped out here).
I board in engineered explosives and she boards in extripate
Game 2: I have all my forces and disks extripated, but my manlands and watselands were still too much for her. I never had a man and in the yard (I had most of them on the board), so she didn't exripate. I also kept at least 1 wasteland on the field so that wouldn't get pated either.
Record: 3-0-0
Round 4: TES, nuff said
Game 1: I kept an optimal hand of lands counters and stifles. I start out by wasteing his lands and forcing a fizzle into 2 goblin tokens. I played out a disk and blew up the board. I then killed him softly with mishra beats.. he ran MD duress and he boarded in confidant.
I boarded out my swords for explosives and my teferi's responses for blue elemental blasts.
Game 2:, I made a ply mistake and tapped out for a crucible into a wastelock the next turn (not exactly a lock against combo, but it hurt mana production at least), he then procedes to kill me with a leathal tendrils after double duress taking my fows away for his tutor.
Game 3: I keep a hand with an explosives and a stifle, I play the explosives for zero and my first turn land to pass it over to him. He started off strong, and gets rid of my explosives with a shattering pulse on my explosives and making 10 guys. I draw into some stall and draw into the explosives to sweep his board completely. I killed him shortly after.
Record: 4-0-0
Round 5: against a teammate, playing UGW sleigh control.
Micheal wanted to draw and do it that way, so I agreed and got first (I got paired down last round, because I was the last undefeated person).
I played against a good variety of decks that do a good job of representing the meta as a whole. I got $40.oo and some extra ego, I knew the deck couldn't not get first.
Landstill has to fight and overcome, I still think it is strong (although like ancient). It may take a lot of time and skill to pilot, but I think that it would be good for the meta if people started to play this deck more.
Until next week my fellow sourcers!