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TheBirdMan
10-09-2007, 12:57 PM
This is what I played:

4 Survival of the Fittest
3 Enlightened Tutor
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
2 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
4 Magus of the Moon
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Quirion Ranger
1 Reya Dawnbringer
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Loyal Retainers
1 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Sky Hussar
1 Karmic Guide
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Masticore
1 Anger
1 Spore Frog
1 Genisis
1 Eternal Witness
13 Forest
4 Plains
1 Flagstones of Trokair
4 Mountain

SB
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Pithing Needle
4 Price of Progress
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Rule of Law

The basic meta plan was to utilize the Magus of the moon and run only 1 non-basic land and destroy my opponents mana base. This was assuming I'd play against Thresh, combo, 40 something land and dual heavy survival all day. This move turned out to be phenominal since magus won me 80% of my matches.

Round 1: Survival Mirror
I see while he's shuffling he has a Goblin Sharpshooter, I think crap I'm losing to goblins but turn one he drops bayou and I am very much relieved.

We both get survival on board. I get magus out, he plays Flametongue Kavu
I Harmonic Sliver his Survival. He recovers easily, Sharpshooters my board and takes game one with goyf.

Game 2: No sideboarding (Wishing I boarded Oriss)
Starts out similar to game one but this time I get Kiki-Jiki in yard and Survival on board before he wipes my creatures with sharpshooter. I have no cards in hand and need to get any creature to win. I draw Birds of paradise and say go. End of his turn I survival to get sky hussar, discard that to get karmic guide and earn a lucky game 2 win. (My opponent wasn't too happy)

Game 3: Same as game one.

0-1

Round 2: Aluren (Rsaunder)

Game 1:
Easy win since he drew no aluren and played nothing relavant since magus shuts down his land.

Game 2: Sideboard in 3 Needle Drop Reya, don't remember what else.
He gets aluren on board but I have Harmonic Sliver in Hand, He played Raven Familiar I Respond with Sliver, GG.

1-1

Round 2: DeadGuy (Whit3 Ghost)

Game One:
He Plays Hymn and Small Pox turn one and two respectively but I manage to get Magus on board and get him off vindicate and grunt and continue to overrun him.

Game Two: No Sideboarding
Starts like the first one but he gets a much better draw. I get Magus on board early end up with no hand and survival on board. He has hypnotic spector and shade, its not looking great for me. My Akroma and Retainers are in my graveyard, I manage to draw a creature, get Genisis in yard and Rofellos on board. Next turn i Genisis retainers and get Akroma out which immediately turned the game around.

2-1

Round 4: DeadGuy again

Game one: He plays 2 shades, pumps both and swings for 9. I respond next turn with angry sharpshooter. Next turn I get out saffi and loyal retainers and shoot him with sharpshooter infinitly.

Game Two: Best game all day..No Sideboarding.
He mulls to 6 on the play and says go. I say you are on the play, he responds with no play...ok. He continues to not draw land for 5 turns and i wreck him with masticore and kiki-jiki on board.

3-1

Round 5: (Eternal Garden) Di (This is ironic b/c this round was key to id into t8 and i wanted to play against a land deck all day since its my best match up)

Game one: My hand sucks with 4 forests a genisis but it has a magus which was winning me matches all day so I keep, I play not much for first 4 turns and turn 5 get tribe elder off a survival. He makes an unknowing play error of not to play Humlility but Engineered explosives for 2 I sac tribe elder for a mountain drop Magus, game over.

Game 2: I board in 4 Price of Progress and Crypts and drop all creature kill, masticore etc.
I get Magus out, he swords, drops humility and tabernacle. I continuously drop 1/1s and he does not get threshold to block with Nantuko Monastary.

4-1

Round 6: Aluren (Phil Stolze)
I could have ID'd in, but my opponent couldn't so I play round 6

Game 1: I'm pretty nervous since Aluren seems to be a 50/50 with my deck. It seems he runs more basics than rsaunder and gets a way better draw than my previous match. He gets aluren on board, plays raven familar, I respond with harmonic sliver, he fow's gg I lose.

Game 2 Board in Needles
Same as game one sans Harmonic Siver.

I get knocked out of top 8 and end up 11th. (4-2)
I won foil Grozoth signed by Michael Teachout :tongue:

Props:
Team Epic for an awesome event
Eli for selling me Perfect Savannahs for 15 a piece
Magus of the Moon for winning games
My Round 4 opponent for keeping a no land hand.

Slops:
Me for losing round one which kept me from t8 and not running suntail hawk or carrier pidgeons..
The ppl who brought guitar hero 2 for having a craptacular ps2.

Whit3 Ghost
10-09-2007, 09:05 PM
Awesome report, and in our match I sacced a swamp to a smallpox with active magus, leading to never seeing another swamp for the rest of the game.

I had extirpated out Squee, leaving you with topdecking a creature or eating shit. You mized, I lost.
Good games man, and grats again on the finish. I really wish you could've top8ed.

Also, sideboard Pyro Pillar seems to be better in your deck then chalice.

It would've put the savage hurt on Aluren.

Silverdragon
10-09-2007, 09:28 PM
First of all I love your Survival list. Grats on the high finish. Just one question though: Why did you play 4 Mountains instead of a mix of Plateau, Taiga and Mountain. I realize a single basic Mountain is good for Tribe Elder and against Waste but when you have no Magus Plateau and Taiga are better most of the time. I'd perhaps try 1 Mountain, 1 Plateau and 2 Taiga instead of 4 Mountain but I guess it's not that important.
Btw extraprops for making me look up Loyal Retainers. Now that is some savage tech.

Whit3 Ghost
10-09-2007, 09:30 PM
First of all I love your Survival list. Grats on the high finish. Just one question though: Why did you play 4 Mountains instead of a mix of Plateau, Taiga and Mountain. I realize a single basic Mountain is good for Tribe Elder and against Waste but when you have no Magus Plateau and Taiga are better most of the time. I'd perhaps try 1 Mountain, 1 Plateau and 2 Taiga instead of 4 Mountain but I guess it's not that important.
Btw extraprops for making me look up Loyal Retainers. Now that is some savage tech.
At the time, he didn't own them.

He's still going to be running infy basics, just a few duals and prolly some fetches just to smooth the mana a little bit.

Lego
10-10-2007, 12:54 AM
I had extirpated out Squee, leaving you with topdecking a creature or eating shit. You mized, I lost.

How dare Survival draw a creature? I mean, come on, almost half his deck is NOT creatures! The gall.

Whit3 Ghost
10-10-2007, 06:37 PM
How dare Survival draw a creature? I mean, come on, almost half his deck is NOT creatures! The gall.
And? It was basically a 50/50 shot of drawing a creature and going off or losing and he mized, in other words, drawing what he needed, when he needed it. You also managed to remove the part of me congradulating him on two very good matches and me expressing my dissapointment at such an original list not making top8.

Poor attempts at sarcasm aside, I just figured to add a little bit on to both our matches from my perspective.