3rd/4th Split at Hadley 4x Tundra Tourny

Pre-Tournament:
Our journey begins with our hero (that's me) getting out of work on Friday night at about 9:40pm and getting a Call from Vanele saying he's just gonna stay at my house since it will cut his drive down 25 minutes the next day. I then get a call from Hammafistroob telling me I should go get him and we should go to Maagler's house for some Pool and Testing. Roob and I then meet up with Vanele and go to Maagler's house... long story short we do some testing get are decks ready and get like 3 hours of sleep. The next morning our two cars head out to Hadley....
Tournament:
Roodmistah's car (the one Roob and I were in) gets there first and we're like the only people there so we just register our decks and wait for the tournament to start. Meanwhile I bought some Asian Mishra's Factory’s and Stifles off of Bryant.

Anyways, here is the list I regged:
Lands:21
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Wasteland
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
4 Island

Creatures:10
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
3 Tarmogoyf
3 Trinket Mage

Noncreature Spells:29
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Stifle
4 Standstill
3 Counterbalance
3 Daze
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Krosan Grip
1 Trickbind

Sideboard:15
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Firespout
2 Vexing Shusher
1 Pithing Needle
1 Krosan Grip

Anyways at about 1:30 Kevin announces that the tournament is about to begin and the pairings go up.
Round 1: I'm sorry I forgot your name (SI)
I win the die roll, 1-0-0
Game 1: I keep a solid hand with 2 Lands a Brainstorm, top, force, daze, stifle and start with Island, Top pass. He goes swamp pass. I topdeck counterbalance and then standstill the next turn. He breaks my counterbalance with a Shield Sphere and I realize what he is playing I draw FOW, FOW, Daze off of Standstill. He tries to combo and it doesn't go well for him. Nought comes down next turn and thats all.
Sideboarding: -2 Krosan Grip +2 Tormod's Crypt
Game 2: I get a standstill down turn 2 and beat with factory's while we both sculpt our hands. I end up breaking the standstill and drop CB/T with a trickbind and 2 stifles in hand and 3 mana open. He attempts to combo again and fails I kill him with Factories.
1-0-0

Round 2: Jared Lees (Unregged) Dragon Stompy
I win the die roll 2-0-0
Game 1: I play island Pass and he plays chalice @1 I force it and he passes. I drop a turn 2 Nought and he Scoops.
Sideboarding: -3 Counterbalance, -2 Daze, -1 Sensei's Divining Top, +3 Blue Elemental Blast, +2 Firespout, +1 Pithing Needle
Game 2: He opens with Chalice @1 and I play Island, E.E. for 0, pass. He tries to get out turn 2 Dragon and I force. My turn is Trop, Goyf pass. He plays Arc-Slogger and Passes. My turn is pop E.E. BEB his slogger and swing with goyf. He plays another chalice at 1 and then morph's Gathan Raiders. I topdeck E.E. and uses it to kill his raiders and chalice. I then beat in a few more times for the win while he draws lands, Moxes and Seething Songs.
2-0-0
Round 3: Bryan (F_N_Bryan) with Rgb Goyf Sligh
I win the die roll 3-0-0
Game 1: I drop an Early Nought and he kills it with Tin-Street. I then assemble CB/T and beat in with a pair of Goyfs.
Sideboarding: -2 Krosan Grip, -1 Dreadnought +3 BEB
Game 2: He just burns me out and keeps swinging with goyf.
Game 3 I get in with a turn 2 Nought putting him at 7 (He fetched). Then he topdecks a Tin-Street and kills my Nought with it. I Assemble CB/T but he drops Vexing Shusher. He then swing for 4 like 4 times and I brainstorm into a pair of Goyfs. I drop the goyfs and pass he passes back and we play play draw go for a while eventually he sneaks a Fireblast through after making it uncounterable 3 times in response to 2 FOW's and CB. Oh well Shusher is a dick.
2-1-0
Round 4: Steve (Unregged?) With RGB Aggro Loam
I win the die Roll 4-0-0
Game 1: I get him down to 2 life with a Goyf and a Factory then he drops a Goyf of his own and a Countryside Crusher. I then Play Goyf Counterbalance and Pass. He plays another goyf of his own and I flip over Daze with Counter balance, I swing with the team and his life hits 0.
Sideboarding:-3 Daze +3 Tormod's Crypt
Game 2: He Starts with Mox Diamond, Mox Diamond, Land, Chalice @ 1. I go Land pass. he then cycles a few lands and plays LFTL. On my turn I go E.E. For zero blow it and he plays land Goyf. I then Drop a Crypt and Crypt him and then a Nought and it goes the distance.
3-1-0
Round 5: Ben (Force_Of_Will) RGBSA
I win the die roll 5-0-0
Game 1: I deny him mana by stifling fetches, wasting lands, and Dazing Birds I eventually get a Counterbalance down while he gets survival, He tries to play E-Witness and I blind rape it with a topdeck K-Grip. I then grip his Survival on my turn. Then on my next turn I drop 2 Noughts and Win.
Sideboarding: -1 Dreadnought, -1 Trinket Mage,+1 Pithing Needle, +1 Tormod's Crypt
Game 2: He plays land birds and passes. I play turn 1 Needle on Survival. He then attempts to play Tarmogoyf and I force. I play Counterbalance and pass. He plays land and passes. I topdeck top and from there lock him out of everything he plays including 2 Eternal Witnesses, Indrick Stomphowler, and Genesis. Eventually Factories and a Trinket Mage get there.
4-1-0
Round 6:
No die roll 5-0-1
I ID with the Merfolk guy.

Top 8: Trevor (GetsickandDie) Affinity
I win the die Roll 6-0-1
Game 1: He mulls to five and I mull to six. I lead with a top and pass. He plays a land a Thopter. I then drop a goyf and he follows suit. I then make some play error involving E.E. and he plays cranial plating and Equips it to Thopter. I then drop a Nought and just barely win the race.
Sideboarding: -2 Daze +1 Pithing Needle +1 Krosan Grip
Game 2: I keep a really solid hand for playing the landstill game but he opens with vial and my only counter was a daze. DOH! Anyways I get steamrolled in like 4-5 turns.
Game 3: I drop a turn 2 Nought and he almost gets enough to chump with his field and live (while killing the Nought) With Ravager and Tarmogoyf plus some 0cc artifacts but I topdeck Trinket Mage into Needle on Ravager making him not be able to kill the nought after sacking his board.
5-1-1
Top 4: Matt McNally playing Epic MS Paint
I win the die roll 7-0-1
Game 1: He grinds me out on turn 3.
Sideboarding: -1 Dreadnought, -3 Daze, -1 Trinket Mage, -1 Stifle +1 Pithing Needle, +2 Firespout, +3 REB
Game 2: He just out card advantages me with Bob and thoughtseize's my FOW realizing I can't deal with combo with my current hand and he drops it and kills me.
5-2-1
3rd/4th: Andy (Maagler) Ichorid
No Die roll 7-0-2
We Split.
5-2-2
Anyways 6th at the end of Swiss 4th overall not a bad day.

Post tournament Shenanigans:
Our usual rule is whoever calls shotgun has it on the way up and highest placing has it on the way back but Me and Maagler split it so we had a die roll for it.
I Lost the die roll :cry: 7-1-2. Anyways We get pulled over on the way back and Vanele gets a $260 ticket for going 91 in a 65, what a beating! Then we enjoyed some Ninety-Nine when we got back to Wareham.

Props:
-Kevin for hosting a great tournament.
-Maag for Top 8ing
-Dreadstill, Still way better than people will give it credit for.
-The Ninety-Nine it was Delicious!
-Roob for being Hilarious.
-Chub Toad.
-Bryant losing to Dreadstill after all his trash talk.

Slops:
-Me Playing terribly in top 4 and 8.
-Vanele's ticket.
-Wizard's for not throwing down the Ban Hammer on Chub Toad.
-Me leaving my Backpack in Vanele's Car.

And so the hero's journey ends... (that's still me by the way.)

Congratulation for the 6th place!

The lack of removal (except for the EE) is one of the main reason why i havent played Dreadstill in any competitive tournament yet. The deck is tight, and the only cards that can be borded are the K.Grip. Were they of any use in the tournament?

Robert

You won every die roll except the price one. Funny.

Chub Toad wins again!. :cool: Congrats on your finish.

Prop: Nice finish, very cool list.
Slop: Roob still owes me $10 from the last Hadley.

Lol well Jared you would have got paid if you went... :rolleyes:
Slops Continued:
-Jaynel, how lame.:wink:

Good showing. I still don't understand why UG Dreadstill plays only three Tarmogoyf. Could you try giving an explanation? ("I don't know what to cut" isn't enough, since you can run 61 cards and still probably have a better list)

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Originally Posted by Nihil Credo

Good showing. I still don't understand why UG Dreadstill plays only three Tarmogoyf. Could you try giving an explanation? ("I don't know what to cut" isn't enough, since you can run 61 cards and still probably have a better list)

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The only reason I was running 3 was I've had some really bad expirences with my opponent dropping a moon and making Tarmogoyf a locked up dead card in my hand and MA generally has a good number of Moon effects. However since the tournament I have made some changes to my build and one was:
-1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
+1 Tarmogoyf