Source Tournament #2: 2 Fast 2 Jelly

Beardtron... But Death and Taxes is one of my 2 favorite decks!

Anyways here's what I'm running:
4x Daretti, Scrap Savant
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Grim Monolith
4x Kuldotha Forgemaster
2x Lightning Greaves
4x Metalworker
1x Mindslaver
1x Myr Battlesphere
1x Platinum Emperion
1x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Spine of Ish Sah
1x Staff of Domination
1x Sundering Titan
1x Thousand-Year Elixir
4x Trinisphere
2x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1x Wurmcoil Engine
4x Ancient Tomb
4x Cavern of Souls
4x City of Traitors
4x Darksteel Citadel
4x Great Furnace
3x Mountain
Side: 15
3x Whipflare
1x Blightsteel Colossus
2x Defense Grid
1x Ensnaring Bridge
1x Spine of Ish Sah
1x Platinum Angel
2x Spellskite
1x Steel Hellkite
2x Sundering Titan
1x Wurmcoil Engine

Hoooly shit. And they say originality is dead.

4 Goblin Guide
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
3 Grim Lavamancer
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
4 Price of Progress
2 Sulfuric Vortex
4 Chain Lightning
4 Fireblast
10 Mountain
2 Arid Mesa
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Searing Blaze
SB: 3 Ensnaring Bridge
SB: 3 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Pyrostatic Pillar
SB: 3 Smash to Smithereens
SB: 2 Searing Blood
SB: 1 Exquisite Firecraft
SB: 1 Sulfuric Vortex

Burn player loves burn. Playing a slightly different 75 here then on paper to test which I like better. Looking forward to the top 8.

Kinda expected to finish 9th, sigh.. Anyway, good luck to the finalists and thanks again for the organization!

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Originally Posted by Fry

Beardtron... But Death and Taxes is one of my 2 favorite decks!

Anyways here's what I'm running:
4x Daretti, Scrap Savant
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Grim Monolith
4x Kuldotha Forgemaster
2x Lightning Greaves
4x Metalworker
1x Mindslaver
1x Myr Battlesphere
1x Platinum Emperion
1x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Spine of Ish Sah
1x Staff of Domination
1x Sundering Titan
1x Thousand-Year Elixir
4x Trinisphere
2x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1x Wurmcoil Engine
4x Ancient Tomb
4x Cavern of Souls
4x City of Traitors
4x Darksteel Citadel
4x Great Furnace
3x Mountain
Side: 15
3x Whipflare
1x Blightsteel Colossus
2x Defense Grid
1x Ensnaring Bridge
1x Spine of Ish Sah
1x Platinum Angel
2x Spellskite
1x Steel Hellkite
2x Sundering Titan
1x Wurmcoil Engine

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I was really salty to losing Sundering Titan t4 off cavern because I thought its 1-of.. But you have 3 after board! Daretti :cool:

My list:
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Counterspell
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Terminus
2 Ponder
4 Counterbalance
4 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Plains
2 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
4 Island
1 Council's Judgment
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Entreat the Angels
1 Spell Pierce
1 Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 Disenchant
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 2 Vendilion Clique
SB: 2 Rest in Peace
SB: 1 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
SB: 1 Counterspell
SB: 1 Keranos, God of Storms
SB: 1 Mountain
SB: 2 Pyroblast

As expected, I'm on Burn. Like Bigwerdz, I'm running a slightly different list here than on paper. (Slightly tempered by the 3542 Storm decks I played against last tournament. :laugh: )

9 Mountain
3 Arid Mesa
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Wooded Foothills
1 Barbarian Ring
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Rift Bolt
4 Lava Spike
1 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Price of Progress
4 Searing Blaze
2 Sulfuric Vortex
4 Fireblast
SB: 1 Grim Lavamancer
SB: 3 Smash to Smithereens
SB: 3 Pyrostatic Pillar
SB: 3 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 3 Exquisite Firecraft
SB: 2 Vexing Shusher

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Originally Posted by dsck

losing Sundering Titan t4 off cavern because I thought its 1-of.. But you have 3 after board! Daretti :cool:

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BRUTAL

Sundering Titan being one of my favorite cards, I find this thoroughly amusing.

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Originally Posted by iamajellydonut

BRUTAL

Sundering Titan being one of my favorite cards, I find this thoroughly amusing.

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This:
Game 2 I mull to 6 on the play and end up being annoying with a Defense Grid lead so I could resolve the Chalice on 1 for turn 2. He Cliques me and lets me keep my hand of Metalworker, Sundering Titan, Staff of Domination, and City of Traitors. He lets me keep all of them when I have that Chalice on 1, Mountain, Furnace, and Citadel in play and he has an EE set on 0, so I take the risk and play the Metalworker and it resolves. Next turn he still doesn't blow up the EE, so no StP, and no 4th land. My next turn I play staff, play Titan and he scoops.

I'm assuming my opponent dropped and I didn't know? Kinda bummed to skate in the Top 8 on a "bye". I threw my pile together the night before the event started; I guarantee I'm playing more BFZ cards than anyone else here. ;)

Abzan Deadguy

4 Marsh Flats
4 Scrubland
3 Wasteland
2 Windswept Heath
2 Swamp
1 Bayou
1 Savannah
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Shambling Vent

4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Mother of Runes
4 Stoneforge Mystic
3 Dark Confidant
1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir

2 Bitterblossom
2 Sylvan Library
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sword of Light and Shadow

4 Abrupt Decay
3 Swords to Plowshares
3 Cabal Therapy
3 Lingering Souls
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Painful Truths

Sideboard:

2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Siege Rhino
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Manriki-Gusari
2 Zealous Persecution
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Cabal Therapy

While I missed the top 8 by a fair bit, I played Death and Taxes with a splash of red.

Creatures:
4 Flickerwisp
3 Imperial Recruiter
2 Magus of the Moon
1 Mangara of Corondor
4 Mother of Runes
2 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Vryn Wingmare
1 Mirran Crusader

Spells:
4 AEther Vial
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Swords to Plowshares

Lands:
2 Cavern of Souls
4 Flooded Strand
1 Marsh Flats
4 Wasteland
3 Karakas
3 Plains
2 Plateau
4 Rishadan Port

Sideboard:
2 Containment Priest
2 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Manriki-Gusari
3 Rest in Peace
2 Sudden Demise
1 Pithing Needle
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Sword of War and Peace
1 Forked Bolt
1 Cunning Sparkmage

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Originally Posted by jrsthethird

I'm assuming my opponent dropped and I didn't know? Kinda bummed to skate in the Top 8 on a "bye".

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Yeah, blub had failed to show the prior round, and you had posted with attempts at communication for this round, so when it came time today to make a choice between win/lose/draw, you made the cut. I hate to be the arbiter, but it's not like I can punish you for other people's faults. However, while I wholeheartedly agree that you shouldn't be in the top eight at all, I would like to clarify that it's not because of "skating in on a bye".

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Originally Posted by jrsthethird

1 Shambling Vent

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You make me sick.

Also, announcement!

Read the post dammit.

So, prizes can be found below. And, before you say what you're thinking ("hmm... these lack a certain cohesion and seem really last minute"), they are kinda just shoved together. However, it's not without good reason. Yes, I'm a lazy sack of shit who has a certain affection for procrastinating, but there's more to it than that.

Pre-planning had me setting some dosh aside in an effort to keep a growing pool of prizes. For example, have six potential prizes this "season". The four winners take their picks. Rest go into the vault to be added onto the five new prizes for next season and now there's seven choices! Cool, right? And then eventually it becomes pretty clear that no one wants the playset of Portuguese foil One with Nothings, so we hold a tournament that pays out to as many people as we have prizes and start fresh for the next one. Pretty fukken solid, right? Problem with that is... how regular did I really expect these to become?

This month and next month are the "holiday season". No way in hell I was going to work around that, which means things are pushed to early January which means two months of nothing. Two months of crap sitting in a shoebox and two months for me to change how I feel about this and two months to maybe even find new employment (the current being where I get to post from most). So, I procrastinated as I always do. With sound intentions though, and it's something of a good thing that I did procrastinate, because I did change my mind. About a few things. One is that I no longer see this as an eternal thing. Just not gonna play out that way. Good intentions don't get you everything. Tradition's out the door. Neato tricks out the door. The other is that I'm kinda... done with the game? I don't mean that in too sincere of a sense. I popped open my binder after the "news" yesterday and after a few silly beauties stared me in the face, I realized there's no way I'm actually quitting. But I am stepping back, and my interest is definitely waning.

So, that being said, I kinda axed the theme that I did start going for and just kinda went ham on cool shit. Many of the things on the list are pre-owned staples that are going to be needing a good home while others I kinda just snap went "I want that" or "that'll make a decent pick" after rifling though listings and binders (like the sick set of altered Deathrites). You'll also notice that the list is completely devoid of foils, and that's intentional. Because if no one picks the obscure EDH foil, there's no fukken way in hell I'd want the thing and flipping it would be more painful than peeling off my fingernails. So, yes, it's disorganized and it may seem kinda lazy, but it's all from the heart, and if you really don't want a Trop (that was only so recently acquired #sad), then I'll be more than happy to hold onto it.

Maybe I'll do this again sometime in the distant (or not too distant) future, but it probably won't be as silly, it definitely won't be continuous, and I might even look to gain something from it.

But fuck all that shit above! Because top eight awaits! There may be a playmat added later if a commission happens and if I don't just want to outright keep both of them, and the list might grow a teeny bit in general as I potentially de-"invest" (honestly anyone who knows me knows there wasn't much to start with and it's been slowly trickling away for a while now), but here's what we got to work with for now. Relevant pics will be added in a bit.


Top Four Pick:
Tropical Island (MP)
Liliana of the Veil
City of Traitors (japanese)
3*Cryptic Command (lor)
4*Deathrite Shaman ("full art" altered)
Force of Will (MP)
Rishadan Port (SP)

5th-8th
Entry fee back (in lieu of entry/cash option to a future one of these)

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Originally Posted by iamajellydonut

However, while I wholeheartedly agree that you shouldn't be in the top eight at all, I would like to clarify that it's not because of "skating in on a bye".



You make me sick.

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Because I "shambled" in on a bye?

Sweet Prizes, I would be happy with any of those choices!

My list is nothing too exciting. I was going to play Esper Mentor or Maverick but chickened out at the last minute.

2 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
2 Plains
4 Polluted Delta
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island

1 Pyroblast
4 Counterbalance
2 Counterspell
4 Force of Will

4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Sensei's Divining Top

4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Terminus
1 Council's Judgment

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Entreat the Angels
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Monastery Mentor

SB: 1 Blood Moon
SB: 2 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Izzet Staticaster
SB: 2 Pyroblast
SB: 1 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Rest in Peace
SB: 1 Terminus
SB: 2 Wear // Tear
SB: 3 Vendilion Clique

For the record, I sided out the Maindeck pyroblast in 4 of the 5 matchups :/

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Originally Posted by TheArchitect

For the record, I sided out the Maindeck pyroblast in 4 of the 5 matchups :/

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From the looks of it, this rate will likely continue.

I think we've reached a Gentleman's Agreement not to play a certain 1-mana Instant this time around. ;)

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Originally Posted by jrsthethird

From the looks of it, this rate will likely continue.

I think we've reached a Gentleman's Agreement not to play a certain 1-mana Instant this time around. ;)

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What's this "Instant" thing do?

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Originally Posted by Fry

What's this "Instant" thing do?

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Deals 3 damage to one target. ;)

I don't understand, they must not be cards that stay in play or something, I don't play those things, they only do something once... That means they're bad right?

Pairings as soon as I'm done filling out thirty-or-so envelopes.

Honestly an ez task, but it's been bleh at work.

So, pairings in a sec.

Here's what I brought. Deck felt super strong, a better player would've done very well with it. It might have changed slightly since the tournament, but it's no less than 73/75.

4 Deathrite Shaman
3 True-Name Nemesis
2 Baleful Strix
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor


4 Abrupt Decay
3 Thoughtseize
3 Force of Will
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Counterspell
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Maelstrom Pulse

4 Brainstorm
2 Ponder
1 Sylvan Library

4 Polluted Delta
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Forest
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Swamp

Sideboard
1 Krosan Grip
1 Golgari Charm
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Disfigure
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Will
2 Null Rod
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Extirpate
1 Grafdigger's Cage