Originally Posted by
TheManWithaPlan
Grand Prix Toronto was this weekend. I played Legacy side events all 3 days and ended up with a decent record. Played Canadian Threshold on the Friday in a daily going 3-0-1 (beat MUD) and played UR Delver for the Legacy Showdowns both Saturday and Sunday. Finally have something to contribute to the Tournament report section.
Saturday
75 Players, they announced 6 rounds but I told them in round 1 it should be 7 rounds, so they changed it to 7 rounds at round 3. (At least they changed it early-ish. I didn't mind though, more Legacy, more fun.)
List
Creature
4x Delver of Secrets
1x Grim Lavamancer
4x Monastery Swiftspear
3x Stormchaser Mage
1x True-Name Nemesis
Instant
4x Brainstorm
4x Daze
4x Force of Will
4x Lightning Bolt
2x Price of Progress
1x Fireblast
Sorcery
3x Chain Lightning
4x Gitaxian Probe
4x Ponder
1x Forked Bolt
Land
2x Polluted Delta
3x Island
3x Misty Rainforest
1x Mountain
4x Scalding Tarn
3x Volcanic Island
Sideboard
1x Sudden Demise
1x Grafdigger’s Cage
1x Flusterstorm
1x Spell Pierce
1x Price of Progress
2x Pyroblast
2x Smash to Smithereens
1x Bedlam Reveler
1x Vendilion Clique
1x Sulfuric Vortex
2x Surgical Extraction
1x Submerge
Round 1: BUG Delver
G1 Can't remember too much, got in a steady stream of damage with bolts Stormchasers and Swiftspears until he was dead.
Boarding: In; Submerge, Flusterstorm, 1 Pyroblast, Price of Progress, Bedlam Reveler Out; 2 Force of Will 1 Chain Lightning, 2 Gitaxian Probe, Forked Bolt
G2 He starts by fetching an Underground Sea and deploying a Deathrite Shaman. I lead with Volcanic into a Delver. He Hymns me on turn 2 and hits both lands in my hand, yet he fails to make a land drop. I fail to flip my Delver. I Probe to see what is up and I see Deluge, 2 Goyfs, Hymn and a Delver. I follow up with a Ponder to try to set up the Delver and see 2 lands and a Daze. I have a Spell Pierce in hand. So, I am faced with the decision of drawing the Daze to stop a Tarmogoyf and not flipping my Delver, or I can draw a land to hold up Spell Pierce for the Hymn and flip the Delver next turn. I decide to predict him to go for the Hymn next turn and I draw the land to hold up Spell Pierce. He didn't do anything next turn so I flipped my Delver and got the ball rolling from there while he missed on lands and I quickly took the game.
1-0 (matches)/2-0 (games)
Round 2: Czech Pile
G1 Managed to find running Stormchaser Mages, which he had trouble dealing with. I Probed him later on after he had dealt with 2 of them using Murderous Cut and Snapcaster to get it back, and found that he was stuck with an awkward Kolaghan's Command in his hand. I ended up finding a couple more threats and riding
them to victory.
Boarding: In; Submerge, Sulfuric Vortex, Bedlam Reveler, Spell Pierce, Price of Progress, 2 Pyroblast, Flusterstorm Out; 4 Force of Will, 2 Daze, 2 Gitaxian Probe
G2 Start out on Grim Lavamancer, but he eventually kills it with a Liliana of the Veil, but I take out the Liliana in response. I start to flood, however I have a Bedlam Reveler, so I aggressively Bolt him to get a spell in my graveyard and cast the Reveler, discarding a useless Volcanic Island and drawing straight gas. I get a Swiftspear on the board next turn and swing in. He plays a Toxic Deluge on his turn paying 5 life(!!! thanks), killing both my creatures but bringing him to 2 life. I follow up with a Delver and Ponder to set it up, but I found a Forked Bolt and just killed him instead.
2-0/4-0
Round 3: 4 Colour Loam
G1 I start out with a Swiftspear but it gets dealt with by a Liliana. He eventually gets a Maze of Ith and a Dark Confidant on the board but I get more pressure and drop hit him with a small Price of Progress and finish him off from there.
Boarding: In; Price of Progress, Sulfuric Vortex, Submerge, 2 Smash to Smithereens, Bedlam Reveler Out; 4 Daze, Forked Bolt, 1 Gitaxian Probe
G2 I kept a 7 that lost to a Chalice on 1, but knowing that it isn't very likely that he will have the ability to Chalice on 1 turn 1. He starts on Verdant Catacombs and passes. I start on a Delver and pass. He plays a Windswept Heath on turn 2 and passes. I thought it was quite odd he hadn't done anything yet, so I expected an Abrupt Decay on my turn to get rid of the Delver. I flip the Delver on a Brainstrom and play a Monastery Swiftspear. I Ponder, trying to find an answer to a potential Chalice of the Void and see Price, Price, Smash to Smithereens(!!!). I draw a Price, swing for 5 and surprisingly no Abrupt Decay. So over to him. He cracks his fetchlands on my end step bringing him to 13 finding a Scrubland and a Badlands, which was quite strange. He plays a Wasteland on his turn and taps out for Liliana of the Veil and edicts me. I chuck the Swiftspear. I untap draw a card and crack a small smile and my opponent asks me if he is dead. I toss a Price of Progress and a Fireblast on the table, yes, you are dead.
3-0/6-0
Round 4: Turbo Depths
G1 I start out with some pressure and stop his Sylvan Scrying and he doesn't draw what he needs and dies.
Boarding: In; Flusterstorm, Spell Pierce, Vendilion Clique, Submerge, 2 Surgical Extraction Out; Forked bolt, 3 Gitaxian Probe, 2 Chain Lightning
G2 He mulls to 5. He starts out on Urborg and passes. I Start out on a Delver and pass. He plays a Tabernacle on turn 2. I get some more pressure and Chain
Lightning a Vampire Hexmage he plays and just ride some creatures to victory.
4-0/8-0
Round 5: Deadguy Ale
G1 I start out with Swiftspear and Daze a Swords to Plowshares. I cantrip next turn and swing in again. He Inquisitions me on Turn 2 showing a hand with some burn and a Swiftspear. He takes my Swiftspear and Plows my other Swiftspear. I Brainstorm trying to find another red source and find it, so I can fire off multiple bolts on following turns. I Price of Progress dropping him to 9 with a couple bolts in hand and having a Bolt on top too. He has pressure in Lingering Souls but is not attacking me with all 4 souls, so that he can play around a hasty creature and a Bolt to clear the Spirits. He plays a Stoneforge Mystic and finds Batterskull, a crucial mistake. I bolt him twice on my turn dropping him to 3. If he had a Jitte, he would have been able to survive the next Bolt I fired at his face.
Boarding: In; Vendilion Clique, Sulfuric Vortex, Bedlam Reveler, 2 Smash to Smithereens, Sudden Demise, Spell Pierce Out; 4 Force of Will, 2 Daze, 1 Price of Progress
G2 He got his Jitte Smashed and I let him go for Lingering Souls and get the flashback too, so that I could Sudden Demise them all away and finish him off.
5-0/10-0
Round 6: Miracles
ID
5-0-1
Round 7: Jund
ID
5-0-2
I had some time so I got my Ponders altered by Dan Scott, bought some tokens from RK Post, chatted with friends, and watched some Legacy.
Top 8
So I am second seed going into top 8. The top 8 in order was;
Miracles
UR Delver
Deadguy Ale
Jund
ANT
Deadguy Ale
Lands
Grixis Delver
The top 8 split the prize tickets, 800 a piece, but played it out for glory.
Quarterfinals: Lands
G1 I have some pressure but he is able to stop some of it with Maze of Ith. He ends up getting a Glacial Chasm with a Crop Rotation, after I Price of Progress him to 3. He goes to 1 but has a Chasm lock set up with multiple Thespian Stages. I have a Bolt in hand and we are in untimed rounds, so I just wait it out to see if he makes a mistake. He shows me he is competent and doesn't screw it up and I concede when he rids me of all my red mana sources.
Boarding: In; Vendilion Clique, Sulfuric Vortex, 2 Surgical Extraction, Submerge, Price of Progress, 2 Smash to Smithereens Out; 4 Daze, Forked Bolt 2 Gitaxian Probe, 1 Chain Lightning
G2 I Probe him on turn 1 seeing Krosan Grip, Loam, Stage, 2 Wasteland, Tireless Tracker and his only coloured source is a Mox Diamond. I play a Delver off of a basic Island and pass. He sets up the Life from the Loam engine, then I immediately flip Delver to Smash to Smithereens, blow up his Mox Diamond and he never finds another coloured source and dies.
G3 I have early pressure, but he has a Tabernacle locking down my lands. He also has Maze of Ith which is stopping my Delver from getting in for damage, but my Monastery Swiftspear is getting in for 1 for a few turns. I was able to Surgical Extraction Dark Depths to stop him from killing me quickly. I find another land and cantrip then get in for 2. He has a couple Rishadan Ports so he tries to tap down my last land in my next upkeep after I pay for Tabernacle, in which I respond by Bolting him and get in for another 2 damage. Next turn he is holding up mana to copy a Maze of Ith with a Thespian Stage, so he doesn't Port me which allows me to play another Swiftspear and get in again. He gets a Glacial Chasm on the board and goes to 1, but is unable to lock me out and concedes.
6-0-2/12-1
Top 4
The top 4
Miracles>Grixis Delver
UR Delver>Lands
Deadguy Ale>Deadguy Ale
ANT>Jund
Semifinals: Deadguy Ale (Rematch)
G1 He is able to take out most of my creatures and I am resorting to burning him out again. I do make a crucial mistake by casting Price of Progress while I had 2 Volcanic Islands in play and not sacrificing them both to Fireblast in response to me casting Price of Progress. He was left at 3 life and had to fade a topdeck Bolt, but I left myself with too few turns to get there from that mistake.
Boarding: In; Same as last time, Out; 4 Force of Will, 2 Gitaxian Probe, 1 Daze
G2 I am able to pressure him quickly despite him having a Sword of Fire and Ice and burn him out.
Boarding: In; 1 Gitaxian Probe Out; 1 Daze
G3 I am drawing what I need. He Wastes me off of my Volcanic Island, and I promptly draw a basic Mountain and continue the beatdown. We get to a board state where he neither of us have anything on board and I Clique him in his draw step and see 2 Lingering Souls, a Sword of Fire and Ice and a land. I take a Lingering Souls, but he is able to Zealous Persecution the Clique away land the Sword and get the Lingering souls to kill me. GGs
6-1-2/13-3
Finals
Miracles>ANT
Deadguy Ale> UR Delver
I believe Miracles won the event. Congrats to the winner and to the top 8 and top 16!
In all, not losing a game in swiss was fun, the deck was solid, an alarming number of Tabernacles in the room and I knew most of the people in the top 8.
If anyone wants the report from Sunday I will gladly write one up, spoiler went 4-2 winning my last round with the best tiebreakers of the 9 pointers and made 9th, TILT. Thanks for reading this report!