As I mentioned before, got a first place in a 41 player tournament on the 31th last month, but just now got time to write about it! (actually wrote on a brazillian forum first, so I wanted to write it here later on).
My list:
Jund
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Punishing Fire
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Thoughtseize
2 Hymn to Tourach
2 Sylvan Library
4 Liliana of the Veil
4 Grove of Burnwillows
3 Bayou
2 Badlands
1 Swamp
1 Forest
4 Wasteland
3 verdant Catacomb
3 Blostained Mire
3 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
2 Duress
1 REB
1 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Exctraction
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Choke
2 Engineered Plague
1 Krosan Grip
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Life from the Loam
1 Pithing Needle
On to the games!
Round 1 - UR Delver (with Young Pyromancer)
Game 1 - I started out very well, and managed to burn down every token and creatures he played with P.Fire and Burnwillows online. Unfortunately I didn't get any heavy beater such as Tarmogoyf or BBE, but was being slowly able to drain him down with EOT P.Fire and Shaman (with this one gerally getting me life as his burns tore me down pretty badly), however, at a point in the game I had 8 non-basic lands, counting 2 wastelands, and 2 shamans, plus a total of 3 usabale punishing fires, and I decided killing him in his EOT by tapping out and unleashing everything, however in response to it he just plays Price of Progress for an astounding 16 points of damage, killing me. Should I have stayed on my own pace, I'd have owned him,and avoided the POP by self-wastelanding myself, plus Shamans and all. Sigh.
Game 2 - Was completely opposite to G1 in terms that I got all the bombs, which were unnefective by his ever growing army of pyromancer tokens. Another loss. 0-1. This player eventually gets selected to the Top 8.
This round loss meant a lot for me as I decided focusing a lot more and playing on my own pace instead of aggroing all out.
Round 2 - Some kind of rogue mono black with creature cards that come back from grave
Game 1 - My opponent wasn't very bright - He plays a Bad Moon right after I play a Dark Confidant, which almost wins the game alone ha.
Game 2 - He catches me unprepared for some cards I barely rememebr the name and had never seen before, some guys who, whenever they are i nthe grave and their owner gets hit by a creautre, that creature dies, and they come back on top of the library. However he never got able to have anything on board any way, and more turns, less turns, he got beaten up. 1-1
Round 3 - Another mono black deck, but a more formidable foe this time
Game 1 - I can't recall excatly what happened by I have this noted down on my life sheet fro ma turn one Thoughtseize "Dark Ritual, Surgical Extraction maindeck (which scared the hell out of me), dark confidant, a m14 zumbie that discards white and green creatures, IoK and a few lands". He doesnt offer much threat to turn two Tarmogoyf.
Game 2 - I'm hit by 4 Surgical Extractions, and lose Punishing Fire, Tarmogoyf, BBE and Deathrite. Then I got smashed by the 4cmc Phrexian Negator.
Game 3 - I start out real lucky: Both Thoughtseize and Surgical Extraction in my hand, and Surgical Extraction on his: That's my target. I pretty much beat him up after that. 2-1
Round 4 - Merfolk
Game 1 - From my notations it seems I pretty much straighforward win the first game with a beater after taking a few hits and punishing every merfolk on the way.
Game 2 - Multiple Kiras, post-sideboard ruin any chance of me liquidating the fish, and I'm overwhelmed.
Game 3 - I get a Choke in play and he doesn't draw any Kira so I had no trouble dealing with them. 3-1
Round 5 - Mirror match!
I can't remember much about this match and from the notations it was a tedious one from all the 1 life up two down notations I've got here, but I end up winning after losing the second game. 4-1
Round 6 - Douglas - Merfolks again!
By the time this match happens I was very tired, having slept only 3 hours the night before.
Game 1 - I start out on a mulligan for 5, being 2 of them a Bayou and Shaman, which is nearly perfect for the hand that it is - until he Force of Wills Shaman and break my land with Wasteland. From then on it's draw draw draw until I'm dead - by merfolk.
I board on al levil stuff I've got against the kind - Chokes, Plagues and P. Deed!
Game 2 - I burn everything down with P. Fire and beat him down with BOB. Dark Confidant can do as he pleases since later I run Choke when he's all tapped out. Plague seals the game for me.
Game 3 - Was a tough one. He beats me up pretty badly early on, and with me needing Dark Confidant to gain speed, I dance around the 3-5 life point amount and get saved by double Shamans in order to avoid drawing a BBE and suicide accidentally haha. I end up winning! This player also goes to top 8 later on, same as me. 5-1
Aside of the money, the top 2 players would get a spot in the National Legacy tourney in Brazil so theoretically all I had to do is win the semi-finals!
Top 8 - Goblins (?)
Game 1 - My opponent apparently had to leave without notice and didn't drop his name, so I didn't get an opponent and won haha.
Top 4 - Shardless BUG
Game 1 - I start out with a mulligan for 5 cards, from which 2 of them were lands, but I could cast the rest (tarmo, a. decay and something else) . My Tarmogoyf gets Decayed, and the rest discarded in a Hymn to Tourach. On the bright side, apparently my opponent spent his hand all too fast and from two lands he had, only one produced blue mana and then BAM, I draw a wasteland, and ruin his match forever. I draw another Goyf and beat him up, who had a blue-filled hand.
Game 2 - I have a good hand but has an even better one - from turn 2 and onwards, he'd cast a Tarmogoyf per turn, and not even Decay or Liliana could take care of them. I have a P.Deed in my hand, but due to a wrong block I don't have enough lifepoints to eventually take the damage and destroy everything the next turn.
Game 3- I have a very slow start with everything I cast being destroyed or discarded, but I have a very healthy land base, and I get two consecutive BBE draws, one I believe who turned a P. Fire, and the second to a Dark Confidant.. with whom you can do wonders with 4 mana and an extra draw. I had to beat him under his clock of two Ancestral Visions ticking, but was not that hard with 8+ damage per turn.
My final opponent would be a Jund but we agreed to just take the spot on the tourney and be done with it. Afterall it was over 11pm and we were dying already haha.
That's about it. The following day had another legacy tournament with 31 people and I end up 22nd haha, being destroyed by 2 Omnihalls and Manaless Dredge. Seriously, you can't fight SnT with just one discard in your hand!
i hope you enjoy!
