Originally Posted by
prateta
Hello, my first tournament report here, although I have been reading this thread for years :-)
Today I went 3-1 on small tourney in Prague. I played budget list of RW goblins (no wastes, no ports). Please excuse the grammar mistakes as english isn't my native language.
Decklist:
Spells & Artifacts
3x Tarfire
4x Vial
Creatures
1x Sharpshooter
1x Stingscourger
1x Tuktuk Scrapper
3x Gempalm
2x Krenko
3x Warchief
3x Piledriver
4x Ringleader
4x Matron
2x Chieftain
2x MWM
4x Lackey
Lands
1x Plateau
4x Cavern
4x Bloodstained Mire
14x Mountain
SB:
1x Rest In Peace
3x Relic of Progenitus (wanted to play 4x RiP, but somehow couldn't get my hands on a playset the evening before the tourney started... so I decided to improvise with this - imo good - alternative)
3x Pyrostatic Pillar
3x Pyrokinesis
4x Wear//Tear
1x Stingscourger
Now the games...
Round 1 - RGB with punishing fire (don't know the exact name of the deck... it included such cards as goyfs, confidants, bloodbraid elf, maelstrom pulse, thoughtseize, ooze, liliana...) - 2:0
G1: I am on play, keep very nice hand with vial, 3 lands, chieftain, warchief, ringleader. He mulls to 6. I open with mountain, vial and let him play. He starts with thoughtseize for my ringleader and passes the turn. I draw piledriver, +1 vial, play piledriver and let him play. He then puts second land and plays two! more thoughtseizes, getting me off my chieftain and warchief. I thought this didn't go well, then I realised he has almost no board position and I don't care about some discards. I got lucky with topdecks then, topdecked ringleader into 4 goblins (some haste lord, krenko, removal). He starts playing oozes and goyfs who all eat my removals, until few turns later I win the game with krenko tokens.
G2: He starts, keeping his 7, neither do I. He plays t1 land and thougthseize (again? seriusly?), discarding my matron. I topdeck my only RiP in first draw and play it the turn after. He never got into the game after this (couldn't find abrupt decay for RiP), so I just proceeded to kill all his useless oozes and goyfs, and once again, finished with Krenko few turns later. This was a supreme start for me, I kissed Krenko's face, went for a cigarette just 5 minutes before round 2 started. Perfect timing.
1 - 0
Round 2 - GW Maverick - 2:0
G1: I'm on play once again. I keep insane! hand containing: lackey, 3 lands, warchief, ringleader, krenko. I go mountain, lackey, pass. He plays savannah, hierarch and passes. I topdeck gempalm, put mountain into play, burn hierarch and connect with lackey which resolves for warchief. Next turn he plays another savannah and one more hierarch, pass. I topdeck tarfire, burn second hierarch, and go 3 damage (lackey + chief), lackey resolves once again, this time for Krenko, pass. He plays scavenging ooze and pass, I make some tokens at the end of his turn. In my turn I play ringleader into 3 goblins (2 of them matron), then I don't remember what happened exactly. All I know is that once again I won with board full of 1/1 tokens from krenko. He couldn't find sword, poor guy.
G2: I'm on draw, keeping average hand, rather bad and slow. It's due to be noted I'm afraid to mulligan. He starts with t1 mother, t2 sfm for jitte, then in next turns he has every single good card from Maverick on board. Sfm, jitte, mother, ooze, hierarch, reliquary (like 8/8 at the time he was relevant). I'm chumpblocking as a motherfucker, trying to establish at least some board position. I remember him getting me down to 5 life, when I managed to get my hands on matron into tuktuk, getting rid of jitte. I also removed Relic, to get rid of reliquary and stingscourgered his Ooze. This was a long game (like 25 minutes). My biggest advantage was that he was so sure he was going to win, that he spent his swords for killing tuktuk and those shits, just to kill me fastest as possible with his big creatures. I managed to drive into lategame, where I managed to get a board position looking apx like this: few 1/1 goblins (matrons, tokens from MWM), 2 chieftains, 1 krenko. I play krenko's ability at the end of his turn, then in my turn topdeck krenko, play first krenko's ability, legend rule him out, play again with new krenko. From not-so-good position I stormed out with 32x 3/3 goblins in one turn.
2 - 0
Round 3 - Canadian Threshold - 2:0
G1: I am on play again (what a luck), keep very good hand with lackey, removal, matron, ringleader. Play lackey, he plays something, I remove it next turn and connect. Like 5 turns later I win the game with double piledriver and some minions, this was very easy game for me, once again I was gifted with awesome topdecks versus him topdecking lands 3 turns in a row.
G2: I'm on draw, I keep rather slow hand (like G2 against Maverick) with Relic of Progenitus. He plays t1 goose, t2 two gooses. He gets threshold by turn 4, way too fast for me and starts grinding my ass. In order to get this threshold he had to wasteland his own dual land, but after my insane g1 speed he thought this is the only way to beat me. He almost succeeded, killing and countering my goblins with three shroud monsters on board, I go down to 5 life. Then magic happens, he has 1 land in play (UG I think), 3 cards in hand. I finally get to play some goblins and start blocking those crazy squirrels. Even killing some of them during the combat. As it always is, goblins rock late game. I win few turns later with swarm of Krenko's tokens. Afterwards he shows me what 3 cards he had in hand. He is furious of anger, because those 3 cards were 3 lightning bolts and I had 5 life. He never got his hand on a red source, such a bad luck.
3 - 0
Round 4, final round - High Tide - 0:2
G1: I get him down to 7, then he goes off. I haven't come prepared for this shit.
G2: I side in 3 pyrostatic pillar and all grave hate (don't even know why, I kind of gave up when I saw him playing high tide deck). I get him down to 3! thanks to pyrostatic pillar and some attack. Turn after I got him down to 3 (with 1 tarfire in hand and 1 mana untapped), he bounces my pillar and goes off. I hit his head with tarfire in response to time spiral, draw another tafire, but have no lands to cast it.
3 - 1
So that's it, I finished second, beaten only by high tide. I got foil Scavenging Ooze and 2 booster packs for my effort.
My notes from the tournament:
1) Tarfire counts as BOTH tribal AND instant for goyf. Good to know, I tried to burn down goyf in one game, all graves empty and thanks to this he didn't die.
2) Sharpshooter is awesome against Maverick.
3) Tuktuk MD is a must.
4) Don't go to a tournament with cards you are not familiar with. I wanted to play 4 RiP, ended up playing 3 relics which I didn't know the proper interactions for. That almost costed me a game against canadian, I was so bad using it.
5) It's impossible to beat high tide without proper sideboard. 3 pyrostatic pillars were rather useless in this match, next time I shall focus on more combo hate.
6) Krenko is the best finisher I can imagine. There hasn't been a game where I'd rather see Kiki/SGC on board instead of Krenko.
I hope you enjoyed my report and survived all those grammatical mistakes :-) I wanted to share it with you, because this forum has been a great source of information for me. Therefore I wanted to give something IN too. Have a good day!
