[Deck] 43 Lands

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Checking in to report my results from the Strasbourg Grand Prix, where i played Lands, kicked ass and made day two (7:2), then sadly got my ass kicked :)

R1: I had a bye which I didnt knew till then, pleasent suprise
R2: Death and Taxes: Won 2-0
G1:
I keep something like Loam, Fetch, 2x Maze, Mox Diamand and something else, solid hand. He starts with Plains into Vial, i start with fetch, Mox, Loam dont know what hes playing yet, he goes plains Stoneforge then yada yada I have 3x Maze in play Loam in grave no cards karakas in hand he had hit me to elven with Batterskull but im save for now with the Mazes but he pressures me still, then i find Manabond and stabilize more every turn by vomitting three Lands, then he playes Karakas and Mangara, i directly find my Karakas while his Mangara is still sick, and Legend Rule it away. Then I just lock him he could have saced his Mangara to destroy my bond, but I think he didnt realize that it was this cardadvantage thats killing him, and hes to greedy to use Mangara without Karakas.
Board: +2x Krosan Grip (cause i expect RIP), + Crucible (because I allways board it G2), EE (cause... hmm he plays Vial and Creatures)
-1x Bojuka Bog, -2x Rishadan Port, -1x Forest, I nearly allways board out the Forest :)
G2:
Dont remember much just that i kept a hand with Krosan Grip and Loam and he dropped turn 2 RIP and i turn 3 Grip damn that felt great. Then the deck did his thing and i crushed him

R3: UW Landstill Won 2-0
G1:
I keep double Waste, Gamble, Fetch, something, Gamble for Loam and do my thing not much to tell you about, I just didnt get what he was playing cause he didnt do anything, after the Game i find out his deck is just super bad against me, thats the reason he couldnt do a thing, honestly i thought UW Landstill was dead, but whatever, winning with manlands against Lands not gonna happen
Board: +2x Krosan Grip, +1x Crucible
G2:
Nothing interesting happend, just turn two RIP turn three Grip XD


R4: RUG Lost 0-2 wtf!!!
That was super depressing, one of my best matchups and he crushed me good. I dont know how, but both Games he manged a fast start with turn 1 Mongoose then countered my acceleration and drew enough lands to stay in Game but he always had counters for the things that would have saved me like loam or bridge both games he had 3+ counters and I lost to his tempo, thats just about it, he got super lucky nut draws, against my ok-good hands.
Board: Against RUG i allways board +4x Chalice (because they kill them),+1x Crucible (because they allways board Surgical Extractions and if they hit Loam,
Crucible is da shit), +1x EE (because it hits everything they have)
-1x Karakas,-1x Bojuka Bog,-1x Forest,-1x Grove of the Burnwillows,-2 Rishadan Port

R5: Reanimater Won 2-0
G1:
he fetches U-Sea and Ponder, I nail him on reanimater, when the fetch U-Sea its allways Reanimater^^, well i have Bojuka Bog and Maze, so im pretty confident, he dupms some fattys with Carefull Study i think but doesnt reanimate right away, so i play Bojuka Bog (harharhar), but next turn he can goes entomb into exhume, i think it was Eona on green cause i allready loamed, meh but i have Maze in hand to buy me time, but the soon after i find Tolaria, transmute for Karakas and then waste him out.
Board: +4x Chalice (because it counters cantrips, counters, Reanimate and Entomb and well thats about his deck isnt it), +2x Extirpate,+1x Tormods Crypt
(obvious gravehate is obvious),
-2x Grove of the Burnwillows, -2x Punishing Fire,-1x Forest (Punishing fire just does nothing against Combo... yes reanimater is some kind of Combo),
-1x Rishadan Port, -1x EE
G2:
I keep 1xExtirpate, 2x Chalice, 2xMox, 2x Lands hes on the play, plays fetch and fetches for Island, i draw Land, play Land Mox, Mox, Extirpate Fetchland see his hand: no counter, Brainstorm, Show and Tell and some fattie, Entomb and random stuff i dont remember, I play Chalice One, he brainstorms and it resolves.
Then he does nothing I find gamble into Loam Ramp myself to six mana while keeping him of three then drop Chalice for three (show and tell) aka GAME.

R6: Sneak and Tell Lost 0-2
G1: Turn one Fetch Island Ponder, and I knew shit Show and Tell (the only decks fetching for Island first pririoty are Show and Tell and High Tide). My hand was great but not against S/T, i directly try to find Karakas and play loam and Dredge with cycling, he plays second turn S/T Emrakul, Dredge two more times but find nothing, and Emrakul kills me suprise, suprise
Board: +4x Chalice, +3x Mindbreak Trap,+1x Crucible
G2:
Pretty much the same, i dont have direct hate after mulliganing to six try it either way and again turn two emrakul. Should have mulliganed more aggressivly, cause i felt the whole time it was winnable but whateverUW Landstill Won 2-0

I need to win three in a row now sigh

R7: TES Won 2-1
G1:
One of my worst matchups, i feared for the worst and lost the first game fast even after i wasted him out.
Board:+4x Chalice, +3x Mindbreak Trap, +1x Crypt, +1x Trinisphere, +2x Extirpate
G2:
I keep a hand with Mindbreak Trap, and Gamble, Mox Land and Glacial Chasm, Loam, the only time i misplayed with Gamble didnt do good work but, i gambled to high, played Land, played Mox discard Chasm, and Gamble for Chalice, discard Trap :( . His turn he goes for 14 Goblins, he didnt read Chasm, thought it was Maze lol. I draw land play Loam for Chasm play chasm sac land. Then i pay upkeep 3 times finding more Lands including Tolaria, Transmute for Tabernacle. GAME
G3:
I dropped first turn Exploration and Chalice, then Intuition for Loam, Ruins and Trinisphere, manage to play Trinisphere and... GAME

R8:MUD Won 2-1
G1:
He started with Ancient Tomb and I think fuck S/T, but dropped Chalice instead and I was super relieved. MUD has the wackiest manabase ever so i just start wasting him and dont care much about him dropping Metalworker, i mean what can he play at most Wurmcoil? i dont care, i have Loam, Waste, maze and Tolaria, so what, but he has five cards all of them artifacts, one of them a land he drops the land and with his remaining Land he has 12 mana and plays Blightsteel Coloss, i can play Maze but his remaining land was Waste so Im drawing dead. That was a shock but I go on^^.
Board: +2 Krosan Grip, +1x EE, +1x Crucible
G2:
He plays Sol Land into Grim Monolith, I play something like Land Exploration Gamble into Loam. He plays Land and Lodestone Golem, I find Wasteland and start wasting he manages to drop anather Worker + next turn Kuldotha Forgemaster, I drop Tabernacle and burn his Worker... GAME
G3:
He was a nice guy but he slow played this one. I locked him out pretty fast and he stared at his hand for 3 minutes, then i played super fast just fetched for Creeping Taar Pit and just drawed and attacked every turn because he wouldnt stop slow playing and there where only 8 minutes left but finnaly i just beat him to death, that was pretty exhausting.

So onto the last game for the day.

R9: UR Delver: Won 2-0
G1:
Tough Matchup with a lot of burn and price of progress. But i start with Zuran orb in starting hand and just dodge every burn and waste/ghostquater him pretty fast he has no basics left at the end, it was brutal, because he just didnt want to concede.
Board:+4x Chalice, +1x Crucible, +1x EE
G2:
Fast transmute for Zuran Orb, then pretty much the same like the first game


Conclusion: Gamble was great and I allways was happy to have it, even fetched an exploration once after I got 8 cards (through Goblin Guide). Just loved it
Board is great but Extirpate was underwhelming (I just had it i the board because I expected lot of TinFins but didnt even see one), the get moved
out, Krosan Grip was great it did exactly what it was supposed to do destroy RIP, probably put another one in.

Sidenote: I consider my game on this day pretty good I played so fast I never got to Time Out not once.

Thats all for today next time i report from the devastating day two (where I made stupid mistakes and faced lucky opponents).

Day two:

after day one I was super tired but ignored it and cubed till 2:00 then got to hotel at 3:00 and woke up at 8:00 I think I played that shitty on day two because I was so super exhausted -_-

R10: ANT Lost 0-2
G1:
Well bad matchup is bad, I realize it fast and fetch Zuran Orb, waste him twice but he still goes off and Past in fFames into Tendrils nothing to be done.
Board: all the hate
G2:
here is were the crap play begins, I draw a perfect hand against any other deck but no hate so mulligan, pretty much the same hand but with Mindbreak Trap, I dont want to go to five which I should have, play first and he duresses the trap on his turn then goes off the next turn

R11: Shardless BUG Controle Lost 0-2
G1:
good matchup but I dont know like in each game that day I should have mulliganed, I keep a stupid do-nothing-hand with manabond, double rishadan port, and four other lands, directly after I say keep I regret it. Well the hand does nothing he drops Jace fateseal-fateseal-fateseal... GAME
Board: +1x Crucible, +1x EE
G2:
Same as before I draw a bad hand mulligan and keep an equally bad hand instead of going to five. Same thing as before, but i can defend myself a little longer, like burn deathrite, but he has extraction on Fire then Jace+ Lily and yada yada I´m fatesealed away.

Now I´m depressed, need to win five games in a row, and I realize i kept bad hands.

R12: BUG Delver Lost 0-2
G1:
Again I keep a medicore hand I have no idea why... he has a fast hand with first turn Deathrite, i play first turn Manabond which I shouldnt because they allways have Daze, ALLWAYS!!! he dazes it, I try to find Fires, but dont and then just lose to deathrite... this shouldnt happen anymore.
Board: you know what :)
G2:
He has DRS, I have Fires he has Extraction, I waste him but he draws a land every turn, then plays Goyf and the turn I would lock him out Tombstalker, and has something like triple counter backup, I dont know what it is but those Delver players allways have 2+ counters against me.

Then I dropped cause I was tired and depressed. The lesson is: there are a lot of keepable hands when you play Lands, but that deosnt mean you should keep all of them

I won a Chaos Draft afterwards and sold my Revised Booster for 30€ which cheered me up.

Later that day I played annother Game of Legacy in an K.O. Side Event against Combo Elves which I also lost. My deck just hated me that day or I lost my skll.
But a mate of me had great success in the Legacy super Sunday Series with his E.-Tutor Lands, probably only one Lands player at a time can be successful