[Deck] 12 Post

[Neko448]

Got 5th place at a 58 person event with this hot pile of mana producing garbage:

4x Misty Rainforest
4x Tropical Island
1x Forest
1x Island
1x Glacial Chasm
1x Tabernacle at P. Vale
1x Eye of Ugin
1x Cavern of Souls
1x Karakas
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Thespian Stage
2x Vesuva
4x Cloudpost
4x Glimmerpost

4x BACK TO BACK STANDARD CHAMPION PRIMMMMEVVVALLL TITAAAANNNNNN
1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1x Emrakul, the Promised End
1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
1x Platinum Emperion

4x Brainstorm
4x Crop rotation
4x Show and Tell
2x Repeal
1x All is Dust

3x Sensei's Divining Top
2x Expedition Map
2x Engineered Explosives
1x Candelabra of Twanos

2x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

SB:
2x Surgical
2x Pithing Needle
4x Flusterstorm
3x Krosan Grip
2x Warping Wail
2x Blue Elemental Blast

Before you totally disregard what I'm saying, I just don't like running four tops. You know when you spin top and all three of your top cards are Top? I hate that. A lot.
Also, I'd totally be running two Candles, but the guy who said he was going to loan one to me just didn't bring it or sold it.
The All is Dust was a last minute inclusion that I never cast. Also Repeal has been garbage to me over 10 matches, I think I'm just going to not do it anymore.

Anyways, on to the meat of the story: My matches.

R1: Andrew Hiser on BIG RED
I know this guy. I actually call the deck Hiser's Deck. He knows what I'm playing. He's like "Hey, I'm really sorry I have to do this to you." I tried to be cordial, but I'm also trying not to cry. Not really how I wanted my day to start out
G1: I win the die roll and keep some hand that doesn't do anything. I play a trop, and he's like MANA MANA MANA BREACH GRISELBRAND DRAW FOURTEEN. Then he has enough guides and petals to stick a blood moon and chalice. We play draw go for like, three turns, then he emrakul's me
"Alex, I'm really wishing this didn't happen. I was hoping you were just on storm so we could play magic"
G2: On the play again, and I mulligan to five to keep Forest, Grip, Trop, Flusterstorm, Titan. For a second I'm thinking, "Hey, we might cast some spells here!" I play trop, holding up Flusterstorm. He just casually casts Magus of the Moon. Nice. Next turn I draw Blue Elemental Blast. Double nice. He casts Inferno Titan the next turn and proceeds to kill me.
"Hey, you can still win out. I realize that I brought five people here and they are all on big red, but they're worse pilots than me. You'll be fine. This deck takes a lot of skill" (I'm like, actually crying at this point and he's trying to console me. Our matches actually always go like this (once on storm I had three LEDs and an Infernal Tutor and I STILL couldn't get there!)) I snap off that it doesn't take a lot of skill to stick a T1 blood moon then proceed to scout the room. Everyone asks how I did and I just say "I played Hiser" and then they know.

So, I'm a bit salty, w/e, we'll just win out.

R2: Rick on B/R Reanimator
I know this guy from my group chat. He showed up late, but I guess they just let him play. Apparently when he preregistered the employee lied about the start time. Nice format~ He was playing this deck at our weekly, so I know what's up. (Actually, I didn't remember, but he just straight up told me when I asked)
G1: This game was really stupid. He like, duressed away my top and then unmasked my ugin, and I just kept playing cloudposts while he didn't like, reanimate dudes. I drew a Crop Rotation, but that got thoughtseized. Eventually he actually Griselbrands, then the next turn sticks Tidespout, but I guess he doesn't have any spells to cast? I'm staring down 12 damage and I'm dead on board. I'm hellbent and get one more draw step, so I tap a couple times on top of my deck and just flip the card over. It's Emrakul, the Aeons Torn! Sick life, thanks god~ He's got 6 permanents and 15 life, so we get there.
G2: He duresses/unmask/thoughtseizes me a billion times and kills me with duders. This matchup sucks, I hope I don't have to do this again.
G3: I keep a hand that's nothing but hate and a top. We've got flusterstorms floating like that splash of alcohol on a lush's last drink, it's awesome. I manage to surgically extract his duresses then he just walks into a bunch of hate over and over. Eventually he's got nothing left to reanimate. I play a PRIIIMMEEE TIMMEEE and just bowl him over.

R3: Dakota on U/B Reanimator
God dammit. I watched this guy draw the previous round so I know what he's on, and everyone always knows what I'm on, since I'm the local 12post catgirl. I lose the die roll here.
G1: His deck does the BS it's supposed to and I have no recourse since my Warping Wailings are in the sideboard, waiting for me.
G2: I keep a hand that's like, needle, map, map, primetime, glimmerpost, karakas, tropical, I think. Whatever, seems good. I'm starving and have submitted to death. I cast needle and he counters it. Strong line. He thoughtseizes me and takes my primetime. As he contemplates whether or not he can just make me die, I decide that even though playing Karakas is correct, I'm going to pretend I drew something sweet and play the Trop. I go to draw and it's actually just flusterstorm so my bluff kinda blows up on me, but whatever. I play the trop and pass. He casts an entomb and I counter it. Then he needles karakas. My next draw is Bojuka Bog, and I'm like, damn, I should probably get this in play? so I stick it. However, I'm not totally sure that I should bojuka myself or him. I decide to do it to myself, since titan is the only live reanimate target. Of course, if he has exhume, I just lost a ton of value. He draw goes, and I draw that sweet, sweet surgical. He studies carefully on his turn and goes to exhume the titan, which I ofc extract. He's got like, a force with no blue card and a bunch of lands. I draw a top after that and just pull ahead in the game of draw go, mostly because I drew a billion hate cards
G3: I don't even remember what really happened in this game, but I had all the right hate for his nonsense and he pithing needled map and karakas. I soared ahead with Needle, Posts and Ulamog, first blowing up the needle on karakas and his land, then coming back for the rest of his lands in the next turn. In response to the Ulamog mill trigger he entombed ashen rider, but I had Surgical for that. He had a lot of trouble following along the candle math, mostly because he kept interupting me. That's probably not worth mentioning but like, jeez, just let me explain opponent-sensei~

R4: Ryan Overturf on U/R Delver
This guy and I are pretty chill, so I spend the pregame shuffle-hustle making stupid jokes.
G1: He mulls to five, blind flips a delver, then blind flips another delver has wasteland > wasteland > wasteland to keep me off of All is Dust. Well, that sucked.
G2: I decide that my Plan A is just showing titan, since this is the first match where it's ACTUALLY an option. so I board in my flusterstorms to fight over Show and needles/surgical for the goldanged wasteland. My opener is like, show show lands top and needle. I play the turn one needle, play a bunch of lands, find the titan, stick it and run him over. I surgically extract his Force of Will at one point and turn to my boyfriend who also plays U/R Delver that THIS is what a real U/R Delver deck looks like, gesturing wildly at the lack of Prices.
G3: He mulls to six, keeps a slow one and I just run show and tells through countermagic until Prime Time makes his appearance. Later, I make some Spagetti and my opponent asks me to concede to him. I don't...

R5: Louis on ANT
This guy has no playmat, a handful of dice and a scrawled on pad. I don't recognize him, so I try to probe for info by asking if he plays much legacy. He's like "I don't really play much magic, but when I do, it's Legacy." I but him on like, burn or some old extended deck or something. He wins the Die roll.
G1: Show and Tell, Titan, Crop, fist full of lands. How could we go wrong?? He T1 duresses me, so I put him on storm. The way he manipulates cards kinda shows that he's really experienced and storm is everyone's favorite Pet Deck. He looks at my hand and scratches my head "ughh, I've never actually played against this deck." JACK POT. Hopefully he quit before Bojuka Bog was printed. STORM'S ON THE MENU BOYS. He reaches for my Show and Tell (YES) then he's like, "Crop" (NO). The next turn he goes for Past in Flames while I sullenly keep track of storm and stuff until I die.
G2: Well, at least we have 12 cards for this match up. I board out some titans and shit. He saw my tabernacle game 1, but I leave it in anyways in case of gobbos. My opener has got a top and 3 brainstorms #CantLose. I stick the top and he Duresses me. I choose his card for him. on my turn I Brainstorm and it's Surgical, Crop, Flusterstorm. So hot. I float the flusterstorm and carry the surgical. He Brainstorms then duress' me again, so I extract the Brainstorms and see he's got a really spicy hand featuring multiple rits, an led, PIF an tendrils. Looking through his deck I see he has no more tendrils in there, but he has the Empty the Warrens. He takes my BS. We play draw go for a bit (I draw warping wail and crop rotation) and eventually he just decides to go for it, tendrils me for like ten, then cracks some LEDs to go at it again. I wail the PIF. Then I bog him. He's getting all flustered now because my deck just makes no sense to him.
G3: I've got 2 flusterstorms and a warping wail in my opener. Stick some colored sources and play the waiting game. On T3 he ponders, then touches the cards together. Oh man was his hand good. I take his flusterstorm, and LED and Infernal tutor. Leaving him with a bunch of rits and a dark ritual. Then I surgically extract the BS right when I get priority (he didn't shuffle with the ponder either...). I'm floating a bunch of Flusterstorms now, and eventually I just cast titan after tons of Draw-Go and start swinging. I wail a Cabal Therapy and draw the fourth flusterstorm. He's really shaken up by the ponder thing and drops after he gets titan'd.

I'm glad I followed my R1 Opponent's Advice! Winning out is great~

R6: Jeremy on Miracles
We both know each other's decks from sitting next to each other, and he's not thrilled.
G1: I keep a hand with Ugin, Top and a bunch of Cloudposts. He takes the Ugin with a clique, and I draw Ulamog, which I promptly cast.
G: Keep a fat stack of Posts, ugin and emrakul. Draw a top for my T1 and stick it. he goes on the aggro plan, but doesn't take my ugin with clique. On the turn before I die, I cast it with flusterstorm back up but he doesn't even want to fight. Nor does he let me ultimate Ugin, instead just scooping it up. Alas~

Nice, we made it into the top 8! I play some dude I knew from High School

Quarters: Nikolai on RUG
G1: I keep a double show titan hand, and he wastes all my lands and counters all my spells
G2: I keep a double show titan hand, and he wastes all my lands and counters all my spells

I was extremely upset about the last game. He kept saying really mean things to me the whole time, deliberately to put me on tilt because he knew that I'm extremely sensitive, and after the game I actually just went outside and cried. Later, I played DDR and ate pizza with my prize money.

Thanks for reading~