I woke up around 7:40, left for Versus Games around 9:10. The crowd was noticeably smaller today. The store was packed yesterday, but today there were about 10 empty seats. I hoped this meant the crowd would be more casual.
I picked green for this prerelease.
My rares were:
Heroes' Bane (promo)
Setessan Tactics
Herald of Torment
Eidolon of the Great Revel
Soldier of the Pantheon
Kruphix, God of Horizons
Daxos of Meletis
The pool was kind of a mess.
BLACK:
1 Felhide Brawler
1 Returned Phalanx
1 Felhide Minotaur
1 Herald of Torment
1 Shrike Harpy
1 Eye Gouge
2 Font of Return
1 Cast into Darkness
2 Feast of Dreams
1 Pharika's Cure
1 Aspect of Gorgon
1 Ritual of the Returned
1 Read the Bones
BLUE:
1 Triton Shorestalker
1 Vaporkin
1 Sigiled Starfish
1 Mnemonic Wall
2 Lost in a Labyrinth
1 Evanescent Intellect
1 Aerial Formation
2 Hubris
1 Hour of Need
1 Sudden Storm
1 Thassa's Bounty
GREEN:
1 Golden Hind
1 Satyr Grovedancer
1 Swordwise Centaur
1 Bassara Tower Archer
2 Oakheart Dryads
1 Agent of Horizons
2 Ravenous Leucrocrota
1 Karametra's Acolyte
1 Nessian Asp
1 Heroes' Bane
1 Goldenhide Ox
1 Font of Fertility
1 Hunt the Hunter
1 Aspect of Hydra
1 Commune with the Gods
1 Skyreaping
1 Setessan Tactics
1 Mortal's Resolve
1 Fade into Antiquity
1 Desecration Plague
1 Market Festival
RED:
1 Priest of Iroas
2 Satyr Hoplite
1 Eidolon of the Great Revel
1 Kragma Butcher
1 Magma Spray
1 Dragon Mantle
1 Font of Ire
1 Starfire
1 Rage of Purphoros
1 Flurry of Horns
WHITE:
1 Lagonna-Band Trailblazer
2 Favored Hoplite
1 Soldier of the Pantheon
1 Cavalry Pegasus
1 Stonewise Fortifier
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
1 Lagonna-Band Elder
1 Scholar of Athreos
1 Archetype of Courage
1 Setessan Griffin
1 Griffin Dreamfinder
1 Mortal Obstinacy
1 Font of Vigor
1 Reprisal
1 Vanquish the Foul
MULTICOLOR:
1 Underworld Coinsmith
1 Nyx Weaver
1 Daxos of Meletis
1 Fleetfeather Cockatrice
1 Kruphix, Prophet of Horizons
ARTIFACT:
1 Prowler's Helm
1 Siren Song's Lyre
DECK:
GREEN: 14
1 Golden Hind
1 Satyr Grovedancer
1 Swordwise Centaur
1 Bassara Tower Archer
2 Oakheart Dryads
1 Agent of Horizons
2 Ravenous Leucrocrota
1 Nessian Asp
1 Heroes' Bane
1 Aspect of Hydra
1 Setessan Tactics
1 Mortal's Resolve
BLUE: 6
1 Vaporkin
1 Sigiled Starfish
1 Aerial Formation
1 Hubris
1 Hour of Need
1 Sudden Storm
MULTICOLOR: 2
1 Fleetfeather Cockatrice
1 Kruphix, Prophet of Horizons
ARTIFACT: 1
1 Prowler's Helm
LANDS: 17
9 Forest
8 Island
Match 1: BWR (2-0)
Dreamcrushed a little kid. He did get me to 3 life first game, but the second game was tightly under my control. Setessan Tactics did work both games.
Match 2:
Played against another young kid.
Game 1:
My opponent went into Golden Hind into Ordeal of Nylea, deal three to me.
I Setessan Tactic's my Vaporkin, tapping Golden Hind to buff my Vaporkin with Mortal's Resolve to kill her Hind + Ordeal. She ends up playing a Dawnbringer Charioteers into Supply-Line Cranes but I have Aspect of the Hydra to make my creature bigger in blocks.
Game 2:
She kept 2 lands on the play, I curved out turn 2 Bassara Tower Archer into turn 3 Oakheart Dryad into turn 4 Ravenous Leocrocruta into turn 5 Agent of Horizons + Golden Hind. I felt bad for her.
Match 3: GW planeswalker (0-2)
Game 1:
Lost to Ajani, Mentor of Heroes giving my opponent a 7/8 Nessian Game Warden. I blew my Sudden Storm too early.
Game 2:
Lost to Ajani + Elspeth.
Match 4: BUG enchantment (0-2)
My opponent was the recent Star City Games Invitational Qualifier Winner, so he knew his stuff.
I mull to 6, keep Heroes' Bane and Aerial Formation (win combo).
My opponent goes turn 4 Ordeal of Erebos on a Oakheart Dryad. I take 4. Then next turn I have to Setessan Tactics my Bassara Tower Archer and my Agent of Horizons to fight his Oakheart Dryad. I fight the Agent/Oakheart first, then he has Savage Surge, so I fight my Bassara Tower Archer so they all die.
My opponent goes Pharika, God of Affliction and makes a snake token which holds off my Heroes's Bane indefinitely. I punt when he goes to cast Nimbus Naiad on his Nyxborn Wolf. For some reason I decide to bounce the Nyxborn Wolf in response, rather than waiting for the Naiad to resolve, so both creatures go into his hand. Next turn I could have swung for lethal with 16/16 Heroes' Bane and Aerial Formation. Geez.
I also punt later when I forget about Doomwake Giant's -1/-1 trigger. I could have exiled my Vaporkin with Hour of Need to change it into a 4/4 Sphinx. He ends up browntowning me with Grim Guardian into Nyx Infusion on a Sphinx Token, shrinking my team by -2/-2.
Game 2:
Mull to 5, my opponent's girlfriend asks him when they can go get lunch. My opponent replies that it's going to be a fast game.
Indeed, it was a fast game. Apparently I left two plains in my deck, so I was running 42 cards/19 lands. I drew both my plains of course, and a double green two drop (Bassara Tower Archer).
He beat the crap out of me with a 5/4 Bloodcrazed Hoplite bestowed with Nimbus Naiad, then a 3/6 Nyx Infusion'd Grim Guardian ftw. Hour of Need only serves to stall my demise slightly.
Result: 2-2
I felt like I had a lot of downtime between matches, which was annoying. Usually I would spend that time talking to people, but I am not a well known person at Versus Games, which means starting conversations is awkward. People will actually walk away from me when I talk to them. Then again, that would happen at Gamescape too. So maybe I just need to find the right crowd for me.
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