I headed over to Versus Games to play in another draft. I ended up getting there early thanks to there being no traffic. Unfortunately, I didn't bring the Nintendo 3DS or any books to read, so I ended up spending a bunch of time staring at a wall. It sucked.
P1P1: Rare was Shivan Reef. I picked Heat Ray.
P2P1: Rare was Sliver Hive. I picked Altac Bloodseeker.
P3P1: Rare was Grindclock. I think I picked a Goblin Roughrider (that's how bad my deck ended up)
DECK:
Black:
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Xathrid Slyblade
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Rotfeaster Maggot
2 Shadowcloak Vampire
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2 Crippling Blight
1 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
1 Unmake the Graves
Red:
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Torch Fiend
1 Altac Bloodseeker
1 Goblin Roughrider
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Thundering Giant
-----
1 Crowd's Favor
1 Inferno Fist
1 Heat Ray
Artifact:
1 Juggernaut
Lands:
9 Mountain
8 Swamp
Sideboard:
White:
1 Tireless Missionaries
-----
1 Solemn Offering
1 Triplicate Spirits
Black:
1 Blood Host
-----
1 Eternal Thirst
1 Festergloom
Red:
1 Forge Devil
2 Foundry Street Denizen
1 Wall of Fire
1 Miner's Bane
-----
2 Hammerhand
1 Lava Axe
Green:
1 Runeclaw Bear
1 Roaring Primadox
1 Siege Wurm
-----
1 Verdant Haven
1 Hunter's Ambush
This deck really could have used another Borderland Marauder, or a Generator Servant. Also I am feeling like Shadowcloak Vampire is not super good since in racing situations where you need to pay the life cost, since it's only making 2 damage life difference.
Match 1: BG (1-2)
Game 1:
Lost to Siege Wurm + Ancient Silverback.
Game 2:
I get the nut curve out. Turn 2 Borderland Marauder, he drops a Typhoid Rats, then I drop turn 3 Altac Bloodseeker into Forge Devil to kill his Typhoid Rats and give my Bloodseeker +2 power, haste, and first strike. I play a Witch's Familiar next turn, and have Hammerhand to seal the deal if he plays any blocker.
Game 3:
Opponent used Hunt the Weak from to kill my Shadowcloak Vampire.
Killed Ancient Silverback with topdeck Flesh to Dust, after he tapped out of green and left up a swamp. I could have used Heat Ray instead, but he might have had Gather Courage (which I passed earlier).
My opponent chump attacks his board into my Xathrid Slyblade and Rotfeast Maggot, then he drops Perilous Vault and uses it.
I drop Altac Bloodseeker with Inferno Fist, while he's tapped out. Then he drops Cruel Sadist, I pop the Sadist right away, he follows up with Accursed Spirit. Of course, I topdeck Crippling Blight next turn. I end up drawing 3 straight lands, and he plays Necromancer's Assistant and Siege Wurm to seal the deal.
Match 2: UR (2-1)
Game 1:
Game 2:
Lost to Quickling/Illusory Angel.
Game 3:
He kept a slow hand, and I
Match 3: BG (2-0)
This guy was on my left. Apparently he jumped into black because I passed him 3 Endless Obedience.
Game 1:
Krenko's Enforcer did 16 points of damage here. Witch's Familiar with Inferno Fist did the other 4 damage. He blocked my Witch's Familiar with Black Cat, then used Giant Growth. I pop my Inferno Fist in response, targeting his Black Cat. I think he didn't realize how that worked.
Game 2:
Krenko's Enforcer with Inferno Fist did 18 points of damage. Sweet.
Traded 4 Nykthos for:
3 Yavimaya Coast
3 Battlefield Forge
1 Caves of Koilos
Traded 3 Boros Charm for:
1 Shivan Reef
2 dollars
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
7/26/14 another M14 sealed pool exercise
Opened six more packs of M15:
Rares:
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Shield of the Avatar
1 Spectra Ward
1 Jalira, Master Polymorphist
1 Polymorphist's Jest
1 Hornet Queen
White: 17
3 Soulmender
1 Sungrace Pegasus
2 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Wall of Essence
2 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Warden of the Beyond
1 Tireless Missionaries
1 Boonweaver Giant
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1 Oppressive Rays
1 Pillar of Light
1 First Response
1 Sanctified Charge
1 Spectra Ward
Blue: 21
1 Research Assistant
1 Quickling
1 Frost Lynx
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Illusory Angel
1 Wall of Frost
2 Amphin Pathmage
1 Jalira, Master Polymorphist
1 Kapsho Kitefins
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1 Hydrosurge
1 Negate
1 Peel from Reality
2 Ensoul Artifact
1 Military Intelligence
1 Invisibility
2 Divination
1 Encrust
1 Polymorphist's Jest
Black: 11
1 Black Cat
1 Child of Night
2 Carrion Crow
1 Necrogen Scudder
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1 Mind Rot
2 Necrobite
1 Unmake the Graves
1 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
Red: 14
1 Forge Devil
1 Generator Servant
2 Torch Fiend
1 Altac Bloodseeker
1 Goblin Roughrider
1 Rummaging Goblin
2 Wall of Fire
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Thundering Giant
-----
1 Inferno Fist
1 Lightning Strike
1 Blastfire Bolt
Green: 14
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Runeclaw Bear
1 Wall of Mulch
1 Netcaster Spider (foil)
1 Invasive Species
1 Hornet Queen
------
2 Ranger's Guile
1 Plummet
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Verdant Haven
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Nissa's Expedition
Artifact: 7
2 Ornithopter
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
-----
1 Shield of the Avatar
1 Staff of the Wild Magus
1 Staff of the Mind Magus
This is the deck I created:
Blue: 13
1 Research Assistant
1 Quickling
1 Frost Lynx
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Illusory Angel
1 Wall of Frost
2 Amphin Pathmage
1 Kapsho Kitefins
-----
1 Peel from Reality
2 Divination
1 Polymorphist's Jest
Red: 8
1 Generator Servant
2 Torch Fiend
1 Altac Bloodseeker
1 Goblin Roughrider
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
-----
1 Inferno Fist
1 Lightning Strike
Artifact: 2
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
-----
1 Shield of the Avatar
I'm not really fond of all the 2/1's in the deck.
There weren't enough white playables to play Spectra Ward.
Rares:
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Shield of the Avatar
1 Spectra Ward
1 Jalira, Master Polymorphist
1 Polymorphist's Jest
1 Hornet Queen
White: 17
3 Soulmender
1 Sungrace Pegasus
2 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Wall of Essence
2 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Warden of the Beyond
1 Tireless Missionaries
1 Boonweaver Giant
-----
1 Oppressive Rays
1 Pillar of Light
1 First Response
1 Sanctified Charge
1 Spectra Ward
Blue: 21
1 Research Assistant
1 Quickling
1 Frost Lynx
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Illusory Angel
1 Wall of Frost
2 Amphin Pathmage
1 Jalira, Master Polymorphist
1 Kapsho Kitefins
-----
1 Hydrosurge
1 Negate
1 Peel from Reality
2 Ensoul Artifact
1 Military Intelligence
1 Invisibility
2 Divination
1 Encrust
1 Polymorphist's Jest
Black: 11
1 Black Cat
1 Child of Night
2 Carrion Crow
1 Necrogen Scudder
------
1 Mind Rot
2 Necrobite
1 Unmake the Graves
1 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
Red: 14
1 Forge Devil
1 Generator Servant
2 Torch Fiend
1 Altac Bloodseeker
1 Goblin Roughrider
1 Rummaging Goblin
2 Wall of Fire
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Thundering Giant
-----
1 Inferno Fist
1 Lightning Strike
1 Blastfire Bolt
Green: 14
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Runeclaw Bear
1 Wall of Mulch
1 Netcaster Spider (foil)
1 Invasive Species
1 Hornet Queen
------
2 Ranger's Guile
1 Plummet
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Verdant Haven
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Nissa's Expedition
Artifact: 7
2 Ornithopter
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
-----
1 Shield of the Avatar
1 Staff of the Wild Magus
1 Staff of the Mind Magus
This is the deck I created:
Blue: 13
1 Research Assistant
1 Quickling
1 Frost Lynx
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Illusory Angel
1 Wall of Frost
2 Amphin Pathmage
1 Kapsho Kitefins
-----
1 Peel from Reality
2 Divination
1 Polymorphist's Jest
Red: 8
1 Generator Servant
2 Torch Fiend
1 Altac Bloodseeker
1 Goblin Roughrider
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
-----
1 Inferno Fist
1 Lightning Strike
Artifact: 2
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
-----
1 Shield of the Avatar
I'm not really fond of all the 2/1's in the deck.
There weren't enough white playables to play Spectra Ward.
7/26/14 The Definition of Insanity (M15 drafts poop)
I went over to Versus Games today, and signed up for two drafts. I figured that based on my previous M15 draft experiences, I should be good to go, right? Also, most of the experienced players went over to Eudemonia for the PTQ.
P1P1 rare: Lilliana Vess. Hello nurse!
P2P1 rare: Hoarding Dragon. Picked Carrion Crow, which didn't even make the deck
P3P1 rare: Shivan Reef. Picked Child of Night I think.
I raredrafted a Waste Not for value.
Guy on my right was black/red. Person on my left was green/blue, and went to the finals.
DECK:
Black: 14
1 Typhoid Rats
2 Child of Night
4 Accursed Spirit
1 Gravedigger
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
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1 Ulcerate
2 Flesh to Dust
1 Lilliana Vess
1 Covenant of Blood
Green: 6
1 Venom Sliver
1 Netcaster Spider
1 Invasive Species
1 Hornet Nest
------
1 Gather Courage
1 Hunt the Weak
Artifact: 3
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
1 Juggernaut
-----
1 Rogue's Gloves
Sideboard:
White:
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
Black:
1 Carrion Crow
2 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Crippling Blight
1 Waste Not
1 Sign in Blood
2 Unmake the Graves
Red:
1 Forge Devil
1 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
Green:
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Plummet
1 Naturalize
1 Titanic Growth
1 Verdant Haven
1 Restock
Artifact:
1 Sacred Armory
I didn't pick up any Festergloom, which made me sad.
Match 1: UW aggro (1-2)
This guy also ended up in the finals.
Game 1:
He durdled around with 2 Coral Barriers, then eventually cast a Triplicate Spirits.
I managed to grind him out of the game with Liliana Vess and timely use of my removal spells. My opponent constantly complained about me playing Lilliana Vess and how broken planeswalkers in limited were.
Game 2:
Oreskos Swiftclaw got some early beats, then Ajani's Pridemate and Divine Favor gave me headaches. I drew 12 of 17 of my lands this game.
Game 3:
He got turn 2 Military Intelligence into turn 4 Triplicate Spirits. Things went downhill from there. I forgot to sideboard in Naturalize, despite seeing Divine Favor, Military Intelligence, and Marked by Honor the previous game.
Match 2: UW aggro (0-2)
Game 1:
Got stuck on 3 lands, died to turn 2 Dauntless River Marshal + Frost Lynx + Welkin Tern + Sanctified Charge.
Game 2:
Got stuck on the backfoot again to his blue white aggro draw with Midnight Guard + Aeronaut Tinkerer + Welkin Tern. Netcaster Spider was nowhere to be found, neither Crippling Blight. A Frost Lynx sealed the deal.
I also punted by not boarding in Plummet into these matches. My opponent this round was a douche anyways, because he kept arguing with me about life totals. Whatever.
Match 3:
Game 1:
Opponent plays turn 1 Typhoid Rats into turn 2 Eternal Thirst.
Opponent got me down to 5 life with double Lava Axe plus some critter attacks, but I stabilized.
Game 2:
Opponent acted kinda superior because he had turn 1 Frenzied Goblin into turn 2 Eternal Thirst into turn 3 Feast on the Fallen. I still crushed him.
New draft. This drafted started 25 minutes late because three of the people from the 1 pm draft were signed up for it (including me). Why did I sign up for a second draft?
P1P1 rare: Spirit Bonds.
P1P2 rare: In Garruk's Wake. I took Gather Courage (I think over Raise the Alarm, which was wrong)
P1P3 rare: Haunted Platemail over Geist of the Moors.
I got a pick 4 Triplicate Spirits in pack 1. This is weird because apparently the guy on my right was mono white. The person on my left was black/green.
I was kinda dipping into black first pack, but ended up continuing to force white after picking up a second Triplicate Spirits in pack 2.
There was no reason for me to draft either of the Paragons of the Eternal Wilds. I ended up with like 4 green creatures.
Constricting Sliver WHEELED in pack 3.
DECK:
White: 14
2 Selfless Cathar
1 Oreskos Sunclaw
1 Midnight Guard
2 Razorfoot Griffin
1 Paragon of the New Dawns
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Seraph of the Masses
------
1 Spirit Bonds
1 Marked by Honor
3 Triplicate Spirits
Green: 7
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Sunblade Elf
1 Runeclaw Bear
1 Siege Wurm
-----
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Gather Courage
1 Titanic Growth
Artifact: 2
1 Haunted Platemail
1 Obelisk of Urd
Sideboard:
Black:
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Crippling Blught
1 Mind Rot
1 Endless Obedience
1 Covenant of Blood
Blue:
1 Amphin Pathmage
1 Glacial Crasher
-----
1 Mind Sculpt
1 Negate
1 Encrust
Green:
2 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
-----
1 Naturalize
1 Hunter's Ambush
Artifact:
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Staff of the Flame Magus
Lands:
2 Radiant Fountain
Match 4: UB (0-2)
Game 1:
Mull to 6, lost to Accursed Spirit which I had no way to interact with.
Game 2:
Mull to 4, lost to Welkin Tern plus double Kapsho Kitefins
He said good game afterwards, but it wasn't really, said I had to mull to 4. His heart was in the right place, I guess.
Match 5: RG (1-1)
Game 1:
Opponent got me down to 5 life with Kird Chieftain and Scrapyard Mongrel, but I managed to stabilize thanks to Spirit Bonds. Card is so good.
Game 2:
Ended up barely losing this game, due to a 4/6 Scrapyard Mongrel, then my opponent topdecking Sungrace Pegasus and Juggernaut.
Game 3:
This game went to turns. My opponent got me down to 3 life with Juggernaut + Scrapyard Mongrel, but I eventually managed to block down them and they were dead. I should have just conceded, since a draw would likely put us both out of contention for prizes. Unfortunately, the store employee was right there, so it would have seemed weird to concede on my turn 5.
Match 6: bye
Result: 1-3-1, (technically 2-3-1, but I got a 3rd round bye, so I don't count that)
P1P1 rare: Lilliana Vess. Hello nurse!
P2P1 rare: Hoarding Dragon. Picked Carrion Crow, which didn't even make the deck
P3P1 rare: Shivan Reef. Picked Child of Night I think.
I raredrafted a Waste Not for value.
Guy on my right was black/red. Person on my left was green/blue, and went to the finals.
DECK:
Black: 14
1 Typhoid Rats
2 Child of Night
4 Accursed Spirit
1 Gravedigger
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Ulcerate
2 Flesh to Dust
1 Lilliana Vess
1 Covenant of Blood
Green: 6
1 Venom Sliver
1 Netcaster Spider
1 Invasive Species
1 Hornet Nest
------
1 Gather Courage
1 Hunt the Weak
Artifact: 3
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
1 Juggernaut
-----
1 Rogue's Gloves
Sideboard:
White:
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
Black:
1 Carrion Crow
2 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Crippling Blight
1 Waste Not
1 Sign in Blood
2 Unmake the Graves
Red:
1 Forge Devil
1 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
Green:
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Plummet
1 Naturalize
1 Titanic Growth
1 Verdant Haven
1 Restock
Artifact:
1 Sacred Armory
I didn't pick up any Festergloom, which made me sad.
Match 1: UW aggro (1-2)
This guy also ended up in the finals.
He durdled around with 2 Coral Barriers, then eventually cast a Triplicate Spirits.
I managed to grind him out of the game with Liliana Vess and timely use of my removal spells. My opponent constantly complained about me playing Lilliana Vess and how broken planeswalkers in limited were.
Game 2:
Oreskos Swiftclaw got some early beats, then Ajani's Pridemate and Divine Favor gave me headaches. I drew 12 of 17 of my lands this game.
Game 3:
He got turn 2 Military Intelligence into turn 4 Triplicate Spirits. Things went downhill from there. I forgot to sideboard in Naturalize, despite seeing Divine Favor, Military Intelligence, and Marked by Honor the previous game.
Match 2: UW aggro (0-2)
Game 1:
Got stuck on 3 lands, died to turn 2 Dauntless River Marshal + Frost Lynx + Welkin Tern + Sanctified Charge.
Game 2:
Got stuck on the backfoot again to his blue white aggro draw with Midnight Guard + Aeronaut Tinkerer + Welkin Tern. Netcaster Spider was nowhere to be found, neither Crippling Blight. A Frost Lynx sealed the deal.
I also punted by not boarding in Plummet into these matches. My opponent this round was a douche anyways, because he kept arguing with me about life totals. Whatever.
Match 3:
Game 1:
Opponent plays turn 1 Typhoid Rats into turn 2 Eternal Thirst.
Opponent got me down to 5 life with double Lava Axe plus some critter attacks, but I stabilized.
Game 2:
Opponent acted kinda superior because he had turn 1 Frenzied Goblin into turn 2 Eternal Thirst into turn 3 Feast on the Fallen. I still crushed him.
New draft. This drafted started 25 minutes late because three of the people from the 1 pm draft were signed up for it (including me). Why did I sign up for a second draft?
P1P1 rare: Spirit Bonds.
P1P2 rare: In Garruk's Wake. I took Gather Courage (I think over Raise the Alarm, which was wrong)
P1P3 rare: Haunted Platemail over Geist of the Moors.
I got a pick 4 Triplicate Spirits in pack 1. This is weird because apparently the guy on my right was mono white. The person on my left was black/green.
I was kinda dipping into black first pack, but ended up continuing to force white after picking up a second Triplicate Spirits in pack 2.
There was no reason for me to draft either of the Paragons of the Eternal Wilds. I ended up with like 4 green creatures.
Constricting Sliver WHEELED in pack 3.
DECK:
White: 14
2 Selfless Cathar
1 Oreskos Sunclaw
1 Midnight Guard
2 Razorfoot Griffin
1 Paragon of the New Dawns
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Seraph of the Masses
------
1 Spirit Bonds
1 Marked by Honor
3 Triplicate Spirits
Green: 7
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Sunblade Elf
1 Runeclaw Bear
1 Siege Wurm
-----
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Gather Courage
1 Titanic Growth
Artifact: 2
1 Haunted Platemail
1 Obelisk of Urd
Sideboard:
Black:
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Crippling Blught
1 Mind Rot
1 Endless Obedience
1 Covenant of Blood
Blue:
1 Amphin Pathmage
1 Glacial Crasher
-----
1 Mind Sculpt
1 Negate
1 Encrust
Green:
2 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
-----
1 Naturalize
1 Hunter's Ambush
Artifact:
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Staff of the Flame Magus
Lands:
2 Radiant Fountain
Match 4: UB (0-2)
Game 1:
Mull to 6, lost to Accursed Spirit which I had no way to interact with.
Game 2:
Mull to 4, lost to Welkin Tern plus double Kapsho Kitefins
He said good game afterwards, but it wasn't really, said I had to mull to 4. His heart was in the right place, I guess.
Match 5: RG (1-1)
Game 1:
Opponent got me down to 5 life with Kird Chieftain and Scrapyard Mongrel, but I managed to stabilize thanks to Spirit Bonds. Card is so good.
Game 2:
Ended up barely losing this game, due to a 4/6 Scrapyard Mongrel, then my opponent topdecking Sungrace Pegasus and Juggernaut.
Game 3:
This game went to turns. My opponent got me down to 3 life with Juggernaut + Scrapyard Mongrel, but I eventually managed to block down them and they were dead. I should have just conceded, since a draw would likely put us both out of contention for prizes. Unfortunately, the store employee was right there, so it would have seemed weird to concede on my turn 5.
Match 6: bye
Result: 1-3-1, (technically 2-3-1, but I got a 3rd round bye, so I don't count that)
7/25/14 Sweet Indulgence (FNM M15 draft, 3-0)
I bruised my left "ring" toe by hitting a wall in my apartment. My toe turned black. Despite that, I ended up driving over to Gamescape North to play in the M15 draft. The store was PACKED, and they had to cap attendance to 40 people. Also it was sweltering inside the store. I ended up getting assigned to the "experienced people" table despite the fact that there were multiple people who counted as experienced people not getting picked to sit at the table (what's up with that?). Anyways, I was in a bit of trouble since the person sitting on my right was not the best at sending signals. Indeed.
P1P1: Rare was Necromancer's Stockpile. I took the Paragon of New Dawns over Ulcerate and Lightning Strike.
P1P2: Indulgent Tormentor. Who passes that?
P1P4: Geist of the Moors.
P2P1: Rare was Hoarding Dragon. I didn't feel I was anywhere near red, so I passed it on, taking Necrogen Scudder.
P3P1: Rare was Chandra, Pyromaster. I took it over Raise the Alarm/Kinsbaile Skirmisher/Rogue's Gloves.
The Rogue's Gloves WHEELED. YAY.
Person on my left was red/white. Person on my right was black/blue. Huh.
Deck:
White: 11
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
2 Geist of the Moors
1 Paragon of New Dawns
1 Razorfoot Griffin
------
1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
2 Marked by Honor
Black: 11
2 Typhoid Rats
1 Child of Night
2 Necrogen Scudder
1 Gravedigger
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Indulgent Tormentor
-----
1 Sign in Blood
1 Unmake the Graves
1 Covenant of Blood
Artifact: 1
1 Rogue's Gloves
Land: 17
9 Swamp
8 Plains
Sideboard:
White:
1 Midnight Guard
-----
1 Divine Favor
1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Solemn Offering
1 Congregate
1 Sanctified Charge
Black:
1 Witch's Familiar
-----
1 Festergloom
Match 1: RG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent seemed to get flooded out. Child of Night got in serious beats.
Game 2:
This game was a bit closer, but careful use of my two Typhoid Rats and Unmake the Graves, allowed me to hold the ground, while my flyers sealed the deal.
Match 2: UB (2-0)
Game 1:
He bounced my Necrogen Scudder with Void Snare, which sucked.
He applied a Stab Wound on my Necrogen Scudder, but I beat him down with my flying creatures (Necrogen Scudder, Razorclaw Griffin, and Indulgent Tormentor).
Game 2:
This game was a bit slower, with my opponent having Frost Lynx and Void Snare to slow me down. He also had Jalira, Master Polymorphist (wombo combo with his Coral Barrier). He Mind Sculpted me turn 2 , milling my Indulgent Tormentor. Also, he admitted he had Stain the Mind in his hand. So I didn't want to use my Gravedigger or Unmake the Graves to get Indulgent Tormentor back. Eventually, he popped off Stain the Mind, naming "Stab Wound" and searched my hand/library. He got kinda pissed, saying my deck was just Indulgent Tormentor and a couple of ways to get him back. (this was true)
He had Encrust for my Indulgent Tormentor, but I had Marked by Honor to give it vigilance. Then he tapped down my Indulgent Tormentor with Frost Lynx (sad times) but I swung for 8 with my Necrogen Scudder, Geist of the Moors, and Razorclaw Griffin.
Match 3: GR (2-0)
This guy argued with me at an earlier tournament about Legacy dredge (wtf). So I thought he was kind of a douchebag.
Game 1:
He "blew me out" with Gather Courage on his Runeclaw Bear when I attacked with Child of Night, then followed up with Inferno Fist.
I managed to get max value. I played an Indulgent Tormentor, he killed it with Heat Ray. I played Gravedigger on it, getting Indulgent Tormentor back. He played Restock, getting back Heat Ray and Inferno Fist. He re-fisted his bear, I blocked with Gravedigger, then he sac'd the Fist to kill my Gravedigger. I replayed Indulgent Tormentor, he Heat Ray'd again. Next turn, I played Unmake the Graves on Indulgent Tormentor and Gravedigger.
Eventually, I put Marked by Honor on Indulgent Tormentor, holding up Ephmeral Shields and Pillar of Light.
I blocked his Goblin Roughrider with my 7/5 Indulgent Tormentor.
Opponent got a 1 for 1 from Cone of Flame. Hitting me for 3, hitting one of my creatures for 2, and one of his other creatures for 1. I responded with Ephemeral Shields, turning my Indulgent Tormentor indestructible until end of turn. I was waiting for the followup Lightning Strike for troll value, but instead he scooped.
Game 2:
My first hand was three swamp, Typhoid Rats, three white spells. I shipped back, got a no-lander, mulled to 5, plains, Child of Night, Necrogen Scudder, Typhoid Rats, Indulgent Tormentor. Opponent put me on the PLAY. I drew swamp turn 2 (had it). He played a Generator Servant, didn't block the Child of Night. Next turn, he sac'ed servant, hit me for hasty 4 damage with Kird Chieftain.
Next turn, I untapped, and popped off Pillar of Light on his Kird Chieftain. Perhaps I could have waited until he tapped out, since he had two mana up, but I would rather not give him an extra draw for a possible Ranger's Guile.
I drew an Ephmeral Shields, and held it up. Managed to get my opponent down to 2 life, with Indulgent Tormentor, 5 mana, Ephmeral Shields in hand. I didn't play the Indulgent Tormentor, thinking there was no reason to play into two removal spells, but he would have played them earlier? So I should have just played the Indulgent Tormentor.
Result: 3-0 in matches, 6-0 in games, six packs
Also I traded my foil Deathrite Shaman, foil Geist of Saint Traft, foil Young Pyromancer for two Noble Hierarch and four slightly played Blackcleave Cliff. Value.
Update: I passed a Silver Hive for Geist of the Moors during the draft. Lost out on 5 dollars value.
P1P1: Rare was Necromancer's Stockpile. I took the Paragon of New Dawns over Ulcerate and Lightning Strike.
P1P2: Indulgent Tormentor. Who passes that?
P1P4: Geist of the Moors.
P2P1: Rare was Hoarding Dragon. I didn't feel I was anywhere near red, so I passed it on, taking Necrogen Scudder.
P3P1: Rare was Chandra, Pyromaster. I took it over Raise the Alarm/Kinsbaile Skirmisher/Rogue's Gloves.
The Rogue's Gloves WHEELED. YAY.
Person on my left was red/white. Person on my right was black/blue. Huh.
Deck:
White: 11
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
2 Geist of the Moors
1 Paragon of New Dawns
1 Razorfoot Griffin
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1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
2 Marked by Honor
Black: 11
2 Typhoid Rats
1 Child of Night
2 Necrogen Scudder
1 Gravedigger
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Indulgent Tormentor
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1 Sign in Blood
1 Unmake the Graves
1 Covenant of Blood
Artifact: 1
1 Rogue's Gloves
Land: 17
9 Swamp
8 Plains
Sideboard:
White:
1 Midnight Guard
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1 Divine Favor
1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Solemn Offering
1 Congregate
1 Sanctified Charge
Black:
1 Witch's Familiar
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1 Festergloom
Red:
1 Hammerhand
1 Chandra, Pyromaster
Green:
2 Sunblade Elf
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
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1 Plummet
1 Back to Nature
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Verdant Haven
Match 1: RG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent seemed to get flooded out. Child of Night got in serious beats.
Game 2:
This game was a bit closer, but careful use of my two Typhoid Rats and Unmake the Graves, allowed me to hold the ground, while my flyers sealed the deal.
Match 2: UB (2-0)
Game 1:
He bounced my Necrogen Scudder with Void Snare, which sucked.
He applied a Stab Wound on my Necrogen Scudder, but I beat him down with my flying creatures (Necrogen Scudder, Razorclaw Griffin, and Indulgent Tormentor).
Game 2:
This game was a bit slower, with my opponent having Frost Lynx and Void Snare to slow me down. He also had Jalira, Master Polymorphist (wombo combo with his Coral Barrier). He Mind Sculpted me turn 2 , milling my Indulgent Tormentor. Also, he admitted he had Stain the Mind in his hand. So I didn't want to use my Gravedigger or Unmake the Graves to get Indulgent Tormentor back. Eventually, he popped off Stain the Mind, naming "Stab Wound" and searched my hand/library. He got kinda pissed, saying my deck was just Indulgent Tormentor and a couple of ways to get him back. (this was true)
He had Encrust for my Indulgent Tormentor, but I had Marked by Honor to give it vigilance. Then he tapped down my Indulgent Tormentor with Frost Lynx (sad times) but I swung for 8 with my Necrogen Scudder, Geist of the Moors, and Razorclaw Griffin.
Match 3: GR (2-0)
This guy argued with me at an earlier tournament about Legacy dredge (wtf). So I thought he was kind of a douchebag.
Game 1:
He "blew me out" with Gather Courage on his Runeclaw Bear when I attacked with Child of Night, then followed up with Inferno Fist.
I managed to get max value. I played an Indulgent Tormentor, he killed it with Heat Ray. I played Gravedigger on it, getting Indulgent Tormentor back. He played Restock, getting back Heat Ray and Inferno Fist. He re-fisted his bear, I blocked with Gravedigger, then he sac'd the Fist to kill my Gravedigger. I replayed Indulgent Tormentor, he Heat Ray'd again. Next turn, I played Unmake the Graves on Indulgent Tormentor and Gravedigger.
Eventually, I put Marked by Honor on Indulgent Tormentor, holding up Ephmeral Shields and Pillar of Light.
I blocked his Goblin Roughrider with my 7/5 Indulgent Tormentor.
Opponent got a 1 for 1 from Cone of Flame. Hitting me for 3, hitting one of my creatures for 2, and one of his other creatures for 1. I responded with Ephemeral Shields, turning my Indulgent Tormentor indestructible until end of turn. I was waiting for the followup Lightning Strike for troll value, but instead he scooped.
Game 2:
My first hand was three swamp, Typhoid Rats, three white spells. I shipped back, got a no-lander, mulled to 5, plains, Child of Night, Necrogen Scudder, Typhoid Rats, Indulgent Tormentor. Opponent put me on the PLAY. I drew swamp turn 2 (had it). He played a Generator Servant, didn't block the Child of Night. Next turn, he sac'ed servant, hit me for hasty 4 damage with Kird Chieftain.
Next turn, I untapped, and popped off Pillar of Light on his Kird Chieftain. Perhaps I could have waited until he tapped out, since he had two mana up, but I would rather not give him an extra draw for a possible Ranger's Guile.
I drew an Ephmeral Shields, and held it up. Managed to get my opponent down to 2 life, with Indulgent Tormentor, 5 mana, Ephmeral Shields in hand. I didn't play the Indulgent Tormentor, thinking there was no reason to play into two removal spells, but he would have played them earlier? So I should have just played the Indulgent Tormentor.
Result: 3-0 in matches, 6-0 in games, six packs
Also I traded my foil Deathrite Shaman, foil Geist of Saint Traft, foil Young Pyromancer for two Noble Hierarch and four slightly played Blackcleave Cliff. Value.
Update: I passed a Silver Hive for Geist of the Moors during the draft. Lost out on 5 dollars value.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
7/21/14 Izzet a dream or a nightmare (Monday night M15 draft 2-1)
I went to Versus Games to play in an M15 draft.
P1P1: Hoarding Dragon
P2P1: Shield of the Avatar
P3P1: Waste Not (foil). Supposedly this is worth 15 dollars, so sure.
Turns out the guy on my right was black/blue, yet he passed Ulcerate, and three Flesh to Dust pack 1. He passed me Into the Void pick 3. Huh?
In pack 2, I should have taken Welkin Tern over Paragon of the Eternal Winds. I ended up not getting enough blue creatures to make the Paragon good.
In pack 3, I should have taken another Borderland Marauder over Frenzied Goblin. Frenzied Goblin was pretty bad in my deck.
DECK:
Blue:
1 Wall of Frost
1 Nimbus of the Isles
1 Glacial Crasher
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1 Peel from Reality
1 Into the Void
Red:
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Generator Servant
1 Rummaging Goblin
1 Belligrent Sliver
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Kird Chieftain
1 Hoarding Dragon
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1 Crowd's Favor
1 Inferno Fist
4 Lightning Strike
1 Stoke the Flames
1 Blastfire Bolt
Artifact:
1 Shield of the Avatar
Lands:
8 Mountain
8 Island
1 Forest
Sideboard:
White:
1 Constricting Sliver
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1 Meditation Puzzle
Blue:
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Research Assistant
1 Paragon of Gathering Mists
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1 Chronostutter
Black:
1 Necromancer's Assistant
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1 Waste Not
Red:
1 Forge Devil
1 Frenzied Goblin
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1 Clear a Path
1 Hammerhand
Green:
1 Elvish Mystic
2 Netcaster Spider
1 Undergrowth Scavenger
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1 Naturalize
Artifact:
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Tyrant's Machine
Behold, the 12 creature Shield of the Avatar Deck. This deck needed more Welkin Tern. Maybe I should have not passed both Encrust that I saw, but I think Encrust is usually pretty bad.
Tyrant's Machine would have been ok with the Hoarding Dragon and the Scrapyard Mongrel.
Match 1: UB (1-2)
Game 1:
He plays a turn 1 Hot Soup turn 3 Jorubai Murk Lurker and turn 4 Eternal Thirst. He seems to think Eternal Thirst gives a +1/+1 as part of the enchantment, but I told him that was not the case. It gives +1/+1 counters when an opponent's creature dies. I end up killing the Murk Lurker with the Blastfire Bolt.
He had Encrust for my Kird Chieftain. I have Nimbus of the Isles, which he kills with Flesh to Dust. Then I follow up with Glacial Crasher which swings in for a bit.
He plays Illusory Angel but I have Into the Void for his Jorubai Murk Lurker and his Illusory Angel, and swing for the win with Glacial Crasher enchanted with Inferno Fist, then sac the Fist post combat for 9 total damage.
Game 2:
I kept a 6 lander, proceed to draw 6 more lands and 4 spells the entire game.
My opponent plays Hot Soup into Illusory Angel turn 4. He then follows up with turn 5 Eternal Thirst. Apparently he was holding up Necrobite the whole game. Any kind of bounce spell would just wrecked him, but nope I don't draw that. I draw a Blastfire Bolt which he Necrobites in response. Whatever.
Game 3:
I end up losing to turn 3 Staff of the Mind Magus into turn 5 Ensoul Artifact and Illusory Angel. Argh. I have Blastfire Bolt, which I use to kill his Illusory Angel. I don't want to block his Staff of the Mind Magus with Krenko's Enforcer + Scrapyard Mongel, because I just lose on the spot to Necrobite. So I just end up losing to his topdeck Frost Lynx. He didn't have the Necrobite after all. I think I punted by letting him hit me for 7 damage a couple times, when I was only hitting for 5 damage. I don't think I was in a racing situation at all. I should have just went for the double block, but I was holding out for Into the Void or Peel from Reality.
My first round opponent ends up leaving before the third round starts. Ugh.
Match 2: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
He's all in on the Aura plan (Battle Mastery, Marked by Honor, and Vineweft). I have Lightning Strike + Into the Void to punish him for doing that. Krenko's Enforcer + Inferno Fist wins the game for me.
Game 2:
This game takes a bit longer, but it goes similarly to the first one. He plays auras into open mana, I punish him for it. Intimidate guys win the game for me, again.
Match 3: BR (2-0)
This guy was on my left.
Game 1:
This was a tough game, where I had to burn down Nightfire Giant with double Lightning Strike. We both have Rummaging Goblins, and we rummage a bunch of cards. We trade a bunch of removal for creatures, but eventually my topdecks are slightly better. I use Into the Void for the win, swinging with Rummaging Goblin and Borderland Marauder for the final 4 damage.
Game 2:
I Lightning Strike his Carrion Crow. He kills my Rummaging Goblin with Ulcerate (aggressive). He plays a Necrogen Scudder, I kill it with Lightning Bolt. I killed his Nightfire Giant with Blastfire Bolt.
He had Unmake the Graves to bring back his Carrion Crow and Nightfire Giant (ugh).
Got to a tough board state, where he had Nightfire Giant, Carrion Crow, and Rotfeast Maggot in play.
I had Wall of Frost, Borderland Marauder, and Kird Chieftain (4/4 due to having a forest). I had 9 untapped lands in play, and 1 card in hand.
I was at 5 life, he was 2. He had 8 lands untapped. I swung with both my Marauder and Chieftain, saying I was dead if I didn't swing. He uses Nightfire Giant on the Marauder pre-blocks, and I use Kird Chieftain to buff it. He deliberates, and ends up blocking the Maggot on the Marauder (now a 5/4 with 2 damage on it) and the Giant on my Kird Chieftain. They both trade (I reminded my opponent that the Marauder died).
If I was him, I would have blocked the Maggot on the Kird Chieftain, and the Giant on the Marauder. That way if I wanted to save the Marauder I would have to pump with the Chieftain, then he could burn in response. But I guess he was playing around Crowd's Favor (a common). If I had the Crowd's Favor in hand, and he blocked the Maggot on Chieftain, and Giant on the Marauder, I could just pump the Kird Chieftain with the Crowd's Favor and its own ability to trample for 2 damage.
If he did that block and I didn't have Crowd's Favor, then I would only have Wall of Frost, and he would have Nightfire Giant, Rotfeaster Maggot, and Carrion Crow, swing at me for 5 damage (from the Maggot + Crows). Plus he could also dome me for 2 more damage with the Giant on his turn.
Because of the way he blocked, I ended up going to 3 life, then I top decked Inferno Fist, which I put on my Wall of Frost and sacrificed.
P1P1: Hoarding Dragon
P2P1: Shield of the Avatar
P3P1: Waste Not (foil). Supposedly this is worth 15 dollars, so sure.
Turns out the guy on my right was black/blue, yet he passed Ulcerate, and three Flesh to Dust pack 1. He passed me Into the Void pick 3. Huh?
In pack 2, I should have taken Welkin Tern over Paragon of the Eternal Winds. I ended up not getting enough blue creatures to make the Paragon good.
In pack 3, I should have taken another Borderland Marauder over Frenzied Goblin. Frenzied Goblin was pretty bad in my deck.
DECK:
Blue:
1 Wall of Frost
1 Nimbus of the Isles
1 Glacial Crasher
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1 Peel from Reality
1 Into the Void
Red:
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Generator Servant
1 Rummaging Goblin
1 Belligrent Sliver
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Kird Chieftain
1 Hoarding Dragon
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1 Crowd's Favor
1 Inferno Fist
4 Lightning Strike
1 Stoke the Flames
1 Blastfire Bolt
Artifact:
1 Shield of the Avatar
Lands:
8 Mountain
8 Island
1 Forest
Sideboard:
White:
1 Constricting Sliver
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1 Meditation Puzzle
Blue:
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Research Assistant
1 Paragon of Gathering Mists
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1 Chronostutter
Black:
1 Necromancer's Assistant
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1 Waste Not
Red:
1 Forge Devil
1 Frenzied Goblin
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1 Clear a Path
1 Hammerhand
Green:
1 Elvish Mystic
2 Netcaster Spider
1 Undergrowth Scavenger
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1 Naturalize
Artifact:
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Tyrant's Machine
Behold, the 12 creature Shield of the Avatar Deck. This deck needed more Welkin Tern. Maybe I should have not passed both Encrust that I saw, but I think Encrust is usually pretty bad.
Tyrant's Machine would have been ok with the Hoarding Dragon and the Scrapyard Mongrel.
Match 1: UB (1-2)
Game 1:
He plays a turn 1 Hot Soup turn 3 Jorubai Murk Lurker and turn 4 Eternal Thirst. He seems to think Eternal Thirst gives a +1/+1 as part of the enchantment, but I told him that was not the case. It gives +1/+1 counters when an opponent's creature dies. I end up killing the Murk Lurker with the Blastfire Bolt.
He had Encrust for my Kird Chieftain. I have Nimbus of the Isles, which he kills with Flesh to Dust. Then I follow up with Glacial Crasher which swings in for a bit.
He plays Illusory Angel but I have Into the Void for his Jorubai Murk Lurker and his Illusory Angel, and swing for the win with Glacial Crasher enchanted with Inferno Fist, then sac the Fist post combat for 9 total damage.
Game 2:
I kept a 6 lander, proceed to draw 6 more lands and 4 spells the entire game.
My opponent plays Hot Soup into Illusory Angel turn 4. He then follows up with turn 5 Eternal Thirst. Apparently he was holding up Necrobite the whole game. Any kind of bounce spell would just wrecked him, but nope I don't draw that. I draw a Blastfire Bolt which he Necrobites in response. Whatever.
Game 3:
I end up losing to turn 3 Staff of the Mind Magus into turn 5 Ensoul Artifact and Illusory Angel. Argh. I have Blastfire Bolt, which I use to kill his Illusory Angel. I don't want to block his Staff of the Mind Magus with Krenko's Enforcer + Scrapyard Mongel, because I just lose on the spot to Necrobite. So I just end up losing to his topdeck Frost Lynx. He didn't have the Necrobite after all. I think I punted by letting him hit me for 7 damage a couple times, when I was only hitting for 5 damage. I don't think I was in a racing situation at all. I should have just went for the double block, but I was holding out for Into the Void or Peel from Reality.
My first round opponent ends up leaving before the third round starts. Ugh.
Match 2: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
He's all in on the Aura plan (Battle Mastery, Marked by Honor, and Vineweft). I have Lightning Strike + Into the Void to punish him for doing that. Krenko's Enforcer + Inferno Fist wins the game for me.
Game 2:
This game takes a bit longer, but it goes similarly to the first one. He plays auras into open mana, I punish him for it. Intimidate guys win the game for me, again.
Match 3: BR (2-0)
This guy was on my left.
Game 1:
This was a tough game, where I had to burn down Nightfire Giant with double Lightning Strike. We both have Rummaging Goblins, and we rummage a bunch of cards. We trade a bunch of removal for creatures, but eventually my topdecks are slightly better. I use Into the Void for the win, swinging with Rummaging Goblin and Borderland Marauder for the final 4 damage.
Game 2:
I Lightning Strike his Carrion Crow. He kills my Rummaging Goblin with Ulcerate (aggressive). He plays a Necrogen Scudder, I kill it with Lightning Bolt. I killed his Nightfire Giant with Blastfire Bolt.
He had Unmake the Graves to bring back his Carrion Crow and Nightfire Giant (ugh).
Got to a tough board state, where he had Nightfire Giant, Carrion Crow, and Rotfeast Maggot in play.
I had Wall of Frost, Borderland Marauder, and Kird Chieftain (4/4 due to having a forest). I had 9 untapped lands in play, and 1 card in hand.
I was at 5 life, he was 2. He had 8 lands untapped. I swung with both my Marauder and Chieftain, saying I was dead if I didn't swing. He uses Nightfire Giant on the Marauder pre-blocks, and I use Kird Chieftain to buff it. He deliberates, and ends up blocking the Maggot on the Marauder (now a 5/4 with 2 damage on it) and the Giant on my Kird Chieftain. They both trade (I reminded my opponent that the Marauder died).
If I was him, I would have blocked the Maggot on the Kird Chieftain, and the Giant on the Marauder. That way if I wanted to save the Marauder I would have to pump with the Chieftain, then he could burn in response. But I guess he was playing around Crowd's Favor (a common). If I had the Crowd's Favor in hand, and he blocked the Maggot on Chieftain, and Giant on the Marauder, I could just pump the Kird Chieftain with the Crowd's Favor and its own ability to trample for 2 damage.
If he did that block and I didn't have Crowd's Favor, then I would only have Wall of Frost, and he would have Nightfire Giant, Rotfeaster Maggot, and Carrion Crow, swing at me for 5 damage (from the Maggot + Crows). Plus he could also dome me for 2 more damage with the Giant on his turn.
Because of the way he blocked, I ended up going to 3 life, then I top decked Inferno Fist, which I put on my Wall of Frost and sacrificed.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
7/20/14 Hunka burning love (M15 draft, 3-0)
I headed over to Versus Games for more practice with M15.
I had signed up for the 1 pm draft at 9:30 a.m. Then at 10:30 a.m. I signed up for the 4 pm draft.
When I got to the store, I was wondering why they only asked me for 11 dollars, instead of asking for 22 dollars (to cover both drafts). I figured they didn't collect the money because they thought the 4 pm draft wasn't going to fill. I sit down at the table.
P1P1: I take Spectra Ward.
P1P2: Brood Keeper, even though this was super speculative. There was nothing good in white I wanted to take.
P1P3: I take Burning Anger. Somehow I get Burning Anger 3rd pick pack 1, yet the person on my right is in red. What? Do people not value this card?
P2P1: Opened Stormtide Leviathan. I took Ephemeral Shields. Bleh.
P3P1: Opened Soul of Innistrad. Took Devouring Light over Inferno Fist.
P3P2: Reward, got passed Avacyn. Unfortunately I had to pass another Devouring Light and another Krenko's Enforcer.
I passed a second Ephemeral Shields for Altac Bloodseeker. Probably wrong since Ephmeral Shields would have been nice to protect my creatures with auras.
Lots of black was going around in pack 1 and 3. It turned out only 2 people were in black.
Guy on my left was white/green.
Guy on my right was red/blue.
DECK:
White:
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
2 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Avacyn, Guardian Angel
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1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Devouring Light
1 Marked by Honor
1 Spectra Ward
1 Triplicate Spirits
Red:
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Generator Servant
1 Altac Bloodseeker
2 Goblin Roughrider
1 Belligerent Sliver
3 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
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1 Hammerhand
1 Burning Anger
Artifact:
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
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1 Rogue's Gloves
SIDEBOARD:
White:
1 Selfless Cathar
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1 Divine Favor
1 First Response
1 Meditation Puzzle
Blue:
1 Nimbus of the Isles
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1 Invisibility
1 Statute of Denial
Black:
1 Necrobite
2 Covenant of Blood
Red:
2 Forge Devil
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1 Lava Axe
1 Might Makes Right
Green:
1 Venom Sliver
1 Charging Rhino
Artifact:
1 Bronze Sable
1 Will-Forged Golem
1 Brawler's Plate
Match 1: BUG (2-0)
Game 1:
I win the roll.
I end up mulling to 5. He gets a turn 2 Feast on the Fallen, into turn 4 Blood Host with Hot Soup. So we end up racing, but I manage to win the race, just barely. He gets Nissa online as well but my intimidate creatures don't care about a forest.
Game 2:
We both mull to 5.
My opponent opens up with turn 1 Profane Memento, turn 2 Mind Sculpt, gaining 2 life because he milled two creatures. However, he has problems finding black mana until the last turn or so.
I win off Hammerhand on Avacyn, make his Child of Night unable to block, swing with all my guys for lethal.
Match 2: GR (2-0)
Game 1:
I win the roll.
My opponent keeps 7, but apparently only plays forests for the first 5 turns.
He kills my Rogue's Gloves with a maindeck Naturalize.
He surprises me when he plays Lightning Strike off a Verdant Haven, and then a Kird Chieftain. However, I resolve a Spectra Ward, and just grind him out of the game.
Game 2:
This game was pretty close, my opponent gets Shield of the Avatar turn 1, and Yisan, Wandering Bard on turn 3. He also plays a Staff of the Wild Magus I don't have any artifact destruction in my pool. He gets Elvish Mystic, Generator Servant, Reclamation Sage, and Scrapyard Mongrel off his Yisan.
He tutors up Reclamation Sage to kill my Spectra Ward. I'm pinging him down slowly with a Heliod's Pilgrim enchanted with Marked by Honor and Burning Anger. I have him down to 3, I ping him after I untap. he plays Titanic Growth to gain 1 life. So he's at 1 life. I'm at 13 life now.
He untaps, swings with his team (Reclamation Sage, Yisan, Elvish Mystic, Scrapyard Mongrel that's a 5/3), I block to try and not die, then he Lightning Strikes my Gargoyle Sentinel that was blocking his Scrapyard Mongrel, then Titanic Growth's to push through more damage. I play Ephemeral Shields on my Gargoyle Sentinel, but since his creature had trample, it should have actually trampled 3 extra damage over to me, since it was an indestructible guy with 3 damage marked already. I thought I only took 11 damage, but I actually took 14 damage. Next time I see this guy I will have to apologize to him, and give him a pack to make up for the difference (or maybe two).
This game I punted by taking two extra damage from Reclamation Sage when he attacked me, and I didn't block, even though I think I could have done that safely with Ephmeral Shields back up. Also I think I should have pinged his Scrapyard Mongrel with the Heliod's Pilgrim instead of trying to race a 5/3 trample (even though I was at 18 life when he was at 9 life).
Match 3: BW (2-1)
Game 1:
My opponent wins the roll. My opponent's deck is pretty nuts, with Haunted Platemail, Avacyn, Indulgent Tormentor, Soul of Innistrad (though he didn't draw the Soul).
I get a Krenko's Enforcer with Rogue's Gloves. My opponent gets a turn 4 Haunted Platemail.
Game 2:
He's got early aggression with Oreskos Swiftclaw and Child of Night, plus Crippling Blight for my Borderland Marauder.
He's got a Gravedigger + Endless Obedience on Gravedigger thing going on. The VALUE.
I had Devouring Light for his Avacyn.
I use Burning Anger on my Brood Keeper, then ping his 3/1 flyer with the Brood Keeper. I mistap my mana so I have a white open instead of red, so I can't use the firebreath on my Dragon token. (bleh).
However, I misplayed. I chump blocked his Juggernaut, but let his Swiftclaw go through, taking me to 2 life. Then he plays Sanctified Charge. I didn't need to let myself go to 2 life. I should have just blocked the Swiftclaw with my dragon token, or not attacked with both of Krenko's enforcers, and used a Krenko's Enforcer to block the Swiftclaw.
Game 3:
I boarded out one Goblin Roughrider for Forge Devil. I technically should have boarded then both out for Forge Devil since Goblin Roughrider doesn't match up well with with the 2/1's and 3/1's he's showed me.
This game was really close.
I have Avacyn in play, and a Gargoyle Sentinel enchanted with Mark of Honor. He's at 10 life and has a Juggernaut (tapped) and an Indulgent Tormentor in play. I swing with both, he blocks Avacyn with the Indulgent Tormentor, and goes to 5 life. Then he has Flesh to Dust for my Gargoyle Sentinel. I swing him down to 3 life with a Krenko's Enforcer. He taps all but one black mana for another creature that wasn't an artifact (I forgot what it was).
Next turn I topdeck Heliod's Pilgrim, search for Spectra Ward, play it on Krenko's Enforcer. He doesn't have Ulcerate, and he scoops.
He was a bit tilty since he apparently had Avacyn and Soul of Innistrad in his hand. He didn't have a 3rd plains for Avacyn or a
Result: 3-0 (6-1 in games), 4 packs
Unfortunately, it actually just turned out they missed my signup for the 4 pm draft. When I asked about drafting at 4 pm the employee said the store was full and that they would not start another draft because the store was closing at 7 pm. So that was the end of my draft day.
In the end I was okay with that because I was super tired.
I had signed up for the 1 pm draft at 9:30 a.m. Then at 10:30 a.m. I signed up for the 4 pm draft.
When I got to the store, I was wondering why they only asked me for 11 dollars, instead of asking for 22 dollars (to cover both drafts). I figured they didn't collect the money because they thought the 4 pm draft wasn't going to fill. I sit down at the table.
P1P1: I take Spectra Ward.
P1P2: Brood Keeper, even though this was super speculative. There was nothing good in white I wanted to take.
P1P3: I take Burning Anger. Somehow I get Burning Anger 3rd pick pack 1, yet the person on my right is in red. What? Do people not value this card?
P2P1: Opened Stormtide Leviathan. I took Ephemeral Shields. Bleh.
P3P1: Opened Soul of Innistrad. Took Devouring Light over Inferno Fist.
P3P2: Reward, got passed Avacyn. Unfortunately I had to pass another Devouring Light and another Krenko's Enforcer.
I passed a second Ephemeral Shields for Altac Bloodseeker. Probably wrong since Ephmeral Shields would have been nice to protect my creatures with auras.
Lots of black was going around in pack 1 and 3. It turned out only 2 people were in black.
Guy on my left was white/green.
Guy on my right was red/blue.
DECK:
White:
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
2 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Avacyn, Guardian Angel
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1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Devouring Light
1 Marked by Honor
1 Spectra Ward
1 Triplicate Spirits
Red:
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Generator Servant
1 Altac Bloodseeker
2 Goblin Roughrider
1 Belligerent Sliver
3 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
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1 Hammerhand
1 Burning Anger
Artifact:
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
-----
1 Rogue's Gloves
SIDEBOARD:
White:
1 Selfless Cathar
-----
1 Divine Favor
1 First Response
1 Meditation Puzzle
Blue:
1 Nimbus of the Isles
-----
1 Invisibility
1 Statute of Denial
Black:
1 Necrobite
2 Covenant of Blood
Red:
2 Forge Devil
-----
1 Lava Axe
1 Might Makes Right
Green:
1 Venom Sliver
1 Charging Rhino
Artifact:
1 Bronze Sable
1 Will-Forged Golem
1 Brawler's Plate
Match 1: BUG (2-0)
Game 1:
I win the roll.
I end up mulling to 5. He gets a turn 2 Feast on the Fallen, into turn 4 Blood Host with Hot Soup. So we end up racing, but I manage to win the race, just barely. He gets Nissa online as well but my intimidate creatures don't care about a forest.
Game 2:
We both mull to 5.
My opponent opens up with turn 1 Profane Memento, turn 2 Mind Sculpt, gaining 2 life because he milled two creatures. However, he has problems finding black mana until the last turn or so.
I win off Hammerhand on Avacyn, make his Child of Night unable to block, swing with all my guys for lethal.
Match 2: GR (2-0)
Game 1:
I win the roll.
My opponent keeps 7, but apparently only plays forests for the first 5 turns.
He kills my Rogue's Gloves with a maindeck Naturalize.
He surprises me when he plays Lightning Strike off a Verdant Haven, and then a Kird Chieftain. However, I resolve a Spectra Ward, and just grind him out of the game.
Game 2:
This game was pretty close, my opponent gets Shield of the Avatar turn 1, and Yisan, Wandering Bard on turn 3. He also plays a Staff of the Wild Magus I don't have any artifact destruction in my pool. He gets Elvish Mystic, Generator Servant, Reclamation Sage, and Scrapyard Mongrel off his Yisan.
He tutors up Reclamation Sage to kill my Spectra Ward. I'm pinging him down slowly with a Heliod's Pilgrim enchanted with Marked by Honor and Burning Anger. I have him down to 3, I ping him after I untap. he plays Titanic Growth to gain 1 life. So he's at 1 life. I'm at 13 life now.
He untaps, swings with his team (Reclamation Sage, Yisan, Elvish Mystic, Scrapyard Mongrel that's a 5/3), I block to try and not die, then he Lightning Strikes my Gargoyle Sentinel that was blocking his Scrapyard Mongrel, then Titanic Growth's to push through more damage. I play Ephemeral Shields on my Gargoyle Sentinel, but since his creature had trample, it should have actually trampled 3 extra damage over to me, since it was an indestructible guy with 3 damage marked already. I thought I only took 11 damage, but I actually took 14 damage. Next time I see this guy I will have to apologize to him, and give him a pack to make up for the difference (or maybe two).
This game I punted by taking two extra damage from Reclamation Sage when he attacked me, and I didn't block, even though I think I could have done that safely with Ephmeral Shields back up. Also I think I should have pinged his Scrapyard Mongrel with the Heliod's Pilgrim instead of trying to race a 5/3 trample (even though I was at 18 life when he was at 9 life).
Match 3: BW (2-1)
Game 1:
My opponent wins the roll. My opponent's deck is pretty nuts, with Haunted Platemail, Avacyn, Indulgent Tormentor, Soul of Innistrad (though he didn't draw the Soul).
I get a Krenko's Enforcer with Rogue's Gloves. My opponent gets a turn 4 Haunted Platemail.
Game 2:
He's got early aggression with Oreskos Swiftclaw and Child of Night, plus Crippling Blight for my Borderland Marauder.
He's got a Gravedigger + Endless Obedience on Gravedigger thing going on. The VALUE.
I had Devouring Light for his Avacyn.
I use Burning Anger on my Brood Keeper, then ping his 3/1 flyer with the Brood Keeper. I mistap my mana so I have a white open instead of red, so I can't use the firebreath on my Dragon token. (bleh).
However, I misplayed. I chump blocked his Juggernaut, but let his Swiftclaw go through, taking me to 2 life. Then he plays Sanctified Charge. I didn't need to let myself go to 2 life. I should have just blocked the Swiftclaw with my dragon token, or not attacked with both of Krenko's enforcers, and used a Krenko's Enforcer to block the Swiftclaw.
Game 3:
I boarded out one Goblin Roughrider for Forge Devil. I technically should have boarded then both out for Forge Devil since Goblin Roughrider doesn't match up well with with the 2/1's and 3/1's he's showed me.
This game was really close.
I have Avacyn in play, and a Gargoyle Sentinel enchanted with Mark of Honor. He's at 10 life and has a Juggernaut (tapped) and an Indulgent Tormentor in play. I swing with both, he blocks Avacyn with the Indulgent Tormentor, and goes to 5 life. Then he has Flesh to Dust for my Gargoyle Sentinel. I swing him down to 3 life with a Krenko's Enforcer. He taps all but one black mana for another creature that wasn't an artifact (I forgot what it was).
Next turn I topdeck Heliod's Pilgrim, search for Spectra Ward, play it on Krenko's Enforcer. He doesn't have Ulcerate, and he scoops.
He was a bit tilty since he apparently had Avacyn and Soul of Innistrad in his hand. He didn't have a 3rd plains for Avacyn or a
Result: 3-0 (6-1 in games), 4 packs
Unfortunately, it actually just turned out they missed my signup for the 4 pm draft. When I asked about drafting at 4 pm the employee said the store was full and that they would not start another draft because the store was closing at 7 pm. So that was the end of my draft day.
In the end I was okay with that because I was super tired.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
7/19/14 M15 Sealed Training Exercise
Rare:
Ajani Steadfast
Resolute Archangel
Cruel Sadist
Master of Predicaments
Phyrexian Revoker
Soul of New Phyrexia
White:
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Warden of the Beyond
1 Tireless Missionaries
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
2 Divine Favor
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Solemn Offering
1 Battle Mastery
1 Marked by Honor
1 Congregate
1 Ajani Steadfast
1 Sanctified Charge
Blue:
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Nimbus of the Isles
1 Master of Predicaments
1 Glacial Crasher
-----
1 Hydrosurge
1 Void Snare
1 Peel from Reality
1 Military Intelligence
1 Turn to Frog
1 Divination
1 Chronostutter
Black:
1 Cruel Sadist
1 Black Cat
2 Child of Night
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Necromancer's Assistant
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Crippling Blight
1 Ulcerate
3 Sign in Blood
1 Caustic Tar
1 Covenant of Blood
Red:
2 Foundry Street Denizen
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Generator Servant
1 Wall of Fire
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
-----
1 Clear a Path
1 Crowd's Favor
1 Hammerhand
1 Inferno Fist
1 Stoke the Flames
1 Lava Axe
Green:
2 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Runeclaw Bears
1 Wall of Mulch
1 Invasive Species
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Shaman of Spring
1 Living Totem
1 Charging Rhino
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
1 Siege Wurm
-----
2 Ranger's Guile
2 Verdant Haven
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Feral Incarnation
Artifact:
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
2 Will-Forged Golem
1 Soul of New Phyrexia
-----
1 Profane Memento
1 Sacred Armory
1 Staff of the Sun Magus
1 Staff of the Death Magus
Land:
1 Swamp (foil)
2 Radiant Fountain
DECK:
White: 8
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Warden of the Beyond
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
1 Marked by Honor
1 Ajani Steadfast
Black: 12
1 Cruel Sadist
2 Child of Night
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Necromancer's Assistant
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Ulcerate
3 Sign in Blood
1 Covenant of Blood
Artifacts: 3
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
1 Soul of New Phyrexia
Lands:
8 Swamp
7 Plains
2 Radiant Fountain
This deck has a lot of life loss, between:
1 Cruel Sadist
3 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Ulcerate
3 Sign in Blood
1 Covenant of Blood
This is offset by:
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Resolute Archangel
1 Ajani Steadfast (the +1)
2 Child of Night
1 Covenant of Blood
2 Radiant Fountain
Also the lifegain helps Ajani's Pridemate.
The Warden of the Beyond only has synergy with Constricting Sliver.
Ajani Steadfast
Resolute Archangel
Cruel Sadist
Master of Predicaments
Phyrexian Revoker
Soul of New Phyrexia
White:
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Warden of the Beyond
1 Tireless Missionaries
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
2 Divine Favor
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Solemn Offering
1 Battle Mastery
1 Marked by Honor
1 Congregate
1 Ajani Steadfast
1 Sanctified Charge
Blue:
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Nimbus of the Isles
1 Master of Predicaments
1 Glacial Crasher
-----
1 Hydrosurge
1 Void Snare
1 Peel from Reality
1 Military Intelligence
1 Turn to Frog
1 Divination
1 Chronostutter
Black:
1 Cruel Sadist
1 Black Cat
2 Child of Night
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Necromancer's Assistant
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Crippling Blight
1 Ulcerate
3 Sign in Blood
1 Caustic Tar
1 Covenant of Blood
Red:
2 Foundry Street Denizen
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Generator Servant
1 Wall of Fire
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
-----
1 Clear a Path
1 Crowd's Favor
1 Hammerhand
1 Inferno Fist
1 Stoke the Flames
1 Lava Axe
Green:
2 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Runeclaw Bears
1 Wall of Mulch
1 Invasive Species
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Shaman of Spring
1 Living Totem
1 Charging Rhino
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
1 Siege Wurm
-----
2 Ranger's Guile
2 Verdant Haven
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Feral Incarnation
Artifact:
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
2 Will-Forged Golem
1 Soul of New Phyrexia
-----
1 Profane Memento
1 Sacred Armory
1 Staff of the Sun Magus
1 Staff of the Death Magus
Land:
1 Swamp (foil)
2 Radiant Fountain
DECK:
White: 8
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Warden of the Beyond
1 Constricting Sliver
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
1 Marked by Honor
1 Ajani Steadfast
Black: 12
1 Cruel Sadist
2 Child of Night
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Necromancer's Assistant
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
-----
1 Ulcerate
3 Sign in Blood
1 Covenant of Blood
Artifacts: 3
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Gargoyle Sentinel
1 Soul of New Phyrexia
Lands:
8 Swamp
7 Plains
2 Radiant Fountain
This deck has a lot of life loss, between:
1 Cruel Sadist
3 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Ulcerate
3 Sign in Blood
1 Covenant of Blood
This is offset by:
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Resolute Archangel
1 Ajani Steadfast (the +1)
2 Child of Night
1 Covenant of Blood
2 Radiant Fountain
Also the lifegain helps Ajani's Pridemate.
The Warden of the Beyond only has synergy with Constricting Sliver.
7/19/14 I saw the sign (actually I didn't) (M15 draft 1-2)
I went back to Versus Games again, after a 2 month hiatus.
P1P1: Liliana Vess. (still had all deez) 5 dollars in value. I <thought> black was open, but apparently the the person on my right was in black. I got passed a Preeminent Captain, so I thought white might be open. Apparently three other people were in white.
P2P1: Rare was Battlefield Forge. I don't remember what I took. I know the Battlefield Forge wheeled, so that was nice. 2.50 in value.
P3P1: Rare was Yavimaya Coast. I don't remember what I took. I passed up 3 dollars in value. This card did not wheel.
I saw a Genesis Hydra and a Kalonian Twingrove pass by. So disgusting, apparently nobody was in green from my right. :(
DECK:
White:
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Dauntless River Marshal
1 Wall of Essence
1 Preeminent Captain
1 Razorfoot Griffin
-----
1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Devouring Light
1 Return to the Ranks
Black:
3 Typhoid Rats
2 Carrion Crow
2 Witch's Familiar
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Paragon of Open Graves
-----
1 Sign in Blood
1 Flesh to Dust
1 Unmake the Graves
1 Lilliana Vess
Artifact:
1 Juggernaut
LANDS:
8 Swamps
8 Plains
1 Island
Sideboard:
White:
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
-----
1 Oppressive Rays
1 Pillar of Light
1 Meditation Puzzle
Blue:
1 Quickling
Black:
1 Leeching Sliver
-----
1 Festergloom
1 Endless Obedience
Red:
1 Krenko's Enforcer
------
1 Blastfire Bolt
Green:
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Shaman of Spring
1 Roaring Primadox
-----
1 Hunter's Ambush
Artifact:
2 Bronze Sable
1 Staff of the Death Magus
1 Staff of the Flame Magus
Lands:
1 Battlefield Forge
Match 1: UR mono-rare (1-2)
Game 1:
I had a removal spell for his Illusory Angel, but I lost to Hoarding Dragon.
Game 2:
Game kinda got stallish, with my opponent playing Hoarding Dragon, Illusory Angel, Siege Dragon, and Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (!). I had some timely removal spells, plus Lilliana Vess. My opponent scooped when Lilliana Vess hit 8 loyalty.
Game 3:
Opponent just had more threats than I had answers, and sealed the deal with Into the Void.
Match 2: UR (2-0)
Game 1:
This game got super grindy with my opponent playing Paragon of Gathering Mists and Amphin Pathmage. Fortunately, my opponent missed a bunch of Research Assistant ability usages, so I was able to slowly grind this game to my advantage, with Typhoid Rats, Unmake the Graves, and Return to the Ranks.
Game 2:
We both mulled to 6, but apparently all my opponent wanted to play was a Rummaging Goblin, and a turn 6 Glacial Crasher. Pillar of Light got rid of the Glacial Crasher, and I beat him down with my army of 2/1 and 2/3's. Heh.
Match 3: WG (0-2)
I knew I was in for rough time, because of how open green was during this draft.
Game 1:
I had removal for both of his Siege Wurm, but Hornet Queen + Geist of the Moors wore me down.
Game 2:
He played Paragon of the Eternal Wilds which sucked for me, since I had boarded into Festergloom for his Hornet Queen. I had to use Flesh to Dust on his Paragon, instead of his Ancient Silverback, just so I could get rid of the Hornet tokens + Oreskos Swiftclaw + Elvish Mystic with Festergloom. I ended up losing to Ancient Silverback because I couldn't draw one of my three exile effects.
Result: 1-2
P1P1: Liliana Vess. (still had all deez) 5 dollars in value. I <thought> black was open, but apparently the the person on my right was in black. I got passed a Preeminent Captain, so I thought white might be open. Apparently three other people were in white.
P2P1: Rare was Battlefield Forge. I don't remember what I took. I know the Battlefield Forge wheeled, so that was nice. 2.50 in value.
P3P1: Rare was Yavimaya Coast. I don't remember what I took. I passed up 3 dollars in value. This card did not wheel.
I saw a Genesis Hydra and a Kalonian Twingrove pass by. So disgusting, apparently nobody was in green from my right. :(
DECK:
White:
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Dauntless River Marshal
1 Wall of Essence
1 Preeminent Captain
1 Razorfoot Griffin
-----
1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Devouring Light
1 Return to the Ranks
Black:
3 Typhoid Rats
2 Carrion Crow
2 Witch's Familiar
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Paragon of Open Graves
-----
1 Sign in Blood
1 Flesh to Dust
1 Unmake the Graves
1 Lilliana Vess
Artifact:
1 Juggernaut
LANDS:
8 Swamps
8 Plains
1 Island
Sideboard:
White:
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
-----
1 Oppressive Rays
1 Pillar of Light
1 Meditation Puzzle
Blue:
1 Quickling
Black:
1 Leeching Sliver
-----
1 Festergloom
1 Endless Obedience
Red:
1 Krenko's Enforcer
------
1 Blastfire Bolt
Green:
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Shaman of Spring
1 Roaring Primadox
-----
1 Hunter's Ambush
Artifact:
2 Bronze Sable
1 Staff of the Death Magus
1 Staff of the Flame Magus
Lands:
1 Battlefield Forge
Match 1: UR mono-rare (1-2)
Game 1:
I had a removal spell for his Illusory Angel, but I lost to Hoarding Dragon.
Game 2:
Game kinda got stallish, with my opponent playing Hoarding Dragon, Illusory Angel, Siege Dragon, and Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (!). I had some timely removal spells, plus Lilliana Vess. My opponent scooped when Lilliana Vess hit 8 loyalty.
Game 3:
Opponent just had more threats than I had answers, and sealed the deal with Into the Void.
Match 2: UR (2-0)
Game 1:
This game got super grindy with my opponent playing Paragon of Gathering Mists and Amphin Pathmage. Fortunately, my opponent missed a bunch of Research Assistant ability usages, so I was able to slowly grind this game to my advantage, with Typhoid Rats, Unmake the Graves, and Return to the Ranks.
Game 2:
We both mulled to 6, but apparently all my opponent wanted to play was a Rummaging Goblin, and a turn 6 Glacial Crasher. Pillar of Light got rid of the Glacial Crasher, and I beat him down with my army of 2/1 and 2/3's. Heh.
Match 3: WG (0-2)
I knew I was in for rough time, because of how open green was during this draft.
Game 1:
I had removal for both of his Siege Wurm, but Hornet Queen + Geist of the Moors wore me down.
Game 2:
He played Paragon of the Eternal Wilds which sucked for me, since I had boarded into Festergloom for his Hornet Queen. I had to use Flesh to Dust on his Paragon, instead of his Ancient Silverback, just so I could get rid of the Hornet tokens + Oreskos Swiftclaw + Elvish Mystic with Festergloom. I ended up losing to Ancient Silverback because I couldn't draw one of my three exile effects.
Result: 1-2
7/18/14 The salt is strong with me (M15 release sealed 3-1)
I went to Gamescape North to pick up a box of M15, and play in the M15 release sealed. There were a lot of familiar faces at the tournament tonight (not necessarily a good thing). I saw four rules-lawyerly, sociopathic narcissists. These were people who used to play when I started, but thankfully stopped attending tournament at the store, probably to go play at more competitive places like Eudemonia or Channel Fireball. After seeing their faces, I was dreading playing at the tournament tonight. Thankfully, I didn't end up playing against them.
I got my sealed pool, and boy was it a stinker.
Rares:
Waste Not
Cruel Sadist
Phyrexian Revoker
Haunted Platemail
Obelisk of Urd
Resolute Archangel
Pool:
Black: 13
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Cruel Sadist
1 Child of Night
1 Carrion Crow
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Accursed Spirit
2 Zof Shade
1 Paragon of Open Graves
------
1 Waste Not
1 Necrobite
1 Feast on the Fallen
1 Mind Rot
Blue: 14
2 Research Assistant
2 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Amphin Pathmage
-----
1 Hydrosurge
1 Void Snare
2 Mind Sculpt
1 Turn to Frog
1 Invisibility
1 Divination
2 Statute of Denial
Green: 12
1 Satyr Wayfinder
2 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
1 Charging Rhino
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
-----
2 Vineweft
1 Naturalize
1 Back to Nature
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Overwhelm
Red: 17
1 Forge Devil
3 Generator Servant
2 Torch Fiend
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Wall of Fire
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
3 Thundering Giant
------
1 Clear a Path
1 Lava Axe
2 Blastfire Bolt
White: 10
2 Soulmender
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Dauntless River Marshal
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Boonweaver Giant
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Divine Favor
1 Solemn Offering
1 Devouring Light
1 Congregate
3 Marked by Honor
Artifact: 10
1 Ornithopter
1 Bronze Sable
1 Phyrexian Revoker
-----
1 Tyrant's Machine
1 Sacred Armory
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Staff of the Wild Magus
1 Staff of the Sun Magus
1 Haunted Platemail
1 Obelisk of Urd
Red was reasonably strong with the creature base, but no cheap removal spells like Lightning Strike or Inferno Fist.
I originally started with a black/red build.
Deck:
Black: 9
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Cruel Sadist
1 Child of Night
1 Carrion Crow
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Zof Shade
1 Paragon of Open Graves
------
1 Necrobite
Red: 12
3 Generator Servant
1 Borderland Marauder
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
3 Thundering Giant
------
1 Lava Axe
2 Blastfire Bolt
Land:
9 Mountain
8 Swamp
After losing round 1, I talked to someone from the store, who suggested red/white.
Deck:
Red: 12
3 Generator Servant
1 Torch Fiend
1 Borderland Marauder
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
2 Thundering Giant
------
2 Blastfire Bolt
White: 10
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Boonweaver Giant
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Devouring Light
3 Marked by Honor
Artifact: 1
1 Haunted Platemail
Land:
9 Mountain
8 Plains
Round 1: BR (0-2)
Game 1:
I got my opponent down to 6 life, but ultimately lost to turn 3 Goblin Rabblemaster, and topdeck Blastfire Bolt during the last turn. I kinda punted because there was a turn where I didn't block with my 2/2 against his 1/1, and dropped to 9 life. Of course, the turn he topdecks Blastfire Bolt, he swings in for exactly 9 damage against my remaining blockers. Great.
Game 2:
I lost to turn 3 Carrion Crow into turn 4 Feast on the Fallen.
I proceed to tell my opponent how unplayable Feast on the Fallen is, but I'm sure he thinks I'm an insufferable douchebag.
Round 2: Esper (2-0)
Opponent's playing 65 cards in his deck. I literally took 0 damage during both games. I don't know what I can possibly say.
Round 3: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent mulled to 5. Played 0 spells this game.
Game 2:
Opponent mulled to 5 again. Played some spells, but mostly chump blocked. Apparently double Marked by Honor is good.
Round 4: RG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent played a turn 2 Goblin Kaboomist. It died after 1 turn. Double Marked by Honor on a Krenko's Enforcer, ended up winning me this game.
Game 2:
Again, opponent played a turn 2 Goblin Kaboomist, which died after 1 turn. He seemed stuck on 3 forest/1 mountain for a while. This game was kinda grindy, with my opponent having Invasive Species and Runeclaw Bear to block. I kinda punt this game when I swing with a Kinsbaile Skirmisher enchanted with Marked by Honor, and a Heliod's Pilgrim enchanted with Marked by Honor. He simply double blocks the Skirmisher, resulting in a 2 for 1 for me. I could have also swung with my Generator Servant and Ajani's Pridemate to push in more damage. It didn't matter, because I ended up winning the game before my opponent got a second mountain. If he got a second mountain, he could have played Chandra, Pyromaster, plus his five drops. Whew.
I mistap my mana during one turn also, preventing me from playing both Generator Servant and Ajani's Pridemate in one turn, which causes me to miss 2 damage on a following turn. Bleh.
Result: 3-1, 6 packs prize
This was not my best night of playing Magic. I still have a lot of practice to do before August 16th.
I got my sealed pool, and boy was it a stinker.
Rares:
Waste Not
Cruel Sadist
Phyrexian Revoker
Haunted Platemail
Obelisk of Urd
Resolute Archangel
Pool:
Black: 13
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Cruel Sadist
1 Child of Night
1 Carrion Crow
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Accursed Spirit
2 Zof Shade
1 Paragon of Open Graves
------
1 Waste Not
1 Necrobite
1 Feast on the Fallen
1 Mind Rot
Blue: 14
2 Research Assistant
2 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Amphin Pathmage
-----
1 Hydrosurge
1 Void Snare
2 Mind Sculpt
1 Turn to Frog
1 Invisibility
1 Divination
2 Statute of Denial
Green: 12
1 Satyr Wayfinder
2 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
1 Charging Rhino
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
-----
2 Vineweft
1 Naturalize
1 Back to Nature
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Overwhelm
Red: 17
1 Forge Devil
3 Generator Servant
2 Torch Fiend
1 Borderland Marauder
1 Wall of Fire
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
3 Thundering Giant
------
1 Clear a Path
1 Lava Axe
2 Blastfire Bolt
White: 10
2 Soulmender
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Dauntless River Marshal
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Boonweaver Giant
1 Resolute Archangel
-----
1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Divine Favor
1 Solemn Offering
1 Devouring Light
1 Congregate
3 Marked by Honor
Artifact: 10
1 Ornithopter
1 Bronze Sable
1 Phyrexian Revoker
-----
1 Tyrant's Machine
1 Sacred Armory
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Staff of the Wild Magus
1 Staff of the Sun Magus
1 Haunted Platemail
1 Obelisk of Urd
Red was reasonably strong with the creature base, but no cheap removal spells like Lightning Strike or Inferno Fist.
I originally started with a black/red build.
Deck:
Black: 9
1 Typhoid Rats
1 Cruel Sadist
1 Child of Night
1 Carrion Crow
1 Necrogen Scudder
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Zof Shade
1 Paragon of Open Graves
------
1 Necrobite
Red: 12
3 Generator Servant
1 Borderland Marauder
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
3 Thundering Giant
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1 Lava Axe
2 Blastfire Bolt
Artifact: 2
1 Haunted Platemail
1 Obelisk of Urd
Land:
9 Mountain
8 Swamp
After losing round 1, I talked to someone from the store, who suggested red/white.
Deck:
Red: 12
3 Generator Servant
1 Torch Fiend
1 Borderland Marauder
2 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Brood Keeper
2 Thundering Giant
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2 Blastfire Bolt
White: 10
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Boonweaver Giant
1 Resolute Archangel
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1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Devouring Light
3 Marked by Honor
Artifact: 1
1 Haunted Platemail
Land:
9 Mountain
8 Plains
Round 1: BR (0-2)
Game 1:
I got my opponent down to 6 life, but ultimately lost to turn 3 Goblin Rabblemaster, and topdeck Blastfire Bolt during the last turn. I kinda punted because there was a turn where I didn't block with my 2/2 against his 1/1, and dropped to 9 life. Of course, the turn he topdecks Blastfire Bolt, he swings in for exactly 9 damage against my remaining blockers. Great.
Game 2:
I lost to turn 3 Carrion Crow into turn 4 Feast on the Fallen.
I proceed to tell my opponent how unplayable Feast on the Fallen is, but I'm sure he thinks I'm an insufferable douchebag.
Round 2: Esper (2-0)
Opponent's playing 65 cards in his deck. I literally took 0 damage during both games. I don't know what I can possibly say.
Round 3: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent mulled to 5. Played 0 spells this game.
Game 2:
Opponent mulled to 5 again. Played some spells, but mostly chump blocked. Apparently double Marked by Honor is good.
Round 4: RG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent played a turn 2 Goblin Kaboomist. It died after 1 turn. Double Marked by Honor on a Krenko's Enforcer, ended up winning me this game.
Game 2:
Again, opponent played a turn 2 Goblin Kaboomist, which died after 1 turn. He seemed stuck on 3 forest/1 mountain for a while. This game was kinda grindy, with my opponent having Invasive Species and Runeclaw Bear to block. I kinda punt this game when I swing with a Kinsbaile Skirmisher enchanted with Marked by Honor, and a Heliod's Pilgrim enchanted with Marked by Honor. He simply double blocks the Skirmisher, resulting in a 2 for 1 for me. I could have also swung with my Generator Servant and Ajani's Pridemate to push in more damage. It didn't matter, because I ended up winning the game before my opponent got a second mountain. If he got a second mountain, he could have played Chandra, Pyromaster, plus his five drops. Whew.
I mistap my mana during one turn also, preventing me from playing both Generator Servant and Ajani's Pridemate in one turn, which causes me to miss 2 damage on a following turn. Bleh.
Result: 3-1, 6 packs prize
This was not my best night of playing Magic. I still have a lot of practice to do before August 16th.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
7/13/14 It's raining frogs (M15 prerelease sealed 3-1)
I went to Gamescape North for the second day of M15 prerelease. I picked black again.
I went to bed last night at 11:15 p.m., woke up at 1:30 a.m., didn't fall asleep until 2:30 a.m. Then I woke up again at 7 a.m., and stayed awake. Since I was still awake, I got some cardio done in the morning.
I decided to not drink any Red Bull this morning, as consumption of Red Bull messed up my line of play last time. I drank some tea instead, using my new electric kettle that my friend gave me.
I went to bed last night at 11:15 p.m., woke up at 1:30 a.m., didn't fall asleep until 2:30 a.m. Then I woke up again at 7 a.m., and stayed awake. Since I was still awake, I got some cardio done in the morning.
I decided to not drink any Red Bull this morning, as consumption of Red Bull messed up my line of play last time. I drank some tea instead, using my new electric kettle that my friend gave me.
There were 51 people at today's prerelease. It looks like the prerelease was more busy today compared to yesterday.
Seeded pack rare was: Ob Nixilis, Unshackled. I got it from a regular pack yesterday.
Other rares:
Spectra Ward
Ajani Steadfast
Polymorphist's Jest
Shivan Reef (again)
Genesis Hydra (again)
POOL:
Black:
2 Typhoid Rats
2 Typhoid Rats
1 Leeching Sliver
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Witch's Familiar
1 Necromancer's Assistant
2 Accursed Spirit
2 Accursed Spirit
2 Rotfeaster Maggot
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
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1 Ulcerate
1 Ulcerate
1 Eternal Thirst
2 Mind Rot
1 Necrobite
1 Feast on the Fallen
1 Caustic Tar
1 Endless Obedience
1 Covenant of Blood
1 Covenant of Blood
Blue:
2 Welkin Tern
1 Frost Lynx
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Coral Barrier
1 Jorubai Murk Lurker
1 Nimbus of the Isles
1 Glacial Crasher
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2 Negate
1 Divination
1 Dissipate
1 Polymorphist's Jest
1 Chronostutter
Green:
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Sunblade Elf
1 Satyr Wayfinder
2 Netcaster Spider
2 Invasive Species
1 Shaman of Spring
1 Living Totem
1 Charging Rhino
1 Genesis Hydra
2 Siege Wurm
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1 Vineweft
1 Back to Nature
1 Hunt the Weak
Red:
1 Forge Devil
2 Rummaging Goblin
1 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Wall of Fire
1 Paragon of Fierce Defiance
1 Kird Chieftain
1 Thundering Giant
1 Miner's Bane
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1 Crowd's Favor
1 Lightning Strike
2 Circle of Flame
1 Might Makes Right
White:
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Midnight Guard
1 Seraph of the Masses
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1 Oppressive Rays
1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Devouring Light
1 Ajani Steadfast
1 Sanctified Charge
1 Spectra Ward
1 Triplicate Spirits
Artifact:
1 Ornithopter
1 Bronze Sable
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1 Rogue's Gloves
1 Staff of the Wild Magus
Lands:
1 Swamp (foil)
1 Shivan Reef
I thought about going black/white, forcing aura with Heliod's Pilgrim. Unfortunately, white left with me with like 5 playable creatures (including Heliod's Pilgrim, and Triplicate Spirits as 1 creature, even though it makes 3 1/1 spirit tokens). I was leery of playing a 13 creature deck, so I ended up going black/blue flyers, with Rogue's Gloves.
FINAL DECK:
Black: 10
2 Typhoid Rats
1 Witch's Familiar
2 Accursed Spirit
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
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1 Ulcerate
1 Covenant of Blood
Blue: 10
2 Welkin Tern
1 Frost Lynx
1 Aeronaut Tinkerer
1 Coral Barrier
1 Jorubai Murk Lurker
1 Nimbus of the Isles
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1 Divination
1 Dissipate
1 Polymorphist's Jest
White: 1
1 Ajani Steadfast
Artifact: 1
1 Rogue's Gloves
Lands: 18
8 Swamp
7 Island
1 Plains
2 Evolving Wilds
I like running a few 3 mana 2/3's, to give me time to get to the late game. Also Coral Barrier is a 1/3, but it provides a 1/1 that can trade with Oreskos Swiftclaw or 1/1 deathtouchers.
I like running a few 3 mana 2/3's, to give me time to get to the late game. Also Coral Barrier is a 1/3, but it provides a 1/1 that can trade with Oreskos Swiftclaw or 1/1 deathtouchers.
I could have probably gotten away with 17 lands in this deck, to be fair. There was only 3 5 drops, and 1 6 drop and 1 7 drop.
The +1 Swamp over Islands was because of the 2 Typhoid Rats.
ALTERNATE POSSIBLE DECK:
Green: 12
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Sunblade Elf
2 Netcaster Spider
2 Invasive Species
1 Shaman of Spring
1 Living Totem
1 Charging Rhino
1 Genesis Hydra
1 Siege Wurm
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1 Hunt the Weak
White: 10
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Midnight Guard
1 Seraph of the Masses (I wouldn't consider this playable in black/white, but more likely to play this in green/white).
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1 Ephmeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Devouring Light
1 Ajani Steadfast
1 Spectra Ward
1 Triplicate Spirits
Invasive Species + Heliod's Pilgrim, Living Totem, Shaman of Spring, Genesis Hydra value combos. Though I only had one aura I would play in green/white, so I wouldn't bother bouncing Pilgrim. Also playing 4 mana just to draw a card off Shaman of Spring (by replaying it) is not super good.
This deck has more creatures in it (16 actual creature spells, plus Triplicate Spirits) so I would consider playing the Seraph of the Masses in it, instead of playing black/white.
Match 1: Bye
For the first time in over a year, I got a round 1 bye at a Gamescape North tournament. I went over to Falafel Hut and ordered a Chicken Shish Kebab pita. I took it back to Gamescape North, to eat. was extremely messy; I ended up just eating the chicken part and putting the rest in the trash. Next time, I will ask for a fork.
It was still pretty good that I got a bye, since I was feeling hungry after exercising in the morning.
It was still pretty good that I got a bye, since I was feeling hungry after exercising in the morning.
Match 2: GW (2-0)
Game 1:
Rogue's Gloves + Welkin Tern gave me a lot of CA here.
My opponent played First Response into Triplicate Spirits.
I paid 2 life, gave my Shadowcloak Vampire flying. He blocked with a 1/1 Spirit, pumped it with Titanic Growth. I used Ulcerate on the Spirit in response, killing the Spirit.
He eventually folded to Ob Nixilis, Unshackled, Shadowcloak Vampire, and Welkin Tern.
Game 2:
He had a bunch of tokens to block (from First Response, and Triplicate Spirits).
Rogue's Gloves + Accursed Spirit did work. Jorubai Murk Lurker to give lifelink just sweetened the deal. I swung with double Accursed Spirit and finished him with Covenant of Blood.
Match 3: BG Dreamcrusher
Game 1:
Had to mull to 5. I traded Frost Lynx off with Toxic Sliver, even though I had Polymorphist's Jest in hand. Then I blocked Welkin Tern on his Ob Nixilis, and cast Polymorphist's Jest to turn it into a 1/1, trading 2 of my cards for his 1. Then he played Charging Rhino, and I couldn't hit 7 mana to use Covenant of Blood.
Game 2:
Had to mull to 6, with 3 lands, Ulcerate, Dissipate, Ajani Steadast in hand.
I should have sideboarded out the Accursed Spirit, but I didn't have other creatures I would really want to play. He played turn 2 Runeclaw Bear, into turn 3 Satyr Wayfinder and turn 4 Satyr Wayfinder. I decided to not kill his Runeclaw Bear with Ulcerate, instead holding up mana for something better. I ended up taking 6 damage from the Bear, then another 3 when I finally Ulcerated it. I countered his Ob Nixilis with Dissipate, but next turn he played Garruk Apex Predator and that was kinda game. I had an Accursed Spirit on board, and an Ajani Steadfast in hand, but he was just pumping out deathtouch beasts like crazy. I did play Ajani Steadfast, pumped my spirit and attacked Garruk, just to gain 4 life. Then he killed Ajani with Garruk, bringing it to 4 Loyalty and attacked me with everything, bringing me to 3 life. I had to block with my Typhoid Rats and Accursed Spirit to not die. I didn't draw a 7th land, so I couldn't kill his Garruk with Covenant of Blood. I realize I could have just blocked one of his 1/1's with Accursed Spirit, bringing me to 1 life, then I could tap 6 lands and Accursed Spirit to Covenant of Blood his Garruk (with 4 counters) bringing me to 5 life.
It wouldn't have mattered really since I would have been at 5 life and he would still have 5 power on board anyways, from all his remaining attacks.
Match 4: BW grind (2-0)
Game 1:
He plays a turn 1 Cruel Sadist, which is kinda annoying. He pops off a Flesh to Dust on my Shadowcloak Vampire, and a Covenant of Blood on my Indulgent Tormentor. He plays a Constricting Sliver to exile one of my Welkin Tern, then plays an Eternal Thirst on the Sliver. He plays a Stab Wound on my Coral Barrier.
Eventually, he attacks with the Constricting Sliver, and I chump block the barrier on his Sliver, even though it gives his Sliver another +1/+1 counter from the Eternal Thirst. His Sliver gets up to 6/6.
He ends up using the Sadist to kill my Ob Nixilis, Unshackled. His Sadist finally has 0 counters. I have him down to 2 life now, though. He attacks with Constricting Sliver to gain life. I think I want to follow up with Polymorphist's Jest, but I have to ask a judge to find out how Polymorphist's Jest interacts with Eternal Thirst. The judges rule that Polymorphist's Jest removes the lifelink, because of timestamps. So I block with Typhoid Rats, play Polymorphist's Jest. He responds with Ephemeral Shields. So my Rats still dies, and doesn't gain life, or get a counter. I have him dead on board with my other Welkin Tern. He scoops.
Game 2:
He plays a turn 3 Heliod's Pilgrim, searching up Spectra Ward (!!!)
Next turn he plays a Eternal Thirst on his Pilgrim, and I respond with Ulcerate. He stalls for a bit, and I don't know why. Apparently it turned out he had an Ephemeral Shields in his hand, but Ulcerate gives -3/-3, so giving indestructible doesn't matter (it became a -2/-1 creature from Ulcerate)
He puts a Stab Wound on my Nimbus of Isles (ouch) but it doesn't matter. I play a Indulgent Tormentor and he has Covenant of Blood for it. I eventually curve out into Shadowcloak Vampire, Welkin Tern, and Typhoid Rats. He apparently never drew another creature. I was holding up Dissipate the whole time, for his Spectra Ward (or whatever creature he decides to play, so his Spectra Ward is useless).
After the game, my opponent says he wants to build an EDH deck around Ob Nixilis, Unshackled. I check the price on it (it's 1.50 on tcgplayer) and I just toss the card over to him, as a gesture of goodwill.
Result: 3-1 (5 packs prize)
Saturday, July 12, 2014
7/12/14 I can't believe I lost a game because of counting (Sealed M15 prerelease sealed 3-1)
I went to the M15 Prerelease at Gamescape North today.
I went to bed around midnight last night, woke up around 3 am. Fell asleep around 4 am, woke up again three more times. I blame it on drinking four Lucky Buddha last night (I needed something to make myself feel better after going 0-3 at Anime Imports). But I definitely wasn't in my right mind during the tournament.
I picked Black. Seeded Rare was In Garruk's Wake (eww)
RARES:
In Garruk's Wake
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Yisan, Wanderer Bard
Genesis Hydra
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Shivan Reef
POOL:
Black
1 Black Cat
1 Child of Night
1 Witch's Familiar
2 Necrogen Scudder
1 Zof Shade
1 Paragon of Eternal Graves
2 Rotfeaster Maggot
1 Blood Host
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
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1 Crippling Blight
1 Sign in Blood
2 Eternal Thirst
1 Festergloom
1 Mind Rot
2 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
1 In Garruk's Wake
Blue
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Wall of Frost
1 Coral Barrier
1 Amphin Pathmage
2 Glacial Crasher
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2 Void Snare
1 Invisibility
1 Divination
1 Encrust
2 Chronostutter
Green
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Venom Sliver
2 Netcaster Spider
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
1 Undergrowth Scavenger
1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
1 Ancient Silverback
1 Siege Wurm
1 Genesis Hydra
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1 Vineweft
1 Gather Courage
1 Plummet
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Verdant Haven
Red
2 Borderland Marauder
1 Rummaging Goblin
1 Belligerent Sliver
1 Wall of Fire
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Thundering Giant
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1 Clear a Path
2 Inferno Fist
1 Circle of Flame
1 Act of Impulse
White
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Geist of the Moors
1 Tireless Missionaries
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1 Divine Favor
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Devouring Light
1 Solemn Offering
1 First Response
1 Sanctified Charge
1 Triplicate Spirits
Artifact
1 Sacred Armory
1 Staff of the Death Magus
1 Meteorite
2 Will-Forged Golem
Lands
1 Plains (foil)
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shivan Reef
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
DECK:
Green
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Venom Sliver
2 Netcaster Spider
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
1 Ancient Silverback
1 Siege Wurm
1 Genesis Hydra
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1 Gather Courage
Black
1 Black Cat
1 Witch's Familiar
2 Necrogen Scudder
1 Paragon of Eternal Graves
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
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1 Sign in Blood
1 Festergloom
2 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
Lands
9 Swamp
8 Forest
1 Urborg. Tomb of Yawgmoth
Match 1: UB (2-0)
Game 1:
My opponent bounces my Necrogen Scudder with Void Snare (ouch). However, he seems to have a problem playing anything else super good.
Game 2:
This is a grindy match where my opponent gets out Indulgent Tormentor. But I have Ob Nixilis (which gets up to 11/11 because of all the trades), my own Indulgent Tormentor and Ancient Silverback. My opponent plays Soul of Ravnica.
I sacrifice my Black Cat to his Indulgent Tormentor, making him discard Carrion Crow. Then I attack with my Ob and Silverback, and slowly Abyss him. Eventually he gives up, even though he's not actually dead on board.
Match 2: BG (2-1)
Game 1:
My opponent's got turn 1 Cruel Sadist. I have to pop off Flesh to Dust to kill it.
Promptly lose to Nissa, Worldwaker, and Indulgent Tormentor.
Game 2:
I have Plummet for my opponent's turn 5 Indulgent Tormentor, and Flesh to Dust for his Cruel Sadist. Ob Nixilis and my own Indulgent Tormentor spells doom for my opponent.
Game 3:
Turn 1 Elvish Mystic into turn 2 Yisan = boyksValue. I manage to tutor up Venom Sliver and Necrogen Scudder with the Yisan. Then I let Ancient Silverback/Siege Wurm take the game over.
Match 3: WU (0-2)
Game 1:
My opponent puts Spectra Ward on a Frost Lynx. I have no way to deal with this. GG.
Game 2:
My opponent plays a turn 3 Chasm Skulker. Fortunately, I am able to kill it with Flesh to Dust when it only has 1 counter on it.
I decide to try and race my opponent.
I'm at 7 life, my opponent is at 11. I have Ob Nixilis, Genesis Hydra, and Hunter's Ambush in hand.
I swing for 5 with my Necrogen Scudder/Netcaster Spider, then play a Genesis Hydra for 5. I promptly reveal: Ob Nixilis, 3 lands, Flesh to Dust. What a miss. Then my opponent responds with Pillar of Light on my Genesis Hydra.
He suits up his Welkin Tern with Marked by Honor, and swings with the Tern and 2 tokens. He says GG and I scoop, even though I was actually at 7 life. I could have played Indulgent Torment next turn, and held my Netcaster Spider and Necrogen Scudder back, meaning I wasn't actually dead. But I played the game pretty poorly regardless, and deserved to lose.
There was a turn earlier where I decided to play Sign in Blood on myself, drawing Genesis Hydra and Indulgent Tormentor, and had 4 mana open. I could have played Hunter's Ambush then to prevent 4 damage from his Tern and 2 Soldier Tokens. But I decided to hold out for some reason, when I knew I was going to be tapping out for Genesis Hydra next turn.
Match 4: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent plays a Sunblade Elf with no plains. I blow Festergloom to kill the Sunblade Elf while it's a 1/1.
Then he doesn't seem to get stuck on 3 mana. I end up killing him with double Necrogen Scudder and Ancient Silverback.
Game 2:
Opponent plays a Toxic Sliver and a Oreskos Swiftclaw, nothing else. I remove both his creatures with Crippling Blight and a Festergloom. Then I crush him with Ob Nixilis, Indulgent Tormentor, and Ancient Silverback.
Result: 3-1, 5 packs prize
I missed that Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth was a combo with Staff of the Death Magus. However, I wasn't playing that many more black spells than green spells.
The super fast red/blue deck (double Goblin Rabblemaster, Goblin Kaboomist, double red Paragon, Soul of Ravnica) went 4-0, go figure.
I went to bed around midnight last night, woke up around 3 am. Fell asleep around 4 am, woke up again three more times. I blame it on drinking four Lucky Buddha last night (I needed something to make myself feel better after going 0-3 at Anime Imports). But I definitely wasn't in my right mind during the tournament.
I picked Black. Seeded Rare was In Garruk's Wake (eww)
RARES:
In Garruk's Wake
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Yisan, Wanderer Bard
Genesis Hydra
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Shivan Reef
POOL:
Black
1 Black Cat
1 Child of Night
1 Witch's Familiar
2 Necrogen Scudder
1 Zof Shade
1 Paragon of Eternal Graves
2 Rotfeaster Maggot
1 Blood Host
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
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1 Crippling Blight
1 Sign in Blood
2 Eternal Thirst
1 Festergloom
1 Mind Rot
2 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
1 In Garruk's Wake
Blue
1 Fugitive Wizard
1 Wall of Frost
1 Coral Barrier
1 Amphin Pathmage
2 Glacial Crasher
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2 Void Snare
1 Invisibility
1 Divination
1 Encrust
2 Chronostutter
Green
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Venom Sliver
2 Netcaster Spider
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
1 Undergrowth Scavenger
1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
1 Carnivorous Moss-Beast
1 Ancient Silverback
1 Siege Wurm
1 Genesis Hydra
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1 Vineweft
1 Gather Courage
1 Plummet
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Verdant Haven
Red
2 Borderland Marauder
1 Rummaging Goblin
1 Belligerent Sliver
1 Wall of Fire
1 Scrapyard Mongrel
1 Thundering Giant
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1 Clear a Path
2 Inferno Fist
1 Circle of Flame
1 Act of Impulse
White
1 Kinsbaile Skirmisher
1 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Heliod's Pilgrim
1 Geist of the Moors
1 Tireless Missionaries
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1 Divine Favor
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Devouring Light
1 Solemn Offering
1 First Response
1 Sanctified Charge
1 Triplicate Spirits
Artifact
1 Sacred Armory
1 Staff of the Death Magus
1 Meteorite
2 Will-Forged Golem
Lands
1 Plains (foil)
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Shivan Reef
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
DECK:
Green
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Venom Sliver
2 Netcaster Spider
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
1 Ancient Silverback
1 Siege Wurm
1 Genesis Hydra
-----
1 Gather Courage
Black
1 Black Cat
1 Witch's Familiar
2 Necrogen Scudder
1 Paragon of Eternal Graves
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
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1 Sign in Blood
1 Festergloom
2 Flesh to Dust
1 Covenant of Blood
Lands
9 Swamp
8 Forest
1 Urborg. Tomb of Yawgmoth
Match 1: UB (2-0)
Game 1:
My opponent bounces my Necrogen Scudder with Void Snare (ouch). However, he seems to have a problem playing anything else super good.
Game 2:
This is a grindy match where my opponent gets out Indulgent Tormentor. But I have Ob Nixilis (which gets up to 11/11 because of all the trades), my own Indulgent Tormentor and Ancient Silverback. My opponent plays Soul of Ravnica.
I sacrifice my Black Cat to his Indulgent Tormentor, making him discard Carrion Crow. Then I attack with my Ob and Silverback, and slowly Abyss him. Eventually he gives up, even though he's not actually dead on board.
Match 2: BG (2-1)
Game 1:
My opponent's got turn 1 Cruel Sadist. I have to pop off Flesh to Dust to kill it.
Promptly lose to Nissa, Worldwaker, and Indulgent Tormentor.
Game 2:
I have Plummet for my opponent's turn 5 Indulgent Tormentor, and Flesh to Dust for his Cruel Sadist. Ob Nixilis and my own Indulgent Tormentor spells doom for my opponent.
Game 3:
Turn 1 Elvish Mystic into turn 2 Yisan = boyksValue. I manage to tutor up Venom Sliver and Necrogen Scudder with the Yisan. Then I let Ancient Silverback/Siege Wurm take the game over.
Match 3: WU (0-2)
Game 1:
My opponent puts Spectra Ward on a Frost Lynx. I have no way to deal with this. GG.
Game 2:
My opponent plays a turn 3 Chasm Skulker. Fortunately, I am able to kill it with Flesh to Dust when it only has 1 counter on it.
I decide to try and race my opponent.
I'm at 7 life, my opponent is at 11. I have Ob Nixilis, Genesis Hydra, and Hunter's Ambush in hand.
I swing for 5 with my Necrogen Scudder/Netcaster Spider, then play a Genesis Hydra for 5. I promptly reveal: Ob Nixilis, 3 lands, Flesh to Dust. What a miss. Then my opponent responds with Pillar of Light on my Genesis Hydra.
He suits up his Welkin Tern with Marked by Honor, and swings with the Tern and 2 tokens. He says GG and I scoop, even though I was actually at 7 life. I could have played Indulgent Torment next turn, and held my Netcaster Spider and Necrogen Scudder back, meaning I wasn't actually dead. But I played the game pretty poorly regardless, and deserved to lose.
There was a turn earlier where I decided to play Sign in Blood on myself, drawing Genesis Hydra and Indulgent Tormentor, and had 4 mana open. I could have played Hunter's Ambush then to prevent 4 damage from his Tern and 2 Soldier Tokens. But I decided to hold out for some reason, when I knew I was going to be tapping out for Genesis Hydra next turn.
Match 4: WG (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent plays a Sunblade Elf with no plains. I blow Festergloom to kill the Sunblade Elf while it's a 1/1.
Then he doesn't seem to get stuck on 3 mana. I end up killing him with double Necrogen Scudder and Ancient Silverback.
Game 2:
Opponent plays a Toxic Sliver and a Oreskos Swiftclaw, nothing else. I remove both his creatures with Crippling Blight and a Festergloom. Then I crush him with Ob Nixilis, Indulgent Tormentor, and Ancient Silverback.
Result: 3-1, 5 packs prize
I missed that Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth was a combo with Staff of the Death Magus. However, I wasn't playing that many more black spells than green spells.
The super fast red/blue deck (double Goblin Rabblemaster, Goblin Kaboomist, double red Paragon, Soul of Ravnica) went 4-0, go figure.
Friday, July 11, 2014
7/11/14 Getting dunked (Standard FNM 0-3)
They were playing Legacy at Gamescape North. Since my Legacy deck isn't finished, I went to Anime Imports to play Standard. That was a mistake.
Match 1: Mono-white Nykthos control (0-2)
Game 1:
Spent all my removal spells, and lost to Elspeth + double Precinct Captain. Hard to win grindy matches with no Underworld Connections.
Game 2:
I misboarded, thinking my opponent was playing some kind of aggro deck. I decided to not board in Duress, even though I saw one Elspeth. I should have boarded in Elspeth, and boarded out Desecration Demon, since Elspeth makes Desecration Demon terrible.
I had removals for his two Archangel of Thune and Boros Reckoner. Unfortunately, he had Chained to the Rocks/Banishing Light for my Desecration Demons.
I promptly lost to Angel of Serenity into Aurelia, the Warleader.
After the game I heard my opponent telling his friend that I misplayed, which is true.
Match 2: Mono black splashing red (1-2)
Game 1:
My opponent played double Desecration Demon, but I had double Hero's Downfall.
I won the game off turn 5 Pack Rat.
Game 2:
Kept a 7 card hand with 5 lands, Duress, Pack Rat. My opponent Thoughtseized me, and took my Pack Rat.
Lost to turn 2 Pack Rat.
Game 3:
Lost to turn 2 Pack Rat, again. Apparently I need to keep hands with Bile Blight in Mono-black Mirrors.
Match 3: Mono-green devotion
Game 1:
Lost to Hydra Broodmaster. I had Bile Blight for the Hydra tokens, but no way to actually kill the Broodmaster itself. I lost because I played Nightveil Specter and Pack Rat, over Desecration Demon one turn. Huge punt.
Game 2:
Mulled to 6, kept a one lander (scryland).
Lost to a 16/16 Kalonian Hydra, despite drawing 3 extra cards from Underworld Connections.
Maybe I need more practice with mono black. I seem to keep spewing off Bile Blight for no reason.
Match 1: Mono-white Nykthos control (0-2)
Game 1:
Spent all my removal spells, and lost to Elspeth + double Precinct Captain. Hard to win grindy matches with no Underworld Connections.
Game 2:
I misboarded, thinking my opponent was playing some kind of aggro deck. I decided to not board in Duress, even though I saw one Elspeth. I should have boarded in Elspeth, and boarded out Desecration Demon, since Elspeth makes Desecration Demon terrible.
I had removals for his two Archangel of Thune and Boros Reckoner. Unfortunately, he had Chained to the Rocks/Banishing Light for my Desecration Demons.
I promptly lost to Angel of Serenity into Aurelia, the Warleader.
After the game I heard my opponent telling his friend that I misplayed, which is true.
Match 2: Mono black splashing red (1-2)
Game 1:
My opponent played double Desecration Demon, but I had double Hero's Downfall.
I won the game off turn 5 Pack Rat.
Game 2:
Kept a 7 card hand with 5 lands, Duress, Pack Rat. My opponent Thoughtseized me, and took my Pack Rat.
Lost to turn 2 Pack Rat.
Game 3:
Lost to turn 2 Pack Rat, again. Apparently I need to keep hands with Bile Blight in Mono-black Mirrors.
Match 3: Mono-green devotion
Game 1:
Lost to Hydra Broodmaster. I had Bile Blight for the Hydra tokens, but no way to actually kill the Broodmaster itself. I lost because I played Nightveil Specter and Pack Rat, over Desecration Demon one turn. Huge punt.
Game 2:
Mulled to 6, kept a one lander (scryland).
Lost to a 16/16 Kalonian Hydra, despite drawing 3 extra cards from Underworld Connections.
Maybe I need more practice with mono black. I seem to keep spewing off Bile Blight for no reason.
Monday, July 7, 2014
7/7/14 Modern RUG Twin
This is what I've been playing since April 2014.
CREATURES
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Pestermite
3 Deceiver Exarch
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
INSTANT/SORC
4 Serum Vision
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Remand
2 Cryptic Command
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Flame Slash
1 Electrolyze
ENCHANTMENT
4 Splinter Twin
LANDS
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Steam Vents
1 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Hinterland Harbor
3 Island
1 Forest
1 Mountain
2 Tectonic Edge
SIDEBOARD
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Dispel
1 Negate
1 Nature's Claim
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Batterskull
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Sowing Salt
The 2 Sowing Salt are in place of 1 Dismember and 1 Threads of Disloyalty.
Here's the Valentin Mackl version, which he got to the finals of a PTQ, recently:
CREATURE
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Deceiver Exarch
3 Pestermite
2 Huntermaster of the Fells
INSTANT/SORCERY:
1 Flame Slash
2 Cryptic Command
4 Remand
1 Electrolyze
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Serum Visions
ENCHANTMENT
4 Splinter Twin
LANDS
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Forest
3 Steam Vents
1 Mountain
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
2 Hinterland Harbor
3 Island
1 Tectonic Edge
Sideboard
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Keranos, God of Storms
2 Dispel
1 Negate
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Batterskull
1 Nature´s Claim
He swapped 1 Tectonic Edge for 1 Hinterland Harbor.
Played 2 main deck Huntmaster of the Fells over 2 Thrun the Last Troll
Had 1 Thrun the Last Troll in the sideboard, and 1 Threads of Disloyalty over the 2 Sowing Salt.
Then again, I'm sure Valentin Mackl could win a PTQ with a Ham Sandwich.
CREATURES
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Pestermite
3 Deceiver Exarch
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
INSTANT/SORC
4 Serum Vision
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Remand
2 Cryptic Command
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Flame Slash
1 Electrolyze
ENCHANTMENT
4 Splinter Twin
LANDS
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Steam Vents
1 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Hinterland Harbor
3 Island
1 Forest
1 Mountain
2 Tectonic Edge
SIDEBOARD
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Dispel
1 Negate
1 Nature's Claim
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Batterskull
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Sowing Salt
The 2 Sowing Salt are in place of 1 Dismember and 1 Threads of Disloyalty.
Here's the Valentin Mackl version, which he got to the finals of a PTQ, recently:
CREATURE
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Deceiver Exarch
3 Pestermite
2 Huntermaster of the Fells
INSTANT/SORCERY:
1 Flame Slash
2 Cryptic Command
4 Remand
1 Electrolyze
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Serum Visions
ENCHANTMENT
4 Splinter Twin
LANDS
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Forest
3 Steam Vents
1 Mountain
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
2 Hinterland Harbor
3 Island
1 Tectonic Edge
Sideboard
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Keranos, God of Storms
2 Dispel
1 Negate
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Batterskull
1 Nature´s Claim
He swapped 1 Tectonic Edge for 1 Hinterland Harbor.
Played 2 main deck Huntmaster of the Fells over 2 Thrun the Last Troll
Had 1 Thrun the Last Troll in the sideboard, and 1 Threads of Disloyalty over the 2 Sowing Salt.
Then again, I'm sure Valentin Mackl could win a PTQ with a Ham Sandwich.
7/7/14 Modern Melira Pod
This is the Modern deck I'm working on putting together:
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Noble Hierarch
3 Voice of Resurgence
1 Reveillark
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Eternal Witness
1 Shriekmaw
1 Spellskite
1 Archangel of Thune
1 Spike Feeder
1 Wall of Roots
1 Viscera Seer
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Chord of Calling
4 Birthing Pod
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Razorverge Thicket
3 Gavony Township
3 Forest
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Temple Garden
1 Swamp
1 Godless Shrine
1 Woodland Cemetery
SIDEBOARD
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Orzhov Pontiff
2 Dismember
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
2 Sin Collector
4 Thoughtseize
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Entomber Exarch
1 Harmonic Sliver
I have everything except:
4 Verdant catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Gavony Township
3 Noble Hierarch
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Reveillark
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Eternal Witness
1 Shriekmaw
1 Spike Feeder
1 Wall of Roots
1 Viscera Seer
2 Chord of Calling
1 Thoughtseize
1 Entomber Exarch
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
I have ordered everything, except:
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Noble Hierarch
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Thoughtseize
I can technically borrow 4 Verdant Catacombs from the Legacy Jund deck.
Borrow 3 Misty Rainforest from the Modern RUG Twin deck.
Borrow 2 Voice of Resurgence from the Standard Hexproof deck.
Borrow 1 Thoughtseize from the Standard Esper deck.
Then I would only need to buy:
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
Even if I put this deck together before the Eudemonia PTQ, I doubt I would show up and play this deck, since I would have (almost) no practice with it. But I felt like having a second competitive Modern deck option would be nice. I considered buying into Affinity but the deck has a pretty high skill cap and it's very weak against all the artifact hate people pack into their sideboards for Affinity. Namely, Shatterstorm, Creeping Corrosion, Stony Silence, and Kataki, War's Wage.
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Noble Hierarch
3 Voice of Resurgence
1 Reveillark
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Eternal Witness
1 Shriekmaw
1 Spellskite
1 Archangel of Thune
1 Spike Feeder
1 Wall of Roots
1 Viscera Seer
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Chord of Calling
4 Birthing Pod
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Razorverge Thicket
3 Gavony Township
3 Forest
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Temple Garden
1 Swamp
1 Godless Shrine
1 Woodland Cemetery
SIDEBOARD
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Orzhov Pontiff
2 Dismember
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
2 Sin Collector
4 Thoughtseize
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Entomber Exarch
1 Harmonic Sliver
I have everything except:
4 Verdant catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Gavony Township
3 Noble Hierarch
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Reveillark
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Murderous Redcap
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Eternal Witness
1 Shriekmaw
1 Spike Feeder
1 Wall of Roots
1 Viscera Seer
2 Chord of Calling
1 Thoughtseize
1 Entomber Exarch
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
I have ordered everything, except:
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Noble Hierarch
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Thoughtseize
I can technically borrow 4 Verdant Catacombs from the Legacy Jund deck.
Borrow 3 Misty Rainforest from the Modern RUG Twin deck.
Borrow 2 Voice of Resurgence from the Standard Hexproof deck.
Borrow 1 Thoughtseize from the Standard Esper deck.
Then I would only need to buy:
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
Even if I put this deck together before the Eudemonia PTQ, I doubt I would show up and play this deck, since I would have (almost) no practice with it. But I felt like having a second competitive Modern deck option would be nice. I considered buying into Affinity but the deck has a pretty high skill cap and it's very weak against all the artifact hate people pack into their sideboards for Affinity. Namely, Shatterstorm, Creeping Corrosion, Stony Silence, and Kataki, War's Wage.
7/7/14 Legacy Jund
This is the Legacy Jund deck I was trying to put together, based off Erik Smith's mtgsalvation posting.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/legacy-type-1-5/established-legacy/aggro/179839-deck-jund?page=34
I believe he's moved onto Esper Deathblade now, though.
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Liliana of the Veil
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Punishing Fire
2 Sylvan Library
1 Golgari Charm
3 Hymn to Tourach
3 Thoughtseize
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Forest
1 Swamp
2 Badlands
2 Bayou
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Engineered Plague
1 Pithing Needle
3 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Duress
1 Thoughtseize
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Umezawa's Jitte
I have basically everything except:
2 Wasteland
2 Wooded Foothill
2 Bayou
I am using the Tarmogoyfs in my RUG Twin deck, currently. I am not going to spend 750 dollars to not have to swap cards from the decks.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/legacy-type-1-5/established-legacy/aggro/179839-deck-jund?page=34
I believe he's moved onto Esper Deathblade now, though.
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Liliana of the Veil
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Punishing Fire
2 Sylvan Library
1 Golgari Charm
3 Hymn to Tourach
3 Thoughtseize
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Forest
1 Swamp
2 Badlands
2 Bayou
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Engineered Plague
1 Pithing Needle
3 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Duress
1 Thoughtseize
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Umezawa's Jitte
I have basically everything except:
2 Wasteland
2 Wooded Foothill
2 Bayou
I am using the Tarmogoyfs in my RUG Twin deck, currently. I am not going to spend 750 dollars to not have to swap cards from the decks.
7/7/14 Random MTG musings
I haven't played Modern in a couple of weeks. I woke up really early on the morning of Saturday 6/28, and couldn't fall asleep again. So I wasn't in any condition to want to drive 45 minutes to Pacifica to play.
On July 4th, I drank a pint of Affligem triple, and two Anchor Steam Old Foghorn. I woke up on Saturday 7/5 with a nasty headache, that didn't go away until 8 pm. So there was no chance I was going to play in a tournament that day, either.
That being said, I don't feel confident enough with RUG Twin to play in the Modern PTQ at Eudemonia on Saturday 7/26, or the Modern PTQ in Oakland on Sunday 8/17. I want to play more RUG Twin to practice it but it seems really unlikely I'll get more time to practice it, with the prerelease coming up on the weekend of 7/11 and 7/12, M15 drafts on the weekends, and M15 Game Day on Saturday 8/8 (maybe also Sunday 8/9).
This is what I currently need to finish out Melira Pod:
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Noble Hierarch
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Entomber Exarch
2 Chord of Calling
1 Thoughtseize
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Noble Hierarch
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Entomber Exarch
2 Chord of Calling
1 Thoughtseize
I can borrow the Verdant Catacombs from my Legacy Jund deck, and the Misty Rainforests from my Modern RUG Twin deck. I can borrow the Voice of Resurgence from my Standard Hexproof deck, and the Thoughtseize from one of my Standard decks.
This is what I need to finish Legacy Jund (which isn't actually a good deck, but since I have most of the pieces left over from when I played Modern Jund, it's ok).
I'm already borrowing the Tarmogoyfs from my RUG Twin deck to fill out my Legacy deck, but that's ok because I rarely play Legacy as it is.
2 Wasteland
2 Wooded Foothill
2 Bayou
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