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.
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