I stayed up stupidly late for the second night in a row, playing Shadow of Mordor. So I got 5 hours of sleep (again). There was a Modern tournament scheduled for Saturday at noon at Gamescape North. I went to the tournament, and there were only 6 people who wanted to play Modern.
Match 1: Melira Pod (2-1)
Game 1:
Won off the combo. I kinda punt because I Gitaxian Probe my opponent, and saw he didn't have double white mana in play, but he did have Linvala in hand. I should have tapped his white mana source during his upkeep, so that if he drew a white mana during his draw step, he couldn't slam Linvala.
I end up combo'ing off the next turn, after he taps 3 land, and I tapped his white source with Pestermite. During my turn I play Splinter Twin.
Game 2:
I lose to Resto Angel. I can't kill that card outside of sideboard Dismember.
Game 3:
Molten Rain into Snapcaster Mage + Molten Rain + plus my other copy of Molten Rain = opponent sad face.
Barely won this game, off Tarmogoyf + Snapcaster Mage + double Pestermite beats.
I get punished because I have Molten Rain and Pestermite in hand, and he has Noble Hierarch in play, and 3 untapped lands. I go for Pestermite to tap his Hierach so I can swing for lethal. He has Resto Angel to blink his Noble Hierach, giving him two untapped blockers. If I Molten Rain'd first, then he would have to tap his dudes for Resto Angel, then I could tap Hierarch after it came back, so I could tap it down with Pestermite. I attack with all, he eats a Pestermite with Angel, chumps Tarmogoyf with Hierarch. Then next turn I swing with just Tarmogoyf, he chumps with Angel. The turn after that, he plays Archangel of Thune, which he chumps with. Then eventually he scoops. But I gave him a bunch of extra turns to find an answer.
Match 2: R/G Tron (0-2)
Game 1:
Opponent gets turn 1 Relic into turn 2 Spellskite. This neuters my Tarmogoyf. He quickly gets Karn into Eye of Ugin into Emrakul, and I lose.
Game 2:
I mull to 6, keeping a hand of Lighting Bolt,
Opponent goes turn 2 Spellskite into turn 3 Spellskite. I should have kept in Spell Snare. Gitaxian Probe showed me he has Boil in Hand, and double Karn, Liberated.
I punted because I didn't use my Tec Edge to kill one of his Tron pieces. He had double Mine in play, one Power Plant, a Tower, and and had a Tower in his hand earlier (from Expedition Map). I thought he also had a second Power Plant in hand, but it didn't matter, because he played Emrakul and wrecked me. I got him to 2 life but it didn't matter. I never drew any of my artifact hate/land hate besides the one Tec Edge.
Match 3: Living End (2-0)
Game 1:
I have turn 3 Vendillion Clique to put a Violent Outburst at the bottom of his deck. He still has Demonic Dread, though. I Cryptic Command the Demonic Dread next turn.
He takes too long to build up his GY. By the time he does cast Demonic Dread, I counter the Living End with Remand, then burn him to death next turn. I think he should have gone for the Demonic Dread earlier. Maybe he was playing around Cryptic Command.
Game 2:
I'm a bit fuzzy remembering what happened during this game.
He goes turn 4 Violent Outburst, I counter with Remand. Turn 5 Violent Outburst, I counter with another Remand I drew. Turn 5 he hardcasts Living End, then turn 6 I decide to not hold up Snapcaster Mage/Remand, and he punishes me with a THIRD Violent Outburst. I lose all my guys, he gets back 4 creatures. I have to chump one to live a turn.
Ultimately, I end up winning because he had suspended a Living End earlier, and the suspended Living End ends up makes him burying his guys in play, and puts my Deceiver Exarch, Snapcaster Mage, and Tarmogoyf back into play. I burn him with Lightning Bolt, untap an Island with Deceiver, then Electrolyze for lethal.
Result: 2-1
Apparently they are getting rid of constructed events on Fridays. They are choosing to only do constructed events on Saturdays, and they will all be competitive REL. I am not super sure how I feel about that, since events at Gamescape North aren't the best-organized IMO.
Of course, someone reminded me about the bathroom incident that resulted in my game loss at the GPT. Thanks dude. :P
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