I didn't get much sleep last night. I had to work late (12:30 am) and I could barely sleep before the tournament. I ended up getting about 5 hours of sleep in total due to waking up several times in middle of the night.
We opened Foil Soulfire Grandmaster, and several insane Abzan cards. The people across from us, opened a terrible pool (with a Wooded Foothills and Flooded Strand in the KTK packs, not the FRF packs, so we were down two shots at playable rares). The pool we got passed had a ton of unplayable commons, and no rare bombs at all.
I ended up playing Mardu with Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, Citadel Siege, Mardu Ascendancy, and Elite Scaleguard. Unfortunately, my deck was terrible outside of that, though I ended up going 2-1 in my first match, second match, and third match.
The games I lost were due to:
1) Flood
2) Tried to race a blue/black flyer aggro deck, ended up losing to Torrent Elemental
3) Kept a 1 lander on the draw, discarded 3 cards, opponent played a Palace Siege while I was at 18 life, I scooped out of frustration. Turned out my opponent also had Ugin in his deck.
Also now that I think about it, I should have probably played at least one of the Hooded Assassins I had in my sideboard (or perhaps both). They work pretty well with tokens that suicide attack etc. Or killing off through 0 power/high toughness walls post combat.
We ended up going 0-1-2 (1 loss, 2 draws). Though, we ended up getting recorded as going 0-2-1, due to not understanding how Swiss team sealed worked. We thought it was like the single elimination team sealed practice from yesterday, where the draw match was determined by life total after turns. It ultimately didn't matter since 0-1-2 eliminated us from Day 2 contention anyways, and we were pretty fed up with our sealed pools. We ended up going out for food, then signing up for a team draft (30 dollars per person).
I first picked Wildcall, then got passed an Elite Scaleguard. Unfortunately, white got cut pretty hard after that. Green was also kinda cut, and the good black cards were all getting taken. Of course, Temur was super open (no surprise). One of my teammates was in Temur splashing white, and my other teammate was in Mardu.
My match was the Abzan mirror. He played a Sultai Emissary into Abzan Runemark for the beatdowns. Then he played a Kin-Tree Warden and a Mardu Hateblade (stalling). He killed both of my Sage-Eye Harriers, then played Abzan Ascendancy to clog up the board state even further. I end up losing to mill, even though I mulled to 6, because he was on the play (and thus skipped his firtst draw). I probably would not have lost this game if I had moved my Ghostfire Blade to my Elite Scaleguard, because it was a 5/6, when he Savage Punched his 5/5 Abzan Guide (buffed to 7/7 with ferocious trigger) with my 5/6 Elite Scaleguard. With the Ghostfire blade, it would have been a 7/8. Gah.
Second game, I just gave up due to boredom after he killed my Elite Scaleguard and both of my Sage-Eye Harriers, then created a super durdle ground defense with Rotting Mastodon and other big butts, plus Abzan Ascendancy.
It sucked because we spent 30 dollars for person for the team draft, and missed out on the 360 prize tix (aka one box) to be split among our team. If i had won my match then we would have gotten the prizes, but I failed.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
1/30/15 Friday night lights
Went over to San Jose for Mini-master and Team Sealed practice.
Ended up making it to the top 8 of my mini-master pod (won 3 matches). I had Brutal Hordechief, Alesha Who Smiles at Death, and Temur Sabertooth in my deck.
Third match my opponent played Atarka and Tasigur. However, I managed to slowly drain him out with Brutal Hordechief. Douse in Gloom + Hooded Assassin + Temur Sabertooth = value as well. My opponent was mad at me post-game because he said I missed an onboard kill several turns ago, by forcing all his creatures to gang-block one of my creatures, while the other one got in for damage. Woops.
Unfortunately, I lost the fourth match vs Shu Yun tempo deck. It was a mistake to not have Arcbond in my deck, because I think it could have saved me (if I drew it) during the second game. A board wipe (even if it requires setup) is pretty powerful.
In the Team Sealed, I played a Sultai deck with Crux of Fate, Palace Siege, and Sandsteppe Mastodon. I had Shamanic Revelation and Soulflayer in the sideboard. I didn't really have the creatures to make Soulflayer better than Gurmag Angler, and I had better spells than Shamanic Revelation to play, though I could have seen sideboarding into it, during grindy matchups.
I went 2-1 with Jeskai aggro, then 1-0 vs. black/white aggro, then 0-2 vs. Jeskai aggro.
My first match I lost my second game due to getting stuck on mana and not having enough anti-flyer hate.
First match third game I played some aggro creatures, while my opponent was stuck on aggro spells.
My second match first game I mulled to 5 (and my opponent mulled to 5). He got me down to 10, then I topdecked a land for Crux of Fate to save me from his ground guys. Then I had to play Dead Drop to kill his lone Wardscale Dragon. I was now at 6, but then I played Gurmag Angler and Sandsteppe Mastodon to swing for large amounts. My opponent said "nice mull to 5" and I said "thanks!"
Second match second game my opponent goes on the aggro plan with Soul Summons into Molting Snakesin. Then he played High Sentinels of Arashin (which I gladly 2 for 1'd myself playing Hunt the Weak on my Typhoid Rats targeting his High Sentinels) and then Mastery of the Unseen. Unfortunately, I only boarded into one Return to the Earth (instead of two or three like I had in my sideboard). He got eight activations off Mastery of the Unseen, hitting several creatures, before I was able to draw my Return to the Earth to kill it. Then I draw my Crux of Fate. I have Sultai Flayer and several fatties in play. I decided to swing with all my guys, including my Sultai Flayer, which was my mistake. Of course, he kills my flayer, and choosed to chump my fatties, instead of blocking with his two hateblades, or his 4/2 regenerating manifest. So I play Crux of Fate post combat, destroying all creatures except my Noxious Dragon and go to 13. Time gets called, he swings at me with a Mardu Shadowspear (wtf) and his 4/2, taking me down to 7. Next turn I play Frontier Mastodon and then he scoops (begrudgingly).
Third match first game, my opponent curves out into Monastery Swiftspear into Jeskai Sage into Jeskai Windscout into Jeskai Windscout. I have Crux of Fate to kill his dudes. But then he plays Ojutai and I have no way to get rid of it.
Third match second game, I get stuck with two Archer's Parapet, while my opponent plays Jeskai Sage x 3 into Aven Surveyor + Cunning Strike for lethal.
So for my efforts today, I end up with 25 dollars spent (for the team sealed) and 60 prize tix.
Ended up making it to the top 8 of my mini-master pod (won 3 matches). I had Brutal Hordechief, Alesha Who Smiles at Death, and Temur Sabertooth in my deck.
Third match my opponent played Atarka and Tasigur. However, I managed to slowly drain him out with Brutal Hordechief. Douse in Gloom + Hooded Assassin + Temur Sabertooth = value as well. My opponent was mad at me post-game because he said I missed an onboard kill several turns ago, by forcing all his creatures to gang-block one of my creatures, while the other one got in for damage. Woops.
Unfortunately, I lost the fourth match vs Shu Yun tempo deck. It was a mistake to not have Arcbond in my deck, because I think it could have saved me (if I drew it) during the second game. A board wipe (even if it requires setup) is pretty powerful.
In the Team Sealed, I played a Sultai deck with Crux of Fate, Palace Siege, and Sandsteppe Mastodon. I had Shamanic Revelation and Soulflayer in the sideboard. I didn't really have the creatures to make Soulflayer better than Gurmag Angler, and I had better spells than Shamanic Revelation to play, though I could have seen sideboarding into it, during grindy matchups.
I went 2-1 with Jeskai aggro, then 1-0 vs. black/white aggro, then 0-2 vs. Jeskai aggro.
My first match I lost my second game due to getting stuck on mana and not having enough anti-flyer hate.
First match third game I played some aggro creatures, while my opponent was stuck on aggro spells.
My second match first game I mulled to 5 (and my opponent mulled to 5). He got me down to 10, then I topdecked a land for Crux of Fate to save me from his ground guys. Then I had to play Dead Drop to kill his lone Wardscale Dragon. I was now at 6, but then I played Gurmag Angler and Sandsteppe Mastodon to swing for large amounts. My opponent said "nice mull to 5" and I said "thanks!"
Second match second game my opponent goes on the aggro plan with Soul Summons into Molting Snakesin. Then he played High Sentinels of Arashin (which I gladly 2 for 1'd myself playing Hunt the Weak on my Typhoid Rats targeting his High Sentinels) and then Mastery of the Unseen. Unfortunately, I only boarded into one Return to the Earth (instead of two or three like I had in my sideboard). He got eight activations off Mastery of the Unseen, hitting several creatures, before I was able to draw my Return to the Earth to kill it. Then I draw my Crux of Fate. I have Sultai Flayer and several fatties in play. I decided to swing with all my guys, including my Sultai Flayer, which was my mistake. Of course, he kills my flayer, and choosed to chump my fatties, instead of blocking with his two hateblades, or his 4/2 regenerating manifest. So I play Crux of Fate post combat, destroying all creatures except my Noxious Dragon and go to 13. Time gets called, he swings at me with a Mardu Shadowspear (wtf) and his 4/2, taking me down to 7. Next turn I play Frontier Mastodon and then he scoops (begrudgingly).
Third match first game, my opponent curves out into Monastery Swiftspear into Jeskai Sage into Jeskai Windscout into Jeskai Windscout. I have Crux of Fate to kill his dudes. But then he plays Ojutai and I have no way to get rid of it.
Third match second game, I get stuck with two Archer's Parapet, while my opponent plays Jeskai Sage x 3 into Aven Surveyor + Cunning Strike for lethal.
So for my efforts today, I end up with 25 dollars spent (for the team sealed) and 60 prize tix.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
1/29/15 ooh SHINY (FRF-KTK-KTK draft 2-0-1)
P1P1: Atarka, World Render (foil) over Sandsteppe Mastodon.
I messed up this draft by accidentally taking the Scoured Barrens from the first pack when I take the token out. The people at the table got super mad about it, but I wasn't intentionally trying to steal mana fixing..
P2P1: Polluted Delta for VALUE.
P3P1: I think this was Rattleclaw Mystic. Not sure.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/2015-01-29-shiny-dragons-frf-ktk-ktk-2-0-1/
Match 1: UW (1-1)
Game 1:
Barrage of Boulders with Dragon-Style Twins and Summit Prowler drops my opponent to 2 life, then next turn, I finish him with Arrow Storm.
Game 2:
Got down to 6 life due to Mistfire Weaver attacking me. I had played Atarka, World Render, then my opponent played Singing Bell Strike on it and swung with Mistfire Weaver. I got down to 3 life, then next turn he swung with Mistfire Weaver again, I untapped my guy, and ate his Mistfire Weaver. Then he played an Abzan Skycaptain. Then he played a second Abzan Skycaptain. I played a tapland to go up to 4 life. But I was still in trouble, if he had a bounce for Atarka. So I Arrow Storm'd one Skycaptain, flipped up Jeering Instigator to gain control of the other one. He had a Arashin Cleric and a Ainok Bond-kin (no counters on it). I also have a morphed Mystic of the Hidden Way, a Rageform mountain (so it's basically a 2/2 double strike) and another dude.
I swung with my team, he has Sandblast to kill my Atarka (I didn't play around a second Sandblast) then my swing only takes him down to 4 life. He kills me on the backswing with his left over 2/2 Skycaptain and now 4/3 Ainok Bond-Kin. Agh. Maybe I should have left a dude back.
I get told that it was time, so there is no time to play a game 3. So neither myself nor my opponent are getting a pack prize this round. Ugh.
Match 2: Grixis (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent plays a Silumgar turn 6, I swing with Snowhorn Rider, a 4/3 Frontier Mastodon, a 2/2 Morph (jeering Instigator) and a 3/1. I finish my opponent off with Arrow Storm.
Game 2:
I swing with a 7/7 Dragon-Style Twins and a 4/3 Summit Prowler for the win.
Match 3: Sultai (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent plays a turn 1 Kin-Tree Warden into turn 3 Tuskguard Captain.
He plays Death Frenzy to kill my Goblin Heelcutter, Jeering Instigator, and Bloodfire Expert, and his Kin-Tree Warden. Ugh.
I play a Rageform. He plays Whisperer of the Wilds. During my turn, he plays Grim Contest. I respond with Awaken the Bear, swing with a 5/5 double Striker.
Then I play an Atarka. He scoops.
Game 2:
My opponent keeps a 2 lander. I go Abzan Beastmaster into Summit Prowler into Dragon-Style Twins. My opponent scoops again.
Based on my opponent's reaction after the draft, I can tell he's pretty upset with me. *shrug*
I messed up this draft by accidentally taking the Scoured Barrens from the first pack when I take the token out. The people at the table got super mad about it, but I wasn't intentionally trying to steal mana fixing..
P2P1: Polluted Delta for VALUE.
P3P1: I think this was Rattleclaw Mystic. Not sure.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/2015-01-29-shiny-dragons-frf-ktk-ktk-2-0-1/
Match 1: UW (1-1)
Game 1:
Barrage of Boulders with Dragon-Style Twins and Summit Prowler drops my opponent to 2 life, then next turn, I finish him with Arrow Storm.
Game 2:
Got down to 6 life due to Mistfire Weaver attacking me. I had played Atarka, World Render, then my opponent played Singing Bell Strike on it and swung with Mistfire Weaver. I got down to 3 life, then next turn he swung with Mistfire Weaver again, I untapped my guy, and ate his Mistfire Weaver. Then he played an Abzan Skycaptain. Then he played a second Abzan Skycaptain. I played a tapland to go up to 4 life. But I was still in trouble, if he had a bounce for Atarka. So I Arrow Storm'd one Skycaptain, flipped up Jeering Instigator to gain control of the other one. He had a Arashin Cleric and a Ainok Bond-kin (no counters on it). I also have a morphed Mystic of the Hidden Way, a Rageform mountain (so it's basically a 2/2 double strike) and another dude.
I swung with my team, he has Sandblast to kill my Atarka (I didn't play around a second Sandblast) then my swing only takes him down to 4 life. He kills me on the backswing with his left over 2/2 Skycaptain and now 4/3 Ainok Bond-Kin. Agh. Maybe I should have left a dude back.
I get told that it was time, so there is no time to play a game 3. So neither myself nor my opponent are getting a pack prize this round. Ugh.
Match 2: Grixis (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent plays a Silumgar turn 6, I swing with Snowhorn Rider, a 4/3 Frontier Mastodon, a 2/2 Morph (jeering Instigator) and a 3/1. I finish my opponent off with Arrow Storm.
Game 2:
I swing with a 7/7 Dragon-Style Twins and a 4/3 Summit Prowler for the win.
Match 3: Sultai (2-0)
Game 1:
Opponent plays a turn 1 Kin-Tree Warden into turn 3 Tuskguard Captain.
He plays Death Frenzy to kill my Goblin Heelcutter, Jeering Instigator, and Bloodfire Expert, and his Kin-Tree Warden. Ugh.
I play a Rageform. He plays Whisperer of the Wilds. During my turn, he plays Grim Contest. I respond with Awaken the Bear, swing with a 5/5 double Striker.
Then I play an Atarka. He scoops.
Game 2:
My opponent keeps a 2 lander. I go Abzan Beastmaster into Summit Prowler into Dragon-Style Twins. My opponent scoops again.
Based on my opponent's reaction after the draft, I can tell he's pretty upset with me. *shrug*
1/25/15 Don't eat the sausage biscuit (FRF-KTK-KTK draft 2-1)
P1P1: Rare was Temporal Tresspass. I took Scaleguard Elite (foil)
P2P1: Rare was Jeering Instigator. I took Mystic of the Hidden Way.
P3P1: Rare was Abzan Ascendancy. I took Alabaster Kirin.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/2015-01-25-jeskai-mediocres/
Match 1: 5 color (2-0)
This wasn't much of a match. He played a super slow deck, and I had a bunch of flyers and tempo cards to punish him.
Match 2: Abzan (0-2)
Lost a british GP grinder who was playing Gurmag Swiftwing and THREE Rite of the Serpent. To be fair, I got mana screwed first game, and drew 14 of my 18 lands second game.
Match 3: Jeskai (2-1)
Game 1 was grindy, and he had Treasure Cruise to get card advantage. We both got pretty low on life, but I managed to pull ahead thanks to tempo plays.
Game 2 I made a terrible block with Jeskai Windscout on Morph, Monastery flock on Leaping Master with Temur Runemark. He had Efreet Weaponmaster to punish me.
Game 3 I basically ran him over.
Got 2 packs for my trouble.
P2P1: Rare was Jeering Instigator. I took Mystic of the Hidden Way.
P3P1: Rare was Abzan Ascendancy. I took Alabaster Kirin.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/2015-01-25-jeskai-mediocres/
Match 1: 5 color (2-0)
This wasn't much of a match. He played a super slow deck, and I had a bunch of flyers and tempo cards to punish him.
Match 2: Abzan (0-2)
Lost a british GP grinder who was playing Gurmag Swiftwing and THREE Rite of the Serpent. To be fair, I got mana screwed first game, and drew 14 of my 18 lands second game.
Match 3: Jeskai (2-1)
Game 1 was grindy, and he had Treasure Cruise to get card advantage. We both got pretty low on life, but I managed to pull ahead thanks to tempo plays.
Game 2 I made a terrible block with Jeskai Windscout on Morph, Monastery flock on Leaping Master with Temur Runemark. He had Efreet Weaponmaster to punish me.
Game 3 I basically ran him over.
Got 2 packs for my trouble.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
1/24/15 Channel Fireball team sealed practice, 3-1
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/2015-01-24-in-america/
Match 1: Temur (2-0)
Game 1:
Basically ran over my opponent. He played a 3/3 with Formless Nurturing, I killed it with Arc Lightning. He played a 6/6 with Wildcall, I made it not able to block with Goblin Heelcutter.
Game 2:
This was pretty much the same thing, but my opponent played a few more creatures, which died to Mardu Heartpiercer + Arc Lightning. Flying Crane Technique closed the game out.
Match 2: Sultai (2-0)
Game 1:
Guy played an Orc Sureshot. I offed it with Mardu Heartpiercer. Then he played a few creatures to stabilize. I finished him off with topdeck Crater's Claw.
Game 2:
This game got a bit more convoluted, with him playing a lot more creatures. I noticed he tapped down to just 2 forests and no other lands, so I went for the Flying Crane Technique with 4 2 power guys and a 3 power guy. Flying Crane Technique forced him into a situation where he had to block with his Sagu Archer to not die, and he got down to 2 life. Then he scooped because I had two flyers with 2 power in play.
Match 3: Temur (1-1)
Game 1:
My opponent had TONS of tricks (Rite of Undoing, Whisk Away, Will of the Naga, and Icefeather Aven) and Avalanche Tusker. I barely manage to win thanks to Whisk Away, and Aven Surveyor.
Game 2:
This game ended up not mattering, because my teammmates lost their matches. But we ended up playing it out. He had me on the backfoot with his aggression, but I managed to stabilize a bit. I kill a morph with Crater's Claw, and it turns out to be Spellsnatcher (thankfully he only had 4 mana and couldn't flip it up).
I try to go for lethal with Icy Blast, but then he has Will of the Naga to punish me, so I have to hold off my attack to not die. He swings, and I end up going down to 1 life. I end up Mindswiping my own spell to kill myself.
Match 4: 5 color ramp (2-0)
Game 1:
My opponent plays Map the Wastes x 2 making a 6/4 Alpine Grizzly, but doesn't attack me with it. I guess he didn't want to trade his dude for two of my guys.
Anyways, Kheru Lich Lord ends up gainining him a bunch of value. I have to try and stall him until I can deal 21 damage in one turn with FCT. I mess up by playing FCT before attacks. I should have waited until after attacks, but before blocks, so that my dudes would untap so I wouldn't die if he had a removal spell.
I kinda punt when I cast Write into Being and manifest a Mardu Heartpiercer. That doesn't make any sense, because the raid trigger from Mardu Heartpiercer only goes off if the Mardu Heartpiercer ETB. Doh.
Game 2:
This game ends up a lot of the same, with Alpine Grizzly and Kheru Lich Lord. I have to use Flying Crane Technique defensively on my Shockmaw Dragon to not die to his attacking Mindscour Dragon. My opponent gets me down to 3 life with a Scaldkin in play (jeez). Then I start drawing straight gas, after my flood, and get 6 creatures into play.
I assemble the combo of:
Jeskai Infiltrator
Goblin Heelcutter
Sage-Eye Avengers
My teammates won both their games, so the result of this match didn't matter, but I end up winning it anyways.
Lesson learned: It's better to cast FCT AFTER declaring attacks, but before blocks.
Match 1: Temur (2-0)
Game 1:
Basically ran over my opponent. He played a 3/3 with Formless Nurturing, I killed it with Arc Lightning. He played a 6/6 with Wildcall, I made it not able to block with Goblin Heelcutter.
Game 2:
This was pretty much the same thing, but my opponent played a few more creatures, which died to Mardu Heartpiercer + Arc Lightning. Flying Crane Technique closed the game out.
Match 2: Sultai (2-0)
Game 1:
Guy played an Orc Sureshot. I offed it with Mardu Heartpiercer. Then he played a few creatures to stabilize. I finished him off with topdeck Crater's Claw.
Game 2:
This game got a bit more convoluted, with him playing a lot more creatures. I noticed he tapped down to just 2 forests and no other lands, so I went for the Flying Crane Technique with 4 2 power guys and a 3 power guy. Flying Crane Technique forced him into a situation where he had to block with his Sagu Archer to not die, and he got down to 2 life. Then he scooped because I had two flyers with 2 power in play.
Match 3: Temur (1-1)
Game 1:
My opponent had TONS of tricks (Rite of Undoing, Whisk Away, Will of the Naga, and Icefeather Aven) and Avalanche Tusker. I barely manage to win thanks to Whisk Away, and Aven Surveyor.
Game 2:
This game ended up not mattering, because my teammmates lost their matches. But we ended up playing it out. He had me on the backfoot with his aggression, but I managed to stabilize a bit. I kill a morph with Crater's Claw, and it turns out to be Spellsnatcher (thankfully he only had 4 mana and couldn't flip it up).
I try to go for lethal with Icy Blast, but then he has Will of the Naga to punish me, so I have to hold off my attack to not die. He swings, and I end up going down to 1 life. I end up Mindswiping my own spell to kill myself.
Match 4: 5 color ramp (2-0)
Game 1:
My opponent plays Map the Wastes x 2 making a 6/4 Alpine Grizzly, but doesn't attack me with it. I guess he didn't want to trade his dude for two of my guys.
Anyways, Kheru Lich Lord ends up gainining him a bunch of value. I have to try and stall him until I can deal 21 damage in one turn with FCT. I mess up by playing FCT before attacks. I should have waited until after attacks, but before blocks, so that my dudes would untap so I wouldn't die if he had a removal spell.
I kinda punt when I cast Write into Being and manifest a Mardu Heartpiercer. That doesn't make any sense, because the raid trigger from Mardu Heartpiercer only goes off if the Mardu Heartpiercer ETB. Doh.
Game 2:
This game ends up a lot of the same, with Alpine Grizzly and Kheru Lich Lord. I have to use Flying Crane Technique defensively on my Shockmaw Dragon to not die to his attacking Mindscour Dragon. My opponent gets me down to 3 life with a Scaldkin in play (jeez). Then I start drawing straight gas, after my flood, and get 6 creatures into play.
I assemble the combo of:
Jeskai Infiltrator
Goblin Heelcutter
Sage-Eye Avengers
My teammates won both their games, so the result of this match didn't matter, but I end up winning it anyways.
Lesson learned: It's better to cast FCT AFTER declaring attacks, but before blocks.
Friday, January 23, 2015
1/23/15 Too late (no Magic tonight)
I went over to Gamescape Noreth to play in the FRF release sealed. Unfortuntalely, I was told that the store was at max capacity for signups (66). I was 8th on the waitlist, and my friend was 4th on the waitlist. Of course, they took exactly 7 people on the waitlist, so I was out in the cold. Basically wasted an hour and 15 minutes of my time (I left home around 5:13 p.m., and left Gamescape around 6:28 p.m).
I could have avoided this by signing up in advance, but I didn't think I needed to do this. The other Friday night release events I went to barely got 30 people to show up. So why 75 people tonight? Fuck.
I guess it's fine, I went home to drink beer and watch Twitch.tv.
I could have avoided this by signing up in advance, but I didn't think I needed to do this. The other Friday night release events I went to barely got 30 people to show up. So why 75 people tonight? Fuck.
I guess it's fine, I went home to drink beer and watch Twitch.tv.
1/22/15 The definition of insanity.. (Modern 2-1)
I went over to Versus Games for modern. I was playing RUG Twin, with 4 Dig Through Time, 3 Thought Scour, and only 2 Splinter Twin.
Match 1: Bogles
Game 1:
My opponent mulls to 5, and I kill his Kor Spiritdancer. He fails to draw any other creatures to suit up.
Game 2:
Kept a hand with no disruption, managed to stabilize at 2 life with a 5/6 Tarmogoyf, but then my opponent swarmed me with 1/1's.
Game 3:
This was kind of an intense match. I played a turn 2 Spellskite, he tried to Path to Exile, I had Negate. Then he had another Path to Exile, and I had no answer. Then he played a 7/7 Bogle, and got up to 34 life. I resolved an Engineered Explosives on 1, and a Scavenging Ooze. Eventually, I managed to kill his Bogle with Anger of the Gods, and I had a 6/6 Ooze and a 4/5 Tarmogoyf in play. I had a Cryptic Command and a Counterflux in hand. He tried to suit up another guy, and then I used Counterflux. He tried to counter it with Guttural Response, and someone else pointed out that Counterflux couldnt be countered. So I swung for lethal.
Match 2: 4C Gifts (2-0)
Played against my friend who I drove to the store with.
Game 1:
Milled one of my Splinter Twin with Thought Scour, next turn, I drew the other one. Combo'd off and won.
Game 2:
This was a grindy match, where my opponent was making me discard all my stuff with Raven's Crime, while at 1 life. I managed to topdeck Tarmogoyf and he was out of removal, so he scooped.
Match 3: Ad Nauseum (0-2)
Game 1:
Kept a weak hand with a bunch of cantrips, couldn't draw any pressure besides a Tarmogoyf on turn 3. Lost to the combo on turn 5.
Game 2.
I kept a hand with some disruption and Tarmogoyf, but my opponent had turn 3 combo protected with Pact of Negation.
Result: 2-1, ended up 3rd place out of 6 people, for 5 dollars store credit. :\
Added: My round 3 matchup from my opponent's side:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/established-modern/221735-ad-nauseam?comment=908
Match 1: Bogles
Game 1:
My opponent mulls to 5, and I kill his Kor Spiritdancer. He fails to draw any other creatures to suit up.
Game 2:
Kept a hand with no disruption, managed to stabilize at 2 life with a 5/6 Tarmogoyf, but then my opponent swarmed me with 1/1's.
Game 3:
This was kind of an intense match. I played a turn 2 Spellskite, he tried to Path to Exile, I had Negate. Then he had another Path to Exile, and I had no answer. Then he played a 7/7 Bogle, and got up to 34 life. I resolved an Engineered Explosives on 1, and a Scavenging Ooze. Eventually, I managed to kill his Bogle with Anger of the Gods, and I had a 6/6 Ooze and a 4/5 Tarmogoyf in play. I had a Cryptic Command and a Counterflux in hand. He tried to suit up another guy, and then I used Counterflux. He tried to counter it with Guttural Response, and someone else pointed out that Counterflux couldnt be countered. So I swung for lethal.
Match 2: 4C Gifts (2-0)
Played against my friend who I drove to the store with.
Game 1:
Milled one of my Splinter Twin with Thought Scour, next turn, I drew the other one. Combo'd off and won.
Game 2:
This was a grindy match, where my opponent was making me discard all my stuff with Raven's Crime, while at 1 life. I managed to topdeck Tarmogoyf and he was out of removal, so he scooped.
Match 3: Ad Nauseum (0-2)
Game 1:
Kept a weak hand with a bunch of cantrips, couldn't draw any pressure besides a Tarmogoyf on turn 3. Lost to the combo on turn 5.
Game 2.
I kept a hand with some disruption and Tarmogoyf, but my opponent had turn 3 combo protected with Pact of Negation.
Result: 2-1, ended up 3rd place out of 6 people, for 5 dollars store credit. :\
Added: My round 3 matchup from my opponent's side:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/established-modern/221735-ad-nauseam?comment=908
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