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Well, this isn’t really a tournament report. Adam told me I could talk about anything I wanted in here, like, movies I like, or girls who’ve broke my heart…or the tournament today. I had a pretty good day, going 4-1 and taking Third place, the first time I’ve placed in the top 4 at one of our tournaments. So a prestigious day for me. And surprisingly enough the deck I piloted to the top 4 was of course my version of “The Rock”
Land:
6 Forest
7 Swamp
4 Treetop Village
4 Llanowar Wastes
1 Dust Bowl
Spells:
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Yavimaya Elder
4 Wall of Blossoms
4 Duress
4 Pernicious Deed
3 Spike Feeder
3 Vampiric Tutor
3 Diabolic Edict
2 Living Wish
2 Cabal Therapy
1 Haunting Echoes
1 Genisis
1 Engineered Plague
1 Spiritmonger
1 Persecute
Sideboard:
3 Smother
3 Planar Void
2 Cabal Therapy
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Visara the Dreadful
1 Ravenous Baloth
1 Spike Weaver
1 Chainer’s Edicts
1 Nantuko Vigilante
Now, keep in mind this deck has a few things in it specifically attuned to this tournament. The main deck Engineered Plague was for goblins, which
were there thankfully. Also, Planar Void in the board was for reanimator of all kinds and even contamination, which I faced both of today. Planar Void also puts the beat on oath decks I hear.
Round 1: Robert Luken playing Contamination.
Robert pulls of game one getting the contamination lock and killing me before I can draw edict. So in come the 3 Planar Voids, 2 Cabal therapies, and 3 Smothers, Plus Visara. Game two I get off Persecute followed by Echoes, which tends to decimate a mono-colored deck. After that it was pretty much in the bag. Game three goes much the same way, with Robert keeping a no-land hand with all his combo pieces, but I had the discard to deal with it.
Round 2: Paul Wang with Soldiers
Paul had just come off a fresh win against an Aluren deck, which was strange news, but Paul always manages to do something gay like beat a deck he shouldn’t have. Game one he comes on quick and swings in with some white soldier beats, but deed shuts him down. Game two I don’t bother to board. I have two deeds opening hand and when I draw the third one a couple turns later, he scoops.
Round 3: Eric Hoffman with Angry Hermit part II (Angry Ghoul)
Eric’s deck is pretty good against me before boarding, and after he dumps his library, I take a quick browse. No main deck naturalize, which is good news for my board plan. He swings, I die, on to game two. I bring in three voids, and drop one first turn. He plays oath, proceeds to stick with that plan, almost comes up with the win, but his last creature is the bottom card of his library. Sheer bad luck. Game three was mostly spent shuffling and mullagining. I drop void again and go aggro with Treetops. I manage to edict, smother, edict his hermits. The last one hit’s the ‘yard to Eric’s reply of “cute”. We wrap that game up just in time for scores to be entered.
Round 4: Adam Whitlatch with Mind’s Desire
He plays spells, I lose. If you have any idea what his deck is, you’ll know there’s not much to say here. I had a minute possibility game two, but not really. If I don’t sound upset, it’s because I’m not. I expected to lose, and ending up in third place by losing to the only undefeated deck of the day just ain’t too shabby.
Round 5: Someone random, playing Goblins.
Okay, no offence to this player, but the Rock should not be able to win against goblins in 10 minutes…for the entire round. My main deck plague was just that good, and his goblins were partly substandard. Game one I tutored for it, game two I top decked the plague and then wished for masticore to lock up the game.
And after that, I was in 3rd place. My first ever top four finish! I was happy, doubly so for playing my version of the deck, with a few cards that depended on meta-game calls. And for once it worked.
Props:
Eric Hoffman, for being “cute” and for being in a good mood for once at a tournament. No offence Eric, but your sportsmanship is not always your strong suit.
And also for Rishadan Port killing Talbert on Eric’s command.
To Andrew for not playing that one gay-ass hippy-wannabe creature type.
Slops:
To random gay people - whom without them, today’s tournament would have been truly enjoyable. How is it parents can allow themselves the disgrace of having been the progenitors of something so socially inept, so lacking in the mental capacity to function on a basic, subdued level, comprehending wit and charm instead of only processing loud obnoxious sayings and bodily functions. Sorry, but people who scream loud things and sign up for tournaments with names like “AK47” or worse, and who only annoy instead of amuse, make me wish for the love and support of an efficient society where the weak and stupid are culled from the masses to form a rather nice place. Be it sick, sadistic, or illogical, I’d much rather live there than go on spending another day in the same country as those folk. They could never come back for all I care.
To Jacob for breaking a light.
And mandatory slops to Eric. |
