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 Props
to you if you figured out my crappy title is a crappy play on words. Green=Game. Or
Meta=Mono. Either way, congrats to you chumps who realized it before
reading this.
Ok, the title explanation is done, so I may as well begin this tournament report
with that small thing called a “decklist”:
Creatures:
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Birds of Paradise
4 Viridian “Sacky Elves” Zealot
4 Skyshroud 1337
4 Troll Ascetic
4 Call of the Herd(ok, so they technically aren’t creatures)
4 River Boa
Non-attacking spells:
4 Tangle Wire
4 Bonesplitter
4 Rancor
Lands:
4 Chrome Mox (ok, so they aren’t technically lands)
6 Forest
6 Fetchlands
3 Wasteland
2 Gaea’s Cradle
Side to the Board yo:
4 Powder Keg
4 Caller of the Claw
4 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Ravenous Baloth
“So what does your deck beat that Green Power doesn’t”. Adam
inquired while we were leaving Caseys. Basically, nothing. Green
Power basically is just a better deck. So why did I choose to play
this? Well Green Power anally raped me last tournament by giving me
plenty of 1-land hands, and I don’t like Trinity Green’s deck synergy of
Priest of Titania and Birds of Paradise.
Now on to the tournament report. Originally I was just going to say
what happened in each match, but I think that’s boring and over used. I
also forgot what happened in each match. Sue me. Instead, I’m going
to tell you how I prepared for each match when I built this wonderful deck. I
didn’t play a surprise deck the entire day, and I’m quite happy about that.
Round 1:
Pingpongpaulwangwiththetabletenniswhichisbasicallyjustpingpongbutwithadifferantnamebutitsstillpingpongwiththepingpongballandapingpongpattle.....or
just Paul Wang. What ever works for you....
Mr. (Small) Wang was playing Affinity. I actually did some serious
planning against the deck since I knew a small group of people could play it.
It’s one of the reasons why I ended up playing Waste Lands over Ports. I
also added Ensnaring Bridge to the board because of the potentially huge
Broodstar. I’m glad I ended up putting those Bridges in since they
were an Instant win against Paul. Too bad I only drew them one game,
and he was also able to pull back from my double Waste Land, Skyshroud 1337, and
Sacky Elf hand. Oh well. Affinity just does that. 0-1
Round 2: Scott Peppermint
Ok, I might have this and third round switched around, but my memory is a bit
fuzzy. I do remember that he was playing a stompy-esc deck, though. But
it wasn’t a mirror match since our decks were pretty much completely
different. This is really the only match where I hadn’t put much
though into. Luckly, Keg and Bridge were really good against him,
especially since Bridge was an auto-win against him, just like it should have
been against Paul. 1-1
Round 3: James Dykeman(I think. My memory is worse then Eric’s)
He was playing Goblins, a deck I made sure to have a way to beat. Powder
Keg and Ravenous Baloth are both sided in, and overall, my creatures should be
bigger and better then his. He wasn’t playing a top notch Goblin
deck, but he did have some of my favorite goblins(the ones I like to kill the
most), War chief and Siege Gang Commander. Long story short, I ended
up winning and had a very enjoyable match where I tried to use some Whitlatch
Mind tricks on my opponent. 2-1.
Round 3.5: Arby’s
This was a tough match. That Roast Beef sandwich almost took me down,
but in the end I ended up the victor. The only un-enjoyable part of
this match was that the fuckers gave me curly fries instead of normal ones. Bastards
I say!
Round 4: Adam
Since I remember exactly what happened in these games, I’ll do a turn by turn
match report on them.
In game one he went first and had a pretty good first hand. He
started out by playing a Black Lotus, and then followed that by playing all 7
Moxes. Not good. He sacked the Lotus for 3 blue and played
an Ancestral Recall. He then preceded to play 3 Recalls, returning
all 7 of his Moxes to his hand each time and then replaying them for massive
amounts of mana. With that mana he played Guilded Lotus and Twiddled it about 10
times to obtain even MORE mana. After his little Twiddle fun, he
played Tolarian Academy. He used the mana from that to play a few
Voltaic Keys and started to untap his Moxes just for the fun of it. After
about 15 more minutes of this, he finally cast Tendrils of Agony for about 100. I
ended up Force of Willing all 100 of them. While Adam took his 35
minute first turn, I switched my life total to 101, and stole about 100 Force of
Wills from people. He scooped.
He opted to go first in game two and busted out the gates with a first turn
Squire. It was then I realized that he was playing the broken
“Squire Desire” deck. Knowing that I have no answer to Squire, I
scooped, hoping for better luck in game 3.
We both mulliganed down to 0 cards this game. I guess we didn’t
like that 1 card we had after the first 6 mulligans. Any way, I drew
a Forest and said go. He saw my Forest and raised me a Plains. I
then just hoped he didn’t draw that damn Squire of his. He
didn’t, and I ended up attacking 20 times with a Llanowar Elf for the win. Now
that was a close match. 3-1.
Round 4: Robby LuLu
What makes the LuLu part so funny is that LuLu in FF10 is a Black Mage, and Mr.
Luken was playing Red Deck Is Gay, which packs plenty of burn. I knew
for a fact he was going to be playing this deck, so I made sure I had a game
plan. My game plan? Play Troll Ascetic and win. That
being said, I didn’t see a Troll in the first two games. I did
manage to win one at least. Third game I did draw an early Troll and
even Rancored it. Pretty damn good postition for me, especially when he attacked
with a lone Bonespiller wielding Jackal Pup when I had two mana open and an
untapped Troll. Ouch. 4-1.
4-1 managed to win me second place and the third spot in the PoTYR. Over
all, I can say I’m quite happy at how well this piece of crap performed.
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