| Teddy 'n' Me Tournament Report (April 28th) |
| Written by Carthain | |
| Monday, 30 April 2007 | |
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This is my tournament report for the Vintage Proxy tournament held at Teddy 'n' Me on April 28th 2007.
Okay, lets see here .. I didn't make any notes while playing the tournament, so all of this is from memory. The day of the tournament, I woke up and threw my sideboard together. I'd had my deck together for about a week at that point, but no sideboard yet, despite my having a cunning wish in my deck. So I sign up, write out my decklist ('cause I forgot the printout at home) and wait for the first round. Round 1: Playing oAFLORD (Belcher) Game 1: Game one he goes first and attempts to go off on turn one. A Force of Will against his belcher keeps him from winning right there and then. Afterwards, he continues to draw mana accelerants while I draw stuff like duress (to make sure he isn't planning anything paticular) and my own card drawing. Eventually cycle a Decree of Justice for 5 and swing a few times for the win. Game 2: oAFLORD is on they play again. I keep a hand with 2-3 lands, 2 drains, no other disruption. I contemplate mulliganing into a force of will, but decide not to. So, on turn 1 or 2 he combos off before I can get drains online, and I pay the price for not mulliganing. Game 3: This time I'm on the play. He casts Land Grant and goes to get his Bayou (instead of the Taiga) and then plays his Xantid Swarm. I think this was the incorrect play, as he had 2 pyroblasts/REBs in hand (I saw from a duress) and no red mana. I capitalize on him being tapped out by tinkering for the DSC and going all the way with him. 1-0 (2-1) Round 2: Playing fidget (Salvagers/Bob/Standstill concoction) Game 1: I don't remember a whole lot about this game, except near the end he cast a standstill when he didn't have any men on the table, and I had a Memnarch. That pretty much sealed the deal. Game 2: I seem to recall Mana Draining a couple Salvagers, and then winning with something (Memnarch? 7/10?) Not exactly sure, and the fact that we played a bunch of other games after these two games doesn't help me recall what happened in which game. 2-0 (4-1) Round 3: Playing profoundd (B/W fish) Rob comes back from the washroom and I offer him a draw. He accepts and we play a couple games for fun. 2-0-1 (4-1-1) Round 4: Playing my brother (U/B/w fish) We'd done some playtesting about a week before, and we had learned that he needed a god-hand to beat my deck .. but he had also made some changes since then. And, I would have drawn with him as well, but he was 2-1 and couldn't really afford the draw. Game 1: We play a long first game. Eventually he ekes out the win. This is unfortunate, as it seems like it took quite a while, and I'm unsure of us being able to make another game that long in the time we had left -- let alone the two I would need for the win. I was surprised he managed to get the win, I had Memnarch down, and was stealing his wizards to sac to his voidmage prodigy (which I'd stolen) to counter his spells. It was a nice setup for me! Game 2: I got out a quick Tinker for Sundering Titan, wrecking his landbase, and then beating for 7 a turn. Nice quick game, and just what I need in order to be able to win the match. Game 3: Time was called on us. I got the first turn of the 5 extra rounds, and I did nothing, and cycled Decree of Justice for 8 tokens at the end of his turn (turn 2 of extra rounds) while he was still at 19. Turn 3 of extra round I attack and bring him to 11, then cast Time Walk to take another turn. Turn 4 of the extra rounds I rip Demonic Tutor ... which gives me the ability to tutor for Yawgmoth's Will and recast Time Walk (which would give me turn 5 of extra turns ... 4 out of 5 for me!) and be able to attack again for the last bits of damage for the win. 3-0-1 (6-2-1) Round 5: Playing Kyle Babbin (Ravager) We just ID into the top 8 without any problems. We play for fun and he beats me like, 4 out of 5 games. Top 8: Playing against Matt Brown (Goblins). We go to 3 games, but I wasn't able to draw enough, and his pyroblasts/REBs are enough to let him crush me in game 3.
And for anyone interested, here's my decklist (as much as I can remember it anyways): Mana (24)
Sideboard ( 15) I'm not 100% sure on the decklist/sideboard -- but it's mostly correct. |
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