Lets talk FNM. How did yours go? What decks are you seeing more of? So on and so on...
Our FNM has two tourneys, one Modern and one standard which is pretty sweet. Both fill up decently. Currently I've lent my affinity deck out to a buddy and he's won every fnm for the last 6 weeks except for last week where I was in the finals with a grisel reanimator and lost t2 both games. Was vicious! Other than that our modern fnm decks we play against are as so
A few home brew new kids we help
Life gain home brew
Bogles tier
Boros burn tier
Wilted Abzan tier
Affinity tier
Infect tier
Splinter twin tier
Bug delver
8 rack
Griselbrand Reanimafor
Very tough Vampire home brew
My wilted abzan(two of us)
Tomorrow will be my first time playing my bloom Titan deck I finally got all the cards for this week and I'm super excited! It'll be sweet!!!
The only thing our meta is missing is players who play Goyfs which is a pain because when our team goes to pptq's that's our biggest obstacle!
I love FNM probably my favorite aspect of magic, a bunch of friendly people getting together and just having a good time
Twin
Tron (three different variations)
Grixis Delver
Bloom Titan
Narset Combo
Griselbuddy combo
Zoo (rainbow and Abzan)
2 or 3 random combo decka
I've been running NyxWave for five events now, four back in High Point, which runs both standard and modern every week, and once back home in Durham, where modern and standard trade off from week to week. In High Point, I've Top 8'd twice and scrubbed out twice, while two weeks ago I placed 3rd in Durham, going 4-1.
As far as Metas, back at school you find pretty much everything. Between the thirty or so modern players at the store, we see everything from home brew to Abzan to Burn to infect. Infect is the only deck there that consistently gives me trouble.
Back in Durham we have about fifteen or so players on a Modern night, where we have a few brews, but mostly tier 1-2 with skilled players. From what I've seen, the Meta mostly looks like:
NyxWave (myself)
Affinity
Abzan, in all Flavors (Rhino and Wilted)
BW Tokens
RW Norin
Storm
UW Polymorph
TinFins
And lots of others I can't remember right now.
The most fun part is adding more Infect hate to the Side for School, then seeing absolutely no infect back in Durham.
I'll let you guys know how things go tomorrow!
Tonight went really well! 4-1 to 3rd overall with NyxWave
Round 1: MonoB Stuff
Nothing to concerning, just someone that wanted to play with a fair pile of cards he had. Typhoid Rats, LifeBane Zombies and Desecration Demons.
Easy 2-0
Round 2: Twin
Lost to a fellow Judge after making some play mistakes post-board. Was fine though, since he went on to split for 13 points and gave me sweet breakers.
Lost 0-2.
Round 3: Ad Nauseum
This one was fun. He got game one. Game two, I landed a Spellskite off of a Wave the turn before he went off. He discarded enough lands to kill me, so I paid two to redirect. He drops a land, I paid two. This goes back and forth until I'm at two. Discard a forest to redirect to him, and amazingly he didn't have any more lands in hand. Game three ended with a Boseiju'd Chord for Prime Time on the end of his turn 3. That game ended fast.
2-1
Round 4: TinFins
Game 1, I land a fairly early prime time. He Breaches an Emrakul that proceeds to eat most of my board, though I chumped with a Bird and was left with a Sprawl land, Nykthos and Wolf run. He died soon after. Game 2, I land an early ooze to mess with him, and he bricks hard on drawing 14 from GBrand. Opponent explodes because he forgot that Garruk Wildspeaker Overruns at 4.
Got it 2-0
Round 5: Abzan Midrange
Game 1 I land a turn 3 Titan that just provides too much advantage for him to overcome. Game 2, he pulses a trio of Emissaries I pooped out turn 2, paving the way to him rolling over me. Game 3, I just Out-Midrange him, Waving for most of my deck, then Primal commanding three lands back on top to ensure there were no outs.
Got it 2-1
It was a fun night!
My modern events happen on Saturdays, so I'll give an update tomorrow. I'm playing dune zoo, so hopefully it is aggressive enough to take first.
My performance was lack luster :( well i should say i performed well but the deck just kept feeding me lands and i run 19 lands!
I piloted Grixis Delver
Match 1 Boros Burn 0-2
This guys was literally on nuts hands both games and I coukd not stop his combo of fast creatures with steady burn.
Match 2 Infect 2-0
He was a young kid but he piloted his deck well. I jut ended up with great hands and put out T2 Tasigur in the second game.....so that was cool.
Match 3 Mirror 2-0
This dude literally rage quit both games after i flipped delver both games T2 and just proceeded to protect, deny, and beat face.
Match 4 Zombie aggro home brew 0-2
I played this guy before and he does moderately well with this deck. I was surprised i did not sneak in 1 win but i just could not get a threat on the board. Game 1 he had some good targeted removal and just overwhelned me with zombos. Game 2 i brought in more creature support and GY hate but none of that showed up.....in fact we went to like T8 and all i could draw was instant, sorc, and land......the 1 creature i drew came on the last draw before he was swinging in for game.
I still had fun and picked up my 2 boxes of MM2015 i ordered from that store and i am not opening. I traded for a bunch of good stuff though. I got:
Emmy
Foil fulminator mage and regular
Foil remand
Hurkyks Recall
Foil Tasigur
All is dust
Bitterblossum
My modern Meta looks like this.
U/R Delver (me, SCREW GRIXIS DELVER)
B/W Tokens (Kaalia with haste)
5 color zoo
Grixis Delver/Jund Midrange (DimirOverlord)
The guy who runs the store playing whatever he feels like.
G/R Scapeshift
Affinity
Twin
Mono Blue Tron
Wilted Abzan
Bogles
G/R Tron
Storm
Norin Sisters
And a few junk brews.
Quote from: the_intelligentleman on May 23, 2015, 11:03:32 AM
My modern Meta looks like this.
U/R Delver (me, SCREW GRIXIS DELVER)
B/W Tokens (Kaalia with haste)
5 color zoo
Grixis Delver/Jund Midrange (DimirOverlord)
The guy who runs the store playing whatever he feels like.
G/R Scapeshift
Affinity
Twin
Mono Blue Tron
Wilted Abzan
Bogles
G/R Tron
Storm
Norin Sisters
And a few junk brews.
Simon doesn't play scapeshift anymore, I'm pretty sure it's just straight valakut trap
Quote from: Spencer Addington on May 23, 2015, 02:50:45 AM
My modern events happen on Saturdays, so I'll give an update tomorrow. I'm playing dune zoo, so hopefully it is aggressive enough to take first.
Did shitty... Let's leave it at that.
Aggro, pure RDW 😐 Some mono green ramp, and my upgraded turbo Maze's End and U/W/R control.
I'm hosting a modern event this Friday. I'll try to provide a tournament report from my perspective. Dimir and the_intelligentleman will hopefully do the same.
Modern FNM for me this week, playing BW tokens:
Round 1: play against a guy who's pretty new to the game but has been sinking a ton of money into his own decks that are pretty bad to be honest.. Cards I saw: mana morphose, Sarkhan vol, bloodghast, thrun, creak wood liege, sylvan caryatid, Dromoka's command.
Anyways here's how the games went:
Game one: he started off with 2 bloodghasts but I hit him twice with hero of bladehold before he threw down a hero's downfall. He was dead from a top decked intangible virtue, but I would've gotten there anyways, albeit a turn slower. Pretty simple stuff.
Game 2: now this was a game, best game I've played in a while honestly. He led on some disruption spells like Thoughtseize and duress, but i had some of my own so neither of us did a whole lot early, until I had a flashbacked lingering souls and an intangible virtue out. I get in for 4 and he untaps with thrun, I'm still winning the race so I'm happy. I draw brimaz, king kitty. I bash for four and in second main play brimaz, he untaps with a creak wood liege and a desecration demon. I was actually pretty frightened to be honest, I was in some trouble. I go to my draw step and peel my one copy of zealous persecution that I added this morning and do some math. If he blocked like I anticipated the whole board would be gone with the exception of two of my spirits. He blocked exactly like I figured and zealous persecution has earned a bump up to two copies because of that moment. He draws and passes. I draw hero of bladehold and ended the game like that. The game was much better than it sounds, it was pretty darn close if it weren't for persecution it was clear I'd have won. 2-0
Match 2: the mirror match
I played against a tokens mirror, but our 60 were pretty mismatched. He opted for tidehollow sculler over Thoughtseize for reasons I don't know. Game one I was on the draw, which was actually to my benefit. He dropped a turn 4 hero of bladehold, I drew my own hero of bladehold, and pathed his. I won that game because I don't think he ran path to exile, I honestly didn't expect hero to stick but it did and it ended the game pretty nicely.
Game 2: I go to fetch and he's got an aven mindcensor, my lands 3-4 and maybe more were all fetch lands so I was in a right spot, I lost to a hero of bladehold and not finding a land off either of my fetches. I did almost nothing that game
Game 3: I have no recollection of this for some reason. But I won apparently so the match was 2-1 me.
Match 3: game one, I kept a hand light on interaction and was super-punished by two cranial platings being on his only creature, ornithopter. Woops.
Game 2, I resolved turn 2 stony silence but I couldn't find anything to race his 2 etched champions that had metal craft active.
0-2
Match 4: I was paired against burn. Game one, burn spells out the ass.. I resolved a lingering souls and a hero of bladehold but it didn't matter because I was dead before I could untap with it.
Game 2, I ended up resolving a timely reinforcements on turn 3. I then played a spectral procession and a sorin solemn visitor over the next two turns and he couldn't come back.
Game 3 was really right, but towards the end the burn player FORGOT TO ATTACK with his goblin guide, I played sorin and he got super punished by me gaining 6 life off my spectral procession tokens.
2-1
Overall went 3-1 with my only loss being to the guy who got first, the event was only 11 people with me taking 3rd overall.
Tonight's fnm went swell for me
Round 1- He was a young kid playing slivers I took it 2-0 not much to say here, I coached him and helped him understand the game a bit better. 2-0
Round 2- first game I won with hive mind combo t4, second he burned me when I refused to mull down to get leyline, 3rd game I mulled to leyline and won. 2-1
Round 3- RG tron, pretty simple matchup for me game 1 hive mind combo, game 2 didn't mull and couldn't pull a land that wasn't a bounce land so I lost, game 3 t2 Titan that's that pretty much. 2-1
Round 4- drew in.
Top 8
Round 1- He was running mono blue mill, beat him easily first game, lost second for refusing to mull to leyline of sanctity, game 3 dropped leyline and he scooped
Round 2- burn again same guy, 2-0
Round 3- RG tron same guy g1 hive mind combo, g2 he had too many wurmcoils out he won quick, G3 prime time t2 then hive mind t3 with summoner pact.
I won 1st it was only an 11 man tourney but was fun.
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 06, 2015, 02:58:28 AM
Tonight's fnm went swell for me
Round 1- He was a young kid playing slivers I took it 2-0 not much to say here, I coached him and helped him understand the game a bit better. 2-0
Round 2- first game I won with hive mind combo t4, second he burned me when I refused to mull down to get leyline, 3rd game I mulled to leyline and won. 2-1
Round 3- RG tron, pretty simple matchup for me game 1 hive mind combo, game 2 didn't mull and couldn't pull a land that wasn't a bounce land so I lost, game 3 t2 Titan that's that pretty much. 2-1
Round 4- drew in.
Top 8
Round 1- He was running mono blue mill, beat him easily first game, lost second for refusing to mull to leyline of sanctity, game 3 dropped leyline and he scooped
Round 2- burn again same guy, 2-0
Round 3- RG tron same guy g1 hive mind combo, g2 he had too many wurmcoils out he won quick, G3 prime time t2 then hive mind t3 with summoner pact.
I won 1st it was only an 11 man tourney but was fun.
Lol you guys do top 8 for 11 man tournaments?
Quote from: Kaalia with haste on June 06, 2015, 04:30:25 PM
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 06, 2015, 02:58:28 AM
Tonight's fnm went swell for me
Round 1- He was a young kid playing slivers I took it 2-0 not much to say here, I coached him and helped him understand the game a bit better. 2-0
Round 2- first game I won with hive mind combo t4, second he burned me when I refused to mull down to get leyline, 3rd game I mulled to leyline and won. 2-1
Round 3- RG tron, pretty simple matchup for me game 1 hive mind combo, game 2 didn't mull and couldn't pull a land that wasn't a bounce land so I lost, game 3 t2 Titan that's that pretty much. 2-1
Round 4- drew in.
Top 8
Round 1- He was running mono blue mill, beat him easily first game, lost second for refusing to mull to leyline of sanctity, game 3 dropped leyline and he scooped
Round 2- burn again same guy, 2-0
Round 3- RG tron same guy g1 hive mind combo, g2 he had too many wurmcoils out he won quick, G3 prime time t2 then hive mind t3 with summoner pact.
I won 1st it was only an 11 man tourney but was fun.
Lol you guys do top 8 for 11 man tournaments?
Yup :) lol which is good for me because I enjoy the extra games anyways. I only draw out when the other player wants to.
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 07, 2015, 12:30:46 PM
Quote from: Kaalia with haste on June 06, 2015, 04:30:25 PM
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 06, 2015, 02:58:28 AM
Tonight's fnm went swell for me
Round 1- He was a young kid playing slivers I took it 2-0 not much to say here, I coached him and helped him understand the game a bit better. 2-0
Round 2- first game I won with hive mind combo t4, second he burned me when I refused to mull down to get leyline, 3rd game I mulled to leyline and won. 2-1
Round 3- RG tron, pretty simple matchup for me game 1 hive mind combo, game 2 didn't mull and couldn't pull a land that wasn't a bounce land so I lost, game 3 t2 Titan that's that pretty much. 2-1
Round 4- drew in.
Top 8
Round 1- He was running mono blue mill, beat him easily first game, lost second for refusing to mull to leyline of sanctity, game 3 dropped leyline and he scooped
Round 2- burn again same guy, 2-0
Round 3- RG tron same guy g1 hive mind combo, g2 he had too many wurmcoils out he won quick, G3 prime time t2 then hive mind t3 with summoner pact.
I won 1st it was only an 11 man tourney but was fun.
Lol you guys do top 8 for 11 man tournaments?
Yup :) lol which is good for me because I enjoy the extra games anyways. I only draw out when the other player wants to.
I feel so bad for the other 3 people xD
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Quote from: Codester1991 on June 07, 2015, 12:30:46 PM
Quote from: Kaalia with haste on June 06, 2015, 04:30:25 PM
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 06, 2015, 02:58:28 AM
Tonight's fnm went swell for me
Round 1- He was a young kid playing slivers I took it 2-0 not much to say here, I coached him and helped him understand the game a bit better. 2-0
Round 2- first game I won with hive mind combo t4, second he burned me when I refused to mull down to get leyline, 3rd game I mulled to leyline and won. 2-1
Round 3- RG tron, pretty simple matchup for me game 1 hive mind combo, game 2 didn't mull and couldn't pull a land that wasn't a bounce land so I lost, game 3 t2 Titan that's that pretty much. 2-1
Round 4- drew in.
Top 8
Round 1- He was running mono blue mill, beat him easily first game, lost second for refusing to mull to leyline of sanctity, game 3 dropped leyline and he scooped
Round 2- burn again same guy, 2-0
Round 3- RG tron same guy g1 hive mind combo, g2 he had too many wurmcoils out he won quick, G3 prime time t2 then hive mind t3 with summoner pact.
I won 1st it was only an 11 man tourney but was fun.
Lol you guys do top 8 for 11 man tournaments?
Yup :) lol which is good for me because I enjoy the extra games anyways. I only draw out when the other player wants to.
I feel so bad for the other 3 people xD
Honestly it stinks sometimes because they're usually the 10year olds that are just playing for fun who don't make it
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Quote from: Kaalia with haste on June 08, 2015, 01:12:52 AM
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 07, 2015, 12:30:46 PM
Quote from: Kaalia with haste on June 06, 2015, 04:30:25 PM
Quote from: Codester1991 on June 06, 2015, 02:58:28 AM
Tonight's fnm went swell for me
Round 1- He was a young kid playing slivers I took it 2-0 not much to say here, I coached him and helped him understand the game a bit better. 2-0
Round 2- first game I won with hive mind combo t4, second he burned me when I refused to mull down to get leyline, 3rd game I mulled to leyline and won. 2-1
Round 3- RG tron, pretty simple matchup for me game 1 hive mind combo, game 2 didn't mull and couldn't pull a land that wasn't a bounce land so I lost, game 3 t2 Titan that's that pretty much. 2-1
Round 4- drew in.
Top 8
Round 1- He was running mono blue mill, beat him easily first game, lost second for refusing to mull to leyline of sanctity, game 3 dropped leyline and he scooped
Round 2- burn again same guy, 2-0
Round 3- RG tron same guy g1 hive mind combo, g2 he had too many wurmcoils out he won quick, G3 prime time t2 then hive mind t3 with summoner pact.
I won 1st it was only an 11 man tourney but was fun.
Lol you guys do top 8 for 11 man tournaments?
Yup :) lol which is good for me because I enjoy the extra games anyways. I only draw out when the other player wants to.
I feel so bad for the other 3 people xD
Honestly it stinks sometimes because they're usually the 10year olds that are just playing for fun who don't make it
You should see if the TO is up for 'random' prizes when they're distributed and just give one of them a pack or something.
Haven't thought of that, I may end up asking him about that this Friday if the same thing happens
Mini tournament report, only 3 rounds this week with like, 6 guys. I was on BW tokens.
Round one: played against U tron. The guy didn't have a clue what he was doing. At one point he discarded 2 expedition maps to thirst for knowledge. Easy win.
round two: Mardu tokens: this deck is like my deck except with young pyromancer and monastery mentor. I personally prefer my deck in the matchup because of {intangible virtue}, this card just made all of his attacks so awkward both games I had an easy 2-0.
Round three: amulet bloom. Really good pilot, this guy usually is on storm and sometimes twin. Wrecked me on turn 3 with the double amulet double Titan draw.. Yikes... Game 2 I deemed the play to be deathmark his Azusa. He untaps and drops Titan. 0-2.
Went 2-1 in the tournament, not bad. Nothing good from prize packs though.
Went 3-1 at modern.
Game one was against affinity which is a scary matchup for me. The guy was a very good pilot of the deck and took me out t5 both games
0-2
Round 2 was against Amulet Bloom
He t3 titaned and I forced it to die with pox then ended his board state with boom. Game two his Azusa got bolted and I t-seized his Titan.
2-0
Round three was boggles. Smallpox wrecks these guys. Really easy win
2-0
Round three was mill. Got a t2 Tasigur then a t4 Tasigur after he pathed the first one. He got wrecked. Game 2 I killed 3 crabs with a young peezy on board. Then I blew up all our lands. With him unable to do anything I beat him down with tokens
Just went 2-2 in a modern tourney, not my best work but I'll give a run down anyways. I was playing BW tokens.
Round 1: UW Control
This guy seems as though he played standard in RTR THS or RTR INN and was playing UW control from that era except with colonnades.
The thing to note here is that his deck ran multiple Jace architect of thoughts, detention spheres, and supreme verdicts. These cards are pretty solid against tokens as it turns out.
Game 1:
I stumbled a bit early but got some damage in and had him down to 6 or so and he end steps a rev for 6. He untaps with a wrath and an aetherling with 2 mana open. I didn't have 3 removal spells in my hand so I just scooped to the aetherling.
Game 2:
I went intangible virtue into spectral procession and he just didn't have a verdict. Gg dude, Gg
Game 3: he had a pretty solid opener with a few lands and some detention spheres, a rev and verdict. I did manage to draw an intangible virtue but when i dropped my spirits he was ready with a detention sphere. And anther for the next batch. And another. That was mildly annoying, but hey what can you do. He ended up revving for 8 on my end step and I just conceded to that.
1-2 0-1
Round 2: BW tokens.
I've only played the mirror once before, so I didn't have a whole lot of practice on my side.
Game 1: he thoughtseizes me and starts cracking up, tells me this game is about to be dumb. I Thoughtseize him and see why. If you've never played the tokens mirror, it is either really one sided or board stalls all day long. This game was over pretty quick because he drew 3 anthems and no token generators.
Game 2: this one took a solid twenty minutes. We both had like 8 tokens with anthems out so we wouldn't get blown out by zealous persecution. He had bitterblossom, which is entirely absent in my 75 because I don't like it that much, also I can't afford them lol. He ended up grinning me out, granted he was at like 3 life, so my plan was to stall until bitterblossom killed him, I did manage to draw timely reinforcements but he drew intangible virtue and hit me exactly dead.
Game 3: he was pretty low on lands and I ended up getting blown out my zealous persecution but lingering souls off the top saved my ass and I stalled until bitterblossom killed him. Gg
2-1 1-1
Round 3: jund
Game 1: he kept a hand of 2 bolts, olivia, and lands. I killed olivia and he realized bolt is one of the worst cards in his deck pretty quickly. I had a virtue and he just didn't have the abrupt decay. For it and I just kept killing his stuff and doing damage in increments of 4-6 until he was dead.
Game 2: I had virtue into procession and I kinda checked out.. Woops. Turns out jund can come back from that, especially if the tokens pilot is being retarded. He landed tasigur and tarmo and managed to beat me down with those two and a raging ravine
Game 3: I went virtue into procession into sorin and actually focused on the game state this time and jund just couldn't beat that. Gg
2-1 2-1
Round 4: Grixis delver.
Warning: this match was retarded.
Game 1 he went delver blind flip attack for 3, delver, serum visions so it flips next turn and wreck you really fast. Gg I guess?
Game 2 he mulliganed to 5 and I wrecked him.
Game 3 he went delver, pyro, angler and I was overwhelmed by elementals and a zombie fish.
1-2 2-2.
Overall not bad, my first time at the shop and everyone was really nice. I'll be going back there when I can and hopefully I'll have a better record. I'll post these the day after I go whenever I do.
Yet another report, I'm not sure if anyone reads these things, but I like writing them lol. Also, I went 2-2 again.. Starting to get frustrated will be attending a few events next week and I intend on breaking out of my slump. I'm playing tokens again
Match 1: Affinity
Game 1:
I'm on the play and thoughtseize him. He kept a hand of lands (none were inkmoth) ornithopter vault skirge springleaf drum. I took the skirge and passed. I did that intangible virtue into spectral procession thing and just attacked. Really simple game.
Game 2:
I mulligan to 5 and get WRECKED by etched champion with a plating on him
Game 3: Another mulligan, but only to 6. I have turn one thoughtseize and turn 2 stony silence. His hand was triple darksteel citadel for lands. It was pretty funny. We both top decked for a while but I eventually drew lingering souls. Played and flashbacked right into a whipflare. Not a big deal as my draw step was another souls. I raced his etched champion with an honor of the pure, and towards the end, sorin.
2-1 1-0
Match 2: Grixis delver
Game 1: He kept a hand of lands, terminate, tasigur, thought scour, mana leak. Luckily in my opener I had a celestial purge for tas so I grabbed his mana leak. I drew some more removal and he drew some more threats, I ended up winning this by two for one-ing and three for one-ing a bunch by putting some pressure on with my spirit tokens. Ended up getting there.
Game 2: He had electrolyze and staticaster in his opener, but I had disruption for both of them. His tasigur got killed, and so did his delver. Just played tokens and attacked. Landed a sorin and was able to sit comfortably at around 30 life while killing him.
2-0 2-0
Match 3: CoCo Elves
Game 1: I put some pressure on early but he had main deck essence warden, which was really annoying. I was representing lethal and he does this: End step, CoCo, get eternal witness and Ezuri, CoCo again, get double elvish archdruid, you're dead. That was frustrating
Game 2: I've never known fear until today, he had 3 nettle sentinels and a heritage druid. He ended up killing pretty quickly with a chord for ezuri and a bunch of activations to kill me
0-2 2-1
Match 3: Grishoalbrand
Game 1: I kept a hand with double sculler, and was pretty sure I could just disrupt him enough and clock him with my grizzly bears. I made a tragic misplay, he scryed to the top with temple of malice, I should have taken worldspine wurm with my thoughtseize to force him to shuffle. He dropped a Wurm off TTB and I was at 1. The 3 wurms came on his end step and I didn't have 3 removal spells.
Game 2: I was dead on turn 2. I mulled to 6 to find some kind of disruption but didn't want to go to 5 to look for it. I had a path and figure I would be fine. Nope.
Final thoughts:
Overall, I'm not super upset at any misplays, but am pretty bummed that I didn't do so well. I think I'll be adding ghostly prison to my sideboard, and maybe some kind of generic green hate to start dealing with company decks. I might replace the relic in my sideboard with a leyline of the void. That's probably all I want to change.
24 man because of the Path promo.
5 rounds plus top 8, top 4 get the promo. Im playing Zoo.
Round 1: Abzan standard deck because standard didn't make.
Game 1: 6/6 Knights get there.
Game 2: I keep a greedy one lander, don't draw a second land.
Game 3: 5/5 Knight plus 4 exalted triggers plus Kessig.
Round 2: Grixis Control/Tempo (Twin? Never saw it, but he did run Pestermites)
Game 1: Loxodon and a bunch of exalted triggers.
Game 2: He kept a bad hand, and a T4 CoCo into Magus of the Moon had him scoop.
Round 3: Junk Good Stuff
Game 1: I mull to 5 - 4 lands and a {Loxodon Smiter}. He T1 Inquisitions me. I giggle because T0 Loxodon is good.
Game 2: He just draws better cards than me.
Game 3: Late game he had Linvala and 2 Souls tokens, swings, drops me to 5. He flashes back Souls, casts a second souls so he has 4 tokens and 8 life. End of turn I CoCo, put 2 5/5 Knights out, swing with both Knights, a Qasali, and a Noble with a Kessig for 5 waiting to bless someone.
Rounds 4 and 5 I ID into top 8 for a record of 3-0-2 for Swiss.
Top 8: Living End
Game 1: He keeps a hand with Living End and through the next 5 turns draws the other two in his deck. Scoops at 4 life with me having a good board.
Game 2: Nut hand for him. I don't have a chance.
Game 3: Back and forth with me drawing sideboard cards and him playing around them.
Eventually he has to cascade when I'm threatening lethal on the board and he gets almost nothing back from the grave.
I do an end of turn CoCo and get 2 Knights. He has to cascade again, forgetting that it brings back my previous board. Loxodon Smiter swinging for 8 gets there.
Top 4: Infect.
Game 1: I bolt his Heirarch turn 1. He plays an Inkmoth. I play a land and pass. He animates Inkmoth. I Lightning Helix Inkmoth.
He {Mutagenic Growth}s 3 times, then {Become Immense}. Swings 13 infect. I cry a little.
Game 2: I have the removal when I need it, end the game with 7 infect (from one swing) and get there with a Noble Heirarch getting 2 exalted triggers.
Game 3: {Blighted Agent} is really good against creature heavy decks. I lose, but I get him down to 8 first.
Lots of fun, but jeebbus it was a long and stressful night. Got my promo so I'm happy. Also, first time playing Zoo competitively almost a year ago.
got another tournament report: Finally went something other than 2-2, went 3-1. I'm playing BW tokens.
Round 1: Mono-black devotion
Game 1:
I kept a slow hand and got mega-punished. Turn 1 Gravecrawler, Turn 2 bloodghast, turn 3 another bloodghast, turn 4 phyrexian obliterator, turn 5 gary.
I don't think I would've won anyways but I got it in my head that murderous cut doesn't need delve for some reason.. Couldn't cut the obliterator in response to Gary, WOOPS!
Game 2: He kept a super slow hand (It was 7 cards), the only spell he cast was thoughtseize. I just cast some spells and attacked until he was dead.
Game 3: We both mulliganed and He had a pretty fast start with gravecrawler into bloodghast into bloodghast, but I slowed him down with ghostly prison and eventually got there through anthems and tokens.
2-1 1-0
Round 2: Grixis twin
Game 1: We both kept 7 and both had some good starts, he had serum visions, I was casting intangible virtue, etc. We traded resources for a bit, I kept a hand with no token-makers, just some reactive stuff and an intangible virtue, he was on the deceiver beat down plan for a while and had me down to 7 eventually. I top decked a hero of bladehold and played it and passed. To my surprise, it stuck around. He hit me with both deceivers and I said no blocks, down to 5. I was able to untap and hit him for 7. I cast a spectral procession to make sure he couldn't poke me and bolt me, and he showed me the bolt when he conceded the game.
Game 2: Completely my fault that I lost this game. He had 2 deceivers on board as well as a batterskull. I knew he had twin and cryptic command in hand but I tapped out because I only counted 6 mana. He had a god damn dreadship reef. Completely my fault again.
Game 3: I resolved a ghostly prison on 3 and a virtue on two. I was feeling pretty good about my chances but I got grinded out by an anger killing my spectral procession spirits, a batterskull and a tasigur. Dang
1-2 1-1
Round 3: Grixis twin:
Game one: I thoughtseize him and see he kept 2 UR lands, 2 kolaghan's command, bolt, terminate, something I don't remember. He didn't live to see the third land, I ended up getting the game through approx. one million spirit tokens.
Game two: This one was CLOSE! I was pretty nervous the whole way through, I landed a ghostly prison on 3 which I thought would help tie up his creeping tar pit but he ended up hitting his lands and was able to push some damage through. I took a bunch of damage off of lands and thoughtseizes early so he got me to 5, and I had him at 5 via Burrenton forge-tender beat downs getting real (I brought it in preemptively for anger of the gods if you're wondering). I cast a souls and made it so if he attacked I'd go to two but he'd only have one mana up. He drew something that didn't help him and conceded. For those of you doing the math, there was an honor of the pure that made him dead. He also didn't NEED to concede because he could block the forgetender with tar pit and hope he draws electrolyze which draws him bolt. But he didn't do that so I ended up getting it in two.
2-0 2-1
Round 4: Jund!
YES!!!! I love playing against jund, this is only my second time playing against Jund in a sanctioned match (Dimiroverlord1300 plays it all the time though) but neither of these guys could do ANYTHING when I played them.
Game one: He kept a hand of terminate, bolt, bolt, goyf, lands. Ha. Hahaha. I'm playing one of the only decks outside of tron where this hand is awful. I snagged his goyf with an inquisition. We did trade resources for a while because he drew a couple discard spells which definitely slowed me down but I ended it with a hero of bladehold and a bunch of spirits.
Game 2: Man I got grinded OUT. He had 5+ discard spells and had a turn two goyf on the play. He also drew another goyf. I became dead.
Game 3: He had an olivia and goyf in opener. I took the goyf, and I thought he wouldn't just run the Olivia out there because it's pretty obvious I have celestial purge or something that doesn't kill Goyf. But he did run it out on four and I had an end step celestial purge. I had an honor of the pure on board and no tokens. We both just made each other discard for a while and I killed his stuff. I drew a hero of bladehold and it ended up sticking. Hero + Honor of the pure + Top decked intangible virtue was exactly lethal because he took some damage off random spirits that ate terminates (Probably should've saved those lol) and his lands/thoughtseizes
2-1 3-1
Overall went 3-1 which is pretty cool because I got 8th (25 man tournament) and was able to get $10 store credit so I have free entry next week which is pretty sweet. I'm gonna try and go 3-1 or better as much as possible so eventually I'll be able to most of the time go for free which would be sweet. If I stockpile enough I'll probably pick up some Serra ascendants to finish my soul sisters deck. Thanks for reading this if you did =)
I'm really enjoying these reports.
Agree. More people should do them.
Tournament report: Went 2-2 again. Playing tokens.
Round 1: Burn
Burn is probably one of my worst MUs next to GR tron but I was able to pull it through this game somehow.
Game 1: He had triple Eidolon hand, I killed the first one but just sort of ignored the second and third one because when they came down I landed a Sorin, solemn visitor with 3 spirits out. Burn has a tough time keeping up with that.
Game 2: I had timely reinforcements turn 3 and sorin turn four. There isn't a whole lot else to say about this game lol.
2-0 1-0
Round 2: BW casual deck
This guy was pretty chill and was playing a pretty cool casual deck where every card was both black and white so he could trigger this two mana 2/1 that turns into a 4/4 flying when you cast a BW spell. I actually lost to him game on, slightly due to mana flood but not a big deal. I'd add how the games went but I forgot almost every card's name so that'd be kind of difficult
2-1 2-0
Round 3: Hate bears
Not gonna write about this one because I got my ass handed to me on camera so you can see it here, starting around 1:53 or so, http://www.twitch.tv/wubrgxyz/v/7101294
0-2 2-1
Round 4: Burn
Game one: This is almost unwinnable but it did come pretty close with him at 5 and me at 0 when the game ended while I presented lethal.
Game two: He had me down to two life but Sorin, solemn visitor helped me stabilize and I was able to over power him.
Game three: This one was super close, I had a disfigure for his swiftspear and we basically just traded resources for a while until we were both pretty low thanks to Eidolon. I had lethal on board but got wrecked by grim lavamancer.
1-2 2-2
Overall not terrible but I would've liked to have gone 3-1.
Does that link work for anyone else? The video doesn't play for me
So i played jund last night and it was a good time making some mistakes on the first time around with that deck. I still did well and made top 8 in a group around 20+.
Match 1 I won the first game but lost pretty much to mana screw by only getting 2 lands on the board each game. 1-2
Match 2-5 I won all of those with 2-0 records.
Top 8 round I played the same guy as match 1 and went 1-2 again. This time I made a bad play in game 3. He was running twin and had keranos on the board. Playing against keranos clock is a real thing! I had tasigur and kitchen finks on the board and he just had snapcaster. Like a bone head I tap 3 of my 4 mana to cast lily and force the edict so i can punch 7 damage through and race the keranos clock. He takes damage and will be dead next turn. End of my turn he casts exarch and taps out my 4th land. Of course he has twin on his turn for the win. I had abrupt decay in my hand if i only i did not cast lily :(
Had i not been facing that keranos, i woukd never have tapped that much mana while holding abrupt decay vs twin. Funny how other cards make you play different. Good learning experience for sure
Well had a fun FNM ran amulet bloom because I feel as though summer bloom is gonna be banned Monday and I wanted to play it one last time :( overall there were 22 players in the round up.
Round 1 went 2-0
Pretty straightforward was playing a home brew green white warrior deck thing. Not sure what was going on. Lol
Game 1 beat him t3 titan
Game 2 hive mind combo t3
Round 2 1-2
Jund. God I hate jund. Lol was a tough game that I fell short unfortunately.
Game 1 got tore apart by hand disruption.
Game 2 he surgically extracted my Summoners pacts. Top decked a sigarda host of herons and took it for the win.
Game 3 Leyline opening hand, he maelstrom pulsed it then picked me apart.
Round 3 2-1
Merfolk. This was my deck I was letting a buddy run.
Game 1 I won pretty easily with a titan t3.
Game 2 drug out he attempted to spreading seas a land and I just blew it up with a ghost cavern. Had 4 plant tokens out but unfortunately he had a torpor orb and I wasn't able to get land as efficiently and he took the win.
Game 3 t3 titan with two amulets. 10/6 with doublestrike and trample and he had no creatures yet due to a well timed slaughter pact.
Round 4 2-0
Soul Sisters. Also another one of my decks I was letting a buddy use. He had gone undefeated up to this point unfortunately for this deck its pretty much hive minds best match up.
Game 1 hive mind combo t5 or 6. Good thing about soul sisters is it gives you time to set up.
Game 2 t3 Titan swinging double strike with two amulets down 20 damage with trample. He blocked and was at 1 life. Then he gained 7 and was at 8. Went for a double strike for 16 and he attempted a path to exile that I negated with pact of negation and took the win.
Round 5 drew out.
Top 8
Jund 2-1
Game 1 lost pretty straightforward due to disruption.
Game 2 was a mistake on his behalf. He had a ghost quarters and I was greedy and stopped a terminate with pact of negation when I already had used a Summoners pact. He scooped not realizing he could've blew up my simic growth chamber and won.
Game 3 t4 sigarda host of Herons. This game was scary he had a ghost quarter, picked apart my hand until I had land and 1 top deck summer bloom. So bloomed into Sigarda and she won the game single handedly.
Top 4 of top 8 basically drew out so we could start the pre-release of origins. I felt horrible for my buddy with jund who misplayed so I gave him my promo Path to Exile since I already traded for my playset of the new promos ;) lol
Tournament report, yet again. Went 3-0-1 splitting 2nd place, got $45 store credit.
Match 1: Eldrazi random jank?
This looks a lot like the NPH - INN standard wolf run ramp deck; here are some cards I saw that are shared between that deck and his deck:
{Primeval titan}
{Kessig wolf run}
{Inkmoth nexus}
{Rootbound crag}
Other stuff I saw:
Defender that taps for G for each defender you control
{Joraga treespeaker}
{Sakura-tribe elder}
{Summoning trap}
{Emrakul, the aeons torn}
{Artisan of kozilek}
{Everflowing chalice}
{Quicksilver amulet}
Game 1:
I kept 1 land, three disruption spells and prayed to god I wasn't playing against burn. Luckily, my dumb decision was somewhat rewarded, by him not being on burn. I was able to take all his action and strand an emrakul in his hand. I ended up hitting lands 2 3 and 4 consecutively turns 4-6 and managed to land {Spectral procession}, {Intangible virtue}, {Honor of the pure} and just beat down. He ended the game with 14 mana and emrakul in hand.
Game 2:
I mulled to 5 off no lands, had no disruption or anything and lost to a turn 4 emrakul, in all honesty it was really funny.
Game 3:
I kept, lands, disruption and removal and once again stranded an eldrazi (This time it was ulamog) in his hand and clocked him with some tokens.
2-1 1-0
Match 2: Abzan
Game 1: We both mulliganed, there were a couple of turns of board stall where he didn't want to hit me with his 2 restoration angels and I didn't want to hit him with my spirits. The stall ended with my 3/3 spirits swinging in, his resto eating a path and him getting wrecked by a zealous persecution to kill the other angel (It blocked a spirit). I just attacked and raced his stuff.
Game 2: He had lingering souls and township with one mana short of activating, i drew a timely ghost quarter and zealous persecution the turn after to deal with the spirits. I was able to land my own spirits, deal with kitchen finks and other ground threats. He managed to get through a little bit and start clocking me. I then proceeded to draw Sorin, solemn visitor. Note to anyone playing tokens not playing this guy: This card is bonkers. Every race is now in your favor, and the burn matchup doesn't suck entirely.
2-0 2-0
Match 3: Affinity: This is a pretty solid MU and the guy was really friendly.
Game 1: I was SO sure I was dead. He was able to drop me to one but I drew a timely spectral procession which traded with his 3/3 vault skirge (Ravager counters). I just couldn't attack for a while, and neither could he, but he was drawing random things that wouldn't help and I was drawing anthems and more tokens. I was able to alpha strike and leave back blockers thanks to intangible virtue. I did this twice and we moved to game 2. Did I mention that all happened while I was at 1 life?
Game 2: He mulliganed and his only creature was apparently ornithopter (He did have a plating though). I had a disfigure. He draw a signal pest and I had a path. I closed the game with tokens and anthems as per usual.
2-0 3-0
Round 4: Grixis twin.
We decided to draw and each get $45 store credit. We kinda played it out but it was REALLY hot in there, so much so that the dude just conceded to spectral procession to go outside, lol.
Pretty happy overall, me and my friend are going to try and 'go infinite' so to speak and keep coming back for free on the back of store credit.
Fnm was awesome this week, got my girlfriend to play in her first fnm tourney so that was great she ran soul sisters and made top eight out of 22 players. I ran amulet bloom and made it to top four but dropped out because I had a long drive home.
Round 1 2-1
Tokens
G1 lost because I got picked apart
G2 won hive mind combo late game
G3 won with Azusa!!! Was awesome he popped off his sorin late game so I thought I aS finished yet I forgot I had her in hand so I played her and gave her +2/0 vigilance haste with slayers stronghold and took the win. He was at 1 life.
Round 2 2-0
Mono Red burn
G1 t3 hive mind with Summoners pact
G2 t3 prime time swinging 10/6 dbl strike and trample for 20.
Round 3 2-0
Jund
G1 he scooped after a t3 titan and no kill spells
G2 he played the wrong Land t2 and when I played my summer bloom he couldn't abrupt decay my amulet so he scooped.
Round 4 0-2
G1 picked apart. Had sigarda hit the board way too late for anything effective.
G2 with a horrible decision I Summoners pact into Azusa to play 2 additional lands and he had a fulminater Mage in hand and blew up one of my bounces for the win.
Round 5 1-1-1
Tron
Just drew out.
Top 8
Soul sisters.
Played my girlfriend and hive mind comboed both games and then dropped outta top 4 after I received my promo path to exile.
Now my girlfriends run with Soul Sisters in a short summary. She's only sat down and played with me a handful of times so she did exceptionally well.
Rnd 1
Gifts tron 0-2
Rnd 2
Home brew 2-0
Rnd 3
Another home brew 2-0
Rnd 4
Griselbrand Reanimater 2-1
Rnd 5
Splinter twin 2-1
Top 8
Summer bloom
0-2
I don't think I know the soul sisters deck that runs Titan T3 and {hive mind}?
Assuming you ran Titan Bloom?
Quote from: Kaylesh on July 25, 2015, 10:19:30 AM
I don't think I know the soul sisters deck that runs Titan T3 and {hive mind}?
Assuming you ran Titan Bloom?
Corrected it, my bad lol
Not FNM but a modern Monday event, played goblins and my only loss of the night was to twin turn 4. Finished 3rd out of 30 ish people
Playing in Tuesday night modern tonight. I will probably write a tournament report
Hi Everyone! For those of you who have not met me, I'm the guy who plays burn In modern. I'm in Kaalia w/ haste, dimiroverlord, intellegentelmen and obsinantbaloths playgroup. Today I played at a modern event, and I went 3-1.
Match 1 Infect 2-0
G1: pretty standard burn vs infect game, he played creatures, I bolted creatures. The game went on a while when I thought he had spell pierce in hand, but eventually I made it
G2: not much to say, burned him out.
Match 2 U/R Twin 2-1
G1: I burn him out hard the first couple of turns and by turn 4 he is at 6, and I'm hellbent. The next 3 turns were pretty much draw, pass. He kept looking for his combo with lighthouse, and I was trying to get enough instant burn to break through his counters. Eventually I got 4 burnspells and cast them all for the win.
G2: I keep hand with 2 path to exiles in it, turn 3 he plays pestermite, taps my only white source and combos out next turn. Felt like a chump.
G3: Can't remember much about this game. He ended up going for the beat down plan, and I had more damage a turn.
Match 3 Merfolk 1-2
G1: This game I went too slow, he cast 2 master of waves and I got rekt.
G2: I burned him out quickly and bolted his lords so he couldn't get any gas going.
G3: Kept a one lander with a lot of good one mana burn spells and creatures. Opponent turn 2 spreading seas me. Didn't get another land until turn 4 and by then it was too late.
Match 4 Merfolk 2-1
G1: You guys know how I'm an idiot, right? Kept a one lander with a lot of 1 mana burn spells. Opponent turn 2 spreading seas, but this one I top deck a check land turn 3. Unfortunately it entered tapped and although I got my opponent down to 4 life he beat me down.
G2: He turn one Aether vialed, I turn 2 destructive revelried, and then I burned him out as he tried to find more islands.
G3: I kept a very similar hand to G1 and Match 3 G3, but this time I was on the draw, and top decked a land on turn 1. He did turn 2 spreading seas, but I was able to destructive revelry turn 3 and he was unable to get a good board presence before I killed him.
Took first in my local FNM tonight running Kiki-Resto combo :)
R1- Abzan Jank 2-0
R2- Golgari Persist 2-0
R3- Grisel Reanimator 2-0
R4- GR Tron 1-1-1, I had this in the bag but on turn 5 on time I was only able to get him down to 1 freaking life while I was at 16 I was so upset.
R5- Zoo Burn 2-0
Top 8
R1 Boros burn 2-0
R2 Jund 2-0, this was funny. First game he t3 Lillied and kept 1 upping her until I had a resto in hand so flashed her in and he had no cards and somehow flipped the match around and won by top decking a Kiki Jiki, second game he mulled down to 3 and I Kikied again :)
Final 2- Golgari Persist thing, won 2-0 :)
Overall, great night. Got a serum visions promo and pulled Nissa, languish, abbot of keral keep, infinite obliteration, and Gaeas Revenge from my winning packs along with a Mage Ring Responder but that cards junk
Got first with Wilted Abzan last night. My only loss was to twin and he was just on the nuts both ganes he won. I also did not see SB cards so that did not help.
Was a good time since I have not had the time to play for 3 weeks.
Had to leave early, so I only got three matches in. However, they were great! I was running Esper Control.
Match 1:Naya Burn
Haha bad opener + double goblin guide both games really takes a lot out of you.
Match 2: UWR control
This game was amazing. He led off with some burn, I played {Lingering Souls} and it went from there. Eventually, I layed down a {Myth Realized}. Over the course of the game, it grew to around 23. However, he also had a {Tamiyo, Moon sage} to tap it down. I {detention sphere}'d it, but later he used {cryptic command} to bounce d-sphere and tap my horde of spirits. He also did this to myth. Soon, I replayed the myth, and bumped his counters enough to kill my opponent. Game 1 took us until we had 8 minutes left in the round. During game 2, I kept pathing his {Celestial Collonade}s until we timed out.
Match 3: Affinity
Game one, I kept a hand with 2 lands and some higher end spells, and I drew no interaction. Oops.
Game two, I kept a hand full of {Rune snag}s, {Path to exile}s, and a {Fate forgotten} that I sided in for his {Hangarback Walker}.
Game three, same deal as game two.
All in all, I had a great time!
I made top 4 last night with Mono Black Eldrazi. This deck is a real thing and I'm loving it. Game 1 was against burn and turn 3 {Oblivion Sower} both games is hard to race. Game 2 was a mirror match and it's a dozzy it pretty much boiled down to who could get {Oblivion Sower} or {Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger} first but he did have a small advantage that he already had {Thought-Knot Seer} I haven't got mine yet so he got the game. Game 3 was against Gifts he scooped the first game cause I {Inquisition of Kozilek} him and he kept a one lander with a {Serum Visions} so I took that and he didn't draw a land for the next 4 turns so he scooped. Game 2 he got it with a {Griselbrand} this deck has a tough time against flyers. Game 3 I barely got it with {Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger} he was able to get {Griselbrand} out but it couldn't save him so I got that one. Game 4 was against Mono Red Blood Moon it was a weird brew of a deck but he got it in game 3 with {Ensnaring Bridge} he had 3 of them out I could only handle two of em. But overall it was a fun night.
Played some DnT on Friday. Went 4-1 the entire night. Turns out being able to stripmine people is pretty good.
I seen two tron decks (they needed work) and the rest were homebrews that seam quickly thrown together. It was my first time competing out of the area so the guys seamed mostly focused on standard. I won the competition in Chattanooga TN with a control deck that seamed as if they weren't prepared
Forgot to mention that a guy was running an infect deck but it wasn't very fast so it couldn't really keep up. He had glistner but didn't draw it in his hand first round and also didn't mulligan