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I'd say ankh of mishra second turn is almost as much an autowin as vortex, because without a decent amount of lands monob can't do a thing against any deck, although I have to admire that there are certain situations where you can clear the board with some cheap spells and wait for naturalize to appear, but I would guess there is no significant difference in the odds against monoR with either 2nd turn ankh or 3rd turn vortex.

This matchup is even more devestating for monob when you take into account, that even with a 4'th turn 20/20 flyer (I started playing) he was able to bring me down to 1, not even using all is cards/mana in the last turn. So it was kind of only luck that i won with 4th turn Chuck Norris =(

sure. thanks for the hint

-jFk- (MBC) vs Georg (RG Beatz)

I win the die roll and have quite a slow hand with hypnotic specter and beseech the queen as cheapest spell. He starts with goblin guide (i play maze) into kird ape. I draw Damnation and feel quite comfy with it when he plays tangle wire on turn 3. next turn he plays blood thirsty 3/3 trample and when i finally manage to play the wrath with lots of removal on my hand an the possibility to stabilize my life he burns the last 6 life out of me.

I start again in the second game.. this time with fast Top, which safes me a couple of life, because he has first turn black vise which usually is quite a good shot against this deck. His tarmogoyf gets played and the turn after boosted by two burn spells aimed at my face, so i unmake it. Next turn I play Sorin Markov. He shoots some unmotivated 2 or 3-damage-spells at him and even place jackal pup, which he realizes to be not as good as he might has expected it in the first place, when I shoot it out next turn, also giving him two damage and dealing two life to me.. too.
Oona only seals it formally next turn.

Game 3 he has Llanos followed by burnspell and shock land and then giant solifuge. I start with expedition map and kill his two guys with infest on my third turn.
I have Inquisition, decree, nekrataal and ashes to ashes so nothing to worry about ... if it wouldn't be for sarkhan vol.
my next turns inquisition reveals obstinate baloth, which fortunately i cannot discard (onto his side of the table a.k.a. battlefield). He plays it anyway next turn and attacks with it after the gracious allowance of sarkhan the merciful. i get my coffers out and play nekrataal for baloth. i have exactly 6 mana at this point and no more lands on my hand. additionaly i have all is dust, so i have to deside wether to play the nekrataal or beseech the queen for another swamp. the fact that i'm down to seven already helps with the decision. next turn he has wild nacatl AND tarmogoyf - i block the latter with my nekrataal.
Now i really need land, and i even get a swamp, which gives me a total of 8 mana and the choice between decree (to handle both guys and draw 2 cards) or all is dust (to handle all his cards... he has no hand at this time). first i prefer the decree to draw more business, because i can handle sarkhan (and his maybe dragons) with all is dust in the next turn but then i realise, i have four life and i don't want to risk it that he draws a creature, which could kill me.
The turn after (he has jungle lions) i search sarkhan sorin again, which slowly and painfull (not for me btw.) wins the match.

Thanks for the great games!

-jFk- (MBC)    vs    TeKo (UBW Controll)

I win the die roll.
First game I start with Thoughtseize and then Turn 3 necropotence. He can't counter it so I draw a couple of cards but then the game crushes so we start again.

I have Ivory Tower on my starting hand and thinking about keeping it but I have Wayfarer's Bauble as well, and I want to play this on turn one so I spoil the tower and from the top comes... Necropotence.. shit happens.
On turn 3 I play Hypnotic Specter to force through Necro next turn. It resolves and he plays Jace Beleren (Which he had Turn 3 of all three games). He draws a card, I kill him with Specter and play Necro. I draw three and pass my turn. He plays jace 2.0 and bounces specter. I'm screwed on four lands but first I have to deal with Jace. Fortunately I have Demonic Tutor, which I play on Hexmage for Jace. I draw 2 (15 Life) to find land and discard graverobber and Suffer the Past. He goes with playing planeswalkers. This time it is Elspeth producing a token. I've found cabal coffers, try Oblivion Stone and go down to 12. He attacks with his pimped token (8 life) and plays venser to bounce stone. Now I have maze so i can relax a little bit and instead of just putting out the stone again I first play Mind Shatter for 3 of his 4 cards. He discards Muddle, Exalted angle and Academy Ruins. I draw 3 more cards and have only 5 life left so I don't mind about throwing away Skelettal Scrying at end of turn. Venser and pimped Token attack, but the Token doesn't (Maze) He does nothing else. Now I can play Stone again and I have Chainer's Edict as well so he cant do any more damage if he can't handle Maze. In this situation nothing is safer then drawing two more cards and dropping down to one single life point.
Since he has sacced his Token he produces another one giving Elspeth her eightth counter. And that is where I make a big mistake because of which.. nothing happened. What I did was not to activate the stone in my turn so I had to do it in his on response to Elspeth's ultimate activation.
He plays (indestructible) Eternal Dragon but I have Innocent Blood on hand and Edict in the grave. I play blood and then Hypnotic Specter. He takes back his dragon on his turn and I attack him (discarding Force of Will) and play Sorin Markov to go back to 3 life.
He has Vindicate for Sorin and Compulsive Research for his Hand (3 cards at this moment).
I attack him down to 12 and play Mind Sludge for the rest of his hand. He discards a Bribery which would have killed me very very fast.
He is hand down and doesn't even bother about getting back the dragon. Rather he draws a card, which is only a land and plays it.
I put him to 10 and play Liliana Vess. Because I have lots of nonbasics and cabal coffers, I search for Urborg.
When I attack him next turn he bounces specter and draws a card with Command. I activate Lilliana and he discards Island.
Now I have tons of mana so first of all I draw two cards going back to 1 life. Then I play Phyrexian Totem and Specter and pass the Turn with still some mana open.
He draws a card and plays main phase Intuition. An evil grin runs over my face because my Shadow of Doubt has just waited for this situation to finally win the game. The command for 13 next turn seals the deal just formally.

After an epic game like this is was really a pitty that he had to keep a five-card hand containing only one land in the second game. He was lucky enough to draw some early lands and it took me ages to get him down but he never draws enough lands and finally I can overrun him with Persecutor.
Funny situation is in the end when he tries to prevent me from destroying the persecutor:
I search Wasteland and destroy his second blue mana, he uses it to play Intuition for Force of Will, Pact of Negation (I don't get it at this moment), and mana leak which I also can afford. So it's gg after what seemed like at least 2 hours.

-jFk- (MonoB) 2:1 Fenry (WW)

Sorry but I don't have the time atm to right a report.

Krause / Jacob / Germany / 101277866

I'm not sure if I'll be able to play three matches a week. I had kind of a hard time finishing all games this season.

Maybe we could bring in a mechanism, where you can get a new matchup, when someone didn't answer your request for a match for - let's say - 3 weeks or something like that.

altogether I'm quite happy with how everything works out right now.

I pick Back to Basics and Zendikar Booster (THX for Honor as well.. that fits perfectly you know )

You were right:

1. Misdirection 2 resolves changing the target of Misdirection 1, which shortly after gets countered, because it does not have a legal target anymore (because Misdirection 2 has gone already). Ricochet Trap resolves giving Mana Leak a new target, which then becomes illegal again so Mana Leak gets countered as well and SAT resolves.

-jFk- (WW) vs. pyyhttu(hypergenesis.dec)  1:2

Pyyhttu hasn't reported the (re)match so far, so I want to do it, since today is the last day for it.
It has been some days.. so I only come up with a shorty:

First game he has fatty-drop on his 3rd or 4th turn and I can't do anything about it.

In the 2nd one he's kinda screwed so I can overrun him.

In the third he has Hypergenesis in turn 4 again, and I don't have enough pressure.

I know that seems quite bowring, but that's how this matchup works .

Thanks for all the games guys. I had fun this season (although it seemed everyone - me included - was in big stress this time) and am looking forward to the next one. See you then or maybe on the next HLGP (Team Berlin had great fun in Hanau with one Top8 (congrats Tabris) and 3 Price-placings).

-jFK- (MBC) vs seveneyes (monoUcontrol)   2:1

In game one I actually manage turn 3 Chuck Norris (aka Marit La(r)ge), but he can first block it, then take control of it so i have to kill it. I don't quite remember the game but in the end, he wins.

In the second one I win because of mind shatter for 3 gazillion cards, after playing somethings else he had to counter. In game 3 he is screwed on two lands after he had to use his Expedition Map for Maze against the then-flipped Graverobber. After Mind Sludge for his hand he scoops it up.

Thx for the games

-jFk- (WW) vs coldcrow (Staxx)  2:1

First game was very funny. I had quite a good start, but he has maze, grafted scullcap, bottled cloister, so i can never attack him again. I have elspeth and about 10 indestructable token, when he finishes me off with chandras ultimate and rolling earthquake.

In the second one he concedes after muligan to 6 and turn 2.

In the third one he has a quite impressive start with lots of acceleration, tabernacle, null brooch, but then his well runs dry and my turn 2 Sigiled Paladin goes all the way.

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-jFk- (WW) vs. pyyhtu (Rbg Goblins) 1:2 2:1

I start with savannah lions and figure of destiny, which he kills in turn 3. i can reinforce with calciderm, which brings him down to 5. He then goes even down to 2 to play living death. in response to the shriekmaw trigger i play stoneforger to swing for the gg next turn.

in g2 i have no onedrop but kami of ancient law for his bitterblosom, while his tattermunge beats and beats me. I do some bad trades to stay in the game, but then he has phyrexian arena and I see my end coming.
Lucky enough i have elspeth and even grafted wargear from the top and so can still try to get him down while he's preparing for his final attack with goblin recruiter. I could kill him in two turns, so just have to survive one attack. But I'm to greedy and activate elspeth for +3/+3 instead of making a soldier to survive and kill the turn after.

my third hand contains 2 lands, student of warfare, sword of light and shadow and two removal spells. I have stoneforge mystic from the top for Sword of fire and ice and that's just too much for him to handle.

-jFk- (WW) vs TeKo(GW-Elves)    2-1

First game I was quite lucky, when i saw Stoneforge + Sword of fire and ice on my hand. I had only two lands though and until I could install a flyer and my equipment force, his archdruid was 3/3 already through an elvish champion. In the turn after he plays his 3rd lord and after that overrun... gg

2nd game i hold wayfarer, knight of the white orchid and two lands. hoping that should be enough mana. "unfortunately" he muligans down to 6 and then is screwed on two lands as well. he has twinblade slasher+rancor. i have wayfarer + soltari monk. in the 3rd turn i don't attack with wayfarer, hoping he plays another land, but he just pumps slasher, which puts me back in the damage race. after that i draw another land and oblivion ring his slasher. he casts a vanquisher. I get a 4th land luckily and attack for 6 with elspeth-support. he kills elspeth next turn. but i can beat him down to 5 to kill him next turn with my reinforces.

in the third game i can keep a very fast hand with chrome mox 2/2 flyer, bonesplitter, lantern kami. he has llanowar elves, i play skyhunter, he plays wolf-skull shaman, i play bonesplitter and .. with a grin .. turn skyhunter to the right, seeing teko dead in few turns... he however doesn't and sends my guy to the exile, which have shatters my offensive. i can only play lantern kami and equip it. next turn he has rancor again and an attack for 4. I attack him having stonecloaker and mana tithe open, which counters his morph-elf next turn. i also play stonecloaker to tilt the damage race to my favor. i even have drawn a knight of meadowgrain which brings big problems for him. Actually he can't do more then search for wellwisher to survive some more rounds but then i draw spectral procession and its all over.

thx for the games

Sorry. I haven't reported some games I already played last week. Very stressful time rightnow. Also don't have time to go through the game logs so I just report the results:

-jFk- vs Vazdru 2:1
-jFk- vs Mythrandir 2:0
-jFk- vs derStefan82 2:0