Let's get ready to rumble :)...Season III is starting right now.
Georg B (5c Stuffy Control, my build from the GP) vs. MErcator (WWu)
1:2
First game I won in the lategame with Solemn Simulacrum and Loxodon Hierarch.
Secon game I had a good start, but he had a Back to Basics.
Third game I made a fault with my fetchland. I Had a Stuffy Doll without sickness and a Tainted Pact, but no white mana. -_-.
5c control (Mythrandir) vs GUw Survival (Payron)
0:2
1st game: was good start from my side with early Survival ... followed from Back to Basics ... gg to much card adventage
2nd game: was mulligan from my side to 6 after spoil was also only 1 land :/ ... still I had early Survival again ... got me out some cards and was then destroyed .. pretty long game with not alot hand cards on both sides ... strong Fact on the side of Mythrandir with Gifts, land, Hierach, Regrowth, Call of the Herd ... I could handel the regrowth with Misdirection ... and gofy pretty much won me the game ... because of Genesis I had better coming out again and Masticore + squee + gofy just won the game
gg
pyyhttu (reveillark-combo) vs. grizzledmage (ub-control): 2-0.
1st game: I won the roll and decided to go first. I failed to combo in the mid game as all my threats were countered or stolen. I managed to get Survival of the Fittest into play so was able to lay down combo threats on a steady pace. I had to go for the plan B (beatdown) though as couldn't get through. I brought Deranged Hermit into play and couple of turns later copied it with Body Double.
2nd game: Oliver had some real life time constraints but we decided to play anyway (tried to go for a fast combo). grizzledmage went first and countered some of my early creatures (Sakura-Tribe Elder) with Remove Soul, but a turn later I cast again SoF and started to fetch combo pieces but grizzledmage had to go and conceded :( GGs anyway.
My "two cents" on the match with Tuomas...
He played Game 1 very carefully and precisely, and the victory was well earned. It's too bad that I was compelled to concede the second game due to time (and we all know that it's a big mistake to try to win a game quickly with a control deck), but I was hoping that I might be able to get some critical spells going (like, perhaps, Debtor's Knell, helped by some of the artifact-based mana acceleration; especially as Pyyhttu's deck utilizes the graveyard as a repository for creatures) quickly. Alas, not so.
Nice deck, and great playing - well done, Pyyhttu!
MErcator (Rb Gobo) vs. Daze (Elves)
2 : 0
the old battle between good and evil, homo vs. hetero, green vs. red... ;)
first game Daze was screwed because i hab burn for elves od deep shadow an fyndhorn elves
i had time to harbinger a sharpshooter and that was almost game
2nd i kept land, lava dart and sharpshooter an spoiled for 4
i got some other stuff (i think fire/ice...) and so no elve stayed for long, while my me steadily dealt damage
it was totally under controll, until tried to force the last 11 dmg with attack, sharpshootering, flashback lava dart and fodder launch
but i had burned the way free for my men an played fooder lauch on one of my guys thinking to deal the 5 dmg =( this way he stayed at 4 life and i had pyrite spellbomb in my hand
so i had to chump one round (he had sword of light and shadow) and the could kill with sharpshooter and spellbomb...
nice games...
Mythrandir (5C-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
1-2
1st one: He has been on the play. I wasted his first land trying to get him away of lands and played Mox Diamond. He played Explosives for 0 to get rid of my mox but i Interdicted the effect + cantrip. My first creature has been Aven Mindcensor EOT of turn 3. Afterwards Flying Men entered the board and i've had enough Counterbackup (Mana Drain, Mana Leak). He tried Gifts Ungiven Mindcensor still in play - he's got Land and Col. Restraint which got Mana Drained. Riftwing Cloudskate was the next critter on my side bouncing a land. Mythrandir couldn't handle my critters and when Augury Adept wanted to attack me i've played Pestermite for the win.
2nd game crashed quite early, but Mythrandir had definately the better start. The new second game has been quite long. This time my first critter was Looter il-Kor which his Wall of Blossoms couldn't deal with. Next turn Land Tax + morphed Exalted Angel took him down to 13. All he can do was to sweep the board with Wrath of God. Azorius Herald + Empyrial Plate were my next playes, the Plate has been removed by Dissipate. His Eladaris Call brought him Exalted which was transmuted to a 1/1 Changeling by Crib Swap eot. My Vendillion Clique forced an Evasive Action. Meanwhile i've run out of Land (Land Tax :P) but also out of fuel so the long game went to Mythrandir in the end.
3rd game I've had 2 Plains, Dual, Soltari Priest, Enlightened Tutor! on the play. But he avoided the quick death by removing Back to Basics round two by Hide//Seek. He was mana screwed and i've put much pressure on the board with critters+ Emp. Plate. Again he had Explosives but already on 10 LP. I played Lantern Kami and Soltari Champion entering the red zone next turn bringing him down to 6 LP. He filled his hand via Oracle + played Necromany for my Soltari Priest to have a blocker for Soltari Champion. I played Gilded Drake and bring him down to 2 LP due Bone Splitter. Then he played Moat to keep him alive. I topdecked Black Vise and he played Dromar's Charm for 5 LP next upkeep + Enlightened for Pernicious Deed - nice play. But not strong enough - after Damnation, Deed, Hierarch to bring him back to 5 LP i played Vendillion Clique eot faced Counter, Demon Fire (me on 8 LP). I took the Counterspell, played Sword of Light and Shadow in my turn and attacked for the win!
Thanks for the ggs!
Quote from: Vazdru on 24-06-2008, 11:15:16 PM
Mythrandir (5C-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
1-2
1st one: He has been on the play. I wasted his first land trying to get him away of lands and played Mox Diamond. He played Explosives for 0 to get rid of my mox but i Interdicted the effect + cantrip. My first creature has been Aven Mindcensor EOT of turn 3. Afterwards Flying Men entered the board and i've had enough Counterbackup (Mana Drain, Mana Leak). He tried Gifts Ungiven Mindcensor still in play - he's got Land and Col. Restraint which got Mana Drained. Riftwing Cloudskate was the next critter on my side bouncing a land. Mythrandir couldn't handle my critters and when Augury Adept wanted to attack me i've played Pestermite for the win.
2nd game crashed quite early, but Mythrandir had definately the better start. The new second game has been quite long. This time my first critter was Looter il-Kor which his Wall of Blossoms couldn't deal with. Next turn Land Tax + morphed Exalted Angel took him down to 13. All he can do was to sweep the board with Wrath of God. Azorius Herald + Empyrial Plate were my next playes, the Plate has been removed by Dissipate. His Eladaris Call brought him Exalted which was transmuted to a 1/1 Changeling by Crib Swap eot. My Vendillion Clique forced an Evasive Action. Meanwhile i've run out of Land (Land Tax :P) but also out of fuel so the long game went to Mythrandir in the end.
3rd game I've had 2 Plains, Dual, Soltari Priest, Enlightened Tutor! on the play. But he avoided the quick death by removing Back to Basics round two by Hide//Seek. He was mana screwed and i've put much pressure on the board with critters+ Emp. Plate. Again he had Explosives but already on 10 LP. I played Lantern Kami and Soltari Champion entering the red zone next turn bringing him down to 6 LP. He filled his hand via Oracle + played Necromany for my Soltari Priest to have a blocker for Soltari Champion. I played Gilded Drake and bring him down to 2 LP due Bone Splitter. Then he played Moat to keep him alive. I topdecked Black Vise and he played Dromar's Charm for 5 LP next upkeep + Enlightened for Pernicious Deed - nice play. But not strong enough - after Damnation, Deed, Hierarch to bring him back to 5 LP i played Vendillion Clique eot faced Counter, Demon Fire (me on 8 LP). I took the Counterspell, played Sword of Light and Shadow in my turn and attacked for the win!
Thanks for the ggs!
ggs, specially 2nd and 3rd. i wished i wasnt so screw on the third... the outcome might have been different. but good games overall. :)
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
1-2
1: I've had an impressive start with Mox Diamond, Fetchland, Brainstrom, afterwards fetch for Plains + play Lantern Kami, Oliver plays Land - go. I've played Bonesplitter second turn and attacked for 3. Afterwards i can't find my third land for a while but Oliver has been screwed too. So Lantern Kami hit him down to 17-14-10-7 and finally 4 LP. A Painland damaged him while he played Eyeblight Ending on Kami. My next critter has been Pestermite eot. He tried to counter it with Faerie Trickery but took it back cause it wouldn't have worked (Non-Faerie-Spell). But as i've tried to Interdict his Legacy Allure which trying to take control of my Pestermite he countered that one. I've played Man'o-War bouncing Pestermite, he took control of the fish via Persuasion. I've played Flying Men + equiped Bonesplitter, he took control via Enslave. I've played Court Hussar and got killed next turn by Profane Command + attack with the controlled critter, he has been still on 3 LP. (23 min)
2: I've kept Tithe, Enlightened, 2 Lands, Cloud of Faeries, Court Hussar. Second Turn Cloud of Faeries + Enlightened for Winter Orb, he only played Non-Basic Lands this time, so Back to Basics from the Top has been even better in Turn 4 (btw. Mythrandir loves this card too :P). Turn 6 Empyrial Plate from the Top, Turn 7 attack for 6 and Turn 8 Gush and my Cloud of Faeries attacked for the 10 final Damage. (10 min)
3: Game three has been quite intensive in deed (24 min). My Critters have been Flying Men, Spellstutter Sprite, Spiketail Hatchling - he played Teferi (quite strong guy against my UW-Aggro) + 2time Capsize with Buyback. Winter Orb was again the game winner for me but it has been quite close this time cause Teferi attacked again and again. I was on 1!! LP in the end, after i sacrificed Augur il-Vec and played Faith's Fetters! Lucky win in the end for me.
Thanks for the games!
Quote from: Vazdru on 01-07-2008, 10:25:13 PM
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
(btw. Mythrandir loves this card too :P).
lol, yeap, my favorite card .... to hide//
SEEK :P
Quote from: Vazdru on 01-07-2008, 10:25:13 PM
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
1-2
A good account of a great match... and yes that Back to Basics in the second game essentially ended the game for me... I may switch decks for the next match, as I am only 1-4 in games so far; not too impressive. Now if only I could switch brains... ;D
Quote from: grizzledmage on 01-07-2008, 11:59:14 PM
Quote from: Vazdru on 01-07-2008, 10:25:13 PM
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
1-2
A good account of a great match... and yes that Back to Basics in the second game essentially ended the game for me... I may switch decks for the next match, as I am only 1-4 in games so far; not too impressive. Now if only I could switch brains... ;D
lol, its more a matter of inteligence (in the meaning of intel, like in a war :P) you´ll start figuring out the metagame and what cards are good and what cards arent... my first deck list was way different that he current one, its normal :) also it helps knowing the other decks as well.
knowledge is power.
Pyyhttu (PainterServant/AngryHermit) vs. Michael103 (MonoG Aggro with Survival): 2-1
What can I say...? Very unexciting matches. I think Michael now agrees as well that the ban hammer on Painter and Dredge Return was justified, not that he questioned it anyway. Yes, that's right: I played the tier-1 combo of the moment, just because this is starting to be the last time it can be played. I won't be missing this deck. Why?
1st. game: Michael plays a second turn Survival and sees my second turn Grindstone. He tutors for Viridian Zealot but after some events, I still have enough mana and both the Painter and Grindstone in the game and deck him on my turn. Michael loses on his draw step. Still, he had amassed so many creatures that I would've died if he'd had a chance to attack.
2nd game: I paris mulligan straight to 6, then decide to take the "poker" mulligan and keep the hand of one land and Lotus Petal + some cheap cantrip. Turned out to be a game mistake. Ofcourse I don't draw anything and Michael's first turn's Tattermunge Maniac deals 10 damage or so, and later some other critters finish me off while I try to get my mana together.
3rd. game: Michael has some issues to put on the pressure, and I have all the time on earth to tutor for good old PainterStone-combo, which I execute with 6 mana on my turn.
4th. game. Michael wanted to change deck to UB control and wanted me to keep the deck. I had a god hand and no matter what he did (I rushed past 2 counters with Duress and Pact of Negation) this time Hermit Druid took the game by milling Terravore and Ghoul on my grave.
5th. game. Hermit Druid and Force of Will in the starting hand. Mono G doesn't have too much creature hate. GG.
I've also been playing more controllish build (more blue for counters) + Imperial Recruiter real life version of the AngryHermit and it really is nuts. Just to conclude that bannings of both Painter and Dredge Return are a nail on the head.
Georg B (Burning Skies) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control) 2:0
Quote from: Georg B on 05-07-2008, 03:43:14 PM
Georg B (Burning Skies) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control) 2:0
A short report would be nice. Any game breaking situations (Back to Basics, Price of Progress), anyone screwed or flooded, exciting or frustrating games? ;)
Quote from: Vazdru on 05-07-2008, 09:51:29 PM
Quote from: Georg B on 05-07-2008, 03:43:14 PM
Georg B (Burning Skies) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control) 2:0
A short report would be nice. Any game breaking situations (Back to Basics, Price of Progress), anyone screwed or flooded, exciting or frustrating games? ;)
well, first game he played a 1/1 with shadow and equipped it with shuko.. wich beat me down to 10 lft, i eventually got rid of it, and played hide/seek for his BTB, but he played blood moon =/ (i had only 1 plains, the rest were non-basic, so game for him.
2nd game, i played a rishadan port which kept his early game off the table, he eventually played a magus of the moon, but i had a demonfire in hand, so i got rid of it. he then played sea drak followed by standstill which in response i STP the drake which met a daze... no 1 mana free.. :( that would have been excellent for me since i had a decree of justice in hand. he then played a faerie equipped with mask of memories + crafted weargear, but i played crop rotation for a maze of ith. he played some more creatures (1/1's) and was slowly beating me down. he countered a engineered explosives (memory lapse + mana drain), i had LFTL with 2 cycles lands but this "combo" was to mana intensive.
he eventually brought me down to 4 and burned me with somre fire spells. the fact that i was always tapping out on my turn to be able to do something made the difference.
at least this one was a GG.
btw: in one of the games (dont remember which) he played PoP for 8 damage...
this league isnt turning very well for me.. lots of fast/5C hate decks... =/
Quote from: Mythrandir on 06-07-2008, 01:25:51 PM
Quote from: Vazdru on 05-07-2008, 09:51:29 PM
Quote from: Georg B on 05-07-2008, 03:43:14 PM
Georg B (Burning Skies) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control) 2:0
A short report would be nice. Any game breaking situations (Back to Basics, Price of Progress), anyone screwed or flooded, exciting or frustrating games? ;)
well, first game he played a 1/1 with shadow and equipped it with shuko.. wich beat me down to 10 lft, i eventually got rid of it, and played hide/seek for his BTB, but he played blood moon =/ (i had only 1 plains, the rest were non-basic, so game for him.
2nd game, i played a rishadan port which kept his early game off the table, he eventually played a magus of the moon, but i had a demonfire in hand, so i got rid of it. he then played sea drak followed by standstill which in response i STP the drake which met a daze... no 1 mana free.. :( that would have been excellent for me since i had a decree of justice in hand. he then played a faerie equipped with mask of memories + crafted weargear, but i played crop rotation for a maze of ith. he played some more creatures (1/1's) and was slowly beating me down. he countered a engineered explosives (memory lapse + mana drain), i had LFTL with 2 cycles lands but this "combo" was to mana intensive.
he eventually brought me down to 4 and burned me with somre fire spells. the fact that i was always tapping out on my turn to be able to do something made the difference.
at least this one was a GG.
btw: in one of the games (dont remember which) he played PoP for 8 damage...
this league isnt going very well for me.. lots of fast/5C hate decks... =/
Well, I'm sorry for missing a report, but that day I had no time.
My deck was the build I posted in this forum.
I didn't make any changes because I was to buisy in building a good block-constructed deck for the zk-liga.
I will work a bit on this deck because I think it has a future.
Pyyhttu (5C-Staxx) vs. MErcator (UW-aggro): 2-1
I chose to pilot Malina's Staxx from the GP IV with the Planeswalkers. Just because I'm in the process of revising my real life 5C-Stax. Malina's Planeswalker concept seems to fit surprisingly well into the prison concept, and wanted to test those further with some personal tricks and tweaks.
Edit: I just played against Grizzledmage 1 hour 23 minutes, 1st. game and had this tab open. Had to write a report about the last game against MErcator, but completely forgot now what happened... MErcator won the first game with some critter, I won the next 2. First one was with a soft lock (Mishra's Helix I think), second one was won with Garruk's elephants after I had cleared the board with Armageddon and Pendrell Mists. GGs.
Georg (Burning Skies) 2:1 Payron (Survival)
I will report some interessting situations, because I do not know anything anymore.
Maybe Payron can write something later, too.
In one game he played a Fact or Fiction with one Plains left.
I had a Sea Drake and he was a low life count (I think 4 or so, not enough to survive an attack).
I played a Daze by bouncing an Island. He payd for the Daze and revealed a Swords to Plowshares with it. That was funny.
In another game he had a Ravenous Baloth and a Waterfront Bouncer (with sicknes).
He was on 4 lives and I had a Vendilion Clique with an Unstable Mutation on it.
After my upkeep it was 4/2. I had only a Chrome Mox, and Island and two card in hand (Serendib Eefrit and Back to Basics witch is not good against his many Basic Lands).
I wished to draw a Land to play the Eefrit. But I didn't draw a land. I drew a Stifle. ^^ Game again!
Well, the game he won, was a solid play by him. But I remember only wins of mine? ^^
After that we played a few games more and I won a lot. Ok, there was many luck, but I think the BurningSkies.deck is a good deck. And it is verry funny.
Grizzledmage (UB Control) vs. Pyyhttu (5C-Staxx): 2-0
Quote from: pyyhttu on 07-07-2008, 06:28:41 PM
I just played against Grizzledmage 1 hour 23 minutes, 1st. game and had this tab open.
We played this game yesterday and it may be the longest one game I've ever played. I was able to Capsize an early game Liliana Vess in hopes of being able to counter it later but instead drew Take Possession which I used on the re-cast planeswalker. Alternating between her tutoring and discard abilities, I was able to bring up 2 other critical cards for this game: (1)
Confiscate (which I'd been planning on using either for his Mind's Eye OR his Mishra's Helix - a very disruptive card indeed), but then he gave me a better target in the form of Chandra Nalaar which I took. The game might have then gone more quickly except that he had Crumbling Sanctuary in play. The advantage then went to whomever could deal damage and had more cards in his library, and I started to systematically ping him with Chandra. (2) After he played Ajani Goldmane and I used a
Copy Enchantment for a Take Possession on it, he conceded with approx. 12 cards left in his library.
Played Game 2 today. It was very short, only 25 minutes! :) At first Pyyhttu dealt all damage to himself in the form of fetchlands, Boseiju Who Shelters All and the like, bringing him to 11, but then I was fortunate to draw Teferi, flashed him into play (paying the extra 3 mana thanks to his Nether Void, what an annoying cards!!), and starting swinging. He used Sylvan Scrying to seek out Maze of Ith, but luckily for me I'd previously used Demonic Tutor to get Confiscate and was finally able to cast it (only cost 9!) on his Maze. With one turn remaining to him he managed to get a Magus of the Tabernacle in play for blocking but I used a Control Magic on it before delivering the final blow.
GGs!
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies) 1:0 (game 2 + maybe 3 will follow next days/week)
1: My first seven showed my no lands at all :-\ so i took another seven. Luckily they were quite ok. 2 Islands, 1 Plains, Freewind Falcon, Soltari Champion, Swords of Fire and Ice, Fathom Seer. Unfortunately Swords got countered. Freewind Falcon didn't deal enough pressure on the board. Champion got killed by spot removal so his landbase increased well. Teferi was again the gamebreaker when he hit the board. Treachery + Dominate hit me hard as well. Back to Basics didn't have the impact on the game like last time so his mana-base worked well. Eventually i've played Empyrial Armor + Gush to increase my falcon to 8/8 while he had 8 LP...but his untapper Conclave saved his life. Next turn Profane Command for the win.
GG mate! Looking forward for next games..
Michael0103 (Mono-Green) vs Vazdru (White Clouded Skies) 1-2
15 min for all three games:
1: He has been land screwed, i've had an early Mana Drain for Fathom Seer + Grafted Wargear next round. Counter+Bounce his critters for the win.
2: He played Loxodon Warhammer for the win.
3: I've played Land Tax + Empyrial Armor for the win.
GGs - thanks
Georg B (Burning Skies) 2:1 grizzledmage (UB Control)
Game 1 he won with Teferi and other stuff.
Game 2 was really fast, but the server crashed when he was on 1 life and I had two unblockable creatures. He conceded. Thaks for that.
Game 3 was really exciting. I had no land. Only Chrome Mox. And I drew the first land in round 4 or so.
I won anyway with a cheep flyer equiped with Bonesplitter.
Later I got some lands and played some other stuff for the win.
Quote from: Georg B on 09-07-2008, 05:03:26 PM
Georg B (Burning Skies) 2:1 grizzledmage (UB Control)
Game 1 he won with Teferi and other stuff.
Game 2 was really fast, but the server crashed when he was on 1 life and I had two unblockable creatures. He conceded. Thaks for that.
Game 3 was really exciting. I had no land. Only Chrome Mox. And I drew the first land in round 4 or so.
I won anyway with a cheep flyer equiped with Bonesplitter.
Later I got some lands and played some other stuff for the win.
I'd already written the following up, when I saw this report! What the heck; here's my take on the match as well...
Still recovering from the scorch wounds Georg inflicted.
He began Game 1 with a Rift Bolt, followed quickly by nasty creatures like Inkfathom Infiltrator and Thalakos Seer, equipping them with efficient pumpers like Grafted Wargear. I was fortunate enough to have enough spot removal (Smother, Eyeblight’s Ending) to keep things from getting too rough and even more fortunate to be able to get a Turn 5 Teferi in play. The good luck continued by having a Capsize with buyback to keep him a little off balance, and then save Teferi when Georg tried to burn him out. I replayed the legend, and Georg conceded.
Then it got rough. Georg started game 2 with a Turn 1 Black Vise, which accounted for a total of 12 life points over the next few turns; very devastating! I could not recover nearly quickly enough and he beat me down to 1 LP with more of his creatures despite all my efforts to counter and/or control them. AND THEN the system crashed, with me still at 1 LP! Based on the final board position, I conceded the game as I can not think of any draw (except for, perhaps 2, but very unlikely to see either on next draw) that would have saved me.
Game 3 I thought I might have a chance, especially since Georg had very few mana sources for the first few turns, and I was able to start giving him a good run with Phyrexian and Chronatog Totems, but his equipped Serendib Efreet tilted things back again towards him, and he countered my attempt to Eyeblight’s Ending it. Even so I thought I might still be able to outrace him but he Boomeranged my Phyrexian Totem at a critical moment and I had no response: I even checked my library with Sensei’s Divining Top only to find a clump of lands. The coup de grace was Flame Rift, leaving me with very painful 3rd degree burns.
GGs!
Georg B (Burning Skies) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
2:1
1: He played Grim Lavamancer which I've got rid off with Swords to Plowshares. I've had Lantern Kami and Empyrial Plate but he managed to leave me without a blue mana (Wasteland). When I've tried to equip my critter he shocked it giving him enough speed advantage. Then he played Sea Drake and bounced my Plate a few turns later. So his game in the end.
2: I've had a quite nice hand and he was screwed on one mana. Quite fast game for me.
3: Really close game. The advantage changed from side to side. I've had Azorius Herald, Faith's Fetters for altogether 8 LP. I was flooded in the midgame while we both were in "top-deck-mous" and when he got Swords of Fire and Ice from the top with one critter on the board it was his game.
GG!
MErcator : Coldcrow
2 : 0
Quote from: MErcator on 14-07-2008, 03:32:26 PM
MErcator : Coldcrow
2 : 0
:o
Just a little bit more would be nice. Maybe one sentence per game ;). And please let me know which decks have been played - i need it for my statistics ;D
grizzledmage (UB Control) -- Payron (5c control)
0:2
We needed to pause 1 day between this 2 games because grizzledmage didn t hat enough time ... thats the reason I don t remember all of the first game ... but it took very long, in the start i guess we keept a very defensive hand because both of us just handeled each card from the other guy ... and most of the rounds we just past and played lands ... just remember that I could get crusible and wasteland out and could hold him down till i could win the game
2nd game: was pretty good hand of mine against controll had Exploration, Wasteland, Enlighning Tutor, Gifts, and 3 lands ... so he alrdy told me that the game wouldn t go that long .. I guess bad hand of him ... I played first turn Exploration a second land and tutored with enlighning tutore the Crucible and in the end won through the control of this and with gifts on Witness, Volrath's Stronghold, Venser and Karakas.
grizzledmage (Elves G/B) -- Payron (UGw Survival)
0:2
1st game: He started of with some creatures like Elves of deep Shadow, and the 3/3 guy with reavling (T2 card) and some more ... I played first round Looter il-Kor with the help of Mox Diamond and could discard a wonder and found a Call of the heard what blocked pretty well and later on if found a Tarmo ... I could look pretty deep into my libery and could find everything ... his last hope against my army was his Damnation tutored with Liliana Vess but I could counter it.
2nd game: I had a second turn survival and he didn t draw any creatures to make any pressure I layed my side full and won ... sry bad luck for him
ty for the games
Georg B VS Mythrandir Red skies VS 5c Control
1:2
game 1: he played island shuko and then he was mana screw.. i play some lands, and hide//seek which met a counter (spell snare), he then stifled my krosan verge.. but i already i then play vindicate on his island..
game 2: he got mox + land + the "shadow looter", eventually i went for deed, fire ice, explosives he gave me deed but the vendiliion clique my deed. nice play from him. i was at lft with a creature but he had fire in his hand...
game 3: screw again. i again vindicated his land... deja vu
not very good matches because of the screw part... =/
Payron VS Mythrandir "5c geddon-deck" VS 5c control
1:2
game 1: it was really frustrating for Payron.. he only drew lands + 1 mana artifact (he had almost 10 lands in play..)
game 2: i had an early beater but his hellion crater took care of it, i then muted the tolaria west for a maze of ith. after that he just killed me with hellion crater after a massive geddon.
game 3: crashed but was really interesting..
he had rising waters + 4 lands (+/-) i had loads of lands + doran + jace + augury adept (earlier i wastelanded his maze) so i was drawing 3 card a turn and delivering 7 damage/turn.. he eventually played crumbling sanctuary and although i had putrefy in hand and he was at 9lft.. u never know the outcome... both our hands were full
we then paused the game because i sacrficed krosan verge and wanted to play the shocklands untapped (i thought you could, but after checking with wizards.. u cant.. i´ve done this (illegal) play many times, and know one never told me it wasnt possible.. =/ sry for that everyone..
meanwhile ´while searching the rules the game crashed :( we decided to re-play the 3rd game
new game 3: i was kind of screw with only 2 lands in hand, but decided to go any way since i had lftl, and demonic tutor, putrefy, gifts and explosives. he played some lands and some mana (2 CMC) artifacts, i was lucky with my early draws, since i got some lands. i used the explosives to destroy his 2 mana artifacts. i was going for some damage with a 3/3 elephant token + morphed exalted + 4/4 etched oracle , but he had propaganda. he then FOF and got a devastation he got only that 1. i had mana drain, but he had, so no luck. i sacrificed the oracle and gotlucky with my "walking ancestral recall" --> land + darksteel i played darksteel and kept my land in hand..
he played devastation i nailed his coalition relic with putrefy, the board was like this: ME: darksteel HIM: phyrexian totem + propaganda. i played lands + LFTL, after a couple of turns i went for garruk, deed, wasteland and trygo predator (i had drawn a regrowth meanwhile) and he conceded.
ggs. :)
Pyyhttu (5C-Oath) vs. Mythrandir (5C-Control): 1 - 1 (Draw)
I played a slight variant of Topel's Oath, mixed with spices recommended by Klaus Jöns: http://www.planetmtg.de/articles/artikel.html?id=2246 (Thanks Vazdru for the link)
Game 1: I get recursive Life from the Loam engine around Wasteland and Lonely Sandbar. In a long game, Oathed Akroma finally clears the board.
Game 2: I was mana screwed, also screwed the first mulligan and went for 6 cards, then for 5. Kept a hand with some land but Mythrandir's Rishadan Port and Wasteland didn't allow me to recover so conceded.
Game 3: This one was really even to the point where client crashed. Had a very good board position whereas Myth revelead he had a very good hand, so can't tell how this one would have ended up. Fuck I hate this. We didn't feel like (at least I didn't) playing so decided to draw this. We talked in the ICQ afterwards and I introduced Mythrandir to alternative client called OCTGN, which has game state saves for situations like this, or if the game takes too long time to finish. One can always save the state and continue later. This can be done automatically and by the host and client as well.
I have to say that this was the first time when MWS's connection died on me, but I can say it also was the last time.
Won't play another game with that piece of shit anymore.
To remedy this, I'll mirror the octgn executable and put up a small, compact instructional site for the patches and setting the client. If you feel like playing with me, and not wasting time with crashes, I'm afraid you have to use octgn instead.
Edit: Here's the last game state if anyone is interested: http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamesc8.png
Quote from: pyyhttu on 20-07-2008, 04:39:53 PM
Pyyhttu (5C-Oath) vs. Mythrandir (5C-Control): 1 - 1 (Draw)
I played a slight variant of Topel's Oath, mixed with spices recommended by Klaus Jöns: http://www.planetmtg.de/articles/artikel.html?id=2246 (Thanks Vazdru for the link)
Game 1: I get recursive Life from the Loam engine around Wasteland and Lonely Sandbar. In a long game, Oathed Akroma finally clears the board.
Game 2: I was mana screwed, also screwed the first mulligan and went for 6 cards, then for 5. Kept a hand with some land but Mythrandir's Rishadan Port and Wasteland didn't allow me to recover so conceded.
Game 3: This one was really even to the point where client crashed. Had a very good board position whereas Myth revelead he had a very good hand, so can't tell how this one would have ended up. Fuck I hate this. We didn't feel like (at least I didn't) playing so decided to draw this. We talked in the ICQ afterwards and I introduced Mythrandir to alternative client called OCTGN, which has game state saves for situations like this, or if the game takes too long time to finish. One can always save the state and continue later. This can be done automatically and by the host and client as well.
I have to say that this was the first time when MWS's connection died on me, but I can say it also was the last time.
Won't play another game with that piece of shit anymore.
To remedy this, I'll mirror the octgn executable and put up a small, compact instructional site for the patches and setting the client. If you feel like playing with me, and not wasting time with crashes, I'm afraid you have to use octgn instead.
Edit: Here's the last game state if anyone is interested: http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamesc8.png
well, the 3rd game was really good.. additional info: i cropped for a rishadan for his maze and mortify his oath (despite the server crashed before he could see it) i had in hand a STP + wog + eternal witness) and my top 3 (thks to sensei top) were: fetchland + stronghold + furnace. so this would have been a closed match.
Grizzledmage VS MYthrandir "UB Stealer" VS 5c control
game 1: we traded off some counters, but i eventually i got a FOF, also he was a bit screw initially. eventually i got nantuko monastery and started swinging. he only had a chronatog.. so eventually i won with the manland.
game 2: i only had 2 lands in hand.. but i hate mull to 6 in MWS.. so i risk it.. bad choice.. :( he annexed my land an then copy enchantment on my other land... i only drew 1 more land.. so i conceded this one. nice going with annex
game 3: quite an exciting game. i was a bit color screw, but got a LFTL quite early with 1wasteland + fetchs in grave that took me off the "red mana zone" we again traded off some counters. i played eternal witness but he then played treachey and chronatog. i was lucky with a FOF and got a kor haven. i then played a garruk and baloth and by then i had the upper hand but 2 turns, after i flasbacking mystical teachings for pact of negation to counter his copy enchament i ran out of counters and he confiscated mu garruk, which turned the table to his side. i was lucky enough to had a maze + kor and evenutally i wiped the table with WOG, and went for pernicious deed via enlightened... got garruk back and my nantuko monastery won again.
ggs, specially 3rd. manland really won me the games, because the can "pass by" treachery and the likes
2:1 for me.
Quote from: Mythrandir on 22-07-2008, 09:30:00 PM
Grizzledmage VS MYthrandir "UB Stealer" VS 5c control
game 1: we traded off some counters, but i eventually i got a FOF, also he was a bit screw initially. eventually i got nantuko monastery and started swinging. he only had a chronatog.. so eventually i won with the manland.
game 2: i only had 2 lands in hand.. but i hate mull to 6 in MWS.. so i risk it.. bad choice.. :( he annexed my land an then copy enchantment on my other land... i only drew 1 more land.. so i conceded this one. nice going with annex
game 3: quite an exciting game. i was a bit color screw, but got a LFTL quite early with 1wasteland + fetchs in grave that took me off the "red mana zone" we again traded off some counters. i played eternal witness but he then played treachey and chronatog. i was lucky with a FOF and got a kor haven. i then played a garruk and baloth and by then i had the upper hand but 2 turns, after i flasbacking mystical teachings for pact of negation to counter his copy enchament i ran out of counters and he confiscated mu garruk, which turned the table to his side. i was lucky enough to had a maze + kor and evenutally i wiped the table with WOG, and went for pernicious deed via enlightened... got garruk back and my nantuko monastery won again.
ggs, specially 3rd. manland really won me the games, because the can "pass by" treachery and the likes
2:1 for me.
Interesting that he was able to get the Nantuko Monastery in play all three games, although in the second game it made no difference without any kind of other mana support. And Mythrandir's choice to mull to 6 in game 2 seems poor only with 20-20 hindsight, as we all know that many times when we mulligan it ends up being far worse... heck it happens to me all the time.
In Game 3 I was especially hoping for one my own manlands (Faerie Conclave, Spawning Pool; especially that last one) but alas no luck there.
Kind of depressing, as I am now 1-6 in matches and 5-12 in games, even though many of the lost games were close... or at least took a long time...
Hey - if anybody who has played me so far has any suggestions on the deck build, I am always open to suggestion (we're a friendly bunch here, right?) :P.
QuoteAnd Mythrandir's choice to mull to 6 in game 2 seems poor only with 20-20 hindsight, as we all know that many times when we mulligan it ends up being far worse... heck it happens to me all the time.
well, if it were a real match (real life match) i'd have mull for sure.. 2 lands (being 1 colorless, in a 5c deck) that´s a mull for sure, no question there.. but in MWS (having played for a long time in MWS) what would usually happened was that i mull to 6 only to have 2 lands again.. =/ this happened to me a lot, so i almost never mull (in 5c control) to 6.. i know sometimes that cost me the game, but i´ve also lost because i had to mull to 4... =/ so...
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QuoteKind of depressing, as I am now 1-6 in matches and 5-12 in games, even though many of the lost games were close... or at least took a long time...
the third game was quite good, i havent played against a "real" control (counter) deck for some time. and despite i had the upper hand, when you confiscate garruk, i most confess you had advantage, and if it werent for some lucky draws (WOG was in hand, but enlightnned tutor was not) the outcome might have been different.
QuoteHey - if anybody who has played me so far has any suggestions on the deck build, I am always open to suggestion (we're a friendly bunch here, right?) :P.
of course, we will. just put your current decklist in the deck clinic and give us some pointers (bad matchups, good matchups, what u felt missing in the deck, etc..) and we´ll try to make it better, or at least give our opinion :)
of course, we will. just put your current decklist in the deck clinic and give us some pointers (bad matchups, good matchups, what u felt missing in the deck, etc..) and we´ll try to make it better, or at least give our opinion
OK - now in a new thread under Deck Clinics.
Michael0103 (UW-Staxx-Combo) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
0:2
The funniest games I've played for a long time :P
G1: I've had a quite good start hand. 1st Turn Flying Men, 2nd Turn Curiosity (i love this start vs. Control ;D) He played Ivory Tower and filled his hand. My next playes were Lightning Greaves, Soltari Foot Soldier + Mother of Runes. Mother of Runes + Lightning Greaves were a nice combo to stop his spot removal/bounce and the Boardsweeper got countered. He played Land Tax without any effort. He played Winter Orb - which decided the game in the end...in my favor.
G2: This time my hand didn't show me more than one land. So i had to mulligan 6. The beginning of the game wasn't as good as in game 1. He played Meek Stone, which doesn't hurt me at all - but then with 4 islands in play VELDALKEN SHACKLES. I had to change my whole strategy and played afterwards without ANY creature. He played Anvil of Bogardan, Sensei'S, Gilded Lotus got countered ... and finally Standstill. I played Enlightened for Black Vise in the right moment (I've had 4 Counters and he was tapped out with 10 Cards in his Hand ;D). Afterwards he played Fabricate for Ivory Tower and lots of counterspells on the board. He played Forced Fruition so i've had 21 Cards when i made the final blow - thanks to Lightning Greaves.
Lucky me that he couldn't find his own Black Vise :)
Thx for the GG
Vazdru (UW-Skies) - Georg B (UR-Skies)
Titan's Clash
First place vs second place actually
Thunder vs Lightning
Creation vs Destruction
Some of the best games for quite a while.
He: rolled 4, I: 3 - so he started.
Game 1: One Plains so i took a mulligan for 6. Afterwards still only one land of my 7 but one of it Tithe - a bit risky i know but I've tried.
First Turn he started with Drifter il-Dal - good early critter but the upkeep cost isn't that nice (that's why I do not play this card). After Tithe for 2 Lands + Brainstorm i played 4 land drops in a row while he had only 3 lands in play. I Crib Swap his Drifter Turn 3 and he played Flying Men. My Mask of Memory looked nice but then he played the real deal: SWORD OF FIRE AND ICE. So his Flying Men got his Sword and bashed me down with 5 Dam + Extracard. I played Court Hussar, Man-o'-War, Augur il-Vec (meanwhile i love my Augur :)) - thanks to Mana Drain. But I was still without any blockers and on 6 LP - Augur did his Job, back on 10 in the next upkeep. Fathom Seer -> Card Draw, Curiosity, equip Mask, MORE Card Draw :) Took him down to 13 LP. He surely smiled playing Grafted Wargear - his Flying Men was 6/5 Prot UR - shoot for 2 and put me down to 2 LP. I Played Aven Mindcensor and Azorius Herald back to 6 LP. He played Chain Lightning on my Blocker but i've had Rebuff the Wicked so I got another turn. My next attack - thanks to Bonesplitter - left him with 2 LP tapped out, 6 Hand Cards and Lethal Damage next round - but i played Black Vise ;D ;D Nice Game :P
Game 2: Made a fault to mulligan only 5 with one mana one hand. Faced again only 1 Land and lots of crap. So i decided to take a trip to Paris. Was quite ok then, 3 Lands, Crib Swap, Riftwing Cloudskate, Aven Riftwatcher. But he mulliganed nothing - a few turns later i know why ::) Something of that kind: Land Critter - Land EMPYRIAL PLATE - Land SEA DRAKE :o I played some Jump Blockers and Looter il-Kor (i love this card too :)) Bounced his Plate with Riftwing. Since he has played Kira Glass Spinner the clouds got a bit darker. Fortunately i countered his Sword of Fire and Ice with Mana Drain and played Faith's Fetters on his meanwhile huge Flying Men. I got control over the game and Ancestral Visions resolved a few turns later. But i've had still no answer for his Plate which had a nice comeback on a Spellscutter Sprite. He took me down to 5 LP with one swing. Afterwards Flame Jet - he at 9 and me at 1 LP. His final shot was Lava Spike ... hrhr, no I've had Remand and no R left. And I've had 8 dam on the table :( Used Condem on my own Critter to come back to 5 LP but he had Lightning Bolt from the top :)
Game 3: White clouded skies showed his whole strength in this game:
Some of my plays:
Mana Drain
Faith's Fetters on his "mutated" Looter
Azorius Herald
Crib Swap
Riftwing Cloudskate on Fetters
Faith's Fetters once again - this time on his Serendib Efreet
Exalted Angel
Jotun Grunt
Grafted Wargear
Some of his plays:
Looter il-Kor
Unstable Mutation
Serendib Efreet
Thalakos Seer
Shock
Memory Lapse
Chain of Vapor
I'm on 24 LP - He's dead
2-1 Thx for the decent games !
Grizzledmage (UB control/robbery) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control)
1-1, to be continued
Let me preface my report by saying that I have only recently begun delving into control-style decks. It started most recently about 4 months ago with an Extended tournament our local play group held, and I tried a MUC deck (which did fairly well). Having been on the receiving end of control decks for years, I decided to try it. (This particular style of control used in this deck is based in part on an Elder Dragon Highlander deck I say over a year ago). Now to my point: I am not sure that I have the stomach to live through these games, as they do tend to be very long!!
Game 1: An early Shadowmage Infiltrator got through a couple times for some hits and a couple of extra card draws but he placed a Kor Haven to slow that down. He then removed the Infiltrator with a Flametongue Kavu, and countered an Ancestral Visions from resolving, but I played Treachery on his Kavu. He got his Nantuko Monastery going and tried to Hide (via Hide/Seek) the Treachery but I Hindered his attempt. He then played Gifts Ungiven to get his land-hate going via Wasteland, Vesuva, LFTL. I got more land-based men/tokens going with Faerie Conclave and Urza's Factory and started pressuring him, eventually getting him to 1 LP. But he evokes a Shriekmaw to kill the Kavu and plays a Maze of Ith to further blunt my attacks. He uses Intuition to find some life gain, which he realizes via Ravenous Baloth. I get a Vedalken Shackles out but too few Islands for it to make a difference, and he has been systematically removing my NB lands with Wasteland. I try a Liliana to tutor up some grave hate but he counters it. His Monastery keeps coming back (LFTL) and I am steadily losing ground; after 45 minutes I concede mostly from mental exhaustion.
Game 2: This one is even longer (1 hour 14 minutes), and I won't drive everyone crazy with ALL the details. Highlights include more Shadowmage Infiltrators (on both sides), Jace Beleran (his side), Guile (my side), a Staff of Domination which helped me a lot, Teferi, then Teferi recurred with Animate Dead, a countered Collective Restraint. He starts giving me real trouble with Venser comboed with Karakas, and I finally draw Wasteland to remove the Karakas. I was exerting steady pressure and slowly gaining the advantage, and then when I thought I had him (attacking with Guile and a Withered Wretch) he cycled a Decree of Justice to place 4 soldier tokens in play, threatening to remove my Wretch. I use Sensei's Diving Top to find a play (w buyback) a Capsize on one of his tokens, saving my poor Wretch. He attacks next turn, threatening to bring me to 3 LP but I take it, saving my lands in case I need to respond... and then counter (Faerie Trickery) his Damnation. He concedes.
He agrees to stop here and do the last game later, as (1) it's been 2 hours already, and (2) I'd received a tragic phone call in the middle of the second game, informing me of a death in the family... in fact I will be leaving to attend the funeral in about 10 minutes.
GGs!! As I said, I don't know if I have the stomach for these long control games... but definitely looking forward to the tiebreaker!
Quote from: grizzledmage on 29-07-2008, 03:21:39 PM
Grizzledmage (UB control/robbery) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control)
1-1, to be continued
Let me preface my report by saying that I have only recently begun delving into control-style decks. It started most recently about 4 months ago with an Extended tournament our local play group held, and I tried a MUC deck (which did fairly well). Having been on the receiving end of control decks for years, I decided to try it. (This particular style of control used in this deck is based in part on an Elder Dragon Highlander deck I say over a year ago). Now to my point: I am not sure that I have the stomach to live through these games, as they do tend to be very long!!
Game 1: An early Shadowmage Infiltrator got through a couple times for some hits and a couple of extra card draws but he placed a Kor Haven to slow that down. He then removed the Infiltrator with a Flametongue Kavu, and countered an Ancestral Visions from resolving, but I played Treachery on his Kavu. He got his Nantuko Monastery going and tried to Hide (via Hide/Seek) the Treachery but I Hindered his attempt. He then played Gifts Ungiven to get his land-hate going via Wasteland, Vesuva, LFTL. I got more land-based men/tokens going with Faerie Conclave and Urza's Factory and started pressuring him, eventually getting him to 1 LP. But he evokes a Shriekmaw to kill the Kavu and plays a Maze of Ith to further blunt my attacks. He uses Intuition to find some life gain, which he realizes via Ravenous Baloth. I get a Vedalken Shackles out but too few Islands for it to make a difference, and he has been systematically removing my NB lands with Wasteland. I try a Liliana to tutor up some grave hate but he counters it. His Monastery keeps coming back (LFTL) and I am steadily losing ground; after 45 minutes I concede mostly from mental exhaustion.
Game 2: This one is even longer (1 hour 14 minutes), and I won't drive everyone crazy with ALL the details. Highlights include more Shadowmage Infiltrators (on both sides), Jace Beleran (his side), Guile (my side), a Staff of Domination which helped me a lot, Teferi, then Teferi recurred with Animate Dead, a countered Collective Restraint. He starts giving me real trouble with Venser comboed with Karakas, and I finally draw Wasteland to remove the Karakas. I was exerting steady pressure and slowly gaining the advantage, and then when I thought I had him (attacking with Guile and a Withered Wretch) he cycled a Decree of Justice to place 4 soldier tokens in play, threatening to remove my Wretch. I use Sensei's Diving Top to find a play (w buyback) a Capsize on one of his tokens, saving my poor Wretch. He attacks next turn, threatening to bring me to 3 LP but I take it, saving my lands in case I need to respond... and then counter (Faerie Trickery) his Damnation. He concedes.
He agrees to stop here and do the last game later, as (1) it's been 2 hours already, and (2) I'd received a tragic phone call in the middle of the second game, informing me of a death in the family... in fact I will be leaving to attend the funeral in about 10 minutes.
GGs!! As I said, I don't know if I have the stomach for these long control games... but definitely looking forward to the tiebreaker!
once again. GGS. first 1 was really close. and the fact that you had shadowmage very early in both games was a pain. in the 2nd game you had a lot of card advantage over me. ggs. and sorry for your loss. when you feel like playing the 3rd just give me aring. :)
Mythrandir (5C-Control) vs Vazdru (UW-Skies)
1-2
15 Min altogether
1st: He played first. I've had a quite explosive start with Mox Diamond - Tithe (Tundra/Plains) - Play Wasteland. Second Turn: Spiktetail Hatchling. Third Turn Black Vise. When he was tapped out for Augury Adept i played Back to Basics...
2nd: I had no lands one my first 7, so i took another 7 - no lands - Mulligan to 6 - no lands, but Brainstorm, Land Tax, Tithe - bit risky i know..after 5 Turns still no lands on my side...
3rd: Suspend Cloudskate second turn was my first play. On turn 3 Aven Mindcensor eot. Turn 4 Emyrial Plate, Equip, Gush Attack for 8, Turn 5 Riftwing bouncing my own Land (he was still on two lands) Draw - Attack for 12. Turn-5-Kill - not too bad for a non-combo, semi-aggro-deck.
Our friendly games were much better afterwards.
phyhttu (Reveillark): coldcrow 0:2 (Dreamhalls/Desire/Time Warp)
These were interesting combo matches. In the first we both were racking up in mana and combo pieces, seeing pyhtthu playing mana accels, soul warden and saffi; while i played some filtering.
Then my big turn(s) came: Mana flare, Time Warp. I can't recall the exact order of all. I had a mirror naming gifts, and spellweaver volute in play storming for a 9 desire which left him with 2 life. he got another turn though and tried to do the saffi, crypt champion combo but I could respond with sacrificing shard phoenix. Next turn my search engine got the final damage in.
Game 2 was not that explosive. We both had rather slow hands with alot of dsiruption on his side. Duress, castigate which I twincasted removing thoughtseize!, and therapy! The game revolved around him racking up mana for a rector/pattern of rebirth turn while I played a fast jhoira suspending walk of the aeons. Critical was my lucky temporal fissure bouncing his rector and a selesnya sanctuary. That bought me enough tiem to fnish him with a bribed Yosei :).
Coldcrow VS Mythrandir Mind desire/extra turns deck VS 5c control
1:2
game 1: was really good, i made an early pressure with mishras factory, he didnt do that much and the things he did i countered them.he played a shard phoenix that died. after a few turns i had etched oracle + stronghold running but he had also made a lot of draw over the game. so neither of us had that much card advantage. i brought him to 4 and played venser (countered a buybacked "time walk") + brion + ohran viper he was as good as dead on the next turn, but he then played FOF for mana flare (he kept only that one) then gush, lightning bolt + fireblast + mind + other spells + a 8 stormed mind desire. he had a time warp + some fire. in one turn (just as he was going to be dead) he turned the game around and delivered over 16pts of damage... i should have "seeked" mind desire over dream halls early in the game..
game 2: he was colored screw for blue, so i played gifts for wasteland + LFTL + 2 cycles he responded with gifts for some lands + mox. he then played a bribery for my exalted but i had putrefy in hand. i had the LFTL engine running, and after a couple of turns no U for him (i destroyed his mox with 0 counter engineered explosives) so he conceded
game 3: i mull to 6 (and kept an island + fire//ice + tithe.. so i decided ro risk it, even with 1 land..) luckily i drew a scrubaldn so i tithed for 2 lands.. and the game started to flow... he burned me to 6 but i played mystical teachings for hide//seek for his mind desire and was up to 10. i then countered some important spells on his deck. i played sensei top for some better draw and eventually beat him with nantuko monastery + trygon predator.
i really have to sat that 3rd game was really lucky for me.. bad hand... which turned out to be a great hand and i drew almost my entire counter spells.
ggs
coldcrow (R/U Storm) : grizzledmage (U/B control) 1:0
We only finished one game ... A really funny thing about it was that I thought we played a test game while he recognized it as a match.
Was a loooong one, Stuff got countered , manabases were built up, My grandma was planting a tree...
I made 2 mistakes: playing desire too early for only a 5 count, then countering teferi as he countered my gifts...
In the end he ran out of counters and I topdecked an eye of the storm with a lightning bolt in hand and recoup + chain lightning in yard = 12 dmg. Update for game two will follow.
Quote from: coldcrow on 06-08-2008, 05:00:14 PM
coldcrow (R/U Storm) : grizzledmage (U/B control) 1:0
Was a loooong one, Stuff got countered , manabases were built up, My grandma was planting a tree...
Yep; seems like these are the only kinds of games I get involved in!
I made 2 mistakes: playing desire too early for only a 5 count, then countering teferi as he countered my gifts...
All true... and on the next turn I reanimated my buddy Teferi...
In the end he ran out of counters and I topdecked an eye of the storm with a lightning bolt in hand and recoup + chain lightning in yard = 12 dmg.
Very frustrating, as I was hoping for a next-turn kill with Teferi for 2 combat damage (had an Animate Dead on it) and Profane Command for about 16 more... assuming, of course, it resolved.
Update for game two will follow.
Yep! Now I am in the middle of THREE suspended matches...!!!
Michael103 VS Mythrandir
0:1 (not finished..)
uWG?? VS control
we only played 1 match.. and not an exciting one
game 1: he was a bit mana screw but playd scabbling claws and tormod crypt and a kor haven. i kept my initial hand. 3 lands + jace + gifts + counter (nice hand) jace really gave me the game. i vindicated 1 temple garden of his and then went for garruk + eternal witnes + FOF + hide/seek (to see his deck). i kept fof and garruk. i played garruk and then FOF.. by this time i was in complete control he had: kor haven + mutavault + terohs faithful + court hussar i had a 3/3 beast, 3 1/1 soldiers (Via decree) 1 loxodon, 1 ohran viper + nantuko monastery + 2 mihsras factory (1 factory + vesuva) i went for garruk overrun :) i also had demon fire in hand.
i guess we'll finish the rest of the match another day.
here are our MWS security codes:
Mythrandir[PT]'s Security Code: FABD1532 [Type 1.5]
michael0103's Security Code: 7C84F1E0 [???]
Quote from: Vazdru on 08-07-2008, 09:21:52 PM
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies) 1:1 (game 3 will follow next days/week)
1: My first seven showed my no lands at all :-\ so i took another seven. Luckily they were quite ok. 2 Islands, 1 Plains, Freewind Falcon, Soltari Champion, Swords of Fire and Ice, Fathom Seer. Unfortunately Swords got countered. Freewind Falcon didn't deal enough pressure on the board. Champion got killed by spot removal so his landbase increased well. Teferi was again the gamebreaker when he hit the board. Treachery + Dominate hit me hard as well. Back to Basics didn't have the impact on the game like last time so his mana-base worked well. Eventually i've played Empyrial Armor + Gush to increase my falcon to 8/8 while he had 8 LP...but his untapper Conclave saved his life. Next turn Profane Command for the win.
GG mate! Looking forward for next games..
Lucky win for me this time ;D
Not even 5 min after we finished the game the power system crashed because of a thunderstorm/lightning bolt.
2: I've never believed i could be flooded with White Clouded Skies but this time it happened. My first 7 showed me already 4 Lands. I put back one of them + two spells. Afterwards I've had again 4 Lands, cc2 Critter (Sprite), Wargear + Interdict. My next cards were Land, Land Tax. After ten long minutes (Sprite got killed quickly) I've got my second critter on the board Cloud of Faeries. Enough time for him to collect some stuff to get control of it - equipped with Wargear. LP 20 - 7 in my favour at this time...but this changed quite quickly from now on...only the Yedi Mind Trick would help now...
He had 8 untapped lands and played Teferi eot. Cause i would never get any use of Force Spike i used it targeting Teferi...but instead of tapping one mana he played Forbid to counter my Force Spike (surely in fear after paying for Force Spike facing an non-counterable threat - but indeed I've had nothing at all ::)). He discarded Diabolic Tutor! ??? + Damnation for the Buyback.
I've had 10 LP after the attack of Teferi + stolen Looter il-Kor + Wargear. He discarded Rend Flesh - which he needed badly two turns later - for the Looter. I've had 6 Cards in Hand (4 Lands, still Interdict ::) and Rebuff the Wicked :-\) and Sword of Fire and Ice + Emyrial Plate and ~ 10 Lands on the Board.
Useless card from the top...down at 3 LP. At this time I was sure to lose this game...Flying Men from the Top...so I've tried it still aware he had the necessary Counter Spell to get rid of it. But he said ok ??? :o
So i equipped the Men with Sword of Fire and Ice + Wargear (killed his/my Looter) + equip Plate and Interdicted the effect for a Cantrip to find another critter, WHICH got countered. Next turn he tried Persuasion on my Men ... but they were of course protected against being coaxed ;) thanks to their Sword. On his turn he only found Sudden Death - not strong enough to kill my 6/5 Flying Men - so i euipped Plate next turn and attacked for 12 Damage, Sudden Death reduced the dam by 4 -> 8, he was still on 7 LP.
Thx for the gg!
He discarded Diabolic Tutor! + Damnation for the Buyback.
I believed - apparently incorrectly - that keeping a hard counter in hand was more important in that situation than board sweeping or library searching.
Flying Men from the Top...so I've tried it still aware he had the necessary Counter Spell to get rid of it. But he said ok
Jedi mind tricks indeed. I knew that he knew that I had the Forbid, yet he played the Flying Men... now, thinks I, why would he play this if he knows that I can simply counter it? Truly he must have something else up his sleeve... and I believe I can tolerate the Flying Men (forgetting about his Sword's pro blue). So I wait for the other shoe to drop... which it doesn't.
Sometimes I wonder why I play this game!! If I do the obvious thing (in this case, counter his Men) then I usually suffer for it. Here, I AVOID the obvious thing... and I suffer for it!
In retrospect, it may be that allowing his Sword to CIP may have been the critical error in judgment. I recall that I was able to do so in our Game 1, and that had been quite helpful... well let's see what happens in Game 3, perhaps next week...
hmmm... if his jedi mind tricks work on me, then we know how that qualifies me... maybe time to go back to music lessons and fishing....
:D
Quote from: grizzledmage on 08-08-2008, 11:40:11 PM
Jedi mind tricks indeed. I knew that he knew that I had the Forbid, yet he played the Flying Men... now, thinks I, why would he play this if he knows that I can simply counter it? Truly he must have something else up his sleeve... and I believe I can tolerate the Flying Men (forgetting about his Sword's pro blue). So I wait for the other shoe to drop... which it doesn't.
lol.. sometimes players make elaborate plays sometimes they just make an obvious straightforwad play. u can never be 100% sure, specially while playing online. ;)
MErcator (WWu) vs. Payron (UGw)
2 : 1
First gmae was decided by Wasteland and Life from The Loam. He killed Tundra and Hallowed Fountain, so i was allways low on mana an could not race his beasts.
Second game Cataclysm and Tagle Wire screwed Payron. He had Jotun Grunt, but didN#t draw any lands until he died.
Third game was nearly the same. This time i had first Ravages of War and afterwards Tangle Wire, whereas Payron was stuck on no lands and a lonely bird.
Tough choices to play the wrecking spells around counterspells, but otherwise they were screw game with only one of us playing.
MErcator (Rb gobo) vs. Michael0103 (5c controll?)
2 : 0
First game was mulligan to 5 for him. i wastelanded first turn, but he was flooded and i scrwed on 2 mana.
after a time he had academy rector to get a moat, but had only 4 dmg left to deal, with burn...
2nd was even shorter, for he played about 4 spells and sulfuric vortex with gobob brought it home
Quote from: grizzledmage on 29-07-2008, 03:21:39 PM
Grizzledmage (UB control/robbery) vs. Mythrandir (5c Control)
1-1, to be continued... 2-1 final
Let me preface my report by saying that I have only recently begun delving into control-style decks. It started most recently about 4 months ago with an Extended tournament our local play group held, and I tried a MUC deck (which did fairly well). Having been on the receiving end of control decks for years, I decided to try it. (This particular style of control used in this deck is based in part on an Elder Dragon Highlander deck I say over a year ago). Now to my point: I am not sure that I have the stomach to live through these games, as they do tend to be very long!!
Game 1: An early Shadowmage Infiltrator got through a couple times for some hits and a couple of extra card draws but he placed a Kor Haven to slow that down. He then removed the Infiltrator with a Flametongue Kavu, and countered an Ancestral Visions from resolving, but I played Treachery on his Kavu. He got his Nantuko Monastery going and tried to Hide (via Hide/Seek) the Treachery but I Hindered his attempt. He then played Gifts Ungiven to get his land-hate going via Wasteland, Vesuva, LFTL. I got more land-based men/tokens going with Faerie Conclave and Urza's Factory and started pressuring him, eventually getting him to 1 LP. But he evokes a Shriekmaw to kill the Kavu and plays a Maze of Ith to further blunt my attacks. He uses Intuition to find some life gain, which he realizes via Ravenous Baloth. I get a Vedalken Shackles out but too few Islands for it to make a difference, and he has been systematically removing my NB lands with Wasteland. I try a Liliana to tutor up some grave hate but he counters it. His Monastery keeps coming back (LFTL) and I am steadily losing ground; after 45 minutes I concede mostly from mental exhaustion.
Game 2: This one is even longer (1 hour 14 minutes), and I won't drive everyone crazy with ALL the details. Highlights include more Shadowmage Infiltrators (on both sides), Jace Beleran (his side), Guile (my side), a Staff of Domination which helped me a lot, Teferi, then Teferi recurred with Animate Dead, a countered Collective Restraint. He starts giving me real trouble with Venser comboed with Karakas, and I finally draw Wasteland to remove the Karakas. I was exerting steady pressure and slowly gaining the advantage, and then when I thought I had him (attacking with Guile and a Withered Wretch) he cycled a Decree of Justice to place 4 soldier tokens in play, threatening to remove my Wretch. I use Sensei's Diving Top to find a play (w buyback) a Capsize on one of his tokens, saving my poor Wretch. He attacks next turn, threatening to bring me to 3 LP but I take it, saving my lands in case I need to respond... and then counter (Faerie Trickery) his Damnation. He concedes.
He agrees to stop here and do the last game later, as (1) it's been 2 hours already, and (2) I'd received a tragic phone call in the middle of the second game, informing me of a death in the family... in fact I will be leaving to attend the funeral in about 10 minutes.
GGs!! As I said, I don't know if I have the stomach for these long control games... but definitely looking forward to the tiebreaker!
We finally got together to do the tiebreaker.
I see, in reviewing the previous games, that I made an error... I thought (erroneously) that I'd lost the second game, so I started this Game 3 by stating "I play ok?" Mythrandir, being the gentleman that he is, simply said ok.
He starts with an early Call of the Herd. I play Nevinyrral's Disk, and wait for him to play the second elephant token (via flashback) before I activate it, in the absence of any other removal. He probably knows this and avoids playing it, meanwhile attacking me repeatedly. I can't stand it after a few turns, and activate the Disk to remove the elephant. He tries Engineered Explosives, which I RFG with Faerie Trickery. I resolve Liliana Vess; who manages to tutor up a couple of key cards for me before she falls to a redirected Demonfire. Teferi and Vedalken Shackles come along, helping a lot, although he Swords to Plowshares Teferi. The Shackles take control of his finally-played second Elephant token.
Somewhere in there his Brion Stoutarm goes to his graveyard, and I pluck it out with Animate Dead. With 2 creatures (Brion and elephant) I can start getting past his Maze of Ith. Debtor's Knell comes in and the Shadowmage Infiltrators in each of our respective graveyards become fair game as well. He tries to clear things with Pernicious Deed; unfortunately for him he'd Enlightened Tutored for it, so I had time to tutor up a Counterspell to foil it. He gets Wall of Blossoms and Nantuko Monastery going but it is looking grim over there. He tries a Collective Restraint to slow me down but I Capsize it before I start my turn. He takes near-lethal combat damage, and I play Demonic Tutor to call up Profane Command for the coup de grace.
At the end I had 9 lands in play and he had 7, but his lands had definitely been slow to show up for him so I got lucky with mana advantage.
GG's!!
By the way, Mythrandir doesn't yet know it but he seems to be there at important real-life events for me... last time he'd been there when I received news of my nephew's passing, and today he was there a couple of hours after my oldest son announced as "official" his engagement to a nice young lady. (That son is, btw, far and away the best Magic player in this household...)
QuoteHe starts with an early Call of the Herd. I play Nevinyrral's Disk, and wait for him to play the second elephant token (via flashback) before I activate it, in the absence of any other removal. He probably knows this and avoids playing it
also because i only had 4 lands, 1 being mze of ith.. =/
QuoteSomewhere in there his Brion Stoutarm goes to his graveyard, and I pluck it out with Animate Dead.
GG's!!
i had to discard it at the end of turn, because of mana screw :P
QuoteBy the way, Mythrandir doesn't yet know it but he seems to be there at important real-life events for me... last time he'd been there when I received news of my nephew's passing, and today he was there a couple of hours after my oldest son announced as "official" his engagement to a nice young lady. (That son is, btw, far and away the best Magic player in this household...)
congrats ;)
not a very good game.. the other 2 were way better.
Pyyhttu (Rb-Gobbos) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies)
1:2
1: I won the die roll. My first 7 showed me 1 Land so I took 6 new ones. 1 more land so i started. Adarkar Wastes - Lantern Kami. Turn 2 he tried to Shriekmaw my Critter - but got countered by Miscalculation. Turn 3 he tried Imperial Recruiter - got countered by Force Spike. Turn 4 his first Critter reached the ground -> Magus of the Moon - but after he played Volrath's Stronghold the Magus worked for me and not for him. Meanwhile i dropped Azorius Herald, Chrome Moxe, Sword of Fire and Ice which decided the game for me. Herald + Sword is a nice combination vs Rb Gobbos. I killed all of his Critter but Magus of the Moon. Thanks to him he couldn't get back his Shriekmaw which he needed badly all the game.
2: He had an impressive start. Tattermunge Maniac, Squeking Gobling, Goblin Sledder. I suspended Riftwing Cloudskate Turn 2, Turn 3 morphed Exalted (with 2 plains 2 islands turn 4) but Shriekmaw took care of the Angel. Pendlehaven + Mishra's Factory looked grim. All the game i was in the defense for my life still ticking away. I was able to handle Wort once with the Cloudskate + Counterspell afterwards. But when he played Flametongue Kave + Patriarchs Bidding it was his game.
3: I've kept 3 lands (2 basics, Wasteland) and thought a while if i put back Blackvise or not. I decided to keep it even against such a fast deck like gobbos.
Me: Land - Blackvise.
He: LP 17 - Land - Aether Vial.
Me: Land - Looter il-Kor.
He LP 15 - Nonbasic - Sparksmith.
Me Wasteland + Echoing Truth on Vial - Attack for one.
He LP 12 - Sparksmith killed my Looter - 11 - Vial again
Me Grafted Wargear
He LP 9 attack with Sparksmith
Me Tithe - Go
He LP 7 still on one Land Mogg Raider + Weird Shaman
Me Pestermite from the top
He LP 5 Goblin King - All in dropping me down to 10 LP
Me Pestermite eot - equip Wargear and attack for 5 while he was tapped out.
Quote from: Vazdru on 08-08-2008, 10:13:44 PM
Quote from: Vazdru on 08-07-2008, 09:21:52 PM
Grizzledmage (UB-Control) - Vazdru (White Clouded Skies) 1:2
1: My first seven showed my no lands at all :-\ so i took another seven. Luckily they were quite ok. 2 Islands, 1 Plains, Freewind Falcon, Soltari Champion, Swords of Fire and Ice, Fathom Seer. Unfortunately Swords got countered. Freewind Falcon didn't deal enough pressure on the board. Champion got killed by spot removal so his landbase increased well. Teferi was again the gamebreaker when he hit the board. Treachery + Dominate hit me hard as well. Back to Basics didn't have the impact on the game like last time so his mana-base worked well. Eventually i've played Empyrial Armor + Gush to increase my falcon to 8/8 while he had 8 LP...but his untapper Conclave saved his life. Next turn Profane Command for the win.
GG mate! Looking forward for next games..
Lucky win for me this time ;D
Not even 5 min after we finished the game the power system crashed because of a thunderstorm/lightning bolt.
2: I've never believed i could be flooded with White Clouded Skies but this time it happened. My first 7 showed me already 4 Lands. I put back one of them + two spells. Afterwards I've had again 4 Lands, cc2 Critter (Sprite), Wargear + Interdict. My next cards were Land, Land Tax. After ten long minutes (Sprite got killed quickly) I've got my second critter on the board Cloud of Faeries. Enough time for him to collect some stuff to get control of it - equipped with Wargear. LP 20 - 7 in my favour at this time...but this changed quite quickly from now on...only the Yedi Mind Trick would help now...
He had 8 untapped lands and played Teferi eot. Cause i would never get any use of Force Spike i used it targeting Teferi...but instead of tapping one mana he played Forbid to counter my Force Spike (surely in fear after paying for Force Spike facing an non-counterable threat - but indeed I've had nothing at all ::)). He discarded Diabolic Tutor! ??? + Damnation for the Buyback.
I've had 10 LP after the attack of Teferi + stolen Looter il-Kor + Wargear. He discarded Rend Flesh - which he needed badly two turns later - for the Looter. I've had 6 Cards in Hand (4 Lands, still Interdict ::) and Rebuff the Wicked :-\) and Sword of Fire and Ice + Emyrial Plate and ~ 10 Lands on the Board.
Useless card from the top...down at 3 LP. At this time I was sure to lose this game...Flying Men from the Top...so I've tried it still aware he had the necessary Counter Spell to get rid of it. But he said ok ??? :o
So i equipped the Men with Sword of Fire and Ice + Wargear (killed his/my Looter) + equip Plate and Interdicted the effect for a Cantrip to find another critter, WHICH got countered. Next turn he tried Persuasion on my Men ... but they were of course protected against being coaxed ;) thanks to their Sword. On his turn he only found Sudden Death - not strong enough to kill my 6/5 Flying Men - so i euipped Plate next turn and attacked for 12 Damage, Sudden Death reduced the dam by 4 -> 8, he was still on 7 LP.
Thx for the gg!
3: I've had a decent start with Cloud Sprite, Force Spike, Mana Leak, Standstill and some lands. Standstill gave me the necessary card advantage. Pestermite and Vendillion Clique helped to get rid off his Counterspells. Echoing Truth + Gilded Drake + Wispmare gave me even more card advantage:
Board situation after short a while:
Flying Men - Wispmare - Vendillon Clique - Cloud of Faeries - Serra Avenger
vs no defense on the other side of the table (he had to kill his own "stolen by gilded drake" Teferi and tried to control my Serra Avenger via Control Mage - my Wispmare took care)
gg!
3: I've had a decent start with Cloud Sprite, Force Spike, Mana Leak, Standstill and some lands. Standstill gave me the necessary card advantage. Pestermite and Vendillion Clique helped to get rid off his Counterspells. Echoing Truth + Gilded Drake + Wispmare gave me even more card advantage:
Board situation after short a while:
Flying Men - Wispmare - Vendillon Clique - Cloud of Faeries - Serra Avenger
vs no defense on the other side of the table (he had to kill his own "stolen by gilded drake" Teferi and tried to control my Serra Avenger via Control Mage - my Wispmare took care)
gg!
Meh; very one sided and I never even felt like I was in this game.... but thanks for the match anyway!
MErcator (WWu) vs. GeorgB (Red sligh)
2 : 1
First game i had, chrome mox, Land tax and Mystic Crusader against a monored army
i played last, so the landtax was online, though i had more mana in play actually
when i cast crusade the game broke down (holysnow seems not stable to me...) but i had spectral prossesion and Georg fairly conceded, that he probably wound'not have won this game
Game 2 i kept ravages and drew into armagedon but had only prosession for creatures
so i played bonsplitter and aether vial, while he had beatings and a molten rain
i kept drawing lands, what was not bad with armagedon turn 5, but when i could stabilise with silver knight, he had goblin grenade for the kill... (it was turn 6, with delay on my hand, but only 1 mana =(...
Game 3 we traded early cretures, then i drew auriok champion, and played 2 critters turn 4
this and an rushing river for sword of light/shadow was allready win
MErcator (GB-Rock) vs. Grizzledmage (UB-C)
2 : 1
First game started really slow for me, and he treachery-ed my spiritmonger and had afterwards counters, when i could only cast one spell per turn =(
2nd game i had river boa and hypnotic who dealt dmg. he had removal and counter and treachery again, but didn't take river boa, but the bigger guy
the boa went all the way nearly alone, but it was a close one, as i had to play from the top a very long time
3rd game i had withered wretch turn 2, he 2 mana stones, which got blown up by his disk, to get rid of my survival. after that i played a bunch of creatures, which he kept overtaking with controll magic, dominieer, copy enchantment...
but he had no counter the whole time, so i managed decree of pain, to kill 4 creatures
he had to play from the top, because he controlled my masticore *g*
nice games, some really tough...
Pyyhttu (BR-Goblins) vs. GeorgB (5C-StuffyCombo): 2-1 for pyyhttu.
The deck I piloted was Aleksi Väänänen's BRGoblin: http://vaihdetaan.kapsi.fi/forums/index.php?topic=49289.msg200958#msg200958
1st. game: I started with some angry goblin meat, Frenzied Goblin, Sparksmith and Mogg Flunkies while George Boy gathered mana artifacts and mana. He later tutored for FTK and shot my sparksmith. I top decked later Goblin King and attacked with mountain walkers for win (He had Taiga in play).
2nd. game: GeorgB starts by playing Plateau. Go. I play Skirk Prospektor which he Lightning Bolts at EOT. He then plays Tundra, gives turn and I play some more threats in the curve: Goblin Piledriver. Georg gathers mana and ont the following turn I play Goblin Matron, fetching Goblin Recruiter. Georg plays some more mana, and I proceed the to do some idiotic, deep goblin stack with the Recruiter. I am clearly overextending here. At EOT he play plays Enlighetened Tutor for Collective Restraint. This is bad.
My goblin stack do have Sharpshooter and Siege-Gang Commander to get around restraint, but I idiotically go and play... Ruination as he has 5 non-basic lands tapped. After Ruination I noticed that there was one forest after all. So no attack. Better yet, I also had non-basic lands (2 of 4) so can't play anything for a while because of the 4 card goblin pile on top of my library.
I die on Liliana Vess, which resurrects my dead Goblins in late game, and as an insult on top of injury, Georg then sweeps all 4 1/1 goblins with MY Goblin Sharpshooter and attacks for the win (with my goblins obv).
3rd. Game: I decide to go first and get a good hand of Tattermunge Maniac, Goblin Cadets and Mogg something. I attack about 5 turns straight dealing 20 damage as Georg doesn't find solutions in time.
MErcator (Rock) vs. Phyyhttu (Enchantress combo)
2 : 0(.5)
First game was brief, he had a mulligan after the spoils, and got beaten by critters. His theme was not that apparent yet.
2nd he got out with enchantress and other keytools. The game crashed somwhere... Phyyhttu had probably won
2nd 2nd He played early Land tax, but i had signet and treetop village, so had to play no lands
i had survival, but he played Acadamy for enchantments (name?), sacred mesa and then humility. I had to transmute shred memory into demonic into pernicious deed. In addizion i had genesis in grave and witness, whereas he had to play from the top...
nice games, interesting deck
MErcator (Gobo) vs. Vazdru (skies)
2 fast games. i had enough removal to kill vazdru's creatures in the first turns. Later on, he had Sword of fire and ice, but was behinf in the race, so i could finish him of quickly, bevor he could attack a 2nd time.
2nd game pretty much the same. he seemed a little screwed and had 2 equiptments, but no surviving creatures
MEcator (BG-Rock) - Vazdru (UW-Skies) 0:2
The first one crashed - he would have won it i guess (95%).
1: He fetched for a dual and played Llanowar Wastes before Back to Basics hit the ground and hold him off black mana. Board positition at that moment: he had Mire Boa, Wall of Roots, Wall of Blossoms, I've had Looter il-Kor, Lightning Greaves. He was able to play Wickerbough Elder but I had Faith's Fetters for it. He forgot to use Wall of Roots in response for Back to Basics. Afterwards i've played Morph which flipped one turn later and showed the grace of an Exalted Angel protected by Lightning Greaves...so it was game (15 min).
2: I've had no lands on my first 7 so i took 7 new ones: Ancestral Visions, Soltari Priest, Surveilling Sprite, Cloud Spirte and 3 Lands. He took four new cards (kept 2 lands) but only found some bigger critters. He had to mulligan and the 6 showed him 2 Swamps + Wretch + Demonic Tutor so he kept this hand. 3rd Round i've had already 3 Critters and Visions down on 2 counters. I've added Freewind Falcon and countered his Phyrexian Totem with Mana Drain to put down Grafted Wargear + Winter Orb next round (7 min).
GGs!
btw. this one was our first match - afterwards he took revenge with Gobbos which are still one of my worst match-ups
Pyyhttu (BRGoblins) vs. Mythrandir (5c-control): 2-1 to pyyhttu
1st. game: I suffer from mana screw in the early age and get Mythrandir down to 15 with some 1/1-goblin until he plays Moat. I later draw some mana but can't beat the deck any more as win-conditions in that situation are slowly countered by the card advantage Mythrandir gained.
2nd. game: I go first and remember playing Magus of the Moon, and then remember fethching some more golblins (Goblin Warchief) and run over him. Rather a quick game.
3rd. game: I get a pretty good hand consisting or Blood Moon, Magus of the Moon, Tattermunge Maniac, Mox Diamond and lands. Mythrandir goes first and on the following turn I get the Maniac on the board. My following Magus of the Moon get's removed but Blood Moon is too much. Mythrandir tries to set up Collective Restraint, but I draw wasteland, Pillage, etc. to remove his only dual land every time and thus was able to ride for the victory with the Tattermunge eventually.
Especially in the last game I drew my every hoser card in a nice curve and this match-up was quite hard for Mythrandirs 5-color.
I'm so bad in remembering matches.
Georg B (Burning Skies) vs. Grizzledmage (UB Control) 2:0
In the first game I won with some sectaculary moves.
Like playing delay on his Ren Flash and after the 3 turns he had to play the Flash on my Thalakos Seer with me having a Standstill in play.
So I drew 4 cards.
Well the second game was sad.
I had a pritty good Hand with Flying Man, Unstable Mutation and Winter Orb.
He took a mulligan to 5 (or so) and coseded.
Payron (Tokenmania) vs Vazdru (UW-Skies) 0:2
1: My first 7 showed me no lands (once again) - so i took 7 new ones. StP, Wasteland, some Critters + 2 more Lands. He played first BoP -> Swords to Plowshares. He played Priest of Titania - I wasted his Taiga. Afterwards he played Vhitu-Ghazi and Kher-Keep. But after i played Stonecloaker + Pestermite + Soltari Champion it was easy to win the damage race vs the tokens (thanks to evasion).
2: He played some nonbasics - i played Back to Basics when he was tapped out. So easy win in the end.
Quote from: pyyhttu on 26-08-2008, 08:15:30 AM
2nd. game: I go first and remember playing Magus of the Moon,
3rd. game: I get a pretty good hand consisting or Blood Moon, Magus of the Moon,
Especially in the last game I drew my every hoser card in a nice curve and this match-up was quite hard for Mythrandirs 5-color.
Quote2:: He played some nonbasics - i played Back to Basics when he was tapped out. So easy win in the end.
isnt it weird that so many games are won because of a single card?!.... =/
heres to hoping they´ll make something like:
~name~
Land - Forest Island
This land isnt affected by nonbasic land effects
:P
Payron (UGw-Survival) - Pyyhttu (???) 2:1
damn now I know why reporting the match is so much better when u do it right away ... sry guys I can t remeber anything rly not even what he played :/ mybe Pyyhttu remebers something?
I played with BG-Goblins.
I only remember that Payron got his Survival-engine to roll in every game except in the the second. I drew my Magus of the Moon in every game and in third game Payron promised to stab me in the face because of that.
y right ... but you forgott to put a smilie behind "promised to stab me in the face" :P ::) ;D
but it wasn t like easy games every game I was worryed I couldn t stop the fast and hard starts from this BR Deck!
Quote from: pyyhttu on 01-09-2008, 09:10:36 AM
I played with BG-Goblins.
I drew my Magus of the Moon in every game and in third game Payron promised to stab me in the face because of that.
i can relate to that. :P but i would probably stab you with a spoon to take longer :P