EPT7 rounds of swiss and cut to top 8.
Here is what I rolled with.
GB Tron
Round 1; vs GWU Eldrazi
Game 1: On the draw. My opponent has a fast start going t1 Noble Hierarch t2 Eldrazi Displacer. On the other hand I dont get tron until t4. And no plays other than a expedition map and some chromatic stars. Good news my hand is 3 wurmcoil engine, oblivion stone, and a Collective Brutality.
So I cast collective brutality and a wurmcoil on t4. He has a spellskite in play but lets me kill a fresh played t4 matter reshaper. I get to kill it and get a path in his hand. With the removal gone only 5 and 6 mana spells in hand my oblivion stone wipes his board and keeps him with only 3 lands. Wurmcoil goes the rest of the way.
Game 2: He has a slow start, with a t2 matter reshaper after a noble hierarch. He also plays a stony silence. I have a turn 3 oblivion stone that I cannot activate. Turn 5 I topdeck a sylvan scrying for my tron and a karn to take care of his only threat in the matter reshaper. Just in time as I was at 5 and his next matter reshaper attack was lethal with 2 hierarch. Even with out tron a regular untapped land would have helped as I had a Thragtusk in hand to gain the lire and block. After that I can just keep playing large threats with karn in play and he scoops.
Match 2; 1-0 vs Dredge
Game 1: I mull to 6 but keep a hand with turn 3 tron. I am on the draw. The problem is his hand was much faster than mine. I am at 9 on turn 4. And that is the first time I can play something a Ugin. I exile all of his creatures. But he is able for the next turn to endstep get bloodgast in play with a prized amalgam. Attack me to 4 and then Flashback Conflagrate to finish me off.
Game 2: I mull to 6 again. My 6 are Urza's Mine x2 Relic of Progenitus, Ancient Stirrings, Expedition map, Sylvan Scrying. I put a chrom star on top. I dont play my Relic until turn 3. But I do activate it on turn 3. I do this after he Dredged and then cast a life from the loam. I activated it for 2 reasons. First was I drew another Relic, Second it exiled 2 prized amalgam. I draw a orbs of warding that I put in. And then a wurmcoil. this game goes long as he has multiple ancient grudges to kill my wurmcoil and tokens. But not before I game a bunch of life. He ends up with a very scary board. But never killed my orbs of warding because he had to keep killing my wurmcoils. And this slowed him down so much I was able to stall until he had 8 cards left in his library and I draw a ugin. And he cannot win.
Game 3: I keep a hand of 3 chromatic star, 2 tron pieces, a Map and a blooming marsh. I kept this because it is turn 3 Tron and 3 redraws with the stars. He doesnt get a great start only getting to get a bloodlust and a Amalgam into play on his t3. I draw Land, Stirrings, Chromatic star and a thragtusk. So I get turn 3 tron. Play and sac 2 stars and the Thragtusk. Drawing 2 more lands. I block on his turn because I think ok the long this goes on the better for me. He doesnt add anything to his board turn 4. On my turn I again play 2 stars and sac them and get a world breaker. And he doesnt really do anything else. I keep drawing gas.
Match 3; 2-0 vs Grixis Delver\
Game 1: He has turn 1 Delver of Secrets. And then doesnt draw a second land. I have t3 Kard killing his land leaving his delver, And then next turn play a wurmcoil.
Game 2; Again t2 delver for him. And flip it next turn. But again he misses his second land drop. I get a Collective Brutality and see his hand of Molten rain, 3 countersquall, Terminate, Kolagans command and a Tasigur. I take the Rain and kill his delver. Then play a Wurmcoil engine, followed by a Thragtusk. He gets to kill them both after topdecking a land, but the 3/3's keep going all the way.
Match 4; 3-0 vs scapeshift.
Game 1: I mull to 6 keep a 1 lander tron piece, a map, a scrying, a star, collective brutality, and a Karn. I never draw a second land.
Game 2: I get turn 3 tron into thoughtseize him and then world breaker the next turn. He ends up at 3 life going through the breach, emerukul but I just sac lands and my creatures are enough to kill him.
Game 3: I get stuck on only 2 tron pieces and he has turn 4 prime time.
This guy made top 8.
Match 5; 3-1 vs Lantern
Game 1: He gets Lantern Codex shreder in play. But I have turn 4 tron. With World breaker, ugin and wurmcoil in hand. He doesnt find a bridge before he just dies.
Game 2: On the draw and I keep a hand of 1 Tron Piece, Llanawar wastes, O stone, Karn, Ulamog, Sylvan Scrying, and a Natures claim. I draw a World breaker and then get a second scying. He has 2 pithing needles nameing O stone and Karn. World breaker kills on Ulamog kills the other and he just scoops to ulamog.
Round 6: 4-1 vs Storm
Game 1: He has the t3 kill. That simple.
Game 2: I keep a hand of 1 tron piece, 2 stars, 2 relics, 1 ancient stirrings, 1 collective brutality. I draw a land. He goes t2 Goblin electromancer. I draw another land and play star sac star Brutality discarding another star I drew killing the electromancer and seeing a hand of electromancer, desperate ritualx2, manamorphose, grapeshot, and a remand, I take the remand. I draw a Map activate map to get tron. Play both relics with a land untapped to relic if I have to. But I dont and just double tap them and he doesnt get any yard without me having to tap. I then draw a Karn and he doesnt draw a third land. Karn first blows up land. Then one activation at his hand. He scoops after he doesnt draw another land.
Game 3: I mull to 6 keeping a hand of 2 tron pieces, 2 stars, a orbs of warding and a Collective brutality. Then I draw a thoughtsieze. He swan songs it. And then doesnt play a second land. I collective him take his gifts. And then I get tron a karn and attack his lands again. He scoops. He kept 1 landers both game 2 and 3 and then didnt draw lands.
Match 7 5-1 vs Jeskai Control
OK I win and I make top 8. Even if I lose I see the guy I lost to was 5-1 also. Plus the guy last round and this round I may have played against a 6-1 and 2 5-2's so my breakers should be good.
Game 1: I keep a hand with 2 tron pieces, star, ugin, stirrings, forest and O stone. My ancient stirrings only finds another star which hurts. I draw a second stirrings but then he has spell queller. I never get tron. I do get up to 7 mana to play my karn the hard way but he has counters to deal.
Game 2: I keep a land with 2 tron pieces, thoughseize, ugin, sylvan scrying, star, and a naturalize. I draw a llanawar wastes. I play it on turn 3 instead of the 3rd tron piece on turn 3 because I had nothing to do with 7 mana. As my hand was 3 land, Naturalize, thoughtseize, and ugin. So on t3 I play the wastes and the thoughtseize. I see 3 lands, Spell queller, wear/tear, Snapcaster, and a Geist of Saint Traft. I take the Geist. So I am thinking nice my turn 4 ugin is clear. Long story short I cast it and the card he drew was a logic knot... After that I just kept drawing land. His next turn vendillion clique he drew went all the way.
I finished and look. I got paired down.... Wow. Paired down. RIP tie breakers. Then the guy I beat last round lost. The guy I lost too before lost and was 5-2. So instead of having breakers against opponents who beat me both being 6-1 they were both only 5-2.
I ended in 10th. So I got some prizes. But no where near what a first place prize was.
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