Magic: The Gathering - Page 224

Round 1:
Turn 1 Game 1, he plays Deathrite Shaman. Yes, a BG deck with that card mainboard. Not only that, but 4 of mainboard. I play for a while to figure out his deck a bit more. I go to sideboard and....remember that I took out my Pithing Needles. Silently, I tell me to fuck myself later. Proceed to lose to game 2.

0-1

The next 5 rounds was me playing weird/untuned decks. All of my wins were 2-1s, those losses would all come on hilarious situations.

Against Jund Zombies, I crush him game 1 on the back of Fiend Hunter/Angel of Glory's Rise interaction (get Angel on the field with Fiend Hunter in the GY and hide the Angel under Fiend Hunter), he Dreadbores my Fiend Hunter hiding the Angel underneath, so I exile his Zombies, get a Huntmaster back and get my Fiend Hunter back...way to 4 for 0 yourself. I remember losing to a triple Messenger draw, but crush game 3 on the back of of the same interaction. Yes, I know that interaction is easily broken, but I put him on a severe lack of 3 damage instants. I boarded the same way against all of the zombie decks, -2 Conscripts -1 Gavony, +1 Fiend Hunter +1 Thragtusk +1 Vault.

Against RG Aggro, Huntmaster mirrors boil down to whoever flips their Huntmaster on their opponent's turn. My opponent did not realize this and lost. I play Serenity both games and crush. Had me at 3 one game, I activated Vault for 8 and that was that.

Against monoRed, I sat next to Brad Nelson and Caleb Durward. Diagonally across from 2 people that were featured on stream in the last 2 rounds. But I am playing against RDW. Game 1 he nut draws me, just hit 3 lands and went creature creature creature burn burn burn. Game 2, he loses to Huntmaster on 3, Thragtusk on 4, Vault on 5. Game 3, gets me to 3 life, proceeds to draw I shit you not...6 straight lands. Rough beats. A few interesting (hilarious) things happen in this round, I'll mention it later.

So I hit 5-1, feeling good. My friend is 6-0, looking like he made all the right calls. We head into round 7, I finally lose to Jund Zombies (Bloodthrone Vampire did #work) and sideboarded Deathrite Shaman. I am like place 58 right now after this round.

Round 8, I am playing against Caleb Durward's UR Delver deck. I knew he was playing it because he was sitting next to me in round 6 and likewise he knew what I was running. Proceed to punt the fuck out of game 1. I am not suppose to lose with 2 Fiend Hunters and 2 Huntmasters. I tossed my Conscripts the turn before he played Tamiyo (didn't think the deck could support Tamiyo) and gained him enough tempo before I can haymaker him out. I knew he was holding Bonfire (flipped on 2 off of Delver) and I didn't exactly think things through, should have left Gavony mana up and he was actually just dead from that. Game 2 I crush him when I draw 2 Conscripts and a Caverns to steal his flipped Delver with a Pike, taking him from 18 to 8 to dead. Game 3 he had the same setup and I didn't have the Conscripts and that's all she wrote.

Round 9, I sit down and the guy starts whining about Sphinx's Revelation. I am hoping to the Magic gods that he's playing a GW. Nope, playing Humans with Geist of Saint Traft. I laugh a little at this point and just lose straight up. Chance to make top 64 spoiled by my worst match up.

All in all disappointing to lose out of top 64.

My friend goes to draw his final round into....9th place. Honestly I can't even feel bad for my performance after that. He thought his tiebreakers were good enough to draw into top 8, 75% with 2 rounds to go and goes Win-Draw to 9th. #SuicideWatch

1. Walking to your seat and your opponent is on the same side of the aisle as you and it becomes an awkward who gets to walk.

2. My friend who use to play at the local store before her career (pay attention to this word choice) took her elsewhere. She was featured already before finally dropping a match. All of the (alleged) murderfaces were sitting in this little area, me, Durward, Nelson, her, another featured player, a zombies player and the RDW player. So the Zombies player starts hitting on her, #tryingrealhard. She doesn't mention she has a boyfriend already. Nelson is looking over occasionally. I am on autopilot with my deck against RDW so I am playing Observer-mode with all this. So zombies man asks what she does for a living, she goes an attorney. Nelson at this point shoots a look over. Zombies dude was like in I-hope-she-doesn't-return-the-question mode....and she shoots it back immediately. The guy goes UHHHHHHHHH. #struckout. Hilarious shit.

3. My other friend losing games because he can't count lands (or bother asking for lands) before making plays.

4. Another friend peeling his one of Bonfire. Miracling. I thought he should have yelled "ONE-OF!" and then slam it. Too nice to do so.

5. Same friend (playing Zombies) beating 2 Curse of Death's Hold after morbid Brimstone Volleys. Hilarious.

6. Hearing someone go take 18 doublestrike, go to 66.