The LiquidLegends Lounge - Page 1410

Basically I played multiple Brazen Wolves and one Outcast and used Bombardments and Drag Under to get rid of his stuff and he couldn't do much. He had some decent cards like the Watcher in the Web and Noose Constrictor, but nothing premium and stuff like Groundskeeper who won't slow me down.
Match went 2-0 but still pretty long since he can take some time to decide his plays, and I tried to explain him some stuff (like play as late as you can, and why Noose Constrictor is very good even though it doesn't look like it at first glance).

Game 1 he's on the play, I keep a 2-lander with a bombardment and multiple 3-drops, I miss my 3rd land and he plays Stensia Inkeeper with a Censer on the field. I draw my 3rd land but can't play anything so I'm two turns behind on the draw, that's about as good as dead in this match-up. I topdeck bombardment #2 but Inkeeper is now a 4/4, and he lets my Breakneck Rider flip to kill it with Collective Effort.

Game 2 I'm a bit short on creatures, partly because I had like 13 in the deck, partly because I'm flooding like mad, and Gisela hits the field almost on curve. He gets to hit once after equipping her with the Censer, then I play Sleep Paralysis on her.
Couple turns, I'm actually putting down the beats with flipped Breakneck powering my hard-cast Gryff (I'm flooding means I'm flooding), he plays Collective Effort again and I figure I've prob lost since he can remove Sleep Paralysis with it. He even looks at my board and mumbles "Hm... no, you don't have any enchantment..." and obviously I say nothing.
He goes back on the offensive on the back of Spectral Reserves and Cultist Staff on his ground creatures, but I flash in Drownyard Behemoth (hard-cast again obviously) and remove one.
He's short on life and I'm still high enough to survive a couple crackbacks so he tries to stall but dies in a couple turns.
(Once the match is over I tell him about Collective Effort though, but not during the game.)

Game 3 we're both flooding, he plays some 2-drop that I kill, then he plays Cultist Staff, next play is my t5 Outcast which he kills with a naked Collective Effort.
The game is a drag and he draws his spectral reserves while I struggle finding my creatures, a Spontaneous Mutation stalls for time but me flooding his excellent for him since either he can play on curve, or if we're both slow whatever he plays will be equipped and automatically stronger.
In the end we approach time and it's clear I can't win with the reserves' lifegain and his Lone Rider. Rise from the Tides gums up the ground a bit and a Bombardment kills a flying token during turns, but as he attacks with everything my Drownyard Behemoth blocks the Rider with the Staff and reminds him that he had it on board (he could have killed me 2-3 turns earlier had he equipped a spirit), so he equips, I topdeck... a land, surprise, and he swings for exact lethal on turn 5.

That match left me a bit salty. Obviously his deck was better than mine, and not picking up the Weaver of Lightning which would have utterly destroyed all his tokens and even easily let me ping 2-toughness creatures later on was my mistake (it's def. better than the second bombardment or outcast), but it also felt like, well... he opened two bombs in his colours and drew at least one all 3 games, also the Rider as an almost-bomb showed up all 3 games, and despite my cantrips I just couldn't find much (Rise once, Behemoth twice, one of both Outcasts once, but never the Reduce for example).

He'll actually win the draft. 2-0 in the finals, despite being stuck on 3 lands for basically all of game 1. His GW opponent flooded very hard too (8 lands to 3 at some point) and had both his restraints as the bottom 2 cards of his deck, while with 3 lands you can play the Rider, play the Censer, equip it, and go to town.
Game 2 was kinda more of the same with one guy flooding (less so but still) and the other drawing his bombs.

He got the Murder, Vexing Scuttler, Haunted Dead, Boon of Emrakul, From Under the Floorboards and Ever After I passed him, and another Murder, Gisa & Geralf, Elder Deep-Fiend and Noosegraf Mob.
Not much U I assume because he got nothing packs 1 and 3, somebody prob passed Deep-Fiend to him somehow pack 2, and a couple other cards. He also got Rancid Rats pack 3 for the ultimate ground stall with the siblings.
I don't know what would have been stronger, this deck or me going BR removal... I think my hypothetical one. Siblings and Mob/rats/Skaab, and Deep-Fiend make for a higher ceiling but I'd literally kill everything and only need a couple creatures to grind out a win.

Game 1 I knew he had the Siblings and as he showed me a couple zombies I decided I needed to find 3+ Bombardments or Reduce so I'd be able to kill it before he got any value.
I drew several cards early, got to my 3rd Bombardment and held it. He revealed a Murder trying to kill my (hexproof) Drownyard Behemoth, and killed it on my upkeep instead, then Emerged the Scuttler to get it back.
I flip my Conduit of Storms EoT to force him to use it, better than nothing.
When I tried to cast Skin Invasion on his Dragoon with my Gryff out he sac'd it to reveal Deep-Fiend, in response to the tapping I floated U and give it -8/-0 with Mutation once it hit the field.
When the siblings hit, after holding my 3rd Bombardment for something like 5 turns I killed them immediatly.
In the end Gryff beats won.

Game 2 I keep a 2-lander on the draw, miss my 3rd land drop (rings a bell?), so I start getting hit a bit, he drops the siblings before I get removal available but it makes him mill the Deep-Fiend.
Attacks with Haunted Dead, Accomplice and the spirit, Bombardment on Accomplice, Grotesque Mutation to save it so I answer with Jace's Scrutiny just to avoid the 10 life swing.
His board is wider than mine and I start flooding (rings a bell?) so despite us both being low he wins, another Dragoon and the spirit were a clock anyway. I had the Gryff but it blocked something then got removed with Boon.

It was actually close in terms of life, and hearing him complain that it was too close and stuff and that his deck didn't work well when he still won in spite of milling Deep-Fiend, not getting any zombies in the yard (duh, I can kill a non-zombie and a zombie with the same stats, are you surprised I choose the former?), not finding any of his Murders, and never actually attacking with the Siblings (who're still a 4/4)?
It tends to piss me off, tho I was just annoyed and said nothing this time.
Game 1 was also very close (and decided by my having a flyer) and he played 3 Murders, Siblings, Deep-Fiend and Scuttler (that my Behemoth ambushed). My deck went off and lucky and I got my 3rd Bombardment for the Siblings, made him Mill Ever After, neutralised Deep-Fiend with one of my two removal then in hand, and was patient enough to get a 6-zombies Rise from the Tides when he tried to go wide to kill me before the Gryff clock. Are you never happy?

Game 3 I was on the play, killed a 2-drop with Bombardment, countered a Skaab with Convolute (I knew it was a mistake but my hand wasn't giving me anything and I tried to go for tempo when I was better off playing the value game), t4 he plays the Siblings (punished) with I Drag Under.
I play the Outcast, he replays the Skaab and at some point I kill the Siblings with Jace's Scrutiny and the Outcast but he Murders it a bit later. I have a Conduit of Storms out and transformed and attack with it, he lets me through and I use the mana to cast my stuff... when I have stuff to cast because I'm flooding again. I even cast Cultist->Gryff on 6 mana to cycle 2 cards, and I... get two lands. Fuck this shit seriously.
When the Mob comes down, I play outcast and Breakneck Rider and block whatever I can. It looks like due to him willingly tanking my 5/4 I might have actually won if he hadn't had a spell to play, since then I'd have the Breakneck Rider to have a 6/4, 5/3 and 5/4 all trampling when he had 3 life left. As is, he only had to chump the first two and oppose 5 toughness to the Outcast to win.