Kadilak's Dual Land Draft 4/8/06

[Whit3 Ghost]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have the complete results?

[Kadishack]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have the complete results?

No...they are on the computer at the store. I will try and get them next time I go in if possible.

[Brushwagg]

1st rnd Brushwagg? U/G/B Thresh
Game 1: I grab the wasteland in my sideboard to waste his 1 of 2 Underground Seas. He taps the other Sea during his turn to cast Night's Whisper. I go off, while he is holding 2 Ghastly Demise
Game 2: I rip his hand to shredds, and he can't recover.

Playing Night's Whispers is usally an ok play. But I drew crap and payed the price for it.

Over all a very nice tourney. My only problem was the Sardine can seating. I have a very good time.

[Sims]

Props and Slops time.....Since I actually have the ability to post them.

Props:

Kadi for setting up a solid tourny.
The 58 player tournout.
Diablos, for blowing my mind and playing faster than a crack-head runs from cops.... while he was slowplaying.
Gaypr0n and Norm for letting me borrow the cards to actually play.
Everyone else for being cool as hell to me and not slaying me on my first outing to 'Cuse.
Rich, for not being OVERLY loud when yelling out time remaining, rules, etc. and running a pretty tight and well-organized ship

Slops:

Myself for holding up round 1 by 30 seconds cause I misread my table assignment.
Goblins, for being a bad deck and just getting shit on left and right.
Myself again, for folding to my own doubts and playing Goblins instead of ....well... anything else.
LegoArmyMan for winning the god damned cookies.
Rick, for not showing up. (HA!)
The 58 man turnout.....cramped seating is FTL.
Team Albany for not playing in months and scrubbing out like...well.. scrubs.


Overall, though, great tournament. Gratz to those who got their mitts on some lewtz.

[Bryant Cook]

Everyone else for being cool as hell to me and not slaying me on my first outing to 'Cuse.

I'm not gonna lie, I was the coolest round one opponent you've ever faced.

[Di]

Diablos, for blowing my mind and playing faster than a crack-head runs from cops.... while he was slowplaying.

wtf? Although I will admit, whenever anyone meets me for the first time, they are blown away my how crazy I am in real life. Come on, you people know it's true.

The tourny itself was pretty good. It was well run and I had some fun, even if I had to play Solidarity twice. Congrats to the people who made top8 and did better than everyone else.

I'd write props, but there were a lot of them. One consisting of smash. It was there, and I got to play and smack people around.

However, slops should be noted:

- My awful play during round 3.
- My sideboard, for not having anti-Solidarity.
- Mike Edinger for coming in 9th place.
- I quote from Mike Edinger, verbatum, "I want to have sex with Mike Herbig."
- Solidarity.
- The Gamecube memory card. There were barely any unlocked characters and NO Final Destination. Nobody got to see my real skill because I had to play on bad levels :p
- Jack Elgin, for you stole my Eternal Witness in pile. I will forever hold a grudge against you.

[Lego]

Team Albany for not playing in months and scrubbing out like...well.. scrubs.

I just have to point out that two players from Albany made Top 8. Then again, neither of them were part of "Team Albany" and one Albany player played Witch Tech, so Albany can't really claim a great showing.

[Peter_Rotten]

... and one Albany player played Witch Tech ...

We tried to talk him out of it. Or at least add Burning Wish.

[Lego]

We tried to talk him out of it. Or at least add Burning Wish.

I actually feel like the deck shouldn't be that bad, it's just that it has about one win condition.

[troopatroop]

Props:

LegoArmyMan for letting me borrow cards.
Matt P for still being cool.
Keeney for not ripping ass on the way down.
People... for being cool.

Slops:

Norm for ripping ass on the way down.
Luck. (This includes Goblin Ringleader/Pyrokenesis/Flashfires)
Me for making everyone listen to my bad beat stories.
Teeniebopper for lucksacking me and being a terrible technical player.
Double Cheeseburgers for costing 3 dollars at McDonalds.
People... for givin' me no respect.

Great tournament.

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

And what am I, chopped fucking liver?

I meant Adam but I typed Mike. My bad. You know I love you baby.

Other things I forgot;

Props and more also props;

Dave Price.
Jesse Krieger for the doughnuts.
Dane Cook.

[Drathro]

Ok, so here is my report. This was my fourth sanctioned tournament, only my second Legacy sanctioned tournament, and the first time I ever finished "in the money" (or even close), so bear with me if this is too verbose or too vague.

I'm breaking tradition and starting with props, because, hey, credit where credit is due:

Super Mad Props: God, whithout whom there are no true wins, only loss.
Mad Props: Lego_Army_Man(4th place!) for the Deadguy money cards and the playtesting.
Props:
- Godzilla for the original list.
- on1y0ne for putting up with a noob who was unprepared for REL 3.
- Black and Blue for being honest, when it would have been easy to be shady.
- Kadilak/Kadishak for the tourney. Nice!

Preliminaries completed, lets move to the list:

6 Swamp
4 Scrubland
2 Tainted Field
1 Bloodstained Mire
3 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland
1 Tomb of Urami
4 Dark Ritual

4 Dark Confidant
1 Nantuko Shade
2 Knight of Stromgald
1 Order of the Ebon Hand
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Withered Wretch

3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Sinkhole
1 Icequake
4 Vindicate

SB: 2 Pithing Needle
SB: 2 Darkblast
SB: 3 Perish
SB: 2 Dystopia
SB: 4 Engineered Plague
SB: 2 Cursed Scroll

That's the list. Most of the money cards were borrowed from Lego_Army_Man, and whatever he didn't have I tried to get (cheaply) or replaced with sub-optimal, but similar, cards. That's the explanation for the Pump Knights and the Icequake. I wanted to play one Shadow of Doubt (it's like a Sinkhole for fetchlands that draws you a card, is useful against all sorts of tutoring, and, at worst, cantrips for BB) instead of the Icequake, but didn't find one in time.

Tomb of Urami was added to increase the pressure this deck could apply, and, when I remembered to use it, it made a difference.

General impressions about the deck, based on todays matches:

* First turn Hyppie is savage.
* Dark Confidant is some good. Duh. Also, it is the new lighting rod, giving Hyppie a chance to actually survive a turn and hit the opponent.
* Maindeck Withered Wretch is SWEET. At least today it was.
* The deck had BB mana problems intermittently. I think a maindeck card may have to go for another Swamp (or maybe another Tomb of Urami).
* Use dice to choose which cards for random discard effects. It eliminates any intentional, or even unintentional, leading of the card choice.

Incoherent mini-report (few details, mostly general impressions, possibly some incorrect facts, mispelled names, etc):

Round 1: Matt playing Irish Wombat. I forgot to ask his Source name.
Game One: I took the first game rapidly, off the strength of an early Hyppie, if I recall correctly.
Game Two: I set a sideboarded Pithing Needle to Eternal Dragon, but he mauled me with 1/1 soldier tokens and Humilty in play.
Game Three: I managed to use my sideboarded Cursed Scroll pinging tokens, and he made a critical mistake with his Nantuko Monastery, causing him to sacrifice it to Dystopia. Eventually, game three came down to the wire - he had one card in hand, and I only pumped my Pump Knight up to lethal - then, when he didn't concede before damage went on the stack, I remembered he ran Renewed Faiths. Finally paying attention for the win. Dystopia death roll call this game: Eternal Dragon, Nantuko Monastery, Eternal Dragon.

(1-0-0 matches/2-1 games)
Round 2: Jesse (Mad Zur) playing UGW Thresh
Game One: I don't see a Withered Wretch and have no delaying tactics, so 4/4 lycanthropic bears and 3/3 untargetables swing in unimpeded.
Game Two: Two sideboarded Perish and a Confidant delay long enough for my growing army to destroy him.
Game Three: I made a critical error, stemming from the fact that I added Tomb of Urami to the deck at 1:00 am the night before. The game went to time, and, when time was called, I didn't have enough damage in play to kill him. However, I did have Tomb of Urami in play with enough mana to crack it for a 5/5 Flying Legendary Demon. Did it occur to me before turn 4 of time? Draw - which should have been a win.

(1-0-1/3-2)
Round 3: Jim (Jim) playing "What's That Do?" (Death Cloud with graveyard recursion)
Game One: An early Wretch slowed his assault until it was Putrefied. I kept swinging until he played a Kokusho. Fortunately for me, his life total was so low by then that he had to keep the Drain-Life Star back on blocking. Unfortunately for him, I kept playing creatures until he couldn't block them all.
Game Two: Turn two random discard stole the Putrefy in his hand, and another early Wretch plus a sideboarded Engineered Plague set to "Shaman" ruined his recursive day. I really liked his deck; I'm a B/g mage at heart, so he didn't need to explain Death Cloud to me.

(2-0-1/5-2)
Round 4: Matt (SpatulaOfTheAges) playing Ninja Deck Wins
He never saw survival, which would have helped him a fair bit. Obviously.
Game One: Swords to Plowshares, lots of blocking creatures, and First Strike activated on Order of the Ebon Hand against a 3/2 Skullsnatcher brought me the win.
Game Two: I Duressed his sideboarded Engineered Plague, and when he plays a second one naming Clerics, it isn't enough to stop my Withered Wretch from negating his Eternal Witnesses. I kept recurring sideboarded Darkblast to try to kill the swamp-walking Filth he boarded in, but he kept playing X/1 cretaures that got Darkblasted instead. However, Filth is only a 2/2 and couldn't race my pump guy (Nantuko Shade this time, I think).

(3-0-1/7-2)
Round 5: Brian (Ewokslayer) with Solidarity
Ugh - I have had no good playtest results against this deck, despite how I'm supposed to have a good matchup - I probably don't know how to play it right, which doesn't bode well for me.
Game One: I think I cracked a fetchland, before he combos out.
Game Two: My deck loves me, as I get two early Hyppies before he can take control. A Wretch joins in to speed his demise.
Game Three: I start out with a first turn Hyppie, second turn Confidant, End-of thrid turn Urami 5/5 flying Legenadary Demon. All the while, the Hyppie is merrily stealing his key cards.
I decide during this match that Remand is the card that transformed Solidarity into a contender.

(4-0-1/9-3)
Round 6: ID with Jack Elgin (TheInfamousBearAssassin), who by the way, is playing a cool Helldozer Deck.

So, after 6 rounds, I am into the top eight with a 4-0-2 record. Not too shabby.

Top Eight:
Quarterfinals: Mike Herbig (herbig) with Solidarity
Games one and two: Mike gets the double High Tide draw. I probably mis-Duress. He steamrolls me. Congrats Mike, it feels a little better to have lost to one of the top 2 split.

I was seventh in the draft. Conventional wisdom says that I should have taken the Scrublands, but I'm much more likely to be able to use Bayous, especially after Lego_Army_Man graduates, moves away, and takes back all his Deadguy money cards.

[Nightmare]

Savage Mini Report, a la Mr. Nightmare:

Playing the prettiest UGW thresh deck in the place. Sooooo shiney....

Rd. 1: Some guy playing UB reanimator/dimir/stuff.

Game 1: Force of Will his Animate Dead, beat with some Pro:Black Flier. He was stuck on 2 swamps with a grip fulla Blue. He discarded a lot, so I saw some cards.
Game 2: Allow him to reanimate my Werebear, Swords it since it was in my Mongoose's way, and he didn't have Threshold anyway.
1-0

Round 2: IBA (Trainwreck)

Game 1: He plays lands and bombs. His deck is lands and bombs. I try to keep up, but this deck smashes Gro's face in. I lose to a Haunting Echoes that eats my whole Library.
Game 2: See game 1.
1-1

Round 3: Brushwagg (UGB Thresh)
Game 1: We battle over stupid stuff like Werebear etc. until Enforcer takes it home.
Game 2: He gets early thresh, and starts swinging. I stablize, and the boards are wiped. A topdeck war ensues, and Confidant ensures his topdecks are better.
Game 3: I think I won on turn 4.
2-1

Round 4: Getsickanddie (Berserking Affinity)
Game 1: I was supposed to get a game loss for being late to the match, but I was on time, and couldn't fit between Peter Rotten and Wastedlife's fat asses. So I talk to the judge and get it reduced to a Warning. Then I proceed to lose anyway.
Game 2: I lost anyway.
2-2

Round 5: Diablos (Some pile of land)
Game 1: He does turn 3 Moat, I don't have a Force (used it on Exploration), and he bores me to death till I scoop for time.
Game 2: He bores me to death again.
2-3

Round 6: No opponent FTW
3-3

Now, fuck this, I just wanted to do Props and Slops.

Props:
- Me, for making those sweet, sweet, Adept Nametags.
- Jack and Matt, for bringing Pile
- The VA crew for making the haul
- The adult VA crew for coming out drinking.
- Norm for the hot FBB duals
- Kadi for making an asston of $$$ off this tournament

Slops:
- I want my Mox from Bville.
- Hooters, for making me ill.
- Pairings, for yet again making me play only people I could play any day (and IBA, who was my worst matchup)
- Ian's parents, for not fucking a year earlier.
- Kadi's mom's cookies. My mom could cook circles around your mom.
- P_R for jumping in the van and taking off before we could abduct him and force him to come drinking. Wuss.

[calosso]

I FUCKING lost to Fucking RUINATION played by Mulletus, and I was playing goblins.

God Damn it.

Props
All Va players (congrats Alix for winning)
Super smash bros.
Diablos getting smashed by my raw skill

Slop
shitty memory card
Edinger making 9th
NDW not making top 8

[Bryant Cook]

I FUCKING lost to Fucking RUINATION played by Mulletus, and I was playing goblins.

God Damn it.

Props
All Va players (congrats Alix for winning)
Super smash bros.
Diablos getting smashed by my raw skill

Slop
shitty memory card
Edinger making 9th
NDW not making top 8

Maybe, just maybe you shouldn't of fetched for 4 badland, have a port, and wasteland. There's these awesome things called basics, they're Uber-techy. Although, you get props for buying cards and buying half my dinner at hooters.

[calosso]

Maybe, just maybe you shouldn't of fetched for 4 badland, have a port, and wasteland. There's these awesome things called basics, they're Uber-techy. Although, you get props for buying cards and buying half my dinner at hooters.

I didn't even fetch for the lands I drew 3 badlands 2 burrows and a wastelands.

No problem for the cash.

[Kadishack]

Here are the decks that were at the tournament:

7 Gro Decks
-4 UGw
-2 UGb
-1 UGr
6 Solidarity
6 Goblins
-3 Mono Red
- 2 Green Splash
- 1 Black Splash
4 Rifter
3 Angel Stompy
-2 Mono White
-1 3 color
3 Deadguy Ale
3 Survival Variants
-1 Welder Survival
-1 RG Survival Advantage
-1 Ninja Deck Wins
3 Loam Variants
-1 Lightning Loam
-1 Loam Aggro Control
-1 Turbo Loam
3 Sligh
-2 Mono Red
-1 Dryad Sligh
2 FlameVault
-1 URb control
-1 UR Stasis
2 Salvager Game
2 Zilla Stompy
1 Affinity w/ Berserk
1 Irish Wombat
1 Train Wreck
1 Zombie Deck Wins
1 Scepter Chant
1 Angel Stax
1 Landstill
1 BR Aggro
1 Faerie Stompy
1 Garv.Dec
1 Curse of Dimir
1 Sensei Sensei
1 Death Cloud
1 GW Control

Bolded for clarity. - Zilla

[Lego]

That's kind of a strange meta. And I faced every Survival deck at the tournament. Weird.

Did anyone realize that there were more Plains in the T8 than any other card? Next up is Swamp. Not really what I expected. The most prevelant non-land card was Brainstorm, probably followed by Serum Visions. Weird, huh?

[Bryant Cook]

There would of been 3 gro decks in top8 if it weren't for Phil Stolze and my mana flood... One of each color at that.

[FakeSpam]

After looking at the CaNGD forum, I'm shocked that Life From the Loam wasn't as prevalent.