Please include what kind of event it was, game/match results for every round, and the deck/play quality of your opponents. Also, it would be helpful if you could explain how you sideboarded for each match.
R1: Tempered Steel (2-0)
Not much to see, I wound his lifelink flyer and bash in with stingers and specters before he gets me, distress on tempered steel gets in there too I believe
R2: Red Deck Wins (2-1)
First game he leads with spikeshot elder and my 1/1's look pretty bad. He crushes me before I get anything going. G2+3 I smash him in with Vatmother and Crusaders and finish him off with a fair amount of life left both games
R3: Mono Black Infect (0-2)
He draws Lashwrithes and skittles and I don't :/
R4: UB Control (2-0)
I distress him t2 and then crusader comes down and mops him up game one. In game two I connect with a sworded up spellskite for a couple of turns as he fails to develop much of a game
R5: Township Token (2-0)
He creates a bunch of tokens, but none of them fly and I come over top with flyers and big skittles in the first game. In the second game I bomb away his tokens and get him with Lashwrite for damage
R6: Solar Flare (2-0)
Kind of a unconventional version with obliterators , but ultimetly he's too slow to compete with me and my discard spells.
R7: Wolf Run Ramp (Dungrove Version) (2-1)
8 players with 5-1 means everyone needs to play. The games are all quite tight and the one game I lose is when I only had 1 infect creature and it was too slow to get there.
Quarters: Wolf Run Ramp (WG version) (2-1)
He's running a planeswalker heavy version with Gideon in them as well. First two games are split and pretty standard. The third game we battle with him having two mirran crusaders and me having two phyrexian crusaders, but ultimately I manage to win the game on a topdeck to lashwrithe up my creature and win on 2 life
Semis: Wolf Run Ramp (Dungrove Version) (1-2)
I mulligan to 4 the first game, destroy him in the second game and in the third game he goes quad runner to win the game with 9 poison damage :/
I think that I would have won the finals against Bant Pod since that should be a pretty good matchup, but oh well
Top 8 was ;
1 Bant Pod
2 Wolf Run Ramp
3 Infect
4 Wu Humans
5 Infect
6 Wolf Run Ramp
7 Wolf Run Ramp
8 Unkown
Round 1 vs RDW, relatively new player
Game 1: I virulent wound his first turn stormkurk noble. He plays shrine t2. I distress, see 2 koths, a chandra, and a galvanic blast. Since he only had 2 land, I picked the galvanic blast so it wouldn't up his shrine, and I wasn't too scared of Chandra. Turn 3 he has no play, then I drop a phyrexian crusader, and draw and play 2 more crusaders. He stays on 3 land and can't do anything... after the game I tell him the shrine can kill crusaders
SB: +1 despise, +3 virulent wounds, +1 tumble magnet, +1 wurmcoil +1 necropede
-4 plague stinger, -1 tezzeret's gambit, -2 trigon of rage
Game 2: Same as game one, he stormkurks, i virulent wounds. He plays spikeshot elder which I kill. He gets stuck on 2 mana. I play a crusader my turn 3, and then end up equipping it with double lashwrithes for the win.
Round 2 vs RDW (Again)
This player is more experienced plus I knew he ran 4 dismembers mainboard, so I was concerned
G1: My opening hand is 2 inkmoths, 3 swamps, a distress, and a spellskite. I decide to keep.
He opens with stromkirk and it gets to 2/2 before I can block. I have drawn a swamp and a plague stinger, so I don't want the stromkirk to get unbeatable by my weenies. I block and the spellskite gets the expected incinerate to finish him off. I draw another plague stinger, another inkmoth, and 2 more swamps, while he drops a spikeshot elder. Looking at a hand of just land and with only several turns to live against a growing stromkirk, I scoop... a turn early(I would have had one more turn to live) but I didn't want to look at 4 lands in my hand anymore and my only "possible" out really was my singleton batterskull...
G2: My opening hand was 2 spellskites, a crusader, and 4 lands. He plays stormkurk, I play spellskite ready to block. He dismembers and plays a 2nd stromkirk, so now there is a 2/2 and a 1/1. I play another spellskite, and block the 1/1 stormkurk and take 2. He doesn't play another creature. I play crusader. I play my crusader, and start swinging with him and inkmoth, my 2 spellskites blocking the stromkurks. He has a shrine out, but I get to 6 lands and drop a wurmcoil and I'm at 15 still so that was it.
G3: He mulls to 5. Turn 1, land, go. Turn 2, land go, I distress and see 2 mountains and 3 geistflame :P. I play a crusader my turn 3, he does not draw creatures or an answer really. I draw 2 more distresses so I'm running on just the crusader, but he doesn't get the needed shrine or dismember so I get him in 5 swings.
Rnd 3: Not really of note, a new young player, a 75 card U/W deck with not a ton of rares. He got a bye so he was 1-1, and I got paired down...
Rnd 4 vs U/W blade
G1: he mulls to 6 I keep, Spellskite, 2 plague stingers, inkmoth, distress, 2 swamps.
I'm on the play, I distress him turn 2, and see 2 snapcasters, an oblivion ring, a disperse, and a 2nd land, I get rid of a snapcaster. Looking good for me. Turn 3 I play plague stinger. His turn 3, he plays Geist... ah darn wish that was in his opening... well I should still have this. My turn 4 I play a tezz gambit after swinging with a plague stinger.... I figure I can go down to 12 then solidify my boar4d with what I have. His turn 4 he plays angelic destiny, he topdecked Geist and Angelic Destiny on his turn 2 and 3... I die.
T1 and T2 I target his hand with a distress and a despise, I take out a Geist and a Gideon, leaving him with 3 land(1 in play), a consecrated sphinx, and a sword of war and peace.
Turn 2 he swings for 1 with inkmoth
Turn 3 I play phyrexian crusader.
His turn 3, he plays a sword of war and peace and has his inkmoth out.
Turn 4 I swing for 2, and also play plague stinger. and exile his geist from his gy with spellbomb so he can't make a spirit.
His turn 4 he swings for 3 infect and I also take 2 dmg from sword of war and peace trigger.
My turn 5 I swing for 3 infect and gambit, 6-4 my lead now,
He swings for 3 again with inkmoth, putting me at 7 infect, but then I play lashwrithe to get to 10.
G3:
No discard in my opening hand. I can't remember the plays exactly... no discard, but I was able to stop a t3 geist with a phyrexian metamorph. He stopped lots of my threats, countering a tezz gambit and a lashwrithe, and dismembering a phyrexian crusader. I was able to stop his feast and famined inkmoth with my inkmoth. I then pushed through with a batterskulled whispering specter and a skithyrix.
Round 5 - vs G/W humans
This match was quite easy compared to previous ones, just good draws and good matchup I suppose.
G1, I virulent wound his champion of the parish and despise away his hamlet captain. I end up drawing 3 crusaders which power through and kill him.
He plays a gideon lawkeeper t1, I do nothing my t1, holding a virulent wounds.
His t2 he plays a champion of the parish after I take 1 dmg from an attack, I virulent wound his champion then my t2 I contagion clasp the lawkeeper.
His t3 he plays a land. I play a tezz gambit, bringing him to 2 infect and hoping for a 4th land to ensure my lashwrithe drops, but I don't draw it until my next draw phase.
He passes, during my turn he beast withins my swamp but during my main phase, so I play a lashwrithe with the land I drew.
He passes, then beast withins my lashwrithe and I swing for 3. I play distress, he has Gideon, Hero of Bladehold, and DOJ, I now have a crusader in my hand so I choose the DOJ. He goes another turn without a land, so I get crusader out and swing for 6 with the beasts. He plays the hero of bladehold, but I end up infecting him to 10 with the crusader and an inkmoth.
Round 1: Solar Flare (handicapped missing snapcasters) win 2-1
Game 1: I'm on the draw... turn 2 bug gets countered. Turn three crusader lands. Turn 4 lashwrithe lands and it's pretty much game.
Sideboard:
In
2 Nihil Spellbomb
3 liliana of the veil
Out
2 virulent wound
1 contagion Clasp
2 dismember
Game 2:
He removes all of my creatures up until he drops elesh norn and I scoop.
Game 3: turn 2 bug gets countered again. Turn 3 specter gets countered. Turn 4 lashwrithe lands. Turn 5 crusader lands. turn six he drops a Grave titan. I activate inkmoth and equip and swing for 5. He swings for ten with grave titan and I block with the crusader. Next turn it's game over.
Round 2: Mono Black infect win 2-0
I had talked to this guy before the match and he was hoping to mirror match me and got his wish.
Game 1: I'm on the play. I got my lashwrithe out first meaning I win. My removal package is much bigger than his so he can't stick a creature and I get to keep most of mine.
Sideboard:
In
2 BSZ
2 Virulent Wound
Out
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 tumble magnet
1 Batterskull
Game 2: I'm on the draw. I despise a lashwrithe out turn 2 and get dirty looks. He drops a few creatures that get removed I drop and stick a specter and a batterskull. Game over.
Round 3: Mono Black infect loss 0-2
Basically the same game except I couldn't draw anything but land with a lashwrithe and a batterskull in hand both games.
Round 4: Zombies! Win 2-0
Deck had been made five minutes before fnm started... Not much else to say about this round.
Round 5: Mono black infect (AGAIN!) ID for top 8
We played it out just for fun to see and I destroyed the guy both games.
TOP 8:
Round 1: Solar Flare (Same guy as before) win 2-0
Both games were closer but ended the same way.
Round 2: Mono Black Infect (Same guy as in round 5) win 2-0
Game 1: I get the draw. He plays lands for three turns while I pump out a spellbomb turn 1 a bug turn 2 and then an inkmoth and start swinging until I drop a lashwrithe. He drops a lashwrithe and I victim his specter that he equips to. I swing in for the win with lashwrithe and a bug.
Sideboard:
In
2 BSZ
2 Virulent Wound
1 Liliana of the Veil
Out
2 batterskull
2 spellbomb
1 tumble magnet
Game 2:
Opening hand has a BSZ in it and a creature so I keep. Turn 1 is land go turn 2 he drops a bug and I inkmoth nexus and say go. Turn three He drops a necropede and passes. I drop BSZ for 1 and pass the turn. He sits at four mana and I draw a lashwrithe and drop it. Game over.
Decided to split top 2.
As a note of particular interest... there were 6 MBI present at the FNM so I got a very unbalanced view of the meta. However I learned a lot about the mirror match. I hope I sideboarded correctly. In any case I felt pretty good about the deck.
Rd1- Mono white something or other
Newer player, not a great build, and I am on the draw. Crusaders and Stingers seal the deal G1.
G2 he tries to O-Ring a Crusader, than have to call the Judge to clairify the ruling, as he is arguing that "he was able to ring an Emerakul" After losing the argument, a T4 lash on a stinger forces him to scoop. No Inky's show up either game.
1-0
Rd2- Mono white soldiers
Deck built a little better and player was a better player also, but doesn't really stand a chance against MBI, in my opnion.
G1 I am on the draw again. Have the "God" hand: Stinger, Crusader, Mutagenic Growth, 3 Swamps and Despise.
T1 he drops Lawmaker
Draw Inky, play swamp despise. Remove Gideon
him: draw plains lawkeeper
me: draw growth, play inky, stinger
him: draw plains attack
me: draw silver dagger, play swamp, crusader attack
him: draw plans elite vanguard attack
me: draw 3rd growth attack with crusader, equipped with dagger and 3 growths. best game I ever played. Why he didn't tap anything down with the lawkeeper is a mystery to me.
G2 Goes pretty much the same, but I am able to attach a Lash to a Specter to have him discard his hand and scoop.
2-0
Rd3 B/U control. One of the better players here, and much better than me.
On the draw (see a pattern?) Have a good opening hand. He mulls to 6. He is able to keep me off the board, but I am chipping away with a single Inky. Finally able to stick a lash and he scoops.
G2 he mulls to 6 again. I had little trouble beating him since he wound up Ghost Quartering his own land to find a swamp so he could play a creature. I kinda felt bad, he is a good player and a great guy to hang with and test. I know his build could beat mine, but it wasn't his night.
3-0 (6-0)
Semi's
RDW. Once again on the draw. Had to mull to 5, as both hands had 0 lands in them. Game over before it started.
G2 Have a good opening hand, with 3 swamps, crusader growth metamorph and Hand of the Praetors.
T1 he plays stormkirk
Me draw swamp
him attack then plays Falkernath
me draw play swamp stinger
him draw incinerates stinger attacks then play 2nd stormkirk
me draw play crusader
he plays Koth and I cringe. attacks let damage through. Plays Shrine
me draw lash (stuck on 3 lands) attack with crusader (mistake#1)
him draw +1 Koth attacks with field. OUCH. Lose crusader.
draw dagger (?wtf?) still on 3 land play metamorph coping falkernath. Need a blocker.
Him Koth ultimate attack with everything. scoop.
0-2. Should have went after Koth instead of player. Might of had a chance if I get Koth off the board
Deck was awesome even though I didn't win. Had fun with it, which is the bottom line. I do need to up the land count to at least 23, even though I didn't miss a land drop until I needed it most. Also noticed there was no way to get rid of the Shrine of Burning Rage, as I didn't draw into a Distress (SB Card) All Stars of the deck are the Crusaders, hands down. Also, when Praetors hits the field, it does need to be answered as janky as it is. I like it simply because it is a removal magnet. I may take out the Metamorph for a land as well as the Dagger to get my count to 24. And RDW is a beatable deck. I just didn't see any of the SB cards and just had bad luck.
Match 1
MBI vs Illusions 2-1
Game 1
First game I get a Plague Stinger out and some inkmoths. He mana leaks my Crusader and had plenty of illusions out already. I think he beat me down with the dragon.
Game 2
SB in more removal, take out Tezz Gambit, Spellskite, Phyrexian Metamorph
I get plenty of Inkmoths out, and land a lashwrithe. Game over soon after.
Game 3
Again I keep removing all his creatures. Land a lashwrithe and not much else he could do.
1-0
Match 2
MBI vs Illusions 2-0
Game 1 I keep targeting his illusions and peck away with Inkmoths. On turn 6 he finally lands a Wurmcoil Engine, but I just fly over it with the Inkmoth and win.
Game 2 I play Plague Stinger, Crusader, Inkmoths and get him to about 6 infect. He then gets 2 "illusion hexproof" creatures out. Lands the dragon, and Phyrexian Metamorphs 2 more dragons. I land a Lashwrithe and equip to Crusader. He doesn't wish to attack and I keep attacking with 9/9 Crusader. He chump blocks with the "illusions hexproof" guys first and I eventually get through for the win.
2-0
Match 3
MBI vs BW Control/Mill 2-1
Game 1 I get milled pretty bad. He countered a few things, Day of Judement, and milled me real bad with Jave, Memory Adept.
Game 2 I get a lot of land and end up with 3 Lashwrithe in my hand. I end up attacking him for 9 dmg and he Day of Judement next turn. I play another Lashwrithe and quip. the other Lashwrithe to it. He plays Gideon, and upps the ability. I kill Gideon next turn and play another Lashwrithe. Attack next turn for like 25 dmg.
Game 3 he lands no counters. I play 2 Crusaders and a plague stinger. He milled me some, but I believe he had mana problems the last game.
3-0
Match 4
MBI vs WRR 2-0
Game 1 was a brease. He gets stuck at 2 mana, and I play Plague Stinger and Inkmoth. He gets like 5 poison by turn 4 and I play Lashwrithe and win.
Game 2 I get a couple licks in with Plague Stinger and Inkmoth. He gets a Primeval Titan out and puts 2 inkmoths in play. I doom blade his Titan and he tries to kill me with infect. I GFTT one of the Inkmoths that he pumped with his wolf run. He managed to get me to 5 poison. Next turn he thinks he will get me with the last Inkmoth and I dissmember it.
4-0 overall
3-2 two weeks ago at the same event. FNM with 18-20 people.
A couple things I've noticed is that Skithiryx is not really needed. Every game I won I never had on the battlefield. I had him in my hand, but the opponent was already dead before I could use them.
I wanted to try and put Mutagenic Growth in the SB, but I only sided them in once and didn't draw on the play. I was playing Phyrexian Metamorph and I'm starting to think its not worth playing. Only things I really would need it for is Thurn, Mirran Crusader, Wurmcoil, and the like. I think they will come in handy, but my meta really didn't need them tonight. I think I may be taking Nim Deathmantle out even though it pwnz when you have a lot of land. Spellskite didn't see much play but I didn't go against andy RDW.
For this type of deck, I think what helps the most is just putting in more removal. If I'm playing agains control I'll SB in all the extra creatures. For agro I just SB in all the removal.
I only had 3 Lashwrithes going into the tournament. I've since gotten the 4th.
Round 1 - GW Midrange (1-2)
G1: I pick away his hand and get him to 9 poison before he stabilizes with an O-Ring on Skittles. I draw blanks for 3 turns before losing to Garruk Relentless' overrun. SB: -2 Livewire Lash -1 Whispering Specter +2 Black Sun's Zenith +1 Virulent Wound
G2: I have removal + Liliana for every creature he casts and quickly win with Crusader + Lashwrite.
G3: He out-tempos me and protects his Garruk from my 1/1s with Mortarpods.
0-1
Round 2 - UB Grimgrin Combo (2-1)
G1: I punt this game by distressing Scholar instead of Ooze turn 2 with no removal and set his combo up for him. SB: -3 Virulent Wound -1 Curse of Death's Hold -1 Ratchet Bomb +2 Nihil Spellbomb +2 Memoricide +1 Whispering Specter G2: I curve out with Distress, Crusader, Lashwrite and win turn 5.
G3: Distress & Specter strip him of a hand. Easy clean-up from there.
1-1
Round 3 - UR Delver Aggro (2-1)
G1: I kill an early Delver and Lavamancer, and he proceeds to draw 9 lands.
SB: I don't remember exactly what I took out. I suspected he was some sort of control deck with Delver and Lavamancer to apply pressure. I side out some removal for Specter & BSZ probably. G2: As he's shuffling he asks his deck to give him a more aggro start and I kick myself. We trade creatures for a while, but he whittles me down with Chandra & Burn the Impure. SB: I realize that he's the aggro and board in 11 cards. I want to blank his red removal so I board out my 1/1s for Vatmothers and a pile of removal. -4 Plague Stinger -3 Whispering Specter -2 Livewire Lash +1 Virulent Wound +2 Black Sun's Zenith +2 Dismember +4 Phyrexian Vatmother
G3: Wierdest game I've played in a while. I keep a hand full of discard & removal. Turn 2 Distress reveals a hand of Dismembers & Burn the Impures. Liliana starts stripping both our hands of removal spells to clear the path for some guys. He casts Chandra and keeps Liliana from getting into ultimate range. This goes on for 6-7 of turns. I stick a Vatmother and Crusader but he finally starts drawing his creatures to chump for Chandra. Eventually I grind through them, kill Chandra and win.
2-1
Round 4 - Mono Black Aggro? not infect (2-0)
G1: He plays some random dorks. I kill the relevant ones, Mind Sludge him with Specter, and kill him with Skittles. SB: -2 Livewire Lash +2 Dismember
G2: He gets stuck on mana. Distress, Liliana & Specter put him in topdeck mode and Skittles comes in for clean-up.
3-1
Overall I was really happy with the deck & board. The removal suite might need to be tightened up a little, but our store is so diverse I like having a variety of different answers (and the ones I don't need in a given match-up can just be Liliana fodder, I guess :-/). The only thing I didn't like were the Livewire Lashes. I'm cutting both for the 4th Lashwrithe and maybe another Ratchet Bomb to help with opposing planeswalkers (being awesome vs tokens/Delver doesn't hurt either).
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I saw where a hippo was not, and said no. This will not do.
FNM
23 players, 0-2 (dropped)
Not really a report as I was consistently mana screwed for 4 of the 5 games I played.
G1-Mono Black aggro?
On the play, I have an openiong hand of 3 swamps crusader Lash 2 stingers.
draw no more lands and Liliana cleans my clock between discard and sacraficing. I was able to GftT a Royal Assissan. Twice. He brought it back with Disemtomb. 2 janky cards beat me.
G2 was much of the same, except I kept a 2 land hand and didn't draw any. He had the nerve to play Praetors Grasp and take a Skittles.
0-1 (0-2)
Illusions
On the draw I keep a decent hand, 3 swamps, 2 Inky's Metamorph, Crusader.
Play Inky
Play inky, swing
swamp swing
he finally puts down something other than an Island. a Bear.
swamp crusader swing 2 inky
he puts down a 2nd bear.
play a second crusader, which he manaleaks swing with inky and other crusader. he is now at 6 poison.
He plays the Dragon pass
I play swamp and declare attackers. Crusader and 1 Inky. He attempts to block inky with Dragon and I promptly Mutagenic Growth it FTW!
G2, on the draw mull to 4 and scoop after 3 turns.
G3 on the play mull to 5 and can't get out of my own way.
Except for 1 game the deck was an epic fail. My list is in post #5. The only changes I made to it were:
-1 Dagger
-2 Conatgion Clasp
+3 Swamp.
Glad I added the swamps so I wouldn't get screwed.
Round 1: RDW (2-1)
Game 1 - keep a hand I probably shouldn't have - long story short my Victim of night does nothing while I eat a stormkirk and a Chandra's pheonix.
Game 2 - this is a bit better, let him play a few 1/1's then BSZ them, get out some creatures and take the win.
Game 3 - should have mulligan'd - had 4 land, one lash, distress and a Victim of night. He goes t1 stormkirk, I play a land and pass. He drops another mountain and another stormkirk. Swings for 1. I play my distress taking out his shrine of burning rage. I take a beating for a couple turns and play my lash - I get super lucky and he is stuck on 2 land, my lash kills one noble, then next turn another which I also virulent wound to keep my lash token alive. I have a couple nexus but he keeps killing them with gut shot or a lavamancer. I am at 4 life and he attacks with lavamancer, I have an untapped nexus. I block, figuring he's got incinerate or something. I figured right, I kill with a double lashed germ token!(not by infect)!
Round 2: UG self-mill
This is my friend who's just getting back into magic and he really liked this deck concept. It is surprisingly realllly good, but he needs to play more and learn more about other decks and how to match against them.
Game 1 - he gets a quick kessig cage breakers with 3 creature in graveyard, and then proceeded to Wreath of Geists his BOP. I have no removal and die quick.
Game 2 - I have 2 nihils and a surgical off the draw, I land some infectors and win.
Game 3 - I get a bit lucky on some of his misplaying. I virulent his Birds, and surgical extract a forbidden alchemy, I see he has a mental
Misstep in hand, and kessig cage breakers. He will be on t4 so will have mana for kessig, so I virulent his llanlower elves, and he does not counter ( he was saving the MM for nihil as I expected he might be worried about it). This caused him to lose. The extra turn buys me a top deck of dismember, so I kill his kessig, and a few infectors later I take the win.
Round 3: UB Control (draw) - another buddy of mine - we decide to draw and split. We play for fun.
Game 1 - he doesn't have answers for my black creatures.
Game 2 - starting hand 2 land and the rest is removal - I figure I'll keep because it's just for fun and of course he gets huge CA, I don't draw a land for 5-6 turns and that's game.
Game 3 - I get a decent start off of a stinger and nexus, he counters stuff as usual, ratchet bombs kill my stinger, ghost quarter my nexus, then I make my big mistake play that would have cost me if I hadn't top- decked a win. He plays snapcaster which I want dead, I had surgicalled his ratchet and saw his hand, seeing a grave Titan. In my hand I have Victim of night and tribute to hunger. I play victim on the snap instead of trib (he had no other creatures). He goes and played Titan, I cringe at my stupidity. He passes and what do I top deck? Skittles - with haste mana open. I put him to his 9th poison. He swings, putting me to 8, and then he forbidden alchemy's to find his single tribute to hunger..... He doesn't find it skittles wins next turn.
Anyways this is my first result posting, hope it didn't suck. Also I am writing from my iPhone which sucks.
First of the SB needs some work - revivals are so gone (wtf was I thinking?).
The MB needs some work too, I think I really like the control aspect of this deck, and may MB 3 surgicals as they provide good anti flashback and they give you good view of opponents deck and hand. Not super sure about the mutagenics, the loss of life usually screwed me, and I pulled them out. The corpse Cur was only semi useful, though I only got him twice, once with and once without a creature in grave. I think I will add another buried ruin though to get back lost lash's.
Check the decklist thread for my updated list, it was changed mostly because of what happened in round one of this FNM.
Round 1: U/W Human (1-2)
Game 1 - Crusader turn 3, Angelic Destiny turn 4. Out-raced me.
Game 2 - Sideboarded out some creature-kill, sideboarded in more aggro. Out-raced him despite him dropping a Crusader turn three. Finished him off by dropping Lashwrithe and pumping the Nexus.
Game 3 - Consecutive Crusaders on turns 3 & 4 and I was done. Immediately modified my sideboard after this night was over due to this infuriating matchup.
Round 2: MBI (2-0)
Game 1 - I was very happy to see a mirror match. I went first and dropped a Nexus turn two and swung before he could kill it, we spent the rest of the time killing each other's creatures and I out-raced him to the win by Contagion Clasping every turn starting turn 3.
Game 2 - He used up all his creature-kill on Stingers and Specters, then one-turned him with a Lashwrithe-equipped Skithiryx.
Round 3: G/W Tokens (2-0)
Game 1 - Got a great draw, Despise on turn 1 and got rid of his only one drop - Doomed Traveler. Stinger turn 2, Specter turn 3, Trigon of Rage turn 4 and hit him with the Specter+Trigon and dumped his hand. He scooped.
Game 2 - Went even better. He sideboarded a ton, then had to mull to five and I crushed him on turns 4 and 5 with a Crusader+Lashwrithe.
Round 4: U/R Counterburn (2-1)
Game 1 - He used up all his burn/disruption on a stinger (gut shot), a trigon (negate), a specter (geistflame), and a crusader (mana leak). I dropped Lashwrithe turn 6 and Skithiryx turn 7, then haste-smacked him with 6 swamps in play for game.
Game 2 - He drew a hand full of disruption and I ran out of creatures. He eventually killed me with Shrine of Burning Rage.
Game 3 - Slaughtered him. He was able to burn off the first couple of creatures, but I got a Lashwrithe out and pumped the Nexus twice to kill him with it. Dropping a Nihil Spellbomb and wiping his graveyard helped immensely.
Overall a good night but the Crusader thing really was really irritating. I threw 1 Praetor's Grasp, 2 Tribute to Hunger, and one Geth's Verdict into my sideboard to have some options against that MBI-killer next time. The spellbomb was really helpful against the U/R counterburn which I've been seeing a lot more of lately, so I kept it in the board. Didn't have much of a problem at all with the mirror match or with G/W Tokens.
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SB is irrelevant because I never touched it. Deck was running so well I felt like I didn't need it. (i was right.)
RND 1: Red Deck Loses 2-0
On the Play. Opening 2 Swamps, Inkmoth, stinger, crusader, lashwrither, virulent wound. Turn 1 drop swamp openent play stormkirk and eats wound. 1 counter. Turn 2 inkmoth play stinger opponent plays a new stormkirk. Turn 3 play crusader swing stinger 2 counters. Opponent drops spikeshot and swings 1. 19 life. Turn 4 drop lashwrither strap up crusader swing team for 6. 8 counters. Opponent scoops.
Game 2: hand 3 swamps 2 crusaders 1 stinger 1 gopher. Opponent has no T1. Topdeck and drop inkmoth. Opponent waits on t2 (i smell killspell) I topdeck lashwrithe, play stinger eats incinerate. T3 enter spikeshot elder. I topdeck swamp play crusader. T4 opponent swings for 1 and drops koth. I drop another crusader and hit opponent with 1st one. 2 counters. T5 opponent makes mountain a creature swings 5 and Shocks for 2 with a brimstone for 3 more. I drop lashwrithe strap up a crusader and win.
RND 2: U/W control 2-0 really mana leaked garbage and let biggies stick twice. Game 1 two crusaders cause an early scoop.
Game 2: things go on a little bit, but skittles sticks and gets a bonus from trigon for a turn 8 kill
RND 3: Bant Beats 2-0
Game 1 crusaders get there on turn 6
Game 2 things go real fast with lashwrithe finishing on an inkmoth on turn 5
RND 4: Mono Black Zombies 2-0 (how are you 3-0????)
no elaboration necessary. Awful deck gets destroyed.
Semi-Finals: Solar Flare 2-0
Game 1 opponent draws only black mana keeps then scoops turn 4 when lashwithe hops on plague stinger
Game 2 opponent mulls to 6 then the game lasts to turn 6 when he BSZ's the board then I have just lashwrithe with no body on the field. I drop skittles, give him haste and with no inkmoths on the field he gets +6/+6 for an insta-kill. Gotta be my favorite win of the night.
FINALS: Bant Pod 2-1
Game 1 I finally get there over his blockers with stinger and inkmoth when trigon of rage boosts them turn 6.
Game 2 mully to 6 then forget to let opponent cut my deck, so it's down to 5. Draw crap and lose.
Game 3 Shenanigans happen and on turn 6 my opponent has no fliers but also no counters I have a stinger an inkmoth and a lashwrithe and a trigon. He swings desperately I take the damage to go to 5, and swing back, strapping lashwrithe to the stinger along with trigon boost for the kill.
I win a promo Gopher the Throat and some money. Yay.
SB is irrelevant because I never touched it. Deck was running so well I felt like I didn't need it. (i was right.)
RND 1: Red Deck Loses 2-0
On the Play. Opening 2 Swamps, Inkmoth, stinger, crusader, lashwrither, virulent wound. Turn 1 drop swamp openent play stormkirk and eats wound. 1 counter. Turn 2 inkmoth play stinger opponent plays a new stormkirk. Turn 3 play crusader swing stinger 2 counters. Opponent drops spikeshot and swings 1. 19 life. Turn 4 drop lashwrither strap up crusader swing team for 6. 8 counters. Opponent scoops.
Game 2: hand 3 swamps 2 crusaders 1 stinger 1 gopher. Opponent has no T1. Topdeck and drop inkmoth. Opponent waits on t2 (i smell killspell) I topdeck lashwrithe, play stinger eats incinerate. T3 enter spikeshot elder. I topdeck swamp play crusader. T4 opponent swings for 1 and drops koth. I drop another crusader and hit opponent with 1st one. 2 counters. T5 opponent makes mountain a creature swings 5 and Shocks for 2 with a brimstone for 3 more. I drop lashwrithe strap up a crusader and win.
RND 2: U/W control 2-0 really mana leaked garbage and let biggies stick twice. Game 1 two crusaders cause an early scoop.
Game 2: things go on a little bit, but skittles sticks and gets a bonus from trigon for a turn 8 kill
RND 3: Bant Beats 2-0
Game 1 crusaders get there on turn 6
Game 2 things go real fast with lashwrithe finishing on an inkmoth on turn 5
RND 4: Mono Black Zombies 2-0 (how are you 3-0????)
no elaboration necessary. Awful deck gets destroyed.
Semi-Finals: Solar Flare 2-0
Game 1 opponent draws only black mana keeps then scoops turn 4 when lashwithe hops on plague stinger
Game 2 opponent mulls to 6 then the game lasts to turn 6 when he BSZ's the board then I have just lashwrithe with no body on the field. I drop skittles, give him haste and with no inkmoths on the field he gets +6/+6 for an insta-kill. Gotta be my favorite win of the night.
FINALS: Bant Pod 2-1
Game 1 I finally get there over his blockers with stinger and inkmoth when trigon of rage boosts them turn 6.
Game 2 mully to 6 then forget to let opponent cut my deck, so it's down to 5. Draw crap and lose.
Game 3 Shenanigans happen and on turn 6 my opponent has no fliers but also no counters I have a stinger an inkmoth and a lashwrithe and a trigon. He swings desperately I take the damage to go to 5, and swing back, strapping lashwrithe to the stinger along with trigon boost for the kill.
I win a promo Gopher the Throat and some money. Yay.
Well done. Since I didn't see them mentioned in the recap, did you get much use out of the Gambits and the Tumble Magnets? I had Gambits in and took them out for some discard.
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4 Inkmoth Nexus
3 Spellskite
4 Phyrexian Crusader
4 Plague Stinger
4 Whispering Specter
2 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
3 Distress
3 Victim of Night
3 Virulent Wound
2 Doom Blade
1 Go for the Throat
1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
1 Postmortum Lounge
1 Distress
2 Despise
2 Black Sun's Zenith
3 Phyrexian Vatmother
1 Doom Blade
3 Ratchet Bomb
1 Virulent Wound
R1: Tempered Steel (2-0)
Not much to see, I wound his lifelink flyer and bash in with stingers and specters before he gets me, distress on tempered steel gets in there too I believe
R2: Red Deck Wins (2-1)
First game he leads with spikeshot elder and my 1/1's look pretty bad. He crushes me before I get anything going. G2+3 I smash him in with Vatmother and Crusaders and finish him off with a fair amount of life left both games
R3: Mono Black Infect (0-2)
He draws Lashwrithes and skittles and I don't :/
R4: UB Control (2-0)
I distress him t2 and then crusader comes down and mops him up game one. In game two I connect with a sworded up spellskite for a couple of turns as he fails to develop much of a game
R5: Township Token (2-0)
He creates a bunch of tokens, but none of them fly and I come over top with flyers and big skittles in the first game. In the second game I bomb away his tokens and get him with Lashwrite for damage
R6: Solar Flare (2-0)
Kind of a unconventional version with obliterators , but ultimetly he's too slow to compete with me and my discard spells.
R7: Wolf Run Ramp (Dungrove Version) (2-1)
8 players with 5-1 means everyone needs to play. The games are all quite tight and the one game I lose is when I only had 1 infect creature and it was too slow to get there.
Quarters: Wolf Run Ramp (WG version) (2-1)
He's running a planeswalker heavy version with Gideon in them as well. First two games are split and pretty standard. The third game we battle with him having two mirran crusaders and me having two phyrexian crusaders, but ultimately I manage to win the game on a topdeck to lashwrithe up my creature and win on 2 life
Semis: Wolf Run Ramp (Dungrove Version) (1-2)
I mulligan to 4 the first game, destroy him in the second game and in the third game he goes quad runner to win the game with 9 poison damage :/
I think that I would have won the finals against Bant Pod since that should be a pretty good matchup, but oh well
Top 8 was ;
1 Bant Pod
2 Wolf Run Ramp
3 Infect
4 Wu Humans
5 Infect
6 Wolf Run Ramp
7 Wolf Run Ramp
8 Unkown
4 plague stinger
21 swamp
3 spellskite
3 tezzeret's gambit
4 distress
3 necropede
4 inkmoth nexus
4 lashwrithe
3 despise
2 trigon of rage
1 batterskull
1 contagion clasp
1 virulent wound
2 nihil spellbomb
2 nihil spellbomb
1 despise
3 virulent wound
1 necropede
1 contagion clasp
1 whispering specter
1 tumble magnet
2 phyrexian metamorph
2 skithyrix, the Blight Dragon
1 Wurmcoil
Round 1 vs RDW, relatively new player
Game 1: I virulent wound his first turn stormkurk noble. He plays shrine t2. I distress, see 2 koths, a chandra, and a galvanic blast. Since he only had 2 land, I picked the galvanic blast so it wouldn't up his shrine, and I wasn't too scared of Chandra. Turn 3 he has no play, then I drop a phyrexian crusader, and draw and play 2 more crusaders. He stays on 3 land and can't do anything... after the game I tell him the shrine can kill crusaders
SB: +1 despise, +3 virulent wounds, +1 tumble magnet, +1 wurmcoil +1 necropede
-4 plague stinger, -1 tezzeret's gambit, -2 trigon of rage
Game 2: Same as game one, he stormkurks, i virulent wounds. He plays spikeshot elder which I kill. He gets stuck on 2 mana. I play a crusader my turn 3, and then end up equipping it with double lashwrithes for the win.
Round 2 vs RDW (Again)
This player is more experienced plus I knew he ran 4 dismembers mainboard, so I was concerned
G1: My opening hand is 2 inkmoths, 3 swamps, a distress, and a spellskite. I decide to keep.
He opens with stromkirk and it gets to 2/2 before I can block. I have drawn a swamp and a plague stinger, so I don't want the stromkirk to get unbeatable by my weenies. I block and the spellskite gets the expected incinerate to finish him off. I draw another plague stinger, another inkmoth, and 2 more swamps, while he drops a spikeshot elder. Looking at a hand of just land and with only several turns to live against a growing stromkirk, I scoop... a turn early(I would have had one more turn to live) but I didn't want to look at 4 lands in my hand anymore and my only "possible" out really was my singleton batterskull...
SB: +1 despise, +3 virulent wounds, +1 tumble magnet, +1 wurmcoil +1 necropede
-4 plague stinger, -1 tezzeret's gambit, -2 trigon of rage
G2: My opening hand was 2 spellskites, a crusader, and 4 lands. He plays stormkurk, I play spellskite ready to block. He dismembers and plays a 2nd stromkirk, so now there is a 2/2 and a 1/1. I play another spellskite, and block the 1/1 stormkurk and take 2. He doesn't play another creature. I play crusader. I play my crusader, and start swinging with him and inkmoth, my 2 spellskites blocking the stromkurks. He has a shrine out, but I get to 6 lands and drop a wurmcoil and I'm at 15 still so that was it.
G3: He mulls to 5. Turn 1, land, go. Turn 2, land go, I distress and see 2 mountains and 3 geistflame :P. I play a crusader my turn 3, he does not draw creatures or an answer really. I draw 2 more distresses so I'm running on just the crusader, but he doesn't get the needed shrine or dismember so I get him in 5 swings.
Rnd 3: Not really of note, a new young player, a 75 card U/W deck with not a ton of rares. He got a bye so he was 1-1, and I got paired down...
Rnd 4 vs U/W blade
G1: he mulls to 6 I keep, Spellskite, 2 plague stingers, inkmoth, distress, 2 swamps.
I'm on the play, I distress him turn 2, and see 2 snapcasters, an oblivion ring, a disperse, and a 2nd land, I get rid of a snapcaster. Looking good for me. Turn 3 I play plague stinger. His turn 3, he plays Geist... ah darn wish that was in his opening... well I should still have this. My turn 4 I play a tezz gambit after swinging with a plague stinger.... I figure I can go down to 12 then solidify my boar4d with what I have. His turn 4 he plays angelic destiny, he topdecked Geist and Angelic Destiny on his turn 2 and 3... I die.
SB:
-3 necropedes, -1 contagion clasp, -1 spellskite, -2 trigon of rage
+1 tumble magnet, +2 phyrexian metamorph, +1 despise, +1 skithyrix, +1 whispering specter, +1 virulent wounds (for his inkmoths)
T1 and T2 I target his hand with a distress and a despise, I take out a Geist and a Gideon, leaving him with 3 land(1 in play), a consecrated sphinx, and a sword of war and peace.
Turn 2 he swings for 1 with inkmoth
Turn 3 I play phyrexian crusader.
His turn 3, he plays a sword of war and peace and has his inkmoth out.
Turn 4 I swing for 2, and also play plague stinger. and exile his geist from his gy with spellbomb so he can't make a spirit.
His turn 4 he swings for 3 infect and I also take 2 dmg from sword of war and peace trigger.
My turn 5 I swing for 3 infect and gambit, 6-4 my lead now,
He swings for 3 again with inkmoth, putting me at 7 infect, but then I play lashwrithe to get to 10.
G3:
No discard in my opening hand. I can't remember the plays exactly... no discard, but I was able to stop a t3 geist with a phyrexian metamorph. He stopped lots of my threats, countering a tezz gambit and a lashwrithe, and dismembering a phyrexian crusader. I was able to stop his feast and famined inkmoth with my inkmoth. I then pushed through with a batterskulled whispering specter and a skithyrix.
Round 5 - vs G/W humans
This match was quite easy compared to previous ones, just good draws and good matchup I suppose.
G1, I virulent wound his champion of the parish and despise away his hamlet captain. I end up drawing 3 crusaders which power through and kill him.
SB -1 batterskull, -2 trigon of rage, -2 nihil spellbomb, -1 swamp
+3 virulent wounds, +1 necropede, + 1 contagion clasp, + 1 despise
He plays a gideon lawkeeper t1, I do nothing my t1, holding a virulent wounds.
His t2 he plays a champion of the parish after I take 1 dmg from an attack, I virulent wound his champion then my t2 I contagion clasp the lawkeeper.
His t3 he plays a land. I play a tezz gambit, bringing him to 2 infect and hoping for a 4th land to ensure my lashwrithe drops, but I don't draw it until my next draw phase.
He passes, during my turn he beast withins my swamp but during my main phase, so I play a lashwrithe with the land I drew.
He passes, then beast withins my lashwrithe and I swing for 3. I play distress, he has Gideon, Hero of Bladehold, and DOJ, I now have a crusader in my hand so I choose the DOJ. He goes another turn without a land, so I get crusader out and swing for 6 with the beasts. He plays the hero of bladehold, but I end up infecting him to 10 with the crusader and an inkmoth.
20 Swamp
4 Inkmoth Nexus
Creatures: 13
4 Phyrexian Crusader
4 Plague Stinger
3 Whispering Specter
2 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
Spells: 12
2 Dismember
1 Go for the Throat
1 Victim of Night
2 Virulent Wound
4 Distress
2 Tezzeret's Gambit
2 Contagion Clasp
4 Lashwrithe
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Tumble Magnet
2 Batterskull
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Virulent Wound
3 Phyrexian Vatmother
2 Black Sun's Zenith
2 Spellskite
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Whispering Specter
Round 1: Solar Flare (handicapped missing snapcasters) win 2-1
Game 1: I'm on the draw... turn 2 bug gets countered. Turn three crusader lands. Turn 4 lashwrithe lands and it's pretty much game.
Sideboard:
In
2 Nihil Spellbomb
3 liliana of the veil
Out
2 virulent wound
1 contagion Clasp
2 dismember
Game 2:
He removes all of my creatures up until he drops elesh norn and I scoop.
Game 3: turn 2 bug gets countered again. Turn 3 specter gets countered. Turn 4 lashwrithe lands. Turn 5 crusader lands. turn six he drops a Grave titan. I activate inkmoth and equip and swing for 5. He swings for ten with grave titan and I block with the crusader. Next turn it's game over.
Round 2: Mono Black infect win 2-0
I had talked to this guy before the match and he was hoping to mirror match me and got his wish.
Game 1: I'm on the play. I got my lashwrithe out first meaning I win. My removal package is much bigger than his so he can't stick a creature and I get to keep most of mine.
Sideboard:
In
2 BSZ
2 Virulent Wound
Out
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 tumble magnet
1 Batterskull
Game 2: I'm on the draw. I despise a lashwrithe out turn 2 and get dirty looks. He drops a few creatures that get removed I drop and stick a specter and a batterskull. Game over.
Round 3: Mono Black infect loss 0-2
Basically the same game except I couldn't draw anything but land with a lashwrithe and a batterskull in hand both games.
Round 4: Zombies! Win 2-0
Deck had been made five minutes before fnm started... Not much else to say about this round.
Round 5: Mono black infect (AGAIN!) ID for top 8
We played it out just for fun to see and I destroyed the guy both games.
TOP 8:
Round 1: Solar Flare (Same guy as before) win 2-0
Both games were closer but ended the same way.
Round 2: Mono Black Infect (Same guy as in round 5) win 2-0
Game 1: I get the draw. He plays lands for three turns while I pump out a spellbomb turn 1 a bug turn 2 and then an inkmoth and start swinging until I drop a lashwrithe. He drops a lashwrithe and I victim his specter that he equips to. I swing in for the win with lashwrithe and a bug.
Sideboard:
In
2 BSZ
2 Virulent Wound
1 Liliana of the Veil
Out
2 batterskull
2 spellbomb
1 tumble magnet
Game 2:
Opening hand has a BSZ in it and a creature so I keep. Turn 1 is land go turn 2 he drops a bug and I inkmoth nexus and say go. Turn three He drops a necropede and passes. I drop BSZ for 1 and pass the turn. He sits at four mana and I draw a lashwrithe and drop it. Game over.
Decided to split top 2.
As a note of particular interest... there were 6 MBI present at the FNM so I got a very unbalanced view of the meta. However I learned a lot about the mirror match. I hope I sideboarded correctly. In any case I felt pretty good about the deck.
Final Results: 5-1-1 2nd place
Record:3-1, Top 4
Decklist:
18 Swamp
4x Phyrexian Crusader
4x Plague Stinger
4x Whispering Specter
2x Skittles
2x Hand of the Praetors
1x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Silver-Inlaid Dagger
2x Contagion Clasp
2x Go for the Throat
1x Doomblade
3x Virulent Wound
2x Tezz Gambit
1x Postmortum Lunge
3x Mutagenic Growth
2x Despise
Rd1- Mono white something or other
Newer player, not a great build, and I am on the draw. Crusaders and Stingers seal the deal G1.
G2 he tries to O-Ring a Crusader, than have to call the Judge to clairify the ruling, as he is arguing that "he was able to ring an Emerakul" After losing the argument, a T4 lash on a stinger forces him to scoop. No Inky's show up either game.
1-0
Rd2- Mono white soldiers
Deck built a little better and player was a better player also, but doesn't really stand a chance against MBI, in my opnion.
G1 I am on the draw again. Have the "God" hand: Stinger, Crusader, Mutagenic Growth, 3 Swamps and Despise.
T1 he drops Lawmaker
Draw Inky, play swamp despise. Remove Gideon
him: draw plains lawkeeper
me: draw growth, play inky, stinger
him: draw plains attack
me: draw silver dagger, play swamp, crusader attack
him: draw plans elite vanguard attack
me: draw 3rd growth attack with crusader, equipped with dagger and 3 growths. best game I ever played. Why he didn't tap anything down with the lawkeeper is a mystery to me.
G2 Goes pretty much the same, but I am able to attach a Lash to a Specter to have him discard his hand and scoop.
2-0
Rd3 B/U control. One of the better players here, and much better than me.
On the draw (see a pattern?) Have a good opening hand. He mulls to 6. He is able to keep me off the board, but I am chipping away with a single Inky. Finally able to stick a lash and he scoops.
G2 he mulls to 6 again. I had little trouble beating him since he wound up Ghost Quartering his own land to find a swamp so he could play a creature. I kinda felt bad, he is a good player and a great guy to hang with and test. I know his build could beat mine, but it wasn't his night.
3-0 (6-0)
Semi's
RDW. Once again on the draw. Had to mull to 5, as both hands had 0 lands in them. Game over before it started.
G2 Have a good opening hand, with 3 swamps, crusader growth metamorph and Hand of the Praetors.
T1 he plays stormkirk
Me draw swamp
him attack then plays Falkernath
me draw play swamp stinger
him draw incinerates stinger attacks then play 2nd stormkirk
me draw play crusader
he plays Koth and I cringe. attacks let damage through. Plays Shrine
me draw lash (stuck on 3 lands) attack with crusader (mistake#1)
him draw +1 Koth attacks with field. OUCH. Lose crusader.
draw dagger (?wtf?) still on 3 land play metamorph coping falkernath. Need a blocker.
Him Koth ultimate attack with everything. scoop.
0-2. Should have went after Koth instead of player. Might of had a chance if I get Koth off the board
Deck was awesome even though I didn't win. Had fun with it, which is the bottom line. I do need to up the land count to at least 23, even though I didn't miss a land drop until I needed it most. Also noticed there was no way to get rid of the Shrine of Burning Rage, as I didn't draw into a Distress (SB Card) All Stars of the deck are the Crusaders, hands down. Also, when Praetors hits the field, it does need to be answered as janky as it is. I like it simply because it is a removal magnet. I may take out the Metamorph for a land as well as the Dagger to get my count to 24. And RDW is a beatable deck. I just didn't see any of the SB cards and just had bad luck.
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it....
4 Phyrexian Crusader
1 Spellskite
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Doom Blade
2 Go For The Throat
2 Dissmember
3 Tezzeret's Gambit
4 Lashwrithe
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Nim Deathmantle
1 Batterskull
4 Inkmoth Nexus
3 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
1 Doom Blade
1 Dissmember
1 Go for the throat
2 Black Sun's Zenith
2 Whispering Spector
3 Mutagenic Growth
2 Spellskite
Match 1
MBI vs Illusions 2-1
Game 1
First game I get a Plague Stinger out and some inkmoths. He mana leaks my Crusader and had plenty of illusions out already. I think he beat me down with the dragon.
Game 2
SB in more removal, take out Tezz Gambit, Spellskite, Phyrexian Metamorph
I get plenty of Inkmoths out, and land a lashwrithe. Game over soon after.
Game 3
Again I keep removing all his creatures. Land a lashwrithe and not much else he could do.
1-0
Match 2
MBI vs Illusions 2-0
Game 1 I keep targeting his illusions and peck away with Inkmoths. On turn 6 he finally lands a Wurmcoil Engine, but I just fly over it with the Inkmoth and win.
Game 2 I play Plague Stinger, Crusader, Inkmoths and get him to about 6 infect. He then gets 2 "illusion hexproof" creatures out. Lands the dragon, and Phyrexian Metamorphs 2 more dragons. I land a Lashwrithe and equip to Crusader. He doesn't wish to attack and I keep attacking with 9/9 Crusader. He chump blocks with the "illusions hexproof" guys first and I eventually get through for the win.
2-0
Match 3
MBI vs BW Control/Mill 2-1
Game 1 I get milled pretty bad. He countered a few things, Day of Judement, and milled me real bad with Jave, Memory Adept.
Game 2 I get a lot of land and end up with 3 Lashwrithe in my hand. I end up attacking him for 9 dmg and he Day of Judement next turn. I play another Lashwrithe and quip. the other Lashwrithe to it. He plays Gideon, and upps the ability. I kill Gideon next turn and play another Lashwrithe. Attack next turn for like 25 dmg.
Game 3 he lands no counters. I play 2 Crusaders and a plague stinger. He milled me some, but I believe he had mana problems the last game.
3-0
Match 4
MBI vs WRR 2-0
Game 1 was a brease. He gets stuck at 2 mana, and I play Plague Stinger and Inkmoth. He gets like 5 poison by turn 4 and I play Lashwrithe and win.
Game 2 I get a couple licks in with Plague Stinger and Inkmoth. He gets a Primeval Titan out and puts 2 inkmoths in play. I doom blade his Titan and he tries to kill me with infect. I GFTT one of the Inkmoths that he pumped with his wolf run. He managed to get me to 5 poison. Next turn he thinks he will get me with the last Inkmoth and I dissmember it.
4-0 overall
3-2 two weeks ago at the same event. FNM with 18-20 people.
A couple things I've noticed is that Skithiryx is not really needed. Every game I won I never had on the battlefield. I had him in my hand, but the opponent was already dead before I could use them.
I wanted to try and put Mutagenic Growth in the SB, but I only sided them in once and didn't draw on the play. I was playing Phyrexian Metamorph and I'm starting to think its not worth playing. Only things I really would need it for is Thurn, Mirran Crusader, Wurmcoil, and the like. I think they will come in handy, but my meta really didn't need them tonight. I think I may be taking Nim Deathmantle out even though it pwnz when you have a lot of land. Spellskite didn't see much play but I didn't go against andy RDW.
For this type of deck, I think what helps the most is just putting in more removal. If I'm playing agains control I'll SB in all the extra creatures. For agro I just SB in all the removal.
21 Swamp
4 Inkmoth Nexus
Creatures (13)
4 Plague Stinger
4 Phyrexian Crusader
3 Whispering Specter
2 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
Planeswalkers (3)
3 Liliana of the Veil
Artifacts (7)
3 Lashwrithe
2 Livewire Lash
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Contagion Clasp
1 Curse of Death's Hold
Instants (6)
3 Virulent Wound
2 Victim of Night
1 Dismember
Sorcery (5)
4 Distress
1 Tezzeret's Gambit
1 Virulent Wound
1 Whispering Specter
2 Black Sun's Zenith
3 Dismember
4 Phyrexian Vatmother
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Memoricide
I only had 3 Lashwrithes going into the tournament. I've since gotten the 4th.
Round 1 - GW Midrange (1-2)
G1: I pick away his hand and get him to 9 poison before he stabilizes with an O-Ring on Skittles. I draw blanks for 3 turns before losing to Garruk Relentless' overrun.
SB: -2 Livewire Lash -1 Whispering Specter +2 Black Sun's Zenith +1 Virulent Wound
G2: I have removal + Liliana for every creature he casts and quickly win with Crusader + Lashwrite.
G3: He out-tempos me and protects his Garruk from my 1/1s with Mortarpods.
0-1
Round 2 - UB Grimgrin Combo (2-1)
G1: I punt this game by distressing Scholar instead of Ooze turn 2 with no removal and set his combo up for him.
SB: -3 Virulent Wound -1 Curse of Death's Hold -1 Ratchet Bomb +2 Nihil Spellbomb +2 Memoricide +1 Whispering Specter
G2: I curve out with Distress, Crusader, Lashwrite and win turn 5.
G3: Distress & Specter strip him of a hand. Easy clean-up from there.
1-1
Round 3 - UR Delver Aggro (2-1)
G1: I kill an early Delver and Lavamancer, and he proceeds to draw 9 lands.
SB: I don't remember exactly what I took out. I suspected he was some sort of control deck with Delver and Lavamancer to apply pressure. I side out some removal for Specter & BSZ probably.
G2: As he's shuffling he asks his deck to give him a more aggro start and I kick myself. We trade creatures for a while, but he whittles me down with Chandra & Burn the Impure.
SB: I realize that he's the aggro and board in 11 cards. I want to blank his red removal so I board out my 1/1s for Vatmothers and a pile of removal. -4 Plague Stinger -3 Whispering Specter -2 Livewire Lash +1 Virulent Wound +2 Black Sun's Zenith +2 Dismember +4 Phyrexian Vatmother
G3: Wierdest game I've played in a while. I keep a hand full of discard & removal. Turn 2 Distress reveals a hand of Dismembers & Burn the Impures. Liliana starts stripping both our hands of removal spells to clear the path for some guys. He casts Chandra and keeps Liliana from getting into ultimate range. This goes on for 6-7 of turns. I stick a Vatmother and Crusader but he finally starts drawing his creatures to chump for Chandra. Eventually I grind through them, kill Chandra and win.
2-1
Round 4 - Mono Black Aggro? not infect (2-0)
G1: He plays some random dorks. I kill the relevant ones, Mind Sludge him with Specter, and kill him with Skittles.
SB: -2 Livewire Lash +2 Dismember
G2: He gets stuck on mana. Distress, Liliana & Specter put him in topdeck mode and Skittles comes in for clean-up.
3-1
Overall I was really happy with the deck & board. The removal suite might need to be tightened up a little, but our store is so diverse I like having a variety of different answers (and the ones I don't need in a given match-up can just be Liliana fodder, I guess :-/). The only thing I didn't like were the Livewire Lashes. I'm cutting both for the 4th Lashwrithe and maybe another Ratchet Bomb to help with opposing planeswalkers (being awesome vs tokens/Delver doesn't hurt either).
23 players, 0-2 (dropped)
Not really a report as I was consistently mana screwed for 4 of the 5 games I played.
G1-Mono Black aggro?
On the play, I have an openiong hand of 3 swamps crusader Lash 2 stingers.
draw no more lands and Liliana cleans my clock between discard and sacraficing. I was able to GftT a Royal Assissan. Twice. He brought it back with Disemtomb. 2 janky cards beat me.
G2 was much of the same, except I kept a 2 land hand and didn't draw any. He had the nerve to play Praetors Grasp and take a Skittles.
0-1 (0-2)
Illusions
On the draw I keep a decent hand, 3 swamps, 2 Inky's Metamorph, Crusader.
Play Inky
Play inky, swing
swamp swing
he finally puts down something other than an Island. a Bear.
swamp crusader swing 2 inky
he puts down a 2nd bear.
play a second crusader, which he manaleaks swing with inky and other crusader. he is now at 6 poison.
He plays the Dragon pass
I play swamp and declare attackers. Crusader and 1 Inky. He attempts to block inky with Dragon and I promptly Mutagenic Growth it FTW!
G2, on the draw mull to 4 and scoop after 3 turns.
G3 on the play mull to 5 and can't get out of my own way.
Except for 1 game the deck was an epic fail. My list is in post #5. The only changes I made to it were:
-1 Dagger
-2 Conatgion Clasp
+3 Swamp.
Glad I added the swamps so I wouldn't get screwed.
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it....
I went 2 - 0 - 1, drawing with my buddy to tie 2nd.
As for my list I have 1 more lash and 1 for crusader coming in the mail, and will definitely be added!
Here is my list:
19 Swamp
3 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Buried Ruin
Creatures:
3 Phyrexian Crusader
3 Whispering Specter
3 Plague Stinger
2 Corpse Cur
2 Skithiryx, The Blight Dragon
Artifacts:
3 Lashwrithe
1 Contagion Clasp
3 Mutagenic Growth
2 Doom Blade
2 Victim of Night
2 Virulent Wound
1 Dismember
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Despise
3 Distress
1 Tribute to Hunger
2 Tezzeret's Gambit
2 Noxious Revival
2 Phyrexian Vatmothet
2 Black Sun Zenith
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Apostle's Blessing
1 Tribute to Hunger
1 Virulent Wound
2 Nihil Spellbomb
Round 1: RDW (2-1)
Game 1 - keep a hand I probably shouldn't have - long story short my Victim of night does nothing while I eat a stormkirk and a Chandra's pheonix.
Game 2 - this is a bit better, let him play a few 1/1's then BSZ them, get out some creatures and take the win.
Game 3 - should have mulligan'd - had 4 land, one lash, distress and a Victim of night. He goes t1 stormkirk, I play a land and pass. He drops another mountain and another stormkirk. Swings for 1. I play my distress taking out his shrine of burning rage. I take a beating for a couple turns and play my lash - I get super lucky and he is stuck on 2 land, my lash kills one noble, then next turn another which I also virulent wound to keep my lash token alive. I have a couple nexus but he keeps killing them with gut shot or a lavamancer. I am at 4 life and he attacks with lavamancer, I have an untapped nexus. I block, figuring he's got incinerate or something. I figured right, I kill with a double lashed germ token!(not by infect)!
Round 2: UG self-mill
This is my friend who's just getting back into magic and he really liked this deck concept. It is surprisingly realllly good, but he needs to play more and learn more about other decks and how to match against them.
Game 1 - he gets a quick kessig cage breakers with 3 creature in graveyard, and then proceeded to Wreath of Geists his BOP. I have no removal and die quick.
Game 2 - I have 2 nihils and a surgical off the draw, I land some infectors and win.
Game 3 - I get a bit lucky on some of his misplaying. I virulent his Birds, and surgical extract a forbidden alchemy, I see he has a mental
Misstep in hand, and kessig cage breakers. He will be on t4 so will have mana for kessig, so I virulent his llanlower elves, and he does not counter ( he was saving the MM for nihil as I expected he might be worried about it). This caused him to lose. The extra turn buys me a top deck of dismember, so I kill his kessig, and a few infectors later I take the win.
Round 3: UB Control (draw) - another buddy of mine - we decide to draw and split. We play for fun.
Game 1 - he doesn't have answers for my black creatures.
Game 2 - starting hand 2 land and the rest is removal - I figure I'll keep because it's just for fun and of course he gets huge CA, I don't draw a land for 5-6 turns and that's game.
Game 3 - I get a decent start off of a stinger and nexus, he counters stuff as usual, ratchet bombs kill my stinger, ghost quarter my nexus, then I make my big mistake play that would have cost me if I hadn't top- decked a win. He plays snapcaster which I want dead, I had surgicalled his ratchet and saw his hand, seeing a grave Titan. In my hand I have Victim of night and tribute to hunger. I play victim on the snap instead of trib (he had no other creatures). He goes and played Titan, I cringe at my stupidity. He passes and what do I top deck? Skittles - with haste mana open. I put him to his 9th poison. He swings, putting me to 8, and then he forbidden alchemy's to find his single tribute to hunger..... He doesn't find it skittles wins next turn.
Anyways this is my first result posting, hope it didn't suck. Also I am writing from my iPhone which sucks.
First of the SB needs some work - revivals are so gone (wtf was I thinking?).
The MB needs some work too, I think I really like the control aspect of this deck, and may MB 3 surgicals as they provide good anti flashback and they give you good view of opponents deck and hand. Not super sure about the mutagenics, the loss of life usually screwed me, and I pulled them out. The corpse Cur was only semi useful, though I only got him twice, once with and once without a creature in grave. I think I will add another buried ruin though to get back lost lash's.
Anyways goodnight!
Round 1: U/W Human (1-2)
Game 1 - Crusader turn 3, Angelic Destiny turn 4. Out-raced me.
Game 2 - Sideboarded out some creature-kill, sideboarded in more aggro. Out-raced him despite him dropping a Crusader turn three. Finished him off by dropping Lashwrithe and pumping the Nexus.
Game 3 - Consecutive Crusaders on turns 3 & 4 and I was done. Immediately modified my sideboard after this night was over due to this infuriating matchup.
Round 2: MBI (2-0)
Game 1 - I was very happy to see a mirror match. I went first and dropped a Nexus turn two and swung before he could kill it, we spent the rest of the time killing each other's creatures and I out-raced him to the win by Contagion Clasping every turn starting turn 3.
Game 2 - He used up all his creature-kill on Stingers and Specters, then one-turned him with a Lashwrithe-equipped Skithiryx.
Round 3: G/W Tokens (2-0)
Game 1 - Got a great draw, Despise on turn 1 and got rid of his only one drop - Doomed Traveler. Stinger turn 2, Specter turn 3, Trigon of Rage turn 4 and hit him with the Specter+Trigon and dumped his hand. He scooped.
Game 2 - Went even better. He sideboarded a ton, then had to mull to five and I crushed him on turns 4 and 5 with a Crusader+Lashwrithe.
Round 4: U/R Counterburn (2-1)
Game 1 - He used up all his burn/disruption on a stinger (gut shot), a trigon (negate), a specter (geistflame), and a crusader (mana leak). I dropped Lashwrithe turn 6 and Skithiryx turn 7, then haste-smacked him with 6 swamps in play for game.
Game 2 - He drew a hand full of disruption and I ran out of creatures. He eventually killed me with Shrine of Burning Rage.
Game 3 - Slaughtered him. He was able to burn off the first couple of creatures, but I got a Lashwrithe out and pumped the Nexus twice to kill him with it. Dropping a Nihil Spellbomb and wiping his graveyard helped immensely.
Overall a good night but the Crusader thing really was really irritating. I threw 1 Praetor's Grasp, 2 Tribute to Hunger, and one Geth's Verdict into my sideboard to have some options against that MBI-killer next time. The spellbomb was really helpful against the U/R counterburn which I've been seeing a lot more of lately, so I kept it in the board. Didn't have much of a problem at all with the mirror match or with G/W Tokens.
21 Swamps
4 Plague Stinger
4 Phrexian Crusader
3 Whispering Specter
2 Skittles the Blight Dragon
3 Trigon of Rage
2 Tumble Magnet
4 Lashwrithe
2 Dismember
2 Gopher the Throat
2 Virulent Wound
3 Tezzy's Gambit
4 Despise
SB is irrelevant because I never touched it. Deck was running so well I felt like I didn't need it. (i was right.)
RND 1: Red Deck Loses 2-0
On the Play. Opening 2 Swamps, Inkmoth, stinger, crusader, lashwrither, virulent wound. Turn 1 drop swamp openent play stormkirk and eats wound. 1 counter. Turn 2 inkmoth play stinger opponent plays a new stormkirk. Turn 3 play crusader swing stinger 2 counters. Opponent drops spikeshot and swings 1. 19 life. Turn 4 drop lashwrither strap up crusader swing team for 6. 8 counters. Opponent scoops.
Game 2: hand 3 swamps 2 crusaders 1 stinger 1 gopher. Opponent has no T1. Topdeck and drop inkmoth. Opponent waits on t2 (i smell killspell) I topdeck lashwrithe, play stinger eats incinerate. T3 enter spikeshot elder. I topdeck swamp play crusader. T4 opponent swings for 1 and drops koth. I drop another crusader and hit opponent with 1st one. 2 counters. T5 opponent makes mountain a creature swings 5 and Shocks for 2 with a brimstone for 3 more. I drop lashwrithe strap up a crusader and win.
RND 2: U/W control 2-0 really mana leaked garbage and let biggies stick twice. Game 1 two crusaders cause an early scoop.
Game 2: things go on a little bit, but skittles sticks and gets a bonus from trigon for a turn 8 kill
RND 3: Bant Beats 2-0
Game 1 crusaders get there on turn 6
Game 2 things go real fast with lashwrithe finishing on an inkmoth on turn 5
RND 4: Mono Black Zombies 2-0 (how are you 3-0????)
no elaboration necessary. Awful deck gets destroyed.
Semi-Finals: Solar Flare 2-0
Game 1 opponent draws only black mana keeps then scoops turn 4 when lashwithe hops on plague stinger
Game 2 opponent mulls to 6 then the game lasts to turn 6 when he BSZ's the board then I have just lashwrithe with no body on the field. I drop skittles, give him haste and with no inkmoths on the field he gets +6/+6 for an insta-kill. Gotta be my favorite win of the night.
FINALS: Bant Pod 2-1
Game 1 I finally get there over his blockers with stinger and inkmoth when trigon of rage boosts them turn 6.
Game 2 mully to 6 then forget to let opponent cut my deck, so it's down to 5. Draw crap and lose.
Game 3 Shenanigans happen and on turn 6 my opponent has no fliers but also no counters I have a stinger an inkmoth and a lashwrithe and a trigon. He swings desperately I take the damage to go to 5, and swing back, strapping lashwrithe to the stinger along with trigon boost for the kill.
I win a promo Gopher the Throat and some money. Yay.
Well done. Since I didn't see them mentioned in the recap, did you get much use out of the Gambits and the Tumble Magnets? I had Gambits in and took them out for some discard.