I'd gotten tired of my treefolk deck...as good as it had done, i wanted to try something else. so over the resultant two months I wheeled and dealed and put together pieces for my doran rock deck.
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Lands (24) 3 Murmuring Bosk 4 Rupture Spire 2 Ancient Ziggurat 2 Terrtop Village 5 Plains 4 Swamp 4 Forest Creatures (21) 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Tidehollow Sculler 3 Doran, the Seige Tower 4 Kitchen Finks 4 Shriekmaw 2 Cloudthresher | Spells (15) 2 Distress 4 Oblivion Ring 4 Unmake 3 Lapse of Certainty 2 Loxodon Warhammer | Sideboard (15) 4 Naturalize 4 Crib Swap 3 Infest 2 Burrenton Forge-Tender 2 Condemn |
My friend is running a naya deck. it's not top-tier by any means but he has 4 thoctar, 4 flame javelin, and 2 chameleon colosuss...it can't be that bad, right?
as we get there, we find out that the TO from the old store has taken up acting as the tabulator at this store, and a lot of the people from the old store are here. If only we could get a bigger space...meh. 13 players means 4 rounds. 3-2-1-1 and FNM cards to the top 4. everyone gets a hellspark elemental or path to exile as a participation prize...chosen at random. hell of a time for random chance...anyway, we get started.
MATCH 1: Tony vs Chad (RDW)
Chad was one of my hometown kids, I beat him with treefolk in december to win my first FNM ever. he was still running the same deck, and I thought I had him dead.
Game 1 he runs through a ton of burn spells, several javelins and fallouts. I make the mistake of attempting to counter a volcanic fallout and get made a fool. I side in BFT and 2 crib swap and take out the unmakes (unsure of everlasting torment, otherwise I should have taken out Ring to have the instant-speed removal) Second game I make turn 2 doran and he can't get any answer. Third game he gets double demigod and even though I have forge tender I can't get the removal to save it. 1-2 him.
As I watch my friend, he picks up a quality win over a 4-color tokens deck. titanic ultimatum game 1 to force 28 damage through gets him there. sadly his only victory.
Someone messed up the pairings! scratch that. good thing, he's a great player from back home
MATCH 2: Tony vs. Matt (thrown together Elfball)
This kid was new at the game and we knew it. He mulls on the first hand. I get turn 2 doran and remove every creature he plays with a variety of spells. He even uses roar of the crowd for 1 to kill a bird that would have finished it. not that hard, no SB changes.
Game 2 I land a kitchen finks and take out his creatures. From there I kill him by hitting him 10 times with the persisted kitchen finks, he's unable to mount any kind of resistance from the death of 1000 finks. 2-0 me.
MATCH 3: Tony vs. Paul (WW Exalted)
Another guy from the old store, this person practically ran the place and he's got the skills you'd expect. Game 1 he drops turn 3 stillmoon cavalier. go ahead, click the autocard. then look at my decklist. see my problem?
Stillmoon cannot be touched except by birds or treetop village, neither of which is good enough to do much. turn 3 doran makes it slightly easier to deal with, although this game went for a while.I get him to 7 life, with doran, 2 shriekmaw (one with a hammer), and a bird. his cavalier is tapped, so what do i do? I decide to play a second doran, legend rule clears them, then swing with the fearful maws for lethal!
except he has path for the hammering shriekmaw. I move the hammer and make the requisite blocks. I swing again...
and he reveals the path he topdecked like a pro. must be nice...game 2 I never really had a shot. 2x mulligan to a 1-land hand means he got a force before I can mount resistance. 2-0 him.
My friend and I raid the conflux cards between rounds, I sell some chump rares for an imperious perfect, a 3rd forge-tender, a 3rd knight of meadowgrain, and a pack of conflux.
about time I get lucky. bloodhall ooze AND path to exile in that pack. my buddy traded some goodies as well, but then it's last round.
MATCH 4: Tony vs. Bryan (Naya Aggro)
It never fails. Me and my buddy always seem to get paired up in every event we go to together. We both know exactly what to expect, nothing to it but to do it.
game 1 I land finks and have enough removal to clear the way. shriekmaw joins the party to finish it.
During sideboarding, I know Bryan has naturalizes and I used my oblivion rings to great extent in game 1. so I out-meta him by not including the rings, but putting the crib swaps in their place! (turns out I was wrong, he didn't put in naturalize moot point.)
Game 2 was fairly the same, sculler beats stripped his best cards away as my removal seals the deal. 2-0 me.
8th place on the night...bad breakers was responsible for that. still I got to randomly pick a DCI promo. hellspark elemental or path...
Once again I got lucky. found a path and left contently.
Tonight's Big Scene: Paul doing a real good Gabe Nassif impression, pulling back-to-back paths to seal M3G1. great work if you can get it...also, 10 cracks with the kitchen sink.
MVP: Kitchen Finks. The card gained me life when I needed it and the 10-shot kill was more than worth it.
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Posted Apr 4, 2009Hopefully we'll get our trade worked out soon so you can finish your set of Paths.