Hey, so I don't really post on here much just cause I never make time for it. I've been playing bant company for just a couple weeks but have played both naya company and abzan company in the past (actually just had a regional top 8 with abzan company) so I am familiar with the style of deck and this may be my favorite company list yet.
I have no idea how to post a decklist correctly so I will just list my deck:
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Voice of Resurgence
2 Selfless Spirit
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Spell Queller
3 Tireless Tracker
1 Courser of Kruphix
4 Path to Exile
4 Collected Company
2 Retreat to Coralhelm
The above is what I ran for the first event, which was a tourney for 100 in store credit to first. (Was actually a playset of jace VP but we didn't want those and have to bother to trade them.) it was 5 rounds with a cut to top 8. Note I cannot remember all my boarding decisions here since I didn't think I'd make a report.
Round 1: Abzan Company
Game 1: This is a friend of mine from the area (it was about an hour and a half away from me) and he assumed I was on abzan company as well since I am known for it and my start of temple garden, mana dork was convincing. The spell queller surprised him though and I manage to grind out game 1 after I get a scooze to hold off his combo while I grow knight, draw cards off tracker, and activate gavony.
Game 2: he gets me down to 1 through using a viscera seer and blood artist but I get the artist off the field and gain some life with Kitchen finks and scooze until I grind him out.
Board: I can't recall exactly. But I know I had Gaddock Teeg, staticaster, and finks. I may have boarded in blessed alliance and reflector mage.
1-0
Round 2: Bad Standard Deck.
No need for a rundown here. The guy had a standard deck that wasn't even good for standard (some kinda of artifact/paradox engine thing) and had a bye for the first round which is why he was up a match. I stomped him soundly with beats.
2-0
Round 3: Sun and Moon
Game 1: I have a decent start, he has turn 3 Nahiri (SSG) and chalice on 1 on turn 2, he angers my board after a few turns and plays a Gideon Jura followed up by a Chandra, torch of defiance. It's a little what happened exactly but I think some companies caught me up, he drew no gas, I beat all 3 of his planeswalkers up and then him. I was shocked. I also never saw blood moon this game and wondered if he even had it.
Game 2: my hand allows me to aggressively fetch basics so I do so, along with a couple dorks. I get a knight out along with Gaddock Teeg and tracker. He angers after a while of not doing much to kill my Teeg and tracker. I play another Teeg and keep beating down. He draws, reveals a hand of uncastable wraths and such and that's the game.
Board: I brought in Gaddock Teeg to slow down his walkers and wraths, kitchen finks to overload his removal and negate/ unified will to counter moons and walkers.
3-0
Round 4: RW Burn
Game 1: he mulls to a 6 card one-lander and isn't fast enough to kill me before I get setup behind a knight, scooze, and courser and aggro him down.
Game 2: he has a super fast start on the play and I just can't keep up and die before my hate cards come on line.
Game 3: He has a creature heavy draw and I have lands, dorks, a finks, a knight and a negate. His goblin guide reveals a blessed alliance off the first trigger and I just play a normal game while he doesn't advance much, seemingly played scared of the alliance. I never actually cast it and win the game with beats.
Top 8: Goryo's Vengeance
I'm top seed so I get the play.
Game 1: he has a slow start and I have a turn 2 scooze off a dork that I never tap out of the ability. It goes unanswered and I get there naturally.
Game 2: I get the scooze lock up and after a few turns he nourish shoals and splices a through the breach. I counter the shoal with a negate. The next turn he is under 7 life, cast the through the breach and I have no answers. He puts in a griselbrand which immediately gets met with a path. He scoops.
Top 8, Round 2: Esper Midrange.
This was a friend from the same car so this was a little awkward.
Game 1: I have the play and we play a fairly normal game trading removal, discard and creatures. He gets some lingering souls out which I cannot answer and I die to them, also saw a Geist.
Game 2: same as you'd expect but I manage to get a fast enough start to get his life total low enough and he can't recover.
Game 3: This game went Super Long, we trade all our resources and he starts beating me with a collonade. I draw a tracker that goes unanswered and I start drawing cards while he holds back his collonade to block since the tracker is lethal. I draw some more threats, which is literally every creature in my deck since he's at 1 or 2. I alpha strike, he tries to push my Pridemage and blocks my tracker. I company into selfless spirt and that's that.
I then split the finals with the same guy from round 3 on sun and moon. We each got 85 in store credit which bought me some fetches.
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Then at tonight's FNM, I went undefeated (5-0) I changed the list by taking out the 2 Retreats and adding in a second courser and an Elspeth Knight-Errant.
Round 1: Soul Sisters
Game 1: Pretty standard stuff. He has some sisters to gain life while I beat him down with whatever is convenient. He doesn't really have any payoffs until he top decks a pridemate that immediately gets pathed. I close pretty quickly.
Game 2: he has a fast start with a sister turn 1, pridemate turn 2, and more sisters. His pridemate gets huge and I'm forced into chumping it while I wait for answers. Once I'm at about 8 life I find a path for it off a tracker and start to stabilize my board with good blockers while he draws lands I draw 12 CARDS off tracker this game. I also have the abilty to cast blessed alliance (both copies in my hand) fully escalated if he decided to get fancy. But he doesn't and I win 2-0
Round 2: Mono-Green stompy
Game 1: for this matchup which I've never played before, I prioritize trading my creatures for his when possible since I know I can win if we go long. I stabilize at ten once he empties his hand using his pump spells to kill my blockers. And kill him with a large scooze.
Game 2: he gets me to 1, while I skillfully trade creatures with him. I gain some life from finks and draw a tracker that quickly puts the game away.
Round 3: Goblins/8-Whack
Game 1: I'm kinda surprised since this guy doesn't normally play this and I've never seen him with it. I get beat by many quick tokens and a goblin grenade.
Game 2: I grind him out with blockers and a well placed blessed alliance that he scoops to. I draw 4-6 cards off goblin guides.
Game 3: I have a turn 2 Izzet staticaster which he can't deal with and I beat in with value dudes.
Round 4: Abzan Midrange
Game 1: traditional grind fest, but he finds some lingering souls I cannot answer.
Game 2: I keep a terrible 6-card hand with 1 land, a bird, and 3 drops. He IOKs me but takes one of the three drops. I draw lands and My bird doesn't die. I grind him out with tracker.
Game 3: same as game 2 but my hand is decent, tracker winds the game again, drawing me answers and brick walling his goyfs.
Board: 2 Izzet Staticaster, 2 Blessed Alliance, 2 Kitchen Finks, 1 Elspeth. In hindsight, I should've grabbed the counter magic, at least the negate.
4-0
Round 5: GR Tron
Game 1: a well placed knight into ghost quarter buys me enough time to kill him.
Game 2: he mulls to five, I spell queller his scrying to keep him off tron while I get a ghost quarter off a knight to further cement the lead. He never recovers.
Sorry, I suck at tournament reports since I can never remember my games in specifics. I plan on taking this to states, and will definitely change the board a bit, taking out the elspeth and adding another blessed alliance.
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Hey, so I don't really post on here much just cause I never make time for it. I've been playing bant company for just a couple weeks but have played both naya company and abzan company in the past (actually just had a regional top 8 with abzan company) so I am familiar with the style of deck and this may be my favorite company list yet.
I have no idea how to post a decklist correctly so I will just list my deck:
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Voice of Resurgence
2 Selfless Spirit
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Spell Queller
3 Tireless Tracker
1 Courser of Kruphix
4 Path to Exile
4 Collected Company
2 Retreat to Coralhelm
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
3 Sexy Altered Forest
1 Plains
1 Stomping Ground
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Breeding Pool
1 Temple Garden
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Gavony Township
1 Kessig Wolf Run
Sideboard:
2 Blessed Alliance
2 Stony Silence
1 Negate
1 Unified Will
2 Reflector Mage
2 Izzet Staticaster
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
2 Gaddock Teeg
The above is what I ran for the first event, which was a tourney for 100 in store credit to first. (Was actually a playset of jace VP but we didn't want those and have to bother to trade them.) it was 5 rounds with a cut to top 8. Note I cannot remember all my boarding decisions here since I didn't think I'd make a report.
Round 1: Abzan Company
Game 1: This is a friend of mine from the area (it was about an hour and a half away from me) and he assumed I was on abzan company as well since I am known for it and my start of temple garden, mana dork was convincing. The spell queller surprised him though and I manage to grind out game 1 after I get a scooze to hold off his combo while I grow knight, draw cards off tracker, and activate gavony.
Game 2: he gets me down to 1 through using a viscera seer and blood artist but I get the artist off the field and gain some life with Kitchen finks and scooze until I grind him out.
Board: I can't recall exactly. But I know I had Gaddock Teeg, staticaster, and finks. I may have boarded in blessed alliance and reflector mage.
1-0
Round 2: Bad Standard Deck.
No need for a rundown here. The guy had a standard deck that wasn't even good for standard (some kinda of artifact/paradox engine thing) and had a bye for the first round which is why he was up a match. I stomped him soundly with beats.
2-0
Round 3: Sun and Moon
Game 1: I have a decent start, he has turn 3 Nahiri (SSG) and chalice on 1 on turn 2, he angers my board after a few turns and plays a Gideon Jura followed up by a Chandra, torch of defiance. It's a little what happened exactly but I think some companies caught me up, he drew no gas, I beat all 3 of his planeswalkers up and then him. I was shocked. I also never saw blood moon this game and wondered if he even had it.
Game 2: my hand allows me to aggressively fetch basics so I do so, along with a couple dorks. I get a knight out along with Gaddock Teeg and tracker. He angers after a while of not doing much to kill my Teeg and tracker. I play another Teeg and keep beating down. He draws, reveals a hand of uncastable wraths and such and that's the game.
Board: I brought in Gaddock Teeg to slow down his walkers and wraths, kitchen finks to overload his removal and negate/ unified will to counter moons and walkers.
3-0
Round 4: RW Burn
Game 1: he mulls to a 6 card one-lander and isn't fast enough to kill me before I get setup behind a knight, scooze, and courser and aggro him down.
Game 2: he has a super fast start on the play and I just can't keep up and die before my hate cards come on line.
Game 3: He has a creature heavy draw and I have lands, dorks, a finks, a knight and a negate. His goblin guide reveals a blessed alliance off the first trigger and I just play a normal game while he doesn't advance much, seemingly played scared of the alliance. I never actually cast it and win the game with beats.
Board: 2 Blessed alliance, 2 Kitchen Finks, 1 Negate, 1 Unified Will.
4-0
Round 5: ID with Grixis Delver
4-0-1
Top 8: Goryo's Vengeance
I'm top seed so I get the play.
Game 1: he has a slow start and I have a turn 2 scooze off a dork that I never tap out of the ability. It goes unanswered and I get there naturally.
Game 2: I get the scooze lock up and after a few turns he nourish shoals and splices a through the breach. I counter the shoal with a negate. The next turn he is under 7 life, cast the through the breach and I have no answers. He puts in a griselbrand which immediately gets met with a path. He scoops.
Top 8, Round 2: Esper Midrange.
This was a friend from the same car so this was a little awkward.
Game 1: I have the play and we play a fairly normal game trading removal, discard and creatures. He gets some lingering souls out which I cannot answer and I die to them, also saw a Geist.
Game 2: same as you'd expect but I manage to get a fast enough start to get his life total low enough and he can't recover.
Game 3: This game went Super Long, we trade all our resources and he starts beating me with a collonade. I draw a tracker that goes unanswered and I start drawing cards while he holds back his collonade to block since the tracker is lethal. I draw some more threats, which is literally every creature in my deck since he's at 1 or 2. I alpha strike, he tries to push my Pridemage and blocks my tracker. I company into selfless spirt and that's that.
I then split the finals with the same guy from round 3 on sun and moon. We each got 85 in store credit which bought me some fetches.
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Then at tonight's FNM, I went undefeated (5-0) I changed the list by taking out the 2 Retreats and adding in a second courser and an Elspeth Knight-Errant.
Round 1: Soul Sisters
Game 1: Pretty standard stuff. He has some sisters to gain life while I beat him down with whatever is convenient. He doesn't really have any payoffs until he top decks a pridemate that immediately gets pathed. I close pretty quickly.
Game 2: he has a fast start with a sister turn 1, pridemate turn 2, and more sisters. His pridemate gets huge and I'm forced into chumping it while I wait for answers. Once I'm at about 8 life I find a path for it off a tracker and start to stabilize my board with good blockers while he draws lands I draw 12 CARDS off tracker this game. I also have the abilty to cast blessed alliance (both copies in my hand) fully escalated if he decided to get fancy. But he doesn't and I win 2-0
Board: 2 Izzet Staticaster, 2 Blessed Alliance, 2 Reflector Mage
1-0
Round 2: Mono-Green stompy
Game 1: for this matchup which I've never played before, I prioritize trading my creatures for his when possible since I know I can win if we go long. I stabilize at ten once he empties his hand using his pump spells to kill my blockers. And kill him with a large scooze.
Game 2: he gets me to 1, while I skillfully trade creatures with him. I gain some life from finks and draw a tracker that quickly puts the game away.
Board: 2 Blessed Alliance, 2 Kitchen Finks, 2 Reflector Mage.
2-0
Round 3: Goblins/8-Whack
Game 1: I'm kinda surprised since this guy doesn't normally play this and I've never seen him with it. I get beat by many quick tokens and a goblin grenade.
Game 2: I grind him out with blockers and a well placed blessed alliance that he scoops to. I draw 4-6 cards off goblin guides.
Game 3: I have a turn 2 Izzet staticaster which he can't deal with and I beat in with value dudes.
Board: 2 Izzet Staticaster, 2 Blessed Alliance, 2 Kitchen Finks, 2 Reflector Mage.
3-0
Round 4: Abzan Midrange
Game 1: traditional grind fest, but he finds some lingering souls I cannot answer.
Game 2: I keep a terrible 6-card hand with 1 land, a bird, and 3 drops. He IOKs me but takes one of the three drops. I draw lands and My bird doesn't die. I grind him out with tracker.
Game 3: same as game 2 but my hand is decent, tracker winds the game again, drawing me answers and brick walling his goyfs.
Board: 2 Izzet Staticaster, 2 Blessed Alliance, 2 Kitchen Finks, 1 Elspeth. In hindsight, I should've grabbed the counter magic, at least the negate.
4-0
Round 5: GR Tron
Game 1: a well placed knight into ghost quarter buys me enough time to kill him.
Game 2: he mulls to five, I spell queller his scrying to keep him off tron while I get a ghost quarter off a knight to further cement the lead. He never recovers.
Sorry, I suck at tournament reports since I can never remember my games in specifics. I plan on taking this to states, and will definitely change the board a bit, taking out the elspeth and adding another blessed alliance.