MTG Salvation

R1 vs Daniel on Eldrazi Tron. G1 He's on the play, I lose to his T2 Thought-Knot Seer taking my Bridge into Karn shortly after. Not much I could do here.

G2 I resolve Quicksilver Fountain and, mark my words, it did HEAVY work. When I resolved it off Watery Grave, Island and Pentad Prism, I watched all of his tron lands, Eldrazi Temple, then GQ, then Sea-Gate Wreckage sink into quicksilver when I just had my fetches turn into painless mana. Of course I had Foundry up and was ready to blow the Fountain up the minute he would stop making his land drops. Well this little (very one sided) game bought me several turns during which I casually assembled Thopter-Sword and started the overhead beatdown, chumping his pair of TKS and laughing at his underpowered (because mana) 3/3 Ballista.

G3 I get the nuts of T1 Jar, Bauble, Opal, cast Capsule, virtual scry off my fetch, pass the turn. Already gripping on Thopter Foundry, T2 I topdeck Sword of the Meek FTW. 1-0 Matches.

R2 vs Jonathan on Merfolk. G1 Just play around Cursecatcher and Whir into Bridge at the end of turn 4, after Pushing a couple fishes down a cliff. Thopter-Sword. Hello, I run 7 Bridges now. G2 Thoughtseize takes a Negate, I slam Bridge, Whir into Witchbane Orb to shut off any running Hurkyl's Recall that could happen, and draw into Tezz and Thopter-Sword within a couple of turns. Deck is on fire, really. Matches 2-0.

R3 vs - sigh - Max on Green Tron. G1 on the play I curve out like this: T2 I power out double Prism because I intend to smash faces, T3 Tezz: 5 dmg output, incoming 10 next turn. Of course he has natural Tron and drops a Karn on my face, who at least is still going to die to 5/5 beats no matter what. To my great surprise, he eats one of my lands. This tips me toward expecting a Stone to clean up the rest next turn. My T4 I smash for 10 but then, as expected, all my efforts and pretty insane dmg output get blown into Oblivion by a Stone. GG. Praise to Prism, we had game though!

G2 on the play, I keep a very reasonable six of land, land, Prism, Tezz, Bridge, Map (which I've been very happy to see every time including this one), a hand that becomes excellent when I scry Thoughtseize to top (To self: OMG could I maybe make it, this time???). T1 he makes an obnoxious play that, in retrospect, changed everything and revealed how awesome my hand (and map) were. He Needles Ghost Quarter. Ok, well Map is still Fair (into anything), Ruins, and/or my third land drop.

Going on with my life, I proceed to T2 Thoughtseize into T3 smashing Tezz him. But no matter how I spun it, I couldn't kill him through his grip of Stirrings, natural goddamn Tron again, 2x Wurmcoil and a Nature's Claim. Best case scenario my damage output will be 25 by the time he has a lifelinking Wurmcoil out to block... Then leaving him at 1. So I reluctantly smash for what I can until we start grinding and I have to drop a Bridge to insulate myself from the Wurmcoils. Tezz is now up to four loyalty, and this guy, this Tron guy, he casts: Orbs of Warding. Just wtf? Both of my main wincons are now offline, and I have no way to deal with this [edit: in retrospect, maybe I should've just went for it, tutor up my two Sword of the Meek and put him on a 10 turn clock off thopter beats. Playing at Lantern speed RPM, maybe this could've worked. But I didn't]

Fast forward Thopter-Sword is assembled but I'm not sure just what to do with it, Needle on Karn and double Welding Jar up to protect my junk, my Map grabs a Ruins, grabbing me a Map, grabbing me a Fair, grabbing me a Crucible, grabbing me a Jester's Cap, then I realize this doesn't work either because of the Orbs. DUH! Well we end up on one of the grindiest, messiest board state I ever saw haha. Time is called and I concede to him in good sport, but well... lol so close, I guess? Matches 2-1.

Notes to self: keep Pithing Needle mainboard. Mechanized Production in.

R4 vs Cedric on Kiki-Chord. G1 on the play, I establish a board lock with double Jar back-up, and Ruins for recursion. This will save me from 5+ Qasali Pridemage activations (he's looping it with Witness, and later duplicating it with Kiki) throughout the game. Tezz ult takes it just before my engine is turned off by his Whi.. err, Chorded for Magus of the Moon! Yee-HAW.

G2 I'm baiting him into Damnation territory, keeping the Yards clean with dual-Relics online, and gripping onto a Needle I have yet to deploy, which might have been a bit overconfident since, welp, I then die to Kiki-Jikki with mana open, Needle in hand haha. Yeah, on my turn 4, I hold back firing the Wrath because I still don't think there's enough value on the board. He EOT Restos and casts the Kiki-Jikki he's just topdecked. I realize my mistake. In response to Kiki, I crack both Relics and hope for a Fatal Push. ***** happens.

G3 I'm on the play and face a T2 Stony Silence. But Flaying Tendrils his board of Hierarch, Bird, Pridemage and Voice into Padeem watching over a Bridge, and massive card advantage meant we were taking this one home boys. Tezz FTW. Matches 3-1, actual crowd went wild.