I played RDW at ohio states. I went 6-3. I lost to a weird bant toast with lots of Condemn and Bant Charm, Lark because I couldn't handle the 3 4/3 flyers, and I lost to Faeries in the last round for an unknown reason. This put me in 33rd, which was one spot away from getting prize.
I was at NC States playing Doran Rock. There were actually 215 people there. I went 5-3 off of some bad draws and mulligans. Not to mention just playing like a fool at times. Though I do have an amazing story to tell.
Round 1: Toast
Lost game 1. Just got out card advantaged
Game 2 I SURVIVED CRUEL ULTIMATUM! Here's what happened. I have Doran + Profane in hand, and a colossus on the board. He ultimatums and I have 7 lands, one of which is a Treetop, he had 6 cards in hand, I have none. I topdeck Mind Shatter (!!!! after playing 1 already, and only playing 2) and Mind Shatter for 5. I hit Wrath, Bant Charm, Condemn, Kitchen Finks, and Oona. All he has is a vivid land left in hand. I proceed to win with Treetop beats! The judge had to come over to quiet down my opponent (who was a friend of mine) due to his profanity getting a bit loud. Best. Topdeck. Evar.
LOL yeah the weedles were tech, i was the RDWs guy chris beat in the quarterfinals BTW. i mean omg triple Cenn and aJani, i even had everlasting torment AND firespout and Pyroclasum and never cleared the table it was sad =[
Ok, you're the guy I was sitting beside while Chris and Ben were playing.
I would have loved to have seen that match between you and Chris, but I was hungry and getting him food as well.
He told me about it, and told me the judge kept trying to tell him that his guys were dead. lol
BW Tokens(1st or 2nd)
Charm Control(3rd or 4th)
Doran(3rd or 4th)
Cruel Control(1st or 2nd)
Mono-Red(5th or 6th) That was me...
Crasher Midrange(5th or 6th)
5cc(7th or 8th)
Quillspike o.o... (7th or 8th)
Sooo much more 5cc than expected. Surprised I T8ed at all.
Utah top 8 was:
3x Wr Kithkin
2x faeries
1x Mono Red
1x Realm Razer
1x ????? (Maybe fae or RDW, NOT 5cc)
I know that 2 kithkin and the realm razer deck made it to the semifinals.
I was the only 5-2 to get in (both my losses were to Top8 people, so my tiebreaks were excellent). I played Wr Kithkin: playing: cruel control 2-1, UBG merfolk 2-1, fae 2-0, los to fae 1-2, RDW 2-0, Realm Razer 1-2, fae 2-1.
I actually didn't see that much red... And the one guy I played got mad when I drew 4 forge tenders and 3 spectral procession game 2.
Ah. I left after like....round....5? No, six. Thats just what i was seeing at the top tables was all. Heh. Realm Razer really t8'd?
And i saw red and kithkin guys out, figured that it was backlash. I was usually watching my friends games.
And i think the reason was that it did kinda poorly. After like round three i was on higher tables, so the players were worse. and I don't think i ever didn't have like three or four red matchups within sight range.
Alberta champs had a good turn out(7 rounds unsure on how many players). Top 8 was 3 fae, RDW, 2 Kithkin, doran, and one unknown. RDW won by playing and beating Faeries 3 times in a row. Best play of the day(for me): Against RDW in round 3, and play 4 Cryptic command back to back to back to back in game 3 to ekk out a win. only played RDW's once and somehow won..
"Crovax Connections" does sound like a friendly corner store run by your local Ascendant Lord
I bet we have a case of Jon Finkel sleeping with the girl, then never calling her again and she going bat #%^% crazy and writing this article case closed.
First PTQ top 8 6/13/09(1st) Second PTQ top 8 10/7/09(5th) Second at national Qualifier 5/15/10
Third PTQ top 8 2/12/11 (2nd)
Second at Alberta 2011's
Fourth PTQ top 8 3/17/12(8th)
GP Vancouver 2012 (18th)
We did 6 rounds of Swiss in VT. I squeezed in to the top 8 with 4-1-1. I was running Cruel Control. There was a wacky deck called 20 Knights in the Top 8 and I think a Fae deck. The guy who won it was running a deck with Spark Elementals and Woolly Thoctar LOL
Hey shin I didnt know you lived in Michigan I was there, my friend Dave James made the top 8 with fae, I was the guy in the blue shirt filming with the camera all day until I lost of course! LOL
Hey shin I didnt know you lived in Michigan I was there, my friend Dave James made the top 8 with fae, I was the guy in the blue shirt filming with the camera all day until I lost of course! LOL
Were you playing Bant?
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I was pretty excited for Modern.
Not so much anymore.
Oh yeah I remember now I asked you if you were playing oona's grace and tidings and you just drew land and found no answers. THis year's states was really fun I cant wait for next year
Hey shin I didnt know you lived in Michigan I was there, my friend Dave James made the top 8 with fae, I was the guy in the blue shirt filming with the camera all day until I lost of course! LOL
I saw you filming, actually. I didn't understand why, but I thought it was funny anyway.
I played next to Dave twice that day. Seemed like a nice guy.
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1st: Chris Kirkpatrick with Kithkin
2nd: Ben Angel with Antoine Control
3rd-4th Faeries
3rd-4th Red Deck Wins
5th-8th
Reveillark
Red Deck Wins
Cruel Control
Naya Zoo
Red Deck Wins showed up in huge numbers by the way.
I was there also and I played RDW, went 4-3. I was able to beat my worst matchup twice, kithkin. Everlasting Torment is a great card:D I left befor the top 8 started, sounds like I should have stayed. I am glad that if RDW couldn't when, then Kithkin did, I like kithkin.
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til all are one...doesn't that mean til all are dead!?!?
Ah. I left after like....round....5? No, six. Thats just what i was seeing at the top tables was all. Heh. Realm Razer really t8'd?
And i saw red and kithkin guys out, figured that it was backlash. I was usually watching my friends games.
And i think the reason was that it did kinda poorly. After like round three i was on higher tables, so the players were worse. and I don't think i ever didn't have like three or four red matchups within sight range.
The realm razer deck was pretty solid. It actually beat Brandon Nelson in the first round of top 8 because he had a game loss for a deck registration error.
I was the only kithkin player I saw actually running burn (and ironically backlash out of the board for mirror), the other top8 lists were just running red for vengeant main, and possibly SB cards.
I did see a few red during the early rounds, and sat next to a mono-red mirror round 4 (when I played red), but other than that didn't see any Besides Allen Doong's Top8 list. I'd imagine that if you lost round 1 or 2 there would probably be a lot of mono red on the bottom tables. I had heard before the tournament started that a lot of people were playing it, I just didn't see it.
Yeah I did it so can show people that dont know about magic what I do. I am going to edit it into a short video soon. I had lots of fun and it was intended just show what magic is and how fun and competitive it can be sometimes.
Hey shin I didnt know you lived in Michigan I was there, my friend Dave James made the top 8 with fae, I was the guy in the blue shirt filming with the camera all day until I lost of course! LOL
Go go Dave James for representing team Deadly Alliance.
Can I have Jeff's spot?
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He fights you not because you've wronged him, but because you're there.
<+RicoSuave> andy doesn't like grass on his playing field
<+RicoSuave> the easiest answer is to flip em over and play in the mud
<BrassMan> OBV
<BrassMan> WAIT WHAT?
The realm razer deck was pretty solid. It actually beat Brandon Nelson in the first round of top 8 because he had a game loss for a deck registration error.
I was the only kithkin player I saw actually running burn (and ironically backlash out of the board for mirror), the other top8 lists were just running red for vengeant main, and possibly SB cards.
I did see a few red during the early rounds, and sat next to a mono-red mirror round 4 (when I played red), but other than that didn't see any Besides Allen Doong's Top8 list. I'd imagine that if you lost round 1 or 2 there would probably be a lot of mono red on the bottom tables. I had heard before the tournament started that a lot of people were playing it, I just didn't see it.
Kurtis in top 8 was running mono-white Kithkin, actually. Not sure if Eric was or not, I never watched him play.
I hate that you beat me in tie breakers, I was 5-2 too.
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Round 1: Toast
Lost game 1. Just got out card advantaged
Game 2 I SURVIVED CRUEL ULTIMATUM! Here's what happened. I have Doran + Profane in hand, and a colossus on the board. He ultimatums and I have 7 lands, one of which is a Treetop, he had 6 cards in hand, I have none. I topdeck Mind Shatter (!!!! after playing 1 already, and only playing 2) and Mind Shatter for 5. I hit Wrath, Bant Charm, Condemn, Kitchen Finks, and Oona. All he has is a vivid land left in hand. I proceed to win with Treetop beats! The judge had to come over to quiet down my opponent (who was a friend of mine) due to his profanity getting a bit loud. Best. Topdeck. Evar.
I win game 3 very easily, with no resistance
Matchups:
Toast (Win 2-1)
Doran (Win 2-1)
Zoo (Lose 2-1)
Faeries (Win 2-0)
Kithkin (Lose 2-0)
Tokens (Lose 2-1)
UWB Mannequin (Win 2-0)
Demigod Deck Wins (Win 2-0)
Ok, you're the guy I was sitting beside while Chris and Ben were playing.
I would have loved to have seen that match between you and Chris, but I was hungry and getting him food as well.
He told me about it, and told me the judge kept trying to tell him that his guys were dead. lol
Ok, I think I remember you. Oh, I'm not sure if he told Ben, but Chris got dead last at last years States. lol
2 Kithkin
2 5CC
1 RGB Big Mana
1 UBw Faeries
1 UW Merfolk
1 Planeswalker/Chaotic Backlash thingy
It was Merfolk VS Faeries in the finals but I left before I saw who won.
Top 8
BW Tokens(1st or 2nd)
Charm Control(3rd or 4th)
Doran(3rd or 4th)
Cruel Control(1st or 2nd)
Mono-Red(5th or 6th) That was me...
Crasher Midrange(5th or 6th)
5cc(7th or 8th)
Quillspike o.o... (7th or 8th)
Sooo much more 5cc than expected. Surprised I T8ed at all.
Ah. I left after like....round....5? No, six. Thats just what i was seeing at the top tables was all. Heh. Realm Razer really t8'd?
And i saw red and kithkin guys out, figured that it was backlash. I was usually watching my friends games.
And i think the reason was that it did kinda poorly. After like round three i was on higher tables, so the players were worse. and I don't think i ever didn't have like three or four red matchups within sight range.
First PTQ top 8 6/13/09(1st)
Second PTQ top 8 10/7/09(5th)
Second at national Qualifier 5/15/10
Third PTQ top 8 2/12/11 (2nd)
Second at Alberta 2011's
Fourth PTQ top 8 3/17/12(8th)
GP Vancouver 2012 (18th)
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Close enough :P.
My matchups were:
5cc (2-0)
fae (match forfeit due to missing cards and wanting to track them down)
fae (2-0)
kithkin (2-1)
kithkin (1-2)
fae (2-0)
fae (2-0)
fae (2-0)
Lots of fae!
Play at the following shops:
Luckys Card Shop (Greensboro, NC)
Sci-Fi Genre (Durham, NC)
All Fun and Games (Apex, NC)
Were you playing Bant?
Not so much anymore.
UB fae beats RDW
GB elves beats 5ccMerfolk
UB fae beats mono white kithkin
5cc Toast beats UB fae
Semi finals:
UB fae beats 5cctoast
GB elves beats UB fae
finals
GB elves beats UB fae
Round 2 I sat next to you. Also played Bant. Funny how life works that way, lulz.
Evidently the guy I played that round won the whole thing.
Not so much anymore.
I saw you filming, actually. I didn't understand why, but I thought it was funny anyway.
I played next to Dave twice that day. Seemed like a nice guy.
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I was there also and I played RDW, went 4-3. I was able to beat my worst matchup twice, kithkin. Everlasting Torment is a great card:D I left befor the top 8 started, sounds like I should have stayed. I am glad that if RDW couldn't when, then Kithkin did, I like kithkin.
The realm razer deck was pretty solid. It actually beat Brandon Nelson in the first round of top 8 because he had a game loss for a deck registration error.
I was the only kithkin player I saw actually running burn (and ironically backlash out of the board for mirror), the other top8 lists were just running red for vengeant main, and possibly SB cards.
I did see a few red during the early rounds, and sat next to a mono-red mirror round 4 (when I played red), but other than that didn't see any Besides Allen Doong's Top8 list. I'd imagine that if you lost round 1 or 2 there would probably be a lot of mono red on the bottom tables. I had heard before the tournament started that a lot of people were playing it, I just didn't see it.
We can but assume he did similar to other good faeries players siding stillmoon cavalier: well.
Go go Dave James for representing team Deadly Alliance.
Can I have Jeff's spot?
5CC beats Kithkin
RW Kithkin beats GWU Aggro
RW Aggro beats 5CC
Kithkin (me) beats 5CC
RW Aggro beats RW Kithkin
Kithkin (me) beats 5CC
Kithkin (still me) beats RW Aggro
I posted a more in-depth report in the Type 2 Kithkin thread.
Kurtis in top 8 was running mono-white Kithkin, actually. Not sure if Eric was or not, I never watched him play.
I hate that you beat me in tie breakers, I was 5-2 too.