ND states was fun i went 3-3, with elfdrazi, was gonna play vamps and then a friend had elfdrazi was better than vamps so I played it. First match lost to naya lightsaber, second match beat on aggro vamps, player was pretty inexperienced. third match lost to a jund player who top decks like a god I swear, I blow up one of his savage lands and he is down to two lands, topdecks a land, blow up a mountain, and he gets super lucky. Fourth round played against a player who wasn't playing something good. Fifth round played five color cascade. Lost due to misplays on my side, should have played an eldrazi and ran out a bunch of dudes instead, didn't think he had a DoJ, and he did, didn't see it in the first game. Sixth round was against blightning fun i think, didn't really see much because I beat it bad. Top 8 was 2 Jacerator, 1 Jund Deck, 3 Mono White tokens, 1 Lightsaber and 1 Boros. Winner was Jacerator, top four was funniness of 2 mono white tokens vs each other, and 2 jacerators vs each other. Naya lightsaber should have won the matchup with jacerator, because what happened was naya lightsaber popped ajani vengeant's ultimate and destroyed his opponents lands in game 3 and thought his opponent had gone to scoop, so the lightsaber player went to scoop and his opponent hadn't, opponent called a judge, and lightsaber got a game lose, thus lightsaber lost the match.
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Went 4-3 at Oregon states with Boros. 128 players, decent amount of jund but not overwhelming. Surprising number of Jacerator decks, though none of them seemed to do well.
R1 Beat Goblins.
R2 Lost to G/W/B (a deck I'd yet to lose to)
R3 Beat Jund.
R4 Beat valakut.
R5 Lost to Bant (another deck I usually crush)
R6 Beat Jund.
R7 Beat Pyroman combo.
So yeah... I can beat jund, but not the g/w/x decks I'm supposed to crush?
First place was world's white weenie, followed by G/W/b cobra walker aggro (this deck was good). The rest of the top 8 was RDW, Naya, Jund, Espervault, and something else... boros maybe?
There was a lot of white weenie and RDW in VT. Also a bunch of G/W/x, green aggro and jund natch.
There was a good plenty of Jund decks in Houston, followed by Jacerator as second most prevalent and then surprisingly R/W/U control saw a lot of play. I don't have the official numbers, but those're just my guesses based on what I saw. I was playing Jund myself, and faced the mirror match 3 times out of 8 matches. I placed 32nd out of ~190 people and won 3 packs. ^^ I was 5-3, my losses were to White Weenie, Jund, and Jund.
I played in CT states with Naya Lightsaber.
I went 6-2, due to a miscalculation in the eighth round we decided to not draw, but I think if we did we would have both top eighted.
I got 12th.
Lost to Mono white control and W/G....behemoth sledge? Not sure what to call it.
Good time though.
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i honestly think every1 shouldof just not went to states this year to set an example or something.
tell wizards this format is retarded.
Set an example of what and for whom? Telling Wizards that you don't like States likely won't do a whole lot as they don't support it anymore. And I'm pretty sure the only reason that the TOs went through so much trouble to set up States is that they know it is such a popular tournament.
Then again, based on your statement, you aren't looking for a well-reasoned discussion; you just want to rain on everyone else's parade.
Went 5-2 (16th) with W/U/r control at Oklahoma states. Saw no jund all day which is the entire reason I brought the deck. Oh well strange things happen on States day.
Lost in the finals in NY, or as I like to call it "Backup State Champion". Top 8 was four regular Jund, one four-color Ancient Zigurrat Jund playing Sedraxis Specter instead of Bituminous Blast and Noble Hierarch for ramping and color-fixing (which was the winning deck), one Boros Bushwhacker that we're sort of wondering how he got there since he didn't play especially well, plus one each of Bant and GW Aggro.
Top 4 was 4 of 4 Jund decks, after I got my revenge on my only loss in the Swiss by playing six Blightnings in two games. "Nice format", they'll say. I played "a decidedly uninteresting deck", when everyone asked what I was playing, with my technology being: +1 Mind Rot main, as a 'fifth Blightning' so I could play more of those super-dumb double-Blightning games, and 26 lands instead of 25. The 26th land fluctuated between a Terramorphic Expanse and an Oran-Rief over the past few days; I ran with OR when I settled on Master of the Wild Hunt in my deck, but literally never used the ability or even really wanted to today, and would almost certainly have won game one in the finals if that singleton extra tapped-land was the Terramorphic Expanse I'd originally wanted it to be.
Will be playing 74 of the same 75 at the Philly 5k, as testing-partner Morgan Chang *also* made the finals with the five-mind-rot, 26-land Jund deck in NJ States. This is the "corrected" version:
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Broodmate Dragon
2 Master of the Wild Hunt
Madison, WI. I get top 8 (7-1 record), 216 entrants, we had to borrow space from one of the stores down the strip so we didn't violate too many fire codes, lol. Mostly Jund in top 8 (including me), but I lost to a vampire deck with some pretty sick draws. Got to play against (and beat) Sam Black of star city games fame too, so a pretty cool day.
The top eight was, I believe(and I could easily be wrong):
1 Jund
1 UW control
1 Mono white Tokens
1 Mono White Aggro
1 Naya Lightsaber
1 Bant
1 I dunno. -.-
There were four boros players, three pyromancer combo, four fog, five vampires, and like ten random things like mono red, junk, and ramp. And the rest of the room was bant, jund, and naya...with bant and jund being tied for most popular out of just shy of seventy.
Pretty sure the Jund lists are getting more and more ridiculous. The additions people are coming up with look atrocious, then I remember Green has manafixing.
143 players in Colorado. I made top 8 with Jund. A good amount of Jund showed up at the tourney, but Turbo Fog was uber popular. I went 6-1-1 in Swiss and lost to Eldrazzi Vampires in the top 8. Shuler was there to sign our mats and stuff too.
My matches went:
1-0 R/G Goblins
1-1 Boros
1-1-1 UWR Control
2-1-1 Turbo Fog
3-1-1 UW Mill/Fog
4-1-1 Mono-White Control
5-1-1 Dredge
6-1-1 Turbo Fog
I played Jund with Super Secret Tech. From what I saw, the Top 8 had
Went 4-3 at Oregon states with Boros. 128 players, decent amount of jund but not overwhelming. Surprising number of Jacerator decks, though none of them seemed to do well.
Fixed, That Grixis being me. I beat my friend playing Jund in the Quarters, then lost to another Jund in the semis. Go mana flood and dead cards! I kept an opener with Swerve G3 and he didn't play a single spell for me to nuke. No Blightning, no bolts, nothing... Plenty of Thrinaxes though. Gotta love those Thrinaxes. Apparently drawing nothing but lands and counters (topdecked them the turn after he played his ☺☺☺☺ pretty much every time) isn't tech enough to beat Jund. It was kind of funny that the LD from his timely resolved ruinblaster that game didn't affect me at all, but with a Thrinax's help, he beat me down for 5 each turn... for a full 4 turns, despite me playing draw spells 3 out of those 4 turns. (supplying me with only more lands/counters I didn't need, the sole exception being an Agony Warp that I used to kill his Thrinax because I was banking on drawing a sweeper to clean up the board) I don't think I ever drew a Cruel against him the whole damn match.
tl;dr ☺☺☺☺ happens. I'm a little pissed at how my tourney ended but I think I'll be okay by tomorrow. Either way, ☺☺☺☺ Jund.
Finals was B/G/W Vs. that Jund. I left before the match finished, but I think the B/G/W guy was up a game, I might be wrong though.
T8 looked something like:
Jund
Jund
Jund
????
BGW Junk
BGW Junk
Boros
GW
R1 Beat Goblins.
R2 Lost to G/W/B (a deck I'd yet to lose to)
R3 Beat Jund.
R4 Beat valakut.
R5 Lost to Bant (another deck I usually crush)
R6 Beat Jund.
R7 Beat Pyroman combo.
So yeah... I can beat jund, but not the g/w/x decks I'm supposed to crush?
First place was world's white weenie, followed by G/W/b cobra walker aggro (this deck was good). The rest of the top 8 was RDW, Naya, Jund, Espervault, and something else... boros maybe?
There was a lot of white weenie and RDW in VT. Also a bunch of G/W/x, green aggro and jund natch.
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4-4 with jund. losses vs RG eldrazi,Vampires,Naya lightsaber, turbofog.
Wins vs Grixis control,Bant aggro,Bant aggro and Naya lightsaber.
bad draw in the eldrazi and vamps matchups, stayed to watch top 8
semifinals was
Turbofog vs jund 0-2
Naya lightsaber vs Jund 2-0
finals was
Jund vs Naya lightsabler 2-1
I went 6-2, due to a miscalculation in the eighth round we decided to not draw, but I think if we did we would have both top eighted.
I got 12th.
Lost to Mono white control and W/G....behemoth sledge? Not sure what to call it.
Good time though.
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Set an example of what and for whom? Telling Wizards that you don't like States likely won't do a whole lot as they don't support it anymore. And I'm pretty sure the only reason that the TOs went through so much trouble to set up States is that they know it is such a popular tournament.
Then again, based on your statement, you aren't looking for a well-reasoned discussion; you just want to rain on everyone else's parade.
There was also a B/W control deck played by a pro here he made top 8 but lost somewhere in there. I was undeafted
Jund
Jund
Jund
Jund
Jacerator
Vampires
Naya
R/G Valakut
T2
B Maga, Traitor to MortalsB
that would be top 9
nvm i cant count
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Top 4 was 4 of 4 Jund decks, after I got my revenge on my only loss in the Swiss by playing six Blightnings in two games. "Nice format", they'll say. I played "a decidedly uninteresting deck", when everyone asked what I was playing, with my technology being: +1 Mind Rot main, as a 'fifth Blightning' so I could play more of those super-dumb double-Blightning games, and 26 lands instead of 25. The 26th land fluctuated between a Terramorphic Expanse and an Oran-Rief over the past few days; I ran with OR when I settled on Master of the Wild Hunt in my deck, but literally never used the ability or even really wanted to today, and would almost certainly have won game one in the finals if that singleton extra tapped-land was the Terramorphic Expanse I'd originally wanted it to be.
Will be playing 74 of the same 75 at the Philly 5k, as testing-partner Morgan Chang *also* made the finals with the five-mind-rot, 26-land Jund deck in NJ States. This is the "corrected" version:
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Broodmate Dragon
2 Master of the Wild Hunt
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Blightning
4 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Bituminous Blast
2 Terminate
1 Mind Rot
4 Savage Lands
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Dragonskull Summit
3 Forest
3 Swamp
3 Mountain
1 Terramorphic Expanse
Sideboard:
4 Great Sable Stag
3 Jund Charm
3 Thought Hemorrhage
2 Burst Lightning
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
1 Mind Rot
Dunno:D
The top eight was, I believe(and I could easily be wrong):
1 Jund
1 UW control
1 Mono white Tokens
1 Mono White Aggro
1 Naya Lightsaber
1 Bant
1 I dunno. -.-
There were four boros players, three pyromancer combo, four fog, five vampires, and like ten random things like mono red, junk, and ramp. And the rest of the room was bant, jund, and naya...with bant and jund being tied for most popular out of just shy of seventy.
I played bant four times today. It was awful. -.-
RDW, go figure eh?
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=299420
My matches went:
1-0 R/G Goblins
1-1 Boros
1-1-1 UWR Control
2-1-1 Turbo Fog
3-1-1 UW Mill/Fog
4-1-1 Mono-White Control
5-1-1 Dredge
6-1-1 Turbo Fog
I played Jund with Super Secret Tech. From what I saw, the Top 8 had
2x Boros
2x Jund
1x Vampires (Top Seed in Swiss)
1x Bant
Not sure of the rest.
Fixed, That Grixis being me. I beat my friend playing Jund in the Quarters, then lost to another Jund in the semis. Go mana flood and dead cards! I kept an opener with Swerve G3 and he didn't play a single spell for me to nuke. No Blightning, no bolts, nothing... Plenty of Thrinaxes though. Gotta love those Thrinaxes. Apparently drawing nothing but lands and counters (topdecked them the turn after he played his ☺☺☺☺ pretty much every time) isn't tech enough to beat Jund. It was kind of funny that the LD from his timely resolved ruinblaster that game didn't affect me at all, but with a Thrinax's help, he beat me down for 5 each turn... for a full 4 turns, despite me playing draw spells 3 out of those 4 turns. (supplying me with only more lands/counters I didn't need, the sole exception being an Agony Warp that I used to kill his Thrinax because I was banking on drawing a sweeper to clean up the board) I don't think I ever drew a Cruel against him the whole damn match.
tl;dr ☺☺☺☺ happens. I'm a little pissed at how my tourney ended but I think I'll be okay by tomorrow. Either way, ☺☺☺☺ Jund.
Finals was B/G/W Vs. that Jund. I left before the match finished, but I think the B/G/W guy was up a game, I might be wrong though.
My Swiss Record:
R1 Jund 1-2
R2 Jacerator 2-1
R3 Jund 2-0
R4 Jund 2-1
R5 Wafo-Tapa Grixis 2-1
R6 RDW 2-0
R7 Bant 2-0
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Top 8'ed the NH states with Elfdrazi
EDIT: Anyone know what the result was in Maine states?
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=299420
T8 was:
Vampires
Bant
Valakut Ramp
Gigantiform Combo
Turbofog
Jund
Jund
Jund
I played Valakut. Don't ask what Gigantiform combo is.
Also wow, that signature is old.