MTG Salvation

Figured as such, thanks.

Whelp got first place again, the FNM pilar of flame is nice.

Game day went well for me

Match 1: against BR vampires
game 1: (on the draw) a newer casual player, he played a tiriade of vampires regardless of their value/power. i won when i landed thragtusk -> armada wurm
game 2: (on the draw) classic aggro sideboard, sided out rancors and wolfrun. he mulled to 4 and i curved out perfectly.

Match 2: Bant Control
game 1: (on the draw) i managed to get him to 4 life then he miracles an entreat to win it.
game 2: (on the play) he draws angel to exile my thragtusk, wurm, and token. i exile it EoT. otherwise a fine game for me.
game 3: (on the draw) we got to 5 minutes left and both fast played. turns were called and i was active player and i won it on turn 3 with 2x resto angel on his turn into 3 rancors after he miracles a terminus twice...

match 3: Jund something or other
game 1: (on the play) i see gravecrawler, lotleth troll and vampire nighthawk, so i think he's doing some aggro variant, i win with some of my favorite thragtusks
game 2: (on the draw) i sideboard my anti aggro things. turn 4 he drops olivia, i dont draw a charm to deal with her and lose shortly after.
game 3: (on the play) side out the aggro things, side in my midrange dealings and answer his threats with 2 armada wurms that somehow dont get severed.

match 4: Play for the mat | U/W Control
game 1: (on the play)thinking he was playing bant i wasn't worried about counters and walked into 2 of them and drew no more threats and lost to an 11/4 restoration angel.
game 2: (play) sided in oring, sundering growth, charm, and sigarda. He kept a sketchy hand of 2 plains and a moorland haunt. I win with 42 life to spare.
game 3: (draw) he got stuck at 3 lands and i was beating him to death with an avacyn's pilgrim that had a rancor on its back until he tapped out for a resto angel to block then i went on to resolve a thragtusk then armada wurm that i flickered when he tried to azorious charm it.

:3

Match 1
g1: against GW 'midrange' aggro, was unable to stabalize after a double striking angel hit me for tons
g2: i sided in centaur healers, oblivion rings, sided out pillar of flame and rancors. I got hit again for 12 on turn 4 by an angry loxodon smiter. however turn 5 i dropped an armada wurm with trostani out to regain it easily. Managed to stabalize and take control with wurms and thrag
g3: she had bad draws and didn't play many creatures.

match 2
g1: Played against bant control, i drew into 2 creatures thragtusk and borderland ranger and was unable to do anything against angel of serenity.
g2: sideboarded in zealous conscripts, oblivion ring, sundering growth, thalia, out pilar of flame, bonfire of the damned and some other stuff. I lost due to lack of land draw past 4.

Match 3
g1: bant aggro i lost against wolfirsilverheart being -2'd by ajani
g2: sided in healer, oring out rancor and wolfrun, we both mulled to five and i drew great and he did not.
g3: i won without much effort.

match 4
g1: gw aggro, won first game by forcing him to make bad blocks with selesnya charm.
g2: sided in healer, oring. i flickered armada wurm 3 times in the match keeping it from being exiled by fiend hunter which clinched the win.

match 5(top 8)
g1: Frites, he saw 1 centaur healer and 1 thragtusk and no discard spells.
g2: i sideboard in conscripts, oring, rest in peace. Opener had rest in peace and t2 he plays looting and pitches angel and unburial rites, i follow with the RIP and lay down the smack down with a borderland ranger and an avacyn's pilgrim and wolfrun.

Split top 4.

Well if you play paladin, you get 2 more damage in than angel but you're just as susceptible to removal, if you play angel you do 2 less this turn but next turn you have a 8/7 evasive double striker. If playing against UW/x i'd go paladin and force them to have the removal, otherwise go for angel.

Trostani is sick, drop her and then play thrag to gain 8, then wurm to gain 10, sick nasty

Quote from MichaelHundred

d3athrow, what is your decklist?

match one i played against some odd selesnya deck that ramped into the 7 wurm. I won game 1 before he got his wincon out. game 2 i sideboarded foolishly thinking he was going for angel of serenity, armada wurm and the likes and i got caught off guard. Game 3 i sideboarded correctly and dealt with his wurm by zealous conscripting it for the win. Player quality was that of a casual timmy player.

Match two was against a mono red list that got 10th place last week at the scgopen and i won both games with a combination of lucky thragtusks and well timed huntmaster flips. Sideboard was thalia and centaur healers. Player quality was skillful but he messed up on the math to lose game 2

Match 3 was against Grixis control that i won 2-0. game one he got olivia out and i selesnya charmed it before he could take my armada wurm and he scooped. game 2 i boarded in o-rings and another charm and he got land flooded. He was apathetic due to a bad evening(i was playing down) and just wanted to go home.

Match 4 we ID'd so we could eat some pizza

top 8 match was against mono red guy and it went down the same and we split top 4.

Quote from Spazik008

I like how Thragtusk has been out since July and somehow he just became broken 2 weeks ago.

The majority of people on mtgsalvation are bad at magic.

Quote from zaj56

WOW

Ok so since thragtusk has come out how many winning decks use him in big tournaments? and when they do hes usually not a 4 of.
Theres a reason why you can pick one up for around 10-12$
Hes not OP jeeeeeeez
hes a great card. thats it.

First place in scgopen today ran 4 mainboard, There were several playsets in the top 32

You deal lethal damage and a State based action will cause him to lose before Mikaeus's ability will go onto the stack.

Quote from Osamu

I doubt they will keep 25/15 tix cost structure to RTR.

IMO, there are four possible reasons why they are reducing price;
1) They listen to our complaint and adjust accordingly.
2) They want to try new cost structure to see whether they will earn more.
3) Core set may not be tempting enough for people to join.
4) No more mythic prerelease (Wurmcoil), giving out only rare card cost you less.

giving out a card regardless in a digital tcg game costs you nothing but the bandwidth to have the client know what card to display, and the tiny bit of storage in the db

Quote from Psychobabble

Don't want to discourage you if you want to keep doing this, but just so you know JustSin does a now-fortnightly meta breakdown in his column which has a lot of good information, aggregated across all of the events.

fortnightly, so every 2weeks?

To start i will only show deck lists, then i will go back and get the results of each deck and post them