| Type-II Magic Tournament October 19, 2003 |
| Well, I played in the local tournament today, which was type-II (which still sucks). Today marked the first tournament in which Mirrodin was legal, so many decks were based around new Mirrodin cards, since the Odyssey cycle is now out. I played my elves yet agian, but I did a 2 card modification. I removed my last two Stonewood Envokers and put in 2 Tribal Forcemage. Those two cards really helped me out today. So, below is the round by round analysis... 1st Round: I played against a guy named Gabe who was running a green and white agro deck with removal. I lost the first game closely after he Wrathed and I couldn't recover. He was using those damn guys that get +1/+1 for every spell you play, but he had trouble keeping up with my alpha status and Timberwatch Elves... he sacrificed a creature to bring him from -2 life up to 3, then beat me in the next turn. Game two was a complete blowout for me... I completely overran him with my Treetop Scouts and Alpha Status. He went on to beat me by 2 life in game three... it was a really drwn out game and I couldn't compete with his fatties. Rounds (0-1) / Total Record (1-2) 2nd Round: Played Tony, who was running an white soldier with equipment deck. The deck was very slow, and once I got out my Taunting Elves it was all over. I completely blew him out in 2... Rounds (1-1) / Total Record (3-2) 3rd Round: Played young Chris again, who I beat in 3 last week. He was playing white flyers with life gain this week. I used my Wellwishers to nullify his flying attacks and Taunting Elves to clear his ground creatures. Then I just pumped up some other creatures for cleanup in both games. Those Forcemages really helped out in game two... I morphed them to give 6 elves +4/+4 and trample on top of the other abilities from the Timberwatches and cards in my hand. I won quite easily in two thanks to the Wellwishers. Rounds (2-1) / Total Record (5-2) 4th Round: This round was my downfall... I had my hopes up for 2nd place and they were dashed by Frankie, who was playing a white protection deck. I was beating him down pretty easily and had the game well in hand, but then he pulled up his protection (story circle, wing shards, wrath of god) and I was fucked after that. He stomped me with his fliers and I couldn't pull my Wellwishers. I was forced to concede game two on a ruling about Worhip and Ivory Mask... needless to say I was less than happy about that. So, I fell 0-2 in this round, ending the success I'd been having up until that point. Final Results for the day... Rounds (2-2) / Total Record (5-4) The winner (Josh) went (4-0) with a record of (8-3). Gabe got 2nd place with (3-1) in rounds and a record of (7-4). Several people went 5-4 and 4-6... only one person went 0-8 on the day. I guess next week might be Type-I... I'm sure hoping so. End of tournament analysis. |