i went with a b/r suicide aggro deck, pretty standard, and the only other guy who was undefeated at the 45 person tournament was running GW humans, who hadn't had a chance to get any gatecrash cards.
not sure what this says, probably nothing, but i thought it was cute.
Almost everyone went black for victim of the night to kill boros reckoner. Nothing my gw human deck can't handle with knight of glory and sigarda. Undefeated in the swiss and undefeated in the top 8. Victory smells like rubber
Interesting stuff... my lgs is having a 2 day gameday so I'm going sunday.
Just running 4 gatetrash cards in my 75, probably a bad call but all in on madcap skills for the turn 4 kill and 1 Boros reckoner (to represent the threat) but 3 volcanic strength in the SB. Hope it shouldn't be mainboard!
Also plan on complaining about "where's all my reckoners?" to represent the threat while just wiping them out with crappy madcap'd vampires.
I split with another player in the Top 2 in the Game Day using Bant Run, and yes, I have practically 0 GTC cards in my deck, except Breeding Pool and Sacred Foundry, which are the previous Ravnica Block versions LOL~
Split 1st at Gameday with Wolf Run Bant. Swept my aggro matches. I brought Simic Charms in as they can really hose a number of decks that rely on spot removal or things being uncounterable while still providing good trades or tempo swings.
The lack of Gatecrash cards doesn't really mean anything when you are looking at 2 decks that really gained nothing from the set and are still decent decks for open events like Game Day or FNM. So really, I am not surprised at all there were no gatecrash cards in the two decks...
Interestingly enough, our Game Day mat was not cut in half this time. Last Game Day they split first and second down to the mat... Now a guy at our shop has a Cham mat.
i actually did cut 3 ultimate prices and a pillar of flame for 4 victim of night main.
i saw one other zombie deck that was 3-0, but i threw in some vampire nighthawks and sideboarded into 4 pillars and got it.
i saw about 7 or 8 boros reckoner's all night, and if i had the victim of night i was fine. if i didn't, he made my life very unpleasant but not neccesarily unwinnable.
My bant midrange did poorly. It was my own fault. My deck had gotten too far away from Selesnya aggro splashing blue that was placing for me a month ago. Too much of everything rather than picking a direction. I believe the only things from gatecrash I'm running are simic charm and breeding pool.
Match 1 0-2
Lost to GW/humans. Just faster than me and I wasn't packing significant removal. He was 4-1 top 5 when I dropped though so it wasn't surprising.
Match 2 2-1
Paired down Some kid with a boros gatecrash deck. Meh Saint geist + SB Paladin put it away quickly round one. Ran into a string of land game 2 and legion loyalist put me down game 3 smiter + orzhovas gift crushed him.
Match 3 1-2
God it was horrible. game 1 I clean him out with Saint geist+Sflight+Ethereal armor before he could do anything, but game 2 I screwed up my sideboarding and ended up mulling to 5 still came close but couldn't manage it before he burned me to death. Game 3 I managed to push in thalia early to make control impossible, but I misplayed trying to remove a reckoner he redirected damage at thalia *facepalm* and blasphemous act next turn finished it.
Match 4 2-0
Paired down again some guy running some sort of gatecrash with a Crypt ghast other random stuff I'm not really sure what he was trying to do. Don't even remember what I played.
Match 5 2-0
bant vs bant. He just pulled bad hands. It sucked I felt bad.
Because my wins were all against poorly playing decks I couldn't make it into top 8. sadface.
I've since purified my deck and cleaned up the sideboard which may not make sense in the greater meta game but locally I suspect this will smooth things out to put me back in the top 3 average. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/bant-midrange-21-02-13-1/ would have killed for the unsummons to be in my sideboard yesterday. May run 4
I played a 18 land R/G aggro deck
undefeated too
Every game finished at turn 4 or 5
Except the last game(he is play zombie artis), I donno what deck my opp play with
Interesting stuff... my lgs is having a 2 day gameday so I'm going sunday.
Just running 4 gatetrash cards in my 75, probably a bad call but all in on madcap skills for the turn 4 kill and 1 Boros reckoner (to represent the threat) but 3 volcanic strength in the SB. Hope it shouldn't be mainboard!
Also plan on complaining about "where's all my reckoners?" to represent the threat while just wiping them out with crappy madcap'd vampires.
I played four volcanic strength in the main deck.
And I kill my opp by it 4 times, thanks to shock lands
I went with a friend to a twelve person game day. which is where I found out my deck is racist, out of the 12, 11 were white guys, and guess who my deck beat 2-0, yep the one black guy.
Played Human-Reanimator ("Angel of Glorious Value" or "4C-Combo" or "Boner Kill" or "Live Forever or Die Trying' or whatever you want to call it)
2-0 Humans
2-1 UWR Midrange
0-2 Zombies
2-1 UWR Midrange
1-1 no clue (draw to ensure top 8)
3-1-1
Top 8:
1-2 The Aristocrats
It was fun. Saw a lot of UWR floating around, but there were some fun decks as well. Not as many people at this Game Day as others because there was plenty of people still at the PTQ.
The full art Firemane Avenger is indeed beautiful.
Our local judge made the semi final and then tried to enforce competitive REL rules on his opponent to stop himself from getting beaten that was pretty funny to anyone watching at least.
Our local judge made the semi final and then tried to enforce competitive REL rules on his opponent to stop himself from getting beaten that was pretty funny to anyone watching at least.
So basically your local judge is a dbag? Why not report him. Homeboy wanna play games? Go for it.
I guess I'm sick of all the DCI judges that think wielding power over a room of magic players gives you reasons to be a ass. Believe it or not you can be official and not have to talk down to everyone.
Aurelias Fury is an insane card. Aurelias Fury will be at the Pro Tour in a few weeks. There will be copies in the top 8, and you can QUOTE me on that.
My LGS had two Gameday tournaments; one on Saturday and one on Sunday. I only played on Saturday and I ended up winning the whole thing going 6-1-1. I brought a brew that I had been working on and now that the mana is better, I decided to surprise everyone with it. I call the deck Ghost Rider... it is a WRB token based deck with Hellrider. The Gatecrash cards that I used were x4 Boros Charm (this card was insane in the deck!), x4 Godless Shrine, x4 Sacred Foundry, x2 Assemble the Legions in the sideboard, x4 Skullcrack in the sideboard, and x3 Devour Flesh in the Sideboard.
The deck was incredibly consistant, very explosive, and very resilient. I had so much fun playing and winning with something that no one had planned to see.
won the first gameday with a record of 5-1-1. Only loss was to Wolf Run Bant that I came back and beat in the Top-4.
Second Day I made the top 8 but lost in the first round to Wolf Run Bant that I Beat in the Finals the day before. Yeah, Wolf Run Bant is horrific, as they run Mainboard Faithmenders, 8 Wraths, and Healers... Super tuned to beat aggro.
So all in all, succesful gamedays (other than opening my packs, which were trash as usual. 10 packs, only usuful thing in them were a watery grave.)
EDIT: I was running Mono-red, with 8 Gatecrash cards in 75: 4 Reckoners and 4 Emissarys
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I had three Gatecrash cards in my undefeated* UW Aggro deck: Two Frontline Medics (one sideboard, the other mainboard) and an Aetherize (sideboard). Of course, Return to Ravnica was the one with Azorius, so I guess it makes sense.
*We intentionally drew one round, but we played for fun anyway, and I won 2-0.
So basically your local judge is a dbag? Why not report him. Homeboy wanna play games? Go for it.
I guess I'm sick of all the DCI judges that think wielding power over a room of magic players gives you reasons to be a ass. Believe it or not you can be official and not have to talk down to everyone.
OMG i could not agree more
I cannot stand some of the judges that think they are something special because they are a know it all on a goobery card game known as Magic the gathering.
Out here in Cali there is some dork that tries to mac girls with the line "I am a level 2 magic judge"
Granted I play this game and consider myself nerdy for it but this is just taking it to a new level
You are not dope because you play magic
keep it real
Came second.
Running 21 gatecrash cards.
Played UBg Millgro, it wasn't expected. Only came second due to land screw game one, won the second with a perfect hand, then mana flood the third. Was the only time both land screw and land flood happened all day. Land screw would have been playable if it wasn't. one BU would have seen me win
i went with a b/r suicide aggro deck, pretty standard, and the only other guy who was undefeated at the 45 person tournament was running GW humans, who hadn't had a chance to get any gatecrash cards.
not sure what this says, probably nothing, but i thought it was cute.
any other interesting stories for GTC gameday?
Also my deck has 0 gtc card in the 75 as well!
Just running 4 gatetrash cards in my 75, probably a bad call but all in on
madcap skills for the turn 4 kill and 1 Boros reckoner (to represent the threat) but 3 volcanic strength in the SB. Hope it shouldn't be mainboard!
Also plan on complaining about "where's all my reckoners?" to represent the threat while just wiping them out with crappy madcap'd vampires.
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Interestingly enough, our Game Day mat was not cut in half this time. Last Game Day they split first and second down to the mat... Now a guy at our shop has a Cham mat.
i saw one other zombie deck that was 3-0, but i threw in some vampire nighthawks and sideboarded into 4 pillars and got it.
i saw about 7 or 8 boros reckoner's all night, and if i had the victim of night i was fine. if i didn't, he made my life very unpleasant but not neccesarily unwinnable.
Match 1 0-2
Lost to GW/humans. Just faster than me and I wasn't packing significant removal. He was 4-1 top 5 when I dropped though so it wasn't surprising.
Match 2 2-1
Paired down Some kid with a boros gatecrash deck. Meh Saint geist + SB Paladin put it away quickly round one. Ran into a string of land game 2 and legion loyalist put me down game 3 smiter + orzhovas gift crushed him.
Match 3 1-2
God it was horrible. game 1 I clean him out with Saint geist+Sflight+Ethereal armor before he could do anything, but game 2 I screwed up my sideboarding and ended up mulling to 5 still came close but couldn't manage it before he burned me to death. Game 3 I managed to push in thalia early to make control impossible, but I misplayed trying to remove a reckoner he redirected damage at thalia *facepalm* and blasphemous act next turn finished it.
Match 4 2-0
Paired down again some guy running some sort of gatecrash with a Crypt ghast other random stuff I'm not really sure what he was trying to do. Don't even remember what I played.
Match 5 2-0
bant vs bant. He just pulled bad hands. It sucked I felt bad.
Because my wins were all against poorly playing decks I couldn't make it into top 8. sadface.
I've since purified my deck and cleaned up the sideboard which may not make sense in the greater meta game but locally I suspect this will smooth things out to put me back in the top 3 average. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/bant-midrange-21-02-13-1/ would have killed for the unsummons to be in my sideboard yesterday. May run 4
undefeated too
Every game finished at turn 4 or 5
Except the last game(he is play zombie artis), I donno what deck my opp play with
I played four volcanic strength in the main deck.
And I kill my opp by it 4 times, thanks to shock lands
Played Human-Reanimator ("Angel of Glorious Value" or "4C-Combo" or "Boner Kill" or "Live Forever or Die Trying' or whatever you want to call it)
2-0 Humans
2-1 UWR Midrange
0-2 Zombies
2-1 UWR Midrange
1-1 no clue (draw to ensure top 8)
3-1-1
Top 8:
1-2 The Aristocrats
It was fun. Saw a lot of UWR floating around, but there were some fun decks as well. Not as many people at this Game Day as others because there was plenty of people still at the PTQ.
The full art Firemane Avenger is indeed beautiful.
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So basically your local judge is a dbag? Why not report him. Homeboy wanna play games? Go for it.
I guess I'm sick of all the DCI judges that think wielding power over a room of magic players gives you reasons to be a ass. Believe it or not you can be official and not have to talk down to everyone.
nice man
The deck was incredibly consistant, very explosive, and very resilient. I had so much fun playing and winning with something that no one had planned to see.
Second Day I made the top 8 but lost in the first round to Wolf Run Bant that I Beat in the Finals the day before. Yeah, Wolf Run Bant is horrific, as they run Mainboard Faithmenders, 8 Wraths, and Healers... Super tuned to beat aggro.
So all in all, succesful gamedays (other than opening my packs, which were trash as usual. 10 packs, only usuful thing in them were a watery grave.)
EDIT: I was running Mono-red, with 8 Gatecrash cards in 75: 4 Reckoners and 4 Emissarys
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*We intentionally drew one round, but we played for fun anyway, and I won 2-0.
OMG i could not agree more
I cannot stand some of the judges that think they are something special because they are a know it all on a goobery card game known as Magic the gathering.
Out here in Cali there is some dork that tries to mac girls with the line "I am a level 2 magic judge"
Granted I play this game and consider myself nerdy for it but this is just taking it to a new level
You are not dope because you play magic
keep it real
Thank you DNC for the Sig
Running 21 gatecrash cards.
Played UBg Millgro, it wasn't expected. Only came second due to land screw game one, won the second with a perfect hand, then mana flood the third. Was the only time both land screw and land flood happened all day. Land screw would have been playable if it wasn't. one BU would have seen me win
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