I went 7-2 at the SCG classic in Worcester this past Sunday.
4 violent outburst
4 demonic dread
3 living end
2 beast within
4 fulminator mage
4 street wraith
4 monstrous carabid
4 desert ceredon
4 horror of the broken lands
2 simian spirit guide
1 shriekmaw
1 faerie macabre
3 archfiend of ifnir
1 twisted abomination
2 grove of the burnwillows
1 blooming marsh
1 copperline gorge
4 blackcleave cliffs
2 blood crypt
1 stomping ground
1 overgrown tomb
1 forest
1 swamp
3 wooded foothills
2 bloodstained mire
SB
3 brindle boar
2 shriekmaw
3 faerie macabre
1 ingot chewer
1 reclamation sage
2 beast within
2 ricochet trap
1 anger of the gods
Round 1: G tron (2-1)
First time playing the deck outside of fnm. I'm thinking about all the cards I don't want to see and my opponent, on the play, goes turn 1 urza's mine into relic of progenitus. I play grove of burnwillows and pass. He plays a n urza's tower and chromatic star and passes. At this point I could cycle something E0T and try to fight through the relic or wait and hope to draw beast within. I decide to see my next draw and don't cycle anything. I draw a random cycler, then decide to concede. G2 I hope he thinks I'm something else and he does and I get him with a regular draw and turn 3 fulminator. G3 I fight through relic, this time with the proper cards and end up hardcasting my dudes while my opponent has scavenging grounds, forest, and ghost quarter in play. He dismembers an archfiend. I violent outburst and he surgicals a fulminator mage...archfiend comes back, I hardcast a horror on my turn and its basically over.
Round 2: Mardu pyromancer (2-0)
He had no shot in this match. I had my 1 faerie macabre g1 and it got 2 lingering souls that got discarded to a looting. I got thoughtseized and he took a cascader. A few cyclers later I get to cascade.
round 3: 4 color scapeshift (2-1)
g1 on the play I keep him off cryptic mana with beast within and win turn 5. G2 he slaughter games naming beast within, which surprised me. Of course I had one in hand and he wins the turn before I cascade.
Round 4: grixis shadow (1-2)
Got smoked g1 and g3. G3 I kept 1 land, street wraith, 2 one-mana cyclers and never got a 2nd land.Got double-striked both games I lost. Grove of Burnwillows and a timely fulminator helped me win g2. I think this guy made 12th place.
Round 5: GR scapeshift (1-2)
I lost the die roll which I think is the matchup. Also if they draw farseek instead of sakura tribe elder we have a chance.
Round 6 UR storm (2-1)
I got remanded g1 and lost a close one. Got him to 5 and he casts the same gift ungiven at least twice and I lose to a 16 point grapeshot. G2 faerie macabre was MVP and while he was busy saying I couldn't do anything to him mid-combo, macabre exiled a past in flames and a manamorphose and he died. Pretty much same thing happened g3. The salt was real.
Round 7: GW company (2-0) It was a creature deck vs my instant speed sweepers. He never drew anything relevant.
Round 8: Grixis shadow (2-0)
This guy did not draw stubborn denial and seemed flustered.
Round 9: Affinity (2-1)
G1 wasn't close. I swept his board and fulminator tee'd off on his blinkys. G2 he won with cranial plating on a land after I cast living end. G3 he mulled to 5 and only played a mountain and an ornithopter.
I feel like I won the matches I was supposed to, and lost some close ones. Brindle boar came in exactly zero times, but everything else was fairly useful.
4 violent outburst
4 demonic dread
3 living end
2 beast within
4 fulminator mage
4 street wraith
4 monstrous carabid
4 desert ceredon
4 horror of the broken lands
2 simian spirit guide
1 shriekmaw
1 faerie macabre
3 archfiend of ifnir
1 twisted abomination
2 grove of the burnwillows
1 blooming marsh
1 copperline gorge
4 blackcleave cliffs
2 blood crypt
1 stomping ground
1 overgrown tomb
1 forest
1 swamp
3 wooded foothills
2 bloodstained mire
SB
3 brindle boar
2 shriekmaw
3 faerie macabre
1 ingot chewer
1 reclamation sage
2 beast within
2 ricochet trap
1 anger of the gods
Round 1: G tron (2-1)
First time playing the deck outside of fnm. I'm thinking about all the cards I don't want to see and my opponent, on the play, goes turn 1 urza's mine into relic of progenitus. I play grove of burnwillows and pass. He plays a n urza's tower and chromatic star and passes. At this point I could cycle something E0T and try to fight through the relic or wait and hope to draw beast within. I decide to see my next draw and don't cycle anything. I draw a random cycler, then decide to concede. G2 I hope he thinks I'm something else and he does and I get him with a regular draw and turn 3 fulminator. G3 I fight through relic, this time with the proper cards and end up hardcasting my dudes while my opponent has scavenging grounds, forest, and ghost quarter in play. He dismembers an archfiend. I violent outburst and he surgicals a fulminator mage...archfiend comes back, I hardcast a horror on my turn and its basically over.
Round 2: Mardu pyromancer (2-0)
He had no shot in this match. I had my 1 faerie macabre g1 and it got 2 lingering souls that got discarded to a looting. I got thoughtseized and he took a cascader. A few cyclers later I get to cascade.
round 3: 4 color scapeshift (2-1)
g1 on the play I keep him off cryptic mana with beast within and win turn 5. G2 he slaughter games naming beast within, which surprised me. Of course I had one in hand and he wins the turn before I cascade.
Round 4: grixis shadow (1-2)
Got smoked g1 and g3. G3 I kept 1 land, street wraith, 2 one-mana cyclers and never got a 2nd land.Got double-striked both games I lost. Grove of Burnwillows and a timely fulminator helped me win g2. I think this guy made 12th place.
Round 5: GR scapeshift (1-2)
I lost the die roll which I think is the matchup. Also if they draw farseek instead of sakura tribe elder we have a chance.
Round 6 UR storm (2-1)
I got remanded g1 and lost a close one. Got him to 5 and he casts the same gift ungiven at least twice and I lose to a 16 point grapeshot. G2 faerie macabre was MVP and while he was busy saying I couldn't do anything to him mid-combo, macabre exiled a past in flames and a manamorphose and he died. Pretty much same thing happened g3. The salt was real.
Round 7: GW company (2-0) It was a creature deck vs my instant speed sweepers. He never drew anything relevant.
Round 8: Grixis shadow (2-0)
This guy did not draw stubborn denial and seemed flustered.
Round 9: Affinity (2-1)
G1 wasn't close. I swept his board and fulminator tee'd off on his blinkys. G2 he won with cranial plating on a land after I cast living end. G3 he mulled to 5 and only played a mountain and an ornithopter.
I feel like I won the matches I was supposed to, and lost some close ones. Brindle boar came in exactly zero times, but everything else was fairly useful.