Modern Report #2

Hey gang,

I didn't end up playing friday night, but I played a modern GPT for GP Krakow.

I played Living End again and finished a gross 3-2, getting 5th place on breakers.  There were only 12 players so there was a cut to top 4.  Womp, womp.

My list wasn't very different from the previous time.  I took out a maindeck mountain for a fourth Simian Spirit Guide and I played a full set of Brindle Boar in the board.  There was only one burn deck there, but I didn't play against it.

So begins the tale of some of the worst luck I've had in a magic tournament.

Round 1: Abzan

Game 1: Even though he has double Scavenging Ooze, I win pretty easily.

Game 2: He starts on a Noble Hierarch and goes Memoricide on turn 3 =/.  I have two Simian Spirit Guides in my head so I desparetly cycle, hoping I can find a Violent Outburst.  Demonic Dread is my draw.  Of course.  I concede.  I played it too carefully, but I could have won.  I had critical mass in the graveyard (due to several Street Wraiths)

Game 3: I keep a nice 7, 2 street wraith, 1 monstrous carabid, demonic dread, and three land.  My first three draws are Living End.  I boarded out one Living End.  He has four Lingering Soul tokens and he exactsies me the turn before a suspended Living End goes off.  Livid is a pretty good description.

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Round 2: Amulet of Vigor Combo

I figure this will actually be an easy match for me.

Game 1: I cycle four guys and draw lands off all of them.  I sit there with six lands in play, continually drawing blanks.  He goes for a titan and I have a beast within.  So if I draw a beast within or any of my fulminator mages I can blow up one of his two green lands, he can't pay for the pact and would die during his upkeep.  I draw another blank.  He taps out to pay for the pact.  I hope to draw a cycler to dig or a cascade spell.  Nothing.  I die.

Game 2: I start out strong with a turn 2 (with 2x SSG) slaughter pact on Titan.  His deck is almost entirely air at this point.  He has some hiveminds, a couple pacts and Sigaarda (eh, too lazy to look up the spelling).  The angel bashes me to six.  I had to suspend Living End, because I drew all of them.  A jungle weaver holds off the angel with nothing happens for 10+ turns.  He finally puts me out of my misery with Hive Mind, triple Summoner's Pact.

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Round 3: Ninja Bear Delver

Oh wow, this deck in real life!  It was funny that both of us were playing WooBrews.  Both games were pretty uninteresting.  I comboed off both times on turn three.  In the second game he remanded my Violent Outburst =/.  I try to be a nice guy, but I don't want to explain to people how to kill me.  He admitted to me that it was his first time with the deck.

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Round 4: Mardu Warriors =/ =/ =/

Opponent was playing a standard deck was 0-3.  I mean, it went exactly you might think.

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Round 5: HateBears

My opponent's deck was pretty interesting.  He was playing a variation of the deck.  He didn't have any aether vials or phyrexian revokers,but he was playing maindeck ghostly prison.

Game 1: I had to fight through a Thalia, but the Simian Spirit Guides really helped and I went off turn 3 per usual.

Game 2: I went off, but not until after he had played a Ghostly Prison.  It was really gross because his next top card Rest in Peace.  He played a second Ghostly Prison, but a lone Monstrous Carabid attacked 7 times (while a bunch of other guys looked on) for the win.

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So, yeah.  5th.  Meh.