Such prerelease, so dragon, very aggro

Hello!  Magic weekend report

Friday: Standard FNM with Monored Aggro

4-0 and 1^st

Round 1: R/W Token Aggro, won 2-1.  Rough match

Round 2: Temur Monsters, 2-0, opponent’s deck was mostly too slow to do anything

Round 3: Abzan junk, 2-1.  This was real rough.  Flooded in games 1 and 2, just barely winning game 1.  Had mana problems again in game three and won off the top deck of a land to run out a Heelcutter + Swiftspear, making his creature not block.

Round 4: Abzan, 2-1.  Got game one real easily.  Foundry Street Denizen x3  in turns 1+2, into Hordeling Outburst.  Rawr.

Saturday: DoT Prerelease

4-1 and 3^rd

I went with Rakdos (Kolaghan?) because let’s face it, I will always go Rakdos when I can.  I opened up my pool and my red was abysmal.  My black wasn’t super strong either.  I eventually settled on a B/W warrior aggro deck.  I played a singleton Mountain and 1 R/W tap land for the dragon I opened.  The dragon mostly rotted in my hand, I either didn’t have the red or I would flood and not draw the dragon.

Anyway, this is the deck that I love to play.  Guys low to the ground and a ton of removal.  I have to say that Bloodchin Rager takes the prize as the best creature in my deck (even over the dragon).  I think I won three rounds off the back of him.  After that was Gurmag Angler who was surprisingly castable, despite my 16 lands.  I only cast my dragon twice out of 5 rounds, in games 2 and 3 of the last round.  I win game one and keep Dragon, Deathwind, 5 lands.  I reason that this is probably good enough, as my opponent’s deck is incredibly slow.  Well, the dragon races him and he has a timely removal spell and I die.  Game three I keep Dragon + 6 lands, as possibly the worst hand I’ve ever kept in a tournament.  Anyway, it gets there.  When I slam down the dragon on turn 5 he goes “ughhhh” and it carries me all the way.

Sunday: DoT Prerelease

4-0-1 and 1^st

I had a pretty sick Rakdos deck.  I splashed white for a Soulmaster.  Gurmag Angler and Blood-Chin Rager made another appearance.  The one tie actually wasn’t an ID, I had an opponent that played super slow game 1 (it took like 43 minutes!).  I question whether he did it on purpose, IDK man.  I played game 2 on super tilt but killed him by turn 6.  We only had like two minutes for game three.  I only got the Soulmaster combo out once (usually my opponents would just kill it on sight or I would maybe get one lifegain activation of it), but even after being behind the whole game (being able to repeatedly go 3RRR: deal 5 damage to target creature without flying, gain 5 life [roast]), my opponent scooped after two turns.

So, this is a very aggressive format.  These are the types of formats in which I flourish.  We'll see if I can find a limited GP to turn guys sideways in.

I'm STRONGLY considering running some sort of dumb aggro deck at an upcoming standard GP, probably either monored or monoblack.  I can't decide yet.

So here are the two decks I went with this weekend.  Sorry that I'm dumb and couldn't get the formatting right.  Also, the resolution is awful, so if you don't know the cards by picture (and they're in German, anyway... =P ), it won't help.

Stay tuned for some modern brewing this week.  I've got some good ones for you guys.