Hey guise,
I played some modern today (gasp living end gasp) and did quite decently. I took the train with four other guys at 7 and we got there at 9:30ish. I don't even know what RPTQ or PT this feeds into, but whatever, let's play.
The field is somewhat diverse. I had a bye in the second round so I was able to do a lot of scouting.
4 Proc-Martyr (Monowhite gain life decks)
3 Burn
4 Tron
1 Amulet Bloom
1 Living End
1 Affinity
3 Splinter Twin
1 Elfball
1 Monogreen Ramp
2 Sultai Delver
2 RU(G) Delver
3 Grixis (including one cruel control)
That only adds up at 26 of 31 players, but ya can't get em all.
Round 1: Burn
Miserable, I get 0-2'd quickly.
Round 2: BYE
Wow, I haven't gotten a bye in a tournament in quite awhile actually. I kind of moped for awhile, but 1-1 is fine.
Round 3: Amulent Bloom
I had to play against one of the guys I came with and with the help of land destruction I was able to kill him one turn before he went off both games.
Round 4: Proc-Martyr
I think I had played against this guy before. He seemed to remember me and hate my deck(/me?). He did an awful lot of complaining. Anyway, game one he looked at his opener and conceded. Ok. Game two he led with a Rest in Peace on turn 2! But I had a Beast Within so I just waited until I got to six mana, destroyed it at his end of turn, cycled 5 guys and violent outbursted. Got 'em
Round 5: Tron
We drew in, but we played for fun and I got it 2-1. Fulminator is pretty back-breaking against him.
Top 8
3x Burn
Affinity (R)
Living End (!)
Grixis (R)
Proc-Martyr
Grixis Cruel Control
So, out of the five of us, three managed to top 8. Not bad, eh? Also, notice how literally all of the burn players top 8d. Is there no stopping that deck? Also 4 Proc-Martyr out of 31 is an awful lot. I usually see like one guy running that at a 100+ person PTQ.
Round 6: Proc-Martyr
So game one was really gross and after some bad cycles I was facing down some 6/6 avatars and my 3/4s just weren't good enough. Game 2/3 were pretty straightforward though.
Round 7: Burn
Game one I mulled to 5 and just died on turn 3. Misery!
Game two I was super careful with my life total and cascaded so I wouldn't take any more damage from a creature and I put 2 3/4s and my big 6/3 into play. At 15 life, I go for the attack, expecting my 6/3 to die and he DEFLECTING PALMs it to me. OK. And then plays triple burn spell on his turn, With me having lethal on the board. And my top card is Brindle Boar (after having drawn a blank). Of course, cool.
So, knocked out.
Of the four tournaments I've played Living End, this is how is looks:
Burn 1-3
Proc-Martyr 3-0
Bant Walkers 1-0
Tron 1-0
Infect 2-1
Jund 0-1
Affinity 3-0
Amulet 1-1
Ninja Bear Delver 1-0
Abzan Junk 1-1
GW Hatebears 1-0
Splinter Twin 1-0
Jeskai Control 1-0
R/G Midrange 1-0
I don't know how representative this is of the modern meta, but 18-7 isn't terrible. The 1-3 against burn is horrendous though. Going forward, I will either get some white leylines or gnaw to the bone, but I just have to do something, because being fast just isn't enough. I always end up dying on turn 3-4, partly because of how much damage I do to myself but partly because they're so fast.
Hopefully your weekend was just as successful as mine - keep slinging those cards guys!
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