What happenned? Tell us about the metagame and the rounds. Did Faeries & Reveillark dominate? Or the U/G tempo? Or the Red Aggro / other weenies?

Btw, successfully qualified - now in the final set of players for the Championship Wish me luck. Now, for some serious practice before the final.

This post has been edited by Playbook: Apr 13 2008, 08:01 PM

I went 3-3 in mania today .. while Hari "langgar tiang" .. sorry bro. Look at the bright side .. u can go play DOTA.

Just kiddin

Faeries dominated the meta.. but faeries wasnt much of a problem for my deck. Round 1 paired with the guy who got 1st in the final swiss round standings, transmute deck. Nothing much to say, his ancestral visions and card advantage just beat me down, 0-2. Round 2, Jason Yap, faeries. Went 2-0, game 2 topdecked a siege gang with him tapped out at 7 life. Round 3 Tommy (rdw), frustrating. Game 1 land screw, game 2 made a huge mistake, letting him threaten my cloudtresher and stomp me with it and 2 huge crushers. Round 4 paired with Melvyn i think? (faeries). Game 1 he got land screwed, g2 i had the perfect anti-faeie hand (cloudtresher, 2 sulfurous blast, many many burns), 2-0. Round 5 was a mirror match (Kuo Jian), 2-1. Game 1 got trashed, G2 and G3 won with land-d. Round 6 James Jude (rdw), 2-0. Game 1 played 3 primals, g2 primaled before he cast manabarbs, and took 5 to get a cloudtresher in play. overall performance, 4-2 ;(

Which one is u ??

Not sure what you are referring to, but heretic6 is the guy who went 4-2. Those are all the decks he beat / lost to.

His deck was probably R/G mana ramp? I think based on the S.Blast, Cloudthresher, Primal Command.

Round 1 - R/G vs Transmute deck (I am curious about this deck), 0-2
Round 2 - R/G vs Faeries, 2-0
Round 3 - R/G vs RDW, 0-2
Round 4 - R/G vs Faeries, 2-0
Round 5 - R/G vs R/G, 2-1
Round 6 - R/G vs RDW, 2-0

So his R/G went 2-0 vs Faeries, 1-1 vs RDW, 1-0 vs Mirror, 0-1 vs some sort of Transmute deck.

List the Transmute deck! Tell us about it!

This post has been edited by Playbook: Apr 13 2008, 08:02 PM

ya the transmute deck sounds interesting...

anyways wut event u went to mark?

and 4-2 is a good store y u said suck lol...

Did badly at the mania today but at least i got good rares in booster opening

I feel you pain Hari for the "tiang" thing.

Next time we'll DOTA after exams are over.

This post has been edited by snowdrop89: Apr 13 2008, 09:08 PM

Yup i was running mana ramp, Justin i didnt get the decklist, but it was U/G/b, using tolaria west to transmute out slaughter pacts/pact of negation/urborg whenever needed. He ran goyfs and tombstalker, with cryptic commands, rune snag and some other stuff, cant really recall. His deck should be up in deckcheck soon, since he made top8. Have to wait for them to post up the lists

This post has been edited by heretic6: Apr 13 2008, 09:12 PM

Sabah maybe no pre-release shadowmoor
T.T
so sad
got release party only

Oh i see ... Justin Lim izzit ??

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Added on April 13, 2008, 10:16 pmIf can .. make ur way down to KL for the pre-release. U dun wanna miss this event

This post has been edited by XenoFr3ak: Apr 13 2008, 10:16 PM

looks like a midrange deck...
probs for the originality though...

This is my tourney short recap ... im pilot UB Faries.

Round 1: vs. RDW (Jude James)
Match 1 - i got control of the game in the end with Mistbind Clique. Match 2 - my opponent was land flood all the way. Game: 1-0

Round 2: vs. Reanimator (Vincent Gan)
Match 1 - my opponent board control with Makeshift Mannequin and Cairn Wanderer. Match 2 - i manage to board control till the end and hit his live to 2 but Cairn Wanderer hit the board, there's nuttin i can do about it. Game: 1-1

Round 3: vs. Mono-G Elf Warrior (with Bitterblossom) (Chinese dude .. dunno his name)
Match 1 - He mulligan down to 5 cards and stuck with 2 lands all the way. Match 2 - my turn to mulligan as well, he has lands with some creature and keep on taking damages from Bitterblossom. I board control with 3 Cryptic Command on 3 turns. Game: 2-1

Round 4: vs. Reveillark Control (Hari)
Match 1 - Mulligan down to 5, did not have a good draw. Match 2 - same thing happen, mulligan again and did not have turn 2 Bitterblossom. I scoop. Game: 2-2

Round 5: vs. UB Faeries (Rogue) (Hari's fren)
Match 1 - My oppenent lands screwed and I just beat him down with my creatures. Match 2 - His turn to beat me down with all rogue faeries and he gain board control. Match 3 - He got many lands but his creature decided to take a break. Game: 3-2

Round 6: vs. Dragonstorm (another chinese dude .. Jo Lin or something)
Match 1 - this was very fast, my Bitterblossom cam in turn 2 and beatdown all the way. Match 2 - this match i made mistake, he cast 2 Rites of Flame and I did not bother to counter it, and when he played Dragonstorm, I countered the Dragonstorm but the storm effect let him play 3 Bogardan Hellkite. Match 3 - I did not have any cards to countered his Dragonstorm .. nuff said. Game: 3-3

Hope my recap is accurate

Hope to do much better next time ...

This post has been edited by XenoFr3ak: Apr 14 2008, 07:44 AM

This is my tourney short recap ... im playing my same old UW Rev Control

Round 1 : Nik Nadzru ( Mono Red )
Game 1 : Dodgy hand game 1 , i die to double shard volley.
Game 2 : i bring in 2 teferi`s moat , 1 aven riftwatcher , 3 wispmare.
i resolve teferi`s moat turn 4 , proceed with gain life and beating the shit outta him. Doesnt help him that he only reveals creatures for crusher.
Game 3 : I outplay Nik with multiple reveillarks , riftwatcher , venser and aven cloudskates. Nik regrets sb out the crushers and the p. red 2/4 guys ...

2-1

Round 2 : Wee Tim Liang ( UB Faeries Antoine Ruel )
Err ... basically this is my own deck he borrowed. So i he gives me an option to id , take the win or concede or anything. Decided just play it out , no regrets...
Game 1 : after much hit trading and creature trading he throngs for the win.
Game 2 : i bring in 3 wispmare , 2 crovax . Killing the bitterblossom screws him . Also then i drop crovax
making him unable 2 mistbind clique as well as a no of well times rune snags on my part
Game 3 : He is color screwed, and i get my key cards. Full advantage to take the win

2-1

Round 3 : Peter Lim ( Faeries UB Peter`s Version )
at this point i must say i have no confidence against this matchup. As faeries has great matchup against UW Rev. W.o SB normally i have a pretty slim chance of winning.

G1 : a pretty much walkthrough for peter. Considered offering him a deal for a id but figured just play it out . Nothing to lose.
G2 : both of us have a slow hand but in the end i prevail as well as his own damage 2 bitterblossom kills him
G3 : A very bad hand. Now that i think about it , i shld have mulliganed.But 1 hour of sleep does that to you. You dont think , u just play . So he resolves turn 3 scion of oona , im ready 2 steal it turn 4 , but he resolves turn 4 another scion making my 2 sowers + 1 vesuvan shapeshifter useless in my hands. Naturally i die to a scion of oona x2 + mutavault 4/4 beat down. Cant top deck a Wrath and he has enough counters.

1-2

Round 4 : Karry Lim ( Faeries Again - Karry`s version )
G1 : Karry mulligans to 5 cards. Still has a bad hand i think. And i beat him for the win
G2 : Again Karry mulligans and i beat him down. He dies 2 land screw and stuff

2-1

Round 5 : Hafiz ( BG Elves )
G1 : Hafiz makes a lot of mistakes , so do i but i beat him down for the win
G2 : i bring in 1 crovax , 2 teferi`s moat , 1 pull from eternity. I make a lot of mistakes due to not keeping track of my life . But somehow i manage to win coz i top deck and he doesnt draw any removers.

Round 6 : Vincent Gan ( Reanimator )
At this point im way too tired. i See my tiebreakers. If i id there is a chance i wont make t8. IF i play one of us wont make t8. Cant be bothered. ID go for lunch .

Come back deck check and then langgar tiang . Haha ... opened my 2 boosters , gt my 1 wanderwine hub. Yay missing 1 now ...

Go dota then go home drop dead asleep wake up now 4am

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Mark where were u ? i thought u were supposed to turn up
Cya guys on pre release

Played Blokus National championship coming up.

Playing Blokus

Mark .. u goin to the pre-release event right .. hope to see ya there.

Btw, need to discuss with u some stuff regarding GP Manila.

nice report out there...

lol @hari...
normally 4-1-1 will go through...
then vincent go through? interesting deck choice considering everyone packing graveyard hate for lark...

the meta is itneresting but flooded with faeries sigh...

btw hari i got a wanderwine hub to let go...
u can pm me wit ur offer if u are interested...

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Apr 14 2008, 09:45 AM

yo! graveyard hate doesnt kill the deck. 20 counters or nt drawing a wog kills it. haha ..... anyways i think my performance was great since i only had 1 hour sleep the day before .i shld have played against vincent gan. but pre sb is a very tough game & post sb is an even matchup.i ws already tired & a game against him will require 100% concentration . better id & go dota. haha .. this deck sadly only has given me 9th &10th placing each time. haha .... btw ill pay rm15 fr

meant vincent's deck choice is interesting...
since ppl are packing lark hate surely reanimator deck suffer more...
still its vincent lol...
4-1-1 is a great result if u ask me haha...

well old fren's price i'm fine with 15 bucks lol...
if i do go the prerelease (by the progress of assignment i should be able to make it), i'll deal wit u there...

Here's a brief report of my matchups, mostly on sideboarding, for the yesterday's tourney:

My deck:
3 Faerie Conclave
3 Mutavault
1 Pendelhaven
4 River of Tears
4 Secluded Glen
4 Undergroud River
2 Swamp
4 Island
(25 lands)

4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Scion of Oona
4 Vendilion Clique
4 Mistbind Clique
(16 creatures)

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Bitterblossom
4 Rune Snag
4 Cryptic Command
3 Nameless Inversion
(19 other spells)

4 Thoughtseize
3 Peppersmoke
3 Deathmark
3 Imp's Mischief
2 Sower of Temptation
(15 sideboards)

Round 1: U/B Faeries, 2-1
Match 1: Opponent gets to start, and had a turn-two Bitterblossom.
-3 Nameless Inversion, -1 Cryptic Command, -2 Vendilion Clique, -1 Mistbind Clique, +4 Thoughtseize, +3 Peppersmoke
Match 2: Mulled to 6, and kept a hand with 3 Mutavault and I went for some manland beatdown. Opponent was mana-screwed at two lands.
-4 Bitterblossom, -3 Nameless Inversion, +4 Thoughtseize, +3 Peppersmoke
Match 3: I boarded out Bitterblossom because I felt it was too slow when I'm on the draw.

Round 2: Mono Red Aggro, 2-0
Match 2: +3 Peppersmoke, -1 Cryptic Command, -1 Mistbind Clique, -1 Nameless Inversion

Round 3: U/W Reveillark, 2-1
Match 2: Sideboarded nothing.
Match 3: -4 Bitterblossom, +4 Thoughtseize

Round 4: U/B Reanimator, 0-2
Match 2: +3 Imp's Mischief, -3 Nameless Inversion

Round 5: U/W Merfolk, 2-0
Match 2: +3 Peppersmoke, -1 Cryptic Command, -2 Mistbind Clique

Round 6: ID

Round 7: GBw Doran w/ Reveillark, 1-2
Match 1: Second-turn Bitterblossom goes all the way.
Match 2: -4 Bitterblossom, -4 Ancestral Vision, +3 Peppersmoke, +3 Deathmark, +2 Sower of Temptation
Match 3: -4 Ancestral Vision, -1 Cryptic Command, -1 Mistbind Clique, -1 Scion of Oona, -1 Vendilion Clique, +3 Peppersmoke, +3 Deathmark, +2 Sower of Temptation