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Yeah, 2 months in a row, won a mox with Terastodon Oath, against the same guy
with the same deck in the finals.  Didn't split either one.

18 people this time.


Benjamin Carp
Team ICBM
Half Savage/Half Sadist

    4 Forbidden Orchard
    4 Misty Rainforest
    1 Library of Alexandria
    1 Tolarian Academy
    1 Forest
    2 Island
    1 Tropical Island
    3 Underground Sea
    1 Mox Sapphire
    1 Mox Emerald
    1 Mox Pearl
    1 Mox Jet
    1 Mox Ruby
    1 Black Lotus
    1 Mana Crypt
    1 Sol Ring
    4 Oath of Druids
    1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
    1 Tinker
    1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
    1 Darksteel Colossus
    1 Terastodon
    1 Tezzeret the Seeker
    1 Time Vault
    1 Voltaic Key
    4 Spell Pierce
    3 Mana Drain
    4 Force of Will
    1 Sensei's Divining Top
    1 Yawgmoth's Will
    1 Regrowth
    1 Time Walk
    1 Mystical Tutor
    1 Merchant Scroll
    1 Vampiric Tutor
    1 Demonic Tutor
    1 Gifts Ungiven
    1 Thirst for Knowledge
    1 Brainstorm
    1 Ancestral Recall

// Sideboard:
SB: 1 Terastodon
SB: 2 Show and Tell
SB: 3 Nature's Claim
SB: 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
SB: 1 Tezzeret, the Seeker
SB: 1 Perish
SB: 1 Massacre
SB: 1 Nature's Ruin
SB: 2 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 2 Tormod's Crypt



Round 1:
James King (mirror)

Game 1: I have broken stuff, he does too, I get Oath up, counter his Time Vault
(he has Key), name blue with Iona to shut off his Tinker in hand.  He plays Will
and I lose.

Game 2: I play turn 2 Tinker--DSC with Spell Pierce backup, and he can't touch
it.

Game 3: I open with Lotus, Island, Mox, and the choice of either playing
Tezzeret (he has U up) or Recall with Jace backup.  I play the Recall, he Forces
pitching Force, and I play Jace.  I start Brainstorming and draw insane good
stuff.  By turn 4 or 5 I Drain his EOT Gifts, EOT my own Gifts for
Key/Vault/Will/Regrowth, and he scoops.


Round 2:
Jake Kempfer (TPS)

Game 1: Blowout involving infinite broken cards and infinite Forces.  My opener
was double Force, one blue card, double Oath, so he double Duresses the Oaths,
then I Force some things, then he plays Jar and I hit double Force double blue
card and keep him off Desire mana, then kill him eventually.

Game 2: I open with Lotus/stuff, and he Duresses me and takes the Oath.  I drop
Island, Lotus, Mystical EOT for Recall, Recall into 0 land.  I Force a spell or
two, then figure I have nothing to lose and blow Lotus to play Yawgmoth's Will
to replay Recall and Lotus.  Recall hits Orchard, so I replay the Oath from the
yard and Time Walk.  I hit Terastodon, take 2 minutes to figure out what to do,
blow his 3 mana, leaving him with Mana Crypt and whatever he just Vamped for,
and he scoops.

Round 3: Jerrod (DEEZ NOUGHTS)

Game 1 I mull to a slow 6, he has a slow 5.  I get an Oath down, bust out I
think Iona on blue, and it's over.  At least, I think that's how it went.

Game 2: I keep an counter-heavy hand, Drain his Confidant, then Regrow the
Drain.  He has nothing going on for a while, so I rip Lotus and hardcast
Terastodon.  He Trickbinds the trigger, so I just Spell Pierce his Diabolic
Edict and then kill him with the 9/9.


Round 4: Danny Friedman (ILL CORE BEATZ)

Game 1: I open Lotus, Key, Spell Pierce, Island, Forest, fetch, Brainstorm.  I
do some things, draw Tinker, and Pierce his counter.  Key/Vault wins.

Game 2: I open Tezzeret, Force, Orchard, Mox, land, land.  I mull, and of course
my top card was the Oath.  My 6 isn't bad, and I rip the Oath.  I go Orchard,
Mox, Oath, and he Forces it, then drops Sword of Fire and Ice, next turn equips
the token, and blows me out.  I shouldn't have led with the Orchard; that was my
mistake.

Game 3: I open with something like Pierce, Brainstorm, Island, Forest, Mox, Key,
Lotus.  I drop some stuff, pass, then rip Tezzeret and play it with Pierce
backup.  I fetch Vault and play Key.  His only out is Hurkyl's Recall plus a
counter.  He Time Walks, Scrolls for Force, and Hurk's me next turn.  I rip Oath
off the top, resolve it, replay Mox and Key, fetch out Top, pass turn.  Next
turn I Top on upkeep, then draw Vampiric Tutor.  I do the Key/Top thing, and he
Annuls the Top when I replay it.  I fetch Jet with Tezzeret, Vamp for Orchard,
pass turn.  Next turn I play Orchard, replay Vault for no reason, and he Snares
it.  I EOT give him a guy and Oath up Iona, which is pretty good against an
almost all-blue deck.  That's game.

Round 5: ID with Ryan Dubois with Ichorid.

Cut to top 4 due to 18 people.

Top 4:
Mike Noble with Tezzeret

Game 1: He keeps a terrible hand of 6 that was basically Sapphire, Mana Crypt,
Mystic Remora.  I play turn 1 land, mox, Oath, giving him 2 cards.  One was
Lotus, so he drops that and Tinkers out the Crypt, fetching Time Vault.  I find
Orchard eventually and bring out Terastodon I think it was.

Game 2: I blow him out with something awesome.

Finals:
Jeff with Noble Fish again

Game 1:  I almost throw this one actually.  I have a nice basic-land-heavy hand,
and we go back and forth a bit.  I play Oath, he Forces it, I Recall in
response, and he Forces that too.  Like an idiot I Force pitching Tinker, for
some reason thinking that would allow both spells to resolve.  I draw 3 terrible
cards, but I have Regrowth in hand, so I can get it back if necessary.  Instead
I hit another Oath, play that, and start Oathing.  I hit Iona first, name white
in case he has Plowshares.  I then Regrow Time Walk, play it, and Oath again, at
which point he scoops.

Game 2: I mull to 5 and get Force, Force, blue card, blue card, Sol Ring.  I
decide not to go lower and almost pull it off, but not quite.  I mulled two
awful hands hoping for a nice solid hand, but it was not to be.  He had 2
Strips, Trygon Predator, and Null Rod; if he had had anything less for hate I
could have pulled it off.  The Rod shut me down way too much.

Game 3: I have a decent hand with Force, Jace, some good stuff.  Never saw any
of my sb hate in all 3 games.  I play some basic lands and such.  He drops
Meddling Mage on Show and Tell, with Ray of Revelation in hand.  I wait until he
finally plays something else, a Trygon Predator.  I Drain it, then untap and
play Jace.  He Stifles the Jace's Brainstorm, but I Time Walk.  Draw a card,
Mystical for Tinker, draw it with Jace, Tinker out DSC with Force and Spell
Pierce backup, and win.


DSC was great the whole day.  Drains were great the whole day.  I SB'd Library
out about half the time, basically against decks where I wanted to be very
aggressive.  I SB'd out Tinker-DSC against control and combo, pretty much
anything that would have Hurkyl's Recall.  I boarded Jace/Tezzeret for the
mirror, and for other control decks, because when the game goes long, both of
those will just win, whether you play them turn 2 or turn 30.  I really liked
the triple-Perish effect package, but I never drew them, so I don't know how
good they are.  The key to beating Fish is just hitting a ton of mana, and going
for basic lands.  I boarded Iona out in the mirror; you can't really cast her,
and she's kind of underwhelming compared to the others.  Besides, what are you
going to name?  Show and Tell only comes in if you're facing dedicated Oath hate
such as Ray of Revelation or Blood Moon; you don't bring it in against decks
that actually have big guys.  Vs Fish it's great because their biggest creature
is Tarmogoyf.

Once again, props to Xtreme and to all my opponents.  It was a fun day for me,
and I hope all my opponents enjoyed all our games; I know I did.  Everyone was
very polite and played well.