but i'm a lousy player, caus i didn't play magic between spring 1997 and spring 2000 at all (playing 1995-1997), and the last year, i played about 2-3 times a month, and only a few tourney, so not too much.
that's what i played:
4 academy rector
1 necro
1 bargain
1 y. will
4 duress
4 dark ritual
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 mystical tutor
2 impulse
4 FoW
1 time walk
1 ancestral
2 claws of gix
5 moxe
1 lotus
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
3 illusions
3 donate
1 academy
4 gemstone mine
4 CoB
4 underground sea
1 tundra
1 scrubland
4 pyhrexian tower
=61 cards (whatever)
SB:
3 hydro blasts
3 pyroblasts
2 abeyence
2 spiritual focus
1 seal of cleansing
1 balance
1 timetwiser
1 gorilla shaman
1 CoP red
1st round: against a kid playing a random U/G deck with 14 counters main and 2 others SB (he told me that afterwards).
game 1: he doesn't know what i'm doing and what to counter, which doesn't matter anyway, caus i duress him twice with FoW backup, and then play the rector, in comes bargain, game 1 is over.
the kid is shocked, and tells me this is the best deck he has ever seen
(though it's crap) he sides in 2 more counters, and counters my 2nd turn mox ruby, which wasn't that stupid, caus i've got an academy and already claws of gix out.
later he counters an abeyence (which wasn't to bad, either), but then he also counters an impulse, which was not so good. he ran out of counters, and i combo him.
2nd round: against POX, played by a pretty good austrian player, who always plays pox in type 1, and he knows his deck really well.
game 1: we both mulligan.
he takes a hand with only 1 swamp and a mishra i think, doesn't get the second swamp to disrupt me, and i have a nice draw and combo him turn 3, after rector brought the bargain.
game 2: i get a necro and a rector out, but cand find something useful with the necro (no tower, no claws), and die with 2 life in the necro lock
i'm sure i made a lot of mistakes in this 2nd game, and a better player would have won it.
when i was at 3 life, i FoW a will, bringing me on 2 life. i had spiritual focus out (played it turn 2 i think), he plays a specter, i scoop. if i didn't FoW, i would have survived specter attacks, gaining 2 life and a card, if he attacks.
i can't remember, if the will would have been dangerous, but he knows that i'm a bad player, and that i would counter it anyway, if i can. but he had a sinkhole in the yard, which would have left me with only a CoB.
game 3: i take a bad draw (only blue mox and phyr. towe as mana sources), but have 2 rectors.
i then play an underground sea, which he sinkholes, and another 2!!!! phyrexian towers. LOL
he smashes my face in with mishra's factory and steel golem.
3 rd round: against a guy, playing R/W tax land assoult (with seismic assault/land tax etc.
game 1: i take a bad draw, but he does nothing (but playing a 1st turn zuran orb
, and after a long time /20 cruel rounds, my deck makes a fool out of me), draw a donate for my illusion, and combo him. he survives on 4 life or something. i have to combo him twice. then i draw a rector, but have nothing to sac him (caus he dustbowled all my lands, including a tower), but i have a lot of arterfact mana out. finally i get a demonic tutor, play an underground sea, tutor for claws of gix, get bargin, kill him.
game 2: the draw i take is ridicoulus again.
this time he plays 2nd turn zuran orb (wtf?)
he seems to have sided in tons of aura of silence.
after he plays a 2nd aura of silence(which i also can't counter), i scoop.
only 4 minutes left, he want's to draw. which i decline, caus i know, he can't win in 4 minutes with extra turns, but i can
i play really bad, he gets zuran orb out again 1st or 2nd turn. we are in the extra turns, i play even worse. i manage to combo him twice,he's at 28 life. but not enough extra turns left (caus i played like an idiot). when it's his turn, he can pay on upkeep, is on 8 life, and the games a draw (though he would have lost, if he had another turn). the funny thing is, we played 1 extra extra turn, caus a friend of mine, watching, trash talked my opponent so much, and got an extra extra turn for me, caus he confused this guy so much
but due to bad play, even that wasn't enough.
i'm really disappointed, that i play that lousy.
so i'm 1-1-1 (a good player, like big blue
would have been 3-0-0 with my deck and those matches) round 4:
an older kid playing R/G beatdown.
but i'm paired upwards, caus he's at 2-1-0
not much to say, i combo him in both games easily, caus he has no disruption.
2-1-1
round 5 (last round): i play against a psycho with pox, who seems to have a personel problem with me, caus i said something abouth him he didn't like abouth 8 months agi in a guest book LOL.
though i never talked to him IRL.
he shows me, that he nearly hates me, has an expressio on his face like an insane.
i have to cards in hand, he hymns me. one is an impulse. first, i think, i should impulse, tap two mana for it. then i think it's just the same, untap the two mana, and discard both cards. suddenly, he tells me, i have to mana in my pool and should take mana burn. the guy sitting next to him asks him, why he plays this fucking way.
he tells him, that he only plays against me that way with a fanatic look. i think "this is friday night magic type one, i'm a casual player, and came here to have fun. WTF is going on?
i don't even know this guy. i scoop game 1. i think about scooping at all, and he doesn't stop talking this shit, so i leave him alone and scoop wihtout starting game 2. this isn't funny any more. he runs out of the shop to tell some guys that this was is best victory or something (that's what i understood). after that, i'm not sure, if he is really a psycho or only a creep with problems.
anyway, i wen't 2-2-1, finishing 14 place (30 players).
yes, you were all right here, rector trix isn't that good.
and i can't play
has this deck a future?