Well, we had our type one yesterday. The turnout was decent - 20 people, and there were another 10 or so who would have come if they could, but they had exams etc to study for. I was playing a varient of stacker. I'll post an aproximate decklist for it - I don't actually have one here.


Stacker 3: Ecky Thump

5 moxen
1 sol ring
1 mana vault
4 volcanic islands
4 city of brass
6 mountains
4 workshops
1 academy
1 city of traitors.
1 stripmine
2 wasteland

4 juggernaut
3 su-chi
2 triskellion
1 masticore
1 karn
4 goblin welders

1 tinker
3 powerblue
1 wheel of fortune
1 memory jar

4 bolt
4 incinerate

or roughly, anyway. I don't have a list handy. I would've had some masticores if I could have got them. Sideboard was bad, and fairly irrelavent - I sideboarded in three earthquakes almost every game.

Round 1 vs chook, playing counter burn

Game 1: I get three mana in the first 7 turns. slap.
game 2: I get 4 non-mana in the first 7 turns. Slap.

Round 2 vs Shun nagawa playing his combodeck

Shun's a nice guy, but has only been playing for six months. He builds good decks given the very small size of his cardpool.

Game 1: I get lots of fat dudes to turn sideways, and win.
Game 2: I start kinda slowly. about turn 4 I drop a 'naut. He then drops a humility. oooof. Then he gets out a flood and a maze, and slows me down. I drop more dudes - and he starts pacifiying/humbling/etc. It takes a long, long time (his life total takes up a large amount of page.) luckily, he doesn't draw into his combo, and I win. Interesting discovery was that triskellions are 4/4's under humility, but it got pacified anyway.

Rnd 3 vs Dan sheehan - black weenie of some kind

Game 1: he plays a first turn rit/hippie. I play first turn ancestral/mox/bolt. Some juggernauts hit the table, and beat.
Game 2: He plays a swamp. I play a second turn masticore, and shoot some guys for a few turns. Then I get out a welder, and go nuts with a triskellion.

Rnd 4 vs Yu Nagawa play warped dev

game 1 and 2: both fairly similar. He never sees a WD, but has masses of bounce and a maze of ith. I roll over him, but it takes some time.

rnd 5 vs Henry (sligh)
Game 1: I play a first turn masticore. He is rather worried by this turn of events. I beat for a turn, then he saccs both his land to fireblast it. I play karn third turn. Forth turn, I tinker for a triskellion, and remove whatever his blocker was. beat.
game 2: I keep a dud hand. He beats the snot out of me, and I die.
game 3: We trade critters and bolts for a few turns. Then I timetwist into some serious goodies (a masticore and 2 welders and a triskellion, iirc.) and lay on the beats.

So I'm 4-1, and into the top 8. First up is Tom, play sligh.

Game 1 I don't recall. It looks like suchi/karn beats though.
Game 2: He plays a first turn shaman. I, stupidly, drop my mox and workshop and drop a 'naught. I should have played my mountain and earthquaked the little sucker. The game goes on for a while, but I have well and truely lost by this stage. Ah well.
Game 3: I lay on super fast savage beats. He doesn't. He dies.

semis - Miki, playing parfait.

Not a matchup I like for me. He has way, way to many disenchant effects, and the auras frighten me rather a lot.

game 1: I beat him down to 9. He gets a bunch of auras, and blows up my dudes. Then he argivian finds them, and blows them up some more. the end.

Game 2: I don't get out of the blocks fast enough here. about turn 5, I timetwist into the *perfect* hand. I draw three moxes, a solring, 2 juggernauts, a welder and a workshop. I empty my hand and grin like a maniac. He drops a moat, and I go home soon after.

Well, that was fun. A good type one, and hopefully we'll be able to have some more. And I should actually manage to have a rating now!