Tournament Report -- Sanctioned Type I at M-Class Worlds in Brockton, MA

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By CooberP, the Aura Fracturer of B2Bs (Cooberp) on Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 08:40 pm:

After an absolutely hellish time getting down there from Cambridge, Redman and I put together a strong showing in a very weak metagame at a small tournament in what felt like the middle of nowhere. We got there late but they let us catch up. Enchantress was making its sanctioned debut, while Redman played his controlling R/G beatdown deck.
We had played for four hours the previous night and I had won something like 4 of 6 against him, so I was pretty optimistic going into our first round match (we were paired since we were late) since our decks hadn't really changed. Game 1 was what I would have expected, all I remember is it involved large amounts of card drawing, a Moat appearance, and a huge Replenish after a Hull Breach to elicit a concession.
Sideboard: -1 Mesa, -1 City of Solitude, -3 Abeyance, +1 Spirit Link, +1 Ivory Tower, +2 Swords to Plowshares, +1 Ivory Mask
I made a critical sideboarding mistake -- despite his maindecked Dwarven Miners on top of 5 strips, I forgot to bring in Sacred Ground from my SB. This would prove costly, as a timely Wasteland stopped me from getting Moat down the turn I would have survived. Game 3 I don't really recall either. He started out slowly and I felt like I was establishing control -- I Balanced away his creatures to set up a nice Replenish (discarding 4 enchantments) -- but he recovered with a double-Rancored Dwarven Miner. So I lost. C'est la vie.
I had a bye the next round.
The third round I played a Sligh deck, and my deck performed like it was supposed to. Turn 1, a quick Pariah bought me time to Grove for Moat while I was still above 10, and a Replenish led to the Grove being sacced to get through Sylvan/Pursuit of Knowledge. He didn't concede until the Pegasi beatdown commenced.
Sideboarding was the same as vs. Redman (he had no land destruction).
He brought in 4 Anarchies, but I didn't care. Two Moxes and Mask and Moat in my hand meant that things would go my way. He opened with just a Mountain, and I went turn 2 Moat turn 3 Mask. He wasn't paying attention and cast Ball Lightning under the Moat. I wound up getting double Sylvan/Abundance (5 cards a turn) and a Zuran Orb. He had held an Anarchy in his hand from the beginning waiting to do enough damage to kill me in one turn (I didn't have Chants, only Abeyances), but he could only get me down to 6, and anyway, I had a Zuran Orb on the table. I of course Replenished the next turn, and proceeded to the final round...
Where I played Parfait. An interesting matchup to be sure, vs. the deck my deck was designed to improve. The guy who was playing it had no experience with the deck, but he was running all the off-color Moxen, which works much better in Enchantress than in Parfait (which has much more white-costed and less colorless spells). Game 1 I kept a bad hand and paid for it. He won the Aura of Silence race, Crypted away my lone Aura when I finally got it out, Argivian Found Tax/Rack, and laid a double Aura. I scooped. I was very concerned at this point, as I didn't think I should almost ever lose to Parfait. But I didn't get many of my deck's strengths on the table.
Sideboard: +1 Jester's Cap, +1 Aura Fracture, +1 Tormod's Crypt, +1 something else I can't remember, -1 City of Solitude, -1 Pariah, -1 Story Circle, -1 Strip Mine
Game 2 was more like it. Interestingly enough, he changed his strategy and went Suicide Mesa, starting beats on like turn 3. I got a little scared when he got about 7 tokens. But an early Enchantress and my own Mesa to block quickly equalized things. Eventually, Sylvan/Abundance made an appearance and I started to go nuts.
Game 3 I was scared again, as I was staring down an early Aura. But I managed to get the mana to deal with it, laying my own Aura to kill his Crypt when there was nothing in my graveyard. He left it on the table for a while and then sacced it on something stupid, but Sylvan/Abundance got down for the third time with Enchantresses and I drew my way to a clear win.
Final: 3-1, 5-3
Redman, of course, won the tournament, going 4-0 and beating a CounterSliver deck in the final. I really should have beaten him the first match and won, although I've never played CounterSliver so I have no idea what to expect or what kind of a matchup it would be. My deck on the whole performed very well. But only knowing Neutral Ground and BDominia, I'd never been to a low-power metagame like this. There were only one or two players with Moxes, excluding Redman and myself. If I didn't love Enchantress so much, I'd just go there with Keeper and win every tournament. But they're so small it wouldn't do much for my rating. It would be funny to see all their reaction to a fully powered Keeper deck, though.
Redman will follow shortly.


By Zherbus (Zherbus) on Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 08:58 pm:

How often do they have tourney's there, it wouldnt take me long at all to get there, and Id bring a few friends to spice of the meta game :)


By CooberP, the Aura Fracturer of B2Bs (Cooberp) on Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 09:40 pm:

Every Saturday at 2pm.


By ice cream-man on Monday, November 05, 2001 - 01:03 pm:

I've played (and won) a couple tourneys there. There's only one kid with the P9, and he's not that good. If you feel like winning a T1 tournament with little to no effort, it's a pretty good place to go. You usually get around $20 store credit for winning, with no second or 3rd place prizes. There's these kids Adam,Jeff,and Andrew that are all pretty good. Also, my friend Rob plays there sometimes(He's pretty good).Be forewarned, the owner of the shop,John,is also the judge. Tnis man is a complete idiot and a total jerk.Other than that, this is an okay place to play, but it's only open on the weekend.They hold T1.x team tourneys on sundays. If you see Rob, tell him Dave said Hi.


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