Cameo Appearance! -- JP (RBK, which is different from RDK since RBK means "Really Bad Keeper" instead of "Really Dark Keeper") over K-Run (Parfait) 2-1 in T1ToC4 Top 8

Beyond Dominia: The Type One Magic Mill: Tournament -- T1ToC4 Archive: Cameo Appearance! -- JP (RBK, which is different from RDK since RBK means "Really Bad Keeper" instead of "Really Dark Keeper") over K-Run (Parfait) 2-1 in T1ToC4 Top 8

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By JP 'Polluted' Meyer, the Archivist (Jpmeyer) on Friday, November 23, 2001 - 06:13 pm:

No logs 'cause I forgot to save them.

Me:

4 City of Brass
4 Underground Sea
4 Wasteland
4 Tundra
2 Yavimaya Coast
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine

1 Zuran Orb
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring

4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Fact or Fiction
2 Morphling
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Stroke of Genius

3 Duress
1 Diabolic Edict
1 The Abyss
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mind Twist
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Moat
1 Balance

1 Vindicate

1 Regrowth

SB: 3 Choke
SB: 3 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2 Hydroblast
SB: 2 Seal of Cleansing
SB: 1 Duress
SB: 1 Jester's Cap
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1 Ivory Mask
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Red

K-Run:

1 Ivory Mask
2 Zuran Orb
1 Enlightened Tutor
4 Argivian Find
2 Sacred Mesa
3 Aura of Silence
1 Planar Birth
1 Replenish
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Wrath of God
1 Balance
2 Story Circle
1 Moat
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Ivory Tower
1 Humility
2 Scroll Rack
2 Masticore
4 Land Tax
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
14 Plains

SB: 1 Spirit Link
SB: 4 Abeyance
SB: 1 Cursed Totem
SB: 1 Powder Keg
SB: 1 Grindstone
SB: 1 Replenish
SB: 2 Abolish
SB: 1 Soldevi Digger
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1 Ivory Mask
SB: 1 Jester's Cap

Game 1 was fake. I kept a hand that was like Mox, Abyss, Duress, and land. I draw only Time Walk and another Duress for non-land cards for the rest of the game. Meanwhile K-Run is beating the crap out of me with Tax/Rack, Ivory Mask, Humility, and since I know from a Duress that he still has Sacred Mesa, I scoop.

SB:
-1 Abyss, -1 Moat, -1 Balance, -1 Duress, +2 Seal of Cleansing, +1 Tormod's Crypt, +1 Jester's Cap

I have a land and Sapphire on turn 1, which I use to Drain Land Tax with. I burn for 1. He tries another Tax. I think it resolved. I dropped another land. He Balances me from 5 to 0 in hand and my heart sinks. We go into topdecking mode though and I topdeck better. I draw Time Walk, Mana Drain, and then Fact or Fiction...right after I Drain his Cap. My FoF gives me 2 land and a Merchant Scroll. On the Time Walk I think i Scroll up Ancestral. I'm in a pretty safe position for most of the game, countering as needed. I'm deathly scared of getting my Will countered by Abeyance though, so I need to wait until K-Run is tapped out so I can Mystical for Regrowth (Will was discarded on the Balanc.) I go nuts leaving him with only a few permanents and finally find Morphling.

SB:
+1 Duress, -1 Diabolic Edict

K-Run gets out multiple Taxes this game. I personally don't mind letting Tax hit, since I can't counter the cards it draws anyway...and it's so nice to Mind Twist away half the land in his deck--which I do twice after letting loose a savage Will. He's left with 4 Plains in play as all the mana he'll get to work with for the rest of the game. I drop Morph and counter all of his solutions.

So now I advance to the semis where I think I'll end up playing Acolytec. Actually, the only reason I think I'm playing him is because I cna't remember who else made top 8 other than him and Mako and K-Run.


By Burning Ice, the Elementalist (Burningice) on Friday, November 23, 2001 - 08:27 pm:

JP:

I'm playing Parrot and Gzeiger's playing Alharazad.

(BBS vs. Ice Blue Zoo) and (Academy vs. Sligh)

Congrats btw.


By CF (Cf) on Saturday, November 24, 2001 - 10:01 am:

JP:
If you side out Balance, why are you keeping Zuran Orb (and Edict)?

--
Chris


By Rakso, Patriarch & Rules Ayatollah (Rakso) on Saturday, November 24, 2001 - 03:19 pm:

How do we deal with Cap in Parfait? Is it a threat? ;)


By K-Run, the Pegasus Hero (K_Run) on Saturday, November 24, 2001 - 06:59 pm:

Rakso : playing what ? Parfait or Keeper ?


By Rakso, Patriarch & Rules Ayatollah (Rakso) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 01:28 am:

Against Keeper playing Parfait


By JP 'Polluted' Meyer, the Archivist (Jpmeyer) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 10:13 am:


Quote:

If you side out Balance, why are you keeping Zuran Orb (and Edict)?




Balance goes out because:

1) He runs multiple Zorbs and Land Tax, making him in a better position to recover from it
2) He only runs Masticore as a creature, so it's bad as creature kill

Zorb stays because it's useful to ward off Balance and stay under Land Tax if need be.

Edict goes out because I expected him to side out Masticores (which he did game 2 and kept 1 game 3.)


Quote:

How do we deal with Cap in Parfait? Is it a threat? ;)




Ivory Mask or doing the laboriously slow Scroll Rack decking.


By K-Run, the Pegasus Hero (K_Run) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 07:40 pm:


Quote:

How do we deal with Cap in Parfait? Is it a threat? ;)




It's not that bad. When I know my opponent is running Cap, I keep important cards in my hand or in the graveyard.

Arg. Why do I always have to reveal my secrets ?


By Rakso, Patriarch & Rules Ayatollah (Rakso) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:09 pm:


Quote:

Why do I always have to reveal my secrets ?



Maybe you're a wiener ;)


By Acolytec (Acolytec) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:19 pm:

Yeaaaaa this tournament -will- have an end. I have not heard from gzeiger or from alhazard. I will give them until December 1st to either play or get ahold of me. Ummm. what do we do if neither of them surface?


By Rakso, Patriarch & Rules Ayatollah (Rakso) on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 11:42 pm:

Have JP deck check them in absentia.


By Acolytec (Acolytec) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 12:54 am:

deck check?


By K-Run, the Pegasus Hero (K_Run) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 03:34 pm:


Quote:

Maybe you're a wiener ;)




Probably. My girlfriend is constantly calling me like that. ;-)


By FeverDog on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 04:10 pm:

K-Run, could you post your current version of Parfait? When did you start running humility and Masticores man, i must have missed something.


By Alhazard (Alhazard) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 05:35 am:

Uhm i just saw the toc t8 since i havent been checking bd cause of all the junk. So acolytec, like dont drop me and stuff. thx


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