These were the most amazing games ever.
Game One
My opening hand is Pearl, 2 Island, Wasteland, Mana Drain, Mana Leak, Masticore
We start having a mana fight. I Waste two factories, he Strips an Island and Kegs two moxen, and suddenly I have only one Island in play to his two and one Factory. Whoops.
I eventually topdeck out of it. I Merchant Scroll into Ancestral into Lotus, which I use to play my Core. After he chumps for a while, I attack for the win. He eventally dies to his own Serendib.
In: 4 Psionic Blast, 2 Masticore
Out: 3 Powder Keg, 2 Back to Basics, 1 Merchant Scroll
Game Two
Opening Hand: Black Lotus, 2 Island, Strip Mine, Psionic Blast, Morphling, Masticore
I play a first turn core. It resolves. I win, right?
Holy Pikula!
Nope. He chump-blocks to stay alive, then starts racing ahead of me on card advantage with an Ancestral and two FoFs, and then plays a Core of his own. Due to his mana superiority, he wins.
Same Sideboarding.
Game Three
My opening hand: Mox Emerald, 2 Island, Mana Drain, Mana Leak, Force of Will, Fact or Fiction
I counter everything he does, fact or fiction many times, play Morphling, and win.
The last exchange of the game was quite funny. Burning Ice was at five life. I Psi-blast him down to one, then do it agains. In response, he psi-blasts himself in a deranged attempt to deny me the satisfaction of killing him. I drain this one, he misdirects, I leak. So There.
*grin*
Guys, Burning Ice's deck looks really janky on paper, but it's quite good. It's like a freakish BBSish deck, but much faster and more angry. I think a tuned version without bad cards like Soothsaying and Powder Keg could be really good.
Decks:
Burning Ice - Ice Blue Zoo
4 Serendib Efreet
3 Rootwater Thief
2 Morphling
4 Force of Will
4 Misdirection
4 Fact or Fiction
4 Psionic Blast
1 Windfall
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Soothsaying
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Sol Ring
1 Zuran Orb
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Powder Keg
14 Islands
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Wastelands
1 Strip Mine
SB:
2 Chill
4 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Gainsay
2 Masticore
4 Back to Basics
1 Tormod's Crypt
DerangedParrot - StopAndPanic.dec, Techno Remix
4 Morphling
2 Masticore
3 Powder Keg
4 Fact or Fiction
2 Merchant Scroll
2 Back to Basics
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Mana Leak
3 Misdirection
6 LoMoxen
1 Sol Ring
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland
15 Island
Sideboard:
4 Psionic Blast
3 Mana Short
2 Hydroblast
2 Masticore
2 Back to Basics
2 Wasteland
Yeah. Good games. The first game was annoying. I got him down to 2 life, and then I topdecked land, land, land, land. Or something like that. After he cast his Masticore, I was just trying to stay alive, and knowing I was dead anyways, (being at 1 life with only a Rootwater Thief on the board and him with a Core and 4 lands), I cast the Serendib, hoping he'd attack and give me one more round.
I sided out Windfall, Soothsaying, 1 FoW and 1 Misdirection for 2 Masticore and 2 Gainsay.
The second game was the best game my deck's had in this whole tournament. I drew everything I needed when I needed to, and with more land than Parrot my Core beat his Core into submission.
Game 3 I got mana screwed unfortunatley, and unlike Parrot in the first game, his opponent didn't draw only land, and he was able to get a Morphling out to kill me.
Windfall and Soothsaying are definatley out of the deck since I SB them out every game.