Subject: ok states tourney Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:49:48 -0600 From: Chris To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com ok this is my first report, so bear with me... the tournament was held on november 14th at top deck games (www.topdeckgames.com), in tulsa, OK there were something like 66 players the deck the night before i basically modified my armor/clysm WW to be november 1st legal, and added as much main-deck anti-academy stuff as i felt i could. thid is what i came up with: creatures(20) 4 soltari priest 4 soltari monk 4 warrior en kor 4 white knight 4 paladin en vec spells(17) 4 mox diamond 4 disenchant 4 cataclysm 3 mana leak 2 earth quake lands(23) 15 plains 4 city of brass 4 wasteland sideboard:(this is a prime example why NOT to build your sideboard AT the tourney, i'll get to that later) 3 annul 3 winter orb 2 pyroblast (these were so hot, not even the store had any for sale, thus i only had two) 1 interdict 1 arcane lab 2 meltdown 2 wrath of god 1 pariah round 1 Ian Lauderdale, 4C counter phoenix his deck is U/R, but has white and black in the sideboard first game i go mox, plains, monk, he shocks. next turn i cast a priest. he never hits his capsize and dies after about ten turns. second game i bring in my pyros and orbs, tossing white knights, and disenchant i think. i get a slightly slower start, he's ready for my shadows this time...dread of night? what the hell is that? (can you tell i've never played WW in a real tourney before?) i beat on him with 1/1 for a while, until they are 0/0. then my last ditch attempt at an earthquake win is countered. i lose to phoenix beat down game three he gets like no blue mana, and priests and paladins make short work of him 1-0 2-1 round 2 Tommy Bort, necro, with blue for whim of volrath, and ? game one he's like ritual, priest of gix, bottle gnomes. i play mox, plains, monk, or something. i race his pro whites, and eventually somehow the math is in my favor game two i side in annuls for necro/disks, but never see either. turns out he wasn't even playing disks. he plays a few prowhite creatures, and a stromgald cabal. i quake for two, leaving 2-3 creatures on my side, and kill him in a few more turns. this was after he cast that encahntment that makes all creatures black. he thought i was going to play light of day. thats what you get for thinking i came prepared! 2-0 4-1 round 3 John Powers playing academy (tulsa version using time warp, and howling mines. i think most of the tulsa guys played it this way) game one was mine due to quick creatures on my part, and ancient tombs on his. mana leak is good. game two i bring in my heavy anti-academy sideboard, but at like 4 life he goes off, even after i annul a mind over matter. game three he draws nothing, and i play mox, land, creature on my first turn, for the third time in the match 3-0 6-2 round 4 Chris Hackett, WW (straight white, no mox diamonds) these games were a blur of white, two decks with almost the same creatures, him with soul wardens and emissaries, as well. basically it came down to my non-white cards, leaking his wrath, and quaking away his creatures. and a couple of badly played pariahs, he was playing them on HIS creatures. i think this was a jedi mind trick... also one of these games he pulls out a helm of possesion, but it was too late, he had either already won or lost by then. 4-0 8-3 round 5 Chris Petrash, black weenie, but "NOT" suicide black, he had blue for sleights and lobotomy i think game one the first three turns i cast soltari monks; it was ugly. it's so nice not to have to sideboard to screw black. game two i really don't remember much about, but i killed him pretty fast 5-0 10-3 round 6 Kiley Nelson, playing sligh we are the only two undefeated players left, and neither of us even mention the intentional draw. we came to play! game one i can't find a mox first turn, when i REALLY need it, i have like shadows, and paladin in my hand, and have to take damage from a city to cast the paladin, by then it's too late. i quake for three, killing his flunkies, and TWO jackal pups, but leaving me at five, two kindles later i'm dead game two is similar, i have no mox, two paladins, and like three plains in my hand. i boarded a few monks for wraths and my lone pariah. in the end, i have two paladins out, i'm at six. he has like four two power creatures, casts ball lightning, i'm dead. 5-1 10-5 another instance of a bad sideboard...warmth or more pariahs would have been nice the top eight was as follows(in no particular order) ME (3cWW) Jay McCray (Academy) Kiley Nelson (sligh) Chris Hackett (WW) Chris Petrash (Black Weenie, with blue) Chris Fenstermaker (Black Weenie, with blue for windfalls) Clint Smith (Black weenie of some kind) Another guy playing another black weenie deck (sorry dude, i never caught your name) 4 black weenies, two WW, one sligh, and ONE lone academy deck not that there weren't many academy decks...i think everyone that i knew at the tournament was playing it in some form or another, except for hackett and fenstermaker. here's where the fun begins... i think it was clint smith... got a warning for having two alpha cards in his deck (dark rituals) jay mccray got a warning and a game loss for having recorded FIVE power sinks in his deck, instead of four and a fireball the OTHER guy playing black weenie gets a warning and game loss for a sideboarding error. first round of single elimination jay mccray, playing tulsa academy game one was a blur, i don't remember much about it :) game two he gets a bad draw, i think he strokes for one at some point. wastelands are good, by the way semi-finals chris hackett again...playing WW first game i'm playing mono white because he disenchants like two moxes, and i can't find a city. he has more creatures than i do second game i board out two DISENCHANTS for wraths. i'm waiting for him to help me out with pariah tech, on his creatures, but in a stunning move he pariahs MY paladin, i disenchant. later i have two creatures to his five, i attack, he takes four, i wrath...i cast more creatures. this is where it goes bad. he pariahs my paladin again...damn i need a disenchant. i still have a creature advantage, and for some reason i stop attacking. the jedi mind trick has taken effect. by the time i realize my error it is too late, and the HELM OF POSSESSION is out...i'm praying for the last disenchant as my creatures help in my demise the finals Chris Hackett goes on to play the OTHER guy. all i remember was one game, the OTHER guy mulligans down to five cards, keeps his no land hand (he's going first), and top decks a swamp. casts dark ritual, priest of gix, GLOOM. a bad moon and skittering skirge come out soon after and the forces of evil prevail. so the OTHER guy wins, of course it's the guy i DIDN'T write down a name for, oh well...sorry dude. i was surprised by the performance of the academy decks. it was funny to hear the difference between how people talked about the deck before and then after the tourney. "BELIEVE me, you DON'T want to make that deck..." i guess i should include the obligatory props and slops props ME for getting to the semis with a new deck, without playtesting or a good sideboard. Hackett for successfully performing the jedi mind trick on me The Computer for pairing the academy decks together early slops ME for playing a new deck, without playtesting or a good sideboard. scrubbing out the second day in the limited tourney. and losing to the jedi mind trick (your powers are weak, old man) my mox diamonds for hiding from sligh, and getting disenchanted by WW dave maxwell yermom@ou.edu former OK limited champ... defender of hippos everywhere