Subject: CA State Championship - Sligh Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:47:15 -0800 From: Redraven To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com California State Championship Report Nov. 21, 1998 - Costa Mesa, CA. I show up at my old stomping grounds, after a 3 month Hiatus due to relocation, confidant that Sligh is the best deck in the field. Unfortunately, despite all my experience playing sligh for the last 2 years, i'm not sure which version is better, old school or Lackey sligh. The Lackey Sligh is better in a field of Chills, but has problems against the other sligh decks, due to the Flunkie problem. So after consulting with Daddy Yoo, and Charles Kornblith, i decide that old school-esque is the way to go, with some few modifications. Here is the deck: 4 Jackal Pups 4 Mogg Fanatics 4 Goblin Patrol 1 Mogg Raider 4 Ironclaw Orcs 3 Fireslingers 4 Ball Lightnings 1 Rathi Dragon (Daddy Yoo Sligh Tech) 4 Incinerates 4 Shocks 3 Sonic Bursts 4 Cursed Scrolls 4 Wastelands 16 Mountains Sideboard 4 Meltdowns 4 Pyroblasts 4 Bottle Gnomes 3 Raze(Kornblith Anti Recur tech) So it Begins... The Following is a record of me playing against nearly the entire field, as I end up playing nearly every deck type. Match 1 -Blue Green Tradewind Game 1: I drop all 4 patrols and 2 ironclaw orcs by turn 5... Game Over Game:2 : See above.. Match 1-0 Game 2-0 Match 2 - Suicide Black Game 1: First Turn pup, vs, a single sarcomancy. My hand is full of 1 cc stuff, fanatics patrols and shocks... Game over Game 2: He rituals out Carnophage, scroll, unholy. I drop pup, take 4. drop a fanatic and patrol turn 2, take 4. Drop another fanatic, and out race him.....Game Over Match 2-0 Game 4-0 Match 3 -Draw Go Game 1: He has ice Flows in his deck to slow down the beat down. That's what wastelands are for. Pup beatdown Game 2: He clears the board early, and locks down my creatures. Drops a turn 10 douse... That's Game Game 3: Drop Pups, Try to raze his land early, he has to counter it, every time he does, he gets bolt. Game over on turn 5 Match 3-0 Game 6-1 Match 4 -Sligh Game 1: Beat him mercilessly, as i kill all of his creatures by turn 3 Game 2: More of the Same..He drops a goblin Bombardment, and starts killing thing. If i had been playing flunkies instead of ironclaws would have lost this game, as the single orc does like 8 damage as he is un willing to sack 2 creatures to kill it. I beat him down Match 4-0 Game 8-1 Match 5 - Tolarian Blue Game 1 - He makes me bright on turn 5 Game 2 - My pups make him dead on turn 5 Game 3 - He triple mulligans, but he windfalls on turn 2, putting 6 cards in his hand. Unfortunately it puts 2 meltdowns, a pyroblast and a raze in my hand. I draw out 2 sinks the next 2 turns, and eventually get the meltdown off. Game Over Match 5-0 Game 10-2 Match 6 - Recurring Whale He loses game 1, not being at his seat, but we are going to draw anyways so I offer the draw. Someone in the crowd points out you can't do that once a game is lost. We ask the head judge, he says no you can't. We play. Game 1: First turn fanatic vs. karplusan Bird of paradise. I waste the karplusan, drop a pup, fling the bird. He has no Permanents left in play.... Game Over. Beating is heinous. Match 6-0 Game 12-2 Match 7 - Suicide Black We Draw Match 6-0-1 Game 12-2 So in six rounds of real play, I play the following 1 Tradewind 1 Suicide Black 1 Draw-Go 1 Sligh 1 Tolarian Blue 1 Recurring Whale Going into the quaterfinals it looks something like this 1 Academy 2 Sligh 2 Recurring Whale 2 White Weenie 1 Suicide Black Quarterfinals - Recurring Whale Same Kid I had to play in Round 6. Game 1: Beatdown. Kill his creatures every turn, so that he has to drop a creature every turn. Needs to get to 5 mana to recurr. He doesn't have time... Rathi dragon makes an appearance. Game 2: He gets the whale and goes off. I make him tell me what he plans. Twenty minutes later, he has a 105/105 whale. I lose. Game 3: Mirror game of the game in Round 6. Fanatic the bird, wasteland the karplusan. He never gets past 2 land... Game over. Match 7-0-1 Game 14-3 Semi Finals - Sligh Game 1: I win the burn your creature war. I win Game 2: Get mana screwed with bottle gnomes in my hand. I lose Game 3: Get mana screwed again, but draw out of it. The game is long, with gnomes on both sides. I'm at 4, he's at 6. He doesn't know that i just drew the incinerate, so i'm going to incinerate him, scroll him, untap and scroll him for the win... He draws.... 6 land. double scrolls me. I lose.. Match 7-1-1 Game 15-5 So I end up in 3rd-4th place. A damn good run for the day. Just in case you are wondering. Steve Shears playing a very good version of the Recurring Whale Deck wins against the other sligh deck for the Championship. Props: John "Daddy" Yoo for the Rathi Dragon tech Charles"gotsa argue" Kornblith for the Raze tech. Unfortunately, Charles refused to see that Razes sucked main deck are only good in the board. Pizza Hut is so much better than lousy hut, or whatever it was called. Truc Bui and Gabe Higa for their amusing anthology games. Problem with playing Sligh is your done in 15 minutes, so you have to sit for an hour to play again. Ali and Cody for insisting that their academy decks would win all friday night. Very amusing. Slops: None Really Nickolas Krestoff