Subject: Louisiana State Championships Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 04:57:36 EST From: Corasian@aol.com To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com 9:31 PM 11/22/98 Hello, my name is Dustin Flora, I am 16 and have been playing magic for about 4 years. I'm here to tell you about my day at the Louisiana State Championships. Well first we will start with the night before. My friend Travis and his wife Marcie came to pick me up at about 7:30 pm. We went over to Jeffs house where everybody was supposed to meet at to playtest. When I got there Landon was playin PS in Jeffs room, Frank was on the net buying stuff from E-Bay and Loman and Canon were playing and Jeff was no where to be seen. Travis told me that Jeff was at work. I asked if his parents were home, he said no. I don't know about you but I sure as hell wouldn't let a bunch of strangers in my house while I wasn't there. We finished eating the Taco Bell we picked up on the way there and started playtesting. I had been practicing with sligh for about two weeks and so I had pretty much made up my mind to play with that. We playtested till about 9 and Senta showed up (hadn't seen him in about 2 or 3 months thought he was dead or something) and we kept playing till about 11. Travis wanted to go home to get some sleep so we could get up early to drive the hour drive to New Orleans in the morning. Everybody had already picked their decks (I think I was the only person besides Senta that didnt play Academy) so I agreed immediately because I was kinda tired and wanted to get some sleep. When we got to Travis' I wanted to get in a quick game of Starcraft on the net before bed. Well if you have ever played Starcraft you know how that went. Before me and Travis knew it, it was 1 am. Hmm, got to get up in 4 hours to get ready to leave, Travis had more will power than me and broke away while he could and went to bed, I on the other hand kept playin. At about 3:30 Travis came in and told me I should go to sleep. I said ok and turned off the comp. We got up at 6 and got ready. We left Baton Rouge at about 7:45. We arrived about 9:15. When we got there, there were like 20 or so peeps and we went to sign up. We registered our decks and waited. At about 10:15 I started to wonder if the others that we tested with were gonna show up since registration ended at 10:30. Then they showed up. First Jeff had to make a sideboard, Travis made a comment on being irresponsible and that he should have been prepared already (Travis MADE his deck on the way there). Finally everybody was registered and we began the tournament. Oh yeah you probably want to know the deck I played with, well here is what I registered: Sligh 4 shocks 4 incinerates 4 jackal pups 4 mogg fanatics 4 mogg conscripts 2 sonic bursts 1 rathi dragon (stanley.....tell ya later) 1 goblin bombardment 4 ironclaw orcs 4 ball lightnings 4 cursed scrolls 3 fireslingers 4 wasteland 17 mountains Stanley is my pet dragon that i bring with me and he rides around on my head at the tournys everybody knows him but i still get these strange looks, he plays a part in every win (and loss) that i recieve since he telepathetically tells me what to play and what not to play Round 1: Robert Kilpatrick (I guess it was an Arcane Laboratory deck) Game 1: saw a trade wind and him goin up in flames Game 2: he was at 2 and tapped out to cast a silver wyvern and he spontaneously combusted again meet stanleys wrath Matches 1-0 Games 2-0 Round 2: Paul Bileci (same as first guy, I think, but with green) Game 1: he tried to get out an argothian wurm on like 3rd turn.. my land went boom. i killed his two birds of p and wasted on of his lands......he never drew a 4th.......BOOM Game 2: i saw an arcane laboratory, two propagandas and nothin else, after he died he started bitching about not getting the cards he needed, and something about if only he could have cast his timespiral, i said ummm ok and got up to report my win. stanley strikes again Matches 2-0 Games 4-0 Round 3: Adam Simoneaux (counter pheonix) Game 1: didnt see much i thought he was playin mono blue so i guess he was mana screwed but he didnt complain Game 2: he cast a second turn chill..........uh oh.......i started drawing a lot of land so i was ok. he had five lands and tried to cast his shard pheonix which would have wrecked me but he forgot about his chill so he couldnt. on my turn i cast a ball lightning...he didnt have a counterspell.......wham....hes at one...next turn sling for one, bye yeah stanley go buddy go Matches 3-0 Games 6-0 I would just like to say that Adam was cool, he even listened to my bullshiting after the match was over while the judge was passing out the papers.....your cool Adam Man I feel like I got some big balls right about now...half way through it and I haven't even lost a single game...yeah baby. but then i see the next round pairings...i get to play a friend Round 4: Senta Miller (necro[the only one at the tourny]) Game 1: i had him at one and he started draining me....and corrupting me....then he yawgmoths willed and did it all over again...not fast enough Dustin Game 2: this time he thinks hes got me...ah ah ah Senta...he ran out of gas while i picked up some and dumped it on his head and lit him up Game 3: i open with 2 mountains, 1 wasteland, 1 jackal pup, and 3!!! ball lightnings, right about now im thinkin damn i got this game i only have to draw ({[1)}]!!!!!! mountain and im gonna kick his butt....but of course using my special powers i managed not to do so and got my anus injected with Sentas foot. damn you you little stuffed sock im gonna burn you latter Matches 3-1 Games 7-2 That sucked, i dont mind losing but i hate losing to mana screw....i hate wasteland...oh and Senta, you suck :) Round 5: Jeremy Sunseri (sligh, the mirror match) Game 1: i got more burn i won Game 2: he get 2 cursed scrolls, i get one he win Game 3: i got so much burn i think he caught on fire before i even killed him hmmm stanley tryin to suck up but not doin a good job....i lost a game Matches 4-1 Games 9-3 Round 6: Josh Random Guy (sligh....again) Game 1: i beat his living brain out of his head and blew it up Game 2: he....killed.....stanley................................... Game 3: me get 6 land and a fireslinger..guess i wont draw land......now im gonna kill stanley Matches 4-2 Games 10-4 I will never listen to jeff again because he told me i had to play and i found out later that if i had drawn i would have made it in......... Top 8 2 sligh decks 1 necro deck (senta) 5 academy decks (including jeff and canon) (5!!!!!!!) winner Canon (Ball) Boling (Ball) the Wrecking Ball (with academy)......my man, good job i finished 10th.... 7 of the top 12 were people who playtested with us so it was cool i would take out one waste in my deck and put it in my sideboard and put another mountain in my deck (i really hate mana screw especially that way. I have no idea what the final turnout was on the tourny i think it was around 110 but im not sure.... Props: Jeffs mom for being soooooooooooooo cool Travis and Marcie for the ride Adam for being cool Dexter for kickin butt in his first tourny Tim for running yet another exellent tourny (visit his site www.evthorizons.com, its cool, new but cool) Starcraft for keeping me up the night before Psycho for letting me borrow his ball lightnings and surge for keeping me up the whole day so i could play in the tourny Slops: Jeff for playin like 8 lands in his academy deck Greg for copying my deck and not winning a like single match(he went 2-4) taco bell for the stomach ache Landon for the cold Jeff again for beating multiple people with the Karn, Silver Golem in his sideboard yet again Jeff for playin Scragnoths in his ACADEMY sideboard Stanley im gonna melt his wings off latter.......... Final Thought: i recommend getting plenty of sleep and make sure if your going to make a sideboard to bring cards for it that are good (unlike Jeff). so.....may you never be stroked for 10000 and take care of yourself and each other(springers cool). if you would like to contact me e-mail me at: Corasian@yahoo.com