From: otwell@Eng.Sun.COM (Chris Otwell) Subject: Re: [Report] PT Dallas Type I Tournament Date: 27 Nov 1996 22:32:56 GMT Friday: Woke up at 6am. Ate breakfast. registered decks and self. Prepared to play. Finished work on sideboard. Started. Scott decided to play his deck without Sleves and make EVERY opponent De-Sleeve. A lot of people were cursing loadly @ him, to say the least. His reasoning: To be a dick and get the Psycological advantage. Not for any other reason. One guy even asked him if he plays with sleeves: Scott said: "Always, just not today." Which of course pissed the other guy off even more. 1st round: I end up getting the only BYE at the event. Figures. Scott Shiltz, Eric Kirkman, and Russel Smith all lose badly. Team Colorado starts on a bad foot for what seemed like a very unlucky day overall. 2nd Round: I play against Turbo-Statis. Rather boring match. Good thing I put Strip Mines into my deck before hand. 3rd Round: Played vs. an Erhamn-Burnem deck w/ Mox Monkeys. beat the deck quickly and effectively. 4th Round: Played vs. a Necro Deck. Got ass kicked in short order. Never had more than 2 lands in play at any time in either game. Had a total of 7 lands striped during the match. 5th Round: Played vs. a Erhamn and Burnem/Mox Monkey deck. Beat in short order. 6th Round: Played vs. a 3rd Erhanem and Burnem deck, but with enough Blue for the Power Blue and Arcane Denails as well as powersinks. Was unable to keep any Abysses or Drops on the board. 8 entered play and 0 creatures were removed becuase of them. Ended up lossing in the end. 7th Round: Played against Michael Loconto. He was also playing an Erhan and Burnem Deck w/Mox Monkeys/Dwqarven Miners. I intentionally prolonged the game just to be annoying and make Loco have to deal with the pain of my deck. I killed him in the 2nd game, after 6 timetwisters w/3 Insects and 4 Mishras in play. He was making all kinds of comments on how me never wants to play against me again. 8^) Enjoyed every minute of it. Cut off takes place here. I finish 33rd overall.. Best of everyone from Colorado though. Watched the finals. Saw what beat up the 35 necro decks: 12 Bolts, Tactics, Psi-Blasts, Kirdapes, Mox Monkeys, Savana Lions, etc.... Basically, a Modified version of "The Gun". 3 of these made the final 4. Eventually, Scott Johns won it all. I used the following deck: 3 Abysses 3 Drops of Honey 4 Mana Drains 4 Arcane Denials 4 Deadly Insects 1 Zuran orb 1 regrowth 1 Maze of Ith 1 TimeTwister 4 Disenchants 1 Autumn Willow 5 Moxen/SRing/BLotus 1 Time Walk 1 Ancetral Recall 1 Balance 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Library of Alexendria 4 Mishras 3 Strip mines 4 Cities of Brass 2 Tundras 2 undergrounds Seas 4 tropical Islands 2 plains 2 Forests 2 Islands Basically... my deck was too slow against what was winning. And i should of played with the Sword to Plows in the main deck... Oh well. Next Time I will do better. =-=-=-=- Interesting Notes: All type 1 decks w/the power blue in them, also supported the Mystic Tutor, to get a 2nd turn Ancestral Recall or to fetch what ever.... The 2 most dominate type 2 Decks were the Necro deck and the u/w Winter Orb/Armegeddon/Millstone/Outpost decks. of the final 8 in both the Masters and the Juniors, 5 were the u/w decks. of the masters: the remaining 3 were 2 Necros and 1 All-white creatureless deck (Baxter's deck). Of the remaining 3 in the Juniors, all were Necro. All these u/w decks had Mystic Tutors in them. Talked to Skaff Elais and according to him, Mystic Tutor has now become the mostly likely card to become restricted next in both type 1 and type 2. Other things: Type 2 deck that had a nearly 1st turn kill, involving POX, Nicol Bolas, Shallow Grave, Racks and Dark rituals.... Opponent's hand was empty on the first turn w/a rack in play, before he ever played a card. Most interesting Type 1 deck: A full recursion deck of Marc Hernadezes, using Lion's Eye Diamonds as a key cards. On many 3rd turns, he Korvek's Torched an opponent for 50+ damage. But with a bad draw, it'd lose. =-=-=-=-= Christopher E. Otwell