From: cday3@osf1.gmu.edu (Chad J Day)
Subject: TOURNAMENT REPORT - Frederick, MD .. type 2 sanctioned.
Date: 24 Nov 1996 01:08:02 GMT
 
Where: Frederick, MD -  The Gaming Realm
What: Type 2 Sanctioned Tournament. 4 rounds swiss, break to final 8
      for single elims.
When: Friday.
Who: Me, and Scott of Team Island Fish showed up. Other cool people
     make cameo apperances.
Why: why not?
 
Me and Scott take off to the tournament.. I am playing the turbo-prison
(or turbo-kitty, take your pick), and Scott is playing a Pox/Bolt/
Forsaken Wastes deck..  we show up, and I notice the Evil Dan is there
(he is evil because he plays cheesy necro a lot).. uh oh. :)
 
First Round: Ben (reject rare and uncommon deck)
 
Ben is REALLY cool. Last week, he gave me pez before the first 2 rounds.
I lost those 2 rounds. I didn't eat Pez the 3rd round last week, and
I won. Against my better judgement, I once again eat the pez (I was
hungry). Ben laughs maniacally as he shows me 2 talismans in his hand.
Uh oh. :)
 
I can just kinda sum up all 3 games in one paragraph. Ben plays his
talismans, whirling catapults, glacial chasms, and other really bad
cards, and I winter orb lock him. :( I feel bad.
Ben has a really fun time though, especially with the glacial chasms,
as I get frustrated trying to kill him with mishra's. :) And when he
is winter orb locked, he would always untap the chasm, and I'd tap it
on his upkeep just for fun. heheh...
 
Games: 3-0, Matches: 1-0.
 
 
Round 2: vs. don't remember, R/G speed (ants, eron, bolts, etc..)
 
I don't remember much of this, but I recall him worldly tutoring for
an ant when I had 2 icy's out, and I still don't know why he did this.
I get massively burned, but the shimmer from the SB all 3 games helps
so incredibly much .. and being able to tutor for the zorb/tower to
keep alive wins me the games.
 
 
Games: 6-0, Matches: 2-0
 
 
Round 3: forget name, R/W hammer/control/dd/outpost
 
Game 1: He simply doesn't have enough artifact kill in his deck.. I'm
able to keep my icy's out on the board to deal with the wildfires, and
the worbs stop the hammers from coming back...
 
Game 2: He sides in like 11 cards. Ack..   I'm able to get out an early
shimmer on his mountains and slow him down incredibly.. provides me 
enough time to set up, being able to counter his disenchants when he
can't redblast my counters due to the shimmer..
 
Game 3: He plays a vice 1st turn. I have 1 land. I die really fast. :)
 
 
Games: 8-1, Matches: 3-0
 
 
Round 4: vs. Justin Butt (justin the evil judge)  sligh deck
 
My deck trashes sligh decks. :)
 
Game 1: not enough artifact kill, and he can't kill the island sancs..
I lock him up quickly and he concedes.
 
Game 2: He doesn't have anarchys in his SB. :(  I'm able to keep my
sancs out, and tutor for the shimmer to slow him down... lock him
again.
 
Game 3: I don't feel like playing. I let him have it, since we're both
in the final 8 anyway. <yawn 
 
Games: 10-2     Matches: 4-0
 
I'm seeded first, or something.. big deal. Records don't matter, as I'm
about to find out. :)
 
 
Round of 8
----------
 
Round 1:  the guy with the R/W deck
 
 
Game 1: first turn vice he plays. my only land is a mishra. I die
REALLY fast. :(
 
Game 2: I get overly paranoid of the vise and mis-sideboard, siding in
too many artifact kill and forgetting about the shimmer. He caps me
on turn 7, I try to counter, he red blasts it. Ack... he caps out all
3 winter orbs. The game goes on... around mid-game, he is hammering me
once to twice a turn, and I'm saccing land like mad to the zorb.. 
I realize only 1 card in my deck is gonna save me from the hammers..
I have a howler out, so I pray I draw it soon...
 
and there it is. Balance. I balance/zorb down to 0 land, and he wasn't
holding any back. The delay lets me live long enough to go find my
tower, and the game is downhill for him from there. whew.
 
 
Game 3: I'm able to get the standard lock fairly quickly this game,
mainly due to me remembering to SB in the shimmer. :)
 
<whew 
 
 
Justin (sligh deck) played Mike Wolfensberger (sp, playing black weenie)
and won, Dan lost (he was playing a U/W control, sacred mesa, outposts)
to a W/G deck (died to his outpost).. and Scott won against a mono-green
in the first round.
 
 
Round 2: vs. the W/G deck
 
Not the typical erhnamgeddon, he's using centaurs, insects, elves, and
the juniper order advocates..
 
 
Game 1: He doesn't seem to have much artifact kill at all in his deck,
so i'm able to put down a sanc and hide behind it until I can wrath
away the insects/centaurs and get the lock up.
 
Game 2: I play a first turn tower, 2nd turn cop green, 4th turn icy,
5th turn icy. He armageddons with a centaur on the board.. I'm at high
enough life that I know I'll draw a land from the cop and the tower
will keep me alive.. finally I do, and I put out a howler/sanc combo,
and a worb, and he concedes.
 
 
Justin (sligh) beats Scott (the pox/bolt/wastes deck) 2-1 I think..
 
 
Finals: vs. Justin
 
True to his team name, he first turn bolts me each game. :(
 
Game 1: Not enough artifact kill on his part, so once I get the howler/
sanc out, it's just about over.. the icy's/orbs/and tutors follow, and
it's over..
 
Game 2: the shimmer does it again. :)  Also, a first turn tower (which
I ALWAYS draw against justin) helps a lot. He plays a manabarbs
eventually, but I have 2 Icy's, a worb, and 2 fellwars, so I kept
him locked till I found a disenchant, and he concedes soon after.. 
 
 
so I win. yay. I give Scott half the packs, and he pulls all the good
rares, while I pull rares like lifelace and brand of ill omen. :(
but I made a little bit of $, so I'm happy.. and the only games I lost
were due to 1st turn vices with me being mana screwed.
 
I LOVE SHIMMER! .. this card is just wrong.. it's like a time walk,
and then kinda time walking every other turn. :) I'm definetly gonna
put a 2nd in sideboard..  
 
Anyway, even though I've posted the deck everywhere, I still get mail
asking for it.. so here it is again.
 
 
"Turbo-Prison"
(post restriction, of course)
62 cards.
 
White
-----
1 Balance               3 Wrath of God          3 Disenchants
3 Swords to Plow        2 Island Sanctuarys     1 Land Tax
3 Enlightened Tutors
 
Blue
----
4 Arcane Denials        2 Counterspell          1 Recall
 
 
Artifact
--------
4 Icy Manipulators      2 Winter Orbs           1 Zuran Orb
3 Fellwar Stones        4 Howling Mines         1 Ivory Tower
1 Serrated Arrows
 
Land:
8 Plains
1 Ruins of Trokair
5 Islands
4 Adarkar Wastes
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra's Factorys
 
 
Sideboard:
1 Feldon's Cane (counterspells, and R/W)
1 Jester's Cap (anti-sideboard, anti-disenchant :) )
1 Disenchant (self-explainitory)
2 Divine Offerings (ditto)
1 Island Sanctuary (white weenie, anything heavy creature based)
4 Control Magics (vs. necro, WW)
1 Shimmers (great anti-necro, mono-red)
1 Black Vise (something they have to disenchant)
1 Cop Red
1 Cop Green
and I forget the last card I used in SB this time.. but that was the
main bulk of it. 

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