Subject: Edmonton stronghold qualifier Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:41:42 -0700 From: "bug" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Hello,this is my first tournament report (first major wizards sanctioned event too). I'd like to start off by saying the dojo is the best site for magic the gathering and keep up the good work.Now on to the report the sealed deck tourny was standerd 8 rounds with top 16 going on to a single elimination final. I thought i had a good shot at things i had decent fat 3 shadows, I ended up playing red black with some green for faties. I had to choose from these in colors i did not play: white cloudchaser, pacificism, smite, temper,samite blessing,and conviction a few weenies but not enough to justify white blue i was seriously considering splashing blue but heres what i had: hunter, thalakos dreamsower, time ebb, 2 contempts, mind games, spell blast but heres what i played: black (8) daulthi marauder serpant warrior lab rats brush with death foul imps rats of rath daulthi slayer kezzerdrix!!!{the bomb never once took 4) red (9) sandstone warrior rolling thunder lowland giant mob justice mogg bombers tangarths rage wall of diffusion shock spitting hydra green (4) skyshroud troopers lowland baslisk spike colany!!! spined wurm artifact (3) scroll rack !!! hornet cannon essence bottle land (16) mountains 7 swamps 6 forests 3 so theres the deck and heres are the rounds: round 1 ???????????? g/w game 1 daulthi marauder hits for all 20 while my forces hold his at bay game 2 black swarm too much for him to handle kezzerdrix rocks round 2 ??????????? w/b/r (1/0/0) game 1 conviction on two of his creatures beatdown i die game 2 more of the same just no conviction (owch!} my oppenent had a cursed scroll in his deck and im glad he did't draw it but his swarm was still too much for me to handle round 3 Ben Trueman g/r/w (1/1/0) game 1 fanning the flames (nuff said!) game 2 lowland spined wurm tagteam beats (boom!) game 3 shadow beatdown round 4 ??????????? u/b/w (2/1/0) game 1 daulthi mercenery firefly hits me for death game 2 mana screwed recovered with scroll and the fat cames down game 3 incredibly close he got me down to 6 then i used an essence bottle to go to 14 and rolled his creatures got down some defence and brush with death did the rest good match props to shay for suggesting the bottle it won me the match so thanx shay round 5 Bob ??????? w/u/? (3/1/0) game 1 I used mogg infestation to kill 5 of his creatures then rolled some of them but ended up dying to the 3/1 that can only be blocked by flyers game 2 screwed up played an essence bottle before attacking with a rats of rath and spike colony he smites my colony I can only transfer 1 instead of 2 die with him at 3 round 6 ?????????? g/r/u (3/2/0} game 1 swarm beatdownn game 2 mana screwed oppenent beatdown i dont like to beat on mana screwed opponents but I guess i'll take wins any way I can get them. round 7 ??????????? g/u/r (4/2/0) game 1 creatue beats rolled for 6 then horneted him for 1 game 2 scroll rack got me the cards and too much fat for him to handle round 8 Sean ??????? g/r/u (5/2/0) win and i got a good chance of getting in game 1 fanning the flames (did i mention i hate this card) game 2 he's essence bottling for 2 a turn i'm putting out 2 lab rats a turn and some d and after a long affair manage to end up with all but 2 land out and brushing him for 4 a round a grueling match win with about 7 cards left game 3 close but shadow was the difference i won but with only 6 life left final record 6/2/0 good enough for 17th dow so close but no cigar still 17 out of 240 ain,t bad and i did pick up 2 of the prerelease cards a fun and enjoyable eperience i look forward to exodus. props Cory thanks for the ride (he told me not to mention him for fear of embaressment) Shay one of the nicest guys around thanks for the advice Rob great job judging and maybe next time you'll get to compete and get a card well manered opponents I had the best opponents no idiots at all fun atmosphere good job juges and players beyond fantasy for a well run tournament slops who need negativity no slops for me All and All a fun tiring experinence but fun event, almost everyone there added to a fun fairly competitive environment. Here ends my first tournament report and if luck prevails you just finished reading it on the dojo. -Sean Bidner