Subject: J.W.Brothers Very Grimm Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 20:27:38 -0000 From: "Joe J Bonacia" To: This weeks tourny brings me to the Comic Depot in Bellmore,NY.After last weeks victory playing Cursed Stompy which I cant stand this week I decided to play Jamie Wakefields Black Fat deck....the Brothers Very Grimm.It will be 4 rounds of swiss and I think about 14 people were there to play.I love this deck...even when it loses..I love this deck.You can have your prisons and weenies and such.Nothing is more satisfying than Savant beatdown!Heres the deck... 4 black knights 4 nekrataals 1 carriontte 2 bottle gnomes(should have been 4..these guys rock) 1 Brother Very Grimm(gallowbraid) 1 Other Brother Very Grimm(morifen) 2 Black Hammer(savant) 4 drain life 3 dark ritual 3 disk 4 stupor 4 edict 4 bonedancer 18 swamp 4 quicksand 3 wasteland SB 4 coercions(ooooooooyeah!!!) 2 dread of night 2 gloom 1 evicars justice 1 disk 3 spinning darkness 2 perish Nuttin fancy..just mono black beatdown.This deck is extremely anti critter.It does fairly well against sligh.I would imagine prop/orb would give it fits but luckily I didnt encounter that. round 1: vs Alan playing white weenie Armor beatdown. this is a real problem for this deck.The prot black guys really hurt as does an early geddon.But I am with black fat...Mori and Gallow growl and grunt..they want green weenies to eat....no food for them game1:I get out a black knight and some quicksands.He gets out plenty of knights and weenies as well.I manage to edict an armored priest..whew!...and we go back and forth on damage.Mori comes out and gets pacified!Arghhhhhhh!!!Damn...who expected pacifism?I kill lots of stuff with taals and edicts but he is too fast for me and outraces me for the win.. game2:sideboard 4 coercions for the stupors gloom,and dread of night.I get the god draw.Ritual out a first turn gloom.He only gets one one plains.Second turn dread...third turn gloom!Lucky bastard that I am .Its too much and the knights and taal just go to work. game3:Now its my turn to get smoked.Duskrider falcon holds my troops at bay.I kill lots of stuff but make a mistake and attack with a bonedancer when he had a white knight untapped.Edict the bird!I get a taal rolling and start to steal stuff...SNATCH a knight and a priest...then it comes...I got four critters on the board and he wrath of gods!Bam POW.Armor a falcon..geddon..thats all she wrote folks. 0-1 1-2 off to a raging start! round 2 vs 5cb this is a good match up for me,,i have a ton of critter kill. game1:This is a close one.Its just a critter war.I kill his knights with quicksands and edicts he kills my stuff with incinerates and manowars other stuff.Stupors were key here as i got some good stuff.A necrotog scared me a little but I disked it away.Disks are a godsend for black.I get out The Black Hammer and he goes all the way...GRIMM SMASH!!!! game2:in go the spins...pretty much a repeat of game one.I get board control with a disk..put out some stuff..Knighst of the mist shows up to kill my knight and he gets taaled for his trouble.A few big drains finish this.Along with a Morifen..heheheheheh 1-1 3-2 round 3 vs a weird blue thing with that dreadnought shapeshifter combo,a few counters,time warp,booby trap.????? game 1:i get the one wasteland draw..gotta love it!i discard for like 10 turns as he time warps away.Weird critter choices...phantom warrior?How can I get land screwed???I have 25 land and 3 dark rituals!But i do and I die. game2:The Grimm Brothers are angry...out comes the fat..knights come out first.i stupor and coercion away good stuff.He has 2 howling mines out..why i dont know.I kill everything he plays.Air elemental?Taal it..run over with the bonedancer and SNATCH! mine mine mine!!2 friggin puppet strings keep the blue fat guy and my dancer at bay but the knight gets through.I play savant..counter..uh oh!!!Next trun sac the knight and Presto!A 5/5 pissed off savant is back in action.SMASH CRASH BASH....game over man..game over! game3.Second turn ritual ritual Savant.he hits for like 10 and gets disked I think.Gallowbraid arrives to finish the job..aided by a few taals to kill blocks and some stupors.GRIMM SMASH!!!! 2-1 5-2 round 4.vs cursed sligh...boom boom boom burn decks are dumb game1:Playing vs sligh is different than most decks.Luckily this week I had Seajay one of my online playtesters build sligh decks for me to play agaisnt.That helped a lot..only way to know a deck is to play it over and over and over vs the most dangerous decks you can find.And the Wakefield philosiphy...17 is kill range fpr sligh!Do not let that little harnless looking goblin peck away at you.Kill it!!!Edict it!Taal it!Quicksand it!Anything!Dont take damage!!!!He gets the usual boom boom boom start.Jackal pup.moog orc etc.Then he gets the broken scroll going..and scrolls all my critters..Its looking bad.i play VERY carefully leaving things back to block and the quicksand open awaiting the ball frightenings.edicts help...disk gets rid of a scroll and i stupor away another.i am holding a drain and a dark ritual...waiting...for the fireblast...Eventually i get him down to 10.Im dead next turn...nothing on the board...I pull the swamp i needed and DRAIN FOR TEN!!!He couldnt believe it and neither could I. game2:SB in the spins,coercion,disk. boom boom boom...dead by turn 4..bolt bolt bolt..pup pup pup..blast blast blast... game3:this was a great game.He gets me down to 6,i sac my gnomes and spin things to get back up.He beats me down again...I drain back up..I think i drew all 4 drains...only way to beat sligh.Quicksand some stuff and carefully watch my life.Disk like a madman.Finally i get Savant out.He plays Forsaken Wastes..I know hes holding enough to kill me next turn.He was at 7.tapped a city of brass to play the wastes and that puts him at 6.I take one and am at 9 i think.Savant hit for 5..hes at one...takes one during upkeep..I got it due to a miscalculation.he doesnt have quite enough burn for the draw....WOW! Grimm beat sligh..any day you can get passed cursed sligh is a good day I am in the finals!! woo hooo!!!! 3-1 7-3 round 5 vs 5cw played by my friend Mike,,a good player and very tricky hmmmmmmm GROWL,,.... game1:Well..it goes back and forth.I kill lots of stuff..he burns lots of stuff and manowars things.I dont really remeber all the particulars..I did manage to edict an armored knight..whats with all the amro armor?I pull this one off in a close game game2:SB the glooms and dreads and spins.He gets the light of day.I do manage to disk it.By then its too late.i get beatdown by a knight that was giant growthed a few times and pumped up. game3:i get an early gloom and its ugly from there.A priest does beat me down to like 6 and I cant draw a way to kill it.I hit him with a knight and hold a gnome back to block his order.Then I get a bonedancer going..edict the priest..steal it and swarm in..despit a stupid move on my part stealing a manowar and having to boomerang my own critter GRIMM SMASH!!!!!! Final Match vs......Cursed Sligh!!!!!!........ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo game1:Im totally mana hosed..one swamp one quicksand that gets wasted..boom boom boom sligh has no mecry for a mana hosed opponenet. game2:He kills me about 10 times but I drain,spin,gnome back up in life.I used 4 drains,2 gnomes and 3 spins just to stay alive long enough to draw a savant to do some damage.That dies but Gallowbraid crunches in for the kill.Sligh is so strong..if you thinks its not your crazy.If you are playing blue and have 4 chills,4 hydroblasts,and 2 firewalkers in the SB...great,,if your not then you are in for a tough,tough fight...black fat can pull it off tho on a good draw Last Game I am mana hosed again.I had a great hand to.Taal.edcits,drain,ect.I cant get passed one swamp.I draw 3 quicksands which i have to use to slow down the hoard.I never had a chance..boom boom boom...blast blast bolt bolt..crispy I am a little sad...not really for the prize or the points but because this is my pet deck..my favorite deck and it ALMOST went all the way against all odds.And to mana screw TWICE!!!I HAVE 25 LAND!!!!!Oh well...my final record is matches 4-2 games 10-6 second place..I'll take that! J.Bonacia gollum@prodigy.net The Grimm Brothers did well.I am pleased with the deck.It had a shot..if I wasnt mana hosed last game I think i had a good chance.But you never know vs sligh.Sligh can burn you a new hole before you even get set up.I think I may add another gloom in the SN and chuck a dread of night..gloom is much more of a hoser.Id also love to have another gnome on the main deck..they are unreal..It was Jamies advice to use the 4 coercions in the SB and they were great.I was able to grab the dangerous cards second game.All in all The Brothers Very Grimm did some smashing and bashing and a lovely time was had by all. Thanks to all my opponents for being cool guys ,...even the kid with the weird deck who laffed at me as I stared at my one wasteland for 10 turns..GRIMM SMASH!! also thanks to Seajay,Raven,Jason,Sal,Mvz,Cabal,DonaClownboy and the rest of the dojo crew for playtesting with me and endless deck advice. Least i forget Mr.Happy who isnt playing Steel Curtain anymore(you want to play for ante?) And....Jamie Wakefield..King of the Fatties and Master of the Brothers Grimm.Congrats on your win at PTQ. later gollum gollum@prodigy.net