Subject: Type 2- 5CW "Jank" Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:31:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerald Forman To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Okay, here's a tournament report from the Bayfield Collectibles Type 2 on Sunday April, 27, 98. Twenty-five/Twenty-seven entrants. The preamble: I had just finished university, and returned home on the 25th, and discovered that the local card merchant was having the monthly tournament. So back to Type 2 Jank for this event, and we'll see how it goes.... The deck: 2 Armageddon 1 Aura of Silence 4 White Knight 4 Soltari Priest 2 Order of the White Shield 1 Freewind Falcon 1 Tariff 2 Disenchant 3 Tradewind Rider 3 Man'o War 4 Frenetic Efreet 3 Suq'Ata Lancer 4 Incinerate 2 Terror 1 Diabolic Edict 1 Adakar Wastes 2 Islands 1 Scabland 1 Mountain 7 Plains 2 Reflecting Pool 1 Undisovered Paradise 2 Wasteland 2 Gemstone Mine 2 Quicksand 3 City of Brass Sideboard 2 Perish 2 Pyroblast 1 Scragnoth 1 Honourable Passage 1 COP: Red 1 Hydroblast 1 Light of Day 1 COP: Black 1 Mangara's Blessing 1 Abeyance 1 Disenchant 1 Aura of Silence 1 Phyrexian Furnace The Story Round 1: I get the bye, so I end up playing Type 2 with Gary Wise, for fun. He's playing Donais 5CU, and I go 1-2 against him, without boarding..... So I'm 1-0 so far... Round 2: Vs Aurimas Venckus, Cursed Sligh Game 1: Aurimas gets an okay start, but I throw down a priest, white knight, and a tradewind rider, while letting him keep a mogg flunkie, and killing the rest of creatures. He has a scalding tongs out, which is a problem, so I bounce the tongs on my turn, then Armageddon. He responds by incinerating my tradewind, and throwing the Mogg Flunkie at the Rider through bombardment. So rider dies. But he only has a scalding tongs in play, and the priest and the knight go all the way. Game 2: The geddon comes out again, and that's the game... 2-0. Round 3: vs. Matt Lalievre (sp?) playing some sligh variant. Game 1: He's not shuffling properly, so I do the three pile power shuffle, and he draws one land the whole game. Guess I win huh? Game 2: He gets off to a quick start, and I get a scabland and a plains down while he has havoc on the table. My two priests cost me 6 life, and can't block his creatures. I die. Game 3: I get no good creatures, as he follows the prescribed sligh mana curve and kicks my butt. 2-1. Round 4: vs. Robert Savage playing White Weenie with Slights.. Game 1: It's a creature race, but I have the removal, and end up winning... Game 2: He can't stop my suq'Ata lancer, and when he drops 2 white knights, I block one with my knight, and honourable passage the damage :) 3-1. Round 5: vs Jonathon Wingate playing Propa Orb. Game 1: I get hardcore land screwed, and by the time I get 4 lands on the table, He has 5 snake tokens beating me to death. Ouch. Game 2: I get the fast creature start, and disenchant his Steel Golem so I can continue the beatdown. Game 3: Four propaganda's, and him drawing all 4 winter orbs, and I get the beats from a Golem eventually. Oh. BTW, Pendrell Mists sucks. 3-2. I make the final eight, as eighth, barely.... Quarter Finals, vs. Peter Laliberte, playing Donais 5CU. I live in fear of this deck, as it is just so awesome...Peter went 5-0, and had even dropped a game yet.... Game 1: I get to go first, but have to mulligan down to 6 cards. I have one wasteland only in the 6, but decide to go for it. Well, I don't get another land for 3 turns, and that's just not good against the Donais deck. I mount some offense, but two Gerrard's wisdom's put him at 35 and I concede. Game 2: I drop the 1st turn phyrexian furnace, and I proceed to remove 7 cards from the game, including a wrath, and one of his two fireballs. I play creatures conservatively, but am still doing at least 2-4 damage every turn. He can't get around the furnace, and probably had a gaea's blessing or two in his hand at the end of the game, when my creatures finally finish beating him down. Game 3: I get a couple of quick knight type things, and he wraths. he then drops the COP: Red, and I drop a Suq' Ata, and Frenetic. He impulses, and has 3 lands untapped. I attack on my turn, and he cops the damage, leaving him one untapped forest. So I Armageddon. :) I also had a pyroblast in my hand to back up the 'geddon. 4 turns later, he dies painfully. Semi-finals. vs. Craig Ford (?) playing Sliver deck. Game 1: He gets the cursed scroll, and some land to use it, and he's holding three hibernation slivers. All my creatures die. So he wins the first. Game 2: He gets no land, and my creatures swarm him. Game 3: He gets lots of land, and an acidic sliver. I get the priest, and we exchange damage. I finally drop the white knight. He attacks, and I block, so he honouable passages the knight's damage. However, he also expects that the knight should die from blocking the acidic sliver. He feels rather foolish after I point out that the acidic sliver is black/red. Next turn, I drop an order of the white shield, and armageddon. And that's game. Finals. vs. Adam Burek (sp?) playing steel necro/dancing gnomes. Game 1: He gets very little land, and I run over him. Game 2: He drains me, and drops 2 glooms on me, and then the dancing gnomes disco away. Game 3: Another land screw for him, and I roll over again. Game 4: Game two clone, as he gets lots and lots of land, attacking and sacing a gnome for a 4 point swing each turn. Game 5: He draws land, but I get a quick white knight, and an order. He disks, but can't gain life. I drop two tradewinds, and finally fly over to kill him. So I win the tournament, and get $150 for my troubles. Post-game report: Thoughts on the deck: It's very similar to the one I was using before stronghold, and has no stronghold cards in it. The geddon's and the Tradewinds are the new additions. After sideboarding, This deck can probably beat the Donais 5CU around 75% of the time. It's simply a matter of getting one unblockable creature down, and then casting armageddon with support. Frenetics also rock against the deck, because they can survive Wrath's, and Fireball's, sometimes... Props: To Gary Wise, for judging the tournament. Jay Rolston for giving me the ride home, so I didn't have to walk. Haupt, for being there, and Melissa Small, for being a good sport when told she wasn't eighth, and I was. Slops: Matt Lelievre, stacking your deck is not good, and cheating when you shuffle is pathetic. Adam Burek, finalist boy....have some confidence, why would you want to split the final and only prize, unless you have no confidence. Thanks for reading regards K. Forman