Subject: Dragon Con PTQ Rome Report 9/5
Date: 6 Sep 1998 07:29:59 GMT
From: guru418@aol.com (GURU 418)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy

well----i didn't do as well as hoped and really came home with a shiny butt
since i got waxed but i figured i would give a small report anyway==this was my
first big/sanctions tourney and only my 3rd tourney ever so i can't complain
but here we go----oh yea---it was Rath Constructed Format

I was playing an original black deck based on Culling the Weak/Dark Ritual for
quick FAT creatures---everyone liked the deck overall which made me happy and i
had some good exspressions from my opponents when i pulled things off

Round 1 VS Stan (a distributor that has been playing since Alpha)[playing r/w]

Game 1----here i was thinking it was gonna be my day---started nice and i had a
Minion of the Wastes (7/7) out around turn 4 and beat him down quickly
Game 2--decent length game---i didn't draw fatties and he came back with a
Cataclsym that allowed him to beat me down with some shadow
Game 3--had him turn 3 with a Hatred until he dropped a Fireslinger and a Golim
Bomobardment which saved him and i never drew anything after

1-2-0

Round 2  BYE

3-2-1     (yea ---strange they gave me full points but i wasn't complaining)

Round 3--Chad (again with the red/white)

Game 1--looked like good opening hand so i kept it but didn't draw any
creatures after my first and got beat down  ick
Game 2---he drops Light of day and i forgot to sideboard in my artifacts (oops)

3-4-1

Round 4--Jason---White Weenie---what i was going to play but it playtested
poorly

Game 1--i drop a 2nd turn Pit Spawn (YES) but he stops me in my tracks with a
3rd turn Paladin and i never recover

Game 2--his opening hand included 3 Light of Day and 3 land---so---4th turn
Light of Day said goodbye to me----F

3-6-1

Match 5--James--playing Tradewind/Death---i knew his deck and didn't know what
was going to be

Game 1---2nd turn Minion of the Wastes (10/10) he die !!!!!!!!

Game 2---he drops Mox and an Island first turn and he leaks my speed---beats me
down from there

Game 3---see game 2

3-8-1      I Drop before last round

well---overall it was fun and the strongest decks that i watched were pure blue
counter and red/white (and one Hatred deck)----these all played very well and
overall the environment was fun---met a lot of cool people and some punks i
didn't care to meet too LOL----but overall it was a good experience and i have
now learned that i have to be more careful of their sideboard---but the
compliments i received on my deck and that it was an original was great----i
will post the deck soon----if nothing else---it is just plain fun to
play----nothing better than dropping a first or second turn Fattie !!!!!!!!!!!!

see ya'll at the next one and i will have to ge back to my fav of Blue===LOL

Ralph Dennis
aka  GURU