Subject: 5CB Tourney report by Adam
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:38:18 EDT
From: AdamGHA@aol.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

This Sunday June 28th, me and the crew went down to the local type 2
tournament hosted by Another Universe. I decided to take a 5CB deck metagamed
versus white/and fat. My other two crew guys were drunk and took really stupid
decks.
Anyways, on with the deck:

4X dauthi slayer
4X dauthi horror
3X cursed scroll
1X erg raiders
2X firestorm
1X kaervek's spite (so good)
3X nekrataals
4X manowar
3X mox diamond
4X black knight
3X mana leak
2X disenchant
1X armaggedon
3X shadow guildmage
14 swamps
2 underground river
3 undiscovered paradise
2 gemstone mine
1 city of brass

SB: 3 dread of night, 1 havok, 3 hydroblast, 1 honorable passage
1 disenchant, 3 pyroblast, 3X perish

Match 1: vs. a mono-white weenie

Game 1: I get a first turn dauthi, he does nothing. I get another dauthi next
turn and a guildmage, I proceed to run over him. Manowars helped clear those
pesky monks.

Game 2: He serves up a lot of early beatdown, but 2 dread of nights stop that,
I drop a havok, and dies a few turns later.

Game 3: I get out 3 dreads this time, and mr. havok, so winning wasn't
difficult at all.

Match 2: vs. 5CW deck

Game 1: very close game, he drops lots of creatures, I drop lots of creatures,
we both hit each other low, he firestorms all my guys away, drops a
bombardment, then geddons, I lose.
Game 2: I have a volrath's stronghold as my only land for a while, I get run
over:(
Game 3: I was mana-screwed again. Not much to say about this one.

Match 3: vs. mono white (a lot of white today)
We played 2 game sweep

Game 1: cursed scroll shut him down
Game 2: he was badly mana screwed and was beaten down.

I make top 16.

Match 4: vs. the 5CW deck from before

Game 1: I had some mana-problems, and his decks too fast.
Game 2: I drew 2 pain lands and took 2 a turn to drop critters, painful, but i
top-decked a firestorm AND a kaervek's spite for the last few points.
Game 3: I'm not really confident, but look forward to a good game, I draw a
playable hand, he is badly mana-screwed:(. I felt bad as I pulled the win.

Match 5: vs. mono white (!!!)

Game 1: I top-decked like a maniac, I matched all his emp. armors with
manowars, I firestormed a bunch of monkies away, then I served up beatdown
with 3 horrors.
Game 2: we were both up to a fast start, he got an armored guy, and I couldn't
pull one of my 4 manowars, or 2 firestorms to deal with it, it was close but i
lost.
Game 3: i get out lots o creatures fast, as does he, he drops a crusade. no
problem, I have lots of horrors, he drops a light of day. no problem I run 3
disenchants now. unfortunately I couldn't top deck the dises, so I tryed to
scroll him out, I was dead next turn, and he was at five.... hm... i knew i
was dead since the spite was the last card in my library:(.

basically I think this deck is one of my best work, it drops lots of early
weenies via diamonds, empties it's hand fast to work with scroll, has the
countermagic to block mr. wrath or gerry, has the manowars to take care of
comerzilla and armors. Has the firestorms to take out sligh, and suicide.
There's only a couple weaknesses of this deck, and so far I'm not sure what
they are:).

-AdamGHA