Subject: [Tournament] Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:40:14 PDT From: "Eric Callahan" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com DCI Tournament Report by Eric Callahan. July 19 Sunday Toyama Japan. My deck (Second Place) White Knight - Cursed Scroll Deck Summon Resistance Fighter 4 Order of the White Shield 1 White Knight 3 Soltari Monk 4 Soltari Priest 4 Paladin en-Vec 3 Instant Tithe 3 Disenchant 4 Sorcery Wrath of God 3 Tariff 1 Artifact Mox Diamond 3 Lotus Petal 1 Cursed Scroll 4 Null Brooch 1 Land Plains 17 Quicksand 4 Total Cards 60 Sideboard For Red Warmth 2 For Red and Discard MangraÕs Blessing 2 For Creature decks and Tradewinds Wrath of God 1 After Life (I wanted Tariff) 3 For Global Destruction Null Brooch 1 For Empyrial Armor Decks and Enchantment heavy decks Allay (Buyback anti-enchant) 2 For Quicksands and Multicolor decks Wasteland 3 For more speed (against blue) Lotus Petal 1 Total Sideboard 15 The First Place Deck that I never played against Fujimoto Kouji (Kouji is pronounced like Co-ji) I received permission from him to post his deck. His deck is good, but there is a real good player behind it. If I played his deck I would not have gotten first place. Winning involves practice, a good head, and a fare amount of luck. Here it is. I don't believe this deck has any silly name. It is basically a 5 color black deck. Summon Black Knight 4 Knight of Stromgald 3 Shadow Guildmage 3 Dauthi Slayer 3 Necrotog 2 Neckrataal 4 Man 0 War 4 Instant Vampiric Tutor 1 Disenchant 2 Incinerate 4 Kindle 2 Sorcery Living Death 1 Corpse Dance 1 Earthquake 1 Armageddon 1 Artifact Nivinerals Disk 1 Cursed Scroll 2 Enchantment Goblin Bombardment 2 Land Swamps 10 Undiscovered Paradise 3 Gemstone Mine 3 City of Brass 2 Sulfurous Springs 2 Reflecting Pool 3 Volraths Stronghold 1 Total Cards 64 (This number surprises me) Sideboard Black Perish 3 Red Pyroblast 4 Blue Hydroblast 3 Knights of the Myst 2 Green Uktabi Orangutan 1 White Honorable Passage 1 Artifact Nivinerals Disk 1 Total Cards 15 All right: The Report The tournament was a 6 round best of 3 games per round tournament. Each round I was placed against someone with as near the same number of win/losses as possible. Round 1: I faced a sliver deck with walls of blossoms. The deck was primarily blue/green. The first game there was some discrepancy about his life total, so he voluntarily forfeited the first game. I was on the road to victory anyway, but I was kind of bothered that he just folded. The second game my shadow creatures were a problem from which he had little solution. The Acid sliver affect was too slow to stop my force of shadow creatures. Sadly, I did not play test my deck much at all before I played it. I found that this deck was not my style. It was a little too balls out for me. Not much in the way of an end game with my deck. What I saw of his deck. Life Slivers, 2-damage Slivers, Flying Slivers, +1 /+1 slivers, Volraths Stronghold, Walls of Blossoms, Gaeas Blessing, Islands, Forests, Mountain, Swamp, Harrow, and a few Multi-color Lands. I thought I was facing a Gaeas Blessing, counterspell, Fireball deck at first. But it was just slivers. Round 2: Next I played the winner of the last tournament. He had a very fast Tradewind Rider Deck. The first game was super close, with winter orb being a pain in the butt, a nicely timed disenchant really did it for me. Then cursed scrolls finished him, I was at 2 life. The next game there was a pivotal moment when he cast a tradewind rider and then on my turn I cast Tariff. That really won the game. I wish I had four in the deck. What I saw of his deck. Undiscovered Paradise, Forests, Reflecting Pools, Birds of Paradise, Sex monkeys, Elves that untap critters and return forests, granger guildmages, tradewind riders, Armageddon, winter orb, disenchant and slight of mind from the sideboard. He thought that I had empyrial armor (a meta-game thing) and I did not, so he side boarded slights of mind to give my creatures protection from white (So that I would lose the empyrial armor). Instead he was holding a dead card. Round 3: I lost the first game. He was at 1 life and his counter spell engine kicked in. The next game stopped due to time. I think that he was happy because I had him to 2 life, but I think that his counter spell engine was kicking in, although he looked really relieved when time was called. I think if I play tested prior to this day I would have been able to beat his deck. Round 4: Not much to say on this game. I faced a red green deck. The first game I thought it was straight green, because I did not see any mountains or red spells. Shadow dominated. Second game red came out but my protection from red was too much and my deck was way faster. Round 5: Red Burn Deck. First game I blew him away, the second game was tighter. A pivotal moment in this game was when I attacked with just one of my shadow creatures, and then I decided to add my Paladin en-Vec to the attack. My opponent allowed me to do it. So it was just two more points of damage, then I used Wrath of God and wiped out two goblin Kings, 2 Goblins, my white knight, soltari priest, and Paladin. I still had my cursed scrolls and planed to finish him the next two turns with those. The next turn he drew a goblin bombardment. 4 goblins and the bombardment would have put me in range for a direct damage finish. I not sure if that extra two damage I did turned the game in my favor, but it was something I would have let my opponent do and I appreciated his leeway. I also appreciate the good sportsmanship I find here in Japan. Round 6: Red Burn Deck. Repeat of round 5. The first game was fast and the second tighter. In the first game protection from red ruled and I got 3 of my Soltari priests. The second game I made a mistake against his ball lightning, and I was at 10 life. But I won. That is it. Thank you for your attention. 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