Subject: PTQ rome 3rd place report Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:01:44 PDT From: "Steve Aldrich" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com > >heres my report for ptq rome this weekend at Nuetral Ground Mountain >Veiw Ca.where i placed 3rd > >i had decided to play hatred this week becuase i was tierd of having >hour long death on death or tradaweak on death matches. also i felt that >despite what everyone says hatred is a good matchup against monoblue >witch was the deck i expected to see the most of. so despite >disagreement from everyone i talked to i played this deck. > > >4 Blood Pet >4 Carnophage >4 Sarcomancy >4 Dauthi Horror >4 Dauthi Slayer >4 Dauthi Maurader >3 Stronghold Assassin >3 Spinal Graft >4 Hatred >4 Dark Ritual >2 Reckless Spite >4 City of Traitors >16 swamps > >Sideboard: >4 Coercion >4 Bottle Gnomes >4 Nausea >1 reckless Spite >1 Slaughter >1 Skyshroud Vampire > >when we (me, Eric CAmpusano, Casey McCarrel, Dan Clegg, and Derek Lundy) >get the the tournment Derek decides that he doesnt want to play and >since casey and eric are already qualified it is just me and dan today. > >Round one: Some guy playing r/b Land destruction, Ensnaring Bridge, >Grindstone deck?!????? >game one goes back in forth with me only drawing one land and him >playing sphere of resistance turn 2 since his deck has like 0 offense i >am able to build my mana back up and finally kill him with shadows. >Game 2 wasnt very spectacualar: he kills like my first 3 creatures and >drops 4 Ensnaring bridges and 2 grindstones with 0 cards in hand. >becuase i didnt want to waste our time callling a judge to let me >concede i just hatreded my life away. >Game 3 is over quick as i ritual out creatures on turns one and two. > >Round 2 Mike Lewis playing r/b portcullius/removal (it was a very >interesting deck) > >game 1 goes quick as i get out some early creatures and he drops a >portcullius... that was the last card i expected to see he didnt draw >enough creatures to prevent me form playing more after he killed mine >and i win. >Game 2 goes reletivly the same way except i draw assassin and some >removal and able to use the port cullius to my advantage. > >Round 3 David Orr playing the same deck as Mike Lewis. > >Game 1 he plays fanatic and fireslinger before getting hatred on 3rd >turn. i think he is playing sligh and sideboard wrong >Game 2 i draw 1 land and he beats me down easily >Game 3 i ritual/city out my vampire turn 2 and take around 9 life from >him before he surgeons me and kills it. the vampire and my 2 gnomes game >me enough of a life advantage to be able to come back and win. > >Round 4 Dan Clegg Playing mono blue > >we draw, we need to go 1-1 to make top 8 and with a draw it will mean i >will be playing against slow decks (not sligh) > >Round 5 Someone playing White weenie > >i mulligan a hand with just a city and draw the same thing but with >ritual/hatred/sarco i do some deck pounding and pull a swamp off the >top. >Game 2 i lose to monks and palladins. >Game 3 i win with spinl grafts > >Round 6 David Ackbar Playing Mono Blue > >he is 4-1 and wants to draw but i made him play. Game 1 he draws 2 land >the whole game and loses. >Game 2 i draw a lot of spinal grafts and force him to chump block >becuase he didnt have enough creatures to tradewind it. i eventually get >the dammage through and win. > >Top 8 is >1 R/G slivers (beat dan in the last round) >2 me HAtred >3 Dan mono BLue >4 mono blue >5 Living death >6 mike lewis portcullius >7 Some awful mono green deck >8 David Ackbar mono blue > >i square off against the mono green deck and win game one with a spinal >grafted muaradeer when he has a spike and 2 mana open... >and 3rd turn hatred him game 2 > >All three Blue decks win and i like my chances > >Mono Blue: >i ritual out a sarcomancy and spinal graft and beat for like 10 before >he curiosityes it and then gets out a bunch of creatures while i draw >land. > >second game he gets 2 quick drifters but i get an assassin into play and >totaly destroy him. > >3rd game was the weirdes magic game i have ever played. >i get an opening hand of 2 coercions 2 hatreds 1 ritual 1 swamp and 1 >city and going second. if i draw a sarco or carno i win, i can hold him >off w/ coercions for a while and kill him with a hatred. so he plays >first and goes second turn hammerhead. i play 2nd turn coercion and see >silver wyvern, forbid, counterspell, drifters, island, and shark. i look >at my hand and relize i am not going to win this game unless he gets >unlucky or i get really lucky. so i take the island and hope for the >best. he dosent play a third land and i coercionhim again to get the >counter out of his hand. i feel like im in a good position if i draw a >creatures soon. i draw land for like 10 turns while he doesnt and starts >to discard. he eventually gets some land and gets and allure into play. >i finaly draw my first creature of the game (a maurader) and put it into >play. he puts a third counter on his allure andc tells me to go. with 5 >lands in play a forbid and 3 other cards in hand i draw somthing >useless. i announce attack, he sacs allure i respond by hatreding for 1. >he forbids with buyback...so i figure he either is out of counters or >has a mana leak(wich i am prepared for with a dark ritual) so i respond >to athe allure again by hatreding for 17 puting me at 2. he thinks for a >bit and casts his 3rd coutnerspell of the game. so he gets the maurader >and i am at 2 and lose next turn. i felt that i could of won that match >with better draws but its alright he played well and had better draws >than i did. >Dan ends up winning and qualifiying for rome/. > >Props: > >Dan Clegg: For qualifying >Casey McCarrel for being such a pimp and witnissing the bizzarest story >i have ever heard. (good luck on that tresure hunt) >Roger Ver for arguing with people about who made their decks. >Pete Formika for buying me cigeretees :D > > >Slops: > >Eric Campusano for talking so much shit and always losing >Ben Rubin for always losing :( >Jeff Simienaou and Eric Campusasno who told me hatred sucked :( >Jeff Simineaou for sleeping in again >DAn clegg for writing my phone # down wrong >Derek lundy for never shutting up >DAve Lewis for randomly bring his girlfriend to a magic tournment > > > > >Steve Aldrich > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com