Subject: Tourney Report PTQ LA from Diezenbach/Germany Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 16:21:07 +0100 From: "Markus Wagner" To: Hi ! My name is Markus Wagner and this is my first Tourney Report. Qualifier for the PT in LA, located in Diezenbach,Germany There were about 100 participants. The Tourney was run by Amigo, who is the German Disributor of M:TG Products. It was well organized, and all people were nice. As Usual. Amigo hadn't put up any road signs at all, as usual, so if we hadn't been there before, it would have been difficult to find. We played 7 Rounds of swiss 70 Minutes each. Then Final Eight. Me and 3 Friends have been preparing for a few days for the event. Bernd and I went for straight red sligh/burn. Bernd with Forks & Goblin Grenades, me with Ball Lightnings and Blood Moons. Bernhard, who's deck looked strongest, had a modified gun deck. Steffen, who in the end couldn't join us, had a discard/graveyard deck with powerful Shallow Grave/ Nicol Bolas combo with Hidden Horror and Buried Alive to fill the Graveyard. In the end, I went 4-0-3, with one opponent not showing up. Bernd went 3-0-4 , and Bernhard, who played his first PTQ, went 2-0-5. We arrived at a quarter past 9, First Round started at 10 past 10. I made only a few notes, so here ist what I can remember: Round 1 Frederic He plays Black with some Blue. I don't remember much except a Hymn, Dauthi Slayer and Black Knight it's 9:0 and 20:0 [Blood moon completely locks him] This is my first first round win in a tourney. 1-0-0 Round 2 Holger from Darmstadt. First: Me: Mountain, Cursed Scroll [strong], He: Savannah, Vineyard. Damn ! I hope his deck is green/white, So I drop Blood moon (no burn this turn, jupee!) Him: "cool, blood moon. I wanted to play this, too" His deck is mostly G/R. I play Wilfie, he quakes for 4. Auch. 2x Creeping mold on my Warbeasts.Then he finishes me with Jorel, I search my sideboard: nothing except a cap. Second: First round vineyard. Then it's Manaburn for 2, jorel for 2, manaburn for 2, jorel for 2, .. , Finally, he casts Natural Spring. I fork Death spark to get him from 26 to 24 [no fun] I stare at my Sideboard: Where the are the dam'd Perish ? 1-0-1 Round 3 Michael Gruell He's a nice guy playing B/R Discard Burn. First: Turn 3 Stupor, with 5 Cards in my Hand: He draws the single Tactics. Second: Turn 3 Stupor, with 5 Cards in my Hand: He draws the single Tactics, again. He has now 2 Mishra's out and things look good for him, when I drop the Blood Moon. Locks him completely. 2 more Ball Lighnings. game. Finish him with forked death spark [fun] 2-0-1 Round 4 Florian A younger guy who plays with mana Creatures and Worb. I bolt his two mana creatures, he stays with two lands, drops worb. Then for 3 or 4 rounds nothing happens. [except me burning him] He discards Serra Angel. Then he passages a Ball Lightning. Aouch. This was the only Honorable Passage I see all day. Bernd sees none. After that, he drops Lurghoyf, 5/6. He's tapped out, so I kill the fattie with Incinerate, Death Spark and 2 Mogg Fanatics [strong] Then Ball Lightning, Incinerate, Fireblast. 3-0-1 Round 5 Marcel Baran, #3 on the german combined DCI rankings Marcel plays the Renewal/Bombardment Combo with heavy Counter Support. His deck is listed below. First: My wastelands keep his White mana down. Takes him many rounds to get the combo. Finally I get him down to 1, then he bombs me. Second: I side in a cap, Anarchy, Gloom. None of them showing up. He drops COP:Red in turn 3. Finally I drop a War-Beast. He puts out shield Sphere, 3 turns later the sphere dies, him being at 1 life. He casts Argivian Find to get the sphere back. The Mana Vault kills him. But he takes me with him. Third: Second turn COP:Red. Cap & Moon countered. His Game. I re-side and find 2 Pyroblast which I did not side in. [stupid] 3-0-2 Round 6 Markus Krebs, #4 on the german combined DCI rankings Deck listed below. First: Second turn Worb. He bolts Ball. I have nothing except burn in Hand. He has Jorel & Cursed scroll With the worb, Jorel is faster. Second: Second turn Worb. I Fork a Bolt, he casts disrup. I have a Moon and Pyroblast in Hand. I wait for the fourth mana. He armageddons. I forget to cast fireblast. Then it's Joerel, Joerel, .. Bolt. 3-0-3 Round 7 No Opponenent , 3 points free. 3-0-4 All the guys who went to the final eight seem to be nice guys. They all allowed me to post their decks here: 8. Kai Lange Artifact 4x Cursed Scroll 2x Phyrexian War Beast Black 4x Black Knight 2x Contagion 2x Cuombajj Witches 4x Dauthi Slayer 2x Demonic Consultation 4x Hymn to Tourach 1x Stupor Red 3x Incinerate 4x Lightning Bolt 4x Sedge Troll Land 4x Mishra's Factory 1x Undiscovered Paradise 2x Rocky Tar Pit 3x Sulfurous Springs 4x Badlands 2x Wasteland 8x Swamp Sideboard 2x Dread of Night 2x Stupor 3x Perish 4x Shatter 4x Pyroblast 7. Rüdiger Klings Blue: 2x Slight of Mind 1x Whim of Volrath White: 3x Land Tax 3x Crusade 3x Armageddon 2x Empyrial Armor 3x Savannah Lions 2x Vigilant Martyr 2x Sacred Guide 4x Soltari Priest 4x White Knight 2x Freewind Falcon 2x Zhalfirin Crusader 1x Wrath of God 2x Aura of Silence Land: 2x Undiscovered Paradise 4x Tundra 12x Plains 1x Island Sideboard: 2x Serenity 2x Honorable Passage 1x Wrath of God 2x Torture Chamber 2x Thumbscrews 3x Disenchant 2x Light of Day 1x Wall of Swords Rüdiger lost hist first game to Bernd, then went undefeated to the top eight. 6. Marcel Baran: Artifact: 3x Mana Vault 3x Urza's Bauble Red: 4x Goblin Bombardment White: 4x Enduring Renewal 4x Shield Sphere 4x Tithe 2x Argivian Find Blue: 4x Force of Will 4x Arcane Denial 1x Powersink 1x Disrupt 4x Impulse 2x Intuition 2x Enlightened Tutor Land: 4x Volcanic Island 4x Tundra 4x Plateau 2x Floodplains 3x Ardakar Wastes 1x Island Sideboard: 2x Hydroblast 2x Pyroblast 4x Abeyance 2x Manashort 3x Disenchant 2x Circle of Protection: Red Marcel Says: Intuition along with Argivian Find are cool ways to get the combo going. Mana Vault makes the 1-Turn-Kill. And FoW as Emergency Protection. 5. Gregor Wollny Artifact: 1x Serrated Arrows Blue: 4x Impulse 4x Counterspell 2x Force of Will 1x Contol Magic 1x Disrupt 1x Interdict 2x Suq Ata Firewalker Red: 4x Lightning Bolt 2x Earthquake 2x Wildfire Emissary 1x Fireball 1x Dwarven Miner White: 4x Tithe 2x Sords to Plowshares 2x Disenchant Land: 4x Volcanic Island 4x Tundra 4x Plateau 4x Mishra's Factory 2x Island 1x Plains 1x Wasteland 2x Kjeldoran Outpost 1x Scrubland Sideboard 1x Force of Will 2x Dwarven Miner 1x Serenity 1x Disenchant 3x Blue Elemental Blast 2x Chill 1x Circle of Protection: Red 1x Perish 2x Nevinyrral's Disk 1x Jokulhaups 4. Thorsten Fehrentz Artifact: 4x Cursed Scroll 4x Phyrexian War Beast Black: 4x Hymn to Tourach 2x Stupor 2x Demonic Consultation 2x Contagion 4x Black Knight Red: 4x Lightning Bolt 4x Incinerate 4x Sedge Troll 4x Dauthy Slayer Land: 4x Pyroblast 4x Shatter 3x Perish 2x Dread of Night 2x Stupor 3. Dirk Roth Artifact: 4x Cursed Scroll Red: 4x Lightning Bolt 4x Incinerate 4x Dwarven Miner White: 4x Savannah Lions 4x Tithe 4x White Knight 4x Order Of Leitbur 4x Soltari Priest 2x Disenchant Land: 4x Plateau 4x Mishra's Factory 2x Mountain 2x Wasteland 8x Plains 2x Kjeldoran Outpost Sideboard: 4x Honorable Passage 4x Serrated Arrows 2x Wasteland 2x Disenchant 2x Aura of Silence 1x Divine Offering 2. Stefan Kastner Artifact: 2x Cursed Scroll Blue: 3x Couterspell 2x Control Magic Multicolor: 4x Frenetic Efreet Red: 2x Suq'Ata Lancer 4x Lighting Bolt 4x Incinerate 2x Earthquake White: 4x Soltari Priest 4x White Knight 4x Tithe 3x Disenchant Land: 4x Plateau 4x Tundra 4x Volcanic Island 4x Mishra's Factory 4x Wasteland 2x Plains 1. Khan Quan Tran Artifact: 2x Serrated Arrows 2x Triskelion 2x Cursed Scroll Green: 4x Wall of Roots 2x Stunted Growth 4x Ernham Djinn 4x Llanowar Sentinel 4x Eladamri's Vineyard Red: 4x Lightning Bolt 2x Incinerate 2x Earthquake Multicolor: 2x Stormbind Land: 4x Taiga 4x Karplusan Forest 4x Mishra's Factory 2x Wasteland 2x Mountain 6x Forest Sideboard: 2x Anarchy 2x Blood Moon 1x Flashfires 1x Boil 1x Scragnoth 4x Pyroblast 3x Uktabi Orangutang 1x Creeping Mold Khan says: This is just experimental. Will be improved a lot in the near future. We couldn't stay for the finals, so I can't tell who won. One deck closely missed the final eight and was talked about a lot: Mono Green with Natural Order. Seems to be a strong concept or at least worth a try. Well, next PTQ will be on Jan. 18th. mail comments and stuff to markus@mind-link.com Thanx for your support !