Subject: T2 prosbloom by Will Ayers Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:29:56 -0600 From: GRAY OGRE To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Unfortunatly, i do not have any martyr stories about the tourney, such as going without sleep or driving 4 hours. It was just a small(22) person tournement held in an Ice cream shop in the lowly town of Auburn Alabama(WAR EAGLE). I figured i would go and play the silly rare deck, with all the useless rares like infernal contract, as force of will is out, and that means if someone is tapped out, they are tapped out. Round 1=some 10 year old named Atley Game 1... he is playing a stupid chicken armor deck, with heavy ballista( which as we all know are very good against prosbloom). nothing much to describe. i powersink an armegeddon 5th turn and go off on my fifth. Game 2....no sideboard changes.. he plays a knight 2 and 3rd turn. i just impulse. 4th turn he plays a null chamber.NULL CHAMBER. i have no enchantment removal in the main deck. he names drain life..... i try to deck us both on turn 6 but come up short on his part. Game 3.... in go 2 emerald charms. can you say god draw.2 city,a gemstone,balance,bloom,squandered, pros,needless to say , i win Round 2=Jon d'Angelo(diffrent from the rules guy) Game 1. As far as i can tell, he is playing the "I'm a good player because wotc printed more bolts" deck. 3rd turn ball, 4th turn ball, double fireblast, i sink the second blast and go off. why didnt i sink the ball. i wanted to keep as many cards in hand for the bloom. i only use the sinks when im about to die Game 2.... i see a first turn karplusuin forest...ohhh, charms... nothing interesting... i drop my only city in the deck and go into bloom mode Round 3=Chris Henly Game 1... hes playing blue bounce... serious blue bounce..with 4 boomerangs and 4 capsize...he plays a 5th turn ophie, i sink it, he lapses my sink.. he's tapped out,squandered, balance,bloom, triple contract..use your imagination Game 2... i side in my secret card.pygmy hippo..i play it, he laughs. i attack 4th turn, then suck his land dry.. he stops laughing. bloom mode thanks to 4 mana to the hippo ( a big shout out to Jeff Butts for the suggestion of the hippo) Round 4= Kyle Rhodes Game 1... it would seem that he is playing 5cblack..so im wary of lapses.he plays a kirzerdrix,i sink, i bloom into a 34 pt drain Game 2... he's beating me down, he casts a erg raider. i sink him, he dark rits. he keeps the erg raider and a gemstone mine untapped... i try to bloom, but he pyrosd the 12 pt pros.damn..oh well Game 3... waiting for that 2nd green source to go into bloom mode ( i almost never have any permenants on the table other than land until the turn i bloom, that way, the enchantments cant be tranqed or disenchanted or eagles until i can at least use them once). down to 4 life. he has 2 pump knights on the table, i draw a elephant grass and hold out till i get a second green producer 2 turns later Off to the rounds of swiss quarterfinals.. vs chris henly superbluebounce Game 1.. i die due to concession when he drops his b/u painland and lobotomys me. i concede so he cant see my deck.. bloom cant win against heavy counters if you get hit with a lobotomy. interesting i didnt see a b/u painland any of our other games Game 2.. i drop a 1st turn library of leng( yes you read right) he laughs. sixth turn, he says i capsize your land with buyback, before the end of your turn..i say cool. you are tapped out and the capcize, since you couldnt do it during discard,because there is no discard, has to go off during my main phase. it backs me up to main phase, i can respond to it . i lay a squandered, and procede to drain him dry Game 3.. he forgets to play land 2nd turn on.. i win. thats all semifinals... vs paul-----(cant remember last name) Game 1. hes playing chicken armor. he trys to armegeddon 4th turn. i sink. i bloom Game 2. he gets the tithe ,chicken,armor,geddon combo out... i love dying to chickens( i also got mana screwed Game 3. its hopeless ... i get a god draw, minus a pros, i draw a vampiric,so i tutor 4th and bloom fifth finals vs Chad Ruoff playing metagame 5cg Game... 1 i forget to play land 2 through4 th turn, he does some neat ranger tricks and gets out a tradewind rider , says to me.. you will never get more than 2 land.. i wont concede.. he shows me a maro that is coming out next turn... i concede Game 2...bloom mode 4th turn...nuff said Game 3... he gets out a maro. does some ranger tricks to get it to be a 8/8 and gets me down to 2.. i have to go into bloom mode next turn(6th turn). My hand 2 natural balances a vampric tutor( strong when you are at 2) 2 blooms 1 squandered resources 1 contract.. soi i play the squandered, balance twice, tutor( putting me at zero), play a bloom, contract( i tutored for a pros) drew 2 contract , a pros, and a meditate, i bloom, draw my deck and win Some words of advice for you bloomers in training. playtest alot. learn how your deck runs. natural balance even when you only have 3 basic land left( it thins out your deck). dont use meditates instead of contracts. contracts are better= blue is scarce, but use 2 meditates , maybe 3. lotus petal sucks. and never keep track of your mana, thats what opponents are for. And beware of schniderbaubles