Here is the promised report.
First off the most Important thing, the deck list.
[deck]
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monestary Swiftspear
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 Zurgo Bellstriker
4 Lighting Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
4 Atraka Command
4 Boros Charm
3 Searing Blaze
2 Skullcrack
1 Shard Volley
3 Mountain
12 red fetch
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Stomping Ground
Sideboard
3 Destructive Revelry
2 Molten Rain
2 Pyrite Spellbomb
2 Path to Exile
2 Deflecting Palm
2 Lightning Helix
1 Skullcrack
1 Searing Blaze[/deck]
Notes, 4 Command, no less, seriously. i was averaging 4 damage every time i cast it ( average obv it ranged from 3 to 6( depending on lifegain and number of guys) i really feel its wrong to shave any number of these.
Zurgo, he was okay. nothing i want to write home about. his benefits where simply another 2 power 1 drop and another late game haste guy, also his synergy with command is real. First cut would be him for the 4th Skullcrack.
NO FIREWALKER! WHAAAA..
yeah i know, i decided to be reactive to firewalker and go through him instead of trying to bomb him out in the mirror, this had the benefit of giving me percentage points in other matches while only shaving a few off the mirror match.
I worked the night before so i wasn't sure how i would be with 0 sleep, so i was downing caffeinated MIO energy, a couple of caffeine pills, trail mix and a protein bar, hoping i would of tested enough to generate the needed muscle memory if i started falling asleep.
My team showed up in charleston wv at lost legion games 6 of us, me on naya burn, Richard adams on u/r twin, brandon harless on esper gifts, Kody Faulkner also on gifts, Brian Means on mono blue merfolk, and a new guy Thomas on grixis Delver.
Yeah bunch of dirty Island playing bastards right?
61 players turned out for the event including, Tom "the Boss" Ross and Chris Van Meter, Really guys you come to spike Wv states, bring it.
Tom is on infect (duh) CVM was on bloom titan. CVM had placed 2nd the day before at the T2 states and had won Wv states the previous year.
Round 1: Gabriel on naya burn mirror ( also the winner of the t2 states the night before so i know he is actualy good)
Game 1: I mulligan to 5 on the play vs the mirror.....yeah...i still won
guide gets there.
Game 2: Out goes my eidolons and some rift bolts, in come skull crack, spellbombs, palms and helices.
I can't remember the exact game but I remember deflecting palm wrecking me.
Game 3: Back in goes the Eidolons out comes the commands.
this game is interesting, i have a board presence and am beating down turn 3 he drops a Eidolon!!!
I respond with 2 spells to the dome and spellock him at 5 life. we play the looking at each other game for a bit since he cant attack or dies to my guys and if i attack i unlock his hand. I build my mana then vomit my hand, helix, he responds with palm going to 3, i respond with crack, he responds with palm, going to 1, i respond with bolt.
I hear from the crowd, MONO RED COUNTER WAR!! Many laughs are had.
1-0
I talk to him after the match and asked why he kept the eidolons in, he said he hadnt tested the deck and didnt know they where supposed to go out of the deck on the draw in the mirror. He spends the rest of the day asking me match up specific questions.
Round 2: cant rember his name but he was dressed, and im not kidding like a 1950s newspaper man, stripped shirt black suspenders, hat with, i shit you not, a badge that said "Press Pass" on it LULZ freaking win. also i got paired down blah.
oh yeah he was Mardu burn controlish thing...
We shuffle for game 1 aaaaaand judge comes gets me problem with my deck list....fuck...
I miss registered wrote 2 Destructive revelries instead of 3... so game loss and fixed deck list.
Im kind of salty now, figure im just gonna lose the next game and my day just sucks. But thats why we play right?
Game 1: open hand goblin guide, and beats insure. main deck deflecting palm keeps him alive for a turn but i have to much avalanching damage.
Game 2: Out goes Eidolon and searing blaze, in comes spellbomb, skullcrack, helices.
This game wasnt even close, fast start guide and double swiftspear, he tries to palm to keep alive and skullcrack counters it and he dies to the prowess damage.
Dodged bullet, talked to him he is new to competitive magic, he wanted to play burn but he couldn't afford guides so he played more control, so i told him i had a extra set to get ahold of me next time and if no one else was using them he could.
2-0
Round 3: Garret meadows on esper gifts.
Garret is a friend who does pretty well, he topped 8ed the tcgplayer modern the week prior with that list
game 1: I win the dice roll and, well this happens
the count to 20 was fast.
game 2: in comes rains, path, skullcrack, and 2 reverly, out 3 blazes, grim, and something else. (cant rember now) Guide starts things off, and the game snow balls for him, turn 3 he kitchen finks, crack. i burn some on my turn not willing to attack into finks. he durdles a couple turns, then drops trading post with no mana up. I swing in he blocks with finks, i crack and trigger prowess killing him before post became active. To be fair he had some mana issues game 2 and stalled on 4 lands.
3-0
Round 4: this is a 6 round event so if i win here i should be able to draw in. My opponent ( who manages to top
is on tribal zoo.
Game 1: bit of a blur, i know it was turn 1 guide, turn sac land into shock wild nactal, into searing blaze into scoop.
Game 2: Much the same but a goyf joined the fray and i just went over the top with my burn spells.
4-0
round 5
me and brian are now both 4-0, richard, brandon and kody are all 3-1 the new guy thomas is out. We realize that 4-0-2 is in, but me and brian decide that if our team needs it we would play for them on the last round.
4-0-1
round 6
looking at the pairs brandon, richard and kody are all 4-1 and me and brian playing our matches would not help them out so we drew locking us into top 8.
Kody is paired vs Tom Ross here, Gifts vs infect. i watched it, it was amazing Tom got a bit unlucky but kody played perfectly and beat him. when the dust cleared brandon lost richard and kody both where 5-1 and in the top 8. our 6 person group had gotten 4 peeps in the top 8 and seeded 1,2,3,5 so we would not get paired against each other until the semifinals.
top 8 was 2 naya burn, 1 esper gifts, 1 u/r twin, 1 death and taxes, 1 tribal zoo, 1 merfolk, 1 Abzhan.
Quarterfinals:
I get paired vs Abzhan. I know this guy we have played several times in the past and he IS a good player. So i am a bit nervous.
Game 1:
He was 4th i was 5th he goes first.
Leads things off with a Mana dork ( Hierarch) I send guys to the dome. he drops a dark confidant ( Thank you??
) to try to draw some stabilization and block. I just let it sit and send burn over the top. he drops a vault of the archangel and attacks with goyf and Bob i command and on to game 2.
Game 2: im on the draw so i bring in Palm, crack, and rain taking out 4 guides and a lava spike.
Things where looking good until he dropped phyraxian unlife!!! DOOOM DOOOM. I just couldn't deal enough damage to it before lingering souls and goyf ate me followed by a Rhino.
Game 3: In comes some Destructive revelries and the guides come back in due to the play.
I start things off nice and quick and land a early lavamancer, he slams a unlife. but i chip him down and skullcrack his life gain. i brick for a couple turns on lands, they where sac lands so i was able to keep feeding lavamancer. turn before he kills me i rip command off the top with him at 7 poison.
SemiFinals. HOLY HELL.....ALL 4 OF US WON OUR QUARTER FINALS!!!
The entire top 4 was my team.
Im paired vs Kody on gifts, Richard and Brian vs each other ( twin vs merfolk)
Game 1: he is on the play but mullys bad down to 5 on the play vs burn GG.
Game 2: in come, crack, path, spellbomb, rain, and 1 reverly. out go blazes, shard volly, i shave some other spells cant rember what atm)
how did this game count LOL. at the end of my turn 3 he thirsts for knowledge dumping Iona and unburial rites, turn 4 gets iona. NICE DECK heh
Game 3: im on the play with a hand full of spells and 2 lands keep. turn 1 spellbomb shuts off his firewalker if he has it,he drops turn 2 spellskite but all my spells are target opponent and i just jam spells on his upkeep to the face. skullcrack stops his batterskulls game saving attack ( god damn skullcrack is good) counting to 20 is hard work.
Finals!!!
Richard beat brian so its naya burn vs twin.
Game 1 Richards on the play and, it dosnt matter i come out swinging for a home run and find it never giving him the breathing room to combo and smash face.
Game 2: in 3 destructive revelries and 2 path. This game is CLOSE, we battle back and forth jockeying for board position. he knows I have both white and green ways of stopping combo so he has a 50/50 chance when comboing off and decides to out tempo me, looks like it will fail but i drop eidolon and he responds with Vendilion Clique. eating my removal spell then racing me to spell lock.
Game 3: im on the play so i bring in 2 Rains. and take out 2 skullcracks.
My open hand is 0 lands and ship it back. My 6 is sacred foundry, bolt, spike, guide, charm, molten rain. Yeah its risky but i didnt think i was going to see a better 5 and with 2 top decks i would be back in business.
Foundry into guide. swing for 2. him sac land take 1 go. me top deck fetch. swing burn go. him island grim lavamancer go. me top deck fetch crack both take 4 stomping ground, mountain rain your steam vent swing.
he plays another blue source snap caster block kills guide. now i am playing burn on his upkeep. and he has no red source. finally tops deck one but its to late and i burn him out in the next 2 turns.
he shows me multiple lighting bolts in hand. he could of raced me but the rain did it. The rain won me the finals!
got a sweet play mat , states medal, a box of dragons, 15 points and a invite to the invitational in columbus.
for a photo of my ugly ass,
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any questions?
Props:
my whole team, we dominated this year.
CVM and tom ross, I know you guys came here looking for a easy win and more points. but props because good players coming here forces us to be more competitive. So yall come back now.
skullcrack and Molten Rain: Just my MVPS.
Lost legion, well run no real errors, needed a time clock to be sure but smooth as usual.
Slops:
Charleston Wv convention center, why you cancel the reservation 3 weeks before the event and force Lost legion to have states in a cramped shop.
Lost Legion, really not the best prize support. 61 players 30 bux entry and what 5 boxes given out at the most? and you didnt have to rent the center? come on =/
