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Sene top 8'd GP Lisbon this weekend and, since I think we're hoping to breed a base of people who do accomplishments in the Magical world, I think it's worth celebrating members who do well in well-to-do Magic events. Congrats on your high-placing this past weekend, Sene!

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The coverage was sadly brief (as in I couldn't find the semifinal match coverage in the blog post on the mothership), but it was fun to read nonetheless! Congrats Sene.


EDIT: as an aside, Wizards has the singularly most un-navigable website I occasion to visit.

Congratulations Sene!

Congrats man!

Mind If I been explaining your deck on my site?

Saw part of his first Top 8 match onsite, but had to leave before the end. Happy to see one of our forum members succeed, and in my hometown, no less! Top 4 is not shady at all!

The coverage was sadly brief (as in I couldn't find the semifinal match coverage in the blog post on the mothership), but it was fun to read nonetheless! Congrats Sene.


EDIT: as an aside, Wizards has the singularly most un-navigable website I occasion to visit.

I caught 1/8 of a second of the finals on Twitch before I realized the event was limited and promptly switched "channels".

congrats on your money finish Sene

Like I said on the day of in the iridium thread, great job & congrats.

The coverage was sadly brief (as in I couldn't find the semifinal match coverage in the blog post on the mothership), but it was fun to read nonetheless! Congrats Sene.


EDIT: as an aside, Wizards has the singularly most un-navigable website I occasion to visit.

Agree. I routinely feel like a moron when I get onto Wizards site because I cannot find simple things that should be on the front page.

Congrats Sene.


EDIT: as an aside, Wizards has the singularly most un-navigable website I occasion to visit.

Agreed. Before the revamp I thought it was manageable, but since then I don't go there any more than I have to.

Congrats, Sene.

Saw part of his first Top 8 match onsite, but had to leave before the end. Happy to see one of our forum members succeed, and in my hometown, no less! Top 4 is not shady at all!

You were there? You should have said something
I actually thought about the chance of meeting you there, but forgot I could just come here and PM you about it....

Anyway, Congrats Sænæ

Saw part of his first Top 8 match onsite, but had to leave before the end. Happy to see one of our forum members succeed, and in my hometown, no less! Top 4 is not shady at all!

You were there? You should have said something
I actually thought about the chance of meeting you there, but forgot I could just come here and PM you about it....

Anyway, Congrats Sænæ

Yup, the best place
to interact would be indeed here since none of the parties are precluded of any of their posting/PM'ing rights.

Also hai voltan

Saw part of his first Top 8 match onsite, but had to leave before the end. Happy to see one of our forum members succeed, and in my hometown, no less! Top 4 is not shady at all!

You were there? You should have said something
I actually thought about the chance of meeting you there, but forgot I could just
come here and PM you about it....

Anyway, Congrats Sænæ

Yup, the best place to interact would be indeed here since none of the parties are precluded of any of their posting/PM'ing rights.

Also hai voltan

Who is this voltan you're hailing?

I guess we'll just have to meet some other time (PTQ?).

Who is this voltan you're hailing? .

We decided to call you voltan because you claim not to be votan and the name totallynotvotan is too hard to type.

I guess we'll just have to meet some other time (PTQ?).

Or we don't meet? Unless there's something urgent you need to tell me in person and can't be said by PM*?

*in which case sure, why not?

Who is this voltan you're hailing? .

We decided to call you voltan because you claim not to be votan and the name totallynotvotan is too hard to type.

oh.... that's awkward....

I guess we'll just have to meet some other time (PTQ?).

Or we don't meet? Unless there's something urgent you need to tell me in person and can't be said by PM*?

*in which case sure, why not?

Not really, no. I just like meeting people that I've talked to online. Connecting a face to a username is nice.
I actually organized an MTGS get together on the Last GP Lisbon. I didn't do it in this one because no one was attending.
Well, except for Sænæ, but I met him.

GPT sealed pool (went 2-1):

[deck]
1 Bazaar Krovod
1 Eyes in the Skies
1 Knightly Valor
1 Security Blockade
2 Selesnya Sentry
1 Seller of Songbird
1 Soul Tithe
1 Sunspire Griffin
1 Trained Caracal
1 Trostani's Judgment
1 Aquus Steed
2 Chronic Flooding
1 Crosstown Courier
1 Downsize
1 Inaction Injunction
1 Inspiration
1 Mizzium Skin
1 Psychic Spiral
3 Runewing
1 Daggerdrome Imp
1 Dark Revenant
1 Destroy the Evidence
1 Drainpipe Vermin
1 Grim Roustabout
1 Ogre Jailbreaker
1 Perilous Shadow
1 Stab Wound
1 Terrus Wurm
1 Batterhorn
2 Dynacharge
1 Explosive Impact
1 Gore-House Chainwalker
1 Guttersnipe
1 Survey the Wreckage
1 Tenement Crasher
2 Traitorous Instinct
1 Aerial Predation
1 Druid's Deliverance
2 Giant Growth
1 Rubbleback Rhino
1 Seek the Horizon
2 Stonefare Crocodile
2 Towering Indrik
1 Urban Burgeoning
1 Carnival Hellsteed
2 Centaur Healer
1
Coursers' Accord
1 Goblin Electromancer
1 Havoc Festival
1 Hellhole Flailer
1 Izzet Charm
1 Korozda Guildmage
1 Mercurial Chemister
1 Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
1 Rakdos Charm
3 Search Warrant
2 Spawn of Rix Maadi
1 Blistercoil Weird
1 Dryad Militant
1 Frostburn Weird
1 Growing Ranks
1 Nivmagus Elemental
1 Rakdos Cackler
1 Rakdos Shred-Freak
1 Sundering Growth
1 Izzet Keyrune
1 Rakdos Keyrune
1 Golgari Guildgate
1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Plains (foil)
1 Rogue's Passage[/deck]
GP
sealed pool (went 8-1):

[deck]
1 Angel of Serenity
1 Armory Guard
1 Avenging Arrow
1 Concordia Pegasus
1 Concordia Pegasus
1 Fencing Ace
1 Rest in Peace
1 Rootborn Defenses
1 Sunspire Griffin
3 Trained Caracal
1 Trostani's Judgment
1 Chronic Flooding
1 Crosstown Courier
1 Downsize
1 Inaction Injunction
3 Inspiration
1 Runewing
1 Search the City
1 Catacomb Slug
1 Cremate
1 Destroy the Evidence
1 Grim Roustabout
2 Launch Party
1 Perilous Shadow
1 Slum Reaper
2 Stab Wound
1 Thrill-Kill Assassin
1 Zanikev Locust
1 Annihilating Fire
2 Cobblebrute
1 Electrickery
1 Gore-House Chainwalker
1 Pursuit of Flight
1 Splatter Thug
1 Tenement Crasher
1 Traitorous Instinct
1 Axebane Guardian
1 Druid's Deliverance
1 Giant Growth
2 Korozda Monitor
1 Oak Street Innkeeper
1 Stonefare Crocodile
2 Towering Indrik
2 Urban Burgeoning
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Archon of the Triumvirate'
1 Auger Spree
1 Azorius Charm
1 Chemister's Trick
1 Common Bond
1 Coursers' Accord
1
Dramatic Rescue
1 Dreg Mangler
1 Essence Backlash
1 Grisly Salvage
3 Hussar Patrol
1 Lyev Skyknight
1 Rakdos Ragemutt
1 Rakdos Ringleader
1 Rix Maadi Guildmage
1 Selesnya Charm
1 Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage
1 Rakdos Keyrune
1 Selesnya Keyrune
2 Street Sweeper
2 Azorius Guildgate
1 Grove of the Guardian
1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Rogue's Passage[/deck]
1st draft deck (3-0):

[deck]
1 Assassin's Strike
1 Daggerdrome Imp
1 Stab Wound
1
Axebane Guardian
1 Drudge Beetle
2 Gatecreeper Vine
1 Giant Growth
1 Horncaller's Chant
1 Towering Indrik
2 Coursers' Accord
1 Dreg Mangler
1 Golgari Charm
1 Selesnya Charm
2 Sluiceway Scorpion
1 Treasured Find
2 Trestle Troll
1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
1 Golgari Keyrune
1 Selesnya Keyrune
1 Transguild Promenade
16 basic lands

Sideboard:
1 Concordia Pegasus
1 Sphere of Safety
1 Swift Justice
1 Trained Caracal
1 Psychic Spiral
1 Catacomb Slug
1 Drainpipe Vermin
1 Mind Rot
1 Tavern Swindler
1 Aerial Predation
1 Axebane Stag
1 Death's Presence
1 Horncaller's Chant
1 Mana Bloom
1 Urban Burgeoning
1 Treasured Find
2 Sundering Growth[/deck]

2nd draft deck (2-1):

[deck]
1 Arrest
1 Concordia Pegasus
1 Coursers' Accord
1 Eyes in the Skies
1 Knightly Valor
1 Precinct Captain
1 Risen Sanctuary
1 Rootborn Defenses
2 Selesnya Sentry
2 Seller of Songbirds
1 Trostani's Judgment
1 Axebane Guardian
1 Brushstrider
1 Giant Growth
1
Slime Molding
2 Towering Indrik
3 Common Bond
1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
1 Selesnya Guildgate
16 basic lands

Sideboard:
1 Ethereal Armor
1 Swift Justice
1 Inaction Injunction
2 Inspiration
1 Cremate
1 Electrickery
1 Guild Feud
1 Pyroconvergence
1 Druid's Deliverance
2 Horncaller's Chant
1 Dramatic Rescue
1 Heroes' Reunion
1 Rix Maadi Guildmage
1 Search Warrant
1 Growing Ranks
1 Street Sweeper[/deck]

Senelesnya

I've hurt good people for pools worse than that one with the Angel and Triumvirate. Give it to me!

The GP sealed pool had four cards: Angel, Archon, mythic Guildmage, Grove of the Guardian. The rest was mostly filler, but it obviously didn't matter.

My first round opponent (or round four) played Rakdos' Return on turn 5, Mizzium Mortars on turn 6 in game one. Won that game

First draft deck looked way too durdly, but it was powerful and got the job done. Was Golgari, opened Trostani P2P1, took Trostani, and splashed him.

In the second draft I got Trostani P3P4. Deck seemed sweet, so I felt pretty confident about going 2-1.

Top 8 deck... I dunno. Never really tried that kinda deck before. Didn't seem amazing, to be honest. I tried to go Selesnya, but it wasn't really there, so had to stretch out a bit for playables. Luckily my quarterfinal opponent's deck was pretty bad and he didn't play too well either, so I got my flight
anyway.

What did you target with The Angel?

Did you find either of the mythic Guildmage's abilities to be relevant?

Could you share some general meta tips for someone who hasn't done a Sealed since ROE please?

i would have really struggled with not splashing the 2 stab wounds but you definitely made the right choice. i can see what you mean with your first draft but it has a lot of redundancy and has a solid late game with trostani and the 3 token making spells. treasure find is a great card for that deck to get back trostani if necessary. second draft has some ridiculous token making ability but it actually seems slower to me than the first one. it's very mana hungry with trostani, regen abilities, and wanting to keep mana up for tricks. it also doesn't have the same ability to stall as the first deck so i can understand the 2-1 finish.

it's funny how on mtgo i'll end up with 27 playables and then in a top 8 draft i'll end up running restless bones as my beats

I had the Stab Wounds, Abrupt Decay & Dreg Mangler + some swamps sleeved up and ready in case I faced Pack Rat or Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage. But yeah, the thing is that in this format, it's all about playing big, impactful cards. You don't necessarily want to play the colors with a million removal, you want the colors that has bombs. So while the black (and red!) were tempting, I'm pretty sure the GWu deck was the best for the format.

@Shalako: guess I mostly ate all my opponent's guys and smashed face the guildmage was obviously rather insane too. Both abilities are highly relevant broken.

huh, my experience didnt match yours, my bombs did some work but my two stab wounds were a BRICK HOUSE. they took me to x and 1 on day 1 but sadly i couldnt pull my shit together for the draft rounds. Passing tom martell the deck he used to obliterate me was kinda cool though

Sene do you think you could send me those packs that you have no need for and are just lying around and that you plan on giving away? Will PM you my address, thanks.

Giving away packs? I want in.

PM him your address.

pay me for the stamps and I'll ship you some packs for Christmas, sure.

Done. Thanks!

Wow, congrats man!

How many packs do you win for top 8ing a GP?

3

indeed, but we are forced to open them right away.

I won 6 in a GPT, sent 3 to checkbox since I expected to send the other 3 to madding, but got no PM

I was just teasing you, sir.

I was being srs but eh your loss

I was being srs but eh your loss

send them to me instead , expect pm tommorow

so you don't win any product for top 8? just cash?

yeah, just cash and airfare. Such a shame

yeah, just cash and airfare. Such a shame

i mean obviously i wouldn't complain it just seems like you would win infinite boosters but