OMGWTFHORSEYBIRD 9th

Holy shit for the 2nd time, this time i was playing in a group of 162 people. All for the glory of trying to qualify for the nationals this coming August 19-20. I don't know how many people will end up reading this tourney report but hey i might as well.

Legend:
Beach house
*see previous post

Fungus Fire
basically this deck is R/G/W and has quite a good mana acceleration plan, it kills pretty fast using godo, the bandit lord and fetching an umezawa's jitte or a tatsumasa. It also packs alot of life gain spells such as lighting helixes and loxodon heirarchs.

U/G/W aggro
*see previous post, this was the same kid, the one who played Grand Arbiter Agustine VI

Sizzetron
This deck basically plays control, it uses the urza lands for great mana production and uses big beatdown creatures like Simic, Sky Swallower and spells like Demon Fire for the kill.

RG beats
Basically traditional RG beats, burning tree shaman, dryad sophisticates, moldervine cloaks and the likes.

Azorious Control Aggro
this deck was very unique i never really saw what it had in the main board but posst board this deck packs azorious guildmages and keigas. it also has a number of counters.

White Weenie
Isamaru, Savannah lions, Glorious Anthems, Devouring light and the likes.

Selesnya/ enduring Ideal
This deck struck me weird, having Heirarchs and Yosei's for beats and uses an Enduring ideal side combo.

Now for my deck
HeartbeatSSS

Mainboard is same as it was in the previous post*

SideBoard
3 Carven Caryatid
2 Simic Sky Swallower
3 Giant Solifuge
1 Crime / Punishment
1 Boomerang
4 Vinelasher Kudzu
1 Meloku, The Clouded Mirror

Round 1 vs Brian Lim BeachHouse
Game 1
i get a god draw, turn 5 rips heartbeat combo, Maga for the win.
Win
Game 2
I side in the manplan, and have an early giant solifuge that beat him to 12, then he was able to recover with loxodon heirarchs, but i was able to counter that playing 2 Simic Sky Swallowers which gave me the edge i needed to beat him down.
Win
Current Standing: 1-0-0

Round 2 vs Von Carriga Fungus Fire
Game 1
He gets to have godo with a jitte swinging at me once, leaving me with 10 life, then i rip the combo, maga for the win.
Win
Game 2
he drops down 2 heirarchs and a helix having him at 31 life, and beats me down, was not able to draw any accel.
Loss
Game 3
he gets me to mulligan to 5, and i dont get my combo pieces, he was again able to drop down those heirarchs leaving me with nothing but death.
Loss
Current Standing: 1-1-0

Round 3 vs Brian Uy U/G/W aggro
Game 1
He gets to 32 life with 6 jitte counters. I rip Maga for hell.
Win
Game 2
This I lost due to a miscalculation of moves.
Loss
Game 3
No time left for this game to happen.
Draw
Current Standing: 1-1-1

Round 4 vs Emerson Noblefranca Sizzettron
Game 1
I ripped after he tapped out casting a Simic, Sky Swallower. again Maga For the Win.
Win
Game 2
I played the man plan, and had an early Kudzu, It went all the way after I countered his Repeal with muddle the Mixture. the Kidzu was i think 7/7 and beat him to death.
Win
Current Standing: 2-1-1

Round 5 vs Neil Egalla R/G beats
Game 1
I went down to six, luckily this guy did not have faith in Burn Spells. I ripped the combo on him. Maga FTW.
Win
Game 2
I lost to an early beating by burning tree Shamans and family.
Loss
Game 3
He again dropped me to 6 life, I was able to play my combo with the cards I had at my hand and won then.
Win
Current Standing: 3-1-1

Round 6 vs Benjamin Tagayuna Azorious Aggro Control
Game 1
We played a stalling game me thinking he had counters the whole time. I dropped the combo on him with us both having 20 life. He didnt have counters giving me the Maga win.
Win
Game 2
I played a half baked manplan. He played an azorious guildmage, then out tapped for a keiga after I played vinelasher kudzu twice coz of remands and had it condemned. Then played a Giant Solifuge to which he dealt with with keiga. Unfortunately the turn he played keiga down and was at 16 life, I ripped my combo. Maga FTW.
Win
Current Standing: 4-1-1

Round 7 vs Jonathan Samaniego White Weenie
Game 1
he attacked me with a hand of honor twice, first alone then the second time with jitte. giving him 2 jitte counters. I ripped the combo then and left his 24 life cold. Maga for the win.
Win
Game 2
he had a god draw even after drawing one less. he casted an Isamaru followed by 2 Savannah Lions and then a glorious anthem killing me in a matter of 4 turns.
Loss
Game 3
I had switched to a half baked manplan, and was able to play a Simic Sky Swallower for the beat down. I did play a well timed Savage twister dealing with his little 2/2 friends.
Win
Current Standing 5-1-1

Round 8 vs Lorenz Cortezo Selesnya/ Enduring Ideal
*I accidentaly spat in his face before the round, like a drop of saliva hit him in the face. Probably ticked him off especially when I gloriously declined his offer to just give him the match haha FAT CHANCE!!*
Game 1
He was up 3 when I ripped the combo on him. Maga was able to do the trick just fine.
Win
Game 2
He had 2 heirarchs getting him upto 28 life. It was a tough one. and when I pulled the maga in he was left with 6 life, he was however able to confiscate the damned thing and I lost to a 22/22 monster of a maga.
Loss
Game 3
He was at 28 and I simply ripped the combo at him, he wasnt able to respond and I get to win this one.
Win
Current Standing: 6-1-1

OverAll: I played a good tournament and won alot. I ended up at 9th out of 162 players. I guess my ratings are going up but still not to qualilfy despite being so damned close to doing so crushes me. Oh yeah I promised myself one thing here. Before rounds 7 and 8 I prayed and said I definitely will stop being an atheist if I win both rounds so i guess I will have to live up to that. Atheist no more. But hell that dude up there has a way of getting to me, getting me at 9th damn it. He really is a pretty shrewd guy. Anyway that was another edition of Heartbeatsss at the qualifiers. Thanks for reading =)

rats...

just a while ago i had a mouse in my room, and yeah i still freakin do, its weird, you know some times i think mice have ghastly powers, its weird when they just disappear on you. I know i have good eyesight and little movements really catch my eye, but for some reason when its a mouse you see it climb but you dont see it go to another position. just a little while ago, i saw the mouse climb up the red metal table i had in front of the tv, when i got near it to see where exactly it is it went poof on me, and its not koko krunch this tym. what the hell is with these mice anyway? how do they do that? do mice have somesort of special technique in moving so fast that it goes without being seen? and i don't know if u guys have noticed how no one talks bad about mice? well at least here in the phil, they believe these mice, when you talk badly of them, they will fill your clothes with holes. i mean wtf man!? and they are really very convinced about this too. I told my mom and maids i didnt believe that crap and they were laughing at me, they said that i'd believe when my clothes get holes... i mean what the hell is that about? mice have this special grudge filled brains that one bad statement about them they run amok chewing ur clothes? man! no wonder men have a bad history with mice, with beliefs like that, who could blame the mice for having such a bad image! well mice are kinda smart though too, the damned thing just sniffed at the sticky paper and avoided it completely!!! it seems like they knew what the hell it was!! hmm pretty sneaky, and now it resides at the back of my tv!!! And so that ends my blog entry.

crushed...

This one is the highest i've ever placed in a standard tournament, I know I should be happy but I'm not, on the contrary I'm crushed... I fell 2 places short on getting to the top 8 and the chance for a national qualifier invite... but before I give my report, here's a brief background on the decks I faced and on how my deck works... nyway here goes

Legend:

BeachHouse
B/W/G

This deck basically uses green for mana accel and the black/white colors for the control, it uses a number of beat down creatures like loxodon heirarch, kokusho and yosei. yosei being the main control component as well, spells like castigate and wrath of god is used to control the board while increasing the mana base to set up for the kokusho kill.

ZOO

W/G/R

This deck is pure aggro. it uses alot of low casting cost creatures to give the enemy an early beating while packing alot of burn spells that finish the job when the creatures have been dealt whith. It also packs multiple spells with life gain effects such as lightning helix, umezawa's jitte and loxodon heirarchs.

U/G/W aggro

This is a rogue deck. this was a deck a kid was playing, apparently its a self built simic deck which uses fast simic beatdown creatures such as trygon predators and uses elvish pipers to plop down a hopefully early simic sky swallower. the thing about this deck was he packed those wretched Grand Arbiter Agustine VI instead of void slimes in his main deck. This causes disruption but not enough to really lock down the enemy, anyway thats about it for this one.

B/W/G aggro

Almost the same as the 1st one only this one does not use yosei and friends, or I just never saw them, this deck plops early threats and uses that damned okina gang shinobi to rape the opponent's hand, it uses birds of paradise for accel instead of spells and is really a more aggressive version of beach house, this deck does not play the waiting game. its more of a modern day rock.

U/G aggro

This deck is intruiging, it is built like the fish decks in vintage, it uses counters and the ninja of deep hours to tackle the enemy while drawing cards. I really didn't get to see much of this deck so can't say much about it.

U/R/G aggro

This deck is a mixture. It uses low casting cost creatures like zoo, but has counters and less cheese. It wins with umezawa's jitte and with the efforts of untargetable and/or unblockable
it kills pretty well.

And for my deck:

Heartbeat combo:
colors: U/G/r/b

here's a complete decklist, if you know magic you can get a few ideas from this decklist on how it plays if not i will be writing a brief explanation on how it works so just skip to that if this isn't familiar to you

Main deck:
Artifacts:
4 sensei's divining top

Creatures:
4 drift of phantasm
4 sakura tribe elder
1 maga, traitor to mortals

Enchantments:
4 heartbeat of spring

Instants
4 muddle the mixture
4 remand
4 early harvest

Sorceries:
1 weird harvest
1 invoke the firemind
4 kodama's reach
1 savage twister
1 recollect

Lands:
10 Island
10 Forest
2 Mountain
1 Swamp

Sideboard: (the manplan) *as I will be calling it from here on after
2 meloku the clouded mirror
2 keiga, the tide star
1 umezawa's jitte
3 giant solifuge
4 vinelasher kudzu
2 savage twister
1 boomerang

how it works:
Basically we get to 6 or more mana, six being the minimum number of lands needed to rip the combo. Cast heartbeat of spring which double mana production, use transmute to get weirdharvest, (muddle the mixture is the card transmuted) then untap using early harvest, cast weird harvest grab the drifts of phantasm and transmute to more heartbeats and more earlyharvests and maga ftw. For the man plan just beat his ass with fatties, or in kudzu's case a would be fatty.

so now with the tourney report:

round 1 vs Carlo Barcellano BeachHouse
Game1: he casted a phyrexian arena, and started on the card advantage, unfortunately for him i was able to rip with 6 mana.maga FTW.
win
Game2: this time he was having a bad draw, he casted 2 phyrexian arenas and was simply waiting for the combo. Unfortunately this time I went with the man plan and my giant solifuges finished him up with a solid 8 damage down the gut.
win
current standing: 1-0

round2 vs Rexel Tenorio Zoo
Game1: he played an early jitte and a kami of ancient law which spelled trouble for me, i had enuf lands to rip but thought the kami had to go first, this was a misplay as i was down to 8 life when I savage twistered the hell out of the kami, he casted a char and a helix during my end of turn and casted a confident solifuge to finish me off.
loss
Game2:I had a bad draw and couldn't get any mana acceleration on the board, he had a god draw and beat me to pulp, very one sided match.
loss
current standing: 1-1

round3 vs Brian Uy UGW rogue aggro
Game1: This was the kid I was talking about, he played a trygon predaetor early and had a Grand Arbiter on the next turn i waited for 8 mana and ripped the combo on him, even if my spells were mostly 4cc now I was able to pull it off.
win
Game2: He sided in some voidslimes, which really spelled trouble, lucky for me he had to mulligan to 5 or so I think, he had mana problems and while I had 8 he had only 4, his misplay was when he out tapped for an arbiter, I again was able to pull of the combo feeding one fat maga all of his 22 life points.
win
current standing: 2-1

round4 vs Alfrie Romanes BWG aggro
Game1: This match was on from the beginning, he casted a birds of paradise and and later raped my hand with okina gang shinobi it was a one sided match from there.
loss
Game2: I sided in my man plan. he was beat up by my 8/8 vinelasher kudzu. It was my turn to go aggro.
win
Game 3: This has got to be my worst win ever. I had him almost dead, with a vinelasher kudzu inplay with matching jitte, he couldnt get anything out, and when he does it usually got killed by the jitte, after a while I thought I could combo my way out, yeah this time it was a hybrid. As I did however, I realized I didn't have the weird harvest in the deck and I screwed myself an assured win, fortunately tho, he casted a heirarch and a stomping sumthing, during his turn using all of his nine mana forgetting heartbeat was already inplay. I had to refuse to give him the liberty to rewind his actions costing him 9 life points wasted to mana burn. I then swung my kudzu the next turn he double blocks it and both of his critter die, as well as my kudzu. next turn i top deck a solifuge giving me the win.
win
current standing: 3-1

round5 vs Anthony Galano U/G aggro
Game1: He pays 4 life to the duals, he out taps in one time casting a creature, I had 6 mana, combo ripped. Maga for the win again.
win
Game2: he had a few early creatures and so did I. I switched to man plan and had 2 kudzus inplay in no time and were beating him up. He did little to combat the two kudzus.
win
current standing: 4-1

round6 vs Jerome Santos Zoo
Game1: I ripped my combo hoping to topdeck a muddle the mixture or a weird harvest but to no avail. I lost due to the lack of card advantage and due to that misplay, I was beat up by his creatures.
loss
Game2: He was down to 14 life, I ripped the combo, him being over enthusiastic casted two helixes, i sent one back in his hand and allowed the other one to resolve taking him back to 17 life. I ripped and casted maga for the win.
win
Game3: I had the combo pieces in my hand, but he had the early damage advantage, he had me at 3 life when i attempted to rip the combo, unfortunately for me however just as i was about to cast weird harvest, he responds with a char, with me having no counters at hand i lose...
loss
current standing: 4-2

round7 vs Jayson Ramos U/R/G aggro
Game1: He had early creatures on board, a kird ape, a dryad sofisticate and an isamaru if i'm not mistaken, after getting me to 8 life, I rip on the next turn, casting a huge invoke the firemind to win me the game.
win
Game2: He sided in alot of counters for me, unfortunately the man plan was yet again in action. after having a 4/4 vinelasher kudzu and a keiga in play his lifetotal gets dropped to with his jitte having only 2 counters and him only having a kird ape and 3 lands on board to go along with it. He doesn't equip the jitte which really surprises me, and just passes the turn, on my turn I attack with the keiga and the kudzu, he blocks the kudzu and uses a jitte counter to drop my keiga down to 4 power and casted a char using a shivan reef dropping his lifetotal to 4 i counter the char with muddle the mixture and keiga wins the game.
win
current standing: 5-2

Now there was a 30 minute or so break while i was constantly shaking being in 14th place at the time hoping just hoping to be able to get into the top8. unfortunately however i end up at 10th. anyway that was a long tourney report. hope u guys enjoyed reading it. I will be playing at yet another qualifiers tournament and I do plan to really qualify next time. thanks for reading.