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.
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.
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