Pretty unlucky run this week, I lost some matches I should have won, and had a very frustrating second round.
- 0-2 vs Bloom Titan
Game 1: Not much to say here other than my deck hated me. I had the game pretty under control for awhile, but all 4 of my Life from the Loam were within 6 cards of each other in the bottom quarter of my deck (I checked). I almost got to them anyways through dredging and drawing, but ultimately I didn't have enough fuel to close out the game.
Game 2: This one was my fault completely. I actually have a pretty good matchup against bloom titan post board. I side in 6 artifact hate cards and 4 enchantment (Nature's Claim and Destructive Revelry do both) to kill his Hive Mind or Amulet of Vigor and then use land destruction and disruption to stall him out until I can spam Raven's Crime. Unfortunately, despite a pretty good starting hand, I screwed up discarding my only source of green mana to a Magmatic Insight meaning I couldn't dredge my Life from the Loam or cast Abrupt Decay. In the future, I should win this match.
- 1-0-1 vs Abzan Melira Combo
Game 1: This was a frustrating round. This game I killed everything he put out, even though Kitchen Finks is one of my nightmares, and then Raven's Crime took his entire hand away. The ONLY card that could have helped him keep up with me at this point was Collected Company. In 7 turns, he top decked 3. Eventually he could muster enough damage to kill me. This game took 45 minutes.
Game 2: I would have won this round eventually, I was trying to play fast to get to the third game, but my opponent had no such pressures, taking his time. He drew all four of his Kitchen Finks, allowing him to stall the game out long enough for time to be called. Suffice to say I was pretty salty after this round.
3: 2-1 vs UG infect
Game 1: He ended up winning turn 3 because infect. Not much I could have done.
Game 2: This game was hilarious. I kept a risky hand, but it paid off. Turn 1 was a molten vortex, turn 2 a Smallpox to kill his first land, turn 3 a Molten Rain to take his next land. Turn 4 was a Maelstrom Pulse to kill his 2 Noble Hierarch, after which he scooped. I had another Molten Rain in hand, so it was probably the right choice.
Game 3: He got 9 infect damage on me on turn two with a Glistener Elf, and 2 Groundswell. I killed the elf the next turn though, and every threat he had afterwards. Eventually I killed him through Molten Vortex and Life from the Loam.
I could have stayed for another round, but because of the first two losses, I couldn't have won packs, so I decided to go play SSB4. Will update next week.
