Counter, Counter, Okay, Board Wipe, Hand Extension
Standard*
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Cleared Comments - FNM —Jan. 3, 2014
Just clearing the comments section! Played an FNM, I went 2-2 due to some misplays and variance.
First round to my surprise I played against the mirror, he was running something a little different than mine with Prognostic Sphinx's and Dissipate's and without negate and nullify. The first game was a long grindy grindy match. we had an intense counter spell war, he banishing lighted my Elsepth a turn or so ago, and so I attempted to banishing light his banishing light and it went a little like this, he dissipates, I Dissolve, he dissipates, I negate, he Dissolves, I Dig Through Time, he Dissolves. A crazy chain of counters and he won. So at the end he gets an Elspeth emnlem and I'm dead in the water to a flying PLA. At that point, we only had 5 minutes left so I conceded and let him win 0-2.
Second round, I play against my friend playing an Agent of the Fates 1/1 Deathtouch pingers deck that I don't really need to talk about. I won 2-0
Third Round I play against an incomplete Mardu aggro, I waited for him to cast creatures and just countered, I sideboarded in most of my anti-aggro and it was a breeze. 2-0
Fourth Round played against a Temur aggro list. I was like "shoot a bad match up as it is..." and I drew into all basic islands first game. I dissolves and font of fortuned away as much as I could but I simply didn't get the WW for End Hostilities as I stared down Stormbreath, Heir of the Wilds, and 2x Boon Satyrs. Oh well G2. He overextends his Surrak Dragonclaw, Caryatid, and Stormbreath into a End Hostilities. Then 2x Boon Satyrs and a Knuckleblade without bounce mana into another End Hostilities and Elsepth finished. 1-1 Then comes G3, man was this a mistake. I won't lie, I was tired at that point. And I mulliganed to 6, looked at font of fortunes, thought it was an island for some reason, a Temple and 2 mana counter spells. I was like "all right let's roll" I find out font is NOT an island and look at the top card of my library to a dismal dig through time, bottom. And for the remainder of 8 turns I draw 0 mana. Ha. Oh well 1-2.
Clutchers: Radiant Fountain (dat life tho), Mainboard Negates (Stopped Whips and downfalls and hordeling outbursts and raise the alarm and others), and Resolute Archangel (let me use my life as a resource).
On the Chopping block: some Devouring Light -> some Last Breath or Raise the Alarm (I never let them get creatures on the board anyways and didn't see Sarkhan + mono red gets stopped heavy by a Raise the alarm 2 for 1), Brimaz in the side -> 1 Aethersprouts 1 End Hostilities (never did much for me as I already have enough anti aggro pieces), 1 Elsepth -> I have no idea (as I almost always sided one out and 3 was clogging up my hand pretty often)