45 player event with a strong player set.
Match 1 - Green-Black Delirium
Felt a little bad for taking this one as the player missed Flayer triggers because he was inexperienced and didn't know the deck. However, this was a larger event, and you have to know the game to play so I cleaned house.
2-0, X-0
Match 2 - Red-Black Aggro
Always a match-up, I expect to lose game 1, which very much happened. Game 2, I was just rude. Had more removal then I could need, though took time to end it (ended with 3 Flaying Tendrils and grasp in hand). Game 3, Ulted Liliana, nuff said.
2-1, X-0
Match 3 Green-Black Delirium
Now this a was a rough match. Game 1 to him, too fast of a start for me. Game 2 to me, Transgressed, saw 1 land in hand and a Pilgrims eye, just hit that and won the game on him missing land drops. Game 3 miss played by forgetting Ishknah's ability when I was at 4 life.
1-2, X-1 (as a note, he did go on to take 1st in Swiss rounds)
Match 4 Green-Black Delirium
This one went better, though the games were long. I don't remember games 1 and 2, I just remember hitting time on 3 with a massive game advantage. If we had 10 minutes instead of turns, the game was mine, but 5 turns wasn't enough.
1-1-1, X-1-1
Match 5 Temur Emerge
This one was a friend of mine, so we knew each others decks. Game 1, I over played, and the one turn I didn't have the mana, he crushed down Emrakul, I knew I didn't have a answer coming, so we just moved to game 2. Game 2, pushed him in countered with Summary Dismissal on his Elder and won quickly. Game 3, similar to game 2, but for the first time Gonti came in big, stole an elder deep fiend, and used it to tap him down to push for win.
2-1, X-1-1
Match 6 (end of Swiss) Blue-White Flash
Game 1 went as expected, He saved his Spell Quellers to flash-counter, and my cards never came. By the time he realized it was a control deck I had too many lands down and just countered and killed my way to victory. Game 2 he moved faster, had 2 Gideons, Thalia, Spell Quellers, and Avacyn, but he ran out of gas. I was playing very safe until I resolved a Transgress and saw 5 lands in hand. quickly closed after that.
2-0, 4-1-1
With 13 points I made top 8 cut at 7th (though I did have good breaker with two 2-0s and my 1 loss to the guy who got first in points, it was a clean cut to top, so it didn't matter).
Top 8 Round 1 - Blue-White Flash
This was hard. He saw my deck from the previous round and knew to just go in on the aggro (he cast Spell Queller on end of my turn 3). He flipped Ormendahl, which should have been the end at 7 life, but Gonti had hit and Avacyn. She bought me 2 turns to tick Thing in the Ice down. After the flip, he scooped (I picked up Gonti and a Torrential, so it looked good for me, even with him above 20 life). Game 2, he just got to much value out of Jaces, though I did manage to Gonti into a Stasis Snare, that then caught a Gideon (Gonti got moves against this guy). Game 3 was all he could want. His first 11 cards were 4 lands, Selfless Spirit, Copter, Spell Shivel, 3 Gideons. His hand was so good, he didn't even bother looting off the first Copter hit. I lost that hard, but I couldn't have stacked a better hand for him.
Lost in first of top 8, but it was a good day in the end (made my money back in cash and had fun).
