Diplomatic Immunity
Modern
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Saturday Modern Tournament —Oct. 8, 2016
Three rounds with eight players and Final Four, best of three hands
This tournament shows the power a few draws can have.
First Round: Versus Green-Black Elf Tribal
The first player also happens to be the most frustrated after our match. Hand 1 was drawn with Ajani's Chosen + Enchanted Evening
, hand 2 was lost to an Elf-Stampede around turn eight and Hand 3 was won with the Cat Cannon.
I held on in the third hand by having Providence in my opening hand and casting it on turn 7 after Angel's Grace saved me a turn. The Elves were fast and fierce but couldn't attack hard enough to overcome 52 lifepoints.
Second Round: Versus Esper Flickerwisp
For the record, this was the fun round for me. Every hand was a struggle to keep permanents on the board, but there's a twist at the end.
Hand 1 was lost to combat, hand 2 was won with the Cat Cannon and hand 3 was drawn by accident (I already had Ajani's Chosen in play and I absently dropped Enchanted Evening without thinking).
This round had a lot of bouncing and field-advantage issues but in the end it was another 1/1/1.
Round three: Versus Mono-Green Nettle-Curio
This is the only deck that gives me problems and this time around it was altered to win on turn 3 without druids. I lost both hands on turn 3 due to Cloudstone Curio + Heritage Druid + Nettle Sentinel
which let my opponent cast Elvish Visionary as many times as it took to find Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
So, yeah; turn 3 Emrakul to an extra turn win two hands in a row is enough to lose the tournament. However, I knew that my opponents in round 2 and round 3 lost both of their previous games. If I had somehow won this round I would have come out with five points which was enough for a spot in the final four.
In the end I finished with 2/12 points and still came in fifth place. The two opponents I had drawn against brought the top-four threshold down to four points (usually it's six or better).