Ghost Dad's Circus Stampede

Standard* mrbloo1848

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FNM Report 3/29/13 —March 31, 2013

Went 2-2-1 this FNM. Exhaustive week plus crappy hot weather (and me improperly insulated) made for a night where I wasn't "feeling" the rhythm or the mojo of the deck. Sorry, deck.

R1: Wolf Run Bant (D 1-1-1)

Your bant control with a tinge of red for Kessig Wolf Run as win-con. Game 1 took extremely long. The lowest I got him was 10 before he started the chains of Sphinx's Revelation and Thragtusk flickering shenanigans. He eventually took back board control and swung in for exactly lethal with Kessig Wolf Run. With 3-4 minutes left for rest of round, my best option is to try to win the game to force a draw. I quickly did my sideboarding and shuffling and proceeded to shift to aggro mode with disregard for humanity. Won the game after 4 combats and got myself a draw for round 1. This is a midrange deck, right?

R2: BDW (Boros Deck Wins) (W 2-0)

Well, this match was rather easy. Your RDW with white splash for things like Frontline Medic and Boros Charm (those are literally all the white spells I saw other than Boros Reckoner). Was brought down to 13 in game 1 before I start throwing down Thragtusk and shaking him off with Vault of the Archangel to blow him out with sheer overwhelming life gain. Game 2 was much quicker. He made the mistake of tapping out to play a lone Frontline Medic instead of leaving mana open for his Skullcrack. I promptly casted Thragtusk and game quickly ended soon after. This guy was very verbal about his hatred for Thragtusk.

R3: Esper Control (W 2-1)

Ah. My not-so-favorite time-consuming matchup. Blew him out game 1 when he couldn't find answers to my threats in time. I didn't even see one Nephalia Drownyard. Game 2 took your usual amount of 500 years to play and when he was at 1 life, he was able to play Tamiyo, the Moon Sage and permatapped my Staff of Nin with plenty of blockers behind to make sure no damage got through before he found lifegain. The game quickly ended after he miracled Entreat the Angels for 10. Game 3 was quick and painless. Was able to recur Thragtusk a few times to swing in with tokens for win.

R4: Junk Rites (L 0-2)

I knew I was overdue to face one of these at the FNM since I haven't faced one in the past few weeks' FNM and after all the major events, Junk Rites became THE deck to play. Died a miserable death when I couldn't catch the lands I need on game 1. Game 2 seemed close on paper. I got to 43 life and he went down to 1, but the tables turned when he started hard-casting Angel of Serenity that returned another Angel of Serenity and Thragtusk and taking my creatures, which got him locked in a loop of lifegain and removal that I couldn't catch up with. No sideboard cards were found that game.

R5: Boros Humans (L 1-2,)

For the first time (I believe since Zendikar block was still standard), one of my best friends, Jimhawk, and I were matched against each other. He was using his usual The Sunfist Brigade. We know each other's decks inside and out since we helped each other on them and the matchup records are around 50-50 so it was the matter of who has the better draws. Since I was 2-1-1 going into this match and he was 3-1, I agreed that I will give him the round no matter what since he had a better chance of making top 8 than I did. We played anyway. Lost game 1 to ultra aggro hands and my ultra slow hands. He had to mulligan to 5 (or was it 4?) on game 2 and was stuck on 2 lands so I proceeded to wipe him out. Game 3 was similar to game 1. Swarmed before I could stabilize.

Didn't even check standings after that. Jimhawk did end up in top 8 and they all split the prizes. He handed me my share of the spoils and I was ok with it.

Due to special circumstances that caused Jimhawk to not be able to participate in this weekend's SCG Open Orlando (that we planned to go to), I decided to also not go due to me being too exhausted to spend all day doing competitive MTG and the fact that he won't be sharing the experience with me.

Meanwhile, I'm working on my Bant Aggro deck, deck:prime-speakers-pre-school, as my secondary standard deck so check it out! I am also brewing a couple other lists as possible candidates for my secondary standard decks. The lists are on my profile page so check them out. Or don't. I don't care.