Round 1 Mono Red Phoenix
G1) W - Thalia, blade splicer, wisp put way too much pressure on him
G2) W - Kor firewalker gained me so much life as he cantripped through his hand for one phoenix, which i vialed in remorseful to eat.
1-0
Round 2 Bant Spirits
G1) W - Heavily hindered his board with thalia (pathed) into leonin + quarter. He never played a threat.
G2) L - Now I see his actual deck, supreme phantom stalled me and my x/1's.
G3) L - He made a misplay and he was exposed for the blow out. Needed PTE. Cracked canopy and whiffed, drew the PTE on my draw...
1-1
Round 3 U/W control
G1) W - Super quick aggro start with Thalia.
G2) L - He stabilized with terminus on my full board, went Jace into Teferi.
G3) L - Double terminus and a verdict was too much for me to push through
1-2
Round 4
U/R restore balance
G1) I knew this guy from the last chance trial, he always referenced his card, and he kept referring to artifact when he played balance.
Anyway, game one I got to fizzle a fetch with arbiter and GQ him off of double red.
G2) Going from our previous matches, I knew i needed smuggler's copter and vial, got both plus thalia.
He did fire off electrodominance without greater gargadon just to kill thalia, then he slwoly developed as foretold while taking chip damage. He got the gargadon and went for balance. I didn't remvoe my two vials or copter to his confusion. Judge helped me clarify and i dropped in a splicer to crack back for 6 and the win.
2-2
Round 5
Naya Burn
G1) W - Thalia forced him to tap out for a spell on his turn, I had arbiter and GQ for a counter, he floundered.
G2) W - Firewalker stabilized my life in the mid teens, he looked at my vial on two at one point and was clearly thinking about cracking his fetch after casting spells. He went for it and arbiter off vial stripped the land, another GQ. Had the sense he wasn't familiar with taxes.
3-2
Round 6
U/W Control
G1) Had Thalia in the opener, and achieved some solid pressure before he could get to 5 mana for wrath and cryptics.
G2) Mulligan to find vial, or thalia or copter and was rewarded with copter and vial. Helped me not over commit, used mutavault and copter to chip and loot. Forced a bad cryptic and I got to land gideon. He found his terminus, but with Gideon, vial and copter he folded next turn.
4-2
Round 7
G/B Rock
G1) W - I wrecked his lands, nuff said.
G2) L - Using assassin's trophy and field of ruin in one turn he reduced me to one land... wrecked
G3) W - Grindy match, he had pushed a mutavault to edict my mirran crusader off of lili. I got out splicer, he removed the token. He went to remove splicer later and wisp blanked it, got 7 on the crack back for the win.
5-2
Round 8
Amulet Titan
G1) T1 cavern on human had me scared, he cast a trinket mage on t3, defo not humans, vial in arbiter and he scooped.
G2) I didnt lay down any land disruption, i pulled a flame slash out of him for my arbiter. However, he stabilized the board with hornet queen and I couldn't force through damage.
G3) I went up to all copies of mirran crusader to be my win con. Mulled for a better hand and hit a crusader and a lone GQ, but drew some good action. Evenetually I had gotten a nice Mindcensor flash in and dropped arbiter for extra help. He started tutoring hard for EE or Ballista or Titan but had several blanks, all the while paying for his summoner pacts. I traded some creatures for his titan and he had hornet queen but crusader got in nearly the entire sum of damage against him. MVP was clearly mindcensor.
6-2
Made the cut!
Round 9
Dredge
G1) L - I kept an accetpable hand and was crushed by 4 creeping chill and two amalgams in the first three turns.
G2) L - Got cheeky with crusader and worship keep, had double crusader so i figured hold one back for after conflagrate, but he had a nuts draw again and my plan was flawed. Think I had just been relieved to make the cut and didn't give the game proper care. That said, he crushed his hands and played a good hand as well as he could.
6-3
Round 10
Naya Burn
G1) L - Burn hand doing burn things.
G2) W - He had a triple GG start and he hit 5 lands off my top for me over three turns. this fueled a huge field army for me and he tried to race but he got crushed by golems.
G3) W - Finks to stabilize and trade with a guide, wisp to reset it.
7-3
Round 11
U/B Mill
G1) W - stripped his only color source after he pushed Thalia. He played a fetch but couldn't crack. He missed a land drop for a turn and by that point was buried.
G2) W - He got osme active orbs and some good mill in, got me down to 20 ish cards left, he went for a crypt incursion to buy him time to my immense board state, but remorseful cleric sac exile my yard only let him get a few life and he was dead on board.
8-3
Round 12
Grixis Death Shadow
G1) W - I applied early pressure and he kept a poor hand for this match-up. closed him out quick. I assume he had some stubborn denials dead in hand or something.
G2) L Inquistion, thoughtsieze, and Push wrecked my early game and I never recovered from the angler and DS beats. I went for horizon canopy crack to dig for my two of condemn, much like my spirits match, missed by one card!
G3) W - I misplayed my sequence, went crusader, should have gone cleric. He got jace to flip, and reduced crusaders power but found bolt for it anyway. He played several removal pieces and got out angler quick and later shadow. I got wisp in to reset the jace and the cleric i had removed his graveyard. He had more removal for wisp, and then more for resto, resto, resto... all cast as chumps. I found a path to avoid lethal, he got me to one with just snap and Jace. Found inspector, clue into finks. Then found condemn and splicer. Finks gained me life out of bolt range and I turned the tables.
9-3
Round 13
Naya Burn
G1) L - He had the nuts both times.
G2) L - Game two I mulled for firewalker and should have been more patient and led cleric. He had the path and that was that.
9-4
Round 14
U/W Control
G1) W - Thalia and copter had me keep. I led copter, then thalia crew ( had drawn second thalia) He pathed copter. Got out arbiter. He went for snap path on thalia. I played thalia two ( also drew thalia three). Found a GQ for his fifth land drop (colonnade) scooped.
G2) W - Vial plus two Thalia in opening hand. I felt very good about my play in this one. Got in an end step wisp to send him to 3 lands for the turn, where he missed a land drop, got back tapped colonnade and then I drew the arbiter to go with my GQ and got him down to 3. He never got passed 4 lands untapped and he needed five for his cryptic and verdict he showed me in his hand after.
10-4
Round 15
U/R Phoenix
G1) W - The deck I had been so sure I would see, my main reason for clerics! my final test. Thalia and splicer went wide on him and slowed a TiTi flip. Wisp reset the TiTi and I used double mutavault to get super wide for lethal.
G2) L - I hit condemn, thalia, RIP. I thought I couldn't lose. He had t2 TiTi. T2 rip from me. He cantripped but didn't go for it ( keeping up bolt) I play thalia expecting her to die and had condemn for horror next turn. He went for it and spilled his hand and I removed the horror. He stablized later with two crackling drakes...
G3) W - Had Vial, Thalia into GQ arbiter. He dug for land drops and kept alive. I used wips to rest a TiTi again. Then he got a double phoneix off of looting. He held back to block. I attacked in with wisps. He traded with me. Post main I put in cleric. He went for the TiTi flip and on the horror trigger I exiled his graveyard. He repsected my open vial and didn't swing in. ( had nothing ) sand bagged lands. I went with two thraben inspectors and had mutavault out so i had blockers and a chance to draw. I found resto and passed turn. He went for the bolt on one inspector (he was at 2) and I used the angel to blank it. Had lethal in air and on the ground with mutavault!
11-4
