Butthurt by Tokens (4x FNM Winner)

Modern* Devilsmage

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Won 3rd FNM! —March 23, 2014

I was able to win my 3rd FNM with this deck!

Going into the FNM I knew I would probably see a ton of Birthing Pod decks. So I changed out my sideboard immediately with Naturalize and Beast WIthin and I took out Purphoros and birds of paradise.

First deck I faced was a storm deck that never fired properly. The entire time he spent pegging my walkers with red damage spells and slowing me down in game one. Game two I started in hand with a grafdiggers cage and he had no removal for it. 2-0

Second deck I faced was a birthing pod varient. It worked really well against me for the first round as I didnt pick up any of my removals for the entire first match, but for game 2 and 3 I was mostly unbothered after removing his pods once or twice per game. 2-1

Third deck I faced was a speedy red deck with some damage spells, I won the first game by using garruks and xenagos's token creating ability to stall long enough for garruk to ultimate. Game two I lost in a blaze of glory on turn 3 as I dead drew and he had exactly 20 damage by turn 3. The last game I was able to stall again with xenaogos token chump blocker and then I drew into a doubling seasons and had a sarkon vol in hand. I was able to play both on the same turn with xenagos +1 and he conceded when I had 10 4/4 dragons out. 2-1

The final game I played was against a birthing pod, tarm, and thoughtsize deck. On game 1 he started with a thoughtsize and took my xenagos out (if he had taken my arbor elf i would have lost the game). I drew into another xenagos and he had a few kill spells for my mycoloth that came out; I thought I lost the game but I was able to do slight enough damage and keep his pod off the board. Game 2 his pod fired off as well as he removed my arbor elf this time. With no ramp in my hand i thought I was toast but he made a few careless mistakes and grabbed an an artifact creature with pod which I toasted with my narturalize. Tarmogoyf continued to poke me for a good part of the match, but I drew a sarkon vol and did a -2, then attacked with it, and played mycoloth and sacked his creature to my devour. That was enough to win the match after that. 2-1

Thanks for reading!!