Fast & Nasty Penetration

Standard* eilory

SCORE: 1 | 11 COMMENTS | 1778 VIEWS

FNM #2 —Feb. 9, 2013

----- RECORD FOR THE NIGHT -----

----- 0 wins, 4 losses, 0 ties -----

So this was an ouch. Like a huge ouch. Good learning experience though, and my shop is great, which means people win without being douches about it. Also I realize what I need to do to tweak this deck and (hopefully) make it work.

:: Round 1 :: lost 0-2, against RW tokens. Game 1, I got mana flooded, it was Hellrider and 2 goblin tokens, and I was dead in 3 turns. Game 2, it was more of the same, only this time I was mana screwed, and I couldn't clear his board. He played me another game for fun, and while I did a bit of removal, it wasn't enough. With all of his things hasted and burning and such.

:: Round 2 :: lost 0-2, against esper control. Game 1, he laid Supreme Verdict on my Deathrite, and I was done, with no creatures and no answers for his sorceries. He killed me with a Piked Augur of Bolas, swing for seventeen?? Game 2, we drew it out long enough, but I lack powerful spells in endgame. He did Forbidden Alchemy about 3 times to make his graveyard huge, swing for seventeen again :D

:: Round 3 :: lost 0-2, against something. I can't remember. How did I die? Fast. I think.

:: Round 4 :: lost 0-2, against Golgari -- Game 1 he got Primordial Hydra up to a ridiculous number of counters (ninety-six!!!) while I kept drawing land after land after land. Game 2, he had a whole bunch of haste Dreg Mangler, and I think he had a Lotleth Troll. I did enough removal and Fog about 3 times, but he scavenged for the win.

DECK CHANGES: +2 Duress, +3 Snapcaster Mage, -2 Forced Adaptation, +4 Watery Grave

I will say my favorite moment of the night was casting a Duress and then snapping it back to make my opponent discard a Tamiyo and a Sorin. Did not know until tonight that Planeswalker counts as a non-land, non-creature card. EXCELLENT.