Sneak and Show felt really good to get going. I stole Jerry Mee's 75 from his Top 8 performance. I also got his sideboard guide, which to be honest- I need. Lol. I tried following his performance via the pairings site, and watched has he stumbled with two losses a little early then just ROLLED in to top 8. Amazing stuff, was super pumped. (equally annoyed with no coverage)
Things before 3 rounds of magic:
- Pre-release for War of the Spark this weekend, w00t.
- Still tracking my package of cards to Card Kingdom, come on big money!
- I need to get a new set of sleeves for my SnS deck. Thank goodness Eclipse realized players want more than 80 cards per purchase. Time to buy a new 100 for that silky smooth shuffle.
- MagicFest Dulles is Fathers Day weekend. Main event is sealed Modern Horizons. *ponder*
Round 1 vs Maverick
Game 1- Mulligan with 1 Tomb in 7, keep sketchy hand. I had 1 try hard moment when I Show and Tell'd in an Emrakul but he dropped a Knight, which promptly found a Karakas and that was that. I couldn't' come back. It was embarrassing. Wish I had the Griselbrand so I could have at least gotten 7 cards out of the bounce. Oh well.
Game 2- Mulligan with 1 Tomb in 7 again, mulligan with no land, and forced to keep my 5. It was an extremely poor 5 with a City of Traitors and Lotus petal as my only mana sources. He dropped a turn 2 Thalia which pretty much sealed my fate. I would never get enough mana together to do ANYTHING. This was pretty much a non-game from me. It happens.
Funny note, I asked him since we were done so quickly, could I play a different deck for fun. He said sure, I brought out D&T, and promptly just rolled him. I kept a 1 land opening hand because of Vial, and just ripped lands and had all the answers to his threats. Ya know what is good against Maverick? Crusader with a Jitte on it.
Round 2 vs Eldrazi Post
Game 1- Mulligan with no lands, keep a fairly strong 6. I fetch for a Volcanic, Ponder. There it was- the holy Trinity between my hand and the Ponder- Show and Tell, Omniscience, Griselbrand. Light shined down, flower petals were thrown, life was amazing. Turn three I dropped it. He flopped in a Kozilek, and I dropped an Omniscience. I cast Griselbrand for free, he didn't even try to use Kozilek's counter ability. I drew 7, found Emrakul, dropped that, and won. It felt good after my mulligans in the first round.
Game 2- I mulligan'd again to 6. Kept a so-so hand, no SB hate like Blood Moon. I countered an early Grim Monolith. But then he had a metric ton of cloudpost mana and I couldn't find my combo. He proceeded to then double Thought-Knot me and that was that.
Game 3- Keeping with the theme, I had no lands in my opening 7, mulled to 6 and saw my lines. I did pretty much the same thing as game 1. My opening hand had fetch, tomb, Show and Tell, Omnscinece and Griselbrand. I kid you not. This time however, I had to WORK to find Emrakul. It was like he was playing hide and seek. He did a turn one Candlelabra, which meant I could easily go off turn 2. The amount of cards I dug through was stupid. The final board state was like 2 Blood Moons, 3 Sneak Attacks, Jace, Goblin Cratermaker. I actually had to pass the turn because I couldn't find the Grieselbrand. I used the Jace to bounce his Ulamog!
Round 3 vs u/w DelverBlade (Frank)
As he said, he has never played a deck without Delver. This was the perfect deck to do round 3 for me.
Game 1- I kept my opening hand because it had 2 lands and all cantrips. It was the first hand I did not mulligan. I did not have any pieces of the combo, but a counter and a whole lot of digging. He did what Delver does. Turn 1, did not flip until turn 3. He dropped a Stoneforege, found a batterskull. I kept digging and found my Sneak Attack, dropped that without any fight. He kept plugging away, but I dropped a Grieselbrand, and found Emrakul to blow up his board and deal lethal. As he said, "I did everything right, and still you crushed me."
Game 2- My opening hand had amazing stuff. Emrakul and Griselbrand, but no method to get them in to play. I Ponder'd and found Arcane Artisan. I played it turn 2, and he had to stop and read the card. He honestly didn't know what it did. With the monsters in my hand, I was super happy. I activated Artisan, drew, exiled Emrakul and his face went slack. He was like, "wait, you just have that in play now? I can't beat that."
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