6.03.2008

More Fae Ovb

T8'd a Standard PE last night with faeries. Six rounds of swiss went WWLWWW then lost in quarter finals. No IDs make PEs pretty weird as I was playing round six at 4-1 when I think I was in regardless on breakers.

Round one: mono black rouges 13xx - um yeah won this one
Round two: GB Elves 18xx - He took game one but I got the next two. He sideboarded like ass having both Nameless and Terror in post board. This let me get him by just killing the few creatures he played and two for oneing his removal with Spellstutter Sprites.
Round three: Merfolk 17xx - Game one he had one turn to play Lord of Atlantis ftw. He did and I died with a hand of two land. Game two I kept a two lander, nine cards later still had two land. I played two spells that game. Had 3 Terror effects in hand but no land to turn on River of Tears. Only loss of the swiss can be blamed on awful draws.
Round four: Merfolk 16xx - Game one he got me with drawing four lords and I only answered three. Games two and three I played control and didn't play Islands.
Round five: Mirror 17xx - Game one I Thoughtseize away his Bitterblossom. I get some beats in with 1/1s and Mutavaults. I cast a Mistbind on my turn while he is tapped out and Terror his attempts to Scion it. Game two I again Thoughtseize his Bitterblossom. He has a Peppersmoke in hand but I had sided out my Scions so I never give him a chance to use it. Mind Spring was key in game two, drawing me four cards while he was tapped out. Winning the mirror 2-0 when I drew 0 Blossoms and he drew 4 is pretty sweet.
Round six: Mirror 18xx - Like round five I Thoughtseize on the draw game one. His hand is awful and I take one of his Scions. Turn two I draw a second Ancestral and suspend both.
He is never really in this game. Game two I keep a hand with Ancestral, Thoughtseize, and Bitterblossom, but no black source. He does nothing for the first turn. Turn two he drops a second Island then suspends Ancestral. Turn three he misses his third land. Turn three I draw a black source and Bitterblossom. The next turn I Thoughtseize him and take his Bitterblossom. That pretty much wrapped the game up. He was pissed when he lost it but honestly it was his fault. Keeping a two land hand with no Ancestral and no way to cast Bitterblossom is a mistake in the mirror.
Quarter Finals: UWr Revillark - Game one he has a fast draw and I'm stuck on lands. I'm trying to race him. Turn eight or so I draw my fifth land and see a way to win. If I Thoughtseize him then cryptic tappting his team I can swing for the win. Thoughtseize reveals both Rune Snag and Pact of Negation, I loose. Game two I draw two Spellstutter Sprites, and no other countermagic (or Bitterblossoms.) He has two Rune Snags and is able to resolve his spells and combos me out.

Loosing to Revillark sucks but when they draw more counters than you it is what happens. For regionals I'm thinking of running Faerie Macabre to improve the matchup versus the new 'lark decks. The old deck had trouble with Terror, this new version does not.

Tentative regoinals sideboard:
3 Damnation
3 Masticore
2 Redcap
1 Mindspring
3 Nameless Inversion
1 Thoughtseize
2 Faerie Macbare

The Redcap and Macbre are the parts of that I like the least as I can only fit two of each and each is only useful in one matchup. We'll see kinda want Pithing Needle as another 2x. Turn one Needle on Treetop Village should make beating elves simpler but who knows if it is worth it.

2 comments:

deebarizo said...

Cool post.

When do you think Shadowmoor will go on Magic Online?

Tim Pskowski said...

Think it comes out next week. Which is nice because that is after regionals so can start preparing for PTQs with block.