Shadowmoor Release Events

Was busy this weekend so today is my first chance to play in a Shadowmoor PE online. I picked a good one to join cracking a pretty damn good pool.

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Round One - Me: 1750 Opp: 1808
Game one I elect to play and have a solid hand with some three drops and Redcap and Corrupt to fill out my bomb quotient. He mulls to six and keeps a hand that is super slow and does nothing. By the time he can start casting spells he is way behind on tempo. His deck seemed slow so I take out Torpor Dust for Inescapable Brute which I've seen do some sick things in limited. I expected to be on the draw, on the play I would have brought in Poison the Well versus his slow deck. Turn three Tattermunge Duo into turn four Poison seems pretty sick.
Game two he elects to draw. We trade two drops then I Redcap his turn three Scuttlemutt. He has no follow up. On my fifth turn I drop Cinderhaze Witch and the game is starting to look like a blowout. He drops Illuminated Folio but on my turn six I knock him to two cards in hand. He keeps drawing off the Folio but can't find much defense and he concedes.
2-0

Round Two - Me: 1764 Him: 1766
I start by picking to play and laying Sygg turn two. My opening hand was sick with Sygg, a RG duo, Ruins of the Deus, Demigod, and three land. I miss land drops #4&5 but get Sygg active through a large number of creatures. I misclick my turn six attack which costs me the turn seven win and a card off Sygg. I get him turn eight without having to cast Demigod of Revenge which I'd rather not show if I don't have to.
Game two I cast turn five Deus off a pair of Scuttlemutts, which seems good. He plays an Inkfathom Witch which could cause issues but I have a Redcap in hand to kill it. The game slows down but Deus keeps hitting for six. Both of us have drawn at least nine lands. He doesn't find an answer to my 6/6 and concedes the turn before I draw a Jaws of Stone for 5 damage.
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Round Three - Me: 17something Him: 1618
Well my luck sac of an opponent gets a Mistmeadow Witch and plays Steel of the Godhead on it turn before I can Redcap it. He then goes on to attempt to punt the match but my last three draws were blanks. Game two I smash him. Game three I see six land and mulligan into a five card hand, Corupt two spells and three mountains. My first three draws? Mountain, Mountain, Oona. He again Godheads his witch and is beating me down with that and his turn two Inkfathom Infiltrator. Jaws of Stone gets me back into it. He throws away three creatures to kill a Deus when he should have raced. I then manage to get a swamp and Scuttlemutt into play. Turn 12 he plays Twilight Sheppard with me at five life (and after I blew up a plains). I cump block it one turn. Turn 14 I draw Swamp #2 (have 7 mountains out atm) and cast Oona. I have to block with it of course to live. Just to make sure I'm totally out of the game he scars Oona so I can't even "trade" with the Sheppard. On my last turn I draw Swamp #3. Getting Oona out a turn sooner would have been the win assuming I could hit once with her ability x=4. That would give me blockers and then in two turns I'd mill him. Nothing like loosing to someone's bombs in their awful deck and awful plays.
2-1

Round Four - Me 1759 Him 1729
He Curse of Chains my two and three drop creatures. I get stuck on four lands with three six drops in hand. Once I hit six lands I drop Oona who pretty much ends the game.
Game two he keeps a one lander on the play but gets lucky and drops a land turn three. He however doesn't hit land #3 and I kill his two drop with Redcap. He scoops on turn five to Ruins of the Deus on my Tattermunge Duo.
3-1

One thing I notice at this point is all of the 3-0 players at the end of round three were in the 1600s. This means that probably a couple started under 1600 before the event. I'd say ratings don't matter but the 16xx I lost to was awful just had bombs and I got screwed g3. It is 5:20 now with probably 25-35 minutes till round five. I have a movie in Bethesda (30 minute drive at least this time of day) in two hours, hope for another quick 2-0 match.

Round Five - Me: 1770 Him: 1817
Start with six land into two mountains and 4 unplayable spells into two swamps and 0 playable spells. I'm good at this game. Clearly I turn six him off the mull to five. And that is without casting the Demigod turn six which I could have.
I take out Smash to Smithereens for Bloodmark Mentor as his only creatures g1 had persist. Game two he does nothing and I splitting headache him seeing Grim Poppet, Reaper King, and Mossbridge Troll in hand... I take a four drop (he is stuck on four lands) and he concedes to turn five Demigod the first time I cast it in five rounds.
4-1

I end 4-1 at 1783 (would probably be 1800 if not for Mr. 1600) and get 11 packs and a good number of money cards. So I had 9 blow out games and two close losses, kinda sucks that both had to happen in one match but whatever. Will post pool and stuff after movie tonight.