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Sunday 5 May 2013

Ham on the wry 2

Sunday morning, I went bust in the Ham on the wry 2 running a BUG standstill list I made about an hour before the event.

I designed the list to take into account the fact that many random people would be playing random decks.

Unlike a normal Classic tournament, having vastly messed up matchups can be very hard for Classic control decks to deal with. I expected to face decks with some volume of creatures, red decks, affinity etc. As such, I tried to have some countermeasures for those. The other end of the spectrum would be the rising popularity of workshop decks.

My conclusion was to run a standstill deck, with deathrite shaman and abrupt decay. And pack in time vault, tinker.

My first match was against the guy who used my rug delver deck from 1.5 yrs ago to good value over then till now. (It was meant to be good against standstill)
Had a critical turn where I drew Blightsteel colossus and could not Tinker for the kill because of that.

My second round was against a cheap ver of Oath. I won but the experience was horrible when my opponent was whining, didn't react then came back to make more noise after the game when I asked if I mentioned the inactive + losing part.

Round 3 was against another Oath deck which had very odd games and I lost.
Game 1 I made my opp discard 2 Oath of Druids, he draws time vault but I don't have green mana for abrupt decay. Then he draws voltaic key for the win.
In the last game, my opponent had Library of Alexandria out and that made it very hard to play without my own card draw engine. A critical part of the game came from him discarding dragon's breath then casting Show and Tell into Griselbrand and beating into my Jace, tms. I wouldn't have any outs that cannot be stopped by FoWs.

It was already 5am then. I woke up at 9.30am to resume my normal Sunday but I guess staying up past 4am really takes a toll on one's body. I guess it might no longer be in my interest to do these overnight stuff.


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