Last Sunday, I went for a Modern GPT to try to get my 2 byes.
I was invited by my friend to go to a place in the west (1+ hr from my place) to play in a small GPT (16 man with preregistration). Eventually the place had 19 players, 3 of them walked-in so it became 5 rounds swiss with t8.
I went there because it sounded like the odds of getting the byes were really good.
I settled for a deck hybrid of the Young Pyromancer deck and the Zombie Fish with reference to MTGO daily results.
I couldn't really figure out the sideboard so I jammed cards that I could find.
I played:
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Zombie fish (don't have my cards now)
2 Young Pyromancer
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
4 Serum Vision
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Deprive
1 Stubborn Denial
2 Mana Leak
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Burst Lightning
1 BR Command
4 Terminate (changing 1 to Murderous Cut to control the yard better)
4 Thought Scour
1 Electrolyze
2 Spell Snare
4 Polluted Delta
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Steam Vents
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Watery Grave
1 Blood Crypt
4 Island
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
SB
1 Spellskite
1 Vandalblast
2 Blood Moon
3 Blightning
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Counter instant card
1 Stubborn Denial
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Dragon Claw
1 something
I went 4-0-1 in the swiss, and went to t4 before losing.
All my opponents made t8.
Round 1 vs Jund
2-0 with hyper aggressive turn 2 Zombie fish.
Delvers really require answers and Zombie fish is really tough to crack.
Round 2 vs Splinter Twin
Not sure if they run less combo pieces nowadays but having cheap answers plus disruption really went a long way. Kinda why it failed in Legacy.
Round 3 vs Tron
Game 1 I died to Wurmcoil Engine.
Game 2, Blood Moon plugged a turn 3 tron set and I managed to go all the way.
Game 3, he had a turn 3 Tron set and dropped an Oblivion Stone after which I played Blood Moon.
I was quite lucky to manage to control the board by killing my own stuff and forcing my opponent to wipe the board to exile his Wurmcoil Engine. The exchanges after that were quite unusual as I was struggling not to fall behind Eye of Ugin. I ended up winning when my opponent searched up Kozilek and tried to bomb my Young Pyromancer and I cast Lightning Bolt at him, and had 2 elemental tokens.
Round 4 vs Ad Nauseum
Everyone thought that we would ID. I kinda wanted planeswalker points.
He came and thought that he could help his friend get t8 by controlling the top tables.
Aggro zombie fish really stressed out the opponent who ended up having to play Angel's Grace as to not lose.
Game 2 I disrupted what I could with Blightning, RB command hitting his Pentad Prism + discard and forced him to try go off on my turn but I had counter magic for his Ad Nausuem.
Round 5 ID (Splinter Twin)
Top 8 vs Infect
Game 1, I drop down to 12 lift and a Dryad Arbor gets pumped to 12 points, killing me.
I made a mistake by not casting a blocker although I suspected that that would be a possible hole.
Game 2, he went down to 1 and I topdeck a Blightning which dodges Spellskite.
Game 3, I find out that Stubborn Denial is a Negate and not a Counterspell.
My opponent doesn't have many infect guys and tries to press me down with normal damage but I have a Young Pyromancer horizontally protecting me so I slowly gain full control over the game and have counters to manage pump spells.
Top 4 vs Jund (from round 1)
I had quite weak draws game 1 and I had a very bad flow like having delvers facing an active Chandra and casting both and not managing to flip (so both eventually died).
Game 2 my opponent had Batterskull on a Tarmogoyf and drew a Bonfire of the Damned to miracle me out of the game.
Looks like I still have to go around to grind out byes.
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