This weekend’s Magic playing resulted in a standard Game Day RTR tournament at Games & Stuff. I really wanted to play limited, but Game Day was going on at every store so I opted for it. Jimmy and Eric joined in the fun. Mike was unable to join as he had surgery on his vagina (j/k his arm) earlier in the week. I had to scrounge up some last cards for both Jimmy and Eric heading to a store that just opened in Glen Burnie crap-hole mall. Glen Burnie would be an ok place if it wasn’t for all the people…lots of white trash…and not even the country bumpkin kind of trash, but the gross disgusting stupid white trash. I digress, the store is called Squabbles and I only found out about it after looking up events on StarCityGames. They are holding a SuperIQ soon. I was able to pick up some cards for all of our decks as well as a Rashadan Port for my Goblins deck. Anyway, I got to G&S with just enough time to throw my cards in the deck. I was playing a B/R zombies variant with 2x Vexing Devils. I’m not sure if Vexing Devil is house in this deck, but it is definitely a good card and one that should be in every burn deck. My sideboard was thrown together and not well thought out, but this tourney was not a big one so I didn’t mind. Jimmy through together Shaheens U/B/W Esper control minus 2 Sorin of Innistrad due to not finding non foiled ones. Instead he ran 1 extra Tamiyo and 1 extra Jace. Eric was running W/G/R Midrange deck with Huntsmasters and Thragtusks.
The tourney had about 26 players. I ended up getting paired round 1 to a player that had just built a new deck the night before and hadn’t tested it. It was B/G/W and I didn’t have trouble dismantling it cheap burn and fast creatures. I must say that if I opened with land 2/2 then played another 2/2 on my second turn and was on the play I was about 80% to win that game. Round 2 I got paired against a B/G Zombies running the new Elf Shaman and no Geralfs Messenger??? Lolleth Troll was clutch both games I dropped as I could not deal with him. Round 3 I got paired against a Rakdos burn deck. Now, let me say something about the burn decks. They are currently not built correctly. They should be running Vexing Devil and should not contain any Stromkirk Noble. Stromkirk Noble if left unchecked, yes will grow big, but he doesn’t have haste and is running around in an environment where people play lots of 1 and 2 drops. I never was worried about blocking him, more so worried about using him as a blocker to my 2/2’s. The games against Rakdos could be determined on a die roll as I won the die roll I won the match. Game 3 I was on the play and my opponent seemed to claim he made some play mistake that cost him the turn he lost, but I’m not sure as I had another piece of burn left when I killed him. Another trick card I believe is the Gore-House Chainwalker. Yes he is a 3/2 for R1, but that’s it. Burn needs fast (haste) creatures or creatures with trample. Or a creature that deals a point or 2 every turn. Anyway on to round 4. I get paired against Jimmy’s 3rd round opponent that went to time when Jimmy could have beaten him. He was playing a U/R Delver, Snapcaster, counter burn deck. I kind of liked it as you could flashback searing spear which is pretty good. I was able to beat him in game 3 after he had every perfect spell for my dudes. Flashing back pillar of flame is pretty good against Zombies. I was able to ID round 5 into top 8. I checked in with Jimmy and Eric. Jimmy was 2-0-2 and I believe Eric was 2-1-1 making it possible for either to get in. Eric wanted to leave for some early Halloween activities so he scooped Jimmy in.
Top 8
I got paired against…drawing a blank…well whatever it was I took it down J. The more memorable was another Rakdos burn deck that had given Eric his loss. He was wearing Steelers fan gear so he already had to be beaten. He informed me of how he had already beaten B/R Zombies twice today. That got me excited for the match as I had already dismantled Rakdos today. We sit down and he wins the die roll. I miss an important land drop turn 3 and he runs me over. Game 2 we are shuffling up talking about Vexing Devil. He’s not running it and I can’t understand why not. I play one, game 2, where he eats 4 damage. I reiterate me paying 1 mana to deal 4 damage. He claims he was not winning the game anyway. Game 3 I get 2 2/2’s by turn 2 and slowly deal with his Stromkirk Noble after is gets to 3 with Searing Spear and that’s the game. I am anxiously awaiting the results of Jimmy’s game 3 against his opponent. If he wins, we top two and play for the playmat. I also, want it to be over as my girlfriend is waiting to go to some Halloween festivities. Jimmy takes him down in extra turns and we both race out of there with the playmat and 9 packs each.
The next day I went to Jimmy’s house and played the final match taking him down 2-0 as the Game Day Champion. I feel with a little more tweaking the Zombies deck will have a 50% chance to win its worst matchup.
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