A TYPE 1.5 TOURNAMENT
--- My friend Ari and I decide to go to a Type 1.5 tournament a couple of miles away. We both play type 2, but there have not been any type 2 tournaments around lately, so we settle for type 1.5. Ari plays a Red/Green Burn deck and I play a Blue/White counterpost deck. I will not list the deck here, but I use 3 Mishra's, 3 Outposts and 4 Serra Angels for offense while using the standard blue/white control. Its three rounds of swiss draw and the top 4 players make it to the semi-finals.
Round 1
--- Guess what, since I signed Ari and I up next to each other, we get to play in the first round. This is good for mw because I only loose to him once every six or seven matches.
Game 1
--- In the first game, he gets a bad mana draw, and I get lots of creature control. I get an Icy and an Outpost out and start my playing my game. Unfortunately I'm low on counterspells and he casts a Jokulhaups which I can not stop. Fortunately for me, he dosen't recover from the 'haups and I get a glaciers and get going again. I win with tokens.
Game 2
--- In this game, I get a CoP: Red and CoP: Green out quickly. He sideboarded out his Emerald Charms and can not win. He quickly concedes.
Game 3
--- This game is almost exactly like the second game. Needless to say, he concedes again.
Games 3-0
Matches 1-0
Round 2
Game 1
--- This kid is playing a white weenie deck. As you'd expect, he gets ahead early, but I get to 4 mana and wrath. He only has 2 land and dosen't do anything. I get a Serra out which I protect with countermagic. That's game.
Game 2
--- I have a bad hand this game. I have no creature defense and little countermagic. I play the Thawing game, but I continue to draw land. He has a Zalfirin Knight, White Knight and Order of the White Shield. These are fortified with a crusade. I cast a Serra, pacifism. I cast another, swords. I then draw a swords and use it on the pump knight. I am still in trouble though. He attacks for 6. I'm at 12. Next turn I draw and cast an Icy. He can still attack me for 6 no matter what I do. He does and I'm at 6. Next turn, I draw a counterspell. Thats game, he wins. Next turn I would have had Serrated Arrows, and I could have come back. Darn, my first loss.
Game 3
--- The third game I get in control which creature killers and countermagic. I get a Serra out and its over soon after that.
Games 5-1
Matches 2-0
Round 3
Game 1
--- This kid plays a white/red weenie deck I think (scrub). Anyway, he gets some early creatures out and I eventually wrath them all away. There were like 5 of them. I get a Mishra's Factory out. He dosen't know what it is, so I know he sucks and I will win. A few turns later, I get the outpost working. I win very slowly but efficiently.
Game 2
--- This game is very slow as well. I sideboard out my Disenchants and of course he casts a second turn CoP: White. Even though I can't do anything, neither can he. I have lots of counters and an outpost to control his creatures. I then cast a Soldevi Digger. Once I explain to him that he can't win and will just run out of cards, he concedes for time purposes.
Game 3
--- The judge is sitting next to me and I ask if I've made the semi-finals. He says I have and tell us to call the match a draw. We do.
Games 7-1-1
Matches 3-0
Semi-Finals
Game 1
--- Guess who I have to play...Ari! He gets a first turn Rogue Elephant which I swords turn 3. He bolts me and takes me down. I get a Serra, fireballed. I get another one, and it lives. I take him lower while I'm at 6. He casts a 6 point fireball, and I pay for FOW. I have no counters left. He has 2 turns to draw a game-ending fireball or Jokulhaups and he dosen't. That's game.
Game 2
--- He has practically given up by now. I cast Cop: green and red on turns 2 and 3. I have plenty of counter-magic and his emerald charms are stopped. After a few turns, he concedes.
Games 9-1-1
Matches 4-0
Finals
--- There is not enought time for my Counterpost deck to play this kid's Stasis deck. Its a draw. Since this was a free tournament, we split the prize of $20 store credit. I quickly grab a $10 Thawing Glaciers. The kid wanted it, but I got it. That's all. Read the next tournament report below.