Goddamn it. I spent the whole day yesterday prepping for our local championship that brings together all the stores from the north bay to channel fireball. I focused on tuning my deck for two matchups: Atarka Red and Esper Control. I finally got the deck where I was happy with it around 11pm last night, so I went today.
Five out of my seven rounds of swiss in the hundred-man tournament were two Atarka Red and three Esper Control. I beat those decks 10-1 in games, just like I drew it up. I lost one round to the 4CDC mirror match with an active Ashiok and my opponent at three cards in his library, and one turn away from lethal damage. What can you do, it's a mirror. I also UID'd against Abzan Control because we started game three with two minutes on the clock. Maybe I could have prevented that situation, I don't know.
So my overall record was 5-1-1 and I wind up in 9th place on breakers. Wow :-(
Instead of playing for 800 bucks and a trophy, I walk out $15 up on my entry fee.
Oh well. I probably could have found a better line in the mirror match to close out the game three and I wouldn't have this problem. That game was super crazy, I had my entire deck in my graveyard with 12 lands out and my last top deck was a Den Protector. I sat there for like ten minutes and was always one damage short.
Anyways,
receipts for Angry Grimace.
And here's the final 4CDC list I submitted if anyone's interested. I did swap the Yavimaya Coast for a Mana Confluence at the last minute, but I'm not sure that was correct.
