Subject: plains regional report Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 13:02:24 EDT From: DRodew6 To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Well here it is, Saturday mourning my 1st real big tourney. Me and 4 other people drive from minneapolis to lincoln for the Plains Regional. We pull into lincoln at 2:30am and we start play testing only one of the guys knew what he was going to play so after testing tell 5:00am i finnally decide to play black red control, we all get like 2 hours of sleep and then off we go to the regionals deck 4 black knights 4 shadow guildmage 4 suq ata lancers 3 dauthi horrors 3 nekrataals 4 bottle gnomes 4 cursed scroll 4 incinerate 4 diabolic edict 2 dark ritual 2 living death 1 firestorm 1 goblin bombardment 10 swamps 4 sulfurous springs 2 undiscovered paridise 1 gemstone mine 4 mountians sideboard 4 pyroblast 4 perish 3 coercion 3 forsaken wastes 1 shatterstorm Now for my round for round expirience. round 1 I play red/white/blue en-kor: game 1: opponent gets a burn draw and burns all my early critters. my opening hand I have living death play living death turn 6 thats game... game 2: I roll over him with an early pounding of black knight, shadow guildmage then finish him off with scroll. 2-0, 1-0 round 2: game 1: I play my friend who i drove down with and hes playing the same thing as me I win with the early scroll game 2: was good he gets out the early scroll and 2 living deaths, also has out 2 bottle gnomes. he gets the early lead as hes by plaing his 1st living death clearing the feild he s bottle gnome are hurting, then i pull my scroll and my goblin bombardment with a bottle gnomes and a black night and suq ata lancers out he deaths to stay alive and i sac all my dudes at him. mine hes at 9 life with 2 bottle gnomes out i pull living death sac all my critters death sac all my critters to the bombardment again and scroll for the victory. 4-0, 2-0 round 3 game 1: i play counter sliver i mulligan the fist game on no land draw 2 land 2 edicts 1 incinerate 1 nekrataal he starts playing crystiline on turn 2, i edict then crystiline i edict then winged i nekrataal and drop scroll that was game for me game 2: he tripple mulligans and pulls nothing i win not really a game.but ill take the victory. 6-0, 3-0 round 4 game 1: i play janky red green he gets out a couple of centaurs and the burn finishes me out not even a match. i double mulligan pull nothing. 1st loss game 2: i side in perish and coercion, i get double scroll out early and enough creature removel to finish him off early game 3: was quick i pull the opening hand parish and roll to victory 8-1,4-0 round 5 game 1:I play over the top burn and guess what he does. fries me out quickly game 2: more of the same BURN BURN BURN! so i go down in flames butt i learn something the burn over the top does not make the final 8 after going 6-0 he dies a quick death going 0-2 in the final 2 matches 10-3,4-1 round 6 game 1: play a wierd blue white deck with crystiline slivers, ophidians, air elemantals, and counters, etc. i win with an onslought of critters followed by a living death with the bombardment in play and bombard him again. game 2: i mulligan and draw a ritual/guildmage black knight and he gets mana glut so i roll to victory 12-3,5-1 round7 game 1: i play sleigh he gets the first game in a close one he was at 3 life when he pulls a shock game 2:i do not side in a thing and he says no side i say nope he seams surprised but the deck is bulit to beat sleigh and i do at 23 live i get out the early double shadow guildmage followed by the suq ata lancers and roll and kill the balls and pups with the guildmage and edicts game3:he starts fast with the early mogg fanatic, 2 jackal pups then ball lightning and i have the opening firestorm and blow all four up and roll to victory with black knights and double scroll. 14-4,6-1 round 8 the final round i play counter shard/witch is kind of like draw go game1: i get mana hosed he rolls to victory not even a game once he gets the whispers going game2: i side in 4 pyrobalsts,2 coercions,2forsaken wastes. i mulligan on one land with a good hand but want at least 1 pyro so i draw my 6 cards shadow guildmage,pyro,pyro,coerion,swamp,mountain then draw scroll, i get the early lead he gets the disk off, at this point it is 20-8. i then get then the countering starts he counters off 3 critters and 1 coerion, the i draw my scroll and pyroblast, now i have 2 pyroblast and 1 scroll, i force my scroll down with the pyroblast and then the next turn i draw a coercion and get rid of the whispers and then he plays a disk blows the disk to get ride of the scroll, the game is at 20-3 at this point i pull the death next turn and game is over. game 3: i take the early lead 19-14 he gets the disk blows it. i then draw 2 coercions with the ritual in hand and play them both he counters one and the next one gets off i pull the whispers, hes at 1 card he draws, then my turn ive got 1 scroll 2pyros and a black night i play the knight, then the scroll and he counters and i pyro scrolls down, he impulses then draws, i pull scrolli play scroll going for the kill having enough land to double scroll each turn, he impulses, draws an impulse, then his turn draws a card, i double scroll then draw a card incinerate, he whispers then draws disk, disk drops i double scroll then i draw pyroblast, his turn he has 4 cards he blows the disk i double scroll hes at 4 life, i pull incinerate so i have 2 incinerates and 1 pyroblast i play the incinerate he counters i play pyroblast he counters i play incinerate hes at 1 life, hes turn pulls a card the whispers with 3 land open. i pull forsaken wastes play it no counter games over. i have to say one thing that was one of the best games ive ever been associated with and it was very exciting playing that last game for the right togo to the nationals it was very intense. i end up at 16-5, 7-1 and make the final 8 in 6th place. the final 8 consisted of my deck and a person i came with also made the final 8 playing red/white en-kor going 6-1-1 ranked 8th also their was a necro deck placing 7th and a slver deck placing 3rd, a 5cg placing 1st and a reanimater deck placing 2nd,also a sleigh deck placing 4th the other deck iam not sure of but in the final eight i played the sliver deck. game1: i get mana hose and he gets off the geddon with 3 sliver out game over. game2: i get out early scroll and pyroblast crystiline as it comes into play and win with creature onslought. game3: was close i take the early lead he the he play propaganda. then 2nd prop lands and i have one chance to win i have the living death in my hand i need either a land or a ritual draw incinerate lose hes at 4 life iam at 0. all in all it was a good day i make it to the nationals my deck stands strong against a wide veraity or decks and i feel good on the 7 hour ride home. thanks to all the people i went with we playtested our asses off and it the feeling of making the final eight was worth it all!! Douglas Rodewald email address drodew6@aol.com