From: genestre@CS.UniBO.IT (Stefano Genestreti) Subject: Re: Congrats DALLAS I have no kept record. (sorry) I write what i remember. My Mistakes on deck construction first: I changed the Geeba to go R/G (4 city of brass 4 karplusan) but NO STORMBIND (i 'm going to ask myself why for the next 20 years) Italian team expected NO NECRO. ( i was one of the better going thanks the geeba antinecro origins. no antinecro side except zorb and 1 earthquake No diamonds!!!! My deck: ( i tried the blood moon deck on the fridays tourneys but i was unsure of the going to decided to keep my last week deck with heavy tweak anti prison) Green cards: 2 erhnam 1 granger Guilmage 1 Giant Growth Red: 4 ironclaw 2 gorilla shaman 2 goblin tinkerer 2 librarian 3 wildfire 3 artillery/cannoeers 1 brother of fire (i think) 3 pillage 4 bolts 2-3 incinerate 1 hammer of bogardan (last minute add keep out an incinerate) 1 k. torch 1 eathquake 1 jokulhaups 1 vise i remember the deck was 61 cards lands 10 mountains 1 strip 4 mishra 4 karplusan 4 city 1 trading post 1 glacier side: (i hate prison) 3 pyroblast 1 REB ( i have not found the 4th pyro so hoping for hopponent thinking a heavier antiblue side) 4 crumble (main reason for green: prison lock escape) 3 tranquil domain (circle/tax/island sanctuary/stormbind/maybe sylvan) 2 meekstone (a little low but was fearing the lock) 1 Zorb 1 eathquake (expecially against the centaur also good againsta knigts) Comments post tourney: After the tournaments i put out this. only see once and used like a bolt to do more damage (taking one). A bolt is 90% time better. Torunament: 1st round Homero Caballero ( 1 of the 2 names i remeber) This guy beat 4 times Dario Solari at last Wolds (3 first turn pairing and national Team match too). He R/G Erhnam/Artillery/ Stormbind/ hammer 2-0 for me. I know the deck type so i'm advantaged he had some minor manascrew made worse :-) 2nd turn Olle Rade (table 17 :-() U/R Counter/Big Balls (torches actually) 1st round me 1st turn vise and overhelm him with mishras and weenie. 2nd round minor manascrew he kills me with mishras (3) nullifying my defenses. (1st turn vise but FoW) 3rd game 1 Land. 2nd turn glacier = strip. no land for 6 turn (a strip). some orcs get killed. another land trading post after 6-7 turn :-(. he glacier every turn. I sided out the 4th blast. and when i'm on 6 lands i don't take back my discarded hammer (error but he was holding a dissipate for this...) when have 8 mana and have taken the 2 blast i try the last hope Jokulhaups but he counters my two blasts keeping the dissipate in hand too. he wom with a 8 points quake followed by a 12 point torch. then won lost won then lost lost won* won i don't remember all the matches but neither the correct order of the opponents of the midlle ones i won a tought match vs a WW with sleight thanks a wrong sideboarding. I won the first match so fast that i see a pump some ardakars aond no more. thinking heavy blue sided in all blasts ( he sleights only a knight to green to keep erhnam at bay then attacking forgetting the trading post ... blasted 2 sleigth. he was no happy. tranquil domainde out a couple of circles. and a crusade. his error was no putting a couple of white tutor. i lost a very tought match vs an armageddon deck. i was going to haups 2-3 turn with 5 land he put out a serra i draw no land then a geddon close the match. I lost to a necro 2-0 1st turn no bolt. then he closes with aa infernal darkness followed by a pump knight. i won against an outpost deck. he can't get no wrath no circle in the last game but i was keeping my tranquil domain ready. I won a lost match due to an error of my opponent. necro. 1-0 for him. he's on 4 me on 2. a very confuse and logn turn. i hammer him (get out from graveyard this turn) going to 1(painland) then look at knight and only a librarian in play. wait wait i bolt him. he: ok i'm on one. me: on one? then i attack with the librarian. he: i'm dead. he looks at zuran as the next draw is not happy and start to shuffle cursing his bad luck. Something sounded strange to me but he was shuffling, it was a very confusing turn so i go to the next game. next game i won after a very tough and open match. After the match i ask him about the cursed turn. and then we reconstruct what seemed to happen. he was keeping our life traking even if i was keeping my. so he made the mistake to not restore his life. and then he calls himself out. I feel guilty but it was a pro tour but we hardly cold make to top 64 (i won the next match but do not get in) After all he sees that he would have not died but then he gives me that game anyway. I think i was not a good sport, but when he said he was died i was confused and then avoided thinking to much to what was happened. The zorb cound have given him some more turn to reopen the match or close it. Luckily i don't get in top 64 and don't get prizes. It was a good lesson for both. 1 if you have a doubt take it out even if it is against you: it's better than feel bad after. 2 check exactly all things that was happening and don't make silly mistakes. (that day during the same turn a Brasilian guy drained baxter for 20 only to see baxter go from despair to joy when before shuffling remade the counts to see that the drain would be only for 19 and then go to win the match.) I'm not proud of what was happende and i'm going to live with it. I'll try to be a better sport next. I was a guy who always refused collusion and cheating but the situation made me avoiding to think too much to what was happened and take advantage of his error. next match(the last) was against another necro. won 2-1 after a very tought match when after he casted a sengir i had 3 turns to get the bolt that would have taken him from 1 to 0. when i was on 3 i drew a quake(next card incinerate) and won. The field was full of necros or outpost. some weeny and the usual R/G. I have to leave. But if you would like to speak again with me (and you perdon me my 1st and last bad sport) i''l post you the craziest deck that made 21. a mono green madness. (made the morning of the tournament). in very little words ant power plus 7 GG. I'll think that i will post it to the list too. It's too crazy. But it works very well. waiting for an answer soon Stefano