Tournament Results: 1st Place 6-1
Before the tourney I decide to change my deck a bit, going with 3 main deck plows and 2 main deck sloggers, to give me a better game 1 against big red and tooth.
My deck list ended up being
Critters
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4x BoP
4x Sakura Tribe Elder
4x Eternal Witness
4x Kiki-Jiki
3x Viridian Shaman
2x Hearth Kami
2x Root Runner
2x Dupplicant
2x Arc Slogger (these were a beast all night long)
Spells:
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4x Magma Jet
3x Plow Under
3x Commune With Nature
2x Divining top
Land:
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2x City of Brass
1x Pine Crest Ridge (to get my red count up without sacrificing green or more pain)
1x Okina, temple to the Grandfathers
10x forest
7x Mountian
Sideboard:
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4x Electrostatic Bolt
4x Sowing Salt
4x Cranial Extraction
1x Swamp
2x Scrabbling Claws
Game 1 vs somebody(Sorry I don’t remember his name)
I take him 2-0 I really don’t know what he was playing (I don’t think he knew) All I saw were Islands and the kaldara Equip.
Game 2 vs Jody with Ravffinity
I win game one, he wins game 2, I win game three, Personally I don’t remember much about these games, sorry man, I do think though it was a mistake for you to side out so much art stuff, I know you were trying to decrease my targets, but I think you just made it easier for me.
Game 3 vs Tandy with orchard alarm
I sit down to this saying to Tandy, "hey dude it’s been forever since I’ve beaten you in a tourney, and this probably won’t be any different" I was correct. Game one he combos out on turn 4 I think, I really have nothing to stop this deck game one and little after board.
Game 2 sees me go first and Tandy casts his alarm on third turn, I have extraction in my hand but think, well that’s game, then I remember Lifespark Spellbomb, huzzah, extract spellbomb, I win 1 woot.
Game 3 I get Extraction in my opening hand, unfortunately Tandy is going first and I never get to 4 mana to cast it before he goes off. Why do combo decks always work optimally against me but never for me? Sigh
Game 4 John Playing WW
Unbelievably I manage to win game 1, woot, and sideboard in extraction, looking back this was a mistake, I should have kept the deck the same. I extract calling glorious anthem, but what??? No anthems hmm, he’s got wrath though. I take little critter beatdowns.
Game 3 I extract Wrath of God, but once again the beats comence with flyers and he plays eight and a half tails, I figure it’s game over no top 8 but John makes a crucial mistake that almost didn’t matter anyway but ended up costing him the game, he tapes out and attacks with everything, I let my witness trade with his eight and a half tails, block with my elder and sac him, and go down in life, I think I need a witness to recur magma jet, along with the one I am holding or a magma jet to take out his 2 fliers. I get another elder, So play him and pass the turn, john swings again, I kill one of his fliers with jet and scry, nada, block with elder and sac, shuffle and pass for the cut. I am at one and think nothing can save me and I draw…. Arc Slogger, with enough red out to play him and kill 2 critters!!! Anyway no Eight and a half tails in play means no protection and I stabalize and win at 1 life. Sorry John, this was a great game though.
Top 8 Woot (and John made it too!)
Top 8 vs (somebody) big red ( I think or maybe sligh, anyway it was red)
This is my worst match up, I am gonna scrubb out, but game one he gets only one land, and a mox, kami eats the mox, he never draws another one.
Game 2 my board has nothing for him so lets go I got 2 chances to win one game now. He gets a better start, but I draw 3 that’s right 3 magma jets to eat his sliths, and then drop arc slogger, which he proceeds to kill, I top deck witness and recur slogger, he is a house, Brick that is, BAM!
Top 4 vs Trav Ravfinity
These two games were all about shaman + hearth kami +Kiki wiping the whole board. Sorry Trav, kiki eats affinity though.
Finals vs Jody again
Game one I apply the beats, game two, I am in very bad board postion, I’ve killed a ton of his stuff but it just keeps coming. And he has a nexus that is huge. I think I’m dead next turn and make the biggest blunder (only one really) of the night and scoop, then someone points out I had two birds out to chump block and sure enough just 1 card away was my answer in the form of arc slogger, oh well, live and learn.
Game 3 I kill a bunch of stuff again, and Jody is left with an atog, which I proceed to magma jet once twice, and E bolt, to make Him sac his remaining artifacts. I can’t remember if slogger made an appearance or if kiki came out to play, sorry I should have written this sooner, but I pull out game 3 and get the first sanctioned win of my comeback.
In conclusion Kiki rocks and WISE GUYS RULE!
