How I won the Mid-Atlantic regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
John M Shuler
How I won the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
Hey there folks, I'll kill the suspense with my catchy title.
Well, the night before Regionals, I was up pretty late trying to
figure out what to play. I was debating between Counterpost with
main deck cop:red, or pure red burn/disk/cos main deck. I decided
in the end to go with counterpost, thinking that all the good
players will think that everyone is going to play blue, and they
will play heavy red to beat it. So counterpost it is to beat
that heavy red.
I wake up the morning of regionals rather late. I know registration
starts at 9am, and the tournament starts at 10. I live about 45 minutes
away from where it is being held. When I wake up, it is 9:30. That's
bad. I FLY down 495 at breakneck speeds to arrive just in time
to plead my way in, as they are just starting to call pairings.
They let me in! I happily accept the deck reg form and since I
can't remember the basic land ratio of islands to plains (is it
7/7 or 6/8?) so I open up my deck to look. Problem. This is
not my counterpost deck.
uh oh
I grabbed the wrong deck off my desk, in my hurry to make it
on time. I accidentally grabbed my Song of Blood deck, which
is yes, for friendly play. I wince, and notice that teh
tourny organizer is looking at me. "problem?" he asks. "umm"
I say, thinking rapidly. I have to either play this or
not play at all. "Nope, no problem" I say, consigning myself
to a thousand lost DCI points, because I really want to play.
So I reg the deck, and find out there will be 9
rounds. Ugh
ok, here is the deck list, try not to laugh, it was
meant for FRIENDLY play
Red:
4 Goblin Recruiter
3 Song of Blood
3 Goblin Tinkerer
4 Keeper of Kookus
4 Goblin Swine Riders
2 Fireblast
1 Pyrokinesis
2 Jokulhaups
2 Earthquake
1 Goblin Scouts
2 Errantry (a fun deck, I tell you!)
2 Relentless Assault
2 Ball Lightning
1 Orgg
2 Pyroblast (wrote it down, pulled two silly cards for them as
I walked into the room. I knew blue would be big and crush
me, needed 'em main deck)
Blue:
4 Impulse
3 Mystical Tutor
1 Juxtapose (a fun deck, I say!)
Artifacts:
2 Nev's Disk
1 Skull Catapult
1 Time Bomb
Sideboard:
2 Cursed Totem (r/g crap and flying efreets)
1 Simoon
3 Sirroco
2 Pyroblast
1 Kormus Bell (black likes this with earthquake)
3 Political Trickery
1 City of Solitude
2 Pyrokinesis
Round 1: Chad Day - r/g weenie swarm
Playing against one of your friends in the 1st round of
regionals is just not a good sign. We joke about just
intentional drawing, then get down to it.
Game 1: Chad plays first after winning the die roll. His
first turn consists of forest, spirit guide, dervish. I
go and lay a mountain and a keeper, thinking myself
safe. He puts some Armor on the Dervish on his second
turn. He attacks, I'm at 17, and he has a 4/4 creature
out. I have had all of one turn. This sucks. My turn,
I lay an undiscovered and the Recruiter, because I have
a song in my hand. At this point chad is like "WHAT the
hell are you playing?" I set upthe other 3 Keepers and
a Swine Riders. Suddenly chad figures out what sort of
deck I have. His turn, he drops a ghazban and attacks. I block
with the keeper and then just kinesis the dervish away anyway,
before damage is dealt. My turn, mountain, keeper. Sac both
mountains to fireblast chad. I'm at 17, he's at 16. His upkeep,
the Ogre is MINE. On his turn he drops a granger and is
done. My turn, I drop a mountain and attack with everything. Chad
goes to 12. His turn he plays a bird and a land. My turn, I play
the undiscovered and attack again. He doesn't block. I cast
song of blood. First card, the keeper I set up. Second, ball
lightning, 3rd mountain, 4th goblin tinkerer. Chad grimaces,
but takes his 13 like a man. On his turn, he incinerates the
ghazban and says go. My turn, I drop the undiscovered again
and attack with the keepers. Granger pings one, and I active
the ability. Chad is not happy. A bird blocks one, but chad
is at two. I quake next turn to win.
Game 2: I sideboard in the simoon, the totems, and the kinesis,
pulling the juxtapose, the pyroblasts and a swine rider. He
plays first again, and once again puts out a turn one dervish. I
once again put out a turn 1 keeper. On his second turn he
puts out a granger and a bird. Thank god, no armor. At the
end of his turn, I kinesis away all of his critters. On my
turn, I play an impulse and attack with the keeper. the impulse
nets me a ball lightning. His turn he drops an elf and is
done. I attack with the ball and the keeper, he doesn't block.
That first kinesis just wiped him out. Eventually I quake him to
death.
record: 1-0 match, 2-0 games
Round 2: Biren Amin playing Supercounter with flying fatties
Game one consists of me dropping lotsa weenies early, having
a song countered, and bringing him down to 4 before the
air elemental/waterspout beatdown smacked me. Didn't draw
one of the pyroblasts. :(
Game two, I have a turn 2 sirroco, but I wait until turn
3, so I can blast his counter, too. He had NO creatures
in his hand, just an island, and a ton of arcanes/sinks/
counters. He keeps one, and loses the rest. On my turn, I
make him use the counter with my ball lighting. A few
turns later, I beat him with just regular weenie swarm
style. Sirocco was huge.
Game three is a long, slow, tiring game. I am at 4 life
at the end of Biren's turn, looking down the barrel of a
Waterspout. I go for the glory and pyroblast it. He
counters. I pyroblast it. He counters. I pyroblast it.
He Forces. He has 1 card left and is tapped out (1 mana,
it's quicksand. :) ). My turn, I draw it off the top:
Jokulhaups. I haups, lay a land. He does nothing. I haups,
lay a land, Recruiter. Muahaha. Put 3 creatures on
top. Needless to say I recover fast enough to smash him
Record: 2-0 match, 4-1 games
Round 3: Derek Rank, playing r/u counterburn
Derek is really cool, but he seems a little nervous. I win
the toss and put out a turn one keeper. He sighs and
complains about stupid red burn decks. I grin. He does
his obligatory first turn r/u glacier and I go, playing
a recruiter. He looks at me funny. I shrug. He laughs.
Then he shows me a force of will. He asks me if I think
he should counter it. I inform him that the recruiter is
mighty and initiates many a beatdown. Derek says "how
abotu I just force your song of blood instead?" I
grimace. My turn ends after an attack with the keeper. Derek
lays the glacier on his turn after pulling U and I go
again. I've set 5 creatures on top at this point. I draw
and drop a keeper and a swine rider. I attack and say
done. Derek glaciers. Love those u/r decks. He has out
an island, a mountain, and the glacier. on my turn, I
lay a land, and cast song of blood. "Not likely" says
derek as he arcanes it. "Oh really?" I say, pyroblasting
it with my MAIN DECK PYROBLAST. "No, not likely at
all" he says as he forces it with a frenetic. "I'd
have to disagree, derek." I say, as I use my SECOND
AND ONLY OTHER MAIN DECK PYROBLAST to stop his
force. He grimaces this time.
I cast song of blood. I pray for the 4th card, and it is
a tinkerer! All my creatures get +4/+0. I attack with
a 6/2 and 3 5/1s. Derek dies the turn 4 Goblin death. I
am about to dance on the table.
hehehe
Game 2: I really rubbed it in, so derek is gunning
for me hard this game. I drop early weenies, he
burns them away. He drops a frenetic and starts
attacking. I drop a cursed totem. He counters. I
blast. He counters. I blast. He forces. I sirrco
him, since he is tapped out. He loses 2 Arcanes, and
pays 4 to keep a counter. Next turn I sirocco again,
and he says 'why pay?' and shows me his counter and
a glacier. Sirocco was huge again, and weenies
smacked him faster than his frenetic smacked me.
Record: 3-0 match, 6-1 game
Round 4: MJ with a sands/equipose
MJ is playing like 10 colors, with disenchants, arcanes,
geddon, sylvan, diamonds, burn, what have you.
Game 1: I recruiter on turn 5, the turn after he lays
the sands. He doesn't lay the equipose next turn, and I
song on turn 6, doing 20 points. :) he doesn't have
the counter. he does however show me the tutor he just
drew, so I was just in time.
Game 2: this is just plain weird. On turn 3, I trickery/
undiscovered away his only land. He plays another
on his 5th turn, and I trickery/undiscovered THAT
away, too. Trickeries came in for threatened outposts,
but the oppurtunity was just too good to pass up. I
kill him regularly.
We play one more for fun since the first two
went so fast:
Game 3: He gets the combo out fast, on turn 4 or so
with the diamonds (turn 3 pose, turn 4 sands). All
he needs is the geddon. I tap out protecting a Keeper
so I'd have my mana on my turn. my turn, I lay a time
bomb. Guess what? Turns out he sided out all of his
artifact kill against me. 17 turns later, I drop a land
and blow it up. Thanks to mr keeper on turns 2, 3, and
4, he dies.
Record: 4-0 match, 8-1 games
by now, people are coming to me and asking me if I am "really"
playing a goblin recruiter deck. So of course I act like
I planned it, and am very serious about a little speech
I give about how recruiter/song is great in the metagame
because of the speed. I don't know how I kept a straight
face.
Round 5: John Sorrentino with monoblue disk/rainbow
He's got a horde of counters, but not much removal other
than the disks. I manage to get him down to around 8
before he disks and lays a rainbow. On my turn, I look
at the board. He's got 4 untapped islands. I jokulhaups.
He looks at me funny. I say "what?" he points out that
the rainbow can phase. I smack myself in the head
and mention that was probably a silly thing to do, ten
then I ASK him to counter it. He declines, laughing.
gotcha, sucker.
He phases it, everything goes away. I drop a mountain
and use my MAIN DECK PYROBLAST on his turn the moment that
sucker phases back in. John is no longer amused, and
he knows I tricked him. Good thing he didn't have
a force. He had used 2 that game so far, so I took the
gamble.
Game 2: Not even funny. My opening hand was like: mountain
city, sirocco, sirocco, city of solitude, red blast,
ball lightning. And I drew a pyroblast. I did it the
fun way. Turn 2 sirocco is forced. Turn 3 ball lighting
is countered. Turn 4 sirocco gets through with the
double blast backup (only needed to use 1, though), and
turn 5 sees a city of solitude for his empty hand. He
draws a disk and will wipe the board next turn (about
7-8 turns later) and have a full hand. He's at 9,
though, thanks to creature poor draws on my part and
implusing away the only song of blood I'm to see that
game. My draw? Relentless assault. I attack for
5, and assault him. He says "no one plays with that card!"
I say "I do."
he was really cool, though.
Record: 5-0 match, 10-1 games
Round 6: My opponent didn't want me to take any
notes, so at his request, I didn't. His name was
phil something. He had r/g weenie with growths over
armors.
Game one: don't remember the details, but earthquake
followed by 2 ball lightnings was huge.
Game two: I get my statistical mana death draw of the
day and die.
Game three: I disk early, then drop like 3 creatures.
He's overextended himself, and I win.
Record: 6-0 match, 12-2 games
Round 7: Mike Flores, with a new Pile of Bitches
I ask why Mike is at this regionals over the NY
one, but he's in town visiting friends, so he
decided to hit this one. We've all seen mike's
WHITE WEENIE deck.. it had minor modifications,
though. He was playing freewinds standard, along
with like a thousand geddons and wraths and
disks. He also packed Justice standard. That
wasn't good.
Game 1: Mike can't have a first turn vice, but
he CAN have a first turn Mtenda Herder. And a
turn 2 knight. And a turn 3 Wolf & Crusade. Too
bad I had to kinesis in responce to his dropping
the crusade. I have nothing in hand, but I impulse,
draw another impulse, use that one, too, and finally
get to some good stuff. I lay a disk, quake twice
to keep him quiet, and to keep creatures off the
board. Then I haups, tapping all my land first. He
gives me the evil eye. I grin. All the permanents
go away, including my unused disk. I have 5 mana
floating. I cast keeper of kookus. I cast
Errantry. I cast Errantry again. Mike stares at
it like great cleavage. I smile. Mike says "If
that wasn't the coolest thing I've seen in
the last year, I'd be upset right now". 3 turns
later, with no land for Mike, I win.
Mike shakes his head and mutters for the rest
of the day, I'm told.
Game 2: He puts out a turn 2 outpost. I tutor at
the end of his turn. He looks at me, perplexed. I
cast a turn 3 trickery. On his 3rd turn, he plays
a knight. I impluse at the end of his turn. Yes,
I think I'll take that trickery. My 4th
turn sees a trickery of a plains for my undiscovered
(had to let him have a mountain earlier). 1 earthquake,
2 disks, and 2 pyrokenesises later, mike is running
REALLY low on creatures. We both just trade removal
forever, and he keeps telling me that he did NOT
sideboard out his 4 armageddons. He's got his
justice out, so the tokens are my only real offense
at this point, and with all the removal between us,
it is going slow. Then the game breaker hits. I
draw my skull catapult. Mike has used his only 2
disenchants on a Cursed Totem and the time bomb. I
start throwing my useless red creatures at him. Take
2. Take 2. Take 2. Skull catapult is about to do him
in, when he begs me to kill him properly, at least,
for his own peace of mind. To show his good faith he
lets the justice go away (he's at 2, on my turn
he dies anyway). Since mike is cool, I summon a
ball lighting to take him down on my turn. So it's
not as if he was KILLED BY SKULL CATAPULT or anything,
because he wasn't... :)
Record: 7-0, 14-2
By now, word is REALLY getting out about my deck. :)
Round 8: Remus Shepard, with a lakebasket varient
Game 1: He coercions me on turn 3, after I drop a recruiter
and set up 6 creatures. Seeing *2* songs of blood in
my hand does not make him happy. He takes one, but I
kill him 2 turns later, on my 5th turn with 21 points
of damage, after kinesising away his rat and pump
knight. Gotta love this stuff. He is not happy. :)
Game 2: He gets a good draw. On my 5th turn, I have
out 3 land and 2 keepers. I kinesised once, and he
just mindwarped the other 5 away. A lone pump knight
the next turn whittles me down to basket range. Damn,
that sucks.
Game 3: We trade early damage and removal in the form
of earthquakes and contagions. I eventually have to
pop a disk to keep from getting run over from snake
tokens, and we are left with merely land. On his
turn, he goes, and says done. I then proceed to
play out every newbie's dream. On my turn, I cast
ball lightning and attack. I then Relentless Assault
and hit him for 6 MORE. I then sac 2 mountains
for the cheesy fireblast kill. He shows me his
hand: Land, Drain life. He would have been able
to ritual drain me to death the next turn.
that was.. .close
record: 8-0, 16-2
Round 9: final round
Elliot Fertik and I do the cheesy intentional draw route,
and then play for fun anyway. We play like 5 games. Game
1, I kill him on turn 4. Game 2, I kill him on turn
5. Game 3, I kill him on turn 4 again. Game 4 he actualyl
draws a counterspell, and he wins a long, drawn out
battle. Game 5, Swine Rider was huge after a late game
forced thorugh with blasts-haups.
Final record: 8-0-1, 16-2 games
TOP SEED!! :)
Round of 8:
No Name: missed his name, he was with Forgotten Worb, and
had Spites in his deck as a twist.
Game 1: I could have done it turn 5, but I had to zap his
critters with a quake, then I had to pyroblast a
skulker on my turn. But I do it on turn 6. 22 points of damage,
since myriders & tinkerers survive a 1 point quake much
better than mr pump knight and mr sewer rat. yeeeha
game 2: he makes a critical error by forgetting that
I have a cursed totem out, and can't first strike his
2 pump knights when I block then with my recruiter and
a keeper. A simoon lets me clear his board almost completely
after I drop a kormus bell, and it is game over at
that point. He is quite upset at losing to Simoon.
Round of 4: Kelly Norton, with a funky Haups deck.
Game 1: Things go somewhat slow at first, with me pecking
away at him early on. He eventually Haups. and floats
enough to play an Orgg in the same turn. My turn: mountain,
keeper of kookus, go.
muahahhaha
that about sums up game 1. I impulsed my way to a song when
I had enough weenies out, and ran him over.
Game 2: Kelly plays a turn 2 diamond. Then he plays a
turn 4 Maro, using an undiscoverd to cast it, and glaciering
on my turn. I get smacked by 9/9 maro, then by 9/9 maro
again next turn as he drops his undiscoverd and just burns on it
on my turn to put it back in his hand. I concede. :)
Game 3: Turn 1: Keeper. Turn 2: attack, Swine rider (K-19),
Turn 3: attack, Keeper, Recruiter (K-16). Turn 4: Attack,
Song of Blood. Song of Blood. (K- now at negative 12).
Best my deck drew out all day, with the exception of the
Fertik fun games.
Finals: John Becker with green stuff
Game 1: he puts out 4 land in a row, then a maro. Since I've
been holding a Relentless, 2 pyroblasts, a haups, a Scouts,
a Fireblast and a Kinesis, I have just been play land, too.
I have out a lone keeper, since I drew first. My draw this
turn, after he drops maro: Juxtapose. I try REALLY hard
not to laugh as I juxtapose our creatures. I advise him
that geddoning now would not be a great idea. My next turn
I kinesis the keeper and a ranger away with my pyroblast,
then attack for 6. Relentless Assault. Attack for 5. Go.
He drops a lurgy. I play a land, fireblast it, attack
for 4. Why must maro shrink? His turn, he does nothing.
My turn, i do 4.
gotta love that juxtapose.
Game 2: Turn 3 ball lighting. Turn 4 ball lightning. Turn
5 CAST Fireblast. Then proceed to draw absolutely
nothing while I get beat down to 2 via weenies and direct
damage. I'm dead on his next turn when like the good
player I am, I draw it off the top: Jokulhaups. I haups,
then lay a land, since that's all I'm drawing. He does
nothing, I draw a keeper and play him. He does
nothing, I draw the errantry and hold it up to the crowd.
A wild cheer happens. I show him. He laughs.
and that's how a Song of Blood/Recruiter deck won
the Mid Atlantic regionals.
Don't underestimate impulse, it's a killer.
--
John M. Shuler
jsh...@gmu.edu
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Sigurd A. Eskeland
John M Shuler wrote:
>
> How I won the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
This is the best, most fun tourney report I have ever read...
Congratulations...
PS! Isn't songs of blood a sorcery?
--
Sigurd Eskeland
Nigel Dale
I second the first reply. This is the BEST tourney report I have yet read
on any NG. I wish more people would write like this. Truly entertaining
and informative.
Do you write all that stuff down while you're playing, or have you got a
phenomenal memory?
All the best,
NIGE...
John M Shuler <jsh...@osf1.gmu.edu> wrote in article
<5me3nn$t...@portal.gmu.edu>...
Daniel Brickwell
Hi,
I almost smiled all day today, Thanks for a great report!
Better Lucky than Good!
Friendly Greetings
Daniel
> On his turn, he incinerates the
>ghazban and says go. My turn, I drop the undiscovered again
>and attack with the keepers. Granger pings one, and I active
>the ability. Chad is not happy. A bird blocks one, but chad
>is at two. I quake next turn to win.
I hope you didn't protect a Keeper from a green source of damage by
actiavting his protection from red or did you?
Adam Maysonet
On Tue, 27 May 1997 14:34:05 +0200, "Sigurd A. Eskeland"
<sigurd....@primaerdata.no> wrote:
>John M Shuler wrote:
>>
>> How I won the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
>(snipped)
>
>This is the best, most fun tourney report I have ever read...
>
>Congratulations...
>
>PS! Isn't songs of blood a sorcery?
>--
>
>Sigurd Eskeland
This was one of the best and funniest reports I've ever read. It was
fantasic. I fancied played a Songs of Blood deck, but didn't have the
guts to do it. Gratz!
Also, I think Kormus Bell is not in 5th edition anymore. Then again, I
could be wrong.
Adam Maysonet
Daniel V Toft
>How I won the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
>ok, here is the deck list, try not to laugh, it was
>meant for FRIENDLY play
Congratulations on winning and qualifying for Nationals by pulling
a Bentley! :-)
One quick question: Isn't Kormus Bell *OUT* of 5E???
>Blue:
>Artifacts:
^^^^^^^^^^^-- D'oh! I do NOT think that this is in 5E, unless the
list at WoTC is messed up.
Guest User
Daniel V Toft wrote:
>
> In <5me3nn$t...@portal.gmu.edu> jsh...@osf1.gmu.edu (John M Shuler) writes:
>
>
> >meant for FRIENDLY play
>
> a Bentley! :-)
>
> One quick question: Isn't Kormus Bell *OUT* of 5E???
>
> list at WoTC is messed up.
>
> >1 City of Solitude
> >2 Pyrokinesis
You just won a Regional with an illegal deck. Even though you deserved
the win,technically that IS a bit off. Or were regionals still on 4E
rules?
-Paul T.
Kendall Redburn
What I liked best about your deck, is in the other tourney report I
read, there were a lot ob U/W slight decks with windreaper falcon.
I am amazed you didn't run into a single cop red?
Kendall
Chad J Day
John M Shuler (jsh...@osf1.gmu.edu) wrote:
: How I won the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
<snicker>
btw, kormus bell isn't in 5th, you cheater. :)
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Anders Isaksson
Hmm...Kormus bell is not in fifth edition..........
Besides this minor fault, this was the best tournament report I扉e ever
read. I惴 looking forward to read your next report when you win the
nationals; with your luck, it should be a piece of cake. (You didn愒 face a
single Cop:Red... )
-Anders
Craig Sivils
Br...@ccmailer.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de (Daniel Brickwell) wrote:
>Hi,
>I almost smiled all day today, Thanks for a great report!
>Better Lucky than Good!
>Friendly Greetings
>Daniel
>> On his turn, he incinerates the
>>ghazban and says go. My turn, I drop the undiscovered again
>>and attack with the keepers. Granger pings one, and I active
>>the ability. Chad is not happy. A bird blocks one, but chad
>>is at two. I quake next turn to win.
>I hope you didn't protect a Keeper from a green source of damage by
>actiavting his protection from red or did you?
That was one question I had, the other was about casting song of blood
(a sorcery) after the declare blockers phase, I thought only instants
were allowed then.
Then there was also the part about the turn 1 goblin recruiter, if my
rusty memory is right isn't the CC 1R?
Craig
But a most excellent tourney report nonetheless.
Craig
rca...@memphis.edu
Unfortunately, you won your regionals with an illegal deck. But I'm glad
you won. =) Kormus Bell is not legal. =) Your deck deserved to win it
all, though. I love the deck, and the report! =)
Aurian
-John M Shuler wrote:
>
> How I won the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with my Song of Blood Deck
>
> Hey there folks, I'll kill the suspense with my catchy title.
Amazing :) What a report.
Couple of rules errors in the 1st game, but other than that.. I don't
think I'll ever read a better tourney report.
--
Aurian (Mike Copestake)
"Hope is the denial of reality" - Dragons of Autumn Twilight
"Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised" - Lord of Chaos
"You'd be so disappointed to find out
that the magic was not really meant for you" - Our Lady Peace
Djinn23831
To bad this report is totaly false because I won the mid atlantic
regionals with a blue white rainbow wrath deck designed by me and david
adams.
Kyle Rose
HashimB
hey ,
1 you cannot save your keeper from the guildmage by using its ability
2 kormus bell is not in 5th
players in the NE regionals had to lose the 1st game of each match and
lose the right to sideboard for that infraction.
toodles
Hashim
David Swasey
jsh...@osf1.gmu.edu (John M Shuler) writes:
>Blue:
>Artifacts:
Woah, no wonder he won. It's all about the broken
Kormus Bell!!!
I qualified for nationals, but lost in the first round of
the single elim portion to David Price (EOTQ). First
game he over-ran me with river boa madness. Second
game it looked good for him when he finally killed my wall of
air and had 5-0 creature superiority!!! But God loved that
wall, and became real angry. Third game, he mana screwed
me ; only one plains and zero thaws in the first 34 cards of my deck.
I died with 2 outposts and 2 wraths in my hand. Of course
I got to hear all about what would have happened if the
cursed totem was a plains instead :)
Anyway, here is my silly deck. The amusing part (well
for a Uw deck...) is there aren't enough plains for the outposts,
you HAVE to loadstone up more plains to use all the outposts :))
6 plains
4 outpost
4 thaw
12 island (I guess an adakar or two would have helped in my last game...)
3 loadstone (I decked someone with one of these powerhouse cards)
4 brainstorm
4 impulse
4 counterspell
1 disenchant
1 circle of protection : red
4 dissipate
1 political trickery
4 wrath of god
4 disk
4 force of will
sideboard:
3 circle of protection : black
2 circle of protection : red
1 circle of protection : green
2 wall of air
1 cursed totem
1 disrupting sceptre
2 political trickery
3 disenchant
Bennie
<sniff> that has got to be the saddest story I have every heard...
WAAAAAAA!! WAAAAAAA!!! Life must be so hard in the NE.
Want some sour grapes to go along with your whine?
C'mon, enjoy the irony of a "fun" deck, grabbed by accident, that ended
up taking the whole thing due to skillful, almost flawless play. None
of the "cheats" were intentional (like Kormus Bell was such a vital
part of his sideboard) or a major factor in John's victory. His Song
of Blood deck should never had worked, with Errantry, Juxtapose, and
Time Bomb, as well as being over 60 cards, but it did, and I think his
victory brought back a little fun and humor into the game that has been
sorely lacking lately with lock decks, counter decks, and bad sportsman-
ship from so-called top notch players.
toodles to you
--
--Bennie, Richmond Task Mages
"Go crazy with the cheez whiz."
Chad J Day
Djinn23831 (djinn...@aol.com) wrote:
: To bad this report is totaly false because I won the mid atlantic
: regionals with a blue white rainbow wrath deck designed by me and david
: adams.
: Kyle Rose
some people are just no fun.
Alisdair Jorgensen
In article <5me3nn$t...@portal.gmu.edu>,
I'm a little curious about two small details:
Land?
What format was the tournament? It sounds like it was a Type II, but Kormus Bell, Orgg and Relentless Assault have NEVER been in Type II together.
Flynn
Bennie
John Shuler is a meta-game genius; not only is he a great writer with
a hilarious sense of humor, but he subconciously grabbed a deck he built
as a fun deck, as some part of him must have sensed it would prove to
be an unstoppable juggernaut in this current type 2 environment ;)
Seriously, I am glad he won with a "fun" deck, as this game has strayed
away from F-U-N with the prevalance of lock decks and control decks
(I'm sorry, but playing or playing against a "I counter or burn up
everything you do" deck is not fun; it wins alot, and winning is fun,
but that's not my point), and John's deck derserved it's victorious
pillage of the oh-so-serious regionals. Hooray for FUN!!!
Now, if only I can get my Ovinomancer/Splintering Wind deck to work...
--
--Bennie, Richmond Task Mages
"Go crazy with the cheez whiz."
Kelly Norton
On 27 May 1997 07:50:15 GMT, jsh...@osf1.gmu.edu (John M Shuler)
wrote:
.
>
>Round of 4: Kelly Norton, with a funky Haups deck.
>
>Game 1: Things go somewhat slow at first, with me pecking
>away at him early on. He eventually Haups. and floats
>enough to play an Orgg in the same turn. My turn: mountain,
>keeper of kookus, go.
>
>muahahhaha
>
>that about sums up game 1. I impulsed my way to a song when
>I had enough weenies out, and ran him over.
>
>Game 2: Kelly plays a turn 2 diamond. Then he plays a
>turn 4 Maro, using an undiscoverd to cast it, and glaciering
>on my turn. I get smacked by 9/9 maro, then by 9/9 maro
>again next turn as he drops his undiscoverd and just burns on it
>on my turn to put it back in his hand. I concede. :)
>
>Game 3: Turn 1: Keeper. Turn 2: attack, Swine rider (K-19),
>Turn 3: attack, Keeper, Recruiter (K-16). Turn 4: Attack,
>Song of Blood. Song of Blood. (K- now at negative 12).
If i could have just drawn a terror that first game things would have
been different buddy :) Yea, that early big Maro just kills those red
decks. I guess I should have put one of those COP: reds in the
sideboard since I was playing a 5 color deck.
I can't believe I got beat by a goblin recruiter deck. It's
just unbelieveable. Really hard to believe. Sometimes the truth hurts.
See you at nationals! :)
Kelly Norton
-AKA The Evil Nortonk
John M Shuler
: 1 you cannot save your keeper from the guildmage by using its ability
: 2 kormus bell is not in 5th
: players in the NE regionals had to lose the 1st game of each match and
: lose the right to sideboard for that infraction.
hashim, you are just jealous that YOU didn't play a song
of blood deck.
denial is the first stage...
John M Shuler
Djinn23831 (djinn...@aol.com) wrote:
: To bad this report is totaly false because I won the mid atlantic
: regionals with a blue white rainbow wrath deck designed by me and david
: adams.
: Kyle Rose
Kyle, congratulations. :)
Now go get a sense of humor.
btw: I apologize to everyone who actually believed my
report. It was complete fiction, intended to amuse, and to
entertain. I didn't actually expect anyone to BELIEVE it. Clues
as to the fact that the report was just a fun poke at the
game include:
my using a Kormus Bell (thought most people would catch this, and
you all did, except you simply thought I had put it in thinking
it was in 5E. This is not the case. it was the #1 clue that
the report was a silly joke)
my using song of blood as an instant. it's a sorcery
my not including any land in the deck listing. :)
the fact that I was certain to include many .strategy people
as my supposed 'opponents', so that I could get a fun
reaction. Kelly Norton and Chad Day played along, no one
else has responded yet.
I apologize if I misled anyone, this was all intended in
good fun, but apparently Mr. Rose has taken offense.
For the record, I dropped out after the 6th round (there
were indeed 9) when I was sure I wouldn't make it. And
I was playing a deck that I built at the tournament,
after I had already registered. Having been convinced by
Chad that a w/r wouldn't work (now I am kicking myself),
I played a stupid counterpost that I shouldn't have
played.
:)
so then
back to the boring "Where is the weatherlight list?" and
"Critique my stasis deck" threads..
I apologize one last time for attempting to put a little
bit of humor back into the newsgroup
c'mon people, JUXTAPOSE? And you all believed me? :)
john
Bennie
>To bad this report is totaly false because I won the mid atlantic
>regionals with a blue white rainbow wrath deck designed by me and david
>adams.
>Kyle Rose
So much for FUN. Man, the deck that won sure sounds like a fun,
original deck. Rainbow Efreets, Wraths of God, who'd'a thunk it?
--
--Bennie, Richmond Task Mages
"Go crazy with the cheez whiz."
Lawrence Chancy
That was the best tourney report ever on this NG, I don't care if it was
complete fiction John. My buddy Bill Macey told me to read strategy for
this report which I believe he bought actually :). Fantastic, you should
look into writing books for magic players, certainly more entertaining
than reading about George Baxter's assessment of Alliances or some such
phooey. Well congrats to your fictional deck and report. This was way
funnier than the THAT deck posts of yore since the post was almost
believable. I actually playtested a B/R song of blood deck before
regionals and when it got the draw it could kill you in 4 turns but
usually it kinda sucked. Here was the fastest kill I got with my song of
blood deck:
Turn 1: ritual/ sewer rats/erg raider
Turn 2: cast goblin recruiter and recruit 5 goblins attack for 3
Turn 3: cast song of blood/ attack with everything for 17 by pumping rat
for 1 as well. Turn 3 kill. Way cool.
Keep it coming John,
Paul Gallagher
Team AustiKnights
P.S. I also withdrew after round 6 of regionals after going 3-0, then
3-3 having never seen a stupid R/G deck to beat up on with my B/R
contagion control deck, oh well.
Jardine
Hi there, great tourney report. It's really funny to see a funny
deck win a large tournament. I do believe that your meta-game additions
were huge! Without them I think you may have made an o.k. day verses a
goblin danc'in Blue mage smash'in good time. Good luck to you at your
nationals. Now if I could only get off my U/? kick and play something cool
at my regional. :)
Tim Trenholm
DCI#8491
gri...@nbnet.nb.ca
Kelly Norton
On 27 May 1997 23:25:22 GMT, cd...@mason2.gmu.edu (Chad J Day) wrote:
>Djinn23831 (djinn...@aol.com) wrote:
>: To bad this report is totaly false because I won the mid atlantic
>: regionals with a blue white rainbow wrath deck designed by me and david
>: adams.
>
>: Kyle Rose
>
>some people are just no fun.
Yea, really!
John M Shuler
Lawrence Chancy (lch...@netcom.com) wrote:
: That was the best tourney report ever on this NG, I don't care if it was
: complete fiction John. My buddy Bill Macey told me to read strategy for
: this report which I believe he bought actually :). Fantastic, you should
: look into writing books for magic players, certainly more entertaining
The worst thing is, now I feel obligated to actually go and
play the deck (sans Kormus Bell). 3 different people have suggested
it as my penance for fooling them. :)
: phooey. Well congrats to your fictional deck and report. This was way
: funnier than the THAT deck posts of yore since the post was almost
: believable. I actually playtested a B/R song of blood deck before
I still feel kind of guilty now, though. I tried to make
it somewhat believable, but also obviously fake. I think
I just made it a little *too* believable. :)
Tomas Lindohf
In article <5mge6l$l...@portal.gmu.edu>,
jsh...@mason2.gmu.edu (John M Shuler) wrote:
>
> Djinn23831 (djinn...@aol.com) wrote:
> : To bad this report is totaly false because I won the mid atlantic
> : regionals with a blue white rainbow wrath deck designed by me and david
> : adams.
>
> : Kyle Rose
[snip]
> I apologize one last time for attempting to put a little
> bit of humor back into the newsgroup
Don't apologize, it was very amusing indeed, it sure made my day. One of
the most amusing tourney reports I've read, even though it was just a
joke... but maybe that was the reason it was so amusing.
>
> c'mon people, JUXTAPOSE? And you all believed me? :)
>
> john
>
> --
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> jsh...@gmu.edu
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Brian Hacker
I'm just teary-eyed John. That story should be a source of inspiration to
us all. You are truly the man!!! :)
Yours,
Hacker
Team Dickhead