Witchblades 1.5 Tournie Report
Witchblades 1.5 Tournie Report
I had planed to attend a type 1.5 tournament on August 3rd. I had been messing
with different deck types the week before, and had settled on a red/white deck
with blue/green splashed in for Erhnams and Serendibs. While it worked well
when I drew the correct land it seemed inconsistent. I would occasionally have
either Erhnams or Serendibs sitting in my hand the whole game when I tested the
deck. So at 2:00 in the morning, the night before the tournament I decided to
get rid of the Serendibs and put in River Boas. I tested this deck for ahile
against my other decks, and decided that I would need to get some rest. Here is
the deck I ended up using:
Red:
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Incinerate
4 Kird Ape
2 Kaervek's Torch
White:
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Disenchant
2 Wrath of God
2 Savannah Lions
Green:
4 Erhanm Djinn
4 River Boa
Land:
3 Kjeldoran Outpost
2 Thawing Glaciers
4 Savannah
4 Taiga
2 Plateau
2 Undiscovered Paridise
5 Mountains
4 Plains
1 Forest
I could tell that the tournament wasn't organized very well. We would play 12
different people, one game apiece. Then whoever has the best record wins. If
there was a tie in wins then whoever had the most average lifepoints wins. This
made me mad seeing that my sideboard would be useless.
Game 1
R/U/G
My opponent had a really great deck. Mostly large creatures mixed with
countering and burn. He goes first. I drop a taiga and an ape on my turn. He
bolts my ape. I play a boa. he bolts it. He plays a land and lets me go. I cast
a boa and he mana drains it. Next turn he plays a land and uses the mana from
the drain to cast a mahomotti. I incinerate and bolt it but he force of wills
one. The mahomotti and a serendib on the next turn mean the end of the game for
me.
0-1
Game 2
R/G/B Land Destruction
He gets one land in his opening hand. He gets out one more land before kirds,
boas, and soldiers kill him off.
1-1
Game 3
R/W
My opponent was a really nice guy, but his deck just didn't cut it. He had
trouble getting land at first. When he fianlly got his deck going I saw he was
using castles, COPs standard, and a bunch of other things. Eventually Wennies
kill him while I plow and bolt his creatures. After the Game he showed me the 3
Two-Headed Giants in his deck. I'm still wondering about thst deck.
2-1
Game 4
Black Swarm
He had quite a few creatures in the deck. I would estimate about 30. I hold off
his creatures with burn and plows for awhile. We both have a couple of
creatures out, and we keep trading damage untill I finally draw a wrath of god.
I cast it and my next draw just happens to be a kjeldroan outpost. An erhnam
and some soldier tokens take him down.
3-1
Game 5
Big Blue
This was one of my best challenges of the night. I take him down to about 8,
and then his offense comes in. Six snake tokens. They hold of my creatures off
for awile untill he gets out an air elemental. This creates a problem since my
deck can't block fliers. Eventually I get him to 3 life when his illusions of
granduer comes out. He now had 23 life, plenty of land and I didn't have a
disenchant in sight. Eventually I torch his elemental and take down all 23
life. Another turn or two and I would be dead considering that I was at 5.
After the game he showed me he had a Psionic Blast in his hand, but it would
have killed him, and only brought me to 1.
4-1
Game 6
U/W Prison
I got a great hand, and pouned on him for quite a while. I disenchanted his Icy
and he never drew a winter orb. Death by wennies.
5-1
Game 7
R/B
No specific theme. I'm guessing he was a beginer because he only got out a bog
wraith (which I bolted) before he died.
6-1
Game 8
White Wennie
My deck was designed to take out weenies, and I was totally prepared to play
this deck. I took down every weenie with burn and plows, and swarmed him with
soldier tokens and 2 apes before he ever saw a wrath of god.
7-1
Game 9
Mono Red
At first I was expecting sligh, because he cast an ironclaw on turn 2, but the
thing is that was the only creature he ever cast. I got out plenty of weenies
and a post. He earthquaked for 1. That was the only damage he did to me all
game. I get more weenies and tokens and he had no answer for them.
8-1
Game 10
White Wennie
Another WW deck. He starts playing some pretty week weenies like benalish hero.
I didn't see any knights at all I take the game easily. Not much else to say.
9-1
Game 11
Mono Black
A pretty bad deck, but what was worse is that he was totally lacking any skill.
He casts a mire Shade and sacs all his swamps to it to make it 5/5. I plow it.
I kill him with creatures and burn while he never saw another land the whole
game.
10-1
Game 12
Green Weenie
As I said earlier my deck was designed to stop weenies and this was no
exception. I neutralized his creatures that couldn't be targeted by spells or
effects (centaurs and insects) with boas and soldier tokens. I plowed and burnt
the others. I eventually win with about ten tokens, and some burn to finish him
off.
11-1
Overall I was very happy with my performance, although the general field wasn't
that challenging. I took second place overall winning a regular balduvian horde
and a giant arena league balduvian horde. The winner of the tournament had the
same record as me, but because he was playing 4 gerrard's wisdoms his end life
total was higher. I plan to write a report for a type 2 vanguard tournament
that I will be attending in a month, so look out for it.
-Jason Trice
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