10/17: Discount Draft
I got home from school and once again found out that the place where I get my haircuts was closed, so I hung out at home for a while and then headed off. I went to the bank as I was running low on money and also since I wanted to get the Yu-Gi-Oh tins I had been putting off on getting. While I mainly play Magic, a friend of mine made Nationals with a Jurrac deck, which reminded me that I need to keep my Naturia deck up to date so I could meet him there. I figured since I hadn’t bought Yu-Gi-Oh cards for a while, I might as well just get the tins, so I could get some packs as well. The card I wanted three of (Pot of Duality) goes for about 12 a piece, and tins are twenty, so it made sense just to buy the tins. I plan to make Nationals this year, although I’ll worry about that later, as I just found out that the Regional I had planned on attending in November has been cancelled.
Anyways, I arrived at the Dragon a little bit early, signed up, and watched a Yu-gi-oh game going on between a guy I see there a lot using his Ojama deck. He appeared to be destroying a player using Fairies. There was also another guy with a Yubel based deck and I found another Naturia player, who I had met a couple weeks ago (although his was more based around swarming weaker Naturia and synchroing). After a little more waiting, the tournament started and I was in a seven man pod. We started to draft and when I got a Trepanation Blade, I thought it would be cool to try a mill-based deck. It wasn’t particularly mill-based, as its only mill were the blade and two of those blue 2/3s that mill one whenever a creature dies. I also had Kessig Cagebreakers, two Delver of Secrets, and a Civilized Scholor, along with one of each counter.
My first opponent was running a white green deck with a large amount of fliers. Game one, I was able to play out a few creatures quickly and got him down to six life left. I had an Outcast out, but I was milling myself since he had low life and I didn’t want to risk getting a card with Flashback. Unfortunately, he got out an Avacynian Priest, a doomed traveler, and an Angelic Overseer. I was able to kill the traveler and return the Priest to his hand, but unfortunately, I was down to six life as well and had no fliers. He attacked and give it +1/+1 and hexproof. Game one, lost. Game two, I was on the draw and had quite a bit of land, unfortunately, I couldn’t play anything until turn three and that something was a Civilized Scholar. Turn two, he played out Silverchase Fox. Turn two for me, nothing. I take two and he gets out a Voiceless Spirit. I play out my Scholar and he attacks. I’m at fourteen. I draw. I don’t want to use the scholar’s effect since all I have to discard is my cage breakers, but I do when he attacks and trade with his Fox. I play Forbidden Alchemy during his end step and get and play my Somberwald Spider. He Bonds of Faiths it and I lose soon after.
Round two, I have a bye and go to Target to get my tins. I get two Leviathan Dragon tins and one Wind-Up Zenmeister tin. I got an ultimate rare Tech Genus Halberd Cannon, which was pretty cool, but I don’t really see myself using it. I got back and challenged Trevor to a game, which I lost. We had a rematch, which was close, but then round three started. My opponent was playing a deck that was primarily Werewolves, and when I couldn’t play anything on turn two, his Shepard transformed and I found myself taking damage. I quickly went to eleven, as I couldn’t block his Shepard, but I managed to hold him off a while by casting two spells. Unfortunately, my ability to do so ran out, and he managed to get me to five with a trampler. I blocked what I could, and got him down to one with my Homicidal Brute. He had two creatures and so did I. I was at two with a Delver of Secrets. He had no fliers. Upkeep. Come on…nope. He plays Crossway Vampire. Game. Game two, I quickly got out all three of my flip cards and took him to ten. He played out some werewolves, and hit me a little before wiping the board with a Blasphemous Act. I played my Invisible stalker, which his him to 9, while I countered his cards, but unfortunately, he had an equipment that gave lifelink, and as soon as I could no longer counter, I knew I had lost. Sure enough, I lost. Not the best day, but my games could have been worse. Oh well, next time.
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