10/28: FNM
A typical Friday. I got home from school and waited around until five-thirty or so and then drove down to Larry’s. I had to wait a while as one guy kept saying that he was nearly there and ended up getting there over half an hour late. We were all surprised that the store owner waited considering how many annoyed drafters there were. At 7:00, he called and the store owner said he’s give him three minutes. Anyways, when he arrived at 7:04, we got started and were all kinda pissed at him. Being the Halloween FNM, we all got deck boxes and awesome M&Ms with the symbol of Avacyn on them. The deck boxes were pretty awesome, but no one could figure out how to put them together, except for Arianna and a few other people, mine is holding together pretty well, except hers was better. One kid seemed happy and declared his victory over the deck box, when it popped apart right back in to its original flat shape. We all burst out laughing.
I drafted a green/black deck with a lot of werewolves in it. I feel that this was good as I put thought into it and made sure to have both creatures and removal. My first opponent was a kid who I’ve seen there often. I’m pretty sure his name was Robert. He was playing a red/green deck. Game one, he was on the play and had to mulligan. This wasn’t much of a game, as I pretty much just summoned creatures (Elder of Laurels as one of them) and destroyed him with my werewolves, before he could fight back. Game two, he was on the play again, and this one was more challenging for me. He got a couple of hits on me and I was a little short on mana, but I luckily draw the land I needed in time. I got out a green wolf (the one that gets +2/+2, when I pay the mana), and equipped it with two blazing torch. Stupid move. He used Traitorous Blood and I responded by tapping it to kill one of his creatures. He untapped it and killed it. Eventually, he had out an Instigator Gang, which I didn’t want to stick around, so I swung out with three creatures (two of which were my Gatstaf Howler and my Krallenhorde Wantons), and my third was a creature he could block and kill with his Gang. He blocked my Wantons with one of his creatures and my weak creature with his gang, and didn’t have any green creatures out to block the howler. We both started this turn with three creatures, now we both had two. I played my Morkrut Banshee to kill his Instigator Gang and block on the next turn. He played a Crossway Vampire and swung with his last creature. I drew Prey Upon. Game.
My second match was against Richard. He had a black/white deck with a lot of humans and some equipments. He gained the advantage via speed, as I tend to be on the draw and was both times. Game one, he quickly gets out a doomed traveler followed by a couple of other weak creatures, as well as a sharpened pitchfork. I am able to block, but have less creatures than him. I get down to low life, but my removal and strong creatures allowed me to win game one barely. Next game, he shows his speed once again and I soon find myself up against a Geist-honored Monk and an Alabaster Angel. I hardly have any fliers, so I lose quickly. Game three, he got out a vampire interloper and hit hitting me with it a few times. This was the first game he couldn’t play something first turn. Luckliy, my Howler was hitting him back, and my creatures were stronger so he was pretty hesitant to attack, of course, I also had removal, such as dead weight, so I ended up killing his fliers to make up for my lack of them. I ended up at thirteen when I was finally able to gain control of the game by attacking where I would lose a creature, but setting me up for a Morkrut Banshee, which left him with only the interloper. Throughout the game, we have been killing each other creatures off with spells, as he has Rebuke and Smite the Monstrous (which got rid of my Stalking Vampire this game), and I have Dead Weight, Tribute to Hunger, Prey Upon, and Victim of Night. I had more, but he had more creatures, so it kind of evened out. He was a very tough opponent, but when it came to his last draw, he just drew and placed a plains on the table.
My third opponent was Robert’s brother, Andrew (or maybe I have them mixed up). I offered to draw, but he refused and so we played. He was playing a deck that was almost entirely removal, with Geistflames, Harvest’s Pyre, Claustrophobia, Tribute to Hunger and probably more. I realized this when I played Night Terrors game one to hit Claustrophobia and saw his hand full of removal. He got out a Delver of Secrets, which I played Dead Weight on. He wasn’t playing anything as my creatures were higher in cost and therefore he had to wait to. I assumed I won as he didn’t seem to have any creatures. I played out my Grizzled Outcasts, forgetting that he could play his Tribute during my upkeep. He did and gained seven. I played my Shamans (turns into a regenerating werewolf) and he killed them soon as well. He responded to pretty much everything by killing it until I found myself up against a Skaab Goliath with only weaker creatures. I didn’t draw anything to stop it as it was a Zombie and Victim of Night wouldn’t work on it, and ended up dying quickly. Game two, he was on the play with a lack of mana and a mulligan and I beat him down quickly before he could retaliate. That’s why I like the draw. Despite getting the draw for all three games, though, I still ended up losing. I tried to beat him down game three, but in the end, it ended up like a repeat of Game one. I tried to Night Terrors again, but he didn’t have a Goliath in hand. He played out Murder of Crows, which I promptly used Victim of Night on. That set the last creature in his grave yard, though, and He played Skaab Goliath. He won without much trouble as I didn’t draw my Tribute to Hunger in time to save me. I still got five packs for second, so all was good.
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