Saturday, November 24, 2012

Chris's PTQ Sealed Pool

So this is a LR listener who went to a PTQ and is wanting help on his sealed pool.

I have the pool as a .dek file, so go ahead and download it... load it into your MTGO and then take a screenshot and post it in the comments :).

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ore21j

Acidrakken's RTR Draft #3

Another week, another draft.  This time I listened to the signals and

did what I should have done last time.  Also, having an absolutely
absurd pack 3 was quite helpful.



As far as the actual games went, I probably need to slow down a
little.  Biggest sin I committed a few times was forgetting to
activate Lobber Crew.  I find myself already playing through the next
turn in my head and forget to activate it on villain's end step.
Also, I punted a play in Match 1, could have killed a turn earlier,
but tried to get too clever with Voidwielder.  Opponent was at 4 life
with one untapped blocker.  I had RM guildmage, Arrested; also a
Rakdos Cackler with 3 counters on it.  In retrospect, I should have
just VWed the blocker and swung, but I decided to instead pull the
guildmage out from under the Arrest.  Didn't cost me the game, but it
was a bad play.
Otherwise, ran pretty good - didn't flood out at all this time.

Round 1, vs Azorius touching Red.
Guy played fine, but I just had the answers.  Relatively proud of
myself for playing around the guy's Explosive Impact.  He repeatedly
swung into my Desecration Demon with a couple of 1/X flyers.  So,
eventually demon just took over the games.

Round 2, Golgari
Didn't see enough of this guy's play to say a lot - he was a fellow
L_R clan member though.  I mainly just powered through his stuff and
had the right proportions of threats and removal to make it happen.

Round 3, kinda nervous going into R3, was either going to be a
Selesnya deck or an Izzet one, as that was the other matchup on the
top of the bracket in R2.  Ended up playing against the Izzet deck,
and took it down 2-1.  This is where I punted a couple of lobber crew
activations, but thankfully it wasn't so close that those two points
of damage would have been super relevant.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Acidrakken's RTR Draft #2

A draft where I did badly, and not sure if the deck I drafted was just

bad, or if I should have listened harder to the signals.  Just tired
of being Rakdos, so I tried forcing something else.



First round, got crushed by the Selesnya/blue deck that eventually won
the whole thing.

Second Round, mirror against Golgari with enough splashed white to
kind of ruin everything for me.  Every time I got a guy decent, he'd
get launch partied, or Trostani's Judgment, or Arrest.

Third Round got the bye.  Moral of the story is to always stick around
in the Swiss, you might be giving up a free pack if you don't.

Doesn't help that I ended every game with 10+ lands in some
combination of the hand and battlefield.  Really starting to think 17
lands is just too many.  Or do I really need to mull hands that have 4
lands, 2 drop, 3 drop, 4 drop?

Monday, November 5, 2012