Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[kdowns]

I have Temples and I can get a couple of Breeding Pools.

[xRECKONERx]

What do you want for them?

[Thestatusquo]

I'm off to the ptq. Wish me luck!

[xRECKONERx]

Glhf

[Klazam]

I'm off to the ptq. Wish me luck!

ooh, with what?

also tournament report?

[chamber]

Hes taking naya blitz I think.

[Thestatusquo]

I went to two. I will have a detailed rant later tonight, dont worry.

[Thestatusquo]

I played blitz at Chicago PTQ and went 4-4 after a miserable start that involved me finding literally every imaginable way to lose a game of magic, including but not limited to blocking with a fiend hunter with a tusk under it because I didn't read the card and thought it went back to hand, forgetting to play a second land drop, not drawing colors, not playing a boros charm eot to give myself a chance to top deck a haste dude and win the next turn (which happened! yaaaay!) and many more. It is possible that a more experienced aggro player would have done much better than me, but I still dont think they would have top 8'd. The matches that are bad are just unwinnably so, and the decks mana base is so inconsistant that sometimes you just mull to 5 twice in a favorable one and don't get there. I have never played a deck more likely to lose to its own lands in my entire life (both in the sense of taking damage and not letting you cast spells.)

In Madison on sunday I played a Jund concoction of my own, where me and a buddy spliced the parts of jund aggro that we like (boar, experiment one, emisarry, hellrider etc) with the pieces of jund midrange we liked (liliana, Olivia, Bonfire. decay, putrefy etc) and the deck played beautifully. I took my first loss playing a buddy and car-mate playing a more traditional midrange jund list (which is a quite bad matchup, because he's just going bigger than I am and I'm not fast enough to beat his removal) rd 4. I reeled off two more wins and was sitting 5-1 with 16 people to be X-1 or better at the end of the round. Essentially, win and in. I got paired down. I asked my opponent if he'd be willing to scoop. He said no. That's fine. People want to play out matches for product, etc. But then he said that he was pretty sure an X-2 would make it, and he would have the best breaks because he was paired up against me. I was like uhhhh no, there's no way. And then the people sitting next to us were like, nah, you're dead bro. And he was just like "disagree" and kept shuffling.

He then proceeded to start his turn in the middle of my second main phase, and when the judge came over told him that I had said go. "Actually what I said was "ok" in response to an end of combat tragic slip. The judge said it was a communication error and that he wanted to put the card back on top shuffle the deck and rewind. I appealed. THE CARD HIT HIS HAND. That is the definition of "drawing extra cards" It's a game loss. Magic has rules. It is looking at extra cards if you see the card but it doesn't touch your hand. It is drawing extra when it touches the cards in your hand. There is a clear line. It is there for a reason.

Anyway, head judge comes over, asks us both what happened, and now he's like "oh, the card didn't touch my hand, I just peeked at it." The head judge asked the table judge what had happened (he had been watching the game) and he said that he would rule it hit his hand because he thinks if it were a miracle trigger he would not have let him reveal it. The head judge goes and talks to some people and comes back and rewinds the game, shuffles the deck and goes "play on."

Opponent rips angel of serenity off the top, hits both my deathrite shamans which had him at 8 with plenty of instants in the yard, and proceeds to smash me out of top 8 from there.

I am the most pissed I have ever been at magic and I considered quitting right there.

[Klazam]

ugh. judge errors sucks.

[hasdgfas]

Why didn't you mention you were in Madison?

[Thestatusquo]

Wait, fuck. I totally blanked that this is where you are. We were at misty mountain games.

[hasdgfas]

Wait, fuck. I totally blanked that this is where you are. We were at misty mountain games.

Yeah, that's where I prerelease. Neat place.

[AGar]

Wow, that really blows, Shea.

[AGar]

Late night drafts...

Just won a match because I was able to topdeck a mountain...

[Klazam]

I've literally windmill slammed a mountain for the win before. the winning Thundermaw Hellkite was stranded in hand due to lack of red mana. So fun.

[AGar]

Aaaaand Magic Online pisses me off yet again. Not like I wanted to use my instants on his turn or anything.

[Thestatusquo]

To be fair, though, I also didn't know I was going to madison til I was already at the Chicago PTQ and some guys told me they had a motel room and were leaving straight from there.

I didn't really have a chance even if I had remembered.

[xRECKONERx]

Wow, Shea, I would've lost my shit on that guy.

[Thestatusquo]

Well, it wasn't really the guys fault. Like, I don't think he was actively trying to cheat, which is probably ultimately why the judge decided to not game loss him.

But, it really should have been a game loss. The rules are really really clear on this point. It was entirely the judges fault.

[xRECKONERx]

anyone have bant lands or Chandra's Phoenixes they might wanna dump?

[Maestro]

I have a couple Worldheart Phoenixes...?

which are the Bant lands? I have a royal fuckton of cards from Alara

[Maestro]

my card collection Rhox the party

[kdowns]

Bant Lands: Temple Garden, Hallowed Fountain, Breeding Pool, Sunpetal Grove, Hinterland Harbor, and Glacial Fortress.

[xRECKONERx]

Oh also Advent of the Wurm

[bv310]

I have an Advent I'm willing to trade. Any chance you have Deathrite Shamans kicking about? (I'll add other stuff to make it a fair deal)