Magic: The Gathering,GO TEAM MS!

[Natirasha]

I really hope all the commanders in this next set aren't as boring as the spoiled one!

[bv310]

Yeah, Yasova and Surrak are both boring as shit for RUG commanders. Give me Riku/Animar any day.

[Shanba]

could play yasova with a bunch of pump and sac outlets

[kdowns]

Made day 2 at gp

[Thestatusquo]

wd.

what record?

[bv310]

Congrats! You now officially have more Day 2s than me!

[Thestatusquo]

Same!

[kdowns]

7-2

[kdowns]

Went from 1-2 to 7-2

[Thestatusquo]

Run the table. Get dat invite.

[kdowns]

I'm going to try.

[kdowns]

9-2 now

[Shanba]

Ehehehehehe

I decided to play the modern daily on a whim cause I have vigorous bloom built and basically I was on tilt so making bad decisions.

My r1 opponent is on scapeshift and my game 1 draw is one of those where you just do nothing and die.

Game 2, I have a hand with a summer bloom, a prime time and a bounceland but no amulet of vigor. I keep cause this is still a turn 3 titan and obviously nuts if I can rip an amulet. Not hopeful cause its scapeshift and they have all those cryptic commands and stuff.

Anyway I execute my gameplan, he executes his with sakura tribe and search for tomorrow and stuff, and I land the titan. No counterspell. Neat! I look at my lands, trying to work out what to tutor, thinking probably growth chamber and tolaria west, to tutor for a pact of negation. Before I can choose, however, he concedes! I was a little surprised.

[Shanba]

GO KDOWNS

[Thestatusquo]

Looks like he's dead, but still likely to cash if he wins out.

[kdowns]

Yeah. I went from 9-2 to 9-6. I was mentally exhausted and couldn't concentrate on my matches. Like I lost to mono red when I was on Jeskai.

Other than that Efro came up to me when I got my 9th win abd started complementing me on my play. I was blown away.

[Natirasha]

Damn, that's like the exact same spread I went at my first GP. Into day 2 7-2, ended up 9-6.

I didn't get props from the pros, though.

[kdowns]

Yeah, I was to mentally exhausted after going 9-2, my brain started farting a lot. I lost a match up I should have easily won (Mono Red). But Here is a full run down on what happened in my run.

Round 1: Abzan Reanimator, Game 1 got him down to 3 life and cast Dig to find the last burn spell, I completely whiffed and didn't top deck the burn. Game 2, I just completely overrun him with Rider and Goblins. Game 3 got him down to 3 again and completely whiffed with Dig again and top decked a Magma Jet.

Round 2: GR Monsters easily won 2-1. Lost Game 2 because I mulled to 5 and was stuck on one land.

Round 3: RW Tokens lost 2-1, Jeskai has a really hard time dealing with Brimaz.

Round 4: Mardu, Won 2-1. This match was really weird because my opponent wasn't running any Butchers and was running like 28 land. But most interesting thing that happened to me was that I had three Goblins out and I cast Mantis Rider and he declares "In response to you casting Mantis Rider, Cackling Doom you", I was like... "Uhh Wtf???" but yeah...

Round 5 Abzan Midrange Won 2-0, My opponent had really slow hand starts while I had really fast Rider/Outburst starts.

Round 6 Mono Red Won 2-0, Jeskai Charm's life link abilities is what easily won the match for me, plus a unchecked Seeker.

Round 7 Abzan Aggro Won 2-0, Crazy fast start by me with Burn spells that took care of all his threats.

Round 8 Jeskai Tempo Won 2-1 Basically came down to who ever got the faster start and didn't stumble on lands which luckily was me this time.

Round 9 G/B Constellation Won 2-1, In what I personally think is one of my worst match ups. Came down to literally me top decking an Erase before he could stabalize with a Hornet Queen in his grave yard.

Round 10 Jeskai Ascendancy Combo Won 2-0, His pain lands really helped me get him down quick enough and in game two, I had the Negate for his Helix when he tried to go off.

Round 11 B/W Heroic Won 2-1, He stumbled on his mana in both games that I won so none of his guys were sticking to the board.

Round 12 Jeskai Control/midrange this deck had main deck Brimaz and I think Sphinx? I lost horrible 2-0 which this is when I started to go on the decline.

Round 13 Mono Red lost 1-2 came down to him have double stoke in hand both times in the games that I lost which I honestly did not see coming. Also my opponent was Chinese and even though there was a language barrier he was really cool to talk to and learn a lot about the asian gp scene.

Round 14/15 lost to two Abzan Decks 2-0 that had nutty Rhino into Sorin draws both games.

[bv310]

I swear the second I sit down to play a Modern Daily, I become unable to play my freaking deck. I'm playing Sam Pardee's Archangel Pod list with the MD Thragtusk and SB Cranial Extraction

Spoiler: I kind of hate myself

- Yesterday, Round 1 vs some weird homebrewed WUR Jeskai Ascendancy list.

Lost game 1 due to keeping a hand that was 2 land, a wall of roots, a Pod, and 2 Finks, then didn't Pod properly and got combo'd out on.

Won Game 2 by stripping the right cards from his hand with Thoughtseize/Entomber Exarch, and landing an early Siege Rhino

Lost game 3 by keeping 5 cards that was land, Birds, Pod, Shriekmaw, Entomber and then drawing no land while he comboed out on me Turn 3


- Round 2 vs Scapeshift (My worst matchup by far)

Won game 1 by comboing out when he didn't keep Cryptic up on the right turn

Lost game 2 by not mulling aggressively enough

Lost game 3 to keeping 2 land, Wall of Roots, Birds, Cranial Extraction, then drawing 2 Thoughtseizes and every card over 4cmc in the deck while he beat me to death with Snapcaster and Lightning Bolts.

Hey KDowns, what list were you running?

[kdowns]

I was playing the Kevin Jone's Jeskai list from SCG. I made some tweaks to the sideboard.

[Shanba]

The list of people i prefer to listen to talking about magic than rashad miller is really rather long

[Thestatusquo]

Does it include Zach Hill or BDM?

[hasdgfas]

Does it include Zach Hill or BDM?

I would rather listen to those 2 over Rashad.

[bv310]

Does it include Zach Hill or BDM?

I would rather listen to those 2 over Rashad.

Same. Rashad is mind-numbingly boring.

[Thestatusquo]

I guess that's fair. They're all in the running for the worst, though.