Killer Joe
New member
Place: Exit 13
Format: T2
Round 1
U/W Control v. "Heavy Duty" PCD
Game 1
My 12 yr. old opponent, with quite the happy look on his face, starts unwrapping his newly bought PCD. He barely shuffles and immediately starts to draw his cards. (sidenote: I have learned my lesson last week about judging people based on their age, so I felt no guilt or remorse about my next action). I say, "Stop!". I took his deck and shuffled for him, like a mad man, I gave him back his deck and then we proceeded to cut each others decks properly.
Anyway, he beats me down to 5 points and the look on his face was one of triumph, I Wrath. Whoo, that old feeling started to come back, the one where my stomach gets quesy, and guilt overflows. I then play Blinding Angel, and then I start the old grinding of beating HIM down 2 at a time. I wanted to tell him to concede, but I didn't have the heart.
Game 2
Sorta the same story except his spirits were somewhat dampered. I'm a bad man, very bad.
1-0
2-0
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Round 2
U/W Control v. G/W Blinding-Geddon
Game 1
My opponent is one of the few "TRUE" casual players down at the shop. Most of the time he uses cards that no one wants to use and usually makes them work. So it was to my surprise whem I saw a glimpse of his deckusing mainstream cards like Armageddon and Blinding Angel (BTW, he hates 'NET' decks). It's the usual story with me getting beat silly in the first 4 to 5 turns (and I ALWAYS lose the roll of the die), I finally Wrath away a Clocked Charging Troll, several mana producing creatures, and a Rhox! Next turn, I play Blinding Angel and I'm tapped out! OOPS! (please, oh please, If I survive this turn, I promise I'll never tap out like that again). He says, "Go." WHAAAAAHOOOOOEY!
I lock him down, sorta, he tries to cast HIS B-Angel, I Counter it. He dies slowly to to the Angel.
Game 2
I 'side' in 3x Mageta's and two Last Breath's. Again, I get beat silly, but this time I go Waaaaaay down to 2 life before I plop down a Teferi's Moat (and the creatures beating me down are GREEN), so I name Green. Bam! like three times in a row he tries to either cast a Razorfoot Griffin or a B-Angel, Counter heavyly and am running out of counters with no sideboard card or Angel in-sight! I have loads of land out by now and I draw (with hearlding trumpets playing loudly) a Recall! <folks in the audience start to chuckle as if I'm standing in my underware> I said, "Recall!", now I only hear crickets in the background. Well, anyway, I bring back a Fact or Fictioned Wrath and two Absorbs. I Wrath. A turn later, I draw MY Angel, and eventually win. "Recall", and still, no cheering, oh well.
2-0
4-0
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Round 3 (final round-I never get how they do these things)
U/W Control v. G/R Blasto-Rage
Game 1
It's THE EVIL SHOP GURU! Begin, the mind games. No details for this match, it's way too embarassing. I lose to a 10 pt. rage.
Game 2
There is contraversy about an Absorb countering an Urza's Rage, T.E.S.G. say's even though Absorb fizz'd I still gain 3 life, huh!? I still lose and I get a box of sleeves, yeah!
I was using Gabe Tsang's deck and the Recall is great! I acquired 2 more B-Angels and they were also a great help.
Format: T2
Round 1
U/W Control v. "Heavy Duty" PCD
Game 1
My 12 yr. old opponent, with quite the happy look on his face, starts unwrapping his newly bought PCD. He barely shuffles and immediately starts to draw his cards. (sidenote: I have learned my lesson last week about judging people based on their age, so I felt no guilt or remorse about my next action). I say, "Stop!". I took his deck and shuffled for him, like a mad man, I gave him back his deck and then we proceeded to cut each others decks properly.
Anyway, he beats me down to 5 points and the look on his face was one of triumph, I Wrath. Whoo, that old feeling started to come back, the one where my stomach gets quesy, and guilt overflows. I then play Blinding Angel, and then I start the old grinding of beating HIM down 2 at a time. I wanted to tell him to concede, but I didn't have the heart.
Game 2
Sorta the same story except his spirits were somewhat dampered. I'm a bad man, very bad.
1-0
2-0
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Round 2
U/W Control v. G/W Blinding-Geddon
Game 1
My opponent is one of the few "TRUE" casual players down at the shop. Most of the time he uses cards that no one wants to use and usually makes them work. So it was to my surprise whem I saw a glimpse of his deckusing mainstream cards like Armageddon and Blinding Angel (BTW, he hates 'NET' decks). It's the usual story with me getting beat silly in the first 4 to 5 turns (and I ALWAYS lose the roll of the die), I finally Wrath away a Clocked Charging Troll, several mana producing creatures, and a Rhox! Next turn, I play Blinding Angel and I'm tapped out! OOPS! (please, oh please, If I survive this turn, I promise I'll never tap out like that again). He says, "Go." WHAAAAAHOOOOOEY!
I lock him down, sorta, he tries to cast HIS B-Angel, I Counter it. He dies slowly to to the Angel.
Game 2
I 'side' in 3x Mageta's and two Last Breath's. Again, I get beat silly, but this time I go Waaaaaay down to 2 life before I plop down a Teferi's Moat (and the creatures beating me down are GREEN), so I name Green. Bam! like three times in a row he tries to either cast a Razorfoot Griffin or a B-Angel, Counter heavyly and am running out of counters with no sideboard card or Angel in-sight! I have loads of land out by now and I draw (with hearlding trumpets playing loudly) a Recall! <folks in the audience start to chuckle as if I'm standing in my underware> I said, "Recall!", now I only hear crickets in the background. Well, anyway, I bring back a Fact or Fictioned Wrath and two Absorbs. I Wrath. A turn later, I draw MY Angel, and eventually win. "Recall", and still, no cheering, oh well.
2-0
4-0
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Round 3 (final round-I never get how they do these things)
U/W Control v. G/R Blasto-Rage
Game 1
It's THE EVIL SHOP GURU! Begin, the mind games. No details for this match, it's way too embarassing. I lose to a 10 pt. rage.
Game 2
There is contraversy about an Absorb countering an Urza's Rage, T.E.S.G. say's even though Absorb fizz'd I still gain 3 life, huh!? I still lose and I get a box of sleeves, yeah!
I was using Gabe Tsang's deck and the Recall is great! I acquired 2 more B-Angels and they were also a great help.