Type I kicks ass! It's a lot of fun to be able to play with the old stuff again.
I was wrong about it being sanctioned. It was double elimination, which is inferior to swiss, I think, and takes longer.
Here is the deck I used and sideboard...
3 Pox
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Duress
1 Mind Twist
3 Diabolic Edict
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Balance
4 Sinkhole
1 Vindicate
4 Steal Golum
4 The Rack
1 Demonic tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoths Will
4 Dark Ritual
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Stripmine
4 Scrubland
2 Tainted Field
11 Swamp
Side
3 Dystopia
1 Edict
1 Pox
4 Spinning Darknes
2 Seal of Clensing
4 Masacre
I suck at reports, so I'll give no more then brief rundowns...
Round I, White Weenie
Game I...After I muligan to 5, he rushes me with quick shadow creatures. I never see a single edict, plow or pox, my creatures can't block, and I also never get a tutor. Sucks to be me.
Game II...It's a Massacre!
Game III...It's a Massacre!
(and all the guys laughed at me for putting Massacre in the side.)
1-0
***
Round II, Burn, Burn, Burn
Game I...He's land light, and I get the perfect draw. I beat him down with factories and Golums and he sits there with an empty hand and 1 mountain.
Game II...His only creature is avalanch riders. He casts 2 during that game and I spin both. While he's playing off the top of his deck, I kill him with the un-boltable Golum. It seemed he didn't play Fireblast.
2-0
***
Round III...Worst Weisman Ever
Game I...Duress, Hymn first turn...duress, sinkhole second. He taps out for morphling later, and I edict. The dummy.
Game II...Why do people play with Arcane Denial? I wanted him to counter my spells. He fills my hand while I rape his. the un-counterable factory goes the distance.
3-0
***
Round IV, Elves
Game I...I keep a stripmine, 1 swamp hand. I duress and see two creeping molds and an icestorm. Oops.
Game II...I pox and spin my way to victory, with the rack doing the final damage.
Game III...after a rather long game, I'm at 5 and he's at 7. He had just creeped my Golum and Icestormed my factory. He also has a horde of pissed off elves. I have 2 racks, 2 swamps and 1 scrubland in play, and 1 swamp in hand. I draw a demonic tutor, drop the swamp, tutor for and play ballance. Now his hand is empty, and he has no creatures. Two turns later I win thanks to The RAck.
4-0
Round V, Keeper
Game I...His first turn, drops land, lotus, two moxes, and a sol ring, and Mind Twists my hand for 6, leaving me with a vindicate.
He's next turn he Ancestrals, regrowths the Ancestral, timewalks, drops a morphling, and does about 6 other manuevers I can't even recall. I scoop.
Game II...I go first, and open with Ritual, Duress, Hymn. On my second turn I ritual and play duress, sinkhole. The gods loved me.
Game III...the gods hate me. In all truth, I was out-gunned and out matched. The guy played perfectly, and got to go first. Pox can beat keeper, but only, I'm convinced, if it goes first and gets the right draw.
4-1
Round VI, Red/Green land destruction.
Game I... First game he stone rains and icestorms like nine hundred times, and kills me with a kird ape after double bolting my gollum.
Game II...I empty his hand and lay two racks. He thinks playing Argothian Wurm, only to have me sack land after land, is good for him. He's wrong. He is ths incapable of drawing answers to my golum or the racks.
Game III...he lays the first turn vice. we each play creatures only to see them killed. After a very long and drawn out game, I'm at 5 and he's at 9. He top-decks a bolt. Next turn, he top-decks an Incinerate. Lucky bastard.
It was all very fun, and I think we have the store convinced to do it at least once a month. Time to save money for the jewelry.
