Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2006 1:37:02 GMT -5
Hey folks, Q here, reporting on an 8-man sanctioned tourney that was held at CCC this past Sunday in ME Constructed. We had been running League in the past couple of weeks, but will run Sanctioned Events if we can instead, and we did this past weekend.
I got to play in this event since I convinced one of the other Windies to judge it. Looking at the other total 7 players, based on me knowing most of them through League and whatnot, I feel I was able to metagame accurately and considered that LPR would be the most dominant deck I would probably run into, with not much in the form of Flying Trap or Windy Burn. So I decided not to run my own "Q-uickening" LPR deck that I have posted over there in the Deck Archive but to run a fun Grimus build I have. It is I believe an effective metagame deck that aspires to control and eventually combo out to win, and I think it does it well against LPR/GA type decks. It resembles the old school Grimus-control deck, but it plays a good amount of different creatures, along with magic cards. It still uses Peacetime in the main, but changes the win condition from the lax Slow Deaths and Sudden Illness to a more aggressive Sunken Battlefield inf combo win. In the sideboard, the deck does a pseudo transformation to a more aggressive deck that sides out the Peacetimes sometimes and brings in Spirit Songs. I think it's really fun and effective against LPR. I thought I would test that theory here as I predicted that the 3-4 players in the tourney that I respected as above average players would play LPR.
I will provide a complete decklist soon.
Round 1 against John Smith's Grimus
Didn't catch the guy's name. I had never met him and just heard that he had learned the game since Gencon from a friend or something. He pops out with a Grimus deck too, except his had a lot of faster wizards and actively played many forms of Elementals. It hurt a couple of times when he pulled out Fire Elemental b4 I set up Peacetime, but I was able to establish control eventually with Peacetime and swept both games w/out transforming. The Sunken Battlefield inf combo allowed me to deck him both times.
Result 2-0
Round 2 against Drake Code's LPR/GA
This was what I wanted to test with. Drake is a smart player who I have played against before in ME Draft where he almost got me. He was new at the time but impressed me greatly, and now he showed up with a very good LPR with maxed out GA combo potential. He started early Game 1 with GA and Battlemonger. I had the Cranial for the GA, and then played Vorex and Jared Firemonger and got his Battlemonger on my turn. We kept exchanging creature and removal until he starting overwhelming me with Dimensional Menace and Draken while I healed with Wandering Unicorn. Then on one of those turns drawing 2 from Biblio I found Peacetime and played it the same turn with a Sac Lamb and Vorex, and before that played a Time Manipulator. With no outs against Peacetime in the main, he tried to scoop, but it was already late in the round and time was to be called in a matter of minutes. I then inf comboed him and we went to game 2 quickly since he could GA combo me and win. But the game was good for me since I had 2 Wandering Unicorn and Jared Firemonger, so he lost since I got some damage on and I was 100% healed.
Result 2-0
Round 3 vs CJ and LPR/GA
CJ is a fellow Windy team member and just got done beating our other Windy partner in Round 2. He had the same deck as Drake, except that he didn't prepare properly and had Game 1 Gossipmongers that were dead against my Grimus, and inexplicably had no effect removal even in the sideboard. Peacetime ruled his face easily and afforded me the time to combo out. Sorry buddy!
Result 2-0. Tournament win with 3-0 in matches undefeated.
And there you have it. I think the Grimus was a fun choice, and it proved to the people that LPR isn't the only thing that packs a punch. Still, I know better than anyone that LPR and GA are a hot deck, and I know that come next week everyone will be better prepared. My deck is good, but I don't think it will be dominant like that again agains't a modified LPR with maindeck effect killers. She tough with that built-in Biblio...I might just have to fighit fire with fire next week. We'll see...
Well, thanks guys...hope you enjoyed it. I will post my Grimus deck soon, promise. Later!
I got to play in this event since I convinced one of the other Windies to judge it. Looking at the other total 7 players, based on me knowing most of them through League and whatnot, I feel I was able to metagame accurately and considered that LPR would be the most dominant deck I would probably run into, with not much in the form of Flying Trap or Windy Burn. So I decided not to run my own "Q-uickening" LPR deck that I have posted over there in the Deck Archive but to run a fun Grimus build I have. It is I believe an effective metagame deck that aspires to control and eventually combo out to win, and I think it does it well against LPR/GA type decks. It resembles the old school Grimus-control deck, but it plays a good amount of different creatures, along with magic cards. It still uses Peacetime in the main, but changes the win condition from the lax Slow Deaths and Sudden Illness to a more aggressive Sunken Battlefield inf combo win. In the sideboard, the deck does a pseudo transformation to a more aggressive deck that sides out the Peacetimes sometimes and brings in Spirit Songs. I think it's really fun and effective against LPR. I thought I would test that theory here as I predicted that the 3-4 players in the tourney that I respected as above average players would play LPR.
I will provide a complete decklist soon.
Round 1 against John Smith's Grimus
Didn't catch the guy's name. I had never met him and just heard that he had learned the game since Gencon from a friend or something. He pops out with a Grimus deck too, except his had a lot of faster wizards and actively played many forms of Elementals. It hurt a couple of times when he pulled out Fire Elemental b4 I set up Peacetime, but I was able to establish control eventually with Peacetime and swept both games w/out transforming. The Sunken Battlefield inf combo allowed me to deck him both times.
Result 2-0
Round 2 against Drake Code's LPR/GA
This was what I wanted to test with. Drake is a smart player who I have played against before in ME Draft where he almost got me. He was new at the time but impressed me greatly, and now he showed up with a very good LPR with maxed out GA combo potential. He started early Game 1 with GA and Battlemonger. I had the Cranial for the GA, and then played Vorex and Jared Firemonger and got his Battlemonger on my turn. We kept exchanging creature and removal until he starting overwhelming me with Dimensional Menace and Draken while I healed with Wandering Unicorn. Then on one of those turns drawing 2 from Biblio I found Peacetime and played it the same turn with a Sac Lamb and Vorex, and before that played a Time Manipulator. With no outs against Peacetime in the main, he tried to scoop, but it was already late in the round and time was to be called in a matter of minutes. I then inf comboed him and we went to game 2 quickly since he could GA combo me and win. But the game was good for me since I had 2 Wandering Unicorn and Jared Firemonger, so he lost since I got some damage on and I was 100% healed.
Result 2-0
Round 3 vs CJ and LPR/GA
CJ is a fellow Windy team member and just got done beating our other Windy partner in Round 2. He had the same deck as Drake, except that he didn't prepare properly and had Game 1 Gossipmongers that were dead against my Grimus, and inexplicably had no effect removal even in the sideboard. Peacetime ruled his face easily and afforded me the time to combo out. Sorry buddy!
Result 2-0. Tournament win with 3-0 in matches undefeated.
And there you have it. I think the Grimus was a fun choice, and it proved to the people that LPR isn't the only thing that packs a punch. Still, I know better than anyone that LPR and GA are a hot deck, and I know that come next week everyone will be better prepared. My deck is good, but I don't think it will be dominant like that again agains't a modified LPR with maindeck effect killers. She tough with that built-in Biblio...I might just have to fighit fire with fire next week. We'll see...
Well, thanks guys...hope you enjoyed it. I will post my Grimus deck soon, promise. Later!
