Saturday, June 28, 2008

SHM Sealed end result: 3-2 (9pts)

9 Mountain
1 Mudbrawler Raiders
1 Valleymaker
1 Curse of Chains
1 Puncture Bolt
1 Jaws of Stone
1 Sootwalkers
1 Scuzzback Marauders
2 Inquisitor's Snare
1 Illuminated Folio
1 Grief Tyrant
1 Kulrath Knight
1 Flame Javelin
1 Somnomancer
1 Knollspine Invocation
1 Scuzzback Scrapper
2 Burn Trail
1 Safehold Duo
1 Oracle of Nectars
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Thistledown Duo
1 Old Ghastbark
8 Plains

Sideboard

1 Viridescent Wisps
1 Manaforge Cinder
1 Rite of Consumption
1 Drove of Elves
1 Put Away
1 Medicine Runner
1 Kinscaer Harpoonist
1 Oona's Gatewarden
1 Repel Intruders
1 Thornwatch Scarecrow
1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
1 Whimwader
1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
1 Poison the Well
1 Giantbaiting
1 Revelsong Horn
1 Scrapbasket
1 Apothecary Initiate
1 Devoted Druid
1 Lurebound Scarecrow
1 Barrenton Medic
1 Cinderhaze Wretch
1 Memory Sluice
1 Blowfly Infestation
1 Sickle Ripper
1 Plumeveil
1 Loch Korrigan
1 Runes of the Deus
1 Fists of the Demigod
1 Hungry Spriggan
1 Æthertow
1 Traitor's Roar
1 Safehold Sentry
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Ashenmoor Cohort
1 Ashenmoor Cohort
1 Pili-Pala
1 Raking Canopy
1 Cinderbones
1 Manamorphose
1 Faerie Swarm
1 Raven's Run Dragoon
1 Cerulean Wisps
1 Ghastly Discovery
1 Corrosive Mentor
1 Pale Wayfarer
1 Leechridden Swamp
1 Godhead of Awe
1 Mystic Gate
1 Flourishing Defenses
1 Parapet Watchers
1 Barkshell Blessing

Match 1:   During deck construction PGqsilver approaches me about joining the clan, I say sure.  Wouldn't you know it...my first match is him.  He trounces me.  I mean, it was embarassing.  I misplayed...for some reason i sided in mystic gate...even though it was strictly worse than a plains for me...something that became all to apparent the next game.  But it was all good, I was introduced to PGqsilver and his powerhouse of a deck, piloted far better than mine was out of the gates.  Gave me a quick wake up call.  He went on to do very well, but that is another story...(hint, cough, post, cough)

Match 2:  I don't remember.  Isn't that terrible?  Now that I think of it, this was a RB deck with two demigods of revenge.  Yeah, I'm just lucky I didn't see them both in the same game.  I didn't think I'd even bother posting this one as of yet...such was the beatings that PGq dished out.  But the deck was beginning to perform...I didn't feel quite so bad with it.

Match 3:  Back and forth, the 2nd game he gets me down to 1, I stabilize back to 60 and knollspine out with 0 cards left in my deck.  The order of nectars really begins to shine.

Match 4:  I may have gotten match 3 and 4 mixed up.  I don't know.  Did I mention I'm awful tired?

Match 5:  GWr deck.  Beautiful mana base supported by 2 of the fetch elves.  His deck is solid and aggressive.  Features 2 of the seedwitches...all I remember last game was persist elf, killed it.  next turn 2/1, next turn persist elf again, i knollspine in this time.  Next turn i have 4 lands and 3 2 cc spells in hand.  I only really want to pitch 1 but will do 2 if he barkshell blessings...he does, so i pitch a second one in response, whereupon he barshell blessings...again.  Good god man.  Then he lays a seedwitch.  I untap, kill it.  He throws down seedwhich 2...and rolls in.  Man it was good times.  I felt like I was playing against constructed game 2.  I'm so tired that probably didn't even make much sense.  Why do I always do this to myself with sealed?

9 points end result, casual SHM Premier event.

Feel free to comment on my build.  I found it quite difficult.  I'm not sure what I'd do different...I must say that against all odds that little 1/1 in there ended up coming in quite handy a lot of times...I put him in instead of the 2/2 for the additional body to enable burn trails.  The Folio was amazing, and saved my butt several times.

I ended up siding out snares in both the matchups I lost in...so there was probably something a little suboptimal about 2 slots being devoted to them maindeck, as good as they were in the other matchups.  I suppose replacing one maindeck with the 2/2 would have improved my overall performance, the early game especially, where I was weak.  This deck needs to survive the early game then take advantage of the late game bombs.  I should have built it with this in mine, rather than just slumping it together without a defined plan.  With that in mind...this build seems a better maindeck choice...but it's a toss up really.  This is usually what I ended up with when I sided the snares out.   I don't know what do you think I should have done maindeck?  As to godhead of awe...I just couldn't justify squeezing it in there with my other late game bombs.  Too much bombastic late game cards...My needs were in the early game...so i left it out.  The plume veil would have been lovely, but I balked at the mana.  Too hard to get early in the game when I needed it.  I may add a picture tomorrow, but like I said...sleep needed...badly.

9 Mountain
1 Mudbrawler Raiders
1 Valleymaker
1 Curse of Chains
1 Puncture Bolt
1 Jaws of Stone
1 Sootwalkers
1 Scuzzback Marauders
1 Illuminated Folio
1 Grief Tyrant
1 Kulrath Knight
1 Flame Javelin
1 Somnomancer
1 Knollspine Invocation
1 Scuzzback Scrapper
2 Burn Trail
1 Safehold Duo
1 Oracle of Nectars
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Thistledown Duo
1 Old Ghastbark
8 Plains

1 Barkshell Blessing

1 Safehold Sentry

Sideboard

1 Viridescent Wisps
1 Manaforge Cinder
1 Rite of Consumption
1 Drove of Elves
1 Put Away
1 Medicine Runner
1 Kinscaer Harpoonist
1 Oona's Gatewarden
1 Repel Intruders
1 Thornwatch Scarecrow
1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
1 Whimwader
1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
1 Poison the Well
1 Giantbaiting
1 Revelsong Horn
1 Scrapbasket
1 Apothecary Initiate
1 Devoted Druid
1 Lurebound Scarecrow
1 Barrenton Medic
1 Cinderhaze Wretch
1 Memory Sluice
1 Blowfly Infestation
1 Sickle Ripper
1 Plumeveil
1 Loch Korrigan
1 Runes of the Deus
1 Fists of the Demigod
1 Hungry Spriggan
1 Æthertow
1 Traitor's Roar
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Ashenmoor Cohort
1 Ashenmoor Cohort
1 Pili-Pala
1 Raking Canopy
1 Cinderbones
1 Manamorphose
1 Faerie Swarm
1 Raven's Run Dragoon
1 Cerulean Wisps
1 Ghastly Discovery
1 Corrosive Mentor
1 Pale Wayfarer
1 Leechridden Swamp
1 Godhead of Awe
1 Mystic Gate
1 Flourishing Defenses
1 Parapet Watchers

2 Inquisitor's Snare

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