Life Outside PLT1

Want list for cards

• Unhinged land
• 3x Zur the Enchanter
• 3x Dimir Doppelganger
• 3x Circu, Dimir Lobotomist
• 2x Dread Return
• 3x Sudden Death
• 3x Pull from Eternity
• 2x Urza’s Factory
• 4x Wrath of God
• 4x Remand
• 3x Clockwork Hydra
• 4x Celestial Crusader
• 3x Serra Avenger
• 4x Angel of Despair
• 4x Angel of Mercy
• 4x Angelic Blessing
• 4x Firemane Angel
• 4x Blinding Angel

Because everyone seems to be posting decks here…

Here’s my fragile blue/red which has a pretty good track record.

Mine:

Drawing Through the Pits of Hell

2x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
2x Tibor and Lumia
4x Gelectrode
4x Electrolyze
4x Wee Dragonauts
2x Steamcore Weird
2x Vexing Sphinx
3x Thieving Magpie

2x Counsel of the Soratami
2x Compulsive Research
4x Remand
3x Sleight of Hand
2x Shock
4x Volcanic Hammer

1x Izzet Boilerworks
2x Izzet Signet
10x Island
8x Mountain

Compared to friend’s weird …thing:

I’ve Built a Monster!

Here:
BOOM! 60 card Standard Legal

4x Izzet Guildmage
4x Djinn Illuminatus
1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
——–9 Creatures

3x Desperate Ritual
2x Lava Spike
2x Eye of Nowhere
4x Pyromatics
2x Mana Leak
3x Muddle the Mixture
3x Izzet Signet
1x Remand
2x Compulsive Research
1x Counsel of Soratami
1x Sleight of Hand
2x Convolute
2x Train of Thought
———28 Spells

4x Izzet Boilerworks
1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
9x Island
9x Mountain
———23 Lands

Battle Report of North Island Champs 2006

Since Radioactive Phoenix has beaten me to posting the battle report I shall now do one. It was a good tourney with lots of different decks involved. Learnt quite a few things in the tournament like how Dragonstorm combo is actually viable and quite consistent or maybe it was just the Dragonstorm deck I played against. Anyway here’s how I did

Round 1
This was vs a G/W/B beats. Wasn’t too sure what to expect as it was my first game but when he dropped a duel land first turn and another on turn 2 and farseek for another one I thought OK this blood moon in my hand is looking very good. On my third or forth turn I played blood moon and you can hear is mind think F”K! It was nearly game over and after a wildfire it was just me waiting to get to a magnivore before it was all over. Second game was nearly the same as the first game although he was careful in playing his lands but with a deck full of nonbasic lands it was hard not play them. Blood moon did come out although I don’t think wildfire was played. His deck consist of lots of small ish creatures and loxodon elephant guy with the sacarb bettle for draw. Also he was the only one that played tonod’s crypt which didn’t affect my vore at all. All I did was played 2 sorceries and he had 2 in his graveyard so when I cased my vore it was 4/4 already.

Round 2
This was quite annoying as I was vs the person where I borrowed most of  the cards from. Game 1 he was in control with flying men, unstable mutation and looter but that went down the drain when wildfire came out with no counters in his hand. Game 2 I had out 3 deserts which prevented him from attacking and I do believe wildfire came out again then vore. I subed out blood moons for volcanic hammers as he didn’t use non basic lands besides deserts

Round 3
Not much to write about here besides I was completely wrong about the Dragonstorm combo. Game 1 I slowed him down with blood moon so he won in turn 8 or 9. Game 2 he stormed on turn 5 with a sleight of hand, 3 seething songs

Round 4
This round was really bad for me, probably because I as still sore from the earlier defeat vs a deck that I thought would suck. Anyways I think this guy was running blue/green burn beats using herd. In game 1 I did one MAJOR mistake and played a mountain on turn 2 instead of an island so I couldn’t mana leak his herd which he proceeded to beat me silly with that before pisonic blast. Game 2 was a blur I can’t really remember what he did except he was being a real dick about how these pisonic blasts are expensive and what not. This was my worse match out of the whole tourney
Round 5
This round was interesting. Game 1 went to me easierly when blood moon, wildfire and magnivore all came into the picture. Game 2 he did something very unexpected. Ok he runs G/U signets and counters and kills with mystic snakes and similar creatures. He must have anticipated the blood moon tech and sideboarded for it because as he’s not playing any red when blood moon came out and all his lands were mountains he cast magnivore before I could. And from then onwards I could not draw the the burn cards for it and I just sub’ed out my boomerangs. Third game was well played by him as he had a hand full of counters and prevented me from doing anything and used his counter creatures to win. He also used urza lands but wasn’t sure what that was fore besides countering my mana leak

Round 6
I played vs a guy who I thought was either stoned or just woken up as he had blood shot eyes and didn’t seem like he was all there. He used slivers and I lost the first game after my wildfire and I couldn’t get another mountain for my vore. He used a might sliver to beat me. Game 2 I sub in most of my sideboard with hunted dragon and pyroclasm. When I played those 2 cards he went to me “oh that was a good combo”. Oh first time I played wildfire he went, oh I’ve got to sac lands, that’s even worse! (than discarding). Game 2 and 3 was the usual stuff with me beating him easierly

Round 7
This was another match where blood moon made the opponent go F”K! as he played a lot of non basic lands. I think he was playing firemane angel burn. After about turn 5 with a few stone rains he goes, oh you’re not playing vore are you in an most damn I’ve lost voice. Well it was the case when after he said that I casted wildfire then 2 turns later a vore came out. In game 2 I did the usual things and someone came to talk to me after I played a blood moon, when I turn back to look at my opponent, he’s packed up and said I can’t beat you from here so I went sweet.

So in conclusion I would of done a lot better as all the people I played and won I won easy. It wasn’t anywhere near. Blood Moon made sure of it and it stuffed soooo many people up that when one of them said, you run blood moon in your main deck? Sure I do, especially when they’ve got 4-7 basic lands out of 22-24 lands. Also when you see the F”K S”T F”K looks it’s worth it

Here’s my deck I used at the tournament

//NAME: (UR)T2ts Stones le Vore
2 Stalking Yeti
3 Magnivore
// land
11 Mountain
3 Desert
8 Island
// LD
4 Stone Rain
3 Demolish
// DD
3 Browbeat
3 Rift Bolt
// Control
3 Pyroclasm
3 Blood Moon
4 Mana Leak
3 Boomerang
3 Wildfire
// Draw
4 Sleight of Hand
SB:  4 Volcanic Hammer
SB:  2 Shattering Spree
SB:  3 Cryoclasm
SB:  2 Hunted Dragon
SB:  1 Wildfire
SB:  2 Orgg
SB:  1 Rift Bolt

Puckman… ON DRUGS.

Puckman? Moar liek FUCKMAN lol

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…

Windows doesn’t surprise me anymore, even when it does this kind of thing.

Oh, and I found the official North Korean English news site:
The news, but not as you know it

North Island Champs

Well, for a first tournament it was pretty fun. If long, and a bit expensive ($15 Armageddon, $15 entry - 2 TS boosters reward).

PLT1 members present (to our knowledge): Balinor, Lord_Riff_Raff, and myself. Also lots of other people there we knew, with a turnout of 98 players registered.

I entered mono-red burn (a slightly modified version of the deck posted here), which I’d previously been assured is absolutely terrible. It was. I went 3:4 over the 7 rounds, dying to pro-red a lot and winning with Hunted Dragon, Rakdos Pit-Dragon, Blood Moon, Browbeat (the first time i’ve seen someone take 5 damage when on 7 life, vs. a burn deck with a 1-counter Wheel of Fate on the table) and Wheel of Fate as the most important. Skred was great, lack of Desert or Mouth of Ronom annoying (last match vs. UW weenie and got killed twice with a Soltari Priest with Unstable Mutation). Blood Moon netted me one win straight off, and the sideboard was the best thing about this deck. Managed to change my SB often enough beforehand that I completely forgot what was in it :S.

First match was LWL vs. UR Dragonstorm. (Nice to have seen DS played a lot today).
Second LWW vs. GW Selesnya. (Lost to lots of tokens and a very timely Wrath first game, then next games Pyroclasm the tokens, and remove the big stuff)
Third LD vs. stupid UW control (first game conceded to Sacred Mesa, second game saw Circle of Protection Red vs. burn control and Blood Moon - opponent stalled and game drew when he had 6 cards in library).
Fourth WW vs. a weird BRW Reanimate deck. (Opponent Wrath’d 2 of my Giant Solifuges then brought them back with Debtors’ Knell then died to Browbeat + Wheel of Fate + burn, second game was Blood Moon “Oh fuck”, burn, burn, Rakdos Pit-Dragon + hellbent = opponent concedes and drops).
Fifth WLL vs. UW Control. (counter, Wrath, counter, counter, akroma…, and very timely lifegain won him close games).
Sixth WW vs. UG Slivers. (first game weak slivers died horribly to a first drop Martyr of Ashes, second game opponent mana screwed and I removed everything he played).
Seventh LL vs. UW Agrro. (only total loss today, completely owned by Unstable Mutation and Soltari Priest, and the guy was an arsehole about it - obviously he’d fully planned on top 16 finish, and was pissed at playing a loser like me, fair enough).
Overall, it was fun (if long), and lots of trading was done (LRR pulled Psionic Blast from his entry booster, after I paid for both of us).

For a report from serious players: http://forums.gameplayer.co.nz/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=7869

Apparently we need more content

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(ps, appoligies but if you’re not on the cast and crew list, you weren’t documented here, that one is comming soon)

ok, if you havn’t worked it out yet, the pictures are the C&C list in clockwise order starting from top left hand corner

Cricky!

Here, deep in the middle of no-where, we came accross the forgotten land.

The true home of the jews.

In this rare picture, we see the jews in their true form. Because, in Eric Cartmans words: “Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten”

(with reference link: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Jewbacca.jpg)

I would not trust Jeremy with my daughter.

Because apparently he’s a doctor and from what i’d learned watching reruns of Futurama; doctors are often very poor.

He is also sexually promiscuous and often drunk in public.

One of my worst fears is that one day i’ll have a son and in a moment of rage when he is but 9 years of age i’ll call him a “motherfucking piece of shit” and Jeremy would angrily walk into the room and say “keep it down, i’m trying to have sex with your daughter in the other room!”

I guess I could cut short that tragic chain of events by sneaking into that room while they’re sleeping and dropping one of my enormous testicles on his head; i’d like to see you prescribe something for THAT, Doctor Poo-poo face!

Also, cocks.

This article sucks and is now about trains.

ADIDAS; contrary to popular belief does not stand for “All Day I Dream About Sex”; rather it’s a contraction of names; both first name and last name of founder “Adolf Dasler”. Now that you’ve learned this disappointing fact; you too can shoot down giggling teenagers in a dull voice speaking without blinking all the while wearing the most deadpan of expressions on your face.

Of course, that alone usually isn’t all it takes to scar someone for life; it usually helps if you’re not wearing pants at the time. According to field-leading sociologists; public nudity is A-O-K.

Burn, Jaya Ballard, Burn ‘em All

My contribution to October 22 T2 Decks.

UPDATED: 18/10/06

Mono Red Burn:

4 Rift Bolt
4 Rite of Flame
3 Volcanic Hammer
3 Skred
3 Blood Moon
3 Browbeat
4 Seething SOng
2 Shock
4 Orcish Artillery
2 Giant SOlifuge
1 Bogardan Hellkite
1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
1 Disintegrate
4 Rakdos Pit Dragons
21 Snow-Covered Bits of Land

SB:
2 Rakdos GUildmage
1 Word of Seizing
1 Hunted Dragon
4 Pyroclasm
3 Flashfires
4 Threaten

Comments:

Jaya Ballard is awesome (and hard to get hold of). Burn, control, mass removal and gg vs. blue. And she has spunk.

The burn is obvious, and the Browbeats are awesome boosts for red (which tended to run out of steam when the opponent was just beyond Char range).

Orcish Artillery are very nice board control (and card advantage) and the lifeloss isn’t too bad. Giant Solifuge is a great turn 3 play (with Rite) since it tends to be unexpected.

UPDATES:
Can’t get hold of a lot of cards.
Added stuff, per some suggestions (still not sure on skred, needsd testing, i’d personally replace it with burn by preference). Cheers to Atomix, hackra and hopefully sico for lending me cards. I think this is pretty much what i’ll run on Sunday.

Anyway, Burn Baby Burn!

“Yes, I think ‘toast’ is an appropriate description.” –Incinerate, Ice Age.
“Eenie, meenie, minie, moe . . . oh, why not all of them?” –Meteor Shower, Ice Age.
“And I say north is where I want it to be!” –Mystic Compass, Alliances.
“Who needs the sun when you’ve got me around?” –Melting, Ice Age.
“Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” –Inferno, 5th Edition.