Right, the rest didn't go so well. Got to 1-3, then I dropped andGame Day is infested with Desecration Demons in various BW or Dega decks...
Still, won my first match against BW 2-0.
Decklist:
[deck]Lands (24)
21 Mountain
3 Mutavault
Creatures (19)
4 Ash Zealot
4 Rakdos Shred-Freak
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Boros Reckoner
1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
2 Fanatic of Mogis
Spells (17)
4 Lightning Strike
4 Magma Jet
2 Mizzium Mortars
2 Shock
1 Chandra, Pyromancer
2 Traitorous Instinct
2 Hammer of Purphoros
Sideboard (15)
4 Skullcrack
1 Traitorous Instinct
3 Ratchet Bomb
3 Pyrewild Shaman
2 Shock
2 Mizzium Mortars[/deck]
went home.
Match 1: BW
Game 1 I started out nicely, with hasty creatures that was removed one by one, and I did the same to his. Finally I got a good board presence and could finish. Game 2 he got stuck on 2 lands for a long time, so I had plenty of time to sandbag removal while chipping away at his life. 2-0
Match 2: UW
Got off to a good start game one, when Jace, AoT hit the table and slowed things down a bit and got him some great cards. Still, I managed to get him down to 1, before the first Revelation hit (for 6). And then AEtherling joined and that was it really. Game 2 became a long one. First I had to mulligan down to 5, didn't like that one at all. He got up to 36 (Fiendslayer Paladin) at one point with me at 10, when I started getting a good board presence with Chandra, Hammer, two Golems and 2 Phoenix. So I started to get some serious damage through, with him revelating twice. Got him down to 23, when AEtherling showed up. And did I see even one of my four Skullcrack in the second
game? Nope... 0-2
Match 3: Boros Aggro/Heroic
This was a matchup I felt confident I would win. Game 1 I was in control the whole time. Enough threats on the table, with removal to support. Game 2 I kept a bad hand, too much removal not enough threats. So I lost. Game 3 was very back and forth, but when Blaze Commando hit the table I became a bit worried. I had removal for that one, but not the second one that came the turn after. Had a Mortars on top of my deck, with enough lands. If I'd only had some blockers, I'd removed his whole army, and could've stabilized. But I couldn't do much about that. Damn, I thought I had this match when we started! The deck didn't look any good either from what I saw. Didn't see any Boros Charms or Warleader's Helixes, and Blaze Commando? 1-2
Match 4: RG midrange with Nykthos
Decided to play at least one more match since a 3-2 result gets boosters. Game 1 I got him down to 10 when Stormbreath Dragon arrived. But I let him
attack me with what he got, and then I stole it with Traitorous Instinct and attacked with that and two Ash Zealots (or maybe Shred-Freaks) for an even 10 damage. Game 2 I don't know what happened. I think we went back and forth the first round with creature followed with removal, then he got the upper hand and I quickly lost, probably to a dragon. Game 3 I couldn't build a presence before I got overwhelmed. 1-2
Thoughts:
Well, the deck felt quite ok today as well, but today I faced the decks I didn't face yesterday. I should have gone with a more aggro variant after all. Something similar to the deck Z just posted above. Or some Br aggro deck, with lots of haste creatures. I will scrap this deck now, and try some PyroRed, even though I don't have more than one Chandra. Chandra btw, is insanely good! But you all know that already. I'd sure like a second one, but I'm not sure how that's going to happen. Purphoros was not that impressive. I borrowed it (foil as well!) from another player, mostly
to try it out. It felt like a win-more card. If you have board presence to turn him into a creature, you're mostly likely winning anyway. But he won me the first match (against the player I borrowed it from...) so that's something.
